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Teevee Time: What does Jessica Fletcher think?
November 5, 2012Movie Millisecond: Even if there was oxygen in your balls
November 2, 2012Mink Stole is not going to blow you. Ever.
Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974).
Movie Millisecond: Apocalypse yesterday, or, It’s the end of the [ ] as we [ ]
November 1, 2012The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963).
It’s not. It never is.
Wednesday Wednesday: Happy Halloween
October 31, 2012
Addams Family Values (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1993).
Movie Millisecond: Lost Boys, wardrobe suggestions edition
October 31, 2011
Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987).
I say again. I am in this movie.
Movie Millisecond: Always
October 30, 2011
Scream (Wes Craven, 1996).
Movie Millisecond: Let he who is without dorky clothes cast the first stone
October 29, 2011
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994).
Monday, while my students were lined up to go out to recess, one of them said, “Miss L, did you know that tomorrow is Fifties Day?”
“Oh, no,” I replied drily. “What ever will I wear?”
Everyone laughed. They all got the joke. All of them. 100% of children age 8-9 years old recognize that E parties like it’s 1959. Tell A Friend.
Movie Millisecond: This way to the monkeyhouse
October 28, 2011
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938).
Movie Millisecond: Sucker punch him
October 4, 2011
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004).
New feature alert: Inaugural edition featuring major league malarkey
October 3, 2011New feature: “What does Jessica Fletcher think?” in which, at the end of an account of events, we ask, “…but what does Jessica Fletcher [of Murder, She Wrote] think?” and she tells us.
I was recently at the Giants ballpark in San Francisco (mad heyos to Panda for making that happen) and had been cruising for a garlic fries vendor who would take a card so I didn’t have to hike down to the ATM. Lingering near a promising concession stand, I nearly bumped in to this man carrying garlic fries. I had noticed him earlier because he was sitting near our section, and I had thought he was attractive. We did the whole “almost ran in to each other, whoops” thing and he smiled.
“Cool. Your glasses are the Giants colors,” he said.
This was where a normal woman, one adept in communication skills with the unfair sex, would take the opportunity to introduce herself, but I wasn’t switching gears fast enough, so I pointed at his fries and said, “Did you buy those here?”
He said, “Yes,” with friendly, expectant body language, but I then blurted out, “Did you use your ATM card?” He gave me a very strange look and said, “Yeah…?” slowly.
I realized that was an oddly specific, even nosy question out of the context of my last five minutes. I tried to scramble for a way to explain, but his friend came up and they walked back to their seats.
I blew the save.
Or did I? Sure, cute boy, but — garlic fries. It was urgent.
…But what does Jessica Fletcher think?
Facepalm. Never good.
Talk nerdy to me — Movie Millisecond: “Sad beep” edition
October 2, 2011Guess R2 will go eat some worms.
Nobody likes me /everybody hates me /guess I’ll eat some worms…
Other people know that song, right?
Movie Millisecond: Dinner
July 20, 2011Wayne’s World 2 (Steven Surjik, 1993).
GPOY.
Wednesday Wednesday: Marie Antoinette
July 20, 2011Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams (1964).
Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy.
Movie Millisecond: ## [Rock] ##
July 18, 2011
Commando (Mark Lester, 1985). Hateration aside: you know it’s probably the most G screencap ever.
Mean Girls Monday: Sluts of the world, unite
July 18, 2011
No shame in a name.
Movie Millisecond: Garbo explains
July 17, 2011Related to the last post, since we’re on the subject of GG —
Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice, 1931.)
Movie Millisecond: Inquiring minds
July 11, 2011Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937).
GREAT STARS! GREAT STORY! GREAT PICTURE!
(Text of original print advertisement for Stage Door.)
As you can see, caps lock has menaced innocent readers for over seventy-four years. When we will shut down this pervasive affront to eye-dom once and for all? Won’t anyone think of the children? My god, the children?
Does Rob Reiner know about this?
Movie Millisecond: “You shouldn’t smoke”
July 8, 2011
Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004).
Some days quitting smoking is harder than others. It’s cliche, but I’m very nervous about a major examination I’m taking tomorrow and I’ve been finding myself wanting to smoke more than any time in at least three weeks.
Movie Millisecond: Ignore your instincts
July 7, 2011
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Waiting For Guffman (Christopher Guest, 1996).
According to the figures provided by Castle Rock, this film lost $1,107,418. Meanwhile, in the same summer, Face/Off, which everyone knows is my favorite movie of all time, grossed around $245,676,146.
Movie Millisecond: Just wish I were dead
July 6, 2011Gentleman’s Agreement (Elia Kazan*, 1947).
You know. The usual.
Actually, this movie is really excellent and special. It shed light on the prevalent anti-Semitism which proceded the second World War. Everyone is always so busy patting themselves on the back for liberating the concentration camps* during the Allied victory over Hitler & Co. that we tend to forget the Jewish people were still being discriminated against in the countries of their liberators.
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Based on a book by Laura Z. Hobson, the film is about a writer who claims to be Jewish in order to write an authentic series on anti-Semitism in America. He quickly learns firsthand how prevalent bigotry against Jewish citizens remained in the post-War years. It was considered a risky film to make, and the anecdotal Hollywood folktale circuit would have it that Jewish heads of other production companies went to producer Darryl Zanuck and asked him not to make the film. I’m not so sure: I think that sounds like marveolous publicity fodder and is more likely a fiction generated by Zanuck to drum up interest in the picture than anything that actually happened — especially since a scene mirroring that situation is included in the film. Inspiration for PR story much? In any case, the buzz paid off: the film was Fox’s top-grossing movie of 1948.
*Kazan himself is of course controversial.
**no question, the liberation of the camps was fantastic and thank God for it, no matter if it was late in the game or for political rather than humanitarian reasons, but I’m just sayin’.
The Thought Experiment 