…One Less Scene

While foraging around for strawberries in an overgrown, dilapidated greenhouse complex on Vashon Island yesterday, I ran into some friends that were filming a micro-budget horror film. It was a bustling, animated production in the middle of a forgotten wasteland, with a twelve foot tall boiler rusting in the background.

It’s amazing to see the dedication [...]

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“The Third Man (1949), also spelled The 3rd Man, is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene. Greene’s novella of the same name, written in preparation for writing the screenplay, was published in 1950.” -wikipedia

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Film experts often say that Citizen Kane is the best Orson Welles movie, but I say it’s Touch of Evil. The fantastic script that goes a hundred miles an hour, Charlton Heston in “Mexican” make up, a smoldering performance by Marlene Dietrich, a freaky rape/dance party sequence with a bunch of drug-crazed Mexican hipsters, [...]

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My friend Chris Kingman was talking to me recently about some interesting films that he’d been enjoying, none of which I’d ever heard of. I was intrigued, and he was kind enough to send me a myspace message that elaborated on some of his choice picks:
“Silent Soviet Avante-Garde films
three silent films by Sergei Eisenstein:  
Strike (not [...]

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I watched Godard’s “A Woman is a Woman” tonight, which is definitely his cutest, if not his most important movie. I read somewhere that this was the last movie in which Godard was having fun, and that seems like it could be true. There are plenty of gratuitous “look at how hot my wife is” [...]

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After seeing Godard’s “Weekend” at the SIFF theater tonight, I’m now certain that Western civilization is definitely declining. “Weekend” is a movie about a square couple that murder their parents for money; it’s also about the spiritual chaos and emotional bankruptcy of post-capitalist society. Like most of Godard’s films, this one is full of surreal [...]

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