October 1, 2005 – 10:49 am
Okay, I’m extremely biased. I am probably one of the few people who saw the very first and every subsequent episode of the canceled Firefly television series when they first aired. I came to love the characters so much that seeing them come on the screen in the movie Serenity was like having old, close [...]
September 30, 2005 – 10:10 pm
The Agony
1:45 p.m. — Scheduled start time of first matinee of Serenity at local multiplex.
1:52 p.m. — Electrician, last in series of servicemen, leaves my house at conclusion of approximately six hours of home repair. While the theater is probably five or so minutes away and I know the previews will drag on, I don’t [...]
September 29, 2005 – 12:16 pm
Observant visitors will note the Serenity countdown has been removed. That is because the Big Damn Movie (Firefly-geek phraseology) opens nationally Friday. Sadly, I am unaware of any screeners or midnight showings here.
I hope to make the first matinee at Century Friday because the BDHT (Big Damn Hockey Team) plays Friday night. Some home [...]
September 22, 2005 – 8:07 pm
Fabulous. Wonderful. Fascinating. Slightly flawed. Incomplete.
All of these are perfectly appropriate descriptions of Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home. The documentary was released this week on DVD and will air on the American Masters series on PBS next week. Perhaps what is most impressive is that the interviews with Dylan himself [...]
September 21, 2005 – 9:15 pm
I had intended to post a review today about No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese’s new documentary on Bob Dylan. Unfortunately, the travails and tribulations of life have kept me from getting to Disc 2. Hence, in the interim I offer an installment on some previously recently viewed DVDs. Hopefully, Scorsese on Dylan will appear here [...]
September 4, 2005 – 7:29 pm
Distant (2002) 2.5/5
A slow-moving Turkish film that explores isolation in the midst of others. Reminiscent of Italian neorealism, the film is based on a down-on-his-luck villager going to Istanbul to find a job and moving in with a down-on-his-emotions photographer who hails from the same village. The film won the Jury Grand [...]
August 22, 2005 – 8:47 pm
Having spent too much time and uttered too many curses battling some connectivity issues, I figured it was time for a soothing installment of recently viewed DVDs ranked on a 5 star scale:
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) ****
An engrossing Russian film about a front line soldier in World War II who gets a six-day pass [...]
Another installment in the intermittent posting of recently-viewed films. (On a 5 star scale listed alphabetically).
Europa, Europa (1990) ***1/2
A German film by a Polish director that won Golden Globe for best foreign film in 1992. An interesting take on the Holocaust, supposedly based on the true story of a Jewish boy who manages to [...]
For whatever reason, I’ve watched more DVDs in the last couple weeks than in the last several months. Not up to full reviews of them but thought it worth posting a couple comments. Here’s a few of the foreign films consumed recently, rated on a 5 star scale and listed in alphabetically.
Coup de Torchon (Blank [...]
The God Who Wasn’t There has been the subject of a bit of buzz both in the mainstream media and on the internet. Simultaneously out this month in limited release in theaters and on DVD, it is Brian Flemming’s attempt to show that Christianity is predicated on a man/god who never existed. It is a [...]
When I first discovered the joy of foreign films, I decided a salutary mission would be to see all the films that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film or the Golden Palm (Palme d’Or) Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Let me tell you, that is not an easy task given the video rental [...]
Serenity now! remains one of my favorite lines from Seinfeld. There is another Serenity, though, that is at the top of my list.
Serenity is the movie resulting from the short-lived TV series Firefly. Now a cult classic, Firefly can best be described as a science fiction western. Yet even that seems a disservice because [...]
I just came from seeing this film and YOU MUST SEE IT.
Sure, me seeing the movie is like the converted listening to another sermon. And there’s no doubt it is one-sided and slanted. Even I thought of responses to some of the statements Michael Moore makes. Yet the last 30 [...]
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