December 26th, 2014: Diva (1981)
Cast and Crew: Jean-Jacques Beineix (Director); Irene Silberman (Producer); Frederic Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu What It’s About: Diva is a purely aesthetic...
View ArticleDecember 27th, 2014: Touch of Evil
Mike and Susie Vargas (Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh) find their honeymoon on the US-Mexico border interrupted by an assassination. "Mike" is Ramon Miguel Vargas, a Mexican Narcotics Officer, and...
View ArticleDecember 28th, 2014: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt) are down-on-their luck Americans looking for work in Mexico. When a lucky lottery win gives them the means, and and old timer Howard (Walter...
View ArticleDecember 29th, 2014: Solaris (1972)
Psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) is sent to a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris. There he discovers one of the Cosmonauts dead, and the others deeply disturbed by their...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: Part 2: September
September 19th: The Baroness and I watched Crooked House, my obligatory Agatha Christie story for this season (I wasn’t able to find the 1974 Ten Little Indians and somehow this ended up on my list...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week One
The Professor’s Fall Journal, October 1st: The season of the witch is upon us. Silver Shamrock time. Now that I have your attention with the horrors of that earworm, it’s time to begin recording my...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 2
So one victim of my usual deadly combo of Fall being my busiest season professionally and personally was my apparent belief I should put this in weeks to break it up-and not thinking about the actual...
View ArticleProfessor’s Fall Journal: October Week 4
October 22nd: I borrowed the Cujo audio book from my local library’s Overdrive eBook collection. I’ve never seen the film (other than bits of pieces of it that I was either too scared to watch or too...
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