Six movies for me this week beginning with three I’ve already reviewed in Werner Herzog‘s Heart of Glass (review here).
I also saw Woody Allen‘s Magic in the Moonlight which I expect to have a review for you on Monday as well as David Cronenberg‘s Scanners, which I only have one more “feature” on the new Criterion Blu-ray to watch before I review that. Though, I put “feature” in quotes because what’s left is Cronenberg’s first feature film Stereo.
Finally, I watched Zatoichi in Desperation, which is easily the worst Zatoichi film I’ve watched yet. The editing is awful, there is hardly a story and there is even a scene where a gang of men chase down a mentally challenged young man and masterbate him until he orgasms, with his semen actually hitting one of the men in the face. What does this man do? Why he beats the young man of course. A very strange and disturbing scene, especially given it doesn’t have a large enough effect on the plot to be included in the film. It does mean, however, I only have one more Zatoichi movie to watch and I’ll have seen them all.
Other than that, I think the only television I watched this week was “Master Chef” and “Hell’s Kitchen”, I tried watching more “True Blood”, but it’s too awful to continue watching and I did finish a book called “The Weight of Blood“, which is no good. Avoid it.
Now, what have you been watching?
