While scooting through the InterTubes this afternoon I came across a link to tonights CBC movie “Trojan Horse” over at Woman at Mile 0.

It reminded me of a post I did a few years ago referencing Article 11 of the US Articles of Confederation which reads like this…..

We’re kind of antisocial socialists at the Bunker, and none of us particularly enjoy handing out carbos to kids. So we tend to turn off the lights on Hallowe’e'n, settle down with the mead and popcorn, and enjoy a dusk to dawn session of our favourite scary movies. Here they are.

In which balbulican admonishes a talented film-maker for obsessively devoting his career to the painstaking reproduction of mediocrity.

“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
He served a dark and a vengeful God
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
Who never thereafter were heard from again
Did Sweeney Todd…
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street…”

Really great food films are not really about food at all, any more than Hamlet is about murder. Food may be the dominant narrative driver, but a great food film makes a broader statement about…

I agree with most of what Michael Moore thinks, and I credit him with breathing new life into documentary film in America. It’s too bad he’s such a dishonest and manipulative propagandist.

I saw the movie on opening night, it was a great movie, I enjoyed it tremendously, and by the sounds of the applause during the movie I’m pretty sure that others enjoyed it just as much - I’m also pretty darned sure that the audience wasn’t thinking anything at all about Iran.

As a film fan with a velcro brain almost fuzzed over with useless trivia, I was a bit surprised when a friend pointed me to an odd piece of movie arcana I had never heard of - the Wilhelm Scream.

It is difficult to imagine now, in the age of big business motion picture companies, that a director would ever be given the license that Coppola had to create Apocalypse Now today

Like most of us, the first Altman film I ever saw was MASH, a movie that confirmed forever the axiom that movies are to their TV adaptations what wine is to wine gums. I think I’ve seen almost everything he did since then, and that’s a lot of film.

Clint Eastwood continues to grow as a film-maker: in his seventies, he’s become one of the most interesting directors working in the US. Much of the power in his recent films comes from the fact that the old man is deliberately returning to some of the moral landscapes he explored as a younger man and turning them upside down.

Okay, let’s talk about something important for a change. Why do the ancient Romans in film always have such posh British accents?

++ relapsed catholic ++ tells 1/2 the story in her entry today on the ABC movie “The Path to 9/11″ — what neither Kathy, nor the article she links, bothers to mention is that [according to a rather lengthy CNN spot tonight] bin Laden was never in anybodies sights and Berger never said don’t pull the trigger.

Bush ‘whacked’ in edgy British mockumentary
 
[h/t Gwylim]

There’s been lots and lots [and lots] of stupidity bandied about by the inhabitants of both banks of the main stream where The da Vinci Code [book and movie] is concerned, I thought I’d heard just about everything, until today…