I Saw A Film! I don't know sometimes what to do with those child-beloved things that turn out to be rather disappointing in retrospect. Not this film, of course, but my youthful fascination with Jim Morrison and the excellent musicians who together with him were the Doors. As a teenager, the dark death of this…

I Saw A Film! In deepest Africa a mysterious red streak seems to have been painted across a thatched hut and a poor fellow resting comfortably on his belly. Is he dead? He is indeed. A British radio operator sits in agony over a radio set, a bright red paint stripe across his chest. Soon…

I Saw A Film! I realize that you need a kind of hokey premise if you want to create a fun dramatic thriller. It's not much use making a boxing movie if the opponent isn't as nasty and pre-loaded with insults about your beloved wife as possible. Basically, you gotta have the pro-wrestling "heel" if…

I saw a film! I've sort of been meaning to get around to it for a while. It'll still cost you on Prime (USA) a few bones to watch what was probably considered an outrage at the time and today something even more terrifying. It's a comedy, of course, but one of such invasive singular…

I Saw A Film! Jack Lemmon is a cute devoted CEO who gets news of his well respected father's death of a car accident in Italy, where the old fella often took his lone holidays to recuperate. This alone a sweet kind of silly naivete popular in movies of the age, though perhaps waning at…

I Saw A Film! A standard Neil Simon comedy, befitting of the time. The formula was not quite as silly as Lucy, not quite as neurotic as Woody Allen, and perhaps somewhat less madcap than Buck Henry's ideals with Barbara (cute prostitutes befitting Irma la Douce). Watching Fonda and Redford slog through these scenarios, some…

I Saw A Film! Willem DaFoe is a kind of high end drug dealer who writes compelling prose and wanders around with overwrought Michael Been music playing. It's a bit like Taxi Driver but much less menacing. DaFoe's character Tour is considering getting out of the game as Sarandon's character is considering getting out and…

I Saw A Film! Roy Scheider gets to reprise his action clout in this stodgy blackmail turned revenge story in which a well off - I forget what his job was -, married to a politician, is caught with a young prostitute on tape and pressured to pay the bold jackasses who present him the…

I Saw an Animation Series! A spoof of early teen, instantaneous and disposable commercial culture. The only things that survive are the relationships between the kids who obsess over the inconsequential products directed at them. Ironically they know nothing of the images or celebrities who are being processed as their culture, but they can't control…

I Saw A Film! The notion that somehow a dorky, verdant Andy McCarthy, freshly enrolled in a teen prep school, his glistening wet baby gaze, could somehow captivate the love energy of Jacqueline Bisset, is one of those common film mistakes that somehow is imagined Playboy fodder. But who is it intended for? About mid-way…