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Phantom Lightning: Aug 28, 2012
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Aug 28, 2012. Screening Log, July and August. D Robert Altman, USA, 1977). Altman's dreamlike masterpiece seems to have been a huge influence on David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. At the very least, both movies have overlapping interests in the blurring of identity and the transformative power of sexual desire. 3 Women. Below), but 3 Women. D Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1946). Made two years before Bicycle Thieves. D Ridley Scott, USA/UK, 2012). We see a mysterious creature ingest an oyster-like object that pr...
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Phantom Lightning: Jun 7, 2013
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Jun 7, 2013. Screening Log, May 2013. The Docks of New York. D Josef von Sternberg, USA, 1928). Literally seems to radiate off the screen: the meticulous lighting and dazzling camerawork are a wonder to behold. The Gang's All Here. D Busby Berkeley, USA, 1943). Berkeley (on loan to 20th Century Fox from MGM) at his most eye-poppingly bizarre: there will be elaborate musical numbers involving enormous bananas, black-draped dancers wielding neon Tron. Star Trek Into Darkness. D JJ Abrams, USA, 2013). Treat...
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Phantom Lightning: Jun 3, 2012
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Jun 3, 2012. Screening Log, May 23 - May 29. D Abbas Kiarostami, 2002, France/Iran/USA). Is at once an emotional depiction of universal themes, a revealing snapshot of modern-day Tehran, and a striking formal experiment in fortuitous improvisation and a sort of laissez-faire directorial style. D Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009, UK). This Is Not a Film. D Mojtab Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi, 2012, Iran). The Kid with a Bike. D Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2012, Belgium/France/Italy). The Belgian masters of spa...
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Phantom Lightning: Oct 13, 2011
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Oct 13, 2011. 100 minutes, R, USA. September 16, 2011. Hossein Amini, based on the book by James Sallis. David Lancaster, Bill Lischak, Michel Litvak, Linda McDonough, John Palermo, Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker, Adam Siegel, Jeffrey Stott, Gary Michael Walters. Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Kaden Leos, Jeff Wolfe, James Biberi, Russ Tamblyn, Joey Bucaro, Tiara Parker. As an example. He’s right— Drive. Or A History of Violence.
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Phantom Lightning: Feb 5, 2013
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Feb 5, 2013. My Canon: "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (Martin Scorsese, 1974). Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Begins with a musical number – an homage to The Wizard of Oz. Still halfway through shooting The Exorcist. Ellen Burstyn was offered the tantalizing opportunity to put another project into production at Warner Bros., with relatively unfettered creative control. As the actress is quoted in Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Robert Getchell's script for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
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Phantom Lightning: Feb 15, 2013
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Feb 15, 2013. 2012: The Year in Film. All of the movies on this list received at least a limited US release date during the calendar year of 2012. This means that a few films considered by some critics to be 2011 releases (such as Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Are 2012 movies in my book; it also means that other festival showings during 2012 ( Leviathan. Will count as 2013 releases once they finally receive a limited stateside release. Such is the convoluted nature of international release dates. This is...
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Phantom Lightning: Dec 1, 2011
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Dec 1, 2011. Flashback, 1981: 'Absence of Malice'. This post is the second in my "Flashback 1981" series: viewings and responses to films released as close to thirty years ago as possible. The first, on Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City. Was posted on this blog in late August. Why 1981, one might ask? 116m, R, USA. November 19, 1981. Sydney Pollack & Ronald L. Schwary. Scored by Ry Cooder), released on September 21, 1981; My Dinner with Andre. October 31), the semi-sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Phantom Lightning: Sep 2, 2011
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Sep 2, 2011. Flashback, 1981: 'Prince of the City'. This post is the first in a new series I'm starting: viewings and responses to films released as close to thirty years ago as possible. The first entry is Sidney Lumet's. Why 1981, one might ask? Prince of the City. 167m, R, USA. August 21, 1981. Orion Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures. Jay Presson Allen and Sidney Lumet, based on the book by Robert Daley. Jay Presson Allen and Burtt Harris. John J. Fitzstephens. But it's easy to dismiss such quibbles ...
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Phantom Lightning: 2012: The Year in Film
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Feb 15, 2013. 2012: The Year in Film. All of the movies on this list received at least a limited US release date during the calendar year of 2012. This means that a few films considered by some critics to be 2011 releases (such as Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Are 2012 movies in my book; it also means that other festival showings during 2012 ( Leviathan. Will count as 2013 releases once they finally receive a limited stateside release. Such is the convoluted nature of international release dates. This is...
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Phantom Lightning: May 23, 2012
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May 23, 2012. Screening Log, May 16 - May 22. In an effort to post more frequently on. Phantom Lightning, I'd like to initiate a new weekly series: Screening Logs containing every movie I watch, with at least a sentence or two on each title. Though the commentary I provide for each film might sometimes be brief or dismissive, I'll try to keep the snark to a minimum. D Joss Whedon, 2012, USA). Some mind-numbingly long (and not terribly impressive) action scenes are inevitably part of The Avengers. Semblan...
