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MovieNight Crew
Tim reminded me last night that we have been doing this MovieNight thing for almost 19 years!! Wow, that is a lot of movies. It started in 1995 with Tim, Bob and me watching Kurosawa films on Laserdisc on my 35" Mitsubishi. A lot of people have come and watched with us over the years. Doc Drew and Christie, now of Tampa Bay, Hollywood Bob, ( Read more... ) -
Virgil Brinkman Back Online
Gosh, has it been over a year? I guess it has. Well, with the big Six Oh staring me in the face I pledge to do better. FB is easy to get to and I will continue the short and quick stuff there, but the more thoughtful stuff goes here...
stay tuned!
thoughts and links to come.
JaDe.
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The Artist
Caught The Artist with Teresa the other night. I like the movie. It evokes the silent era completely from a visual perspective. The film within a film at the time of the advent of "talkies" juxtaposed against the second plot of the silent film star supplanted by the young newcomer that is the darling of the new technology is like a melding of ( Read more... ) -
Shutter Island
Hard to do this justice without spoilers. Nay, impossible to do this justice without spoilers. Nonetheless, I'll say what I can say ( Read more... ) -
Dr. Parnassus
Checked out Terry Gilliam's latest this afternoon. The real world sequences are very reminiscent of The Fisher King which, as some of you know, is my favorite film ( Read more... ) -
Eternal Sunshine Still Shines
So many things I had forgotten over the five plus years since the last time I saw this movie. Yet, I have no trouble rediscovering my emotional responses to this film. Gondry's realization of Kaufman's screenplay is so evocative, and yet unerring in its revelatory mission of presenting the visual manifestation of thought and memory. Wilkinson's ( Read more... ) -
Gamer
Caught Gamer on BluRay last week. Had some good points. An unexpected amount of bare breasts and such, but a plot with more than a few implausibilities. Still there as an absolutely sublime sequence near the end with David C. Hall (Of Six Feet Under and Dexter) channeling an original Rat Packer that just made the whole thing worth while for me ( Read more... ) -
Strong Decade
In honor of Filmspotting doing their top 20 of the decade just past (2000-2009, the aughtees?) I plan to re-watch two of my candidates for Best Of The Decade this weekend. In those ten years, there were exactly two times that I walked out of a theater thinking, "That may be the best movie I've seen in four or five years." These are those two films ( Read more... ) -
John Woo's New Classic
I rented the international release of John Woo's Red Cliff a few weeks ago. It comes in two parts, on two discs, each weighing in at 2 and a half hours. It presents the story of a pivotal event that took place in China in 208 AD referred to as The Battle of Red Cliffs. The story presented is a fictionalized account presented in a work called The ( Read more... ) -
Wow! Working Really Cramps Your Blog!!
Haven't posted since December? Amazing!. Started a new job in Alpharetta on January 11. With the commute and the nature of call center work, it's just hard to get around to everything. Just about everything that involves taking more than 30 minutes to do has been relegated to Saturdays, since I still work from 7 to 3 on Sundays, and Saturday ain' ( Read more... )