Yay! One week until Fthismovie fest. I've been loving all the '98 content on the website. Thank you! I haven't been restricting myself to '98 movies this month, but I do plan to see Godzilla sometime this week.
Femme Fatale (2002, dir. De Palma) Patrick mentioned on a podcast that this movie rules, and indeed it does. Rebecca Romijn is fantastic in this. It's nice to see my favourite X-woman in a non-blue performance. I can't wait to see Snake Eyes next week!
The Wind and the Lion (1975, dir. John Milius) was a great surprise for a movie I wasn't aware of. Sean Connery plays a Barbary pirate that kidnaps an American woman. Brian Keith (as Theodore Roosevelt) has some great speeches as they attempt to rescue the hostage. Very deftly directed by Milius, and the score by Goldsmith is fantastic.
Also watched Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974, dir. Michael Cimino). Jeff Bridges is very young in this. Shootouts, car chases, bank heists, and the tone swings between light comedy and pathos. I can see why this isn't better remembered but I liked it a lot. Thanks for the recommendation Casual Listener!
The highlight of my week was watching Out For Justice (1991, dir. John Flynn). William Forsythe is freaking amazing as an unhinged guy who is just wandering around with his crew killing people. Seagal is a cop (without uniform and wearing a deep V shirt) that is pursuing him, but mostly getting in people's faces and snapping their arms if they push back at all. I thought this was wildly entertaining.
Those early Steven Seagal movies have held up surprisingly well over the decades. I can remember watching those on VHS and cable back in the early 1990s. I picked up an old snapcase DVD of Out For Justice many years ago but have not watched it. The DVD of Hard To Kill has been viewed a couple of times. Such a fun film.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot does have some odd tonal shifts, Paul. That cast is obviously have such a fun time that the flaws can be overlooked. It would be a great Cars! movie for Junesploitation. Got to love the downbeat '70s conclusion.
I hope everyone watched the SNL special episode last week. It was fun. There's a biography on Lorne Michaels that just came out, but I can't buy it now. I hope the hardcover is still available when I get to it.
Before Night Falls (2000): What better movie to watch during a snowstorm than a story about a writer in sunny Cuba. I'm sure nobody remembers this, but you should. It's slow and beautiful and poetic, the kind of contemplative movie I like to watch sometimes, even if the subject is not always fun in this case. It's the first English-speaking role for Javier Bardem, still is his best role I've ever seen him in.
Free Fire (2016): Another forgotten gem. Before Armie Hammer was a bad guy, and before Brie Larson was hated for being a woman with opinions in a Marvel movie, we got this flick featuring Sharlto Copley being his usual nutty self and Cillian Murphy being as suave as can be. It's a crazy movie where most characters get shot in the legs early on, then everybody spend the rest of the movie crawling around shooting at each other. It's short too, and it doesn't need to be longer.
Body of Evidence (1993): the ladies at Dorking Out did a podcast on it. And, you know, I like a f**k-noir as much as the next guy, so I had to track it down, despite their bad reviews of it. And you know what, I should've listened, that movie's bullsh**. It's so boring, even naked Madonna doesn't help. Honestly, about halfway through, I just fidgeted with my phone.
Perfect Days (2023): This is my second viewing, this time on 4k Criterion disc. First time I saw it, I knew it would be good because Wim Wenders make good movies, but I didn't expect the contemplative serenity of the movie. You don't even need the sound on, just watch the guy live his peaceful life. There are practically no words said in the first half of the movie. I think the main dude say less words than Kurt Russell in Soldier.
dude! was gonna reference the LORNE biography. For a very very long time ive hoped that Lorne would write an autobiography. Regrettably ive read that he had no plans to do so. Makes sense, he's a crazy private individual. So when i saw the Lorne bio drop this week i was kinda trepidatious as i figured it would be a "puff piece". So i did some research and the author Susan Morrison has a substantial history with the show and Lorne and did have, to some extent, direct input from him. I picked it up (kindle) and started it and its reallllllllllllllllllly good so far. Cant put it down.
(PS: check out a recent "Fly on the Wall" podcast where David Spade and Dana Carvey interview Susan Morrison...its exceptional. Theres also an episode just after where they talk a bit about the 50th. Also worth a spin!)
I believe that one of the batsh@t craziest, riskiest, most inexplicable decisions ever made in Hollywood was handing the reigns to the Lord of the Rings franchise to the guy who made Dead Alive (Braindead) and Meet the Feebles. I think about it all the time.
