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Sum Up | Eleanor Parker: Oscar Nominee
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 22, 2019
Eleanor Parker did not win any Academy Awards, which is simultaneously obvious and inexplicable. The latter because she obviously deserved one (or six), the former because if she had won any, she’d have been better known in the eighties and nineties, when home video and basic cable drove classic fi read more
Sum Up | Eleanor Parker: Oscar Nominee
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 22, 2019
Eleanor Parker did not win any Academy Awards, which is simultaneously obvious and inexplicable. The latter because she obviously deserved one (or six), the former because if she had won any, she’d have been better known in the eighties and nineties, when home video and basic cable drove classic fi read more
Time constraints
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 21, 2019
I went into 2019 planning on reading at least a book a week. Six or seven weeks in and I’ve only gotten one book done. I listened to it too, didn’t actually read it. I brought a book with me to read during my lunch break but instead I’m writing this post because Summing Up is on my todo list, read more
The Mighty Quinn (1989, Carl Schenkel)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 20, 2019
Right until the action-packed finale of The Mighty Quinn, there’s nothing the film can do lead Denzel Washington’s charm can’t forgive. But the finale, which incorporates poorly choreographed and poorly shot capoeira (from obvious fight doubles), a helicopter, a machine gun, suddenly awful music read more
The Mighty Quinn (1989, Carl Schenkel)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 20, 2019
Right until the action-packed finale of The Mighty Quinn, there’s nothing the film can do lead Denzel Washington’s charm can’t forgive. But the finale, which incorporates poorly choreographed and poorly shot capoeira (from obvious fight doubles), a helicopter, a machine gun, suddenly awful music read more
The Mighty Quinn (1989, Carl Schenkel)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 20, 2019
Right until the action-packed finale of The Mighty Quinn, there’s nothing the film can do lead Denzel Washington’s charm can’t forgive. But the finale, which incorporates poorly choreographed and poorly shot capoeira (from obvious fight doubles), a helicopter, a machine gun, suddenly awful music read more
The Mighty Quinn (1989, Carl Schenkel)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 20, 2019
Right until the action-packed finale of The Mighty Quinn, there’s nothing the film can do lead Denzel Washington’s charm can’t forgive. But the finale, which incorporates poorly choreographed and poorly shot capoeira (from obvious fight doubles), a helicopter, a machine gun, suddenly awful music read more
Fumble
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 19, 2019
I was giving myself a twenty percent chance of getting through all the movies I wanted to get through over the weekend. The weekly Criterion Channel movie of the week thing didn’t happen because Criterion Channel did two movies of the week this last week (two Albert Finney pictures, as he’s recentl read more
Hard Luck (1921, Edward F. Kline and Buster Keaton)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 18, 2019
Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; read more
Hard Luck (1921, Edward F. Kline and Buster Keaton)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 18, 2019
Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; read more
Hard Luck (1921, Edward F. Kline and Buster Keaton)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 18, 2019
Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; read more
Hard Luck (1921, Edward F. Kline and Buster Keaton)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 18, 2019
Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but never particularly good ones. There’s a lot of physical humor from Keaton during this section; read more
Oops
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 17, 2019
I’m currently writing my first Summing Up post on the iPad with the Bluetooth keyboard thing. It’s working pretty well… one sentence into the post. I had this idea I could teach myself to type on the keyboard one-handed but the iPad isn’t auto correctly lower case i to capital I. So read more
Better places
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 17, 2019
We’re caught up on TV shows so we tried three new shows last night. I find it odd I’ve got a TV-related project coming soon but I’m using Summing Up for this post. So hopefully I’ll at least get to some tangents. We did the first episodes for “Manifest,” “Russian Doll,” and “The Passage.” read more
Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 16, 2019
Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The film wants to be edgy read more
Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 16, 2019
Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The film wants to be edgy read more
Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 16, 2019
Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The film wants to be edgy read more
Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 16, 2019
Mister Buddwing is kind of amazing. And exceptional. But only if both those descriptors are used as pejoratives. Like. Wow. What a mess it is. What’s funny is how director Mann maybe sees what he’s trying to do with the film but doesn’t see how he’s not achieving it. The film wants to be edgy read more
Bend of the River (1952, Anthony Mann)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 15, 2019
Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some cattle). He’s guiding a wagon train to read more
Bend of the River (1952, Anthony Mann)
The Stop Button Posted by on Feb 15, 2019
Somehow Bend of the River manages to be too cluttered while running too short at ninety-one minutes. The film starts great; James Stewart is a former bad man of the West who’s trying to be a good guy and become a farmer (or rancher if he can get himself some cattle). He’s guiding a wagon train to read more