1. The Cook in Trouble - A trick film from Georges Méliès, much less ambitious in scope than his epics of the previous two years, with only one set (albeit a lovely one) and no real narrative to speak of. It's more a fun diversion than anything revolutionary. A cook is mean to a beggar asking for food. The beggar is a wizard in disguise who curses the cook, inflicting him with demons that terrorize him, jumping in and out of his pots and crawling out of his oven in a devilish swirl of stop action photographic effects.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
1904
1. The Cook in Trouble - A trick film from Georges Méliès, much less ambitious in scope than his epics of the previous two years, with only one set (albeit a lovely one) and no real narrative to speak of. It's more a fun diversion than anything revolutionary. A cook is mean to a beggar asking for food. The beggar is a wizard in disguise who curses the cook, inflicting him with demons that terrorize him, jumping in and out of his pots and crawling out of his oven in a devilish swirl of stop action photographic effects.
Monday, February 13, 2012
This Week in Rankings
Watches and rewatches from last week, and where each film currently places on The Big List.
Grand Hotel - 35, 1932
State Fair - 17, 1933
The Great Garrick - 24, 1937
Merrily We Live - 10, 1938
The Great Waltz - 12, 1938
Second Fiddle - 31, 1939
That Uncertain Feeling - 21, 1941
A Song to Remember - 23, 1945
On the Town - 9, 1949
It's Always Fair Weather - 11, 1955
Lust for Life - 17, 1956
Ice Station Zebra - 18, 1968
Mysteries of Lisbon - 2, 2010
