Movies-related Parries
February 2012
2001: A Space Odyssey: Dry, Juicy, Linear, Luminous
After they finished watching the Bond movies, I figured the next series John Gruber and Dan Benjamin would discuss on The Talk Show would be Stanley Kubrick’s oeuvre. But Gruber refused — too personal for podcasting, he said. Disappointed, I rewatched 2001.
February 2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buddha
If someone is living life in reverse time while the rest of us are living it forwards, then our world is Buddhist, because such an impossibility falsifies reality, which must therefore be a dream.
September 2007
Flightblogging
With the squeaks from the front and the clatter from the bulkheads and the smell from the toilet, there’s a reason to prefer Gatwick and the train over Heathrow and the bus. It’s very misty but we’re here. Korean Air Cargo. A parking lot.
April 2007
Saw Shooter
The Village Voice, often a source of genuinely good movie reviews, gives this insulting movie total kids glove treatment, limiting itself to plot summary. I guess any enemy of my enemy the Bush Administration is a friend. Ditto The New York Times.
March 2007
O Cleft of Chin, O Graven of Philcrum
Maybe because Lawrence Olivier is not just an actor but a star, Henry V seems pretty much the same guy as Hamlet. Olivier is handsome, yes, but he’s not a very convincing heterosexual.
February 2007
So You Noticed
I have had something very flattering: a request. Juan Carlos has asked me for comments on Casino Royale.
Style in Person
Is Neil Strauss’s The Game our generation’s On the Road or Electric Kool Aid Acid Test? Certainly it’s about extreme personalities on the edge of self-destruction yet leading a social revolution that may change modern society. And the characters travel around America somewhat frantically, with returns to their families from the foment of the group’s experiment.
July 2004
Thoughts on Spidey II (spoilers!)
Kirsten Dunst — her boniness and hint of fangs, her slightly lazy eyes and good and bad hair days — is clearly a Scot, and makes Tobey Maguire appear softly Italian. I bother with such ethnic observations because it’s their wide-eyed chemistry that provides such a generous heart to this movie.
Movies-related Photos
Latmag at the Movies
December 2002
Stephen Jay Rubin, The James Bond Films
Now He Only Paints Guitars
“ The archetypal Bond fight is spectacular and, although over in seconds, it is generally choreographed like a ballet, with shots of stuntmen and stars intermixed, and edited tightly. His performance in the test fight won Lazenby the role of Bond. ”
And on the Trail
Sat 19 May ’12
Wherein Spengler attempts to understand zombies.
Sun 22 Apr ’12
Sun 8 Jan ’12
Sitting in the very first row is perfect, hard-core movie-going.
Tue 6 Dec ’11
The heroic Spartacus star formerly known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky is mellow in his living room.
Fri 18 Nov ’11
Sun 13 Nov ’11
Sat 29 Oct ’11
Remember Alan Partridge’s masterful narration of The Spy Who Loved Me. So far there isn’t anybody who’s performed it quite so well. Actually, probably better this way.
Mon 17 Oct ’11
From The Telegraph‘s review of Spielberg’s Tintin: “Even if Jamie Bell wasn’t so monotonously earnest as Tintin, he’d still look about as conscious as a bollard with a quiff.”
Sun 9 Oct ’11
Best of the Steve Jobs eulogies: John Siracusa, David Pogue. And one about his house. A favorable comparison with Thomas Edison.
Sat 20 Aug ’11
Harry Knowles lovin’ on the perfect Captain America: The First Avenger.
Thu 18 Aug ’11
My favorite movie reviewer, FlickPhilosopher Maryann Johanson, on Captain America, what I am about to see tonight.
Wed 2 Mar ’11
The Kleptones “Come Again”.
Thu 17 Feb ’11
An explosion of James Bond fun and some copycats 1, 2, 3, 4
Thu 10 Feb ’11
Michael Barone celebrates Ronald Reagan’s centenary.
Sat 30 Oct ’10
The hills are still alive: Sound of Music cast sings Edelweiss.
Wed 1 Sep ’10
January Jones interview. With video. And she’s even more mesmerising than Betty Draper.
Mon 19 Jul ’10
I’ve never linked to Frank Rich, but this reminder of Mel Gibson’s The Passion is stimulating.
Wed 30 Jun ’10
Sat 17 Apr ’10
On second thoughts, let’s not go to Camelot, said Captain Kirk. It is a silly place.
Sun 24 Jan ’10
Thu 21 Jan ’10
Mon 21 Dec ’09
Fabulous, erudite, comical, scathing review of the first Star Wars prequel.
Sat 31 Oct ’09
Of monsters. A nice Sunday-morning read. “The monster concept is still extremely useful, and it’s a permanent player in the moral imagination because human vulnerability is permanent.”
Tue 30 Jun ’09
John Podhoretz on Year One: he’s not hugely impressed with this one either, but though I liked it and was glad to see it in the cinema, I guess he’s right.
Thu 18 Jun ’09
Caddyshack is a Marx Bros movie, Ramis explains.
Mon 1 Jun ’09
Yep, John Podhoretz wasn’t too impressed with Star Trek either.
Thu 7 May ’09
JJ Abrahms on Charlie Rose. Charlie at 28:20: “Lost. People that I know love it, love it, love it.”
Tue 21 Apr ’09
Shots of Disney’s recycling of Snow White in various subsequent films.
Thu 16 Apr ’09
Michael Caine easy, free, articulate and enthusiastic on Charlie Rose.
Wed 1 Apr ’09
Sun 15 Mar ’09
Indulge in the transcript of the 5-day, 9-hours-a-day “Raiders of the Lost Ark” story conference with Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan.
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