Even a talking unicorn couldn’t compel me to focus on this film. I put it on, but within 15 minutes I gave up and just walked around the apartment doing other stuff while it was on in the background.

I want to find a copy of this! I’ve looked on Google, Amazon, eBay, nypl.org and tcm.com. Any other ideas?

I remember when the trailer for The Fountain came out, I thought “I really should see that! It looks powerful and interesting!” and then I never got around to seeing it. This is a tough, abstract movie with a lot of slow silent parts and I’m not sure that the dénouement is worth sitting through all of the slow parts. I generally like slow, abstract movies and I’ll watch something just to watch the beautiful parts, but this movie is not Vertigo. The payoff is interesting but most of the movie is pretty obvious and straight forward.

I generally like weird, experimental film, but not this one. There’s just no there there…

An amazing black and white documentary about a horrific disaster in West Virginia…

I found it online here

Four and a half hours…

Some parts of this movie are really well done and strikingly modern. The train shots are almost sensuous, but the story is just odd to anyone today and makes it something of a curiosity.

I saw this on TCM. It’s the first known film by an African-American.

The voiceover on this one is a little off-putting and starts to feel like an educational film after a while, but this movie is shot on location in NYC and it’s very cool to see how things were back then. It’s not as dark and gloomy as many film noirs and kind of comes across as an especially dramatic “Law and Order” episode.

This really is a hard movie to watch at times. I found myself having to watch a bit of it and then walk away before coming back, but the stories are so interesting that it’s worth getting through. What struck me most was how compassionate people were towards their missing friends and relatives.

I dunno. It’s beautiful, but also aimless. I enjoyed it more once I started watching it in fast-forward instead.