Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts

02 August 2008

The Twelve Movie Meme

Piper tagged JA who tagged Glenn who tagged me so . . . here goes nothing. The general idea is to program your own 6 night mini-film festival. I tried to 'program' each night with two films with similar themes or aesthetics.

NIGHT #1


À la folie... pas du tout (Laetitia Colombani, 2002) and
Jeux d'enfants (Yann Samuell, 2003)

Two quirky French comedies with surprisingly wicked edges

NIGHT #2


The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) and
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

Two paranoia driven thrillers of the innovative American film movement of the 1970s

NIGHT #3


Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981) and
Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax, 1986)

Two classic entries into the New French New Wave Movement of the 1980s

NIGHT #4


Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968) and
The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, 1973)

Two narratives following the path of killing spree inspired by true events

NIGHT #5


Murder on the Orient Express (Sidney Lumet, 1974) and
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)

Two character packed features directed by masters of the cinema of the 1970s

NIGHT #6


Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) and
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002)

Two recent and bleak looks at mankind on the verge of collapse

And, hey . . . there's a whole day of the week left over for me to screen all 6 hours of La Meglio gioventù (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)


Technically, I'm supposed to tag 5 people, but I'm pretty sure anyone who plans on doing this already has. If I'm forgetting you, just leave a comment and consider yourself tagged.

03 December 2007

Bud Cort . . . you sly devil!




I love Harold and Maude.


Oh . . . I couldn't NOT post the personality interview.

18 November 2007

5 things I learned from watching 'The Brood' (1979) SPOILERS, obviously

1. Deformed, homicidal children are my worst nightmare.

2. David Cronenberg has issues.


3. VERY SERIOUS issues.


4. Art Hindle (Frank) never aged. He just cut his hair and changed his name to Eric Close.

5. Did I mention David Cronenberg has issues?



Happy Monday!

20 October 2007

BUY THIS!!!


I never thought I'd see the day, but Eleanor Coppola's AMAZING documentary, Heart of Darkness, about the nightmare production of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is finally getting a DVD release on November 20th.

Information is here.