3 things about Elia Kazan’s AMERICA, AMERICA

Posted on August 6, 2012 by robchristopher

America, America [1963]

1. He recognizes him by his shoes. They were once his.
2. She shows him how to shake hands. He asks if this is how men and women greet each other in America.
3. Another pair of shoes. A letter stuck inside one of them.

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3 things about Busby Berkeley’s THE GANG’S ALL HERE

Posted on August 6, 2012 by robchristopher

The Gang’s All Here [1943]

1. Bananas thrusting. Human pistils. Too abstract for the censors to catch.
2. “I’m a teetotaler–I never touch alcohol.”
“You don’t touch it, you drink it!”
3. A magenta circle of water-jets.

3 other things.

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My ten favorite movies are …

Posted on August 5, 2012 by robchristopher

Sight & Sound released the results of their newest critics’ poll–as good an excuse as any for me to list my own ten favorite movies. It sure is tough to narrow it down to just ten. (If I could have a top eleven, VERTIGO would surely be on it!) Listed in alphabetical order, these are the movies that have meant the most to me over the years and still do.

BELLE DE JOUR (1967, dir. Luis Buñuel)
DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978, dir. George A. Romero)
DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE (1970, dir. Frank Perry)
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946, dir. Frank Capra)
LAURA (1944, dir. Otto Preminger)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962, dir. David Lean)
LOST HIGHWAY (1997, dir. David Lynch)
REAR WINDOW (1954, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
3 WOMEN (1977, dir. Robert Altman)
TRUE STORIES (1986, dir. David Byrne)

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3 things about Pedro Almodóvar’s DARK HABITS

Posted on August 4, 2012 by robchristopher

Dark Habits [1983]

1. “Come on, give me some acid for Sister Manure.”
2. Black and white tiled foyer with visible scuff marks on the floor. An overhead shot like in Topaz.
3. She lies down on her bed of nails, exhausted.

So, basically Sister Act lifted the plot from this movie? Weird.

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3 things about Woody Allen’s EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU

Posted on August 1, 2012 by robchristopher

Everyone Says I Love You [1996]

1. “It’s always better to be the leaver than the leavee. Because the leaver leaves, and the leavee … is left.”
2. Broom hockey in the foyer–very Wes Anderson.
3. Goldie Hawn with Groucho mustache and eyebrows. And a plastic cigar.

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3 things about Woody Allen’s MIGHTY APHRODITE

Posted on July 30, 2012 by robchristopher

Mighty Aphrodite [1995]

1. Groucho Weinrib.
2. “I’m sorry it was so choppy.”
“It’s okay, I don’t mind throwing up into the wind.”
3. The finale at F.A.O. Schwartz weirdly reminds me of the finale of Eyes Wide Shut.

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3 things about Alex Ross Perry’s THE COLOR WHEEL

Posted on July 29, 2012 by robchristopher

The Color Wheel [2011]

1. 90% of the people in this movie have bedhead.
2. She spits into the other girl’s purse, dumps it in the sink, exits the bathroom, and looks at the cat sitting on the floor and says, “Fuck you.”
3. The book she’s reading: Astrology and Sexual Analysis.

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3 things about Paul Feig’s BRIDESMAIDS

Posted on July 28, 2012 by robchristopher

Bridesmaids [2011]

1. As part of her drunk test, she does a dance routine in the middle of the road for him.
2. “Why are you smiling?”
“I’ve never seen you look ugly before, and … it’s kind of making me happy.”
3. She takes an almond and puts it in her mouth.

3 other things.

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3 things about Christopher Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Posted on July 27, 2012 by robchristopher

The Dark Knight Rises [2012]

1. Will Marion Cotillard ever play a sympathetic character again? (Rhetorical question.)
2. Everyone on Wall Street dresses like they’re in Wall Street. (Sorry–Gotham Stock Exchange.)
3. She lovingly caresses his face mask vents.

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3 things about Christopher Nolan’s BATMAN BEGINS

Posted on July 22, 2012 by robchristopher

Batman Begins [2005]

1. The Chicago Board of Trade = Wayne Tower.
2. “Keep them happy until I arrive. Tell them that joke you know.”
3. Gordon’s monologue on escalation–an in-joke about the rule of sequels? Then he shows Batman a playing card housed in a plastic sleeve. The same way one would display a priceless bit of memorabilia at ComicCon.

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