For those of you fortunate enough to not know the Bad Man, there are two films that portray a fairly accurate view into my oozing grey matter when it comes to personality and obsession. One of those films is American director Mary Harron’s 2000 vehicle American Psycho, based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis [...]
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A.D.D. movie review – Taken (2008)
The other night I watched Taken, Pierre Morel’s 2008 film starring Liam Neeson. I’ve seen a lot of bad movies in my time but this one achieved the honorable achievement of advancing into my top 20 worst films of all time list. I see that Mick LaSalle of our local San Francisco Chronicle gave it [...]
A.D.D. musings about Tarsem Singh’s “The Cell” and “The Fall”
Last month, after waxing poetic about the just viewed movie “MirrorMask” from 2005 (Dave McKean & Neil Gaiman) recommended to me by our very own BadMan, he shot back an emailed list of movies that also fit this theme (and I quote):
“Grotesque post-apocalyptic futurism rooted in baroque-art-deco architecture dripping with film-noir acid-greens following an AIW [...]
Silver Nitrate
Movies Tier I (in alphabetical order)
Apocaplypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (1982)
Blue Velvet – David Lynch (1986)
Brazil – Terry Gilliam (1985)
La Cité des enfants perdus – Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro (1995)
A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick (1971)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and her Lover – Peter Greenaway (1989)
Eraserhead – [...]
Film directors
Here we go – l’ll show you mine if you show me yours.
Directors (the first three in order)
01. Peter Greenaway
02. Alejandro Jodorowsky
03. David Lynch
Michel Gondry
Michael Haneke
Jan Svankmajer
Ken Russell
Hal Hartley
Tom Tykwer
Olivier Assayas
David Cronenberg
Terry Gilliam
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stanley Kubrick
Pedro Almodóvar
E. Elias Merhige
Takashi Miike
Kim Ki-duk
Darren Aronofsky
Todd Solondz
Akira Kurosawa
Wim Wenders
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Atom Egoyan
Luc Besson
Lars von Trier
Federico Fellini
Robert Rodriguez
Jean-Luc Godard
François Truffaut
Quentin [...]
A.D.D. film thoughts about Jan Svankmajer’s 1988 “Alice”
This weekend, upon recommendation from the BadMan, I watched the 1988 film “Alice” by Czech director Jan Svankmajer; a surreal, live action/stop motion retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (AIW). Imagine, if you will, Peter Greenaway, Tim Burton and Veit Helmer co-directing this classic AIW tale, with Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali helming the cameras as [...]
Conspiracy against women artists?
What if I were to tell you that there is a movie that is not even “savable” on Netflix and can only be purchased as a rare OOP (out-of-print) bootleg copy from VHS to DVDR? You’d say, “Oh I believe that – there are a lot of obscure (art/foreign) movies that Netflix doesn’t have, and [...]
Dear David Lynch – thank you for Miley Cyrus
I didn’t know Billy Ray Cyrus was in David Lynch’s 2001 masterpiece Mulholland Drive. In fact David Lynch personally gave him his first break in acting, and said he was a natural. Incredibly – Billy Ray Cyrus said that because Lynch gave him that role he was able to move forward with the entire Hannah [...]
Sideways maybe isn’t quite so evil after all
Sideways, Alexander Payne’s 2004 American comedy (?) film about two California winos, well, one wino and his buddy, who encounter a few more winos along the way in their madcap adventures, has been much maligned by wine aficionados due to its own maligning of the esteemed wine grape varietal Merlot. In the movie, the character [...]
A.D.D. movie review – A Pair of John Lennon Shootings
Back-to-back I watched two docudramas tackling the assassination of John Lennon, a member of the Liverpool (England) rock band The Beatles. The films were JP Schaefer’s 2007 Chapter 27 and Andrew Piddington’s 2006 The Killing of John Lennon.
Supposedly Lindsay Lohan, one of the main actors in Chapter 27, is BFF with Sean Lennon (one of [...]
