2 posts tagged “bizarre”
Originally posted on my old blog on March 28, 2006:
Tonight, Stina and I watched The Producers, a 1968 movie staring Zero Mostel and a young Gene Wilder. There's a remake out now staring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, which I have not yet seen but it has to be better than the original. The original Producers is very zany, which you would expect from Mel Brooks' directing debut, but for too much of the movie it went beyond zany into just plain old bizarre.
Originally posted on my old blog February 25th, 2006:
After checking into the hotel and making the updates to the blog that you can read below, Stina and I went to the home of a fellow Mensan here in Albuquerque who was hosting a movie night. Before the movie, he served us some homemade chili and gave us a tour of his great home, which had a terrific view of the city and a movie room with an overhead projector and huge, overstuffed recliners.
The movie we watched was Allegro non Troppo, which is a very strange Italian movie from 1977. It was supposed to be Italy's answer to Fantasia, only 37 years too late. Of course, it was made with the sensibilities of 1977 Italy in mind, not 1940 Disney Studios, so it is a very different movie, but it does have animation set to classical music. My favorite was the animation set to Ravel's "Bolero", which featured the deranged animator's view of evolution, accelerated to fit into the time of the piece.
