Tag Archives: movies

Movie Poster Du Jour: “Blast of Silence”

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Related

Posted in Commercial art, Movies | Tagged Allen Baron, Blast of Silence, Film, Film Noir, Italy, Movie Posters, movies | Leave a comment

Docs About Movies 1: “Free Radicals”

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Sick and housebound with a cold/flu/something-or-other, I’ve been passing the time with a lot of doc-watching via Netflix Instant. Weird the way that illness makes me lose my appetite for fiction films. Why should that be? Is it as simple as … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged avant-garde movies, documentaries, documentary, movies, pip chodorov, stan brakhage | 5 Comments

“The Unknown Known”

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Have any UR readers watched “The Unknown Known,” Errol Morris’ documentary on Donald Rumsfeld? It’s on Netflix Instant. I caught up with it last week and found myself fascinated by its lameness. For 100 minutes Morris … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Politics and Economics | Tagged documentaries, Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, Film, George W. Bush, movies, The Unknown Known, War on Terror | 14 Comments

Movie Poster Du Jour: “All That Heaven Allows”

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The stone lithography process by which this poster was printed makes looking at it a rather sumptuous experience. Gotta love the delicate lighting effect on the faces and the array of blues and greens. With art … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial art, Movies | Tagged All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk, Film, France, Jane Wyman, Movie Posters, movies, Rock Hudson | 2 Comments

Movie Poster Du Jour: “The Green Slime”

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Related I love the theme song.

Posted in Commercial art, Movies | Tagged Film, Kinji Fukasaku, Movie Posters, movies, The Green Slime | 4 Comments

Capitulation

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: A Russian who immigrated to Paris in the early 1920s, Dimitri Kirsanoff was above all an avant-gardist. However, he wasn’t above employing Griffith-style melodrama when it suited his purposes. In his “Menilmontant,” a brief, richly volatile work about a … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged Dimitri Kirsanoff, Film, France, Menilmontant, movies, Nadia Sibirskaia, Silent Film | 5 Comments

“Reel Injuns”

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Half-interesting, half-annoying CBC-produced doc, directed and hosted by Neil Diamond, a Canadian Cree, about Hollywood’s treatment of Native Americans; the Question Lady and I caught it recently on Netflix Instant. It’s in the “this topic means a … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Uncategorized | Tagged indians, movies, native americans, PC, race | 11 Comments

Movie Poster Du Jour: “Illumination”

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Art by Franciszek Starowieyski. Related I wrote (perhaps somewhat incoherently) about Zanussi’s “Contract” back here.

Posted in Commercial art, Movies | Tagged Film, Franciszek Starowieyski, Illumination, Krzysztof Zanussi, Movie Posters, movies, Poland | 5 Comments

Notes on “Every-Night Dreams”

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There’s an almost cubist visual sensibility at work in this 1933 silent from director Mikio Naruse. Scenes are fractured into barrages of angles, the camera sometimes moving in on its subjects in kamikaze fashion. Many of the … Continue reading →