Monday afternoon, January 2nd, take the daughter and the boy to see The Poseidon Adventure. By which I mean the original, 1972 version with Red Buttons and Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine, etc, etc.
Both brilliant and absolute rubbish, laughable fashions (that I'd kill to replicate), overly explicit dialogue, the complete adherence to all the moral conventions of disaster films. Gene Hackman does well, Ernest Borgnine bugs his eyes, Roddy McDowell, well, I'm sure it paid well. Just a good introduction to the world of bad classic disaster films, when it's over the boy's spent an hour and a half laughing while the daughter happily exclaims "That was good...how come I've never heard of it?...".
Oh, there's a lot more you've never heard of. Have to get her out to the Koot's to show her "Towering Inferno" and "Airport" and maybe "Earthquake" and, for a bit of comic relief (that she'll then understand) - Airplane.
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I remembered the first film, the seaweed waving in the river, the parting on the bridge, like a film I'd seen a long, long time ago and didn't remember...it made me sad.
Maybe I didn't. Maybe I hadn't seen it all. The next two in the series, they're on their own, I've no recollection whatsoever.
It's Cambell's "The Hero's Journey", but in Japanese and some decades before he wrote it. It's "El Topo" without the Acid. It's genius, and in countless tiny things brilliant and without peer, it's that rare film (trilogy) - that hired a proper writer and director, and the results are clear...
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By Jan Švankmajer, director of "Faust" and "Alice", a surrealist film dealing with the internal suppression of furtive, guilty and indecent pleasures. Suggestive, symbolic, finger condoms, the gooey flour paste lathered over pornographic magazines to make papier mache masks, glue squeezed out of a tube, tightly clutched joysticks, the absence of real and meaningful connection, filled with surreptitious and knowing glances, tactile sensory imagery, the characters discover that their elaborate fantasies have real world repercussions, and they are as much the victims of the fantasies as they are their authors...
Finally something that doesn't adhere to the American cultural narrative, worthwhile...
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