3 things about Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker’s AIRPLANE!

Posted on January 12, 2025 by robchristopher

Airplane! [1980]

1. “I’m not sure. I haven’t seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert.”
2. Instruments.
3. Maureen McGovern as the nun!

3 other things.

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3 things about Anna Kendrick’s WOMAN OF THE HOUR

Posted on January 11, 2025 by robchristopher

Woman of the Hour [2024]

1. “What is a girl for?”
2. The sounds of the room disappear; suddenly they’re the only customers left in the bar.
3. She takes refuge at the Last Chance Diner.

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3 things about Sean Charmatz’s ORION AND THE DARK

Posted on January 10, 2025 by robchristopher

Orion and the Dark [2024]

1. “I don’t think we have time for David Foster Wallace tonight.”
2. We can no longer see the stars outside at night so we have to go to the planetarium.
3. Light as a surfer dude.

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3 things about George Pollock’s MURDER AHOY

Posted on January 9, 2025 by robchristopher

Murder Ahoy [1964]

1. A smashed bottle of Plymouth gin.
2. Intercepted message.
3. Swordplay with Margaret.

3 other things.

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3 things about Errol Morris’s THE PIGEON TUNNEL

Posted on January 6, 2025 by robchristopher

The Pigeon Tunnel [2023]

1. The joy of self-imposed schizophrenia.
2. “I really don’t think any artist, whether he’s a writer, a painter, or anybody else, I don’t think he has to explain his work beyond a certain point. If it’s raised those questions in you, you’re already having a good time.”
3. George Smiley as the father he never had.

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3 things about David Cronenberg’s NAKED LUNCH

Posted on January 2, 2025 by robchristopher

Naked Lunch [1991]

1. “If you look carefully at my lips, you’ll realize that I’m actually saying something else. I’m not actually telling you about the several ways I’m gradually murdering Joan.”
2. A basket of dried centipedes.
3. Sleeping half-buried in the sand.

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A selected inventory of 2024.

Posted on January 1, 2025 by robchristopher

By the numbers …

221: feature films I watched in 2024 (24 of which I viewed in a theater)
42: books I read in 2024
31: pizzas we ordered from The Art of Pizza
16: pizzas we ordered from other pizzerias
131: mystery green statistic

Happy New Year!

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What I Watched in 2024: My 11 Favorite Films

Posted on January 1, 2025 by robchristopher

ALL OF US STRANGERS [2023, directed by Andrew Haigh]
THE BEAST [2023, directed by Bertrand Bonello]
OTHER PEOPLE [2016, directed by Chris Kelly]
THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS [1949, directed by David Lean]
PERFECT DAYS [2023, directed by Wim Wenders]
QUEER [2024, directed by Luca Guadagnino]
SAM NOW [2022, directed by Reed Harkness]
THE SEA WOLF [1941, directed by Michael Curtiz]
20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL [2023, directed by Mstyslav Chernov]
VENGEANCE IS MINE [1984, directed by Michael Roemer]
THE ZONE OF INTEREST [2023, directed by Jonathan Glazer]

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3 things about Luca Guadagnino’s QUEER

Posted on December 31, 2024 by robchristopher

Queer [2024]

1. “I was afraid of that, an untutored palate.”
2. He pairs his mention of the policeman with a leg lift.
3. Embracing beneath the skin.

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3 things about David Lean’s THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI

Posted on December 29, 2024 by robchristopher

The Bridge on the River Kwai [1957]

1. Sitting alone on the edge of his bed, crying in shame.
2. “I haven’t the foggiest.”
3. He emerges from “the oven” with purple bruises covering his chest.

3 other things.

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