71 : into the fire (2010, in korean)

Korea. 1950. The North Korean army is advancing rapidly. A relatively untrained group of student soldiers is left alone to defend a place.

Very well-photographed.

The reason to see this movie is Cha Seung-Won, playing a North Korean officer. He's in maybe 10% of the movie. 6'2" of magnificent presence. The white cap looks fantastic on him.

There are two shots that I would like to turn into wallpaper for my house. Both have the sun behind him. One happens when he goes to speak to the student soldiers. The other happens on the field from which he's staging a battle.

the freshman (1990)

Matthew Broderick becomes involved with a shady Little Italy businessman, his family, a komodo dragon, and a goofy young B. D. Wong.

I love Bruno Kirby.

Matthew Broderick looks good in tshirt and sweatpants.

hot fuzz (edgar wright, 2007)

Masterfully made. Timothy Dalton is delicious. Paddy Considine and Rafe Spall are fantastic as the Andy's.

zack and miri make a porno (kevin smith, 2008)

Justin Long is freaky good as a gay porn star. I like to think that his performance was inspired by Trevor Knight.

wedding present (1936)

Cary Grant lights a match on his shoe. And sings the Schnitzelbank song!

this is the night (1932)

Cary Grant as a javelin thrower.

The first two thirds of the movie are a joy, including some sequences that aren't really song and dance, but rhythmic studies on dialogue and movement and sound effects.

The last third is weighed down by the resolution of the Lili Damita / Roland Young arc.

bonnie and clyde (1967)

I liked Bonnie's hair better the way Clyde said he didn't like it.

I would have totally gone out with Gene Hackman.

It occurred to me that the people who made this had roughly as many memories of 1930-1933 (or as much access to same) as people who are now making movies about 1973-1976.

toy story 3 (2010)

Spectacular.

alice in wonderland (1933)

Yes, it's grotesque but I'd've liked it to have also been funny. Cary Grant is probably one of the few people that could deliver Lewis Carroll's lines in a way that I'd find funny. But he draws the unfortunate part of the Mock Turtle. His costume is such that you don't see his face.

an affair to remember (1957)

No one in this movie seems to think that it is weird that Deborah Kerr's character (or the actress) is so square.

gunga din (1939)

Cary Grant is awesomely beautiful in so many of his movies, and this might be his most awesomest beautifulest.

Part of the magic is the lovely bright black and white.

A bigger part is that Cary's hair is not sleek here but cuddly.

once upon a honeymoon (1942)

A lot of movie. Ginger Rogers was a little too much (accent show-off), but there was a lot too much here, so it's of a piece.

Cary Grant is nicely mischievous while fitting Ginger for her new clothes.

once upon a time (1944)

My first pair of longies!

iron man 2 (2010)

Worked for me. Thought the new element bit was cheesy.

Nice to see Sam Rockwell in things. Maybe I'd have liked his part more nuanced?

Mickey Rourke did a very nice job.

bringing up baby (hawks, 1938)

Cary Grant with his hair messed up.

she done him wrong (1933)

hot saturday (1932)

north by northwest (hitchcock, 1959)

thirty day princess (1934)

Sylvia Sidney is cute as a button.

symbol (hitoshi matsumoto, 2009)