Views from last week. Starting with
Beat Girl which I'm sure most of you have already seen. Right from the off I was hooked to this one, what a delinquent! I wonder how much Christopher Lee was paid for what was clearly a days work
Next up was a Sunday morning in bed with
Theatre of Blood and the League of Gentlemen. Having seen this before when I borrowed it off a work friend I decided to watch this time with the commentary track. It was really fun but maybe not very informative. They spend a lot of time talking about not recognising Diana Rigg in her various disguises and revolting in glee at the elaborate deaths! Recommended.
I tried to watch
Eurocrime! twice, the first time the quirky editing and subtitles did my head in so I slept on it and gave it another try, I'm glad that I did. Chock full of insights from the likes of Henry Silva and Franco Nero. One of the little anecdotes was that if the film was acted in English but one of the actors couldn't speak it, they just counted to 10 instead of saying the lines
I'm not a 2000AD fan, although I've tried to be in the past, it fascinates me. I thought that
Future Shock might be a good toe in for me, I think it was, even if it wasn't it was very entertaining. I didn't realise just how many big names in the industry started out at with the comic here in the UK.
Five Dolls for an August Moon was a disappointment. This is definitely a lesser Bava and not one which I think i'll be revisiting any time soon. It's a shame because it started off really well and quickly descended into madness. I'm not entirely sure I understood the ending either
The Cockettes is a documentary about a band of Hippies in the late 60s experimenting with free love and gender ambiguity who fell into Show Business partly by accident. It charts their rise to super stardom in their native San Francisco and the plummet from grace after an ill advised attempt to crack NYC.
I watched the American re-edit of
Haxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages, first time viewing but it was a blast. A lot more violent than I was expecting. I'm going to give it another go soon with the original Swedish version.
Finally, now I know why they call it the
'Slow Motion Picture'. I've been a fan of
Star Trek for years and years, I've see all of the films except for the first installment. While it was fun watching the over acting and dodgy effects, the actual film is just too long! They could have done with a good editor, every scene was just too long! Kirk and Scottie's fly by of the Enterprise took about 10 minutes, that's when alarm bells were ringing! I plan on watching all 10 movies over the next few weeks, let's see which my favourite is. It'll be between
The Journey Home,
The Undiscovered Country or
First Contact I think.