For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here 25) Black Narcissus (1947), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Leonardo DiCaprio (Howard), Cate Blanchett (Kate), Jude Law (Errol), and Adam Scott (Johnny) are all sitting at a table together. Two of them are a little teed off about… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 25-21
For a brief introduction and a running list of movies covered in this project, click here. 90) The Long Good Friday (1980), directed by John Mackenzie Bob Hoskins has too many teeth in his mouth. Where he found them all I don’t know, but they are perfect for Harold Shand, who attacks his problems… Read More Better than BFI’s Top 100: 90-86
Dir. Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner I’m not a drug user, nor have I ever been. Movies about drug use overwhelmingly bore me, I guess, because I have no point of reference. I’ve ignored Trainspotting for many years largely because I couldn’t imagine finding a movie about heroin addicts interesting, and… Read More Trainspotting (1996)
Dir. Bill Condon. Starring Emma Watson, Ewan McGregor, Dan Stevens Since the movie has opened recently, an obligatory “spoilers.” Also, a shameless plug: I’ve written about the 1991 animated version with a special emphasis on that film’s symbolic use of color. You can find that here. The Beast (Stevens) reaches down and picks up an… Read More Beauty and the Beast (2017)
This was always the tricky double feature of this exercise, and, once I decided that I wasn’t going to watch all six of these movies in one sitting, it was actually the reason I didn’t really want to do three back-to-back viewings. Doing Episodes I and II together made sense, even if it’s a nasty… Read More Star Wars I-VI Project: Episodes III-IV
It’s almost time, God help us all, for The Force Awakens. In honor – in dread? – of the upcoming film, I’m undertaking a project that I’ve wanted to complete many times in my life but never had the sand to attempt. The goal is to watch all six films in a series of tight windows –… Read More Star Wars I-VI Project: Episodes I-II
Dir. Baz Luhrmann. Starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent 2010’s American Idiot, 2009’s Rock of Ages, 2006’s Jersey Boys, 2003’s Movin’ Out. 2003’s The Boy from Oz. All Best Musical nominees at the Tony Awards in the past ten years. One winner in the bunch (Jersey Boys). All jukebox musicals. On television, Glee and… Read More Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Seeing Things Secondhand 