Movie Reviews

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Girl 27

~2007 documentary about the 1937 rape of MGM movie extra Patricia Douglas, the front-page news stories that followed, and the subsequent cover-up of the entire event

Also covered are the rape of singer Eloise Spann and her subsequent suicide, as well as the better known scandal involving actress Loretta Young and her "adopted" daughter Judy Lewis~


This GIRL....Patricia Douglas....was 17 when she was "attacked" by an MGM salesman that was 36. She finally told her story in 2003...at 83....and she still couldn't use the word rape.

Excellent documentary. Sad.

[bluesilver]

The Bounty Hunter w/gerard butlet and aniston...way too flipping long and not even slightly funny. SKIP!

Moon... good/trippy movie about a guy on a 3 year mission alone on the dark sode of the moon harvesting minerals or something that Earth now uses for energy. Entertaining, creepy, possible. Watch this after a bowl.

[erzats]

Girl 27

~2007 documentary about the 1937 rape of MGM movie extra Patricia Douglas, the front-page news stories that followed, and the subsequent cover-up of the entire event

Also covered are the rape of singer Eloise Spann and her subsequent suicide, as well as the better known scandal involving actress Loretta Young and her "adopted" daughter Judy Lewis~


This GIRL....Patricia Douglas....was 17 when she was "attacked" by an MGM salesman that was 36. She finally told her story in 2003...at 83....and she still couldn't use the word rape.

Excellent documentary. Sad.

Extremely relevant given Roman Polanski's walk back into freedom of late. Funny, I couldn't recall his name so I googled "movie director rape" and he was the first hit. At least wikipedia knows the truth.

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A Touch of Greatness

~A Portrait of Renegade Educator Albert Cullum~

Regarded by academics as one of the most influential educators of the 1960s and '70s, Albert Cullum championed what is by today's standards an unorthodox educational philosophy built upon the fervent belief that the only way teachers can be successful with children is to speak directly to their hearts and to their instinctive and largely ignored capacity to quickly understand and identify with the great personalities, ideas and emotions found in classical literature. To that end, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, exposed them to great works of art and engaged them in the events of world history. Without leaving the classroom, his students visited King Tut's tomb, attended joint sessions of the U.S. Congress, operated on bleeding nouns in his "grammar hospital," and clamored to play the timeless roles of Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth and Hamlet.......then unknown filmmaker, Robert Downey (the irreverent director of the independent classic Putney Swope) filmed many of Cullum's classroom events. These lush black and white films, with original music created by Tom O'Horgan, capture the work of this radical teacher and the amazing passion for learning that his students embraced.

Robert Downey's filming of the students' plays is spectacular. Truly inspiring documentary. I wish there were more educators like Albert Cullum....

[bluesilver]

Repo-Men: went to sleep when the repo dude is in the big shootout in the hallway likely around the end

[pra_ggresion]

Hot tub time machine is the funniest movie ever this year.

[WC]

Encounters at the End of the World-documentary about Antarctica, and the people living there.

slightly confused, full of interviews with space cadets, not put together very well, walks off into the deep end several times.

but

really amazing footage, interesting quotes, inspirational, and couldn't stop watching it, worth a look.

[erzats]

WC, you just described every Werner Hertzog documentary out there. They are like watching a slowly unfolding train wreck. You are drawn in but can't explain why exactly.

Watched Harold and Maude recently and loved it. Dig the cat stevens sound track.

Me and Orson Wells was good too.

[WC]

Harold and Maude is great, love that movie

"Being There"-I liked this movie a lot, it was quiet and interesting, and different, they made some good movies back in the 70's.
"The Collapse"-hour and a half of Michael Ruppert telling you how everything is gonna collapse soon, seems like he's been right so far.

[Ceedog]

Watched Bella Fleck's 'Throw down your heart' about his trip to Africa to play with prominent musicians. Pretty cool music.

[erzats]

Motorcycle diaries for the second time. It was as good as the first time I saw it. It was excellent.

[Friend Of The Hawk]

Winters Bone....Good movie.A bit dark a young girl search's for her father in the Ozark mountains...

[SlimVest]

Winters Bone....Good movie.A bit dark a young girl search's for her father in the Ozark mountains...

I saw this on Sunday night. Really good and depressing. Makes one think about what kind of meth cookin' is happening in the more remote spots in our state.

If you think you're struggling with life, money, food, etc, watch this film. You'll most likely feel a lot better about your position in life.

[escondido_vida]

Six-string samurai, if you are needing a B film to watch... set in post-apocalyptic Nevada, after the Russians had invaded, one man, one guitar, Nevada needs a king of rock n' roll, will he be the chosen one....

Firefly- probably the only sci-fi western tv series made to date and the movie Serenity to follow/

Shakelton's greatest adventure- documentary and re-creation of Shakelton's heroic voyage through Antartica

Out of Africa- I really love this movie and watch it every year

[Friend Of The Hawk]

True Grit.....Nothing better than a good western, The dialog in Old English was great......