Last movie you watched......

One of my all time favourites, watched it again a year or so ago. Great cast, and Cooper as a reluctant sheriff is amazing.

 

John Sayles is an unsung great

 

A movie that's never to my mind been made...I visited the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry (twice actually) and there's a captured German submarine there. The exhibit states that one of the sub's commanders killed himself on the bridge during deployment, with no other info. What a compelling story that would be. One can stow his diddy bag there overnight if one wishes to experience what it was like for the Nazi swine living in that star-crossed tub.

 

Still on Covid isolation, so watched Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Escape to Sonoita. 1958 comic book-level story but with unexpected great cast of Burt Reynolds, Murray Hamilton and Harry Dean Stanton! The kidnap victim was played by Venetia Invicta Stevenson, a blonde starlet in the old tradition for whom later both the window blind and watches were named. Just kidding. But she is notable for her marriage to Don Everly; she was Axl Rose's mother-in-law when her daughter Erin was married to him. She also appeared in Back to the Future Part II as the cover girl of the Oh Lala magazine, and her picture has been on Sweetheart Stout beer since 1958. Only died n 2022.

 

Lone Star is the cinematic equivalent of a brick to the head. Completely lacking any subtlety.

 

Son mentioned reading a mag article about the Cannonball race and reminded me of the Burt Reynolds movie(s). They don’t make those big star “fun” movies anymore do they?

 

Super intensely articulation by CK about There Will Be Blood.

 

Cannonball and Gumball Rally both.

 

"May December," a Todd Haynes film staring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.

Another interesting film from Haynes, and different than two of his other standouts, "Far From Heaven" and "Carol." This one is set in the present day, and seems to be about exploitation ... by both of the main characters.

An interesting movie with two great actresses, and the lead actor (Charles Melton) does a good job, too.

 

Struggling through The Instigators on Apple, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. Feel like it had the makings of a decent movie, but it isn’t one.

 

Rewatched Raging Bull.

It says so much about Scorsese that it's a great film but easily not in my top five for him (Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Age of Innocence, :Last Tempt, one or two others....)

 

Sing Sing, GREAT movie, a fantastic screenplay about men and relationships between them. Two HUGE thumbs up!!