This week I decided to touch on films about Ballet. My feeling about ballet is mixed. Half the time I regard it almost more of a sport than an art form and judging a lot of the incredible things the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Due to miscalculating my budget last month.I had a bad case of the munchies and was inspired to do my next series on foreign food… okay, okay, foreign films about food, happy now? You know that Juzo Itami’s’ Tampopo (Dandelions)…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I found myself drawn to watch some more Samurai Films. (Not counting the Kurosawa films I always watch) Specifically, I thought I’d try some of the darker ones. The ones that overtly criticize the code of bushido and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now that the Halloween season is done, I felt like I had to clear my palette from my month long horror film marathon. So I decided that something silly and innocuous would be a perfect choice. Naturally, I went with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to entertain myself with some of the seemingly endless selection of parodies of James Bond. The first on my list OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies had been recommended by a friend. I hadn’t heard of,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’d heard about the character Harry Palmer played by Micheal Caine for the first time last year but put off watching any of the films since I’d done spy stuff recently. Harry Palmer first appeared in a series of novels[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to clear my palette a bit with some Japanese science fiction, or more accurately live action, kaiju free science fiction. Regrettably, I kind of rushed into the idea without enough research leaving me with films where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was watching a review of the works of Satoshi Kon today, where it was mentioned that one of Kong’s major influences had been the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s Slaughterhouse Five. Since that’s yet another example of a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I decided to do some 1950 heist films. Beyond the genre, which I’ve already done a few times before is that they both have Sterling Hayden in them. Since a heist film is almost by definition ensemble piece, I can’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So for this week’s them I chose movies about writers and the struggles of all writers who are fighting with the creative process. (Originally I thought I’d go with straight writer’s block but it wasn’t quite as accurate as I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
