Clips and Trailers | Coosa Creek Cinema

Mizoguchi’s Ghosts

By Rick, on August 6th, 2009 |

There are at least two ghosts in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu monogatori . . . one is Lady Wakasa (Machiko Kyô), mistress of a castle and daughter to a slaughtered Lord. When she appears at the side of potter Genjurô (Masayuki Mori), we know she’s a spirit even though he does not. Heavily veiled and [...]

I Talked to Her

By Rick, on May 25th, 2009 |

Over at Ibetolis’ place, he continues his look at films released since the first of the millennium, one year at a time. He’s up to 2002, now, and I’ve contributed a look at Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her. Here’s a taste of the piece, along with the clip it describes.

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Benigno and a fellow nurse complete [...]

Trailer Lazy: Drag Me to Hell

By Rick, on May 12th, 2009 |

The heartbreak of halitosis

On some of the blogs I frequent — e.g., Bill’s and more recently Joe’s — there has been talk about how horror ain’t what it used to be. How it’s degenerated into chop and slop, where pretty people line up to be splattered in various increasingly charmless ways. The fact that [...]

Trailer Lazy: Tetro

By Rick, on May 4th, 2009 |

I am of the generation that still looks upon a Francis Coppola film as something to anticipate. I saw the Godfather films first-run, and was bowled over. No, that’s not exactly right: The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II became sort of a mystical experience for me, the first films that affected me that [...]

Trailer Lazy: The Hunt for Gollum

By Rick, on April 23rd, 2009 |

Hunt For Gollum – Trailer Oneby HuntForGollum

This seems to be about as independent as you can get. Funded by fans and friends of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings,” it was written and directed by Chris Bouchard, based on notes found in the appendix of Tolkien’s work. It follows Aragorn as he hunts for [...]

Trailer Lazy: The Brothers Bloom

By Rick, on April 8th, 2009 |

The second trailer for The Brothers Bloom, starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Weisz. It’s about the world’s greatest con men looking to score One Last Con, who choose a rich female as their target. Can you say Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?

I’m a sucker for Weisz, but is it just me or has Brody been [...]

Gay as in Happy?

By Rick, on April 3rd, 2009 |

Preparing to write about Milk last week, I ran into a short piece by Sean Dwyer at Film Junk, about the state Hollywood’s portrayal of gays. He notes that

Sean Penn’s Oscar win for Milk would seem to indicate that tolerance and acceptance are finally setting in, but have the barriers truly been broken [...]

My, What Big … Missiles You Have

By Rick, on March 14th, 2009 |

No, this isn’t another post from Fox. It’s a commercial made by an Israeli arms manufacturer, meant to woo (apparently quite literally) the Indian government. Seems it worked: according to Yair Raveh, from whose Cinemascope I filched the link, Israel has just become the number one arms supplier to India, leaving Russia in the dust. [...]

The Storaro Factor

By Rick, on March 9th, 2009 |

In January, Criterion released their Blu-ray version of The Last Emperor, and I was excited. I’d been waiting for it ever since it was announced: if any film deserves a Blu-ray edition, Bernardo Bertolucci’s gorgeous epic is it. But as I got ready to buy it — Amazon had a good price — I found [...]

Triptych (or The Post That Ate This Blog)

By Rick, on February 21st, 2009 |

Once upon a time, the word “triptych” referred only to a species of Medieval/Renaissance art. It’s a Greek term, meaning three (tri) fold (ptyche ), and that pretty much sums it up: a series of three panel paintings, or bas-reliefs, arrayed side-by-side. Here’s one from around 1310 by the Italian artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. It’s [...]