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Black Book at TOERIFC

By Rick, on July 20th, 2009 |

It’s TOEROIFC time in the movie blogo-sphere. And this time, the film is Black Book, director Paul Verhoeven’s lookto the Dutch resistance in WWII. It’s over at Ed Howard’s Only the Cinema.

TOERIFC (The Oldest Established Really Important Film Club) is where a growing bunch of us come once a month to comment on a film [...]

The literal translation of Boudu sauvé des eaux is “Boudu saved from the waters” (thanks for the correction, Marilyn), which seems more apt than the English saved from drowning. After all, the very first shot, after the credits, is a stark, white, frame-filling “Boudu.” superimposed over water. The name ends in a period mark, as [...]

Boudu Community Resources

By Rick, on March 13th, 2009 |

Jean Renoir’s Boudu Saved from Drowning is this month’s choice of The Oldest Established Really Important Film Club, and I’ll host it Monday morning, right here at the Creek. I’ll get the post up by 11:00 am EST (8:00 PST), and all you have to do is see the film, read the essay, and join [...]

Again TOERIFC

By Rick, on February 12th, 2009 |

The Oldest Established Really Important Film Club festivities are again upon us.

Note that the date has been changed to February [...]

TOERIFC is Upon Us!

By Rick, on January 12th, 2009 |

Mosey on over to Marilyn Ferdinand’s joint to get a load of her post on “The True Meaning of Pictures,” an absolutely fine documentary on, well, the true meaning of [...]