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Damn, I've once again been neglecting this blog. Here's my attempt to catch up on what I can remember watching since that last entry:

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, 1995): Great flick. I'm usually not a fan of these types of films wherein several seemingly separate storylines weave their way through the film and ( Read more... )

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God, I love Peter Watkins! And his films are finally becoming available on DVD, enabling me to finally see them instead of just reading about them.

The War Game was deemed so disturbing and subversive by its producers, the BBC, that it was kept off the air for a full 20 years before it was finally shown on television. And why not? We certainly ( Read more... )

And speaking of films that are both radical in subject and format.......Michael Haneke is a godsend to radical cinema. I've only become a Haneke admirer in the last 6 months or so, but I'm thrilled that I finally got around to discovering him. Now I'm playing catch-up.

Funny Games is a treatise on the uses off cinematic violence. There is no ( Read more... )

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As a bonus feature on the Sir! No SIr! DVD, these two short films were added. I was quite happy, as I have read a lot about the Newsreel Collective but had never has the chance to see any of their films ( Read more... )

Man, I've fallen behind on the movies once again. I've lost track of the ones I've seen since my last post, so I'll just write about the ones that I enjoyed the most/remember. Starting with this one.

As with many documentaries, I found the subject matter of this one to be absolutely fascinating and the format to be rather hum-drum/tedious. Sir ( Read more... )

And so my obsession with Albert Brooks continues........

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