MOVIE BARS

*Bang Bang Bar 

 

The humble Bar, a place to meet friends, drown sorrows and shoot the breeze. In the movies though a Bar can be a place of drama, intrigue and humour. There are famous Bars; Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca for example and then there are the not so famous Bars, Bars in which plot and exposition are the fulcrum. So join me for a quiet drink in a few movie Bars.



Torchy’s

 

The Last Resort

Bob's Country Bunker

Vroman's

The Purple Pit

 

The Titty Twister

Golden Horn

Ratskeller

 

Trees Lounge

The Bamboo Lounge

Tony's Bar

 

Sonny's Bar

A Bar in Santa Rio

A bounty hunter enters a dimly-lit saloon looking for Josey Wales and announces, "You're wanted, Wales." Josey replies "Reckon I'm right popular.

You a bounty hunter?" The gunman answers, “Man’s got to make a living” to which Josey replies, “Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.”

 

**A Redneck Bar

*Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

48 Hours
Total Recall

The Blues Brothers
48 Hours
The Nutty Professor
From Dusk til Dawn
Barfly
Inglourious Basterds
Trees Lounge
Goodfellas
Mean Streets
A Bronx Tale
The Outlaw Josey Wales
**Near Dark

 

LAH-DEE-DAH



At this Birthday time of year I will be having one of my occasional cigars, Cuban of course. Cut with razor sharp implement, lit and re-lit with match (never a lighter) and nursed until it passes away (never stubbed out). In the movies and on the small screen the Cigar smoker looks different to the cigarette smoker,the Cigar has certain implications one of which is that it speaks of powerful eclectic cool to the cigarette's louche cool. Take a look.





 

 

 

 



 



 









 

 



 

 



FAKE FILMS



See You Next Wednesday*

 

What with Argo grabbing most of the award season headlines I thought I would take a look at some other fake films from the movies.

Mant!

 

Chubby Rain

 Hamlet

 

Angels With Filthy Souls

 

 

Nations Pride

 

Angels Live In My Town

 

Habeus Corpus

A Fistful Of Yen

Simple Jack

 

The Dueling Cavalier

Jews In Space

 

The Purple Rose Of Cairo

 

 

Fakes from:

John Landis

*Image courtesy of http://barnflakes.blogspot.co.uk/

Matinee

Bowfinger

The Last Action Hero

Home Alone

Inglourious Basterds

Boogie Nights

The Player

Kentucky Fried Movie

Tropic Thunder

Singing In The Rain

History Of The World Part II

The Purple Rose Of Cairo

 

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xm7lk6_thunderbirds-martian-invasion-3-4_shortfilms

 

JOHN LYDON-CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM

" I can quite easily say that my videos are among the worst of all time"-John Lydon

 

 Ah, the good old days of having an opinion. The Brits 2013 showed how insipid modern British pop stars are: wasn't always the case though...

 

 

 



 

DAVID BOWIE-PICK OF THE POPS

 



With the release of David Bowie’s new album I have looked back at his previous LPs and there are a plethora of great tracks to enjoy. However Bowie has released some excellent singles particularly in his heyday of the Seventies. A new Bowie single, often not taken from an album, was always a much anticipated event. David Bowie's singles output is an impressive set of great pop records with invention and depth. Here’s my top twenty Bowie smash hits pop pickers

 

 
1. Drive In Saturday
2. Life On Mars
3. The Jean Genie
4. Heroes
5. Space Oddity
6. Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide
7. Changes
8. Rebel Rebel
9. Young Americans
10. John I’m Only Dancing
11. Ziggy Stardust
12. Stay
13. Wild Is The Wind
14. Golden Years
15. Let’s Dance
16. Ashes To Ashes
17. Starman
18. Time
19. Beauty And The Beast
20. The Prettiest Star

 

MISTER MIRACLE

 

JACK KIRBY'S MISTER MIRACLE

 

 

Jack Kirby, righly known as The King of Comic Books created and co created many, many amazing characters and used his exemplary art style to bring them to vivid exciting life. Kirby's style has been described as 'Dynamic rendering' and perhaps his most dynamic character was Scott Free AKA Mister Miracle.

A rare animated excursion based on Kirby's characters

 

The world in which this character existed was crazy, cool and totally unique. A super escape artist from another galaxy populated by nutty characters with outragous names taking part in incredible dimension jumping adventures, Mister Miracle was part of Kirby's 'fourth world' concept for DC Comics. If you want to understand why Kirby is held in such high esteeem amongst fans and his peers you could do worse than check out the adventures of Mister Miracle, they're outlandish, exciting and above all great fun.



 

     

 

 

thanks to kirbymuseum.org