January 21st If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? / 1971, dir. Ron Ormond My Demon Lover / 1987, dir. Charlie Loventhal It’s too bad that I’m out of Ormond-Pirkle collaborations, because I was starting to develop a fondness for Pirkle’s sermons. They have a Homeric flavor to them, a use of Bible verses… Read More 2023 Movie Diary (1/21-1/25): Tsars, Commissars, and Pezidents
January 16th Soup for One / 1982, dir. Jonathan Kaufer Crocodile Dundee / 1986, dir. Peter Faiman The September Issue / 2009, dir. R.J. Cutler Great Freedom / 2021, dir. Sebastian Meise Jonathan Kaufer was a precocious guy in his mid-twenties when he wrote and directed Soup for One, and boy does this movie really… Read More 2023 Movie Diary (1/16-1/20): Heaven and Hell
January 11th The Burning Hell / 1974, dir. Ron Ormond With a name like “Estus Pirkle,” it has to be good. I know that the civilized thing to do with a movie like this is to laugh it off, and the movie gives us opportunities to do exactly that. The makeup on some of these… Read More 2023 Movie Diary (1/11-1/15): Contrive It Like You Stole It
