Interview with Reb Brown for Night Claws(2011)

Found this on a lazy sunday while messing around youtube. It's amazing being able to to say soon i can see a "new" Reb movie instead of finding a copy of his older work.

Reb on the set of Night Claws(2011)

trailer for a non bs art movie: Kwaidan(1965)

Heres a trailer for the amazing jhorror classic Kwaidan

Wtf Interview with Abel Ferrara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2RIzgr8GY&playnext=1&list=PLBCD634EAF48A2C40

Couldnt upload it, theres the link above. Conan's greatest interview. Abel just looks drunk as hell

Super quick thoughts on Long Live Your Death(1971 aka Don't Turn the Other Cheek)

Franco Nero plays a so called russian prince who with a crazy Irish woman and a Mexican bandit(played by Eli Wallach),join forces to find a large amount of gold during a Mexican revolution.



And that in a nutshell is the plot for Long Live Your Death. It's a western slapstick affair,where the jokes go from funny to just mind numbing painful. Franco plays the slap stick well,but the dubbing is so over done that most of his one liners just don't work.Eli Wallach on the other hand doesn't have these issues,he comes off as funny and it's just a low grade repeat of his role as Taco/Ugly from The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly(1966),but it works for him.Lynn Redgrave is just hit and miss the whole time as the Irish woman,her accent being the biggest handicap,she just drops it at odd times in the movie.



Another odd turn in the movie is the plot point involving the gold location being a map on a man's ass(that's why the title don't turn the other cheek). This is only movie i know of that uses that as a main plot point. The action in the movie is a major highlight in my book, and theres some great shootouts in this, the wishing well shootout is amazing and inventive. The ending revolt and getaway were good too.

In sum Long Live Your Death is just hit and miss, great action, but lots of unfunny jokes, it's at least worth one view

Absolutely Fabulous..more random bad taste and late happy bday

My top 5 favorite Murder My Sweet(1944) quotes

NOTE: Thanks for IMDB for spelling

Dick Powell as Ramyond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
Claire Trevor as Mrs.Helen Grayle aka Velma
Anne Shirley as Ann Grayle

1.Philip Marlowe: I caught the blackjack right behind my ear. A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom. I felt pretty good - like an amputated leg

2.Philip Marlowe: She had more than a figure too. Not a beautiful face, but a good face. She had a face like a Sunday School picnic. You have any idea what kind of face that is, Nulty?

Detective Nulty: I wouldn't know.

3.Lt. Randall: [during an interrogation] How do you feel?

Philip Marlowe: Like a duck in a shooting gallery.

4.Helen Grayle: It's a long story and not pretty.

Philip Marlowe: I got lots of time and I'm not squeamish.

5.Ann Grayle: You know, I think you're nuts. You go barging around without a very clear idea of what you're doing. Everybody bats you down, smacks you over the head, fills you full of stuff... and you keep right on hitting between tackle and end. I don't think you even know which SIDE you're on.

Philip Marlowe: I don't know which side anybody's on. I don't even know who's playing today.

Claude Chabrol, why isn't he as well known?

The history and look of cinema was changed forever when the French New wave(aka:Nouvelle Vague) hit. As many movie buffs know, it was started by really 5 main critics turned directors:Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard being the 2 that are most remembered. Both there debuts, The 400 Blows(1959) and Breathless(1960) blew movie goers away and were quick hits. But for some strange reason people forget the other 3:Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette. I haven't seen any of Rivette's movies, and just recently saw Rohmer's My Night at Maude's(1969). But let me say Ive seen a few from Chabrol, and he has to be my favorite New wave director.




Every film ive seen from him so far, from A Double Tour(1960) to Le Boucher(1969) have all been slow burn movies that stay in my head for days, the mark of a good director. So it's strange he isn't as well known as Truffaut or Godard. And hes Le Beau Serge(1959) was the first new wave film to be relased. Lucky The great people at Criterion are going to reasle some of his early work soon, and hopefully the word will speard.

The Critic and The Blue Angel

Lately Ive been watching more of the great TV show The Critic, and finally saw the 1930 German classic The Blue Angel with the star making role of Lolalola played by the screen goddess Marlene Dietrich.





From the pilot of "The Critic", Rabbi PI being the greatest Arnold movie never made!


Marlene Dietrich singing Falling in love again from The Blue Angel(1930)

From tv: Robert Blake randomness

After seeing David Lynch's Lost Highway(1996) again, I'm still blown by how creepy he was in that movie, pretty much playing the grim reaper. Sadly i haven't seen much of Robert Blake's movies or TV shows. Tho now I own The Boxer starring him.

