Gail

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This started as a personal record of films I've seen since August of 2012. It's grown a bit since then.

Favorite films

  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Rio Bravo
  • Chimes at Midnight
  • Out 1

Recent activity

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  • The Miracle Maker

  • Unhinged

  • Romeo and Juliet

  • The Miracle Maker

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Casey at the Bat
Rewatched

This was part of the preshow for Bad News Bears, watched with my family at the Trylon.

I mean, I love movies, and I'm kind of a movie nerd, right? I've seen some stuff; I know some trivia. It pleases me no end how much more intensely movie-nerd the Trylon people are. They do so much to help people enjoy movies. (The feeling is general, but also rises specifically from the fact that they found film prints of this short…

Silent Rage
Watched

What an odd mix of a movie. It felt approximately half Reanimator-adjacent (just a hint of Tammy and the T-Rex, and more than a hint of The Terminator in that half) and half 'this is a long episode of Walker, Texas Ranger.' The two halves were so poorly connected that Chuck Norris didn't seem to realize he never got the alleged dead guy from the institute/hospital/medical malpractice factory.

The scene early on where the ex girlfriend was driving Chuck Norris…

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The Cavalier's Dream
Watched

I wonder how hard it is to cut, switch out actors, and start the film again in exactly the same spot and pose? How ever hard or easy, the guy who plays the cavalier is good at it. Slightly distracted even in this incredibly short runtime by how long the cavalier's hair (wig?) is, and by wondering if the ghost-ish people were wearing robes or sheets.

Zvenyhora
Watched

I saw this free on youtube, with somewhat dodgy, possibly automatically-generated subtitles under the Russian intertitles (except on occasion, where there was only the Russian with no English subtitle at all). I wonder if it would've made any more sense had I been able to access this through something like Criterion instead of through youtube.

I feel like Dovzhenko did an excellent job showing the horror of war without ever showing explicit violence so far as I recall. Shadows with…