Category Archives: Movies

Dante Park

By hugh | Published: May 10, 2011

I was setting up at Lincoln Center (after midnight) and got booted so I took these shots across the street at the small park across the street. This was a couple weeks ago before the spring leaves came in. Yesterday, I watched the movie, Fair Game, which is a not very fictionalized account of the [...]

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Teenage Wasteland

By hugh | Published: March 17, 2010

I’m not sure how I didn’t get around to seeing Over the Edge until now. (Holy crap, the whole movie is posted on Youtube in 10 parts!) I was totally in this movie’s target demographic at the time it was made. My family Christmas card in 1977 shows me wearing a Yes belt buckle just [...]

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Let’s Watch a Movie

By hugh | Published: February 13, 2010

I rewatched the movie Them! which I probably haven’t seen since I was a kid. For a 50s B-sci-fi flick, Them! rocks! Some cliches of Hollywood and lessons in fear-mongering, sexism, and racism were de rigueur. In this first set, the aged scientist schools the Washington idiots on how it’s going down. More pix after [...]

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Looking Up in the 96th St. Subway

By hugh | Published: February 9, 2010
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Does the Movie Still Roll When No One Is There?

By hugh | Published: February 3, 2010

I saw Avatar with maybe nine other people in the theater which is not a big deal. Lots of movies screen all the time in big theaters for a few of us. I enjoyed it but have some misgivings which I’m sure have been talked about in one review or another. I was disturbed by [...]

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Two Good Documentaries

By hugh | Published: February 1, 2010

Hulu has two free documentaries which are necessary viewing whether you’re conservative, liberal, radical, communist, or an independent weirdo. The Corporation – The beginning of “too big to fail” which is anathema to capitalism. It starts out sounding heavily left and critical but gives a fairly balanced view. The film was made by Canadians. Manufacturing [...]

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50 Ghosts Glowing

By hugh | Published: January 16, 2010

That last photo I posted was surreally bad. I recently saw the movie 50 Dead Men Walking. It’s about Ireland in the late 80s and has a really likable Irish bloke getting recruited by both the IRA and British Intelligence at the same time. The documentary-style cinematography was similar to that used in The Hurt [...]

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Much Worse Today

By hugh | Published: January 12, 2010

I either have the swine flu or a very severe sinus infection. I tried some cold pills that expired in 2006. Was that the last time I felt this bad? They didn’t work. I went out and bought some fresh generic ones and those aren’t working either. At leastThe Hurt Locker came in from Netflix. [...]

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The One-Legged Cat

By hugh | Published: December 16, 2009

Sometimes I’m really dumb but I didn’t get this joke at first. It’s the punchline following Stephen’s declaration that they’ve hit a “one-hat town.” When I first saw it, I thought, “… but it’s a kitten! Poor kitty!” and then I thought “This is going to be an irreverent film,” and then I got the [...]

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Five Star Movies on DVD

By hugh | Published: December 7, 2009

When I watch a string of really good movies in a row, sometimes I have to catch my breath. In no order, here are a few I rewatched and a couple new ones. Gandhi Ben Kingsley really is astonishing in this. “He showed the world a way out of its madness and we don’t see [...]

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Another Night Owl

By hugh | Published: September 10, 2009

I watched a slow Spanish movie from 1973 called Spirit of the Beehive. With notes of Antonioni and shot toward the end of Franco’s reign, it’s a meditative allegorical film eliciting all sorts of feelings about growing up in a repressive, spiritually dead environment. The lead, Ana Torrent, is still acting in movies today. The [...]

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Incredible Moviemaking

By hugh | Published: August 6, 2009

I tweeted this or something but Coraline must be seen if you like movies (and the website is pretty good too). Scouts honor.

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