Category Archives: cinema

murder by most famous

Posted on Sunday, 2005 February 20 by Anton

Here in the ogre’s cave we watch quite a lot of English detective shows; my housemate orders them from Netflix. The title of this post comes from an observation of hers that – since the biggest role in a detective … Continue reading →

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does it mean anything?

Posted on Monday, 2005 January 17 by Anton

In Fractured Fairy Tales: The Three Little Piggs (1960 Oct 09), the wolf when first seen is reading Gay Boy magazine.

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at the pictures, 1960

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 January 12 by Anton

La Dolce Vita (dir. Federico Fellini). Plot-free. Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) (dir. René Clément), the first film version of The Talented Mr Ripley, quite good. The French title means broad daylight; I saw nothing that would explain purple! À bout … Continue reading →

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a rifled revolver

Posted on Saturday, 2004 December 25 by Anton

In the first episode of Have Gun Will Travel (1957), Paladin points out that his custom-made revolver has a rifled barrel, “a rarity in a hand weapon.” Say what?!

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movies recently rented

Posted on Friday, 2004 December 03 by Anton

Ballada o Soldate (1959). A Russian soldier wins a brief leave to go visit his mother, and has encounters and mishaps on the way. A simple tale, gorgeously shot. Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Sex, violence and cross-examination. Includes George … Continue reading →

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that’s all she staked

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 01 by Anton

So now I’ve seen the very last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gotta say the final season drags more than a bit, because of a near absence of the lighter “Monster of the Week” episodes that, in most seasons, … Continue reading →

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but you can, it seems, temporarily withhold the sky from me

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 23 by Anton

The opening of Serenity has been postponed from April 22 to September 30. Joss Whedon says: April got crowded with a lot of titles aimed at a similar demographic, and the studio [Universal Pictures] decided September was a clearer corridor … Continue reading →

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