Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Film Log


I watched 6 feature films in the past 2 days:
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1. 711 Ocean Drive, 1950 Joseph M. Newman, pretty cool film noir starring the always great Edmund O'Brien as a high tech telephone expert who gets sucked into a gambling syndicate and eventually rises to be the kingpin.


2. Monsieur Verdoux, 1947 Charles Chaplin, weird late Chaplin film. A black comedy about a married "bluebeard" who seduces wealthy women, kills them and then steals their money with the original story idea coming from Orson Welles


3. Jonestown: Life and Death of the People's Temple, 2006 Stanley Nelson, amazing but depressing and disturbing documentary about mass murderer Jim Jones


4. Night Moves, 1975 Arthur Penn, great 70's existential noir starring Gene Hackman, riyl The Long Goodbye


5. Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, 2006 Lucia Palacios and Dietmar Post, (playing at Anthology Film Archives now! till 11/6), awesome documentary about the Monks, go see it


6. W.,  2008 Oliver Stone (saw a mouse in the Union Square theater, filed a complaint) kind of a boring, straight film, not the usual Stone bravado and experimental style, not sure what i think about this one yet ... fantastic performance by the always superb Josh Brolin though.

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  1. Jacob C. MorrisNovember 15, 2008 at 1:21 PM

    i watched that jonestown doc-o this last winter- mostly because i had always heard that the cult was founded in ukiah california where my family lived for a year in 95. Just hearing someone say the words UKIAH gave me the heeby geebies. highly recomended, esspescially for those of you looking for tips on how to start your own cult.

    here's a good one - try to get as many old people in your cult as possible. they are docile, and happy to have someone pay attention to them.

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