Negative Space: movie
- All the President’s Men
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Probably one of the most influential events in journalism history made into one of the best films of the seventies.
- Almost Famous
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This is the best DVD I’ve seen yet. It has not one, not two, but three discs: the third disc is a CD with music by Stillwater, including the Led Zeppelin-like “Fever Dogs”. Thought the snippets of that song was cool, it was too bad they didn’t write the whole thing? Fret no more, they did write the whole thing, and at least five other songs, all on the CD.
- Battle: Los Angeles
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Whoah. Great movie. This is a traditional war film with no fluff, based on a simple premise: military invasion from outer space.
- Ruminations on the Watchmen movie
- The Watchmen movie was fascinating and well worth watching. And I begin understand why some people claim that Alan Moore’s works are unfilmable.
- Something Wild
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Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith were at their best in this lost movie from the eighties, and I can’t watch Ray Liotta in anything now without a shiver. I knew someone just like him in high school. No idea what he’s doing now, but it probably resembles Liotta in this movie.
- Star Trek
- The new Star Trek is surprisingly good, surprisingly faithful, and blatantly ready to diverge.
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- Almost Famous•
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Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical story about a teenager on a seventies rock tour is a beautiful movie. This is one of my favorite movies.
- Carnival of Souls•
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This is an awesome DVD package. It goes in-depth not only into Herk Harvey’s influential Carnival of Souls, but also the other kinds of movies he and his colleagues did. There is a great old construction safety short on here, for example.
- Superman Returns Special Edition• (DVD)
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The two-disc special edition adds some interesting deleted scenes among about three hours of documentaries and other special features. There’s an amazing scene where he reads through all of the disasters that happened while he was gone—train crashes, climate problems, epidemics, massacres, burning buildings, even locusts—but no mention of September 11. Lois’s “Why the World Doesn’t Need Superman” is juxtaposed with “Train crash kills 127”. (Bryan Singer)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert•
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Wild outfits, ping-pong balls, ABBA, and not a single kangaroo in sight. Priscilla involves three drag queens from Sydney driving a huge bus across some great Australian desert to a three-week gig at a tourist trap. Beautiful views of the desert. Wonderful costuming.
- The Blues Brothers•
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The Blues Brothers is a brilliant comedy slash musical with great blues music. Director John Landis set out to include musical numbers covering all the possible musical number types. The DVD includes longer footage from some of the performances, as well as previously deleted scenes. This is a collector’s edition, not a director’s cut, and at least one of the scenes that is restored is also ridiculed by the director in the making of feature.
- The Philadelphia Story•
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Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn. Suave at its best. James Stewart runs away with it. The movie was originally a play, and Katherine Hepburn got the movie rights and got George Cukor to direct. What’s to tell about the story? Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn play an upper-crust ex-couple, and James Stewart and Ruth Hussey play the working class reporters covering their story.
- The Ruling Class•
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When Jack’s aunt asks him how he knows he’s God, Jack replies, “Simple. When I pray I find I’m talking to myself.”
