I’m Not Missing A Summer Movie Quiz by Dennis — No Matter How Late
Blogger, noted New Beverly Cinema and drive-in movie supporter, and genuinely real good guy (along with being a good friend), Dennis Cozzalio is one who focuses…
Shampoo (1975)
Note: The following was my contribution to this week’s Decades Blogathon, which Mark and Tom generously hosted, and reprinted here with their permission. A heartbroken Warren Beatty looking down on a canyon…
Decades Blogathon – Shampoo (1975)
Originally posted on three rows back:
It’s day two of the Decades Blogathon, hosted by myself and the irrepressible Tom from Digital Shortbread. The blogathon focuses…
Quote » The Two Jakes
“What I do for a living may not be very reputable. But I am. In this town I’m the leper with the most fingers.”
Quote » Tequila Sunrise
“What is it, Nick? You need some chapstick or some lip gloss or something, Nick, because your lips keep getting stuck on your teeth. Or is…
Quote » Chinatown
“Course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”
Same Song, Different Movie: Don’t Worry Baby by Brian Wilson & Roger Christian
Sharing similarities in key and melody with the famous Phil Spector-produced work, Don’t Worry Baby was primarily about duos. The singer about to race a rival, drag racing in relevance to his girlfriend, and the heart and soul relationship existing between the girl and singer. It’s why, after a good number of years, the song continues to work well with lovers. In this case, Wilson’s longtime hit from 1964 was used in a tender, harmonious context for two different movies, song versions, and the manner deployed in a pair of scenes.
Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 – Mystery
Previous: Fantasy This is the continuation of a series I began in January of this year that examines and remarks on The American Film Institute and its recent propensity to create Top…
Friday Forgotten Film: The Yakuza
There are instances when an actor, or director, tries something so different and foreign just to stretch themselves in their film craft… or to get a…
TMT: No, I Can’t Forget It, Walsh
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Though this motion picture is in-between milestone anniversaries (those…
It Rains... You Get Wet 