Twisted Teens is the best new rock band I’ve heard in years (I’m 54, so take this opinion accordingly)

The seven-hour cut of Abel Gance’s Napoleon ain’t bad.

I guess it’s time to rewatch Afternoons of Solitude. (the matador below is NOT the star of Serra’s film)

A 40-page paper on Fuller’s Forty Guns in 1994, and I haven’t been able to stand even the idea of that movie since.

This was a single shot. That is a real train hitting a real car. That is real fire. That is a real stunt man in the lower right of the frame. I don’t think I’ve seen a more jaw-dropping stunt.

Joe Don Baker having a conversation with a spotlighted cockroach in an isolation cell in Phil Karlsen’s Framed (1974) is the height of New Hollywood cinema.

Watching Iggy Pop performing at 78 years of age is like seeing your grandma naked.

The 2024, seven-hour, $4 million, 16-year restoration of Napoleon is insane.

Jerry Lewis promoting physical media

The Errand Boy (Jerry Lewis, 1961)

The ridiculousness of the two-shot closeup.

The Age of the Swordfish (de Seta, 1955)

The birth of the modern action movie.

Au Bonheur des Dames (Duvivier, 1930)

My first Dita Parlo silent film, and of course she was a great silent actor.

5 authors from whom I have read at least 5 books (actually, these are the authors I have read the most books by)

1. Balzac
2. Shakespeare
3. Faulkner
4. Tony Hillerman
5. Louise Erdrich

The new Warner Archives Blu-ray of Walsh’s Manpower is gorgeous.

It’s raining two inches in LA today. We’re all going to die.

Wuthering Heights Also known as Hurlevent.

As the latest in a long line of WUTHERING HEIGHTS adaptations hits theaters, Tony turns to HURLEVENT, Jacques Rivette’s 1985 take on the novel, for this week’s review. inplainsightcinema.substack.com/p/wuthering-...

Last 4 Friday

Discovered my new favorite Griffith short this week.

I’ll be watching my first Moretti movie this week. Have zero idea what to expect.

I’m boycotting the NFL until they stop making my LA Rams play in the rain.

We don’t care.

Found my dog’s doppelgänger in 1952 France (Manon of the Spring)

Have good time

1. Wagon Master
2. The Naked Dawn
3. Way of a Gaucho
4. Run of the Arrow
5. Stranger on Horseback
6. Two Rode Together
7. The Gun Hawk
8. Canyon Passage
9. The Tall T
10. China 9, Liberty 37

I mean Nais.

I’ve watched nine Pagnol’s over the past three weeks. Regain is also my favorite, and I’ll be watching Anais tomorrow.

Latinas front and center leading that whoop-ass.

I used to be a project manager, which is code for “we’re dumping your ass as soon as you successfully complete the project.”

Yeah, start with the most basic elements.

I learned this when I taught Intro to Film at a junior college. Total disaster!

I’ll try to track it down. Thanks!