Double Reading

This was an awesome movie I saw at SIFF during the summer of 2006. Probably one of my favorite documentaries ever. I only got as far as finding a pic for it…

A pretty funny/campy midnight movie I saw during SIFF 2006.

I cannot help but think of the ship of fools (which I first learned about while reading Foucault‘s Madness and Civilization) while watching Pirates of the Caribbean — especially the second one, Dead Man’s Chest when they go to the Tortuga Port to find the “99 souls” to give to Davy Jones. I think Captain [...]

After seeing Children of Men the other month (a film which really deserves its own post and analysis…), I decided that I needed to see more movies by Alfonso Cuarón, which meant that I needed to break down and finally see the “darker” Harry Potter movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which I’ve [...]

I’m sad to report that I was pretty disappointed with Brian de Palma‘s The Black Dahlia. He’s one of my favorite directors (Femme Fatale is one of my all-time favorite movies and I also love Snake Eyes, Body Double [though I'm not sure it warrants a special edition], Scarface [which has an awesome special edition], [...]

Every few months I end up posting a sort of “calendar” of events/things that I am looking forward too (it seems that last fall was good, too). Eventually I do intend to write or find some sort of WordPress plugin that makes this easier and less table/post-ish, but there are just so many things on [...]

For the first time ever in my life (I’m 90 percent sure, at least), I saw the top two weekend movies. I saw Superman Returns on Wednesday night and The Devil Wears Prada on Saturday afternoon. Am I falling deeper and deeper into the sell-out/becoming mainstream pit?

From the description on the SIFF web site, I was very excited to see 20 Centimeters: Reminiscent of the Almodovar style and grounded by an amazing performance by Mónica Cervera, this bittersweet musical comedy is about a narcoleptic transvestite prostitute who longs to rid herself of the 20 centimeters hanging between her legs. She finds [...]

The fact that I cannot really post a picture from the movie Destricted should be the first sign that this is the most sexually explicit film I’ve seen (more so than 9 Songs, even). I don’t think you could see a movie with more penises unless you were watching porn (and this film definitely borders [...]

Keep in mind that the title of this film is 3 Needles and that the movie is about HIV. It seems that in most movies I’ve seen that deal with HIV (with the exception of Trainspotting), the person becomes HIV+ by having unprotected sex or blood transfusions (if it’s a straight person) or something like [...]