Similarly...thou FAR less risky....i regularly reflect how bananas it was that the MCU gave the Guardians of the Galaxy to the guy who came from Troma and made Slither. Not only did he completely nail it and thus guarantee the Guardians place amongst the best things MCU did but he also figured out his wheelhouse genre: Mission movies bringing a rag tag band of disparate misfits together to become a family and triumph. Revisiting this movie shortly after watching Creature Commandos (and Peacemaker not that far before), its clear that Gunn loves this story archetype. And, in this case, tying it back to his origins, he gets to have FUN with it by not being beholden to a PG13. This is by no means a great movie but it is a ton of fun with wacky characters and over the top violence and setpieces. Good times.
THE SPITFIRE GRILL (1996) A blast from the past! I saw this in the theater when I was 12. I loved it. It was very much up my alley then and I'm surprised and so happy it's held up. It's about a quiet young woman with a secret past (Alison Elliot), recently released from prison, who moves to a small northern town to work at a grill for a curmudgeonly old woman (Ellen Burstyn). She's judged harshly by small town gossipy folk, the old woman's nephew in particular (Will Patton), but she ends up becoming a catalyst for healing of old wounds.
It's a pretty predictable melodrama, I'm the pretty predictable target audience, but I was so pleasantly surprised watching it for the first time after almost 30 years that it doesn't come off saccharine. The main character's part and performance, especially, could be overdramatized and overacted. The supporting cast is great - Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Will Patton - this feels like a small movie people put a lot of love into. And the movie was produced by a Catholic charity, which is like a very bittersweet thing for me to think about now. When I was younger I loved movies and music that evoked this small town folksy life, and never thought about the politics of those places. That's long gone. If I even hear a banjo now I get tense with all the crap going on. The division is sad but, like everything, I think it has its season.
Roger and Ebert did not like this movie. They found it sappy and too much like a bunch of other movies about sisterly women running grills in small towns (?). I'm gonna find all those movies and watch them. I wish these were the kind of movies they had on Hallmark channel nowadays.
By order of the president, this will be called The Spitfire Grill from now on.
Weirdly enough, I can remember Siskel and Ebert reviewing the film. That they did not like The Spitfire Grill is not surprising. I watched the show almost every week during the 1990s. Youtube is full of Siskel and Ebert clips. The horror reviews are particularly funny. (Watch the one for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter for a good example.) I believe Gene Siskel's harsh review (in print) of I Spit On Your Grave helped to bring attention to that film at the time of its release.
Sounds fun, Casual. I've never SEEN Siskel and Ebert do movie reviews together, only interviews, like about themselves. Kunider, yup, I knew you were in Canada.
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936) Countess Zaleska needs to be a bigger deal among monster fans.
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004) "Behold, she is singing to bring down the ridiculously over-designed chandelier!"
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2024) Gave this another shot. It's a mess, but I respect the filmmakers' ambition in making this a feature rather than a series of Tiktoks or something.
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982) "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!"
HEART EYES (2025) Super-fun old school slasher! I won't complain if this becomes a long-running franchise.
LIQUID SKY (1982) What a wonderfully weird movie. If only I could pull off lightning bolt face paint...
And good news: I managed to get March 1 off, so I'll be able to join everyone in a magical day filled with wondering what the heck the deal is with the Gorgonites.
I watched Liquid Sky sometime last spring/summer and it's very weird and wonderful! It has strangely stuck with me and I've gone back and watched bits and pieces of it fairly frequently. Especially the ending and roll into the great credit scene (the time lapse and harpsichord). I nearly turned it off around 10-15 minutes in, it just had such a strange vibe, but glad I stuck with it.
I rewatched Trainspotting with my son (his first view, now that he's old enough). I love that movie and rewatch it at least once a year. He was curious about the sequel, and I told him to wait 20 years and then watch it (and suggested we watch Slumdog or Sunshine instead). Trainspotting 2 is excellent and should have gotten more praise. Instead of just trying to redo the original, it looks at the characters where they are in their life ~20 years later. Bold take on how legacy sequels should be done. The naming of T2: Trainspotting is unfortunate though. Calling it "Trainspotting 2: Into Darkness The Return After Sunset Here We Go Again" would have been better.
