Sergei Eisenstein serves up the best bowl of spinach I have ever taste
Category: blind spot series
Once a month, I dedicate a post to a cinematic staple I should have seen a long time ago. Some of my film-loving friends join me for the project and their posts are linked. If you are a film writer yourself, feel free to join in at any time!
As I finished a gem by a filmmaker I love, a surprise was waiting for me – a surprise I’ve yet to find in this whole watching series.
Something tells me that if he ever wanted to, Alfred Hitchcock could have made a terrifying film about a tree full of chipmunks. The man was just THAT good.
My romp through film history finally takes me to France. It;s there that I learn that French people are gloriously screwed up, and that my readers have amazing taste!
I often sit down to watch action films from times gone by and wonder “What do people see in this?”
This wasn’t one of those times.
How do you create a comedy that will last? You begin with the assumption that your audience isn’t a bunch of idiots. Armed with that assumption, its amazing how well a comedy can endure.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Sometimes it’s shocking how very true that old saying can be.
This month, the blind spot series sends me back to Sunday School. Who needs a film with recorded dialogue when you have the expressive face of Maria Falconetti to express such a range of emotion?
We begin a new round of essentials with a bummer.
An sublimely, achingly, beautiful bummer.
We travel to Italy to close out the 2012 Blindspot List, where a cnematic master gives us a taste of the good life.
The original epic tale of epic epicness…
Time to make another concerted effort to scratch a few off the To-Watch List. Care to join me?