Saturday, May 31, 2008

Antonio Lopez Garcia

at the Museum of Fine Arts

El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III

at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

In Bruges - Martin McDonagh (2008)

Screened at the Somerville Theater

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The Comics Before 1945 - Brian Walker (2004)

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Museum of Bad Art, Somerville

The new (and appropriately creepy space) includes a viewing of the classic work, "Sunday on the Pot with George", along with some new acquisitions.

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The Love Eterne - Li Hanxiang (1963)

Screened at the Harvard Film Archive

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Iron Man - Jon Favreau (2008)

Genre is a machine that keeps all of the plot points that the audience came to see from happening at the same time.

Nice to know that SHIELD is behind the CIA and NSA. Makes me feel warm n fuzzy.

Robert Downy Jr. -> wise-cracking Hephaestus with a heart of gold/titanium alloy

How much longer do we have to endure Arab stereotypes as the 'other' in this stuff?

Screened at the Fresh Pond Cinema

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

King John - William Shakespeare

Playing Hubert as a woman makes Arthur's death sentence a salacious flirtation. Barclay awesome as the Bastard.

At the Actors' Shakespeare Project

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite - Kevin Brownlow (1968)

"The cinema is a flame in the shadows fed by enthusiasm. It can dispel them." - Abel Gance

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Fatty Arbuckle Short Comedys

Fatty Joins the Force (1913)
A Flirt's Mistake (1914)
The Knockout (1914)

Favorite Intertitle: "The Rajah swears death to all flirts!" - A Flirt's Mistake (1914)

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Little Caesar - Mervyn LeRoy (1930)

German expressionist sets angle down on the heads of tiny men in large hats. Police are ineffectual and indistinguishable from the crooks, wise-cracking and waiting for a slip-up.

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Sunday, May 4, 2008

Illegal - Lewis Allen (1955)

Jayne Mansfield and Edward G. Robinson keep their heads along with a bevy of TV semi-stars (DeForest Kelly, Hugh Marlowe, Edward Platt). Despite being included in Warner's Noir DVD series, this is more of a courtroom melodrama.

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Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (2006)

Getting ready for my Reading Graphic Novels class

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