These vignettes are fascinating. Technically they are very well done – the lighting especially. Watching these models as they pose, then relax and be themselves, is – well – it’s like reading a Ray Bradbury story. Time travel – people who are now dead, captured using a technology that is essentially dead. Do yourself the [...]
Watching The Killer That Stalked New York on Tuner Classic Movies tonight, I was put in mind of the troubles today. At one point in the film, after NY’s public health department has been busy vaccinating millions of citizens, they reach the end of the vaccine supply.
If it wasn’t for BoingBoing, I would not have known it, but August 11 is “Home Movie Day.” If I had an operating 8mm projector, I would watch the home movies of my second birthday party.
Watching Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria was the high point of my weekend. Masina was wonderful. Like Chaplin, her postures, movements and facial expressions tell a complete story. I have never really understood or cared for Fellini’s later films. Put off by the surrealism, I guess. Nights of Cabiria is a gritty movie – [...]