Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 16

how does this work? do we just talk abt whatever on that list or are there rules?

i've only seen enter the dragon and requiem for a dream, which marks me out as a middlebrow bore i guess. enter the dragon is great. blocky, dull, but then there's all this fighting.

requiem for a dream is a litmus test movie. you like it, i think less of you.

i want to say more abt enter the dragon cos i do think it's an amazing film, but i haven't seen it in forever. i can't remember what its problems are with any detail. i remember LEE, bolo yeung, the mirrors, some architecture, fake blood, and john saxon's burgundy turtleneck.

1503. Eva, 1962 (dir. Joseph Losey)
piece o shit????

gormenghast is fantastic!

i saw the 30th anniversary reissue of enter the dragon last year on a big imax screen and it was a pretty cool experience, although i don't think i'd rate it on the same level as the better shaw productions of that era.

i was pretty taken away with requiem when i first saw it at the cinemas, but its impact greatly diminished on each subsequent viewing. no incentive to see it again for a long time anyway.

cannot recall a damn thing about the plot of killer's kiss (had a good rooftop scene, didn't it?), but i at least remember enjoying it. as with a lot of those 60 odd minute crime flicks, its always a bit unsatisfying when they're wrapped up so quickly. he got the length/pacing totally right for the killing.