What Happens When the Inmates Try to Take Over the Asylum.
Category: watchin’ & writin’
Assigned reading, revisits, and blog-a-thons. Only films I first watched theatrically are given ratings.
Looking Back at the Runt of Pixar’s Litter.
Once upon a time it was possible to make a film vehicle for the biggest rock stars on the planet and have it also be a good movie.
I might have just come across my favorite film in the 1001 series so far.
Chaplin battled people and situations; Keaton battled objects. For my money, there was never a better battle than the fight he put up in THE GENERAL.
Come away, o human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand…
Damned near cinematic perfection by way of Carol Reed, Joseph Cotton, and Orson Welles.
Apathy isn’t a deadly sin, but sometimes it feels like it should be.
Oh how the mighty do fall…
You’ll never look at a ping pong ball the same way again.
At the risk of sounding stuck up, I’ve always maintained that I could spend several months in a small town, but couldn’t ever live in one permanently.
The fact that this film is beginning to make sense to me might be a sign that I’ve watched it too many times.