Rob Christopher's Blog, page 94

3 things about Jonathan Frakes’ STAR TREK: INSURRECTION

Star Trek: Insurrection [1998]

1. Gilbert & Sullivan strategy.

2. The giveaway: a glitchy holodeck.

3. He has 318 days of shore leave coming to him.

3 other things.

3 things about René Clair’s AND THEN THERE NONE

And Then There Were None [1945]

1. He samples several cocktails to prove he didn’t poison them.

2. Keyholes within keyholes.

3. A murderer fond of cats.

3 things about Young-seok Noh’s DAYTIME DRINKING

Daytime Drinking [2008]

1. “Hey, do you still dance to weird music when you get drunk?”

2. Heated floors.

3. They’re just business partners.

3 other things.

3 things about Juliano Dornelles & Kleber Mendonça Filho’s BACURAU

Bacurau [2019]

1. Crowd surfing the suitcase.

2. Nudists with shotguns.

3. “We have all taken a powerful psychotropic drug.”

3 things about Franklin J. Schaffner’s THE BEST MAN

The Best Man [1964]

1. “I don’t understand you.”

“I know you don’t. Because you have no sense of responsibility toward anybody or anything. And that is a tragedy in a man, and it is a disaster in a president.”

2. Crumpled phone number.

3. His name is a clue: Cantwell.

Something for the Lounge: Cocktails with Henry Mancini

Something jazzy, something satiny, something fabulous. Mostly instrumental. Here’s a six-hour playlist I created. Enjoy!

3 things about Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS

The Birds [1963]

1. “Which is why the mail never gets delivered in this town.”

2. A fly on the leg of Annie’s corpse.

3. Chipped fingernail polish.

3 other things.

3 things about Ki-young Kim’s THE HOUSEMAID

The Housemaid [1960]

1. Cut from the children’s game of cat’s cradle to the looms in a textile factory.

2. An embrace. She interlaces her fingers behind his back.

3. Jokey lecture to the audience.

3 things about Joseph Losey’s THE PROWLER

The Prowler [1951]

1. A dull library of his voice.

2. In the bedroom of the newlyweds, the sounds of traffic all night long.

3. Primitive generator.

3 other things.

3 things about Robert Wise’s THE HAUNTING

The Haunting [1963]

1. No right angles.

2. The door bends.

3. Camera ascending the spiral staircase.