I need to get back to the film club and one of these ridiculous travel documentaries from the 1950s is a great way to do it. The thing about this kind of film is that it combines some genuinely cool footage with extremely condescending and...
LGM film club
Since we discussed this lovely moment earlier, let's revisit the speech this evening. Good times.
I've gotten back to watching some of the valuable documentaries on American life collected at Folkstreams. I recently watched Ranch Album, a 1987 documentary directed by Gail Steiger about a.
So...I had never seen the 2006 film of Miami Vice that Michael Mann made. It's a weird failure. Mann is a great filmmaker and the film looks amazing. Dion Beebe had just won the Best Cinematography Oscar the year before for Memoirs of a Geisha,...
This 1932 travel film about Argentina is honestly terrible. Now, you might ask, well what do you expect? It's a 1932 MGM travel film about Argentina. And that's fair enough..
Let's watch Siskel & Ebert discuss Spinal Tap. We can kill two birds with one stone here--talking about At the Movies, which was must watch viewing for me for a.
As part of our world where white people have turned against immigrants because they are racist pieces of shit, it's worth looking at some of the history of this issue, including in film. Here is a 1965 British TV special on the issue. At first,...
When I discovered that Scarecrow exists, i.e. a movie starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman from 1973 that I had never even heard of before, I had two thoughts. First,.
What if the beaning death of Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays in 1920 was part of an occult plan to make the Yankees the dominant franchise.
Is there a greater French director than Jean-Pierre Melville? There's a lot of great French film directors, no question. But for my money, only Agnes Varda and Eric Rohmer mean more to me than Melville. I've covered a couple of films before his this series--the...
I rewatched Wes Anderson's 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox again and I have to say that it might be my very favorite of his films. Now, I get it if.
I'm not saying this is the best work Richard Pryor ever did, but his bit on working in a mob-owned club in Youngstown does include some outstanding impressions of those.