DESPERATE CHARACTERS (1971) Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars play a married couple growing apart Debut film from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Frank D. Gilroy Almost Bergmanesque how it captures the ice flows between people and the sudden, ugly eruptions that break out

CAGE OF GOLD (1950) Jean Simmons stars in this Basil Dearden joint A classic "the man I married isn't who I thought he was" Predictable at times, but some social issue twists And Dearden and DOP Douglas Slocombe infuse this tale with drippings of noir at every step

CAVEMAN (1981) Ringo stars in a parody of One Million B.C.? Maybe? Carl Gottlieb directs Full of dumb humor, flatulence etc Stop motion dinos Would be more amusing at 2 AM? Super high? Still, marks for constructing an entire film with a made-up language

SHAFT (2000) Easy watch Singleton's concerns about systematic racism still valid Fun seeing a younger Christian Bale, Jeffrey Wright, Toni Collette Screams early 2000 with the type of slo-mo and animated transitions "It's Giuliani time" hits a bit different 26 years later

HENRY FORD'S AMERICA (1977) Actually a Canadian doc. Directed by Donald Brittain, whose work I like (he often narrates his own films) A tapestry of topics, from corporate politics, to car culture, to the guys who design movie cars, like the one from The Car with James Brolin

SO CAN I (1975) 5 min short by Kiarostami A boy imitates animated animals And the film leaves us with a punchline or statement Deceptively simple, there's much to unpack I tried imitating a beaver once. My dam really sucked. I don't know how they do it

Found Lonesome Dove mini-series at a local thrift store for $1.50 I've never seen it... #PhysicalMediaHunter

TWO SOLUTIONS FOR ONE PROBLEM (1975) Opened up my Kiarostami Eclipse box set A simple lesson expertly told Two children The stupidity and futility of the eye-for-an-eye mentality Friendship is always the way Something our current adult leaders could learn

THE DAYTRIPPERS (1996) Somehow missed this one for 30 years It felt like a classic 90s indie vibe comedy And a classic indie cast Ah, those classic 90s loft parties Greg Mottola captures that ebb and flow of life-changing moments and everyday minutia Love the 16mm. And real NYC locations

ONE MILLION B.C. (1940) A Scorsese "guilty pleasure" pick Victor Mature stars in this Quest for Fire template Very little dialogue. All action. Any language is grunts and caveman-speak Special effects are primitive and obvious But kinda bold to do a full movie like this

QUARTET (1981) I have a soft spot for Merchant-Ivory A Masterpiece Theatre sheen with a bit more subversive content This film captures a vibrant 1927 Jazz Age Paris, but also a predatory underbelly Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, and Maggie Smith make an intriguing "threesome"

LENNY (1974) * Watch 4...maybe 5? The divine Valerie Perrine I have an affection for films that choose b&w for artistic reasons Here, I think it's classic doc/vérité vibe And it bleeds style Another Fosse work about the schismatic connection between performance and reality

My DVD collection is so old... How old is it? I have DVD movies that are two-sided. One for widescreen and one for...that's right...full screen! Who can relate? ✋️

WOMAN ON THE RUN (1950) #movieswithmom Ann Sheridan stars. But it's her husband that's on the run. He's witnessed a murder But what gives the film some extra sauce...the marriage is also "on the run" and on the rocks An intense roller coaster climax!

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) * Watch 6? First time on 4K disc This time, I really noticed how much of the movie is set in apartments, lobbies, rooms, and offices The scope is narrow It makes us imagine exotic lands and the journey of the gold, jewel-encrusted falcon We dream too

HIS PREHISTORIC PAST (1914) Chaplin falls asleep and dreams about being in the prehistoric age (but still has his bowler lol) Some hijinks, tribal power grabs, and plenty of love interests The Tramp is kind of a dick in this Maybe dreams will do that

THE RIVER (1951) On Scorsese's 2022 Sight & Sound list. One of the most beautiful color films ever made in his eyes. Technicolor splendor Renoir's painterly images The narrative flows like the Ganges Experimental in ways I felt the enchantment 21 Sight & Sound votes 4 Directors 17 Critics

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1984) * Watch 3 Set in 1984. No pastels? Jk Deakins bleaches out the color The squalor and grubbiness doesn't feel glamorized. It just...is The bleakness is our Room 101 John Hurt's Winston has always felt like perfect casting Burton's O'Brien is a final masterstroke

Physical media news Hal Hartley boxset purchased 👍 Right from his website Looks like stock is going fast Once it's gone, it's gone

PREHISTORIC PEEPS (1905) Apparently, the first film to depict non-avian dinosaurs onscreen Psst...it's humans dressed in costumes. No CGI Directed by British filmmaker Lewin Fitzhamon 4 minutes Funny, the story is Jurassic Park before Jurassic Park

August We will be going back into the past I was thinking period pieces—powdered wigs, corsets etc But there are too movies I want to see. Plus new 4ks etc So I've decided that "the past" is any movie set before 2026 lol First watches unless indicated Let's go back...

Thx for all the engagement. Discussion on the films I choose, and the watching of the movies themselves, helps make this a special journey

Daddio@kidcreole3.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sci-fi July was...a blast 🚀 I did 79 watches. 85% of those were movies Grand total on the year thus far: 543 Let's keep it rolling!

Sci-fi July was...a blast 🚀 I did 79 watches. 85% of those were movies Grand total on the year thus far: 543 Let's keep it rolling!

STAR TREK: TOS "Patterns of Force" (S02E21, 1968) * Watch 2 Banned in Germany for decades A Federation historian introduces an alien race to Nazism. What could go wrong?? 🤦‍♂️ Good banter, always timely anti-fascist message, and we get to see Spock's green blood 💚

SUNSHINE (2007) Danny Boyle likes to put his characters in impossible situations—the human condition tested Fun with saturated, gold imagery Banger cast Cillian Murphy warming up for Oppenheimer as a physicist Visceral, elemental, physiological. I felt the heat

Kamiński blown out lights and lens flares. Life is good

Daddio@kidcreole3.bsky.social · 5d ago

DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) A Fabelmans bookend? DD more about endings than beginnings. Spielberg coming to terms with "how we live today" and his own 50+ year filmography Classic and algorithmic. Earnest and jaded (and some B-movie silliness) Sublime stuff. I need to see it again

DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) A Fabelmans bookend? DD more about endings than beginnings. Spielberg coming to terms with "how we live today" and his own 50+ year filmography Classic and algorithmic. Earnest and jaded (and some B-movie silliness) Sublime stuff. I need to see it again

CLOUDBUSTING (1985) - MUSIC VIDEO I watched this video many times as a kid Directed by Julian Doyle. Conceived by Kate Bush and Terry Gilliam Bit of historical sci-fi. Some streampunk vibes I thought it was cool Sutherland was in it Bush's tune is hypnotic

I love sci-fi. It's been a great month. But I'm ready to move on. One more day