the mother and the whore (jean eustache, 1973)
WEB13 hours ago · The Mother and the Whore has achieved universal critical acclaim over the years. It was #94 on the most recent Sight and Sound poll (between Parasite and The Shining) and it's #105 on the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They list of the top 1000 films of all time. Way back when I and a couple of friends did a long, Fave Fifty Films thread on Facebook, Jeff Pike had it as #4 on his list.
Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBAug 26, 2024 · This was the first time in nearly a month that we had a Geezer movie, and almost two months since we'd been to a theater." On June 19, I broke my ankle. We hadn't gone to a theater or had a Geezer Tuesday since Furiosa. Finally, two months, two weeks, and two days later, we went to a theater for Geezer Cinema #242: Didi.
Steven Rubio's Online Life: from up on poppy hill (goro miyazaki, …
WEB2 days ago · This is the second film directed by Goro Miyazaki, son of the great Hayao (who co-wrote the script). Compared to some of the classic Ghibli movies, From Up on Poppy Hill is relatively straightforward, missing much of the flights of fantasy associated with Goro's father. It tells the story of teenage love in 1963 Japan, with specific ties to the ...
Steven Rubio's Online Life: graduation - begonias.typepad.com
WEBBeen away for a few days, attending my niece's high-school graduation in Washington. Here is a picture I took through a window in their house (the window explains the random streaks).
manos: the hands of fate (harold p. warren, 1966) - Steven Rubio's ...
WEBJan 18, 2022 · This is the eighteenth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2021-22", "A 33 week long challenge where the goal each week is to watch a previously unseen feature length film from a specified category."This is the 7th annual challenge, and my third time participating (my first year can be found at "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2019-20", and last year's at "My Letterboxd ...
October 2021 - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBOct 29, 2021 · Must be time for a final post from Spain, although we don't leave here until Saturday. But there's a pre-written, post-dated Music Friday tomorrow, and we'll be travelling on the weekend, so I likely won't have a chance to write again until we get home.
losing it at the movies: jaws (steven spielberg, 1975) - Steven …
WEBSep 28, 2019 · losing it at the movies: jaws (steven spielberg, 1975) Saturday, September 28, 2019. Picking this up after a break of three months, this is the seventh in a series, "Losing It at the Movies," which is explained here. In 5001 Nights at the Movies, Pauline Kael wrote of Jaws: It may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made.
tombstone (george p. cosmatos, 1993) - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBAug 7, 2024 · While it's not nearly as long as Wyatt Earp, Tombstone goes on forever. We get the famous shootout at the OK Corral, look at the clock, and realize there's still an hour to go. Basically, Tombstone is kinda boring. But it has one thing that raises it to a much higher standard: Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. Kilmer is tremendous, idiosyncratic ...
Revisiting the 9s - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBApr 4, 2024 · [This is the twenty-first in a series that will probably be VERY intermittent, if I remember to post at all. I've long known that while I have given my share of 10-out-of-10 ratings for movies over the years, in almost every case, those movies are fairly old.
pulp fiction (quentin tarantino, 1994) - Steven Rubio's Online Life
WEBAug 14, 2024 · pulp fiction (quentin tarantino, 1994) Wednesday, August 14, 2024. I have no problem saying Quentin Tarantino is one of his generation's finest directors. His influence on other film makers is not always positive ... the cinema is filled with Tarantino wannabes who aren't as skilled as he in writing screenplays and end up copying his worst ...