Here's a opening for his my famous role,TVs Baretta, gotta love his disguises:



also heres just the title song by Sammy Davis jr

Quick thoughts on Dangerous Game(1993)

Director Eddie Israel(played by Harvey Keitel) is obsessed with making a movie about spiritual redemption.To be edgy it take place with a central woman who's tired of sex,drugs, and violence.This mirrors his and the stars life,fitting for the title of that film to be Mother of Mirrors.His two main stars(played by Madonna and James Russo)are playing there roles too good, and soon there fights from the screen come into the real world.Eddie isn't too hot either,as hes life is starting to fall apart too,as his years of cheating on his wife are coming back at him.



Before i go into detail on the movie,heres how i came into be to get the film. At a local Kmart near my house,this DVD has been sitting on the shelf there for the past 4 years. When i did go to Kmart, something always catches my eye away from it. Over that time i started discovering Abel Ferrara and his beautiful dark and twisted films. After King of New york(1990),I was hooked. So after checking and finding out this was a Ferrara movie, I had to get it. Finally last week i picked it up and watched it.



The movie is kinda like Fellini's 81/2(1963) on crack in many spots,and it justs around from the plot to the movie within the movie. The acing is great in that respect, because they jump nicely from acting and acting like acting(if that makes any seance). Harvey Keitel is the stand out here,at times it seems like him at his bleakest from Bad Lieutenant(1992),but other then that he seems kinda numb which adds to the state of mind of the director. Years of being unfaithful and lieing to himself have finally came up to catch him with his guard down.

Other then Keitel, the other 3 main characters are also given great performances. James Russo is just a mad man, with the other big letdown being that he seems to be the same thurout the whole movie. Nancy Ferrara(the wife of Abel Ferrara in real life) is surpisly great as Eddie's caring wife. The scene where she loses it when Eddie tells how many affairs his had is just amazing and raw. That leaves me with the biggest shocker, Madonna is actually great in a second billing role! Madonna really sales her role as a two faced bitch, yet at the same time is the only one who knows how stupid and self absorbed Hollywood is, she knows how to live the L.A. life. To bad Madonna hated the movie and insulted it when it came out.



The tone of the movie, Like i said earlier is a kind of numbness that shoots out violence at us. The abuse thats happening in the movie within the movie, is brutal and real. Drug use is also detailed and handled as just a normal thing for actors to do when bored or to get there edge. As a whole it's just shot as real life with a mix of strange under pining. Also to the way the movie is told, it jumps from rough shot on low grade video for the interviews within the film to jumping editing for the tkes within the movie.

Also it's never clear when the take is going or if real life is going on. My faorite scene that shows that is when Keitel's Eddie is screaming at Madonna to help her with keeping her lines in order, it soon gets out of control and soon hes just ripping her a new one, and they fouces less on the scene and more on Eddie vocaly raping Madonna's character.



One Intersting thing I found in the movie that has nothing reaily to this movie, is how in a strange way, connects both the Bad Lieutenant films. After the Nick Cage version came out, Abel hated it and how it was made by Werner Herzog, yet in this movie made years before that verson had connections to it. The star of the old one is Harvey Keitel and its Ferrara. To add to this theres two scenes in this movie that ferance the new Nick Cage one.

1. After a scene where Harvey Keitel and Madonna have sex,theres a shot looking outside, at a billboard for The Nick Cage movie Amos and Andrew(1993).

2. When Keitels Eddie is about to kill himself,hes watching a scene from the documentary Burden of Dreams, showing Director Werner Herzog on the set of Fitzcarraldo(1982).

Dangerous Game was a strange surpise of a movie, it's a hard dark look at Hollywood. Tho it isn't the best film about it, it is the best one with Madonna.

Star Truck..Star Trek Animaniacs style

Heres a amazing parody of Star Trek by The Animaniacs, the Scotty jokes are my favorite.

The Holy Mountain(1973)...umm...well..it's....

Alexandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain is both a amazing and powerful movie,and at the same level a total mind numbing experience. The kind of numb that leaves you feeling high and out of body. Honesty I can just say just go check it out,and enter at your own risk.

It's just the kind of surreal movie you just have to pick your favorite part from, and with such a strange and brain punching movie,mine is more of the scene that just broke me and made me laugh. That scene is the man with the boobs that turn into tiger heads,told you enter at your own risk



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