Jun 2019
I'll try to get this posted on Sunday from now on.
I have so little time for movies anymore but I managed to revisit Baba Yaga (1973) a few nights ago. I had it on DVD but decided to replace it with the Blu-ray. It was worth it - the colors look a little richer and you can see more in the dark scenes than before. I don't remember if this movie ever got mentioned on the old board but I always liked it. It's a little different than anything else I've ever seen, possibly due to the unusual source material (an Italian erotic comic strip). It had a troubled production history and the director was furious with the final product which omitted 20 minutes of footage he shot. He also wasn't completely satisfied with Carroll Baker in the title role, and chose her against better judgment after the original actress walked off the project. She did okay but I would agree she maybe wasn't physically right for the role. The Baba Yaga of Russian folklore is an old hag who lives in a house that stands on giant chicken legs, but this movie isn't about Russian folklore. This Baba Yaga is an older predatory lesbian seductress, and Carroll Baker is maybe not quite imposing enough for that. A modern remake could probably do well with someone like Shohreh Aghdashloo.
I have so little time for movies anymore but I managed to revisit Baba Yaga (1973) a few nights ago. I had it on DVD but decided to replace it with the Blu-ray. It was worth it - the colors look a little richer and you can see more in the dark scenes than before. I don't remember if this movie ever got mentioned on the old board but I always liked it. It's a little different than anything else I've ever seen, possibly due to the unusual source material (an Italian erotic comic strip). It had a troubled production history and the director was furious with the final product which omitted 20 minutes of footage he shot. He also wasn't completely satisfied with Carroll Baker in the title role, and chose her against better judgment after the original actress walked off the project. She did okay but I would agree she maybe wasn't physically right for the role. The Baba Yaga of Russian folklore is an old hag who lives in a house that stands on giant chicken legs, but this movie isn't about Russian folklore. This Baba Yaga is an older predatory lesbian seductress, and Carroll Baker is maybe not quite imposing enough for that. A modern remake could probably do well with someone like Shohreh Aghdashloo.
One Missed Call 2003
Gia 1998
Hair Extensions 2007
Perfect Sense 2011
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
Snowtown 2011
The Zero Theorem 2013
Mandy 2018
Adaptation. 2002
Lucy 2014
Powder 1995
Premonition 2004
I Am Legend 2007
He Was a Quiet Man 2007
Maléfique 2002
Tattoo 2002
The Ninth Configuration 1980
Project X 2012
247°F 2011
Tony 2009
All Good Things 2010
Dead & Breakfast 2004
The Nameless 1999
Interstellar 2014
mother! 2017
Devil's Knot 2013
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
Brazil 1985
Silent Running 1972
The Reaping 2007
Equals 2015
Attack the Block 2011
Summer of Sam 1999
Here Comes the Devil 2012
Let Me In 2010
The Possession 2012
The Midnight Meat Train 2008
Willow Creek 2013
The Awakening 2011
Roseville 2013
Rigor Mortis 2013
Under the Shadow 2016
The Signal 2014
Sleep Tight 2011
The Experiment 2001
Kalifornia 1993
Undead 2003
Eat 2014
The Boston Strangler 1968
Chained 2012
Pyewacket 2017
Project Almanac 2015
The Woman in Black 2012
Walkabout 1971
Changing Lanes 2002
Watched:
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case 1976
Dial M for Murder 1954
Multiplicity 1996
Helter Skelter 1976
The Brink's Job 1978
The Mummy 2017
The Reaping 2007
Equals 2015
Reversal of Fortune 1990
Velvet Buzzsaw 2019
Stay Alive 2006
In Cold Blood 1996
When They See Us 2019
Mr. Holland's Opus 1995
Lavender 2016
We Are What We Are 2013