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"Claire of the Moon", from
Tuna
Scoopy's note: I haven't
seen this movie. The comments are 100% Tuna's
Claire of the Moon is a
film produced and directed by women, about a
writers retreat for women on the California
coast, and especially about two of the women. One
is a Psychologist/Authoress and is openly gay,
and the other is a brash mouthy hetero girl, also
a successful writer. The are roommates in the
same cottage, and clash horribly for the first
half of the film. They were placed together by
the old lesbian who owns the lodge and runs the
writers retreat, who thought they were meant for
each other. By the end of the film, we find out
she was right.
This film was panned by
nearly everyone who reviewed it, and you would
probably do well to enjoy the images and pass on
seeing it, but I liked it a lot. For one thing,
this could have been a normal hetero love story
just as easily. The process of getting to know
each other, as well as the opposites attract
formula was very familiar. Both had fear of risk,
both desired intimacy, and both had performance
anxiety.
Another thing that made
the film for me was watching the lovemaking at
the end at 1/8 speed (to cap). At full speed, the
whole lesbian love scene is rather ordinary. At
slow speed, you can see the tenderness of their
touching, and their expressions, and, as Karen
Trumbo's character says: "Lesbian sex is as
raw as it gets." I thought this film
provided major insight into what it is like to be
Lesbian.
Karen Trumbo (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30, #31, #32, #33, #34, #35, Trisha Todd (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28/a>, #29/a>, #30, #31, #32, #33, #34, #35, #36, #37, #38)
"Dark
Secrets", from Tuna
You need a review? Here
it is in five words. It's a Julie Strain movie.
Julie is listed in about 60 films in th IMDb, and
she recently told Femme Fatales she had been in
86 altogether (up to that point). But I think
they all share the same script.
Monique Parent (#1, #2, #3) Monique Parent and Julie Strain
(#1, #2, #3, #4)
"NightVision",
from Johnny Web
Absolutely the best
movie I've seen since "Habitat". I
laughed all the way through it. I don't think
they knew they were making a comedy, but they did
anyway, and a great one at that. Fred "the
hammer" Williamson, who is now so old he
should be called Fred "the walker"
Williamson, is an ex-detective who is an
alcoholic. Although he is battling the
alcoholism, he keeps slipping, and the result is
that he's been busted down to motorcycle
policeman. He wonders how much lower he can go
when he is assigned a car, and Cynthia Rothrock
as his partner. Cynthia is "Quick Draw"
McGraw, a tough lady cop who's been assigned to
Fred because she shot and killed an unarmed
suspect. Together they battle a serial killer who
has video cameras everywhere in Dallas, the mob,
a corrupt police force, internal affairs, fatal
wounds, a new chief who wants to fire Fred,
Fred's alcoholism, high oil prices, international
terrorism, global warming, the Trilateral
Commission, and the insufficient amount of cream
inside the new Twinkie formula.
Although the bad guys
have bazookas, flare guns, tasers, and uzis, and
have every room in Dallas bugged, while Fred and
Cindy have only a six-pack and her high-flying
feet, still Fred "the hammer" stands
triumphant.
The movie has every kind
of Ed Wood style error. Night and day interchange
inexplicably. Fred "the hammer" has a
six-shooter which is capable of firing thousands
of shots without requiring a reload. The scenes
have no connection between them. Clothing in the
same scene changes from camera angle to camera
angle. Characters do inexplicable things that are
not explained. Other characters disappear, and
you don't know where or why. People hear things
they can't possibly hear because they are too far
away, and see things they couldn't possibly have
seen because they were under the covers. Actors
deliver their lines before waiting for the
completion of the event they are commenting on.
Fred the hammer comes back from the dead twice.
They repeat stock footage you have already seen
earlier. You name it, and this movie has it. Get
this: F"TH"W is probably the best actor
in the movie. You could argue for Robert Forster,
but how much of an improvement is that?
Oh, well, there is one
redeeming element. Two attractive women got
topless, in very good light, in close up, in
focus, with no friggin tricks or body doubles or
elbows in the way. That is something.
Nina Richardson, one of my better collages, and
even a tiny representation of my main man, Fred
"the hammer" Williamson. Mary Kapper (1,
2)
"Illuminata",
from GR
I've reviewed this movie
before, so here's GR's collages. Aida Turturro Georgina Cates Katherine Borowitz Susan Sarandon
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