Spitball Army

watched Jan 15, 2018spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.8[blu-ray] The music is energetic and fun with creative wordplay, even if sounding if all of it is cut from the same oompah/striptease mold. And the intercutting between “real life” and “on stage” is a clever concept that adds depth to the story, but after a few […]

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watched Jan 14, 2018spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 9.8[theater] This – what I believe was my father’s favorite film – gained so much for me on this TCM big-screen presentation, after decades of seeing it only on TV sets. Even Alfonso Bedoya’s “Goldhat” character, which in today’s politically-correct climate could feel like an insensitive stereotype, […]

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watched Jan 11, 2018spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.3[blu-ray, netflix] The formative years of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall encapsulated into a trial that took place while he was traveling the country as a NAACP defense attorney. Unfortunately, the trial itself seems like a cinematic retread of others – most notably, the trial at the […]

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watched Jan 10, 2018spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.3[DVD] Great concept – man discovers that all of the inhabitants of his town are frozen in time – that I swear I first saw used in an episode of The Twilight Zone, but this decades-earlier treatment leans more toward the light-hearted and frothy. The shots of […]

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watched Jan 10, 2018spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.6[DVD] This film had a symmetry that I liked, and Clair’s uses of sound were creative, even considering that stretches of the film are basically silent. The print on the Criterion DVD I watched was pretty scratchy and damaged; I have clearly gotten spoiled by their recent […]

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watched Jan 6, 2018spitballarmy’s review published in Letterboxd: 8.7[blu-ray] Creepy as all get out. I had just watched Franju’s BLOOD OF THE BEASTS, which had my stomach doing backflips, and, when the doctor pulled out his scalpel here, I thought, “Here we go again!” Interesting that certain of this film’s thematic elements and devices can […]

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watched Jan 6, 2018spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 9.0[blu-ray] The idyllic outskirts of Paris are juxtaposed with the adjacent slaughterhouses, where horses and cattle are taken to be systematically dismembered and distributed throughout the community (for example, the narrator states, “the fatty scraps will be collected by nuns,” and we are left to wonder for […]

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watched Jan 04, 2018spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 9.1[blu-ray, Netflix] I found practically everything about this to be note-perfect, from the relentless self-examination of the main character, to the clear-eyed portrayal of head-on idealism among college students, the duelling side effects of privilege (while it may get you the best table in a restaurant, it […]

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watched Jan 03, 2018

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watched Jan 03, 2018

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