2 articles from 2009
The Worst Christmas Movie Ever
10 hours ago
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It's customary during the Yuletide season for holiday-minded bloggers to list their favorite Christmas movies. But what about one's least favorite flicks?
In my book, one picture stands alone as the worst Christmas movie ever: MGM's 1947 film noir fiasco, Lady in the Lake, based on the famous detective novel by Raymond Chandler.
Raymond Chandler? What could a legendary, ground-breaking crime thriller by the American master of hard-boiled mysteries have to do with Christmas? That's a good question. The answer is, nothing at all. And yet MGM in marketing the film based on it first packaged it as a December holiday flick, as if it were some nice family picture. How did this happen? Well, blame it on Robert Montgomery, the actor who directed it. He chose to restyle the story giving it a nonsensical Christmas twist.
Chandler's novel is set in
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- Brooks Peters
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London Film Festival: Enter The Void
16 October 2009 12:37 PM, PDT
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Enter The Void
Directed by Gasper Noé
Ever since the notorious Irreversible prompted the dubious honor of causing the largest walkout in Cannes history back in 2002, Gallic maverick Gasper Noé appears to have been paying the rent with a couple of music videos, an advert (appropriately enough) for condoms and a contributing entry to the pornography themed collection of short films Destricted whilst he struggled to secure the funding for his cherished follow-up, which screened at the London Film Festival this week. Enter The Void is less a film than an experience, more an immersion into a deranged mind, a delirious hallucination that is operating on the very cusp of the cinematic medium. Connoisseurs of extreme and outré cinema rather arrogantly adopt a posture of being unshockable, of having seen it all before these days, a gauntlet that Noé' has passionately grasped with this psychedelic fever dream, an almost distressing
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- John
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