Rob Christopher's Blog, page 14

3 things about H.C. Potter’s HELLZAPOPPIN’

Hellzapoppin’ [1941]

1. Insane jitterbug number with Slim & Slam.
2. Adjusting the horizontal frame. “I’m starting to get seasick.”
3. Coat of arms.

3 things about Ross Glass’s LOVE LIES BLEEDING

Love Lies Bleeding [2024]

1. Bush’s press conference on the car radio.
2. Nona Hendryx at the gym.
3. One last body to get rid of.

3 things about Alain Resnais’ HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

Hiroshima Mon Amour [1959]

1. His hand twitching in sleep.
2. Actual radiation burns, and then later on the film set we see a makeup artist applying ersatz radiation burns.
3.”You were bored in a way that makes a man want to know a woman.”

3 other things.

Illinois, here we come!

April is bustin’ out all over! My new short film My Last Martini is heading your way–hope to see you there.

April 12, 2025 @ 2:00pm + 7:15pm: Afterimage Film Festival, St. Charles, IL

April 17, 2025 @ 4:15pm: Music Box Theatre, Chicago (b/w feature film Wild at Heart)

3 things about Albert Parker’s THE BLACK PIRATE

The Black Pirate [1926]

1. Comparing the sharpness of the two swords.
2. An elaborate system for staying awake.
3. A sudden explosion suddenly lights up the night.

3 things about Mervyn LeRoy’s HOME BEFORE DARK

Home Before Dark [1958]

1. Compulsive smoking.
2. A bank account to which she does not have access, doesn’t even know what bank holds the account.
3. She insists on the Cornet hairstyle, the one her husband has picked out for her.

3 things about Martin Campbell’s CAST A DEADLY SPELL

Cast a Deadly Spell [1991]

1. “Why did you have to walk back into my life?”
“Why did you have to walk out of mine?”
2. Death by papercuts.
3. He explains that zombies are good for about three months, depending on the weather.

3 things about Samuel Fuller’s THE NAKED KISS

The Naked Kiss [1964]

1. One of the greatest opening sequences in the history of cinema: a bald prostitute wailing away on her pimp with a giant handbag to the blasts of wild jazz on the soundtrack.
2. “Nobody sticks dirty money in my mouth!”
3. The same “small town residential street” backlot used in multiple episodes of The Twilight Zone.

3 things about Michael Shannon’s ERIC LaRUE

Eric LaRue [2023]

1. That “new Bible” smell.
2. A box of Our Family brand cereal.
3. “I saw the inside of those boys.”

3 things about Charlie Chaplin’s LIMELIGHT

Limelight [1952]

1. An extra flea.
2. “That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.”
3. Slippery sheet music.