Happy Secular Holiday Season

Enjoy this image from Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa (2003) until I return from the Middle West. I'm typing this in a hotel in Wichita. It's snowing. When I come back, I will attempt to write about every movie I saw on the big screen in 2008.

Chabrol/Audran

Two images of Stephane Audran, from two Claude Chabrol movies
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Le Boucher (1970)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Clint Eastwood's Play Misty For Me (1971)

4 by Mike Leigh

from Mike Leigh's
Bleak Moments (1971)
Meantime (1984)
Life Is Sweet (1991)
Naked (1993)

Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #5: Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, in Wong Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Nights (2007)

Ukigusa

from Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959)

Image of the Day: Thanksgiving Edition

from John Hughes' Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

Rois et reine

from Arnaud Desplechin's unruly and wonderful movie Kings and Queen (2004)

American movies, 1970-1979

from John Cassavetes' Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)

Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #4: Dennis Wilson and James Taylor in Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971)

Four Women by Howard Hawks

Karen Morley, Marilyn Monroe, Joanne Dru, and Angie Dickinson in Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Red River (1948), and Rio Bravo (1959)

Weddings and Babies, Herzog-Style

from Werner Herzog's Signs of Life (1968) and Stroszek (1977)

Bresson's Hands

from Robert Bresson's
A Man Escaped (1956)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
The Devil, Probably (1977)

Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #3: Duke Ellington in Dudley Murphy's Black and Tan (1929)

I could sure dig meeting a better class of people

from Allan Arkush and Joe Dante's Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971)

Eggleston/Akerman

from the top:
Untitled, undated photograph by William Eggleston from Los Alamos (1966-1974)
Chantal Akerman's Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)

There's no need to hide something as fine and dandy as that!

from Takashi Miike's Gozu (2003)

Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #2: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987)

Oliver Stone Conversion Machine

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Seizure -> Hollywood Boulevard

The Hand -> Mad Love

Salvador -> The Quiet American

Platoon -> Full Metal Jacket

Wall Street -> Sweet Smell of Success

Talk Radio -> Aah, this one's actually not that bad

Born on the Fourth of July -> Who'll Stop the Rain

The Doors -> This Is Spinal Tap

JFK -> Report

Heaven & Earth -> go outside and get some fresh air

Natural Born Killers -> Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Nixon -> The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

U Turn -> Deliverance

Any Given Sunday -> Slap Shot

Alexander -> Glen or Glenda

World Trade Center -> The Battle of Algiers

W. -> any random YouTube clip of our current lame duck

In the old days, you did what you had to do. If you didn't like it... eh, you liked it anyway.

from Robert Mulligan's Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

HEAR AND SEE 100 JUBILEE SINGERS!

from King Vidor's Hallelujah! (1929)

Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #1: The Yardbirds in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966)

Happy Halloween Argento Triple Feature

from Dario Argento's
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Suspiria (1977)
Inferno (1980)

Wolfing Out in 1981

from:
Joe Dante's The Howling (1981)
John Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Mom, wake up, look what I found on the beach!

from John Carpenter's The Fog (1980)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Woody Allen's Bananas (1971)

Fassbinder as actor and director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as actor and director:
Katzelmacher (1969)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

I must get this crack mended

from Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965)

Cassavetes/Fuller

from:
John Cassavetes' A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Samuel Fuller's The Naked Kiss (1964)

Cassavetes/Romero

from the top:
John Cassavetes' Shadows (1959)
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968)