March 2023

Reading:

Cinema Speculation (2022) by Quentin Tarantino: lauded as a great screenwriter (and he is), this collection of essays needs an editor, even though it’s got terrific analyses of grind house fare from the 1970s. Buy Cinema Speculation here.

A Short History of Fim (2018) by Wheeler Wiston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: while easy-to-read and inexpensive, it’s more a laundry list of influential movies and moviemakers than an analyses of historical influences on the art form of movies, which may confuse the newbie to film studies with so much noise. Buy A Short History of Film (3rd Edition) here.

Watching:

Lila & Eve

John Wick: Chapter 4

The Woman King

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

The Squid and the Whale

Bamboozled

Monster-in-Law

Midnight Cowboy

Run Lola Run

Top Gun: Maverick

North by Northwest

High Noon

The Last Temptation of Christ

The Hunger Games: The Mockingjay – Part 2

The Seventh Seal

"These are the words I said to you," sayeth the Curator, Garrett Chaffin-Quiray