Year seven, everybody! You know, sometimes people ask me how I can stand to do this, six and a half weeks at a time, each and every year. I admit, it can be grueling, but you have to remember that it's all worth it in the end. Truly, it requires a...

Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens, 1935) - ...hahahaha! Oh god, there's something wrong ( Read more... )

Godspell: A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1973) - I'm so glad I picked this. Never the slightest qualm about talking over it. The wine was good.

That's another Lent down. I'll see y'all next year on another blogging thingy.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) - So many things piss me off about this one:

• Prosthetic abs.
  
• The waste of such talents as Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley. Ben. Kingsley.
  
• The world's most thinly-veiled allegories about the Iraq war and libertarianism, in the case of the former, well past the point when any such allegory is relevant or ( Read more... )

The Lady Vanishes (1938) - If you like the 1930s and you like Hitchcock, this is the movie for you. I don't know what else to say; I'm tired. It's witty and sharp with international intrigue, but those are things we already know about Hitchcock. It's late. I have more movies to watch tomorrow.

M (M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, 1931) - God, I miss Fritz Lang. And Peter Lorre. And the Weimar Republic. Well, maybe less so the Weimar Republic, but a little bit, yes.

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - When one is revealing the horrible truth, one should not be so damn circumspect just to get it past the censors. Tennessee Williams, of all people, shows a startling lack of understanding of how human sexuality works. Spoiler: most straight men will not be so open to whatever just because you flashed Elizabeth Taylor' ( Read more... )

Delicatessen (1991) - The post-apocalypse has never been so adorable.

The Fall (2006) - I guess I should have seen it coming, but yeah, this one's depressing. Beautiful, but depressing.

Shutter Island (2010) - I would like to distribute a pledge to the filmmakers of the world. It will read in part, "We, the undersigned, hereby pledge never to ask Leonardo DiCaprio to do an accent in a movie. He is not from Boston and never will be. We will also not have disappointing denouements with bullshit anagrams." If someone could get this ( Read more... )

Modify (2005) - Perhaps it's not entirely unfounded, but some of these guys carry around a massive persecution complex. Perhaps the goal is to see how large a persecution complex they can install. I still have no compelling desire to even get a tattoo.