tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61825982024-03-12T23:03:50.968+00:00BiFBuck in Fudgy's project notes,
meanderings and remindersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-60107206681396335612011-03-04T00:47:00.000+00:002011-03-04T00:47:30.594+00:00Currently Off Air - Love in Outer Space
almost like a radio show.
New Podcast of monthly 'Currently Off Air' radio show and podcast.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-63680919587374768652010-03-10T20:52:00.002+00:002010-03-10T21:31:54.544+00:00Downtown Heptasm - Reel 1 (Alpha) 'The Monkey's Brother'The first reel of the seven part Downtown Heptasm reconstruction project is up here:
vimeo
Background details here:
www.buckinfudgy.org/heptasm.html
A reconstruction of the first of seven legendary 'beat' reels from the late 1950s. Originally created by Ed Coolly, recreated by Buckinfudgy.
History:
Edmund Coolliquoi (Ed Coolly) was an Anglo-French expat living in New York in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-446169129453153842009-04-15T14:43:00.000+00:002010-03-20T14:56:04.600+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - The Killers
Today's Noir was 'The Killers' (1946). An adaptation of Hemingway's 1927 hardboiled short story (one revisited in David Cronenburg's 2005 'A History of Violence'). The film is directed by German Director and UFA graduate, Robert Siodmak. Ufa (Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft) was the Berlin home, throughout the 1920s and 1930s, to Film Directors such as Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Carl Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-58928397448644969512009-04-15T13:19:00.004+00:002010-03-20T14:41:55.024+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - Gun Crazy
Trigger happy mayhem with 'Gun Crazy' (1949) also known as 'Deadly is the Female'. This is another hysterical, violent and shocking Joseph H Lewis film (see ' The Big Combo') filled with barely tempered nihilism, (implied) sex and violence. Gun fanatics, Bart and Annie blow their stash in Vegas and they try to recoup their loses with bank jobs and that noirly inevitable staple: the payroll heistUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-88756353533991608782009-04-14T13:07:00.004+00:002010-03-20T14:41:32.498+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - Murder, My Sweet
Another day, another drugged abduction, shoot out, deadly dame 'fest. 'Murder, My Sweet' (1944) ' was a Philip Marlowe story based on the Raymond Chandler novel, 'Farewell, My Lovely'. Chandler was Hollywood hot after the success of Billy Wilder's adaptation of 'Double Indemnity'. RKO bumped the production up from a B-movie budget of $150,000 to a moderate A-movie budget of $400 - 500,000.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-83971296205112148952009-04-13T21:33:00.052+00:002010-03-20T14:41:09.591+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - Blues in the Night
Noir(ish) of the day was 1941's 'Blues in the Night'. Not strictly a Noir but an early goofy musical comedy, vaudevillian melodrama that skirts with the black arts of noir in its depiction of venality, alcoholism, several men's obsession with a gun blasting femme fatale, gambling addiction, cash-obsessed convicts on the run, juke joints, roadhouse dives, a miscarriage and a three month Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-64153242884992768932009-04-12T18:53:00.002+00:002010-03-20T14:40:42.480+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - Johnny O'ClockThe Noir of the Day was 'Johnny O'Clock' (1947). Dick Powell's suave professional gambler gets involved in the murder of a crooked cop. Little menace but a gutbucket of puns and jive talk, good women/bad women, bad men / worse men.
Johnny O'Clock: 'She don't know whether she's coming or going'Blayden: 'Take a message to her, she's going'.
Ellen Drew is white hot as the casino owner's pitying Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-26949021775306810232009-04-11T18:30:00.005+00:002010-03-20T15:07:32.782+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - Kiss Me DeadlyI slapped my way through Day 5 of the Film Noir fortnight with Kiss Me Deady (1955) - a Mike Hammer adaptation stuffed full of heartless beatings, torture, throwing people from cliffs, crushing them in cars and a suitcase full of nuclear annihilation. Thrilling, innovative, savage, featuring the original glowing suitcase macguffin as ripped in Pulp Fiction. Film Noir with Nouvelle Vague Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-82270628660894923382009-04-10T04:09:00.003+00:002010-03-20T14:40:11.566+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - Dementia aka Daughter of HorrorDay Four of the Film Noir fortnight. Today it was 'Daughter of Horror' aka 'Dementia' (1955), an experimental, no-budget beat noir horror which charts the moral disintergration of a young woman. Dream seqences in misty graves, pill-ed up jazz clubs, a deranged score, dodgy acting, an egregious voice over...I couldn't possibly recommend it more. The sole film credited to writer, producer and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-49925170708693867762009-04-09T10:36:00.001+00:002010-03-20T14:39:54.887+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - D.O.A.The Maundy Thursday Noir was D.O.A. (1949)Frank Bigelow gets slipped a mickey in a San Francisco amphetamine jive joint full of Hep Cats speaking 'Cloud Nine, Daddy-O'. Told he has 24 hours to live, he spends the rest of film frantically finding out who has poisoned him and why. Uneven public domain thriller, stuffed with good lines. Edmond O'Brien, a picture of harrassed exuberance here (and a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-56875961922011186692009-04-08T12:08:00.003+00:002010-03-20T14:39:36.437+00:00Film Noir a Day Fortnight - The Big ComboPaul has sauntered through day two of the 'Film Noir a Day fortnight'.
The Big Combo (1955). Another detective trying to break an unbreakable criminal ring. A brilliant performance by Richard Conte as a ridiculously confident mobster whose catchphrase is "First is first and second is nothing at all". A great scene where a hearing aid as a torture device. Beautifully shot by John Alton who 'lensedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-61907961959521056882009-04-07T12:22:00.008+00:002010-03-20T14:38:09.670+00:00'Film Noir a Day' fortnight - The EnforcerDay one of the 'Film Noir a Day' fortnight. First up, The Enforcer (1951). Bogart as a D.A., guns, hoodlums, a crime organisation called Murder Inc, Zero Mostel as 'Big Babe Lazick' and a large body count. Tag line "if you're smart you'll come down, if you're dumb you'll be dead". Classy.
Trailer hereUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-45652915419493613902007-08-30T17:27:00.001+00:002010-02-16T00:25:21.495+00:00
MY LIFE WOULD MAKE A LOUSY FILM BECAUSE... PT 2
I have never had someone end a phone conversation with me and, after they cleared the line, felt impelled to say, ‘Hello, Hello, are you still there?’
My mobile phone frequently cannot get a signal, runs out of credit and battery power.
When I get angry I quickly become incoherent, my vocabulary shrinks to an arsenal of a dozen mono and duo Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-81695677378331819222007-08-22T17:58:00.000+00:002008-12-10T22:35:15.180+00:00My life would make a lousy film because... Pt 1:I have never lit a post-coital cigarette.I have never ridden, as a patient or a concerned passenger, in an ambulance.I have never awoken to answer a ringing bed-side telephone with the accusatory greeting, ‘Do you know what time it is?’I have never come home, walked into my living room and fixed myself a drink.I have never owned, worn or walked Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182598.post-1145639743824890622006-04-21T17:13:00.000+00:002006-04-21T17:15:43.823+00:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0