Umm, at the risk of sounding schoolmarmish, wake up, people! Cinema does not only consist of films made with crews and sets and union actors wandering around...
Turner Classic Movie channel has always been a pleasure for turning-up films in any given month that haven't been gold-plated as "genunine" classics for the...
... Seconding Mike, I would express skepticism about saying that most film ... to ... trying to ... film ... or that ... hell. "On one ... Well, of course it's...
... The distinction I'm trying to make, and I don't think it's a trivial one, is between a scene full of smoke and with devils running around, a scene meant to...
February is their annual 28 Days of Oscar, so the schedule is pretty lousy. The fault lies with the Academy, not with their programmers. Just be glad the...
... I appreciate your crediting me for this, David. But I blush to admit that I have no recollection of having seen Ecoute Voir--or any other Hugo Santiago...
... wrote: "...Metaphorical hell is ubiquitous so we can list any number of movies; and "real" hell is... what you get to at the bottom of that chute in...
... trivial ... around, a ... the trip ... in "Detour." ... It's exactly what I was saying. Since there is no such "place" as hell, its actual "representation"...
Wasn't it Sartre who said that "Hell is watching Robert Redford's ORDINARY PEOPLE"? Pasolini's THE CANTERBURY TALES ends with a memorable tour through Hell. ...
JPC, I am *extremely* disappointed to learn that there really is no hell, as my very survival for decades has partly depended on the ongoing thought that...
This was in one of the columns you wrote for "Film Comment." I'm surpised you don't remember it. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
... hell, as ... thought ... Not only that, but there is no heaven either. L'enfer c'est les autres, as Robert Redford once said (although with an American ...
Coincidentally, I recently saw Nobuo Nakagawa's cult film, "Hell" (Jigoku), from 1960, and it is one of the most unique films I've ever come across--it plays...
Deep questions to ponder: 1) Does the Burger King commercial set to the tune of "Disco Inferno" constitute a cinematic hell? 2) Does the fact that Kenneth...
... Anyone who eats at Burger King is going to Hell ... The entire film counts as does "Invocation of My Demon Brother' ... By making them ordinary. The film...
... I wasn't doing a column for Film Comment in 1979. By then I was living in New York and Hoboken and writing "Moving Places". So it's possible that you're...
... Is there an auteurist justification to discuss Burger King Commercials on this Group? ... Right David, but there are so many other sites that qualify as ...
... "Dante's Inferno" -- also if memory serves something from early DeMille. The boredom of "Pleasure Dome" can be mediated by select use of controlled...
... wrote: "Dante film?? Which Dante? Haven't seen this very boring Anger film in 40 years so please excuse my ignorance." I think Mike is referring to DANTE'S...
The 1966 version of "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (Kenneth Anger) edits in footage from an old Hollywood movie, reportedly "Dante's Inferno" (Harry ...
... "What Dreams May Come", lots of horror films: the "Hellraiser" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" series being the most obvious, "Bedazzled", "El Topo", "The...
... Filipino ... (or ... No, sadly very, very few of Brocka's films are available, and none of Bernal's best. Not to mention Mike de Leon, Celso Ad. Castillo, ...
Filipino films that literally took place in hell include Efren C. Pinon's "The Killing of Satan" (a cult classic, apparently, for horror afficionados), and...
... Thanks for the information. It's sad to see that there hasn't been any real improvement in this respect since the last time you answered this question for...
... FYI - I tried to order "Manila in the Claws of Light" earlier this year from Kabayan Central and they eventually cancelled my order saying that the studio...
... tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041130/ap_en_ce/obit_barrymore ... I didn't see that one, but I did like him in High School Confidential, where he improvises a hipster...
... I've been rather late in replying to your post since I wanted to look up a recent article by Greg M. Smith, "Moving Explosions: Metaphors of Emotion in...
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