Which is worse; 2022's continuous cinematic dreck, or all the wretched S.O.V vintage titles I watched in September? The all important question which had this humble blogger's brain short-circuiting like Landru in Star Trek.
Fatih Akin's The Golden Glove was my favourite discovery this month. An excellent film that I would have imported already if the pound hadn't flatlined.
More recent films that didn't go out of their way to annoy me and just tell a good story were Jean Luc Herbulot's Saloum which I posted about, and Joseph Kosinski's Top Gun: Maverick turned out half decent; with those great aerial combat scenes.
Had taken forever, but I finally completed my 101 G.O.A.T British Films List this month.
Film
Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Martin Ritt, 1965)
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (Fred Burnley, 1972)*
The Last House on Dead End Street (Roger Watkins, 1973)
Seizure (Oliver Stone, 1974)*
Slade in Flame (Richard Loncraine, 1975)*
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (Joe D'Amato, 1978)*
The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)*
Thirst (Rod Hardy, 1979)
Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell, 1984)*
Hard Rock Nightmare (Dominick Brascia, 1988)*
Streets of Death (Jeff Hathcock, 1988)*
Nemesis (Albert Pyun, 1992)
L.A. AIDS Jabber (Drew Godderis, 1994)*
Red Lips (Donald Farmer, 1995)*
The Necro Files (Matt Jaissle, 1997)*
Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (William Hellfire & Joey Smack, 1999)*
The Golden Glove (Fatih Akin, 2019)*
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn, 2022)*
Jikirag (Alexander J. Baxter, Leigah Keewatin & Jessica Moutray, 2022)*
The Munsters (Rob Zombie, 2022)*
Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022)*
Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot, 2022)*
Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller, 2022)*
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)*
Television
Romper Stomper - Season 1 (Geoffrey Wright, 2018)*
Cobra Kai - Season 5 (Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2022)*
* First time viewings.
Dada Debaser Notes:
- Finally got off my arse and sat back down again to watch The Shout. First impression; I thought it was just ok, but it has marinated a bit more favourably for me since then.
- Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion has this amazing neo-giallo quality to it at the start of the film, but it derails into relationship drama territory; almost ruining it for me. Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins are very memorable in it, however.
- Rewatched The Spy Who Came in From the Cold for what's undoubtedly one of Richard Burton's finest performances. Feeling relieved that I picked The Iprcress File over it, however. John Le Carré's material just goes over my head at times.
- Aussie horror, Thirst has aged like fine wine.
- George Miller completely wasted his time and mine with that genie movie.
- Can thoroughly relate to Daniel Kaluuya looking completely disinterested in Jordan Peele's latest film, Nope. Such an overrated and boring film.
- There is no way Rob Zombie's The Munsters cost $40M to make. Terrible film, regardless.
- Did not expect to find a condom in one of my blu-ray purchases this month.
