Quick Takes (October 2021)

Mario Bava's Kill, Baby...Kill!

 Kill, Baby...Kill!     Top-flight Bava and the best use of punctuation in 1966 besides

                                  "Paint It, Black".

La Piscine (1969)    Louche.

Shipmates Forever (1935)    Middling Borzage. Entertaining if one can tolerate Dick Powell's

                                                warbling.

Perdita Durango (1997)     Superior pulp with Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Screamin' Jay 

                                              Hawkins, James Gandolfini and Don Stroud. Uh-oh, it looks

                                              like I'm going down the Alex de la Iglesia rabbit hole.

Squid Game > Midnight Mass (Netflix)

Zorns Lemma (1970)     A structuralist masterpiece from Hollis Frampton who was trying to                                            develop film into "a machine counter to the machine of 

                                         language." Bold use of color and one of the best evocations

                                        of the New York City of that era. Viewers who need a

                                         narrative should avoid this.

What If (2013)                Bland.

Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)     Blech!

Al Davis vs the NFL (ESPN)     I've enjoyed most of ESPN's "30 for 30" documentary series,                                                                     but this is cretinous gunk.

If I'm bald and my hair is getting long in the back: Do I have a skullet?