Reactions to THE PUBLIC ENEMY and BOARDWALK EMPIRE S1E2
THE PUBLIC ENEMY, as recommended from Didacus list boxd.it/oyxs
There's a scene where James Cagney shoves a piece of bread into a woman's face. Rude, right? Anyway, while watching this scene I was sitting on my couch eating a bowl of ice cream, the same way Tony Soprano watched this same exact scene (S3,E2). I didn't plan on that, call it a happy coincidence.
As for my enjoyment of the film,…
1st Annual Marching Orders Challenge
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Day 16: Watch one of the video nasties, specifically from the "Prosecuted Films" section boxd.it/2skL2
A very messy coming-out story.
Our protagonist, Marcos, played by a ruggedly hairy man, is basically Wolverine's long lost Spanish cousin. With those mutton chops and a perpetual 5-o'clock shadow, he's just one bad day away from popping adamantium claws and joining the X-Men. But instead of fighting supervillains he's out here fighting his own repressed desires and, uh, eating people.
Within the history of cinema one doesn’t have to search too hard in order to find an example of a well executed character study showcasing the defiant and reckless attitudes of youth. I like to call this sub-genre of character studies Youth-Gone-Wild films. Off the top of my head films like Francois Truffaut‘s The 400 Blows (1959), Jean-Luc Godard‘s Band of Outsiders (1964), and Larry Clark‘s Kids (1995) spring to mind, as does Alan Clarke‘s Made in Britain (1982), which,…
Weirdly enough, the big WTF moment comes when talking about would-be silent film star, Billy Ritchie (sic) and how he met a gruesome death by way of osteriches while on the set of one of his films, a blurb worthy enough to have its own documentary, yet here only takes up about 20 seconds of screen time.
