I recently watched Satanic Hispanics, a horror anthology, on Blu-ray. It’s worth checking out. I liked the vampire segment best. The zoom interview with the directors is a much better than usual extra on the disc.
Month: February 2024
Tweet on Andrew Sarris’s list of 25 cult films
Many of these are not cult films anymore. Vertigo was not available from 1968-1983 but is now second on the Sight & Sound 2022 poll of the best films. I have seen 15 of them. Most are now available on Blu-ray and/or DVD discs.
I strongly recommend The Big Heat, Gun Crazy, and Touch of Evil.
The New York Times Book Review on Larry McMurtry
This is a good column on where to start with Larry McMurtry. I have read some of his books – my favorite was All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers. I would also recommend Terms of Endearment and Moving On. To me, his strength was creating complex, believable characters. I saw his speak at Johns Hopkins University many years ago.
Another Times article on his books published after he died in 2021.
Great line from Gore Vidal about Henry Kissinger
From a New York Times book review of a collection of writings by Christopher Hitchens – the bold emphasis is mine:
Hitchens had that quality, rarer than it should be, of knowing what to notice. In a review of Gore Vidal’s memoir, “Palimpsest,” he reminds us that Vidal wrote: “I should note that the only advantage for a child in having an alcoholic parent is that you acquire, prematurely, quite a bit of valuable data.” Spying Henry Kissinger in the Sistine Chapel gawping at the Hell section of “The Last Judgment,” Vidal commented: “Look, he’s apartment hunting.“
The complete review:
Trump ranked as the worst president ever. Biden is 14th.
Sounds right to me.
Horse on I-95
The interview with the horse on Fox 29 is very amusing
Update on the Trump mob
The little guys go to jail while their cult leader who incited the insurrection is free.
Wisconsin finally has fair election maps
Good riddance to the extreme Republican gerrymandering.
Sad! 