Thursday, February 25, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

American movies, 1970-1979

from Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)




Monday, February 22, 2010

My moviegoing: 2003

from Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948)
Austin Film Society's European Directors in Hollywood series


Wednesday, February 17, 2010

First movie/last movie: Sergei Eisenstein

Strike (1925)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958, filmed in the mid-1940s)


Monday, February 15, 2010

American movies, 1970-1979

from Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto (1974)
Mazursky is one of those frustrating filmmakers with a nice eye and an affinity for good character actors but too many annoying tendencies to make a movie that's good from beginning to end. I tend to enjoy isolated scenes from his movies without ever being satisfied overall. This one has some of his best and worst qualities.

Friday, February 12, 2010

My moviegoing: 2003

from David Cronenberg's Spider (2002)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Monday, February 08, 2010

American movies, 1970-1979

from Monte Hellman's Cockfighter (1974)

Thursday, February 04, 2010

My moviegoing: 2003

from Robert Siodmak's Criss Cross (1949)
Austin Film Society's European Directors in Hollywood series

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

First movie/last movie: Gene Kelly

This is just Kelly as a director, not a dancer/actor.
On the Town (1949, with Stanley Donen)
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)


Monday, February 01, 2010

American movies, 1970-1979

from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II (1974)

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