Michael Bell-Smith

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Possessed (1931)

Life is like this. It cut off what the man says: "You're looking inside, but it's better to be inside and looking out".

Ruski Religious Zealots

I never heard of this one. Herzog is forever like bottomless trove goodness.

The Boxes of Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist. If you didn't know that already you might be dumb.
However, to what extent is this true? Come find out in this very interesting British documentary about his 1000+ box archive, his quest for the perfect cardboard box, his torrid affair with stationary, and the exacting safety protocols for his cats.

Thankfully, this is not an annoying documentary about his general 'eccentricities', but rather a study of the paper trail left by one, which actually make him more human than myth.

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My Dinner With Andre (1981)

I've always known about this film, having first seen it as a child on the first cable station, "Z Channel" in the early 80s. Of course, back then, I immediately flipped to the next channel.

Only now, being almost the same age as the characters in this film, or at least not far from their general mind states, I felt like it hit me in the right spot.

I so loved seeing this for the 'first time' (even though I felt like I already had 'been there, done that' and had already seen it!)

I'm finally happy to see this film as it is. A great minimalist film of just two dudes talking about sleeping and waking.

Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant (2009)

I love this movie. This is likely because Cage's character does things I wish I could do when I'm in a bad mood in real life. Cage sometimes mails in his performances, but he really shines in this one. He's always been good at playing characters at 'the edge'.

Jim Carey Screaming "The Mask" movie

What I look like when I orgasm.

In Regards to "Weird Science" (1986)

I revisited this film and was reminded how much I loved it when I grew up. My peers and I would watch and quote it over and over again tirelessly. They don't make 'em like they used to.

I was amused at the overt symbolism in the latter half of the film. When the two boys try to impress their bullies by making them a girl with their computer, they instead accidentally summon a Persian missile to pierce their house from the ground up.

Their created "woman", played by Kelly LeBrock, who had a gentle-but-firm sort of sexiness unlike no other since, castigated them for the two boys' hubris in trying to make people like them for what they can do, not for who they are.

A huge, war-like phallus was their comeuppance. It's Ham-fisted genius on the part of John Hughes.