The nostalgia for George W. Bush that rose at the end of the Trump administration was 70% the fevered minds of leftists hating the shitlibs or whatever, but it was 30% true. That was not pretty to look at. I'm sitting here today watching the...
LGM film club
We haven't watched any corporate propaganda in awhile. So let's watch this piece of brilliance out of Del Monte's canned pea industry, the 1939 film Pick of the Pod. Using.
The 1970s was a strange time in the movies, in the sense that you could seemingly get any damn thing on the big screen. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and.
I decided to watch another in the Criterion Channel series on animation for adults. Chico & Rita is a 2010 Spanish film about a pre-revolutionary Cuban tempestous romance between a singer and a piano player, both destined for jazz stardom, if not each other. The...
I just watched this 1980 classic by Hector Babenco, the father of the genre of Brazilian films looking at street kids. I have a somewhat limited tolerance for the genre.
I'd long been curious about the 1978 British remake of The Big Sleep, with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe. It is bad. Very bad. There's not a single thing about this.
I am firmly in the camp that Martin Scorsese is the greatest living film director (that includes Godard who last made a watchable film like 40 years ago). But I had never seen his interview with his parents, the 1974 film Italianamerican. That is, until...
Criterion Channel is running a series of arthouse animation for adults. I'm checking out some of it. I'm by no means an expert on animation, but some of this is.
Most of my familiarity with Paul Muni is with Scarface, in which he does a great job and uses an accent that was far more immigrant-English focused that anything else.
This is a super fascinating 1988 film where the famous British artist David Hockney takes us through two Chinese scrolls to show how perspective in different cultures works. One is before European influence on Chinese art and one is after European influence. This is possibly...
Since it's Carrie Nation day here at LGM, let's look at the 1901 Edwin S. Porter film mocking her actions, Kansas Saloon Smashers. Surprisingly lengthy Wikipedia entry about it. https://www.youtube.com/embed/S5iYtpNSG2c
Edwin Edwards died the other day and we shouldn't let the loss of such an august champion of clean government pass without discussing it. Here's the first part of the.