80 minute running time so the perfect length. I loved this one, great movie. Interesting characters, story, dialogue… first Fuller movie I saw was “White Dog,” which wasn’t that great, but this movie, wow… now I need to see if this was his best. Highly recommended.
林, bring me another order of 炒饭, 叉烧包
96 minute running time, so the perfect length, but I quit watching after 30 minutes … poor audio and no subtitles on my DVD didn’t help … just boring and pointless. Bernie Schwartz, “press agent,” a.k.a, flack, a.k.a. “Tony Curtis," looks weirdly effeminate wearing a ton of makeup … Burt Lancaster as tough newspaperman…. only interesting things were thinking about how much power newspaper columnists used to have, back when people read newspapers, and what Manhattan looked like in the late 1950s. Give it a miss.
I love this dirty town. (Burt and (B)Ernie show.)
You can buy the book here.
90 minute running time so the perfect length. Boyish Kristy McNichol with feathered hair and flat chest hits a dog, adopts him, then discovers he’s an attack dog, and not just any attack dog but a “white dog,” which is a dog that was trained to attack black people only. Kristy seeks out animal trainer Lt. Ed Traxler, who thinks he can break the dog of its training, and I won’t give away the ending … weird one. Early 80s vibe. I wasn’t thrilled. Give it a miss.
Can't nobody can unlearn a dog
90 minute running time so the perfect length. Another weird one… post-war mix of romance and violence … guy forces himself on the girl and she submits, not very politically correct … young Lloyd Bridges does some fake fist-fighting … I wasn’t thrilled with this, didn’t think the story was realistic or interesting.
You’re not very courteous!
87 minute running time so the perfect length … deeply weird Fritz Lang movie made before the war ended… about a ring of German spies in London … reminded me at times (the village fête especially) of The Prisoner, the great Patrick McGoohan TV series … but I wasn’t thrilled in the end… it wasn’t interesting, just sort of bizarre. Not sure why Criterion included it in their Collection. “Suffused with dread and paranoia … an unpredictable thriller with style to spare,“ nah, not really. Give it a miss.
Girl from Idaho with unreliable Austrian accent
93 minute running time so the perfect length … had to watch with subtitles since Scottish accents so heavy … a long-haired Ewan McGregor at his most annoying … when semi-good people do bad things tale … the twist at the end was extremely dissatisfying and ruined everything that came before … I wasn’t thrilled. Criterion probably put it in their Collection because it’s low budget, the first movie made by the guys who made Trainspotting, and “stylistically influential.“ Not essential viewing in my opinion.
Scottish yuppies at their most awful
104 minute running time, but I only made it 50 minutes in before quitting. Albert Brooks is a middle-aged guy who moves home with Mom to figure out why he has trouble with women — it’s his Mom’s fault of course. There are some funny bits but I just didn’t want to see this Baby Boomer (Brooks born in ‘47) man-child whining to his aged mother (who must have had him when she was 15 years old) … and I had a major problem with Debbie Reynolds as his Mom since she’s a Gentile and has no business playing a Jewish mother. Marrying Eddie Fisher didn’t make her Jewish. Give it a miss.
I want organic peanut butter, mother
113 minute running time so at least 15 minutes too long, but I liked this one, it’s good. Little James Cagney plays a great psychopathic bad guy, I wonder if he was a little nuts in real life? Crime story, smoggy 1940s LA with City Hall prominently featured, a blonde double-crossing dame, a cop mole in the gang, it has all the elements. See it if you get the chance.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
I dig it… especially the opening transitions. Would be a good song to inhale to… thanks to the Spotify algo for recommending it:
