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Jerry Johnson
Lubbock, Texas
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About Me

Happy Birthday, Nora Gregor

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Former programming director for the Austin Film Society and journo for The Austin Chronicle

Rating System:

5 stars – Personal Canon
4 stars – Masterpiece
3 stars – Good
2 stars – Fair
1 star – Poor

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Flanders

Flanders

There was once a great director named Bruno Dumont...the first 30 minutes or so are about the best thing Dumont has ever done: incommunicable fucking in farm country...and then he slides off into territory he knows nothing about and films it badly: in L'Humante, it was the police procedural; in Twenty-nine Palms, it was the USA; and this time the war genre.

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Nightfall

Nightfall

My-childhood

My Childhood

The-flame-and-the-arrow

The Flame and the Arrow

Pilgrimage--2

Pilgrimage

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ruby stevens

13Feb12

it strangely also reminded me of a western! at least until a herd of bactrian camels showed up :p

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    Jerry Johnson

    14Feb12

    Is that what they're called? They shocked me. I grew up with livestock, but those were like aliens.

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Kenji

2Feb12

Maybe a few Welsh black for a new trend? I think they look very nice in the green Welsh landscape, wonder how they would take to Texas

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Kenji

2Feb12

I wonder, do you have lots of cattle on your ranch? I associate Texas and Westerns with great herds of Herefordshire cattle, but don't remember seeing any Welsh black cattle in the Westerns

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    Jerry Johnson

    2Feb12

    We used to run Herefords. But now Angus is all the rage- we have about 500 head. I imagine filming black cattle with the standard B&W film of the time would have stretched the contrast too much- they would probably have looked like black blobs.

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Kenji

28Jan12

I was already an Ali fan in the 60s. The Foreman fight was one of the great sporting moments for sure, and thrilla in Manilla. Hagler-Hearns-Leonard-Duran was a golden patch, a pity when all the different title belts came in, boxing world titles were devalued, and the heavyweight division now is in a sad state.

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Extraordinary Stories

Extraordinary Stories

Fantasies for the deployed working man. X, Z, and H are Sons of Man, and the narrator is Satan. If I didn’t speak Spanish, I would have put masking tape on the screen to hide the subtitles (and missed…  read review

Stormy Waters

Stormy Waters

There’s a move afoot to recognize Gremillon as a French master, but I don’t see it with this, my first Gremillon film. I side with Sarris, that a great director must be at least a good director, and…  read review

The Plough and the Stars

The Plough and the Stars

A shell of a film about events of the Irish Revolution in 1918. Ford wanted to cast exclusively with Abbey theater actors and RKO forced Barbara Stanwyck on him (two great artists who are wholly incompatible…  read review

The Love Parade

The Love Parade

If anyone can point to an earlier film that better prefigures the musical genre, I want to hear about it. This being Lubitsch’s first sound film and musical, I expected something a bit obvious and…  read review

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Egg

Egg

  • Currently 1.0/5 Stars.
White Mountains

White Mountains

  • Currently 5.0/5 Stars.
The Clay Bird

The Clay Bird

  • Currently 1.0/5 Stars.
Flanders

Flanders

  • Currently 2.0/5 Stars.