Also watched both Kill Bill movies yesterday. I've long thought that Django was my favourite of his movies, but now it's Kill Bill. As Patrick said before, whichever movie of his I'm in the process of watching seems like my favourite, but I think it's actually Kill Bill.
I've actually never seem the Grindhouse movie. What am I doing?
So Trainspotting 2 is worth a watch? good to know. ive kind of avoided it as the original movie blew me away so much that i just couldnt see how a sequel would work. actually ive not revisited the original for years..may have to do a double feature.
mmmm Kill Bill. Yea, its very tough to nail down a fav QT flick. Pulp is untouchable as beyond its genius, for me it changed what a movie could be. Opened my eyes. Reservoir Dogs is a masterclass of the power of dialog and layered storytelling. But in the end Kill Bill is my favorite for a few reasons 1) rewatchability. i revisit it the most and its always a blast, 2) it shouldnt work. he's thrown together so many genres. 3) somehow it manages to have some of the best action and fight choreography but ALSO equally amazing dialogue scenes. The sheer brilliance and power of the final scene between Bill and The Bride is no less impressive to me than the House of Blue Leaves.
As for Grindhouse - do check it out. User mileage varies on that one. I find bits and pieces within both movies that i enjoy quite a bit. And the linking trailers are inspired.
Peace .n. "choose sittin on that couch watchin mind numbin spirit craaashin game shows shuvin f@$in junk food into ya mouth...choose life"
I really liked Trainspotting 2 the one time I saw it. It follows the same characters but they're all middle aged and the hope is equally matched by regrets. I was feeling similarly, so that's maybe why I connected.
I liked Trainspotting 2 a lot the first time I watched it, and have only grown to appreciate it more with time. Maybe it's just that the original increasingly feels like a young person's movie. I can't relate to being a young heroin addict getting into hijinks, but I can relate now to being a middle-aged person having at least some regrets about maybe misspending a bit of my youth. There's still hijinks in Trainspotting 2, but it's pulled back a bit that makes most of the characters (even Begbie at times) feel a bit more human.
I had a chance last summer to get the Grindhouse experience on the big screen, on 35 mm, at the Mahoning Drive-In. It was a fun night, but I cannot say that either of the features are without flaws. I found Death Proof a little off-putting with the way the narrative breaks up and begins again during the middle of the film. The stuntwork is impressive, however. The missing reel was just one of many ridiculous aspects of Planet Terror, though it certainly does entertain. It was funny watching the trailers because so many have become real films since 2006.
I started a couple of films during the week but could not muster the concentration to finish them. Once work settles down (and I can get some more days off), I know I will have the capacity to focus again. That has not stopped me from thinking about movies, though. I was searching through my collection for Junesploitation options I have overlooked. 1975's Chatterbox looks interesting, and the Black Emanuelle box has much Italian trash that I have never seen.
I am looking forward to the posting of the Mahoning Drive-In's 2025 schedule, which should start being announced next month. In the meantime, I have been listening to some episodes of the drive-in's podcast to cheer me up. The interview with the Australian drive-in owner (Tor's Drive-In Cinema) was really engaging. There is also an interview with a Canadian drive-in owner (Cine Parc Orford).
Looking at the DVR listings today, I realized that the new digital cable system is not allowing recordings to be stored for a long period. Gone are the days when I could record a film and wait months, or even years, to watch it.
LILIES OF THE FIELDS (1963) I don't think I've ever seen anyone burst off the screen like Sidney Poitier does in this movie, in every scene. I used to really like this movie even though I was wary of some parts I didn't quite understand, but I see the whole thing differently now and love it. I understand why it was controversial for Sidney Poitier to make it at the time, but I think it was a wise choice. Oh, just found out he won the Best Actor Oscar for it. An awesome performance.
Yay! One week until Fthismovie fest. I've been loving all the '98 content on the website. Thank you! I haven't been restricting myself to '98 movies this month, but I do plan to see Godzilla sometime this week.
ReplyDeleteFemme Fatale (2002, dir. De Palma) Patrick mentioned on a podcast that this movie rules, and indeed it does. Rebecca Romijn is fantastic in this. It's nice to see my favourite X-woman in a non-blue performance. I can't wait to see Snake Eyes next week!
The Wind and the Lion (1975, dir. John Milius) was a great surprise for a movie I wasn't aware of. Sean Connery plays a Barbary pirate that kidnaps an American woman. Brian Keith (as Theodore Roosevelt) has some great speeches as they attempt to rescue the hostage. Very deftly directed by Milius, and the score by Goldsmith is fantastic.
