Movie Night 175

Quasi-provocative Question: "Do you stand up to the scary guy at the video store or do you just take the movie and go?"
Date: 10/30/05

A Feature: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
B Feature: 2 episodes from Tales From the Crypt- The Robert Zemeckis Collection: Yellow and You, Murderer

Notes:

1. Halloween Movie Night!
   
2. Jennifer and Jason are ad hoc minions due to the Dictator's car woes.
   
3. Here's what snopes had to say about the "Based on a True Story" claim for Texas Chainsaw Masscre.
   

Movie Night 174

Quasi-Provocative Question: "Does it matter if you are black or white?"

A Feature: Birth of a Nation
B Feature: The Circus

Notes:

1. Noah is Minion
2. scalawag was a southerner who sympathized with Reconstruction. (Yes, I know wikipedia is not a citeable source; this isn't a scholarly paper, cut me some slack.)
3. This article has some interesting historical background on BoaN
4. I was looking for a good description of BoaN's importance to the history of cinema. Roger Ebert does a fairly good job, although you have to scroll down a ways to get to it. His discussion of blackface is pretty interesting, too.
   

Movie Night 173

Quasi-provocative question: "Power to the people, or power to the creepo?"
Date: 10/16/05

A Feature: La Ceremonie (US Title: A Judgement in Stone)
B Feature: Butterflies

Notes:

1. Noah narrowly escapes a de-coring (decorpetude?), Liz narrowly escapes the B feature
2. Butterflies mean love
3. The hairy guy was indeed Harry Reems; several times it was remarked "It's like he's wearing leggings"
   

Movie Night 172

Quasi-provocative question: "Don't hate me because I am beautiful or don't hate me because I am gratuitous?"
Date: 10/9/05

A Feature: A ma soeur! (US Title: Fat Girl)
B Feature: In the Realms of the Unreal

Notes:

• I think we were all too rapt/shocked to do/say much during the features, but if I missed something let me know
  

Movie Night 171

Quasi-Provocative Question: "Fresh or Expired?"
Date: 10/2/05

A Feature: Arizona Dream
B Feature: Don't Look Now

Notes:

1. The quote of the evening, as reported by the dictator (the keeper of the count was away), comes from Tanya: "Would you care to stay for some three-bean salad?"
2. The box is on hiatus along with the keeper of the count