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Reviews of Random Movies

Thanks to the magic of digital video recording and one-day solo business trips to New York, I've seen three movies worth commenting on.

Diary of the Dead

The latest George Romero zombie flick is a worthwhile addition to the series. As is traditional, the movie cost nothing, stars no one and never mentions the word "zombie." Although the story is set in Pennsylvania, it was filmed in Ontario. The gore is very good, perhaps most memorably when a feisty deaf Amish geezer reacts to being bitten by driving a sickle through his face and that of the zombie standing behind him. The requisite social commentary is how these kids today with their youtubes and their facebooks care more about capturing images than actually reacting to them. Stupid kids.

One, Two, Three

From 1961, this frantic Billy Wilder comedy stars James Cagney as Coca-Cola's man in West Berlin. The Iron Curtain humor seems nostalgically cute at this point, although it was very cutting-edge at the time (the Berlin Wall went up as the film was being shot.) Most importantly it shows how to properly make references: Cagney's office cuckoo clock plays Yankee Doodle Dandy and he later threatens to ram a grapefruit in Horst Buchholz's face. See Tarantino, that's how it's done.

Summer Hours

I went to the craziest place in New York: they actually charge money to project a movie, like you normally would watch on a TV or laptop, on a white screen. Weirdest thing I've seen. Don't think it will ever catch on.

Anyway, this is guaranteed to be the most mesmerizing French movie about estate law you could ever see. A great decaying country mansion, lush gardens, authentic Impressionist artwork, heartfelt emotions, eloquent conversations and how to avoid French estate taxes by donating articles to the Musee d'Orsay; the movie has it all. The only distraction is Juliette Binoche's blonde hair. Seriously, it's wrong. It's almost as distracting as when Xena appears as a blonde.