Cameron Crowe's look at the Seattle scene in the early '90s feels like it's iconic for the music and the appearance of so many prominent musicians. (Hello, Eddie Vedder!) The story is rambling, episodic: a bunch of twenty-somethings in the same apartment building with a nice courtyard fumble along trying to connect. Matt Dillon is funny as his would-be rocker ignoring the woman trying to be his gal (Bridget Fonda). Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott ground the picture as the…
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Human Desire 1954
I quite liked this noir from 1954. Glenn Ford, Gloria Graham, and Broderick Crawford were all at the top of their game. With manipulations, murder, temptation to murder, affairs, and meetings in dark railroad sheds, this movie keeps this moving in terms of plot and moral intrigue. Just who generates sympathy and who becomes suspect for dark dealings shifts throughout the film, a real strength. Fritz Lang and his DP and editor have crafted a great looking picture, full of a great moody, distrustful atmosphere.
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A Movie Trip Through Filmland 1921
The National Film Registry just added (in December 2023) "A Movie Trip Through Filmland" to its official list. It's a three-and-a-half-minute educational picture made by Eastman Kodak to show how they made nitrate film back in the early days of cinema. From the inception of motion pictures in the 1890s until the 1950s, flammable (even explosively flammable) and unstable nitrate film was standard. Eventually "safety film" or "Acetate" replaced it not only because of the dangers of nitrate film, but…
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The Lady of the Dugout 1918
This is another Martin Scorsese-recommended movie. The Jennings brothers were actual outlaws, robbing trains and getting caught, and Al Jennings was actually pardoned by Teddy Roosevelt. Beyond that, they surely invented this too-sweet-to-be-true story. The brothers play themselves as a pair of kind-hearted robbers helping a desperate woman (Corinne Grant) and her child (Ben Alexander). Her alcoholic husband (Joseph Singleton) left them hungry in a sod house on the prairie when he disappeared with their last coins. What I appreciate…
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