Hats off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinematèk once again for their upcoming Punk ‘n’ Pie film series, which looks to be an amazing retrospective focusing predominantly on the UK Punk/New Wave scene (a majority of them I haven’t yet seen, and I’m particularly interested in the November 23rd double-feature). Damn, the BAM consistently [...]
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Punk ‘n’ Pie
Published by November 10th, 2008 in Uncategorized, edupunk, movies and music. 7 CommentsI’ve been doing some digging around for great cinematic sermons, and during my relatively fruitless search I came across the scene below from Elmer Gantry (1960). This is a film I have yet to see, but after watching Burt Lancaster bust out in song like this I might have to get this film as soon [...]
Formative 10: Escape from New York
Published by October 25th, 2008 in Formative 10, Uncategorized, films and movies. 4 CommentsWell, I guess I gotta get going on my formative 10 because what has taken me almost eight months, has taken D’Arcy Norman all of three days. I find it interesting how much a formative 10 can tell you about someone, for example given D’Arcy’s first three films it’s pretty obvious he’s a science nerd [...]
Formative 10: The Thing (1982)
Published by October 22nd, 2008 in Formative 10, film and movies. 9 CommentsBack to the lost formative ten. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) has consistently been in my top three movies of all time since I first saw it. A masterpiece on many levels, and in fact there are two Carpenter films in my formative ten, and both of them center around his ability to create [...]
New York City during the 1970s as captured on film is possibly by favorite aesthetic of all time, outside of the black and white ads in Filmfax. There’s just something so beautiful about the filth, the clothing, the hairstyles, the mutton chops, and the ever looming sense that someone had sneaked a razor blade in [...]
I sat down yesterday evening with my son to watch Dumbo (1941) for the first time in almost thirty years. Everything seemed pretty much like I remembered until we hit the Pink Elephants on Parade scene (included below). Wow, now there is a trippy scene at any age, and we both remarked as much [...]
That was then….
….and this is now (actually last week at the NuArt theater in LA–my favorite!):
Stephen Geoffreys delivering his classic line from Fright Night (1985).
First Blood “Nothing is over!”
Published by September 13th, 2008 in Uncategorized and movies. 1 CommentJust watched First Blood (1982) for the first time in many years in preparation for an upcoming conference presentation. I have to admit I’m not sure if Stallone’s final speech is the greatest acting I’ve ever seen, or the worst. You be the judge.
And for a wonderful take on this monologue, check out the [...]
Update: There’s a great article on this very retrospective by Benjamin Strong on the Moving Image Source titled “Morning in America.” He positions this retrospective as genre readings of the Reagan 80s, yes, that’s it!
As if you need any more proof that the BAM’s film programming is far and away the best out there, check [...]
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