tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72228099021114551902024-03-13T00:42:26.400-07:00Bunched UndiesBunched UndiesBunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.comBlogger2012125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-92086135890422475342019-01-25T17:20:00.001-08:002019-01-25T17:20:28.839-08:00Roma (2018) ✭✭✭✭✭Alfonso Cuarón’s directorial career has dealt with everything from updated Dickens (Great Expectations) to twisted coming of age (Y Tu Mamá También) to teen wizardry (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) to dystopian futures (Children of Men) to deadly accidents in outer space (Gravity). About the only similarities among this cinematic cornucopia are consistently high levels of execution andBunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-457780401329184212019-01-07T07:27:00.000-08:002019-01-07T07:27:15.835-08:001983 on Netflix
If you're like me, you only have vague recollections of 1980's Gdansk Shipyard strike, and even vaguer notions of what it accomplished. In fact, it was a highly effective act of political resistance, gaining Poles the ability to form labor unions, codifying basic human rights and, in its own way, ushering in the eventual crumbling of the Soviet Union.
The Netflix original series 1983✭✭✭✭Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-85008780412086754912018-04-22T10:08:00.003-07:002018-04-22T10:08:47.900-07:00Elevator to the Gallows Turns 60
Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows is a stylish and seductive thriller about a murder plot gone terribly wrong. But unlike most thrillers, the film focuses on the aftermath of the crime, forcing its characters to reveal their stories and their souls while the relentless noose of justice tightens. Thanks to the film’s omniscient point of view, there is no mystery about the crime itself - Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-46927489578474265112018-04-19T07:48:00.007-07:002018-04-19T07:48:53.566-07:00Red River Turns 70
Red River is a sprawling epic western, with just enough unique and offbeat artistry to make it a true American classic. It is a highly fictionalized account of the first successful cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail; a dusty track leading from San Antonio to Abilene, KS, that became an essential route for the nation’s food supply. Here we will meet tough-as-nails Texas rancher Tom Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-67757373059345984442017-12-27T15:28:00.002-08:002017-12-27T15:28:53.023-08:00Lady Bird (2017) ✭✭✭✭½
Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird accomplishes something I previously thought impossible; it almost made me nostalgic for the darkly anxious days of 2003. This coming of age - or in this case meandering of age - film is polished to a humorous gleam that never hides its underlying harsh, truthful glare. With the drumbeat to the Iraq war pounding from their TV screens, along with early glimmers of Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-57683442310704714642017-12-10T09:06:00.000-08:002017-12-10T09:06:15.409-08:0010 Years of The Savages
The Savages struck a vibrant chord with me when it was first released 10 years ago. It’s all about a pair of 40-ish siblings (Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman) who must pause their lives and become caregivers to an aging and ailing parent (Philip Bosco). That same situation pretty much defined my existence a decade ago when, on one coast, a mother-in-law stroked out while my Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-81826997757334156582017-11-19T10:28:00.000-08:002017-11-19T10:28:49.259-08:0040 Years of Close Encounters
I’ve changed my mind about Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) several times over the years, proving once again that consistency is not my strong suit. When I first saw it, nestled cosily in a shiny new multiplex, I thought it was pure hokum. Its car chases, toothless hillbillies and mashed potato mountains made the film seem like Smokey and the Bandit Meet the Flying Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-28218624294649173832017-11-11T06:03:00.000-08:002017-11-12T10:15:40.673-08:0030 Years of Babette's Feast
Babette’s Feast won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1987 and was the first Danish production to ever take the prestigious award. It started a hot streak of sorts, when the following year Bille August’s Pelle the Conqueror pretty much ran the table, claiming the Oscar, the Palme d’Or and the Golden Globe, further confirming to the world that the Danish film industry had Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-90494577704738798762017-11-04T09:56:00.000-07:002017-11-04T09:56:04.588-07:0040 Years of Stroszek
Stroszek (1977) is a weird and wondrous black comedy from the weird and wondrous mind of writer/director Werner Herzog. It’s the story of a slow witted ex-con from Berlin (Bruno S.) who immigrates to the frozen tundra of Wisconsin in a half-baked pursuit of the American Dream. There, amid a motley group of eccentric goofballs, Stroszek soon finds he has become just another Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-49446873129546837512017-10-31T05:57:00.000-07:002017-10-31T05:57:57.718-07:0020 Years of The Ice Storm
Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm is a melancholy take on suburban angst that still offers viewers an absorbing and relevant journey. The film explores the soft, lonely underbelly of American prosperity, as typified by a neighborhood of modernist houses on densely wooded lots in upscale New Canaan, Connecticut. Set during Thanksgiving weekend 1973, with TV news reports abuzz with the Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-51082290034164511782017-10-25T06:18:00.003-07:002017-10-25T06:18:37.257-07:0060 Years of The Giant Claw!!!
