A man called Motke Bartov, then engaged in a count of animals in the Wadi Parek of southern Israel (this was February 1957), made the first sighting.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
First Lines: Lionel Davidson - Smith’s Gazelle
A man called Motke Bartov, then engaged in a count of animals in the Wadi Parek of southern Israel (this was February 1957), made the first sighting.
Friday, March 30, 2018
Don't Blink - Robert Frank (2015)
Portrait of photographer Robert Frank's life and career, covering the making of his book The Americans, his documentaries featuring friends such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and a film commissioned by The Rolling Stones.
Extensive, fast-paced portrait of the famous photographer and his life an friends has its best moments when presenting him at home and with his friends.
Prityazhenie (2017)
After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth.
Nicely made variation on The Day the Earth Stood Still, but the teenage is, once again, quite unnerving.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
First Lines: Walker Percy - Love in the Ruins
Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?
Below (2002)
Strange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.
And the mystery prevails, although there is some fun to be had in this submarine horror thriller.
On renewed viewing: entertaining, but it is a bit unnerving that there is no full resolve to the ongoings.
Maltin**: "Stultifyingly routine WW2 submarine movie that tries to incorporate elements of a whodunit, horror movie, and conspiracy thriller."
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Black Butterfly (2017)
Outside a mountain town grappling with a series of abductions and murders, a reclusive writer, struggles to start what he hopes will be a career-saving screenplay.
Well-played intense psychological thriller that disappoints with two twist endings - one on top of the other.
First Lines: Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
