Telly Savalas would have been 104 years old today. He’s been in many of my favorite movies so I’m glad to celebrate him today with 4 Shots from 4 of my favorites!
4 Shots From 4 Films: The Telly Savalas Edition! Happy Birthday, Telly!!
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Song of the Day: True Love’s Flame from What Did Jack Do?
Today’s song of the day comes from David Lynch’s short film, What Did Jack Do? Can a monkey singing about love make you cry? Let’s find out.
Scenes I Love: Llorando from Mulholland Drive
From David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, here is one of the most haunting moments ever captured on film.
RIP, Rebekah Del Rio and David Lynch.
8 Shots From 8 David Lynch Films
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today, on what would have been his birthday, we take the time to pay tribute to one of our favorite directors. Needless to say, when it comes to David Lynch, there’s an embarrassment of riches.
Here are….
8 Shots From 8 David Lynch Films
Eraserhead (1977, dir by David Lynch, DP: Frederick Elmes, Herbert Cardwell)
The Elephant Man (1980, dir by David Lynch, DP: Freddie Francis)
Blue Velvet (1986, dir by David Lynch, DP: Frederick Elmes)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, dir by David Lynch, DP: Ron Garcia)
Lost Highway (1997, dir by David Lynch, DP: Peter Deming)
The Straight Story (1999, dir by David Lynch, DP: Freddie Francis)
Mulholland Drive (2001, dir by David Lynch, DP: Peter Deming)
Inland Empire (2006, dir by David Lynch, DP: David Lynch)
Join #MondayMania For My Sister’s Deadly Secret!
Hi, everyone! Tonight, on twitter, I will be hosting one of my favorite films for #MondayMania! Join us for 2019’s My Sister’s Deadly Secret!
You can find the movie on Prime and Tubi and then you can join us on twitter at 9 pm central time! (That’s 10 pm for you folks on the East Coast.) See you then!
Scenes That I Love: The Pendulum Starts To Swing From The Pit and The Pendulum
Today’s scene that I love is from the 1961 Roger Corman-directed Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, The Pit and The Pendulum!
Not only is that pendulum nightmarish as Hell but check out that set design! One can see that Corman definitely took some inspiration from the work being done in the UK by Hammer. Watching this scene, it is easy to see why Corman devoted so much of the early 60s to directing Vincent Price in various Edgar Allan Poe adaptations.
Enjoy!
4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Edgar Allan Poe Edition
by Paul Green
4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films is just what it says it is, 4 (or more) shots from 4 (or more) of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films lets the visuals do the talking.
217 years ago today, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. From his humble beginnings as the son of two struggling actors, Poe would go on to become one of the first great American writers. (It’s been said that, when Charles Dickens first traveled to the United States in 1842, he specifically wanted to meet Edgar Allan Poe. Unfortunately, it appears that popular story my not be true but it’s still a good story.) Poe was controversial in life and even his death generated more questions than answers but no one can deny his strength as a poet and as a prose writer. Both the detective and the horror genres owe a huge debt to Edgar Allan Poe.
Today, in honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s legacy, TSL presents 4 shots from 4 films that were inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe!
4 Shots From 4 Films
House of Usher (1960, dir by Roger Corman, DP: Floyd Crosby)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961, dir by Roger Corman, DP: Floyd Crosby)
The Raven (1963, dir by Roger Corman, DP: Floyd Crosby)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964, dir by Roger Corman, DP: Nicolas Roeg)
Monday Live Tweet Alert: Join Us For Tripfall!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter and occasionally Mastodon. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of Mastodon’s #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We snark our way through it.
Tonight, for #MondayActionMovie, the film will be 2000’s Tripfall! I picked it so you know it’ll be good.
It should make for a night of fun viewing and I invite all of you to join in. If you want to join the live tweets, just hop onto Mastodon, find the movie on YouTube, Tubi, or Prime hit play at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag! The watch party community is a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
See you soon!
Scene that I Love: Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman Are Notorious
The great Cary Grant was born 122 years ago today.
In honor of Cary Grant’s legendary career and screen charm, today’s scene that I love comes from one of my favorite Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman/Claude Rains/Alfred Hitchcock movies! From 1946’s Notorious, here is a scene that I love.
4 Shots From 4 Films: Special John Boorman Edition
4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films is just what it says it is, 4 (or more) shots from 4 (or more) of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films lets the visuals do the talking.
Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy 93rd birthday to British director John Boorman.
Boorman is one of those great director who sometimes doesn’t seem to get as much credit as he deserves. An undeniably idiosyncratic director, Boorman easily moved from genre to genre and who brought his own individual style to each of his films. Sometimes, critics and audiences responded to that vision and sometimes, they didn’t. And yet even Boorman’s so-called failures have come to be appreciated over the years. Zardoz is a cult classic. Even The Exorcist II: The Heretic is not quite the disaster that some insist. If nothing else, it’s one of the strangest studio productions to ever be released.
At his best, Boorman is one of the most influential directors of all time. How many neo-noirs have ripped off the look and the feel of Point Blank? The ending of Deliverance has been imitated by a countless number of horror films and, indeed, every backwoods thriller owes a debt to Boorman’s film about four businessmen spending a weekend canoeing. Excalibur is one of the most elegiac of all the Arthurian films while Hope and Glory retains its power to make audiences both laugh and cry with its portrayal of life on the British homefront during World War II. Meanwhile, films like The General and The Emerald Forest gave underrated characters actors like Powers Boothe and Brendan Gleeson a chance to shine.
So today, in honor of the career and the legacy of John Boorman, here are….
4 Shots from 4 John Boorman Films
Point Blank (1967, dir by John Boorman, DP: Philip H. Lathrop)
Deliverance (1972, dir by John Boorman, DP: Vilmos Zsigmond)
Excalibur (1981, dir by John Boorman, DP: Alex Thomson)
The General (1998, dir by John Boorman, DP: Seamus Deasy)
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