‘Arts’ Archives
Movie corner: I had a good time watching ”˜Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”™
By HOWARD McQUITTER II Howard McQuitter oldschoolmovies.wordpress.com howardmcquitter68@gmail.com Drama/Comedy The year is 1969. Vietnam, hippies, Black Panthers, marijuana, campus demonstrations, Stonewall riots, robust middle-class, man landing on the moon, white flight anywhere but where the blacks, soul music and Afros. Republican President Richard Nixon”™s first term telling the American people to stay clear of the leftists on American campuses. Pope Paul VI declares an ersatz new liturgy (mostly in vernacular languages) for the Catholic Church. A historical music event called Woodstock drawing thousands of youth to upper state New York to hear the best of rock- country- soul music. Director Quentin Tarantino brings authenticity to the year 1969, in his ninth installment “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” It”™s summer in Tarantino”™s Hollywood starting with an aging television and film star Rick Dalton (Leonardo Di [...]
Movie corner: ”˜Godzilla”™ muddles along
By HOWARD McQUITTER II oldschoolmovies.wordpress.com howardmcquitter68@gmail.com “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” (2019) ** of 5 Warner Bros. San Francisco, a city that”™s become one of exorbitancy in recent years, where homelessness is all too common and billionaire corporations line the skyline like ducks in a row, five years ago had to rebuild the city costing billions of dollars and several thousand lives because of one humongous lizard called Godzilla. He roamed through the city doing as much damage as an earhquake or a tsunami. With all the military might against the beast he left the city on his own terms. Godzilla years earlier would attack Japan leaving so much havoc the scientists there spent every ounce of their brain power to come up with a way to kill Godzilla. Thanks to director Ishiro Hondo, who created the Godzilla (Gojira in Japanese) in 1954, in black and white ”“ though, not to be outdone, other Japanese [...]
Movie corner: Timely take on immigration
By HOWARD McQUITTER II oldschoolmovies.wordpress.com howardmcquitter68@gmail.com “The Deposit” (2019) ****1/2 Askja Films Drama Here again, I”™m reporting from the 38th Minneapolis-St. Paul Inter-national Film Festival with another gem of a film only this time it”™s from Iceland. What”™s exciting, too, is the director is on site to take Q&A, and her name Asthildur jartansdottir. Gisella (Elma Lisa Gunnarsdottir) is in a real economic straits after losing her journalism job and her investments with her former boyfriend failed to pay off. And to be expected she begins to panic as bills start to pile up with the possibility she may lose the nice house she acquired from her grandparents. Then Gisella goes to the computer looking for immigrants to rent her two empty rooms. She finds three illegal immigrants living under a slumlord in a seedy part of town and convinces them to move into her house. Two women Maria [...]