Also watched Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974, dir. Michael Cimino). Jeff Bridges is very young in this. Shootouts, car chases, bank heists, and the tone swings between light comedy and pathos. I can see why this isn't better remembered but I liked it a lot. Thanks for the recommendation Casual Listener!
DeleteThe highlight of my week was watching Out For Justice (1991, dir. John Flynn). William Forsythe is freaking amazing as an unhinged guy who is just wandering around with his crew killing people. Seagal is a cop (without uniform and wearing a deep V shirt) that is pursuing him, but mostly getting in people's faces and snapping their arms if they push back at all. I thought this was wildly entertaining.
Those early Steven Seagal movies have held up surprisingly well over the decades. I can remember watching those on VHS and cable back in the early 1990s. I picked up an old snapcase DVD of Out For Justice many years ago but have not watched it. The DVD of Hard To Kill has been viewed a couple of times. Such a fun film.
DeleteThunderbolt and Lightfoot does have some odd tonal shifts, Paul. That cast is obviously have such a fun time that the flaws can be overlooked. It would be a great Cars! movie for Junesploitation. Got to love the downbeat '70s conclusion.
I hope everyone watched the SNL special episode last week. It was fun. There's a biography on Lorne Michaels that just came out, but I can't buy it now. I hope the hardcover is still available when I get to it.
ReplyDeleteBefore Night Falls (2000): What better movie to watch during a snowstorm than a story about a writer in sunny Cuba. I'm sure nobody remembers this, but you should. It's slow and beautiful and poetic, the kind of contemplative movie I like to watch sometimes, even if the subject is not always fun in this case. It's the first English-speaking role for Javier Bardem, still is his best role I've ever seen him in.
Free Fire (2016): Another forgotten gem. Before Armie Hammer was a bad guy, and before Brie Larson was hated for being a woman with opinions in a Marvel movie, we got this flick featuring Sharlto Copley being his usual nutty self and Cillian Murphy being as suave as can be. It's a crazy movie where most characters get shot in the legs early on, then everybody spend the rest of the movie crawling around shooting at each other. It's short too, and it doesn't need to be longer.
Body of Evidence (1993): the ladies at Dorking Out did a podcast on it. And, you know, I like a f**k-noir as much as the next guy, so I had to track it down, despite their bad reviews of it. And you know what, I should've listened, that movie's bullsh**. It's so boring, even naked Madonna doesn't help. Honestly, about halfway through, I just fidgeted with my phone.
Perfect Days (2023): This is my second viewing, this time on 4k Criterion disc. First time I saw it, I knew it would be good because Wim Wenders make good movies, but I didn't expect the contemplative serenity of the movie. You don't even need the sound on, just watch the guy live his peaceful life. There are practically no words said in the first half of the movie. I think the main dude say less words than Kurt Russell in Soldier.
dude! was gonna reference the LORNE biography. For a very very long time ive hoped that Lorne would write an autobiography. Regrettably ive read that he had no plans to do so. Makes sense, he's a crazy private individual. So when i saw the Lorne bio drop this week i was kinda trepidatious as i figured it would be a "puff piece". So i did some research and the author Susan Morrison has a substantial history with the show and Lorne and did have, to some extent, direct input from him. I picked it up (kindle) and started it and its reallllllllllllllllllly good so far. Cant put it down.
Delete(PS: check out a recent "Fly on the Wall" podcast where David Spade and Dana Carvey interview Susan Morrison...its exceptional. Theres also an episode just after where they talk a bit about the 50th. Also worth a spin!)
DeleteThe podcast is downloaded, i'll listen to it soon
DeleteWell, screw you Mashke, you owe me 30$ 😜. I just ordered the book, i'll pick it up in store tomorrow when i'm back in town
DeleteHA! well considering all the 4k's you've MADE me buy, i think we'll call it even.
DeleteHahaha, fair enough
DeleteThe Suicide Squad (2021 Blu)
ReplyDeleteI believe that one of the batsh@t craziest, riskiest, most inexplicable decisions ever made in Hollywood was handing the reigns to the Lord of the Rings franchise to the guy who made Dead Alive (Braindead) and Meet the Feebles. I think about it all the time.
