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.
Tag: eternal sunshine
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.
Talkin’ UPSTREAM COLOR with Bob Turnbull. He and Ryan also read some listener feedback on documentaries and flip the record over to play the other side.
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.
As we prepare to turn the page on 2012, everyone is summarizing what they saw with a list.
Considering how well I thought I knew Whale’s adaptation of Shelly’s gothic tale, it’s amazing that I was moved as deeply as I was.
Price and Bob join me for drinks to talk parenting and scary movies.
Digging into this film has been a long time coming. It hasn’t just waited through nine months of Blind Spots; it’s been patiently waiting for me on my own shelf for years
It’s bad enough this entry is two days overdue, I didn;’ need the selection itself to throw me for a loop and make matters worse.