Lino Ventura in Army of Shadows. ÊPhoto courtesy Rialto Pictures I have talked a good bit about the films of World War II and when I did my slightly flawed list a few years ago (you all reminded me of a few that I had...
LGM film club
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
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. Well, might as well go with old timey then, like me. In 1905, someone stuck...
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.
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 created for herself to represent American workers more effectively. On the day she turned "100,"...
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.
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 how he looks here.
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.
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.