Drag Me To Hell ... lots of fun (mostly watching the teenage girls scream their heads off) a little too much Evil Dead 2 for me - but it was still fun.


Year One ... abysmal ... fucking terrible. i got up to go to the bathroom with 10 minutes to go to the end of the film and didnt bother coming back.
I've NEVER done that before.

The Naked City (1948)

A crime film that calls upon the naturalism of the New York streets and its people to tell its story. It mostly works; a good ensemble cast helps to accentuate the key players in such an enormous city, and a voice-over narration which acts as a throwback to detective radio shows is almost spot-on. The film is less a film noir and more a docu-drama, calling on rough camera angles and at one point almost anticipating the invention of "shaky-cam", a technique that caught fire in the crime genre many decades later. Well-acted and admirably raw.

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Decent enough drama, Sam Jackson as a teacher trying to get young gangbangers to learn stuff in the worlds shittest school.

Love that movie...one of the earliest examples of a procedural type police drama.

Yep, Jules Dassin was an advanced crime film maker for sure. Have you seen Brute Force? If not, highly recommended.

Wow, Dustin Hofman is starring it.

Sold!!

He's my favorite actor, I'm a huge fan, and I can say with ease that this is one of my favorite of his roles. It's an exhausting portrayel.

Untill about 10 years ago he was mine as well.

Love his old performances, Marathon Man being my favorite. :)

Evil Aliens

Shaft

Dead Calm

El ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel) (1962)

I think I'd have to consider this Buñuel's ultimate masterpiece. While the man famously denied any symbolism or metaphor to be read from his works, there's no doubt that it's there. The surrealist in him lends itself very well to the film, which could be interpreted in as many different ways as there are people that have seen it, but I feel it's a spiritually-driven deconstruction and distillation of those institutions Buñuel felt were toxic: the ever-spited bourgeoisie and the church. The way the film plays with ideas of madness, life, death, and survival give it a pseudo-horror feel; completely engrossing and wonderfully bold.

Buffalo '66 (1998)

This movie gets a lot of crap, but I really enjoy the heck out of it. Sure it's sometimes over-stylized and occasionally pretentious, but I think that, in this case, lends itself well to the story of the main character. Featuring incredible cinematography by Lance Acord, hilarious dialogue, and one of the most giddily happy endings ever, this unique love story is always lots of fun to revisit.