I’m continuing through Sherlock Holmes, this week The Scarlet Claw. However, for my first movie night I took a break from the series and instead watched the restoration of The Thief of Bagdad which I’ve been saving for more than five years, waiting for a special occasion! And in the end, as always, the occasion was…

Two more Sherlock Holmeses for my movie nights this week: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, and The Spider Woman. Its a good thing I knew going in that The Spider Woman was a Sherlock Holmes movie, because otherwise I’d have reasonably expected a giant half-human spider monster. I still hoped for one, but I didn’t…

My movie nights will be all Basil Nosebone Sherlock Holmes for awhile. I picked up where I left off a year or so ago, with Sherlock Holmes in Washington, which was a lot better than I expected! I thought it would be one of those boring 40s movies intended mostly to sell war bonds, but it was actually pretty exciting.…

Another week of Houdini movie nights: the conclusion of The Master Mystery and The Man from Beyond.

I spent my movie nights this week on the first two thirds of Houdini’s serial: The Master Mystery.

I spent my movie nights this week with Son of Kong and Haldane of the Secret Service.

Oh, we’ll be long gone by then. I wake up every morning pleasantly surprised that the world isn’t in flames. Even if we don’t destroy ourselves, one day tigers, leopards, lions and cougars will get organised, maybe make peace with the wolves, alligators, pythons, sharks, gorillas and chimps, and then humanity is…

I did make one! When I was about six or seven. I can’t remember what I put in it, but my tastes haven’t changed much since then. Its hopefully still safely buried in the garden of our old house. I didn’t leave it for future occupants of our house, I left it for space aliens!

I spent my movie nights this week with The Burning Crucible and King Kong.

A third week of Jacques Feyder movie nights. Anna Christie and Gribiche.

So much in this episode pickles my beets.

Enterprise Security actually knows about the planet’s strict laws, yet: 1) doesn’t explain them to anyone in the landing party, and; 2) never bothers to find out what the penalties are for breaking the laws?

This was a Jacques Feyder week because I couldn’t see any reason why it shouldn’t be. I had planned on watching Queen of Atlantis again but realised I hadn’t yet seen the other two movies in the set. So I watched them instead. Crainquebille and The Eyes of Children. They were very good, of course, but I’m in a…

Yeah, I have seen it! Deeply silly is pretty accurate. Marlene Dietrich playing an innocent of any kind is in itself so ridiculous, I barely noticed how ridiculous the rest of it was! My memory of the story is a bit hazy, but I do recall at the time thinking it would have been a much better movie had it been made a…

More mysterious connections between my two movie nights this week: Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb and Le Grand Jeu.

I concluded my mid-winter programme this week with Identification of a Woman and Red Desert.

My movie nights this week were L’Eclisse and Beyond the Clouds.

There isn’t much more I can add to what I’ve already said, except perhaps this: I deliberately don’t dissect the things I like. Movies, books, paintings, it doesn’t matter. I am so picky in my tastes that I won’t risk ruining the few things I actually like by dissecting them. Cineastes seem to gain greater…

I can be a bit hyperbolic! Please don’t take anything I say too seriously! What I mean is I’m not a person who will ever just watch a movie for the sake of watching a movie. I’m not a cineaste. But I have found pockets of movies over the years that for some bewildering reason or other keep me engaged and I look…

I just realised you’re grey again! I’m sorry but I guess starring doesn’t fix the problem. I think the only reason I’m not grey is because I signed up during that short window when they were ungreying everyone automatically. Or maybe I am still grey and don’t know it!

I speak only from my own perspective, which is that of someone who does not like movies. I’m not a film lover, I wouldn’t care and probably would not even notice if the entire medium disappeared. Which is why I talk here mostly of diversions. All I can say of Antonioni is that every single thing he made, from his…