I just saw this last month when TMC did the 50th anniversary on the big screen. I'd never seen it! Diana Ross and Billy Dee are simply amazing! Loved every minute of it and I don't care if it veered from the truth. It's timeless moviemaking. Oh! And Richard Pryor as Piano Man is something else!
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Dekalog
(1989–1990)
Greatest Achievement in Film History
13 March 2022
Sat through a screening of all ten films in NYC back in 2000. It's 22 years later and I can still remember walking out of the theater not knowing who I was, what city I was in, or what economic system we lived under.
With only a few wrong notes over the course of ten hours, this is a must view for all humans everywhere.
With only a few wrong notes over the course of ten hours, this is a must view for all humans everywhere.
The Entity
(1982)
Actors should study Barbara Hershey here
20 November 2021
Hershey is doing some truly amazing/insane acting. I mean... just watch. I can't think of too many actors that COULD or even would be wiling to ATTEMPT to pull what she's doing off. They would feel too silly.
Again... just watch if you can get your hands on a copy of this. It's very difficult to find.
Again... just watch if you can get your hands on a copy of this. It's very difficult to find.
The Night of the Hunted
(1980)
One of the best openings ever...
20 November 2021
Plus a marvelous ending, a prolonged sex scene, and a plot about a building of people collectively losing their mind so they start mindlessly having sex with each other and killing each other/themselves.
Is there anything else that needs to be said for you to rent this movie?
Is there anything else that needs to be said for you to rent this movie?
Opera
(1987)
EYEBALL Masterpiece
20 November 2021
Eyeballs. To me, there's nothing more disgusting than things happening to eyeballs in a horror film. These violent images are being observed through your own eyeballs after all. The vey thing that is being harmed in the film in front of you is entering you own iris and traveling up to your brain. Dario Argento fully understands the eyeball horror and he exploits it gleefully in Opera. Argento goes even further with eye terrors, using peepholes and the point of view of a crow's eye in the rafters of the opera (from a crow cam) and it's delicious and grotesque fun.
He's doing a lot of tricks that are really fun for fans of horror and film in general. (NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH)
He's doing a lot of tricks that are really fun for fans of horror and film in general. (NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH)
Looker
(1981)
How not a cult classic?
20 November 2021
How is LOOKER not a cult classic already? Is it because the budget seems too high and it stars a squarish Albert Finney? Is it because Michael Crichton is too popular? Is it because the satiric humor is hard to pick up on? Nothing about Chiton's movie fits the proper mold of a cult classic but man it should be mentioned in the same breath with THEY LIVE.
I don't want to give anything away, but outside of a some really annoying plot shifts, this is a must watch for any 80's creep-a-zoid fan.
I don't want to give anything away, but outside of a some really annoying plot shifts, this is a must watch for any 80's creep-a-zoid fan.
The Transcendents
(2018)
Metaphor for late stage capitalism?
20 November 2021
Property, Property, Property!
This film struck me as kinda a metaphor for late stage capitalism. Not even a metaphor really since the George character says something like "This country is at a crossroads! They're either coming for the property of your mind or your body or your hands!" That's the situation for all the main characters. Every one of them has somebody coming for the property of one of those aforementioned forms of property. The desolate country landscapes, the empty bars, the people confined to wheelchairs, and the real life animals that have somewhat psychic powers and dread in their eyes represent an America in rapid decline. The fact that this film appeared to be written years before the polarized insanity we currently live in seems somewhat prophetic.
Very much recommend.
This film struck me as kinda a metaphor for late stage capitalism. Not even a metaphor really since the George character says something like "This country is at a crossroads! They're either coming for the property of your mind or your body or your hands!" That's the situation for all the main characters. Every one of them has somebody coming for the property of one of those aforementioned forms of property. The desolate country landscapes, the empty bars, the people confined to wheelchairs, and the real life animals that have somewhat psychic powers and dread in their eyes represent an America in rapid decline. The fact that this film appeared to be written years before the polarized insanity we currently live in seems somewhat prophetic.
Very much recommend.
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