Rifftrax Checklist
01. 3 Stooges In Color [VOD]
02. Plan 9 From Outer Space
03. Night of the Living Dead
04. Road House
05. The 5th Element
06. Star Trek V - The Final Frontier
07. Cocktail
08. XXX
09. Crossroads
10. X-Men
11. Top Gun
12. Point Break
13. Halloween
14. The Matrix
15. Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace
16. The Grudge
17. Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring
18. Island of Dr. Moreau
19. Firewall
20. Nestor - The Long Eared Christmas Donkey
21. Reign of Fire
22. Daredevil
23. Battlefield: Earth
24. Troll 2
25. Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country
26. Over The Top
27. Aeon Flux
28. The Wicker Man
29. Terminator 3
30. Lost Pilot
31. Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones
32. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
33. Casion Royale
34. Eragon
35. Glitter
36. Predator
37. Greys Anatomy
38. Fantastic Four
39. Star Trek Generations
40. 300
41. The Bourne Identity
42. Independence Day
43. Heroes Pilot
44. Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
45. Raiders of the Lost Ark
46. Spiderman
47. Next
48. Missle to the Moon
49. 3 Stooges Greatest Routines
50. Transformers
51. Harry Potter & The Sorcerers Stone
52. Swing Parade
53. Reefer Madness
54. Carnival of Souls
60. Star Wars Holiday Special
61. Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer
62. A Visit To Santa
63. Plan 9 From Outer Space [3-Riffers Edition]
64. Batman & Robin
65. Jurassic Park
66. The Matrix Reloaded
67. Beowulf
68. Spiderman 3
69. Cloverfield
70. I Am Legend
71. Dark Water
72. Worlds Enough & Time
73. Saw
74. Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
75. House of Wax
76. Star Trek Phase II - To Serve All My Days
77. X Files - Fight the Future
78. Alien
79. The 6th Sense
80. Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets'
81. Memento
82. Spiderman 2
83. Pirates of the Carribean - Curse of the Black Pearl
84. The Day After Tomorrow
85. Dirty Dancing
Friday, September 26, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
We were called to the forest... when we went down.
A wind blew warm and eloquent
We were searching for the secrets of the universe...
And we rounded up demons and forced them to tell us what it all meant
We tied 'em to trees and broke them down one by one
And on a scrap of paper, they wrote these words...
And as we read them, the sun broke through the trees...
"Dread the passage of Jesus, for he will not return."
from
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Rivertentum
by
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
A wind blew warm and eloquent
We were searching for the secrets of the universe...
And we rounded up demons and forced them to tell us what it all meant
We tied 'em to trees and broke them down one by one
And on a scrap of paper, they wrote these words...
And as we read them, the sun broke through the trees...
"Dread the passage of Jesus, for he will not return."
from
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Rivertentum
by
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Golden Era of Film
The last year or so I've found myself drawn to movies from the early era's of film; from the roaring twenties on to the late seventies. Before that I was mostly obsessed with current films and cinema from the eighties on, but after watching countless documentaries I've found a love in old pictures.
Tonight I'm watching 'Sunset Blvd.' I had only seen this movie once or twice, never in its entirety, on AMC or TCM. Even though the quality is sub-par [encoded from avi to flv which destroys most of the quality] the movie shines through. Willem Holden is great as the main character, Joe Gillis, narrating the events in pure noir fashion, using beautiful phrases [there to the west was the tennis court, or rather, the ghost of the tennis court] and, of course, smoking. Most of the scenes, however, are stolen by Gloria Swanson playing the bat-shit crazy, deluded washed-up actress Norma Desmond. Lost in her own world of disillusion, she tries to submerge Joe in what once was, while coping unsuccessfully with what is. I have to say that my favorite scene is between Joe Gillis, and Betty Schafer [played by Nancy Olsen] talking about Joe's career. While Joe is trying to escape the mental Norma, he visits a close friend to find out that his girlfriend/fiancee is the secretary for his connection at paramount. On their previous meeting, Betty negativly reviewed his latest script. "Your one of those 'give us a message' kids. The journey isnt enough." The start acting out a scene from one of his decent screenplays, and stay in character until Joe is beckoned to use the phone in the hall. The acting, directing, dialogue, are all very unconventional for the times, also being one of the first films to take place behind the curtain in Hollywood. Cecill B DeMille and Buster Keaton even appear for a short amount of time, as themselves.
"Thats the trouble with you readers, you know all the plots."
