Cine-File Selects: COLD TURKEY

Posted on January 4, 2011 by robchristopher

January 31 at 7pm … hope you can make it!

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3 things about Wes Anderson’s FANTASTIC MR. FOX

Posted on January 2, 2011 by robchristopher

Fantastic Mr. Fox [2009]

1. 2 Years Later (12 Fox-Years).
2. “If what I think is happening, is happening, it better not be.”
3. A gentle waterfall in the sewer.

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3 things about Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION

Posted on January 1, 2011 by robchristopher

Inception [2010]

1. “It was worth a shot.”
2. Hunched over the table, eating from a bowl of brown rice.
3. The vault looks a lot like a holodeck.

3 other things.

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Colonel Beach’s Plantation Punch

Posted on January 1, 2011 by robchristopher

Adapted from the original Don the Beachcomber recipe as published by Jeff Berry.

COLONEL BEACH’S PLANTATION PUNCH

18 oz. fresh lime juice
36 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
3 bottles of Reed’s Spicy Ginger beer (36 oz.)
32 oz. Meyers’s Jamaican rum
16 oz. Plantation 3-Stars Rum
8 oz. Mount Gay Eclipse rum
8 oz. John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum
16 dashes Angostura bitters
2 teaspoons Herbsaint

Combine in punchbowl over ice. Add ginger ale just before serving.

This was our punchbowl last night and it was fantastic! Not overly sweet, subtly spicy, rather high octane but not obnoxious. And the fact that I’m able to post about it this morning is proof positive that I’m not suffering from any ill effects!

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3 things about Jules Dassin’s RIFIFI

Posted on December 31, 2010 by robchristopher

Rififi [1955]

1. “Sit your moneymaker down.”
2. The debris from the ceiling is collected in the umbrella.
3. His body is draped across the overflowing sink.

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3 things about ANDY WARHOL’S BAD

Posted on December 28, 2010 by robchristopher

Andy Warhol’s Bad [1977]

1. “You’ve got to kill a dog, and you’ve got to do it viciously. I mean, nothing painless or ouchless.”
2. “I don’t like toilet talk in my kitchen,” she says sternly, unscrewing the mayonnaise jar.
3. She parades around her bedroom in the fur coat, admiring herself in the mirror. Then she puts it away in the closet and her life returns to normal.

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3 things about George Cukor’s DINNER AT EIGHT

Posted on December 21, 2010 by robchristopher

Dinner at Eight [1933]

1. “I haven’t got a sou,” she says sheepishly. Using the tip of her finger she pushes her lips to one side of her face.
2. He lights a cigarette before seeing his next patient.
3. “My skin is so delicate, I don’t dare expose it!” She turns away, revealing her backless dress.

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13 great movies I watched in 2010

Posted on December 20, 2010 by robchristopher

THE ADULTS IN THE ROOM (Andy Blubaugh, 2010)
THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (Werner Herzog, 2009)
BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater, 2004)
I AM LOVE (Luca Guadagnino, 2009)
INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
INSIDE JOB (Charles Ferguson, 2010)
IN THE LOOP (Armando Iannucci, 2009)
LAPORTE, INDIANA (Jason Bitner, 2010)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Ernst Lubitch, 1942)
TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS (Radu Muntean, 2010)
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
UP IN THE AIR (Jason Reitman, 2009)
THE WHITE RIBBON (Michael Haneke, 2009)

More thoughts here.

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3 things about Joseph Kosinski’s TRON: LEGACY

Posted on December 20, 2010 by robchristopher

TRON: Legacy [2010]

1. “You’re messing up my Zen thing, man!”
2. Aladdin Sane as played by Joel Grey.
3. Digital Wilhem scream.

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3 things about Vincente Minnelli’s MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS

Posted on December 19, 2010 by robchristopher

Meet Me in St. Louis [1944]

1. “The Boy Next Door” consists of only three shots.
2. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Sparkly snood.
3. She violently smashes the snow people.

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