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The Projector Project: April 2008
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Thursday, April 3, 2008. Dir Douglas Trumbull, co-written, interestingly, by "Deer Hunter"'s Michael Cimino. This was a way better idea than execution, and it kind of kills me, because half of me really wants to use it in a class about seventies environmentalism or environmental disaster or ecophagy (new word I learned from the Wiki entry I read on "Screamers"! I love the seventies. Total disconnect between human and non-human nature; burly yet caring man; nerdy proto-robotics technology fetish. Made fro...
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The Projector Project: February 2008
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Thursday, February 28, 2008. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984). Not only is Peter Weller weirdly an art historian (though not a PhD), but he plays in a jazz band with Jeff Goldblum sometimes! If Wikipedia is right, anyway. Sunday, February 24, 2008. Last of the Mohicans (1992). My friend Josh holds that one should like this movie because Fenimore Cooper's book sucks anyway, and it's interesting that people in the 1990s like this movie for the...
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The Projector Project: March 2008
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Friday, March 28, 2008. Margot at the Wedding (2007). Directed by Noah Baumbach. I was so, so, so resistant to seeing this movie. I thought it was going to be like a mix of a Wes Anderson movie, a Neil Labute movie, that bad book The Emperor's Children. And "You Can Count on Me" (which, paradoxically, I remember loving, so what's my problem? Escape from LA (1996). Fifteen years after his triumphal extraction of the American President from the prison-island of Manhattan, Snake Plissken is, as the poster s...
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The Projector Project: On Deadly Ground (1994), Rambo (2007)
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Sunday, June 29, 2008. On Deadly Ground (1994), Rambo (2007). Seagal's spirit animal is, of course, a bear. (Nobody's spirit animal is ever a lemming or a caterpillar or something.) Joan Chen in tow, he proceeds to tear up the offending oil rig and kill the smooth-faced, duplicitous Caine. Big shocker. Really loud, the movie was really something on a different level - unshrinkingly dark in its vision of the trouble that the people were living through. Definitive proof: Seagal is no Stallone.
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The Projector Project: May 2008
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008. The relationship between the boy, who spends most of the movie crying, and the dad, who tries to figure out how to explain what's happening to his son, is truly affecting, and feels very real. It's wrenching almost (but not quite) on the order of Haneke's "Time of the Wolf.". Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Sorry I haven't posted in so long. (Who am I apologizing to - Cristie? To me, this failure to look at the problem holistically kind of indicates a lack of ambition of the part of the ...
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The Projector Project: Blood Car (2007)
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Sorry I haven't posted in so long. (Who am I apologizing to - Cristie? Nick wrote a paper about remakes of 70s movies, and so we spend a month or so sort of half-watching the two versions of "The Longest Yard," "Alfie," "The Stepford Wives," etc. Nothing I really wanted to write about - though I did get to see both "Shaft"s, and the first "Shaft" is awesome. (Did you know the photog Gordon Parks. There are funny moments, to be sure, and the concept is still basically fascinating, ...
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The Projector Project: Screamers (1995)
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Thursday, April 3, 2008. Dir Christian Duguay (who also directed the sequels to "Scanners" - who knew they existed? Made from a Philip K. Dick story, "Second Variety," that was probably way better than the movie ended up being. (There's also a documentary with the same name from 1996 that's about a tour by System of a Down. Screamers indeed! Peter Weller is a tough-as-nails corporal in the army of miners and scientists that's fighting against a giant corporation that wants to mine berynium (sp? Rather th...
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The Projector Project: The Mist (2007)
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008. The relationship between the boy, who spends most of the movie crying, and the dad, who tries to figure out how to explain what's happening to his son, is truly affecting, and feels very real. It's wrenching almost (but not quite) on the order of Haneke's "Time of the Wolf.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This is the projector in question. Possibly, but that's lame. PS There will be many spoilers. La Biblioteca de Babel.
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The Projector Project: Silent Running (1972)
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Thursday, April 3, 2008. Dir Douglas Trumbull, co-written, interestingly, by "Deer Hunter"'s Michael Cimino. This was a way better idea than execution, and it kind of kills me, because half of me really wants to use it in a class about seventies environmentalism or environmental disaster or ecophagy (new word I learned from the Wiki entry I read on "Screamers"! I love the seventies. Total disconnect between human and non-human nature; burly yet caring man; nerdy proto-robotics technology fetish. Rather t...