Our anniversary series usually commemorates a film significant for its popularity, its impact on culture or its advancement of the artistry of cinema. Today we are breaking from that tradition with The Giant Claw (1957), which is utterly devoid of any of those qualities. I can't call it the worst movie ever made, simply because I haven’t seen every movie ever made. But in my life I have Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-65935259096937721942017-10-22T10:08:00.000-07:002017-10-22T10:08:44.405-07:0030 Years of Predator
John McTiernan’s Predator is a well executed sci-fi adventure flic from 1987 that seems to literally drip with testosterone. It’s the story of an elite Army special forces unit on a secret mission in the jungles of South America. Here, as their jaw muscles ripple and rivulets of sweat stream down their sturdy biceps, the men encounter a deadly force beyond their imagination and for which Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-27971470123327716542017-10-19T06:10:00.001-07:002017-10-20T06:33:33.142-07:0080 Years at the RacesMost Marx Brothers aficionados agree that 1937’s A Day at the Races was the last truly great film featuring the zany siblings. Produced by MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg, who had recently signed the brothers to a lucrative multi-picture deal, A Day at the Races continued the box office winning streak begun in 1935 with the mega-hit A Night at the Opera. While A Day at the Races has never attainedBunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-1215598191800271432017-07-18T07:58:00.001-07:002017-11-08T13:13:43.706-08:00Book Review: 300 Days of Sun: A Novel by Deborah Lawrenson
Deborah Lawrenson’s 300 Days of Sun: A Novel is a marvelous and mysterious sojourn at a crossroads in history. It tells the story of a young Englishwoman named Jo who has made her way to the wind swept cobblestones of Faro, Portugal. Seeking solace and refuge, she soon finds herself involved in a baffling web of intrigue; its enigmatic shadows deepened by the blinding Portuguese sun. Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-39878625394875028642017-05-19T07:56:00.001-07:002017-10-20T06:33:33.217-07:0050 Years of Belle de JourLuis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967) was one of the esteemed director’s most accessible and successful films. Over the years it has attained the stature of a true art house classic, combining popular elements of the French New Wave with Buñuel’s own patented brand of stunning surrealism. It further cemented the reputation of Catherine Deneuve as an iconic beauty with acting chops to match, and Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-17206285469630831112017-05-14T09:37:00.001-07:002017-10-20T06:33:33.241-07:00Field Guide to Cannes 2017: Films in CompetitionThe 70th edition of The Cannes Film Festival begins May 17th. Below is our annual look at the films in competition for the Palme d'Or.The BeguiledSofia CoppolaUSAThe adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's 1966 novel stars Colin Farrell as a Union soldier who charms his way into a Confederate girls boarding school. Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman are also among the cast.120 Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-61454188771067060932017-04-28T10:03:00.001-07:002017-10-20T06:33:33.267-07:00Annie Hall on its 40th BirthdayIn what will be news to no one, Woody Allen’s Oscar winner Annie Hall is an absolutely marvelous motion picture. This classic tale of neurotic love in gritty Gotham remains a witty and vital entertainment, not aging a day since its initial release in 1977. The film, despite a thick stew of European influences, stands as an icon of the Great American Romantic Comedy and indeed both enlarges and Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-7149342788319798652017-04-12T11:09:00.002-07:002017-10-20T06:33:33.291-07:00 12 Angry Men on its 60th Birthday12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet’s tension laced set piece from 1957, is the story of a lone juror (Henry