Daniel Symmes made two 3D porn films. They were released as a double feature in 1977. The first film is a 28-minute “featurette” called Experiments in Love! It’s a psychedelic sex romp that seems to target the 20-something horny stoner crowd, which, to be fair, is a pretty large crowd…

Peter Robinson’s Asylum is a documentary made in 1972. From the very beginning, everything about the film is problematic and uncomfortable. Even now, just trying to summarize what the movie is about is challenging. It was filmed in a “home” where a variety of “disturbed” individuals live sequestered from society’s…

What if Tarkovsky was smacked on the head by an errant boom mic and woke up thinking he was a Japanese anime director? Oh, and he also thought he was a cat. I’m guessing if these unlikely events were to transpire, he would make something like Night on The Galactic…

Abbas Kiarostami’s documentary film First Graders is irresistible. It’s simple and straightforward, but it grabs hold of you and doesn’t let go. Kiarostami is a master of simplicity. He knows that stories can arise from tiny, seemingly insignificant moments. In the film, a child loses his orange plastic cup and…

Cutie Honey: The Movie (2004) is too good to be bad. I started watching it in hopes that it would be a typical example of a “so bad it’s good film”, but it was great. It is an over-the-top superhero movie in the tradition of Mike Hodges’ Flash Gordon or…

I’m not sure why Kiarostami objected to positioning his three films, Where is The Friends House?, And Life Goes On, and Through The Olive Trees as a trilogy, but they are all certainly tied tightly together. Perhaps it was important to him that each one stand alone on its own…

Kudos to the film crew for producing this film while the sound stage was on fire. I’m assuming there must have been quite a blaze to supply so much smoke in every scene. …

3 Idiots (2009)

Step One: I copied and pasted 5 famous lists of films into one document. Each list included 1000 films: List 1 — Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1000 Essential Films List 2 — They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? 1000 films List 3–1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die List 4 — The…