Buck A Review
(Not as frequent as he’d like) filmmaker Douglas Buck spends a lot of time at the cinema rep house and at home watching old movies. In a new-fangled modern approach to the old index card cataloguing system he used to compulsively follow as a teen, about 4 years ago, Buck started posting a photo or film poster on Facebook for every one of the films he saw. Soon enough, this led to him including the occasional single sentence or brief paragraph write-up. Helped along by the surprise appearance of a small number of seemingly interested thread commenters as well as his own obsessive-compulsive traits, this then (perhaps inevitably) developed into longer form reviews and discussions for each and every one of the films. And here we are. Below will be a mishmash of older entries and current. Feel free to chime in.
The views and opinions expressed in the “Buck a Review” column (and in the comments field) are those of the individual author (or commenter) and not those of Offscreen or any of its partners.
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Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)
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The Planets (Ken Russell, 1952) & Tommy (Ken Russell, 1975)
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Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1952)
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Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976) & California Split (Robert Altman, 1974)
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Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
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Vapors (Andy Milligan, 1964), The Ghastly Ones (Andy Milligan, 1968), The Filthy Five (single reel) (Andy Milligan, 1968)
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Rodan (Ishirõ Honda, 1956)
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The Night Stalker/Season One (and only, thank God for small favors) (2005-2006)
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American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973) and Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
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Galaxy of Terror (Bruce D. Clark 1981) and Forbidden World (aka, Mutant) (Allan Holzman, 1982)