Let's just talk about the awesomeness of Casino. We've all seen it. If anything, it's an underrated film. Also, I really want to relive the Ace Rothstein Show. https://www.youtube.com/embed/EJXDMwGWhoA
LGM film club
Back in 2001, some people were putting together a compilation of the weird and awesome undersea documentaries of the French filmmaker Jean Painleve. They didn't want to play these with.
Part 365, eh? That means I am at the point where I have done one of these for over 2 percent of the days I've lived on the planet. Huh..
I saw the trailer for that Tetris movie on Netflix and boy howdy does that look like complete garbage, prepackaged nostalgia for Gen X and Millennials perfect for wasting your life. But here's an ad for Tetris for Nintendo from 1990. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1-51zUe6xzs
STOCKEXCHANGE-B-19OCT87-MN-SR - Pacific Stock Exchange on "Black Monday", the day the Stock Market fell 509 points in one day. William Ferrell bows his head as the the Stock Market continues.
Mother Jones routinely lied about her age. She did not live to be 100. But she claimed to be older than she was to play up the matronly figure she.
Chan-Wook Park has a reputation for very violent movies, most famously Old Boy. The question about films like this is whether the violence works in the film or is it just a dumb splatterfest. I've never actually seen Old Boy I don't think, but I've...
I recently watched one of my all-time favorite films, Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal. This film is so well-known, because of playing chess with death if nothing else..
Carter's 1979 remarks on the occasion of outfitting the White House with solar panels. https://www.youtube.com/embed/VgZc2emYJs8 Think Jimmy might have spent a bit too much time around the solar panels given.
Watched another long-time favorite of mine again recently. That is Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece Que Viva Mexico, originally from 1932 but not really released internationally until 1979. The idea came out of Eisenstein and Upton Sinclair wanting to create a film about the Mexican Revolution....
I love Johnny To, even if not all his movies are great. But his 2005 film, Election, absolutely is great. The plot is simple. A triad in Hong Kong has.
Here's a 1928 film about going down the Colorado in a boat. Dangerous today, even more dangerous then! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNl2gGocM0