Best first watches, September Old: SHE SHOOTS STRAIGHT — Frenzied soap opera about Joyce Godenzi's struggles with her in-laws, interspliced with some of the most insane action sequences I've ever witnessed. One of Corey Yuen's best. New: CHIME
If you're going to steal from "Every Breath You Take," this is how it ought to be done. m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Br...
There's an interminable argument on the "Talk" page of this Wikipedia entry as to whether the sculpture has been rotated 90° or 180° from a urinal's normal position.
Best first watches, August Old: THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) New: CONANN — A series of vignettes about the female barbarian's self-murders and reincarnations through a range of surreal settings. Not sure it ever quite coheres, but incredibly entertaining throughout.
Post a banger that isn't in English: Zalatnay Sarolta's "Egy szót se szólj" (Hungarian, so Zalatnay is the surname) m.youtube.com/watch?v=GVc3...
Geez, her downwards journey has been more dispiriting than Moe Tucker's.
I keep seeing things like this in my timeline today and obviously it's delightful, but each time there's a tenth of a second where I mistake it for a post of my own that I can't remember writing.
Compilations that shaped your musical taste, go!
Best first watches, July Old: RIDE LONESOME — An ingenious variation on SEVEN MEN FROM NOW, with Scott and anti-villain Pernell Roberts in uneasy alliance for a bounty delivery rather than finding stolen gold. The ending is simultaneously optimistic and horrifying. New: THE FALL GUY
Watched TWISTER again for the first time since it came out. I'd forgotten that there's an evil storm chaser who's only in it for the money.