March 2011
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People: Arnold Schwarzenegger by Andy Warhol...
“The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“That’s when you know you’ve found somebody really special: you can...”
– Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Best of Netflix Watch Instantly: Breathless (1960)
I’m in a romantic mood today. I know, it’s scary but it’s an affliction that affects millions of Americans everyday and there is no known cure. But when I think of romance I don’t think of flowers, candle lit dinners with multiple courses and unexpected wine pairings or sparkly blood diamonds. I think of being on the run with the one I love. Maybe we’ve robbed a...
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BONUS: The Black Klansman (1966)
Yes, this is a real poster for an adult movie about a black guy infiltrating the KKK. I’m curious though, wouldn’t they see that his arm isn’t white? Look at the evidence laid out in said poster. And those eye holes are a bit revealing too… You’re getting sloppy dude. Seriously. Might as well have on a trench coat, some sunglasses, and be reading The Daily Klansman...
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ICONS: Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011
Read the article from the impossibly cool and inspiring blog The Selvedge Yard here.
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BONUS: 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (1967)
I am however completely head over heels, violently in love with this poster for the film.
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967): Inner City...
And here I thought I could never meet a Godard film that I didn’t like. In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle) we are introduced to Juliette, a bored housewife and sometimes call girl who represents the complicatedness of woman, and of the city of Paris itself. She’s beautiful yet solemn, and as Tyra Banks would say her eyes are dead. And honestly I felt dead...
Shorts: The Horse by Charles Burnett (1973)
The Horse is a sparse but touching short film by Charles Burnett. In a little under fifteen minutes we are introduced to the films five players and a beautiful black horse. The men are gathered for one reason: this horse is to be put down. The horse’s owners, a group of wealthy white men are indifferent to the loss but the horse’s care taker, a young black boy, is visibly shaken by...
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Best of Netflix Watch Instantly: Showgirls (1995)
I have recently converted to The Church of Netflix of Latter-day Rentals. As if the “no late fees” weren’t enough to convince me to join this zealous movement, the Watch Instantly sect continues to grow, as the Gods of online viewing grace us with more and more treasures of cinema and TV and less reasons to leave your couch on a Sunday afternoon. And though Netflix is a...
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Things to Do: Taxi Driver at Film Forum 3/18 -...
Martin Scorsese’s classic Taxi Driver is turning thirty five this year and what better way to celebrate than to see in it all it’s glory on the big screen. You already know how I feel about this movie, so this is happening! The film will be playing at Film Forum in a newly restored 35mm edition for two weeks starting this Friday 3/18. And It’s playing five times a day so you...
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“You make every day feel like kindergarten.”
– Mallory Knox in Natural Born Killers (1994)
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BONUS: Dick Tracy (1990)
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BONUS: Les Diaboliques (1955)
Les Diaboliques is a chilling french film in the vein of classic Hitchcock. But it stands on it own by having one of the best endings of any film I have ever seen (see this film if you haven’t!). Above is the end title card and one of the first examples of an anti-spoiler campaign. I love the composition and the message which roughly translates to the following:
“Do not be evil! Do...
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Dick Tracy (1990): Watching the Detectives.
In recent years the comic book film has become ubiquitous and seemingly every studio’s least common denominator to make some fast cash from nostalgic nerds or dudes who get a boner from special effects. We’ve seen every incarnation of Batman, the X-Men show their lil’ mutant faces every few years. Watchmen was turned into Zack Snyder’s 186 minute messy wet dream*, and...
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Charlie Sheen: All I do Is Win.
Charlie Sheen is in his own words “winning” right now. And he’s right. ‘Cause he’s KILLING the whole idea of press junket in an epic series of rants to rival Mel Gibson. All in a days work for a man made of “tiger blood and adonis DNA” who lives with goddesses, whilst fighting off fools and trolls and pressing Barack “B.O.” Obama for answers...