Category Archives: cinema

top films checklist

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 June 30 by Anton

From TexasBestGrok: Take this list of the 100 top-grossing movies of all time and bold the titles of the ones you have seen. I am following the lead of others and bolding the ones I remember mainly from having seen … Continue reading →

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you can’t permanently take the sky from me

Posted on Sunday, 2004 June 20 by Anton

Hee hee. Some Browncoat has put up a clock counting down to the scheduled release of Serenity, Joss Whedon’s big-screen sequel to Firefly.

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QotD

Posted on Friday, 2004 June 11 by Anton

The hobo’s speech from Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941): I seen guys like you go under before. Guys that never had a worry. Then they got a hold of some dough and went goofy. The first thing that happens … Continue reading →

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shiny!

Posted on Friday, 2004 June 04 by Anton

If this is to be believed, Serenity will open on April 22. Later: Or not.

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vital details

Posted on Thursday, 2004 June 03 by Anton

I’ve just seen the end of Angel‘s third season, and what a startling revelation! Who’d have thought that Cordelia would drive a yellow Jeep?!

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watching the talkies

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 May 25 by Anton

Tonight’s feature presentation was His Girl Friday (1940), and it left a bad taste. Summary: a chick digs a guy who’ll do anything, including framing innocent people for felonies, to win her. Do they still make movies in which a … Continue reading →

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temporal foreshortening

Posted on Thursday, 2004 May 13 by Anton

Watching Hitchcock’s Secret Agent (1936, starring John Gielgud so young that I couldn’t place him), I think I’ve spotted Hitchcock – but my first thought was “there’s Rumpole!”.

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