Before we roll on with today’s Exquisite Corpse,
a very “I”-centric
one—can anyone guess why I’ve included this pic of McGoohan in his most famous
role, and why this scene from this episode? And why is it included as part of
the introduction to this Exquisite Corpse (more accurately a collage, but I’m
taking poetic license)?
A special prize
of a DVD to the first correct response! (Haven’t figured out the DVD yet, we’ll
discuss later…)—
And now…
The National Film
Board of Ivanlandia would like to refer you all to
our new
review-centric brother site—which has tackled, among so many other things:
Prometheus (Dr.
Shaw is the villain!),
looked back at Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite (focusing on Burt Young, the shlub assassin with
the soul of a poet) and pointed out the links between Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf and Kubrick’s The Shining—and much, much more!
Currently
LERNER INTERNATIONAL—go ahead and click the link, you know you want to; first
one’s free, you won’t get hooked—is celebrating Sci-Fi June, looking at the
films that intersect in the Venn Diagram of science fiction and The Cinema of
Weirdness!
Martin Amis’ only script was a flop then and still DVD-MIA, but time has been kind to it;
and it deserves another look;
Rollerball: the missed opportunities;
Monster Zero (constraints
from genre mash-ups force the aliens
to act stupid); and more!
With even more
on the way!
For the future,
LERNER
INTERNATIONAL will be conducting on-going explorations into that uncharted
region we call The Cinema of Weirdness—
There’s plenty
of ground to cover—your eyes and opinions would be useful!
On the drawing
board are: Otto Preminger’s underrated proto-magical realism about feminist
empowerment (Such Good Friends; 1971); Robert Ryan in the ultimate Man Against
Nature Fight For Survival—originally in 3-D (Inferno; 1953); and “What If Jaws
Was Directed By Alfred Hitchcock?”
(part of the “Best Hitchcock Movies (That Hitchcock Never Made)” blogathon run by the wonderful
sites Classic Becky’s Brain Food and Tales of the Easily Distracted).
Don’t get left
behind! Stay tuned!
LERNER INTERNATIONAL is a GO!
Okay, are you
guys ready?
