Movies reviewed this week: Undisputed III: Redemption, It Happened One Night, Before Sunrise, Full Time, The Bell Boy, Ward, Leptirica, and The Velvet Vampire.
Category: Culture
Movies reviewed this week: Becket, Lost Bullet 2, Up in the Air, Mr. Turner, Breaking News, and Dirty Ho.
Pitchfork dug deep for this review of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1-3. Cool for the music but also cool for the esoterica. Anyone who claimed to be Crowley’s kid and had a passion for folk music is worth investigating in my book.
Alejandro Galindo seems like a really interesting director. A fair amount of his movies are available on the commercial-based streaming services. I wonder if these weren’t an influence on Roma?
Speaking of directors, Soderbergh’s 2022 yearly media consumption list is up. Someone on Letterboxd made a more convenient list of just the movies, which is handy, but I also like reading through the full stream. (Hm, four views of The Killer? I bet that’s the upcoming Fincher movie rather than John Woo.)
The always insightful J. D. Corley made me want to buy Call of Cthulhu 7th edition with this blog post. It’s just some tips for running the game, but what is this Bout of Madness mechanic? Is that really how it’s written or is that Corley being smart and extending the rulebook in useful ways? Suppose I gotta find out.
Have a 60-odd page PDF about management techniques from Javier Grillo-Marxuach, show runner and writer. OK, it’s really about show running, but it’s interesting how much of this translates directly into smart management techniques. Particularly for director-level managers.
Movies reviewed this week: The Long Goodbye, The Grand Budapest Hotel, La Chinoise, Night Ride, An Irish Goodbye, The Red Suitcase, Le Pupille, Ivalu, Heroes of the East, and The Hitch-Hiker.
Movies reviewed this week: Cosmos, Sissi, My Man Godfrey, Deep End, Walking a Tightrope, Sawdust and Tinsel, Crippled Avengers, Raw Deal, and They Live by Night.
Movies reviewed this week: Ticket of No Return, Licorice Pizza, Edge of the Knife, Ball of Fire, Stars at Noon, Trouble Every Day, The Five Venoms, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and L’Atalante.
Movies reviewed this week: Germany Year Zero, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Shaolin Soccer, and Clearcut.
Movies reviewed this week: The White Reindeer, We Are the Best!, My Winnipeg, Shoot First, Die Later, Executioners from Shaolin, and Chinatown Kid.
Movies reviewed this week: Pale Flower, King Rat, Shadows in Paradise, and Putney Swope.