Tag: movies
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Two different movies, similar reaction
Well, I hope my title isn’t too misleading–it is the truth but as is usually the case with titles, not the whole truth. I’ll not be able to tell you the whole truth, of course, but I’ll take a swing at getting close to it. About a week or so ago TCM had one of…
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Sin No More–(But Keep Your Balance Too, Folks)
“Sinners”–Directed by Ryan Coogler–starring Michael B Jordan and a lot of people I don’t know–just released “The Hunt” by Faye Kellerman–copyright 2022–Harper Collins I hardly know how to start this article. Maybe I’ll be better at ending it–maybe not. Maybe I’ll just make a fool of myself and display some of the issues that go…
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Brazil Takes on the World-At Least on Screen
Until some ads popped up on the website of our local art theatre, I had been only vaguely(if that)aware of “I’m Still Here.” But I thought it looked interesting from the ads and I pursued it a bit further and found it was not only an oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film but also…
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Two for the Oscar–Well, Just One, Actually
I have seen only a few(four, I think)of the nominated movies and I am unlikely to get around to all(or any?)of the others. We’ll see. So here is where I stand so far. My choice for the award, based upon what I’ve seen, is undoubtedly “American Fiction.” ”Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Oppenheimer” have both gotten a lot…
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Halloween– Notes & Movies
I don’t really have time to do anything elaborate or nearly so on Halloween. The circumstances of the country, the world, and myself have conspired to make it difficult to do everything I want to do on time. This is too bad because it is, in a weird and contradictory way, one of my favorite…
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The Ghosts of Movies Past–Random Harvest
“Random Harvest” and “The Uninvited” which I did here some time ago have one big thing in common. I thought they were both British made movies but both turned out to be American–at least technically and legally. I was not wrong, however, in their basic character. They are both British to the end in their…
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Movies, Books and Innocence–or Perhaps Something Like It
The title notwithstanding, this is not intended as serious literary criticism. It is my criticism, partly of myself, and a commentary on a past time in USA History; this includes a couple of its leading cultural contributors, and the way we may relate to such works in different times and at different ages. I began…
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The Ghosts of Movies Past-the Two Edges of the Razor
In my third Hays code effort I referred to the two different times(1946, 1984)when Hollywood tacked Maugham’s “The Razor’s Edge.” I got so enthusiastic about it that I found myself with more than two pages of MS which should have been about two paragraphs in that article. With some somewhat heavy handed editing I got…
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The Ghosts of Movies Past–The Uninvited
I originally thought of this title for a series about old films some time ago and I guess the title came to me by way of memories of “A Christmas Carol.” But I waited long enough to begin, that it now fits the season of Halloween. By “ghosts” here, I mean mostly the former, the…
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