MOVIE #1,968 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.16.24 SERIES: THE MARK BAUMER COLLECTION Cute home movie of an older relative’s birthday party given the ...
MOVIE #1,967 • SCORE 10/10 • 09.16.24 SERIES: FARLEY & ROXBURGH DIRECTOR FOCUS I loved this one completely and think it’s the perfec...
Magic Spot
MOVIE #1,966 • SCORE 4/10 • 09.16.24 SERIES: TRUE RANDOM (Vol. LXXI) This British TV movie is based on one of the only Roald Dahl books ...
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
MOVIE #1,965 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.13.24 SERIES: KENNETH ANGER DIRECTOR FOCUS This four-minute cut follows a guy (uncredited buff dude) walk...
MOVIE #1,963 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.13.24 SERIES: HAYAO MIYAZAKI DIRECTOR FOCUS The penultimate Miyazaki is maybe the least excited I've ...
The Wind Rises
MOVIE #1,963 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.13.24 SERIES: FRITZ LANG DIRECTOR FOCUS Visually, nothing comes remotely close to the splendor of Metropo...
Woman in the Moon
MOVIE #1,962 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.12.24 SERIES: ALBERT & AKERMAN Dollman is a very funny title for what this actually is: a space cop ...
Dollman
MOVIE #1,961 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.12.24 SERIES: ALBERT & AKERMAN This one was difficult to track down, and I fear this will soon become...
MOVIE #1,960 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.11.24 SERIES: PHIL SOLOMON DIRECTOR FOCUS Instantly less pixelated, this return to recognizable forms (an...
MOVIE #1,959 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.11.24 SERIES: JACK SHOLDER DIRECTOR FOCUS (FILL-IN) The year was 1995 and it had been three years since t...
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
MOVIE #1,958 • SCORE 4/10 • 09.11.24 SERIES: JACK SHOLDER DIRECTOR FOCUS (FILL-IN/ADDN) Just had (“had”) to watch the original before ta...
Sketch Artist
MOVIE #1,957 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.11.24 SERIES: MY KAIJU DECADE The central idea behind this dubbed Czechoslovak film isn't even consid...
Journey to the Beginning of Time
MOVIE #1,956 • SCORE 5/10 • 09.10.24 SERIES: TWO FOR TUESDAY / MY KAIJU DECADE This Norwegian Netflixcore entry is also a kaiju film (...
Troll (2022)
MOVIE #1,955 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.10.24 SERIES: TWO FOR TUESDAY As a big Troll 2 , I've always wanted to watch the first film, even tho...
Troll (1986)
MOVIE #1,954 • SCORE 10/10 • 09.09.24 SERIES: THE LAUREL & HARDY FILMOGRAPHY REVIEW SERIES Called the “Holy Grail of Laurel and Har...
Hats Off
MOVIE #1,953 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.09.24 SERIES: MARTIN SCORSESE DIRECTOR FOCUS This starts out strong but loses steam. Even Marty can't...
The Color of Money
MOVIE #1,952 • SCORE 2/10 • 09.06.24 SERIES: KENNETH ANGER DIRECTOR FOCUS On the one hand, I give Kenneth Anger a lot of credit for spon...
MOVIE #1,951 • SCORE 9/10 • 09.06.24 SERIES: JEAN-LUC GODARD DIRECTOR FOCUS I feared that, after not totally gelling with Breathless , ...
MOVIE #1,950 • SCORE 10/10 • 09.06.24 SERIES: ALFRED HITCHCOCK DIRECTOR FOCUS 3 lost works, 8 silent films, and 25 talkies into this se...
Rope
MOVIE #1,949 • SCORE 9/10 • 09.05.24 SERIES: NICOLAS CAGE A-Z ACTOR FOCUS (Ch. 70) I have a feeling we’ll look back at this later perio...
Longlegs
MOVIE #1,948 • SCORE 8/10 • 09.05.24 SERIES: NICOLAS CAGE A-Z ACTOR FOCUS (Ch. 69) Welcome to a special 2-for-1 installment of The Year...
Arcadian
MOVIE #1,947 • SCORE 10/10 • 09.05.24 SERIES: JAMES HONG A-Z ACTOR FOCUS (Ch. 29) As time goes on, and I continue to struggle with what...
Chinatown
MOVIE #1,946 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: CHRIS SMITH DIRECTOR FOCUS (FILL-IN) This sucked me in — what can I say? Smith clearly has...
MOVIE #1,945 • SCORE 10/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: JANE CAMPION DIRECTOR FOCUS I was perusing the Wiki for this before I watched and stumble...
MOVIE #1,944 • SCORE 8/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: SPIKE LEE DIRECTOR FOCUS I know these are important movies but some of the scenes where th...
Jungle Fever
MOVIE #1,943 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: MAYA DEREN DIRECTOR FOCUS Six minutes survive of this other unfinished Maya Deren film f...
Ensemble for Somnambulists
MOVIE #1,942 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.04.24 SERIES: MAYA DEREN DIRECTOR FOCUS Unfinished film. A short fragment survives. Deren’s first fora...
MOVIE #1,941 • SCORE 9/10 • 09.03.24 SERIES: TWO FOR TUESDAY This speaks more to my major blindspot re Hong Kong cinema, but I really l...