Saturday, November 25, 2006

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Poster for the re-release and DVD.

Boomer Movies Hall of Fame

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Gojira Revealed, Finally It took 50 years (and more than 25 sequels) to reach a few U.S. movie theatres, and another two years to become wid...

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The U.S. version poster.

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That history, however, is important. The film history is simple: A recent internationally successful re-release of the original King Kong w...

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Gojira, in a train-chewing scene reminicent of King Kong.

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Ishiro Honda was a young director, a friend of the great Kurosawa, who had been drafted into the Japanese military, and was a prisoner of wa...

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Is this the face that launched 28 sequels and counting? Yes, it is.

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As monster movies, Gojira and Godzilla share an unusual quality: neither has a real action hero. The hero who sacrifices his life to destro...

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These were recognizable buildings in the real Tokyo of 1954.

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Tokyo on fire, again.

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Gojira’s greatest mutation was yet to be revealed, however. This film uses the slow reveal that characterized some monster movies of this er...

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Gojira, a postwar expression of nature deformed and unleashed by technology. Also a guy in a rubber suit, and a hand puppet. 

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But these evocative scenes (their power not limited to Japanese audiences) also contributed to the central dilemma of the story. Earlier, Dr...

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Gojira became such an icon in Japan that he was used in advertising, in this case to sell tires.

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There are other differences in the original—especially the evocative sound of Gojira's footsteps and more use of the Ifkube’s great them...
Monday, July 17, 2006

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An early scene in Frank Capra's"Lost Horizon" (1937).

Boomer Movie Hall of Fame

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Finding the Lost Horizons What is a film made in 1937 doing in the Boomer Hall of Fame? First, the idealism of Frank Capra, often specifical...

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Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt in "Lost Horizon" 
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But if you don't get around to it, here is the best transcription I can offer of the High Lama talking about the meaning and purpose of ...
Friday, July 14, 2006

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Victor Sjostrom and and Bibi Anderssen in"Wild Strawberries"