Watched Lone Star on Sunday. Really is one of those films that should be better known than it is. Great film.

never seen lone star. i dont think ive even heard of it. lonesome dove maybe (but i havent seen that either). i’ll look for it and try checking it out.

this weekend i watched, o, let’s see

PEEL: an exercise in discipline. Jane Campion’s Cannes-winning short.
from 198...7? It was nice and well done and tons of subtext. On first viewing not great but it’s growing on me,



kaurismaki’s ROCKY VI. haaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa. funniest thing ever. another short yeah like 9 minutes.



andrzej wajda’s KANAL. 2 nd in his ww2trilogy after “a generation”. fantastic fucking war movie! sure sure saving ryan’s privates is more spectacular but cheesier. this has better characters and a better story. in glorious 1957 black and white.



thank you filmstruck for saving my life.

LOne Star is very good

One more for the Lone Star-is-great express

i searched filmstruck for “lone star” and no luck. the most frequent near result were the lone wolf & cub films which were already in my watchlist. lone wolf and cub! blood spurting everywhere like a fire hydrant...

anyway amazon has it but for rental not on prime i think... will add to watchlist now and decide later.

OH IT’S A JOHN SAYLES MOVIE

i watched Marathon Man anoché. loved it. hoffman at his best. 1976 roy scheider was pretty hot. the sewer scene was one of the best moments in film i've seen.

oh i havent seen tat movie in ages. i used to have a childhood crush on marthe keller. hard to remember most things now but that chair...

if yuo like roy scheider all that jazz is a must see

One of those films I never enjoy when I watch it but have somehow convinced myself that I like

funny thing, i generally HATE musicals. tried watching an american in paris the other day and turned it off after 10 minutes. annoying! but all that jazz is
... something else.

I don't mind musicals but it just feels like a bit of a mess. And yet there's something in it that I like, or think I like.

it’s probably the fact that it’s brilliant, ha ha ha

I may just be struggling to get past the whole that's Chief Brody, tap-dancing, thing.

ooooh haaahaaahaaa

check this out about the editing

https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/why-m...terion-blu-ray

the video essay not the long story about why it’s not there

One of the best films of the 1990's. It's director, John Sayles, used to be one of my favorite directors. He's kind of dropped off the radar the last decade or so, but "Limbo" (1999), City of Hope (1991), Matewan (1987)... all superb indie films that deserve more attention today. His ensemble, low-key, regional Robert Altman like stories are just the kind whose characters sink into your bones. Would love to see him make a glorious comeback.

Honestly... it was just good. It was definitely DEFINITELY not great. It was a standard well-made Marvel film. The plot is a mixture of Wonder Woman, Rocky, Dark Knight Rises, Captain America and Iron Man. The only novel concept was the all-black cast in a superhero movie. Oh, and Andy Serkis not being a motion capture character (when, ironically, almost EVERYTHING ELSE WAS FUCKING CGI). And they were good! It was all good! It was fine!

But... man, it was certainly not a great fucking film. It was perfectly serviceable, occasionally visually stunning, but never remarkable. Not in concept, acting, visuals or anything else. Chadwick Boseman barely even had a character to portray. He just kinda looks pretty.

Oh, and he bad guy was really the good guy. Black man abandoned by his wealthy country that refuses to supply aid to the black people being oppressed mercilessly for hundreds — THOUSANDS — of years demanding that his country take action and attone for standing by through centuries of genocide? Uhhhhh. Yeah. He was right.

Anyway, not great.

It has the same Rotten tomatoes score as The Godfather part II. The system is broken.

Really want to see Infinity War now though.

w.s. van dyke’s THE THIN MAN (1934) based on a dashiell hammett novel



i had seen this before but not in such good condition. the filmstruck restoration is not perfect, you can spot scratches in the darkest scenes, but it’s fun and funny and a lot of great dialogue—oh yes a good crime story too but the highlight is really the humor—not just their lines but it’s sometimes unspoken, like the faces they make to each other. these people were hollywood stars, and for good reason.

The Bookshop. Pretty good, Bill Nighy is convincing in whatever role he’s in. An interesting drama with a complex ending.

Love that line "They say you were shot 5 times in the tabloids" "That's not true he didn't come anywhere near my tabloids" or something to that effect. Remember enjoying that film a lot when I watched it. Should give it another go.

So for film night on Sunday we watched Roman Holiday. Nah. So, so overrated. And this is coming from someone who loves William Wyler films.

Speaking of film club I'm thinking of doing El Topo as my next choice. I've always be wary about choosing this one. Purely because as much as I've heard people love it, I've also heard the opposite said of it. I really don't want to watch it and think "is that it?" at the end.

Watched a few films with the wifey this weekend.



FX - from 1986. I first saw this as a college student in the early 90's. It still holds up. entertaining and R rated




Lost In London - 2017. The wife and I put it on to see what it was l;ike, not knowing that it had a gimmick. still, very odd biographical film about a bad time Harrelson had back in 2002. Turns out this film was the first film to be "filmed" as it was being live-streamed to 500+ theaters worldwide. very clever conceit, but woody comes off looking horrible!