Secret Honor - Robert Altman (1984)

I Lived, But... - Kazuo Inoue (1983)

Documentary covering Ozu's life and work.

GI Journal with Orson Welles (12-15-1944)

Welles' radio program for overseas servicemen. Lotso spicy puns and some nifty 40s pop music.

Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson (1951)

The Playboy - Chester Brown (1992)

The Goon Show - The Nadger Plague (9-18-56)

Ganges #1 - Kevin Huizenga (2006)

Cinema Detectives - Chris Reynolds (2005)

New Construction #1 and Sermons #2 - Kevin Huizenga (2007)

Two recent mini-comics by Kevin Huizenga

Jack Benny (1936?)

A weird one. Jack is actually on the air all by himself for several minutes at the end and Phil Harris sounds like he is sick or something.

A Fistful of Mini-Comics

Picked these up at the soon to be defunct USS Catastrophe Shop

• John #1 - Mark Todd (1996, 2006 edition)
• Malcolm #3 - Mark Todd (1999, 2006 edition)
• Discrete - Drawings by Hob (2006)
• Seven More Days of Not Getting Eaten - Matt Wiegle (????)
• Local Stations - John Lewis (2006)
• The Time Machine - Joe Sayers (2005)
  

Sergeant Rutledge - John Ford (1960)

Woody Strode finally gets his day.

I certainly haven't seen all of John Ford's later films, but just how many of them use interracial rape as a plot pivot? Weird...

Willis Bouchey offers mucho inappropriate comic relief as the president of the court-martial. Totally inappropriate for the film, but I was rolling on the floor a couple of times.

In an heroic shot of Strode near the end of the film I swear I could see the studio lighting rigs through the fog above Strode, even on my tiny TV. Seemed like a major gaffer gaffe.

The Shadow - The Gibbering Things (9-26-43)

Not one of the Orson Welles episodes, but Holy Moly! Did they really broadcast this stuff for kids? The German-accented villain paints a delicious word picture of Margo Lane handcuffed and tied to an overhead iron pipe in a windowless basement room (hubba hubba!). Meanwhile, dozens of mutant, toothless mini-vampires (think The Brood crossed with leeches) wait in cages for a taste of crimson arterial nutrient from the professors herd of 'human cows', kept docile through the judicious use of a revolver. The sound effects man must have had a field day between the cries of the 'cows' and the skittering squeeks of the things...

The Salon - Nick Bertozzi (2007)

Unseen Peanuts - Charles Schulz (2007)

A small sample of the strips that Schulz didn't allow to be reprinted during his lifetime. Nothing dirty or anything, but some of them have a tone that doesn't quite ring true with the atmosphere and a few have cultural references that have fallen beyond common knowledge.

Unseen Peanuts - Charles Schulz (2007)

A small sample of the strips that Schulz didn't allow to be reprinted during his lifetime.

Kansas Raiders - Ray Enright (1950)

A squeaky clean Jesse James, played by Audie Murphy, learns the meaning of manhood at the feet of a Lear-ish Quantrill played by Brian Donlevy. Firelit rituals, knife fights, runaway wagons, and a minimum of kissy-kissy would have kept the 50s Saturday matinee/Hardy Boys crowd pleased. Calico and sacks of flour act as stand-ins for innocent women on the shoulders of the raiders and keep the film free of Hays Code interference.

Eastern Promises - David Cronenberg (2007)

Screened at the Somerville Theater

49 Up - Michael Apted (2005)

Vampire Loves - Joann Sfar (2006)

Sans Soleil - Chris Marker (1983)

The Bull of the Woods - J. R. Williams (1944)

Black Hole - Charles Burns (2005)

Honk! Parade

The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling (1888)

Boom in the Moon (aka A Modern Bluebeard) - Jaime Salvador (1946

A Mexican-made quickie with late season Buster Keaton in a starring role. A few moments of Keaton's physical genius shine through in an otherwise unwatchable movie.

Interestingly one scene of a scientist lecturing his colleagues on his project to send a rocket to the moon is lifted almost directly from Melies' A Trip to the Moon.

The Comic Book Holocaust - Johnny Ryan (2006)

The very definition of tasteless scatology.

Crown v. Stevens - Michael Powell (1936)

Bits of proto-noir shadow shine through this crime quickie. Priceless moments: a road construction crew providing audio/visual texture to a street scene and a female extra walking into a pharmacy and whispering her need to the knowing druggist just out of ear shot. Some really unusual settings including a glassed office in a wallpaper/paint shop, the echoing spaces of the villainous females apartments and the world's largest newel. BTW, the title refers to an event that never takes place in the movie...

Talking with Ozu (1993)

Fibber McGee and Molly - Alice Darling's New Boyfriend (5-9-44)

Sherlock Holmes and the Noble Bachelor - BBC Radio Programme (1959)