Yesterday I had a hankering for Peckinpah, so I watched 'The Killer Elite', 'The Getaway' and 'Convoy'. Apparently I really needed to stare at Ali McGraw for 4 hours. Which was fun. I prefer her in the Getaway more than Convoy. In Convoy she seemed a little to Barbeau. I love the gritty machismo realism in Peckinpah's films. Even Convoy, which is essentially smokey and the bandit, he managed to make gritty and real. Borgnine's performance as the fascist shit-machine Sheriff is actually the best in the film next to Kris Kristofferson as Rubber Duck and his teamster buddy Burt Young. The Killer Elite was a film in the vein of Convoy, fun, which is alien to Peckinpah. Actually, reverse that. James Caan and Robert Duvall are back together as a pair of Goverment bodyguards in the midst of a conspiracy. I just want to get my favorite part of the film out of the way, and i know this sentence alone will give you cause to rent buy or watch this. It has ninjas. Thats right. Imagine Peckinpah's no guff-albeit-a-bit-racist manliness, played by James Caan, and ninjas. I should keep ahead of myself and just end the review there.
'The Man With The Golden Arm' starring Frank Sinatra is the first Preminger movie I've seen. I've heard his name [Cecil B. DeMented has it tattooed on his body] and seen him before [Mr Freeze in the Adam West version of Batman.] The movie is about Frankie Machine [Sinatra] an ex card-shark and junky. The entire movie goes from him getting out of jail, doing heroin, saying hes not going to do heroin, then doing heroin again. As well as his mistress and crippled wife, the plot isnt much. But for the time it is incredible, one of the best movies about heroin I've seen, and frighteningly real in the 40's when Heroin was becoming THE big thing. Highly recommended.
Tonight I'm watching 'Sunset Blvd.' I had only seen this movie once or twice, never in its entirety, on AMC or TCM. Even though the quality is sub-par [encoded from avi to flv which destroys most of the quality] the movie shines through. Willem Holden is great as the main character, Joe Gillis, narrating the events in pure noir fashion, using beautiful phrases [there to the west was the tennis court, or rather, the ghost of the tennis court] and, of course, smoking. Most of the scenes, however, are stolen by Gloria Swanson playing the bat-shit crazy, deluded washed-up actress Norma Desmond. Lost in her own world of disillusion, she tries to submerge Joe in what once was, while coping unsuccessfully with what is. I have to say that my favorite scene is between Joe Gillis, and Betty Schafer [played by Nancy Olsen] talking about Joe's career. While Joe is trying to escape the mental Norma, he visits a close friend to find out that his girlfriend/fiancee is the secretary for his connection at paramount. On their previous meeting, Betty negativly reviewed his latest script. "Your one of those 'give us a message' kids. The journey isnt enough." The start acting out a scene from one of his decent screenplays, and stay in character until Joe is beckoned to use the phone in the hall. The acting, directing, dialogue, are all very unconventional for the times, also being one of the first films to take place behind the curtain in Hollywood. Cecill B DeMille and Buster Keaton even appear for a short amount of time, as themselves.
"Thats the trouble with you readers, you know all the plots."
Yesterday I had a hankering for Peckinpah, so I watched 'The Killer Elite', 'The Getaway' and 'Convoy'. Apparently I really needed to stare at Ali McGraw for 4 hours. Which was fun. I prefer her in the Getaway more than Convoy. In Convoy she seemed a little to Barbeau. I love the gritty machismo realism in Peckinpah's films. Even Convoy, which is essentially smokey and the bandit, he managed to make gritty and real. Borgnine's performance as the fascist shit-machine Sheriff is actually the best in the film next to Kris Kristofferson as Rubber Duck and his teamster buddy Burt Young. The Killer Elite was a film in the vein of Convoy, fun, which is alien to Peckinpah. Actually, reverse that. James Caan and Robert Duvall are back together as a pair of Goverment bodyguards in the midst of a conspiracy. I just want to get my favorite part of the film out of the way, and i know this sentence alone will give you cause to rent buy or watch this. It has ninjas. Thats right. Imagine Peckinpah's no guff-albeit-a-bit-racist manliness, played by James Caan, and ninjas. I should keep ahead of myself and just end the review there.
'The Man With The Golden Arm' starring Frank Sinatra is the first Preminger movie I've seen. I've heard his name [Cecil B. DeMented has it tattooed on his body] and seen him before [Mr Freeze in the Adam West version of Batman.] The movie is about Frankie Machine [Sinatra] an ex card-shark and junky. The entire movie goes from him getting out of jail, doing heroin, saying hes not going to do heroin, then doing heroin again. As well as his mistress and crippled wife, the plot isnt much. But for the time it is incredible, one of the best movies about heroin I've seen, and frighteningly real in the 40's when Heroin was becoming THE big thing. Highly recommended.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Never operate on a psychic.
it must be horrible to be psychic. I wouldnt want it.
The original idea -- the lost world.
What was it that we admire most about Burroughs?
It just seems that because it was written so long ago that the ideas are already gone. What Burroughs-esque stories work and why?
Sense of adventure. Things to impossible to be true, but too true to doubt.
it must be horrible to be psychic. I wouldnt want it.
The original idea -- the lost world.
What was it that we admire most about Burroughs?
It just seems that because it was written so long ago that the ideas are already gone. What Burroughs-esque stories work and why?
Sense of adventure. Things to impossible to be true, but too true to doubt.
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