3 things about George Miller’s MAD MAX

Posted on October 13, 2014 by robchristopher

Mad Max [1979]

1. “I’m a fuel-injected suicide machine!”
2. They buy a dog from a man in a deerstalker cap.
3. Double leg braces.

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October 12 haiku.

Posted on October 12, 2014 by robchristopher

One of his shoes blocks
The door, his face mashed into
The bedroom carpet

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3 things about Dan Curtis’ DEAD OF NIGHT

Posted on October 12, 2014 by robchristopher

Dead of Night [1977]

1. The car was a deep forest green.
2. A shirt, conveniently ruffled.
3. The voice on the phone morphs from the father’s to Bobby’s.

This had its moments; but I prefer Trilogy of Terror because Karen Black.

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October 11 haiku.

Posted on October 11, 2014 by robchristopher

A time before we
Could remember those faces
We saw, underground

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3 things about Fruit Chan’s THE MIDNIGHT AFTER

Posted on October 11, 2014 by robchristopher

The Midnight After [2014]

1. He holds up the headphones, a look of disbelief on his face. Then his head explodes.
2. The Morse code spells out the song’s lyrics. “I can’t tell you, so let me sing it.”
3. Behind the plastic sheet, his eyes suddenly open.

Completely wacked out sci-fi, horror, social satire musical. It’s everything you want a movie from Hong Kong to be. Showing at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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3 things about György Pálfi’s FREE FALL

Posted on October 11, 2014 by robchristopher

Free Fall [2014]

1. Plastic wrap intercourse.
2. He brings the needle up to his eyes and then …
3. The little boy curled up on the floor, next to the beast.

Pálfi is some kind of 21st-century Buñuel. This superb film is showing at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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October 10 haiku.

Posted on October 10, 2014 by robchristopher

Sky speckled milky
Gray the stoplight slowly blinks
To sickly yellow

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3 things about Pedro Almodóvar’s LAW OF DESIRE

Posted on October 9, 2014 by robchristopher

Law of Desire [1987]

1. “It’s not your fault you don’t love me, and it’s not my fault I love you.”
2. On the altar to the Virgin Mary, a picture of Elizabeth Taylor.
3. The typewriter smashes through the window, crashes into a dumpster, and bursts into flame.

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October 9 haiku.

Posted on October 9, 2014 by robchristopher

A smaller woman
Has never taken up quite
So much space as this

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October 8 haiku.

Posted on October 8, 2014 by robchristopher

The kid next to me
Texts vigorously and digs
His elbow ribward

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