My Week in Movies: February 23 - 29
Mar. 1st, 2020 01:46 pmI didn't watch a ton of movies because I was swept up in bingeing Encore! on Disney+ (I sure hope they do more seasons, I want to see Guys and Dolls, which I did in high school).
Movies I've seen before are in italics.
Footlight Parade (1933)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
if.... (1969)
Invention for Destruction (1958)
The Naked Gun (1988)
Ghost Rider (2007) w/![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sol_se
I do love watching a Busby Berkeley film, but damn, Footlight Parade is racist. Between the casual blackface, the scene where Cagney is inspired to artistic whiteness by watching black children play, and the entire Shanghai Lil number, phew boy.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire was highly recommended to me by many friends (especially TGIF/F friends) and it is a very good film. It is well directed with fantastic performances. I've been having some trouble lately parsing subtitles alongside visuals, but none of that came up here.
if.... has not aged well. I mean, it ends in a school shootout.
Invention for Destruction is fantastic, in the original meaning of the word. It's a Czech film with production design all done in the style of old woodcuts. The story is based on a forgotten Jules Verne tale. It's very slight in terms of plot, but a visual wonder.
I love Nicholas Cage and I love sharing his various acting choices withsol_se. We were originally going to watch a different film, but when I saw Ghost Rider was on Netflix, we switched. No regrets. Some superb overacting mixed with a so-so superhero plot.
Honorable mention to the first 45 minutes of Alphaville, which my ADHD struggled with, and the last 30 minutes of House on Haunted Hill (1959) which was randomly playing on Comet when I had some time to kill.
Movies I've seen before are in italics.
Footlight Parade (1933)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
if.... (1969)
Invention for Destruction (1958)
The Naked Gun (1988)
Ghost Rider (2007) w/
sol_se I do love watching a Busby Berkeley film, but damn, Footlight Parade is racist. Between the casual blackface, the scene where Cagney is inspired to artistic whiteness by watching black children play, and the entire Shanghai Lil number, phew boy.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire was highly recommended to me by many friends (especially TGIF/F friends) and it is a very good film. It is well directed with fantastic performances. I've been having some trouble lately parsing subtitles alongside visuals, but none of that came up here.
if.... has not aged well. I mean, it ends in a school shootout.
Invention for Destruction is fantastic, in the original meaning of the word. It's a Czech film with production design all done in the style of old woodcuts. The story is based on a forgotten Jules Verne tale. It's very slight in terms of plot, but a visual wonder.
I love Nicholas Cage and I love sharing his various acting choices with
sol_se. We were originally going to watch a different film, but when I saw Ghost Rider was on Netflix, we switched. No regrets. Some superb overacting mixed with a so-so superhero plot. Honorable mention to the first 45 minutes of Alphaville, which my ADHD struggled with, and the last 30 minutes of House on Haunted Hill (1959) which was randomly playing on Comet when I had some time to kill.
