Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat is an unusual film for the director in many ways. As opposed to his usual freewheeling thrillers, with locales stretching across the world, the action here is confined to the titular lifeboat after a US freighter is sunk by
Raoul Ruiz's Ce jour-là is quite possibly the most charming and funny movie ever made about a psychopathic mass murderer. The film concerns Livia (Elsa Zylberstein), the slightly crazy and unsuspecting heiress to a massive fortune, whose family is plotting
The more I watch of Woody Allen's work, the more I'm convinced that he's one of the absolute greatest American filmmakers. Hannah and Her Sisters is yet another entry in what must be the strongest, most consistent run of masterpieces in cinema, from
Germaine Dulac's La Coquille et le Clergyman is often called the first surrealist film. In that sense, it's inarguably interesting, pointing the way towards the two Dali/Bunuel collaborations and other early landmarks of surreal cinema. But separate
Samuel Beckett's Film is a true oddity of a short, the unlikely collision of iconoclastic playwright Beckett with silent film icon Buster Keaton. The short was directed by Alan Schneider, a stage director who often adapted Beckett's work. Here, Schneider
The next stop on my trip through Woody Allen's 80s filmography is Broadway Danny Rose, which proves to be among his best, funniest, and most poignant films so far. The film is a nostalgic look back at the golden days of New York variety acts, and Allen
Ok, I have to get some things in order over the next two days, so a little blog/link love will be given...In keeping with a theme of sorts that I started yesterday, here are some interesting thoughts on the athlete/actor phenom. I can say that it's pretty
Dennis Rodman (1997) Honestly, we hate on Jean-Claude Van Damme too much. Even though the Muscles from Brussels snorted his career away some time ago, he’s fueled an inordinate number of ScreenGrab posts. So we’ll give him a little break this time and
Muhammad Ali (1977) We really hate to do this, but here goes: at the height of his career and celebrity, it seemed as if there was no reason that Muhammad Ali could't be a movie star, if he wanted to be, and if it didn't take too much time away from
Ray Allen (1998) Given his love of the game, when word got out that Spike Lee was directing a movie about a young basketball prodigy, many thought this had a chance to be one of the director’s best films. Once it was released, however, those people were
Zelig marked a very unexpected departure for Woody Allen, who had ended the 70s with a series of increasingly introspective and psychological films that seemed to directly reflect his own modern Manhattan milieu. Then, following 1980's Fellini tribute
Goin' back to Cali in the morning, but wanted to share this one post for the weekend...Earlier in the week I had a post on colossal dumbass and keystone-cop caper cohort O.J. Simpson. I remarked on how different he was from the other actor/football greats
This one might be interesting; thrillers are my favorite film genre. Kerry and Samuel will star in "Lakeview Terrace". The plot?"An LAPD officer (Jackson) will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple who just moved in next door. "-IMDBI don't
I have not been down with Wesley after hearing the rumor that he thinks all black women monolithicly suck. Well guess what Wesley, your movies suck too! And now you can add this to your list. From stereohyped: For a split second there, I was sort of
Ok, I had a bit of down time today, and of course being the blog addict that I've become I decided to put up a couple of posts. It's also a special day, for it is the first day of my official TERRENCE WATCH.As a couple of my readers suggested, he "should
Tonight I watched films by two directors who I've been somewhat methodically exploring on DVD. With Woody Allen, I've been more or less going in chronological order through his career, starting with his directorial debut Take the Money and Run and ending
From Godard's 1960s run of films stretching from Breathless to Week-end, possibly the least well-known is his 1963 fifth film, Les Carabiniers. There's possibly a good reason for that, though. I'm of the opinion that Godard didn't make a bad film in
Hi all...a couple of things: I might not post for a day or two, as I'll be making my way back to Cali...no offense to my folkses in NC, but thank God! haha Also, don't forget to wear black today in solidarity with our brothers and sisters to free the
