I wouldn’t have minded a series of films between the 70s and 80s following the continuing adventures of PI Harry Mosbey.
“When the president got shot, I was on my way to San Diego. Football game. When Bobby got shot, I was sitting in a car waiting for a guy to come out of a house with his girlfriend. Working on a divorce case. One of those times I wish I was in another business.”- Harry Moseby
I was all in from the moment Lauren Bacall slinks in and asks for a light in which I may agree with Nick Naylor that it’s one of the sexiest moments on film.
Bogey and Bacall forever.
AC ultra 70 FESTIVAL
JULY 21 2024
70mm (MICHAEL MANN PERSONAL PRINT)
This time watching it I was struck by the motif Glass/ mirrors/ windows have in the film.
When Will Graham through window it’s the only way he can clearly SEE himself. He can think like the Monster but he needs to remind himself he is not himself a Monster.
Beautiful print the first 10 minutes have me a lump in my throat in awe.
“He needed me more than ever, but something had come between us.” - BADLANDS (1973)
THE BUILDOUT (2023)
WARNER GRAND THEATER (DCP)
SAN PEDRO FILM FESTIVAL
THE BUILDOUT is a beautiful ethereal film that at its core is about Friendship- the rebuilding of one but also how friendships fall apart sometimes and at the core how sometimes it happens because of things we can’t control or explain. This isn’t a horror movie- it’s a Sci-fi meditation on connection- which is…
