Master producer Mark Ronson makes yet another winner, this time with Diana Gordon:
Movies Watched -- Pather Panchali (1958)
126 minute running time so at least a half an hour too long … life is tough in an Indian village, esp. when you’re the poorest of the poor … makes you glad you weren’t born in India .. Ravi Shankar plink plonk score … little known fact is that Norah Jones’ dad’s music used to make Guantanamo prisoners break under the strain of 24/7 speaker blast and confess their terrorist plots.
Not nice to Auntie
Movies Watched -- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
80 minute running time … story didn’t make much sense, so Jack Stapleton was actually Jack Baskerville? … Basil Rathbone as Holmes … I grew up with Jeremy Brett as Holmes … clearly filmed on set in Hollywood … I wasn’t that thrilled, you can give it a miss:
Maul on the moor
Movies Watched -- The Swerve (2020)
95 minute running time so the right length … this a W.D. By movie, a mental health tragedy/thriller … middle aged white woman cracking up, not a new story … shaky marriage, bratty kids, psycho sister, pushy parents (mom), crummy job … it’s not badly done, but it’s also not really well done, somewhere in the middle there, can’t get a recommendation for a middling movie. The lead actress really looks like hell, and it’s great that they made her a high school English teacher.
I'm upping your sleep meds
Movies Watched -- First Cow (2020)
120 minute running time so 20 to 30 minutes too long … this was a slow-moving story, not bad, just overly slow and long … nice to see a “Chinaman” in a tale from 19th C. America (though he was full of “wise thoughts”) … they also tried to give some Injuns screen time for once … W.D. By a woman so it was sweet and sensitive, maybe too much so. SPOILERS: I don’t think a girl who discovered a skull would proceed to dig out two skeletons by hand, that didn’t ring true. I also don’t think the guy who shot them would leave them where they were.
I might recommend this film if they had figured out how to cut 20 to 30 minutes out, but at its current length, I’d say give it a pass.
There’s danger in everything that’s worth doing.
Movies Watched -- Possessor (2020)
102 minute running time … this was a gore-fest, ultra-violent, a horror sci-fi thing, and a W.D. By movie, starring pasty-faced Andrea Riseborough and pretty boy James from Lena Dunham’s Girls … mind-meld assassins of the future … it was kind of dumb and just super gory, who wants to watch this stuff? And I paid $5 for it! Don’t waste your time.
Not desperate enough to hook up with old dogface
For That Split Second, Heaven
Ella Frank singing Blue Jay … I dig the groove.
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Movies Watched -- The Searchers (1956)
119 minute running time so at least a half hour too long … story was a bit of a mess, convoluted, separate storyline for comic relief but it doesn’t really work … beautiful vistas though (obviously not Texas, but Monument Valley) and old Marion Morrison was a unique character with his walk and his talk, he’s enjoyable to watch … but I’m not sure why this is a classic (Farr: “[an] exquisite, multi-layered Western, perhaps the most accomplished film in John Ford's oeuvre.” Oh, spare me, John). It doesn’t get a recommendation from me, the story isn’t tight enough, and it’s too long.
It’s your funeral, Natalie.
Movies Watched -- A Taste of Honey (1961)
100 minute running time … incredibly grim, I only made it 20 minutes in before going to fast forward … who wants to see the squalid lives of white working-class (or lower) Brits from 1960? Just awful. I have John Farr to blame for recommending this one (yes, there’s a gay angle), but it’s just dreadful “Kitchen Sink Realism” stuff, nothing redeeming about it. Farr writes that “Richardson’s work stunned sixties audiences with its groundbreaking treatment of homosexuality and interracial relationships,“ but I don’t care about any of that in 2021.
Can I keep it?