Film Watch List: June 2008

*film has been seen previously/rewatching
†watched in theatre

in viewing order

American Hardcore (2006)
World Trade Center (2006)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Shanghai Express (1932)
Eagle vs Shark (2007)
Stagecoach (1939)
Halloween (2007)
Little Caesar (1931)
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Werewolf of London (1935)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The Illusionist (2006)
The Big Trail (1930)

Stats
Films watched: 22
Films previously seen: 0
Films watched in theatres: 0

Average # of films watched per day: 0.73

By Decade
1930s: 14
1940s: 1
1950s: 0
1960s: 0
1970s: 0
1980s: 0
1990s: 0
2000s: 7

Universal Monster Movies: 2
Warners Gangster Pictures: 5
Films featuring Warner Oland in Yellowface: 2 (and none of them as Charlie Chan)

Conclusion: June ended up becoming 1930s film education month. I'm less ambitious for July. I'll probably just try to watch as many of the excess DVDs and films taped off of TCM than more recent movies.

Misogyny: You know, for kids I

Introduction: I generally like to convince people I am one horrible shell of a human being. But one thing the internet doesn't do is sarcasm. Not to say I'm not a horrible shell of a human being, but I am not a misogynist. No, that's too simple; I'm a misanthrope.

(From the Archives:) A Conversation Inspired by a Letter to Savage Love

Re: HARD: I'm not really sure what the point of your recent exercise in audience manipulation was, Dan, except to point out how crazy we bitches are. OMG, different women have different ideas about how to talk to a woman?! What a fucking revelation!

We're not a single, irrational monster made out of pussies, Dan, although I'm sure you've had nightmares to that effect.

People have different perceptions about how to talk to a woman versus how to talk to a man about the same subject. Does that make them guilty of thought crime? Oh, yeah, I forgot. We're just irrational, insane pussy monsters. We have to have inconsistencies between us pointed out by a sane, rational man. Thank you, Dan. Thank you for setting us… straight. It's just like I've always said. Gay men are no less misogynistic than straight men. They just have no reason to pretend to be nice to us.

Fat Happy Bitch

Justin says:
"We're not a single, irrational monster made out of pussies" that'll be my nightmare from now on

Phil says:
really?

Phil says:
I thought I finally had an exciting new fantasy

Justin says:
its not quite vagina dentata scary... but irrational pussy monster.... i'm afraid, i don't want to sound like a square here, but i can handle only one pussy per woman

Phil says:
oh man, you're missing out

Justin says:
you kids and your new fads can have the rest, though

Phil says:
I tend to just think of women as walking pussies anyways

Justin says:
you'd make the greatest caricature artist

Phil says:
every guy who comes by gets the most detailed, perfect representation
every girl is the same walking huge pussy
indiscriminate of age