Double Feature: I

by Adam Hirsch

There are always films that fall through the proverbial cracks in every filmmaker’s viewing library, well-known and applauded films that we have claimed to have seen but actually have on our I’ll-eventually-sit-down-and-watch-it list.  We all have these lists, myself as much as anyone.

Which is why last night, thanks in part to the wonderful advent of Netflix, I decided to start crossing a few films off the list with weekly double features of missed works. It certainly didn’t hurt that my girlfriend was out of town and I could unapologetically choose which films to watch.

I’m approaching these posts as impressions more than appraisals.  I’m not going to write up synopses or review the filmmaking.  The films that I’m going to watch are classics that have just passed me by — I’m choosing the ones I’ve heard are magnificent, and it follows that they are going to deliver on the promise. For this first week’s double feature, I chose to kick things off with a triple feature: Terrence Malick’s Badlands, Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow and Robert Altman’s Gosford Park.

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Feb 27, 2010 | Categories: Adam, blog, writing | Tags: AFI, Al Pacino, Apocalypse Now, Badlands, Charles Dance, Cinema, Clive Owen, Days of Heaven, Derek Jacobi, Double Feature, Emily Watson, Gene Hackman, Gosford Park, Helen Mirren, Horror, Jerry Schatzberg, Kelly Macdonald, Kristen Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Martin Sheen, MIchael Gambon, Mumblecore, Netflix, Old Joy, Robert Altman, Scarecrow, Sissy Spacek, Space Truckers, Stephen Fry, Terrence Malick, The Rules of the Game, Two-Lane Blacktop, Vilmos Zsigmond, Warren Oats, Wes Anderson, World War II |