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eastwoods Unforgiven last night. that is all.
- dave 3-03-2008 8:45 pm [link] [add a comment]

afi updated its top 100 american films last year. interesting to see what rises and falls in their esteem. spielberg is a little overrepresented in my estimation. hard to see shindlers list cracking my top 100 much less the top 10. cant believe The Third Man, Giant and A Place in the Sun gets short shrift for the likes of The Shawshank Redemption Titanic The Sixth Sense and Toy Story. conversely nice to see Nashville, Sunrise The Last Picture Show and Swing Time crack the list.

- dave 3-03-2008 3:46 am [link] [1 comment]

just to maintain fealty to the log i will note that i watched Stage Door directed by gregory la cava starring kate hepburn and ginger rogers and Singin in the Rain with gene kelly, debbie reynolds and donald o'çonnor directed by stanley donen. also the previous day i absorbed the better part of two epics Fiddler on the Roof directed by norman (im not a jew) jewison and david leans Dr Zhivago with julie cristie omar sharif and alec guiness among others.
- dave 3-02-2008 9:16 pm [link] [2 comments]

“CRIME AND PUNISHMENT” on skateboards — that was one of the early tag lines floating around the production of “Paranoid Park,” the new film by Gus Van Sant. Based on a novel by Blake Nelson, the story follows a teenage skateboarder in Portland, Ore., who accidentally kills a security guard and is then left to ponder his guilt in a void of suburban amorality.

- bill 3-02-2008 4:48 pm [link] [3 refs] [1 comment]

watched The Philadelphia Story which for me was the equivalent of a gateway drug in terms of my interest in classic film. and after numerous viewings it still retains its intoxicating allure. in rock the question is often posed "do you prefer the stone or the beatles?" similarly one might ask the same of jimmy stewart or cary grant. ive always leaned towards the image of cosmopolitan sheen of grant versus the stuttering boyish cornfed all-american stewart. but its hard not to be charmed by stewarts oscar winning performance even if his character loses out in the end (a little to readily to my taste) to the more inwardly cynical grant. meanwhile hepburn is at her best here in a part she brought with her from broadway to save her flagging film career. watching grace kelly attempt to fill hepburns shoes in the musical adaptation, High Society, fifteen years later makes clear the excellence she brought to the role, to say nothing of the pallid performances of bing crosby and frank sinatra as the stand-ins for grant and stewart.

- dave 2-29-2008 6:43 pm [link] [1 ref] [4 comments]