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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001, John Cameron Mitchell)
Some shots from the ending: Hedwig-Hansel as Gnosis-Corgan. It’s complicated. That’s songwriter Stephen Trask on the left. Yitzhak unleashed! I will look out for her next time I watch Shortbus. An...
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Smiley Face (2007, Gregg Araki)
I think Gregg Araki has nothing to do with Arakimentari, the photographer doc I kept almost-renting a couple years ago. Rather he’s the director of hottt indie films Mysterious Skin and The Doom...
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957, Frank Tashlin)
I’d heard this was one of those forgotten comic masterpieces, have to say I was underwhelmed. Humor and references seem state-of-the-art to 1957 – I got Groucho’s “you bet your life” cameo but probably...
View ArticleThe Big Lebowski (1998, Coen Bros.)
Happy 10th anniversary to the funniest comedy of the 90′s! In honor of this anniversary, I intended to post pictures of Jeff Bridges’ smiling eyes, but the DVD crashes my VLC player on both computers,...
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Royal Tramp I & II (1992, Jing Wong)
Trying to clear my head of CJ7, I grabbed the first Stephen Chow movie I could find at the store, and hit paydirt. Not as artistically ambitious as most of the movies I like, but as entertainment it is...
View ArticleThe Major and the Minor (1942, Billy Wilder)
What a wonderful coincidence that I watch You’re Never Too Young, and then find out the next day that the film it remade is on Turner Classic. Robert Osbourne introduced as a screwball comedy, but the...
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The Aristocrats (2005, Paul Provenza & Penn Jillette)
Nonstop talking for ninety minutes! Nonstop talking for ninety minutes! Nonstop talking for ninety minutes! If someone pauses to take a breath, they quickly cut to someone else so the talking won’t...
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Black Dynamite (2009, Scott Sanders)
One of the funniest movies I’ve seen all year. And it’s the kind of humor that makes the film nerd in me very happy, lovingly referencing 70′s cheapie Blaxploitation movies, even down to the shitty...
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The Invention of Lying (2009, Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson)
I liked this. From the plain look (courtesy of Mike Judge’s cinematographer) to the relaxed line deliveries to the dated mid-tempo pop songs it seems like they set out to make a lightly pleasant comedy...
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Grindhouse (2007, Rodriguez & Tarantino)
Watched this again over a couple days… the Grindhouse version with trailers and interstitial stuff, not the extended director cuts released separately. I’m usually a nut for director’s cuts and...
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