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Tag Archives: movies
two-dozen lists of movies.
Remember The Book of Lists and its numerous sequels? This is a smaller, more focused spin on that idea: two-dozen lists of movies. Actually, Queue Tips has twenty-four! Read the full Booklist review.
3 things about John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN
Halloween [1978] 1. A James Ensor poster on her wall. 2. “The keys! Oh, the keys!” 3. Asthma? Congestion?
3 things about Otto Preminger’s ANGEL FACE
Angel Face [1952] 1. She keeps right on playing. 2. For the ceremony, she wears a bridal bed jacket. Then her fellow patients launch into a congratulatory song. 3. He pops the cork; she pops the clutch.
3 things about Lynne Ramsay’s WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
We Need to Talk About Kevin [2011] 1. The edge of the poster flaps in the breeze from a fan. 2. Her feet on the edge of the coffee table. The red knuckles of her toes. 3. “Eva, stop resisting. … Continue reading
3 things about Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s MEKONG HOTEL
Mekong Hotel [2012] 1. While knitting, her mother describes what it was like to fire an M-16. 2. Spanish guitar blues tune. 3. The river is like a Zen garden in motion, made of water.
3 things about George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
Night of the Living Dead [1968] 1. 1968: a black man slaps a white woman, she faints. 2. Tangled up in coats. 3. “Where’s that smile for me?”
3 things about Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO
Vertigo [1958] 1. He points at the brassiere with his cane. 2. Tangled up in drapes. 3. “It can’t matter to you.” A poem about Vertigo.
The final cover.
You can pre-order Queue Tips: Discovering Your Next Great Movie at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, IndieBound, or ask for it at your local bookshop!
3 things about Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise’s THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE
The Curse of the Cat People [1944] 1. He opens his hand. The butterfly has been crushed to bits. She slaps him. 2. Though she’s Serbian, she sings a French Christmas carol. 3. He never actually looks.
3 things about Jacques Tourneur’s CAT PEOPLE
Cat People [1942] 1. “I like the dark. It’s friendly.” 2. Her face in a tight spotlight. 3. T-square as crucifix.
