Movie Stuff

Working ahead, the last day in the current apartment, cleaning out my drafts on Blogger, so I am parading some film stuff that I have been listening to and want to share. Enjoy, ignore, but have a good life.

Young Almodóvar Versus Old Almodóvar in the World Series of Love (Public Books)

In recent years, his films have become more serious, moving away from the campy melodrama and drugged gazpacho we knew and loved him for, toward a mature reckoning with the bigger questions of existence. The conflicts between the characters have become more delicate, reflected in ways that are less bluntly sexual and violent, more as a subliminal dance that may or may not turn to sex.

This works as a partial overview of Almodóvar's career for newcomers, for others it is always good to see an appreciation of Almodóvar, right?

Randolph Scott, Virtuous Loner of the West (Bulwark) 

Marion Cotillard at 50: the actor’s 20 best films – ranked! (The Guardian)

A movie I want to see: Killing Faith (Rogerebert.com)

“Killing Faith” occasionally tips its hand towards its modest budget; gunshots and blood spurts look like cheap After Effects plugins, and some of the set decoration feels a bit sparse to build out the hard-scrabble world of the West. Its final act, as well, teeters a bit too earnestly into formula and contrivance for an oater as weird as this. But these minor sins are easy to forgive for such a bold, idiosyncratic anti-Western as this, the kind we don’t often get. It’s a work that positions the West as a place of damnation, testing even the most virtuous among us in ways that either break us down or strengthen our resolve. The evil that men do, a character says near the end, “tethers us to proof of the divine.” That Crowley packages these ideas in such a bleak, bloody curiosity as this is something to celebrate. 

Stuff from YouTube. 

 Tarantino on Three Days of The Condor (If you have not seen this move, go find it now. If nothing else, you may understand why Robert Redford was Robert Redford).

 How Tarantino rewrote The Hateful Eight (interesting to me for the screen writing insights)

 Cocktail's deleted scenes:

 

Jamie Lee Curtis: The 60 Minutes Interview (what an underrated person and actress)

 I will confess these were more guilty pleasures, listened to for fun, and, still, I will pass them along - you can decide how silly I am:

 

Oh, I really like The Feral Historian. Check him out - using film, especially science fiction, to teach history.

Pre-Code's "Other Woman": Claire Dodd (who I never knew of until today)

 This one makes an interesting argument, one that I think is correct, about what makes The Wild Bunch a great film. It takes a look at 30 seconds of the film. It had always been the scene that impressed, if only as spectacle, but this view gives it further depth:

I keep listening to The Feral Historian about movies and science fiction and culture. Fun for me - hearing a well-reasoned, well-presented argument. Follow the link and see what you think.

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