Scott Nehring’s Carnival of Cinema is now open for business. Yours truly is included.
I must get back to posting so Scott will stop nagging me. Sorry about the absence. The new TV season has me momentarily distracted…
Cheers…
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These are the posts for the month of September in the year 2006 of the common era.
Step Right Up, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Friday, September 29th, 2006Blade Runner (1982)
Thursday, September 14th, 2006Original Theatrical Cut:
’92 “Director’s” Cut:
Final Cut:
Replicants are like any other machine – they’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem.
Blade Runner is the exception that proves the rule that filmmakers should not be allowed to revisit their earlier work, like George Lucas did with Star Wars. Unlike Lucas’s popcorn trilogy, Ridley Scott‘s visionary adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep has always seemed like it really was only partially finished.
Director: Ridley Scott | Released: 1982 | 116 min. | Rated: R | Genres: Based on a Book, Science Fiction
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Saturday, September 9th, 2006I won’t bore you any more with my opinions on the current MPAA ratings system. If you are interested, you can read the following:
Kirby Dick‘s new documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, tackles the issues surrounding the MPAA ratings system head-on, laying out how films are handled differently depending on whether their content is sexual or violent and whether or not the film comes from an independent or one of the major studios.
Make no mistake, this film makes no pretense of objectivity. (more…)
Poseidon (2006)
Friday, September 8th, 2006The filmmakers behind Poseidon said they didn’t want to do a simple remake of The Poseidon Adventure, that they wanted to do something different. If by “different” they meant that they were disposing of a coherent story line and any characters we could actually care about, then they succeeded beyond all expectations.
