Director’s Cut.
So I watched the first hour of this yesterday and was having a hard time getting into it because I was distracted and kind of in a bad mood. I paused it and intended to return today and just finish the last 35 minutes, but instead I decided to start it over from the beginning and give it my full attention. When it was over, I watched two of the featurettes on the Scream Factory BluRay, AND I…
LA Plays With Itself (Well, Mostly SF and NY)
In a way, every movie is an accidental documentary. Little time capsules of people, days, and places; fashions, societal norms, and body types. The first Weird Wednesday I ever went to was a nudie cutie from 1968 called “All The Way Down” and my first real observation from it was that female body types had changed a lot since back then. I had similar thoughts mentally interacting with “Ask Any Buddy”…
He made the movie for me, y’all. He said so beforehand.
May 22nd, 1996.
I started working at the Presidio Northcross 6 that week and the movies playing that week were “Spy Hard,” “Dragonheart,” two screens of “Twister,” and two screens of “Mission Impossible.” I saw the ending of the first M.I. movie so many times in those first few weeks working at the theater, waiting to clean the auditoriums.
If you have enjoyed the recent Mission Impossible movies,…
Hell of an opening shot and I love that recurring piano theme. Gambling addiction and codependency go on an endless vacation to the French Riviera. It’s beautiful, romantic, and depressing in just the right way. Jeanne Moreau is very striking and compelling. I wish they would have stretched out the tension a bit more in that final sequence, but I guess if it rings a little hollow, it’s all the better considering the implication.