Similarly...thou FAR less risky....i regularly reflect how bananas it was that the MCU gave the Guardians of the Galaxy to the guy who came from Troma and made Slither. Not only did he completely nail it and thus guarantee the Guardians place amongst the best things MCU did but he also figured out his wheelhouse genre: Mission movies bringing a rag tag band of disparate misfits together to become a family and triumph. Revisiting this movie shortly after watching Creature Commandos (and Peacemaker not that far before), its clear that Gunn loves this story archetype. And, in this case, tying it back to his origins, he gets to have FUN with it by not being beholden to a PG13. This is by no means a great movie but it is a ton of fun with wacky characters and over the top violence and setpieces. Good times.
I had issues with it the first time i saw it, but on the second rewatch, i was hooked, and now i love it.
DeleteTHE SPITFIRE GRILL (1996)
ReplyDeleteA blast from the past! I saw this in the theater when I was 12. I loved it. It was very much up my alley then and I'm surprised and so happy it's held up. It's about a quiet young woman with a secret past (Alison Elliot), recently released from prison, who moves to a small northern town to work at a grill for a curmudgeonly old woman (Ellen Burstyn). She's judged harshly by small town gossipy folk, the old woman's nephew in particular (Will Patton), but she ends up becoming a catalyst for healing of old wounds.
It's a pretty predictable melodrama, I'm the pretty predictable target audience, but I was so pleasantly surprised watching it for the first time after almost 30 years that it doesn't come off saccharine. The main character's part and performance, especially, could be overdramatized and overacted. The supporting cast is great - Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Will Patton - this feels like a small movie people put a lot of love into. And the movie was produced by a Catholic charity, which is like a very bittersweet thing for me to think about now. When I was younger I loved movies and music that evoked this small town folksy life, and never thought about the politics of those places. That's long gone. If I even hear a banjo now I get tense with all the crap going on. The division is sad but, like everything, I think it has its season.
Roger and Ebert did not like this movie. They found it sappy and too much like a bunch of other movies about sisterly women running grills in small towns (?). I'm gonna find all those movies and watch them. I wish these were the kind of movies they had on Hallmark channel nowadays.
In IMDB, it's just The Grill
DeleteThat's interesting. Mine says Spitfire Grill. Maybe we're looking at different country versions of the site.
DeleteSounds like it, if you look at the 'Also Known As' section, you can see that Canadian English title is The Grill. Guess where i am 😁
DeleteBy order of the president, this will be called The Spitfire Grill from now on.
DeleteWeirdly enough, I can remember Siskel and Ebert reviewing the film. That they did not like The Spitfire Grill is not surprising. I watched the show almost every week during the 1990s. Youtube is full of Siskel and Ebert clips. The horror reviews are particularly funny. (Watch the one for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter for a good example.) I believe Gene Siskel's harsh review (in print) of I Spit On Your Grave helped to bring attention to that film at the time of its release.
Sounds fun, Casual. I've never SEEN Siskel and Ebert do movie reviews together, only interviews, like about themselves.
DeleteKunider, yup, I knew you were in Canada.
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936)
ReplyDeleteCountess Zaleska needs to be a bigger deal among monster fans.
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004)
"Behold, she is singing to bring down the ridiculously over-designed chandelier!"
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2024)
Gave this another shot. It's a mess, but I respect the filmmakers' ambition in making this a feature rather than a series of Tiktoks or something.
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982)
"Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!"
HEART EYES (2025)
Super-fun old school slasher! I won't complain if this becomes a long-running franchise.
LIQUID SKY (1982)
What a wonderfully weird movie. If only I could pull off lightning bolt face paint...
And good news: I managed to get March 1 off, so I'll be able to join everyone in a magical day filled with wondering what the heck the deal is with the Gorgonites.
I watched Liquid Sky sometime last spring/summer and it's very weird and wonderful! It has strangely stuck with me and I've gone back and watched bits and pieces of it fairly frequently. Especially the ending and roll into the great credit scene (the time lapse and harpsichord). I nearly turned it off around 10-15 minutes in, it just had such a strange vibe, but glad I stuck with it.
DeleteAny time I look at my blu-ray shelf and catch even a slight glimpse of Liquid Sky, Me & My Rhythm Box instantly pops into my head.
DeleteSeconded on Countess Zaleska.
