Friday, November 16, 2018

Movies for the Day, Saturday, November 17, 2018

Today's movies mark the birthday of Martin Scorsese, the Velvet Revolution, and the birthday of Bill Morrison.  Which of today's films would you watch?










Mean Streets (1973) is an excellent movie
about a small time gangster in New York City.
It is on the National Film Registry.  It was directed
and written (in part) by acclaimed movie-maker
Martin Scorsese, born November 17, 1942.  It
stars Robert DeNiro, born August 17, 1943.




Mean Streets









Kolya (1996) is a slice-of-life movie
set in 1988 Prague.  Czechoslovakia experienced
the so-called Velvet Revolution for independence
from November 17, 1989, to December 29,
1989.  This movie, which won an Oscar as Best
Foreign Language Film, is about a mid-fifties
cellist and lothario who is made guardian of a small
Russian boy.



Kolya











Decasia (2002) is an experimental film
by Bill Morrison including found
footage.  It is about physicality and
decomposition.  This movie is on the National
Film Registry.  Morrison was born November
17, 1965.





Decasia
























































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