ph: Ben Lamberty
Friday, December 4, 2015
First Lines: James M. Cain - Double Indemnity
I drove out to Glendale to put three new truck drivers on a brewery company bond, and then I remembered this renewal over in Hollywoodland.
Akumu tantei (2006)
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares.
Something like a Japanese A Nighmare on Elm Street, so it's a more mature cast and setting, but a more incoherent plot; the movie is marked by the director's visual inventiveness and darkness, but he has made better efforts.
Midnight in Paris (2011)
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Very light comedy without any depth you might expect from its director, but the fatnatstical encounters with historical figures are quite entertaining.
Maltin***: "A divertissement from Allen filled with wistful charm, although it won't stand up to scrutiny; either you go along with its fantasy premise or you don't. Wilsin is the best in a long line of Woody surrogates because he truly makes the part his own."
The Movies I Watched in November
A Single Man 2009 7
Boy A 2007 7
Chéri 2009 6
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 7
Dancer in the Dark 2000 7
Departures 2008 7
Eastern Promises 2007 Feature 7
Elysium 2013 6
Evil Dead 2013 6
Freelancers 2012 5
Happy Ever Afters 2009 6
Inside Out 2015 8
Ironclad 2011 5
It Came from Outer Space 1953 6
Keoma 1976 7
Kotoko 2011 7
Lava 2014 7
Luis Trenker-Der Schmale Grat der Wahrheit 2015 6
Planet of the Apes 2001 6
Riley's First Date? 2015 7
The Gilded Cage 2013 6
The Invisible Man 1933 10
Then She Found Me 2007 6
Tracker 2010 6
Vixen! 1968 5
World Without End 1956 5
Boy A 2007 7
Chéri 2009 6
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 7
Dancer in the Dark 2000 7
Departures 2008 7
Eastern Promises 2007 Feature 7
Elysium 2013 6
Evil Dead 2013 6
Freelancers 2012 5
Happy Ever Afters 2009 6
Inside Out 2015 8
Ironclad 2011 5
It Came from Outer Space 1953 6
Keoma 1976 7
Kotoko 2011 7
Lava 2014 7
Luis Trenker-Der Schmale Grat der Wahrheit 2015 6
Planet of the Apes 2001 6
Riley's First Date? 2015 7
The Gilded Cage 2013 6
The Invisible Man 1933 10
Then She Found Me 2007 6
Tracker 2010 6
Vixen! 1968 5
World Without End 1956 5
Thursday, December 3, 2015
First Lines: E. C. Bentley - Trent's Last Case
Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
