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Lot in Sodom Rating : Posted by : flyblownghoul on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 06:10:37 -0400 This is a remarkable avante garde film from 1933. Expressionistic shadows and multiple super exposures create an experience which, by todays standards may look a little film schoolish, but at the time was innovative and shocking. It still, in spite of occasional cliches, remains a beautiful and affecting film. The story is one of the most perverse in the bible, in which two angels come to Lot's house in Sodom. Lot's lusty sodomite neighbors surround his house and demand the beautiful men be sent out so they can be raped. Lot, unwilling to allow the abuse of these guests of his house, looks to heaven and is told, "Withold not even thy daughters.", so he offers his virgin daughters to the mob instead, and tells them to do with the girls as they see fit. The angels save the day, however, blinding the rapists so they can't find the door. Evidently, Lot's offering his daughters up for rape is not a big deal to God because he still considers Lot righteous enough to be saved, along with Lot's entire family, except of course, his wife who is turned to a piller of salt for the unforgiveable act of looking over her shoulder to see what the destruction of a city looks like. So remember, if you have to choose who to offer up for gang rape: your defenseless virginal daughters or a couple of magic angels, choose your daughters. But don't ever look where God tells you not to or you will be left in the desert to be licked by salt-hungry camels. Anyway, back to the film, it is one of the few experimental films I could watch over and over again. It is beautiful, erotic (homo that is), dark and perverse. Some of the Freudian imagery may seem cliche by todays standards, but that's classic film for you. Unlike most experimental film, this has an emotional kick to it. You really sense the villainous, demonic lust of the sodomites as well as the beauty and divine power of the angels through images which are beautifully shot and melodramatic in the best sense of the word.
Black Americana 2 Rating : Posted by : rmt1947 on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:28:31 -0400 The final segment "Boogie-Woogie Dream" is the celebrated musical short featuring the highly influential Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson. As Joe Duskin put it: these guys really knew what they were doing.
Goofy Goat Antics Rating : Posted by : nembo76 on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:04:14 -0400
D.O.A. 1949 Rating : Posted by : TheKid9650 on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:01:40 -0400 This movie is proof that films don't necessarily need big budgets, huge explosions, or tons of CGI to be thoroughly enjoyable. The plot is relatively simple - an Everyman type discovers that he's been fatally poisoned and has about 24 hours of life remaining to find out who killed him and why - but the pace is breathless, the drama compelling, and the acting especially good even by today's standards (if a tad melodramatic). This one's a must-watch for anyone who fancies themselves a student of the film noir form.
Cosmos War of the Planets Rating : Posted by : joemol on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:37:17 -0400 It's impossible to catalog everything that's awful in this movie. The acting, the badly dubbed international dialog, the garish 60's styling, the complete lack of coherent plot, the dizzy camera work and almost everything else about in this stinker is pure dreck. But I will single out two features for special mention. Firstly, the "musical" score has to be the most irritating, grating, noisome cacophony I have ever had to endure in a movie. The "composer" must have been high on something to create this abomination. Secondly, watch the female lead character going through the motions. Because that's what she does - goes through the motions. Someone forgot to tell her that in a movie, actors are meant to, you know, "act". Her body language is completely out of kilter with the action. At one point she saunters in at a leisurely, almost catwalk style pace to deliver an urgent message to the captain. She constantly puts her hands on her hips and strikes totally inappropriate poses as though she was modelling the latest spring fashions. It's hilarious. All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable movie for those of us who relish z-grade rubbish. Not up to (or should I say down to) the level of a Robot Monster mind you but still enough to fill in a hazy hour or so.