Christian Blauvelt

Christian Blauvelt

Favorite films

  • Jeremiah Johnson
  • A Room with a View
  • Going My Way
  • Six Days Seven Nights

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  • Night Moves

    ★★★★½

  • The Jungle Book

    ★★★★

  • The Birdcage

    ★★★

  • The Long Goodbye

    ★★★★★

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Night Moves
★★★★½ Watched

Just a reminder that not one, but two, of the greatest movies of 1975 depend heavily on an oxygen tank as a plot point.

CRITERION CHALLENGE: My first choice in the Criterion Closet.

The Jungle Book
★★★★ Rewatched

Has the single sexiest moment in a Disney movie ever: When Lena Headey asks Jason Scott Lee's Mowgli what he felt when he first saw her. His answer? "Fire."

The fact that after "Map of the Human Heart," "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" and this muscular, thrilling adventure film that Jason Scott Lee didn't become a top leading man is the clearest possible indictment of why Hollywood sucks.

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The Wrong Man
★★★★ Added

This is Hitchcock in Eli Cash territory: most of the Master's "wrong man on the run" movies suggest that being accused of a terrible crime leads to fun, sexy adventures. What "The Wrong Man" presupposes is: maybe being wrongly accused isn't so fun or sexy?

The Long Goodbye
★★★★★ Watched

A masterpiece of mood. People like to say this is neo-noir, or alt noir, or hippie noir. Feels pretty damn traditional today, even if Altman's filmmaking is uniquely inquisitive and introspective about the material. Menacing Henry Gibson is the best Henry Gibson.

CRITERION CHALLENGE: Directed by Robert Altman