The questions movies ask are always better than answers others give. Rom-coms have done more damage to the world by making people feel that sort of impossibly cheery life is somehow entitled to them. And just as well that art made in defiance or protest of something can be as equally dangerous as propaganda. A person’s dreams and hopes are the first to die if they live blind to any potential born of pain and how to live with it.…
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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii 1972
The Pink Floyd movie could write itself. Charismatic and off-beat founder becomes acid casualty, the reins taken up by the bassist/songwriter with bold visions for his music, all the while the handsome new boy wails away on his Strat, the drummer occasionally cracks a joke and the long-suffering keyboard player lives relatively in the quiet desperation they would sing about.
My favorite moment in this film is when it cuts from the band playing through the heroic finale of "A…
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Seasons Change
A five star album, Seasons End is my favorite effort in what is a crowded field if you have paid attention to their career from either the time “Kayleigh” was a bit more abroad then here but the reputation followed (at least in the States) in guitar magazines and in message boards more then MTV or the radio. This is a rather predictable form of documentary though the full story of H joining the band is always fascinating to me in terms…
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Ocean's Eleven 2001
This was the last film I saw in the theater in my old hometown. I was fresh out of high school and visiting my grandmother when I walked over a couple blocks for a nights entertainment in the one place here I considered a shrine only short of her home. I don’t know how it is now for kids now but for at least my generation you knew instantly what a grandparents home was like. Indifferent to nuances in modernity…
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Die Hard 1988
More gratuitous than the violence are the constant reminders of how much this was a movie of it's time. When "breaking news" wasn't just a buzzword and used only for something as serious as a terrorist take-over, limousines had tape decks, and the price of gas was less then a dollar. This extends to some of the production details too, namely using real locations in Los Angeles, painted backings and relying almost entirely on practical physical effects.
These things conversely…
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The Color of Money 1986
This is my favorite Martin Scorsese film. A big reason why is nostalgia. My father played pool and himself was a fan of this, and we had a VHS rip of it in my house for years. I'm not a big sports fan, let alone pool, but the cinematic poetry applied here is never boring to watch. Defining performances from Paul Newman and Tom Cruise feel like the cherry on top. I still get goosebumps whenever I see the montage of Felson getting his act together before arriving in Atlantic City.