ReplyDeleteI rewatched Trainspotting with my son (his first view, now that he's old enough). I love that movie and rewatch it at least once a year. He was curious about the sequel, and I told him to wait 20 years and then watch it (and suggested we watch Slumdog or Sunshine instead). Trainspotting 2 is excellent and should have gotten more praise. Instead of just trying to redo the original, it looks at the characters where they are in their life ~20 years later. Bold take on how legacy sequels should be done. The naming of T2: Trainspotting is unfortunate though. Calling it "Trainspotting 2: Into Darkness The Return After Sunset Here We Go Again" would have been better.
ReplyDeleteAlso watched both Kill Bill movies yesterday. I've long thought that Django was my favourite of his movies, but now it's Kill Bill. As Patrick said before, whichever movie of his I'm in the process of watching seems like my favourite, but I think it's actually Kill Bill.
DeleteI've actually never seem the Grindhouse movie. What am I doing?
Yesterday I was noticing how many quick split screen bits are in Kill Bill. Love it!
DeleteSo Trainspotting 2 is worth a watch? good to know. ive kind of avoided it as the original movie blew me away so much that i just couldnt see how a sequel would work. actually ive not revisited the original for years..may have to do a double feature.
Deletemmmm Kill Bill. Yea, its very tough to nail down a fav QT flick. Pulp is untouchable as beyond its genius, for me it changed what a movie could be. Opened my eyes. Reservoir Dogs is a masterclass of the power of dialog and layered storytelling. But in the end Kill Bill is my favorite for a few reasons 1) rewatchability. i revisit it the most and its always a blast, 2) it shouldnt work. he's thrown together so many genres. 3) somehow it manages to have some of the best action and fight choreography but ALSO equally amazing dialogue scenes. The sheer brilliance and power of the final scene between Bill and The Bride is no less impressive to me than the House of Blue Leaves.
As for Grindhouse - do check it out. User mileage varies on that one. I find bits and pieces within both movies that i enjoy quite a bit. And the linking trailers are inspired.
Peace .n. "choose sittin on that couch watchin mind numbin spirit craaashin game shows shuvin f@$in junk food into ya mouth...choose life"
I really liked Trainspotting 2 the one time I saw it. It follows the same characters but they're all middle aged and the hope is equally matched by regrets. I was feeling similarly, so that's maybe why I connected.
DeleteI liked Trainspotting 2 a lot the first time I watched it, and have only grown to appreciate it more with time. Maybe it's just that the original increasingly feels like a young person's movie. I can't relate to being a young heroin addict getting into hijinks, but I can relate now to being a middle-aged person having at least some regrets about maybe misspending a bit of my youth. There's still hijinks in Trainspotting 2, but it's pulled back a bit that makes most of the characters (even Begbie at times) feel a bit more human.
DeleteI had a chance last summer to get the Grindhouse experience on the big screen, on 35 mm, at the Mahoning Drive-In. It was a fun night, but I cannot say that either of the features are without flaws. I found Death Proof a little off-putting with the way the narrative breaks up and begins again during the middle of the film. The stuntwork is impressive, however. The missing reel was just one of many ridiculous aspects of Planet Terror, though it certainly does entertain. It was funny watching the trailers because so many have become real films since 2006.
DeleteI started a couple of films during the week but could not muster the concentration to finish them. Once work settles down (and I can get some more days off), I know I will have the capacity to focus again. That has not stopped me from thinking about movies, though. I was searching through my collection for Junesploitation options I have overlooked. 1975's Chatterbox looks interesting, and the Black Emanuelle box has much Italian trash that I have never seen.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to the posting of the Mahoning Drive-In's 2025 schedule, which should start being announced next month. In the meantime, I have been listening to some episodes of the drive-in's podcast to cheer me up. The interview with the Australian drive-in owner (Tor's Drive-In Cinema) was really engaging. There is also an interview with a Canadian drive-in owner (Cine Parc Orford).
Looking at the DVR listings today, I realized that the new digital cable system is not allowing recordings to be stored for a long period. Gone are the days when I could record a film and wait months, or even years, to watch it.
LILIES OF THE FIELDS (1963)
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever seen anyone burst off the screen like Sidney Poitier does in this movie, in every scene. I used to really like this movie even though I was wary of some parts I didn't quite understand, but I see the whole thing differently now and love it. I understand why it was controversial for Sidney Poitier to make it at the time, but I think it was a wise choice. Oh, just found out he won the Best Actor Oscar for it. An awesome performance.