Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
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The rewatch also rekindled my absolute love of Jessica Harper and I'm sorry that she seems to have disappeared from the acting biz.
Isn't she great? Also fantastic in Phantom of the Paradise and Pennies From Heaven (Steve Martin edition).
Well, now I know you skippped or skimmed or missed my Dan Hicks article with Oxford American because she's a serious session singer who worked on his comeback album (with Karla Devito), singing red-hot Andrews Sisters, swing-era style close harmonies.
Jesus Camp. It's been written about elsewhere at length, but you'd think that a scene in which pre-scandal Ted Haggard leans into the camera and makes a joke about how he knows what you did last night, well, you'd think that scene would be the creepiest moment in any given documentary movie. But it's not even in the top ten.
Jesus Camp
that movie chilled me to my bones
Yeah, wrod, Corwood. I still find myself thinking of it a lot.
I saw the doc before the Haggard scandal broke and now part of me wants to go back and watch it again from a new perspective but I don't think I can take it a second time.
I just watched City of Lost Children.
That is one weird-ass movie.
It just wasn't released in US theaters until this month.So it'll be hitting more of the smaller theatres soonish? Hopefully?
My brother, being actively anti-organized religion, rented Jesus Camp as well as other scary documentaries. He made me watch some bits and it was very disturbing and sickening (brainwashing, yay!). I think what really freaked me out is that all the official reviews said nothing but (ambiguous) positive things, as if they were afraid to bring down the wrath of the fundamentalist Christians.
Warner will be releasing a DVD at the same time Watchmen hits theaters, tentatively called Tales of the Black Freighter.
I just got back from Indiana Jones.
I... what? I was trying to like it SO HARD, George, but you gotta give me something.
I watched Indiana Jones last night. It took me a while to get into it but I did. However I think it took a weird turn (going to white font this just in case the theme I talk about spoils something) into The Mummy and The Mummy Returns land then staggering (perhaps drunkenly) into Hellboy territory and then finally getting back on course.
However I liked Shia LeBouf (or however his name is spelt) and the character of Mutt much more than I thought I would.