You the Living (2007)

 

YOU THE LIVING  (2007)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Roy Andersson

    Elisabet Helander, Jörgen Norhall, Björn Englund,

    Jessika Lundberg, Eric Bäckman, Pär Fredriksson

Fifty-odd little deadpan vignettes, some vaguely connected and some not so much. Some are amusing. Some are surreal. A lot of them feature a tuba, for some reason. It's like where Wes Anderson, Jacques Tati, Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki all meet up. Favorite bit: An old man pushing a walker along the sidewalk and dragging a distinctly unhappy dog on a leash behind him. I'm not sure why that struck me as funny, but it did. Made in Sweden.

Tusk (2014)

 

TUSK  (2014)  ¢ ¢ ¢

    D: Kevin Smith

    Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez,

    Haley Joel Osment, Guy Lapointe, Harley Morgenstern,

    Ralph Garman, Harley Quinn Smith, Lily Rose Depp

Kevin Smith goes for maximum weirdness with this crazed horror movie about a reclusive nutcase who turns an obnoxious podcaster into a walrus. How he does that has drawn comparisons to "The Human Centipede", so you get the idea. The clerks from "Yoga Hosers" make a cameo appearance, and if the guy chewing the scenery as Guy Lapointe seems familiar, he's Johnny Depp.

Quote File / Take 26

 

Some lines from the movies of Gene Hackman:

"I don't deserve this . . . to die like this. I was 

  bulding a house."

  Hackman in "Unforgiven"

"Hit first if you can. And when you do hit, hit 

  to kill."

  Hackman in "Wyatt Earp"

"I hate Baptists almost as much as I hate 

  Democrats."

  Hackman in "Runaway Jury"

"I don't care what they're talking about. All I want 

  is a nice, fat recording."

  Hackman in "The Conversation"

"Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make

  espresso!"

  Hackman in "Young Frankenstein"

(1930-2025)

That Championship Season (1982)

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON  (1982)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2

    D: Jason Miller 

    Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, 

    Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino, Arthur Franz

Four of the five starters and the coach from the team that won the 1958 Pennsylvania state high-school basketball title get together years later to relive old times and open up new wounds. Jason Miller's film adaptation of his award-winning play is like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for aging jocks. The resolution feels a little too easy to fit with what's preceded it, but the movie's a real good workout for its ensemble cast. Also, there's an elephant. Miller's probably best known on screen for playing the troubled young priest in "The Exorcist".