Fonda) who seeks to impede a jury’s rush to judgment in a capital murder case. 12 Angry Men is a drama that grows organically from tiny seeds; seeds that 90 minutes later produce a harvest of shameful revelations. Through clever and telling details, Reginald Rose’s script strips away his charactersBunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-26184248638879211532017-03-29T18:27:00.001-07:002017-10-20T06:33:33.316-07:00The Two of US Turns 50Claude Berri’s The Two of Us is a charming and sentimental comedic drama set in occupied France during WWII. Here, a rambunctious Jewish kid from Paris (Alan Cohen) is sent to live out the war in the relative safety of the countryside near Lyon. With the Nazi occupation, Cohen’s parents have seen the writing on the wall. Life in Paris is consumed by tension and dread, and they would prefer their Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-2660196404096902742017-03-19T06:27:00.001-07:002017-10-20T06:33:33.338-07:00Angel Heart Turns 30Angel Heart is a darkly entertaining film that applies the Raymond Chandler hard-boiled detective template to a story steeped in mysticism. Within its smokey folds, a low-rent private eye (Mickey Rourke) will follow a trail of deception and murder from the hipster heights of Harlem to the sultry breezes of Louisiana in search of a missing Jazz singer. Along the way, the scruffy Rourke will Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-52270768144305251052017-03-13T07:05:00.000-07:002017-03-13T07:05:52.431-07:00The Young Girls of Rochefort Turns 50
Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort offers a distinctly French take on the Great American Musical. The film has delighted and enthralled audiences for half a century, and after a recent re-watch, I can attest the film has lost none of its groovy luster. From its miniskirts and go-go boots, to its candy colored set design, to its breezy Jazz score by Michel Legrand, the film Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-89164174883743059402017-03-11T09:21:00.002-08:002017-03-11T09:21:34.050-08:00La Collectionneuse Turns 50
La Collectionneuse is best viewed as a transitional work, and Rohmer’s first attempt at adapting his patented talky romance format to feature length. The two previous entries in the Moral Tales series, La Boulangère de Monceau and Suzanne’s Career, both produced in 1963, were B/W shorts, shot in Paris in a gritty, documentary style. La Collectionneuse was filmed in color by the great Nestor Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-10212839004132515642017-02-19T06:05:00.001-08:002017-10-20T06:33:33.403-07:00The Seventh Seal Turns 60Like a lot of great classics, The Seventh Seal is basically a road movie, with all the requisite digressions and diversions along its circuitous path. Set in the 14th Century, a knight named Antonius Block (a young, strapping Max Von Sydow) has returned to Sweden after 10 years of fighting in the Crusades accompanied by his faithful squire Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand). But instead of a hero’s Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-28410975074412375622017-02-16T05:19:00.004-08:002017-10-20T06:33:33.426-07:00My Guest Post at European Film Star Postcards Part 2The second part of my guest post is up, detailing some of my favorite foreign films from 1960 to present. Again, many thanks to Bob from Holland for the opportunity. Check it out HERE.Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7222809902111455190.post-66438595925971587952017-02-14T08:07:00.001-08:002017-10-20T06:33:33.496-07:00My Guest Post at European Film Star Postcards Part 1Many thanks to Bob from Amsterdam for giving a chance to expound on some of my favorite films. You'll find part one HERE, which has my faves up to 1960. While you're over there, be sure to look through Bob's vast treasure trove of posts covering many aspects of film history. European Film Star Postcards is always fun and educational!Bunched Undieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00589746855961811179noreply@blogger.com1