#ice station zebra redux

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Here's McGoohan in arthouse films again because I have to finish what I have started. And because it's 3 a.m. again.

1) Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

2) Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)

3) Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

4) Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)

5) Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

6) 7) 8) Legend of the Mountain (King Hu, 1979)

9) Raining in the Mountain (King Hu, 1979)

10) 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017)

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdum-dum

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdum-dum

DATELINE: Another Pratt-Fall

Rock Hudson Redux?

Every generation has its own Ice Station Zebra, and this one belongs to the latest rip-off of Jurassic Park/World. This movie seems to be produced by Carl Denham while looking for Numb-Skull Island and the Eighth Wonder of the World.

That’s not to say it is watchable. It is execrable, but the cast is stellar: Chris Pratt returns as the action hero…

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I really don't know much about spy stuffs but the fact that there's no record of McGoohan ever saying "Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written." still surprises me, LOL.

And I don't know anything about guns so please excuse me if this lousy photoshopping is lousier than usual.

References: 1, 2, 3, 4

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No one asked for this but here's McGoohan in space, before the aliens sent him back to his wife because he was such a nuisance without her.

References:

The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)

Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010)

Solaris mon amour (Kuba Mikurda, 2023)

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It's almost 2 a.m. and I have just put McGoohan into Abbas Kiarostami's 24 Frames. What the hell is wrong with me?

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As you probably might have guessed, before I watched Columbo I had only seen two of its stars: Gena Rowlands and Johnny Cash. If Peter Falk wasn't such a wonderful actor I wouldn't have made it that far into the series to see McGoohan. And to be honest, I didn't even recognize him the second time I saw him. If he had not directed Last Salute to the Commodore, he wouldn't have ended up being a blorbo on this blog, my poor old chap.

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