After basking in the glow of such a stellar moviegoing experience on Saturday night, Sunday night was the first official night of ‘The Wright Stuff’ (hilarious!) at the Bloor, the aforementioned film series that Edgar Wright is curating at The Bloor over the next month and a half. Good news! We had our camera this time!
Just as he did the night before, Mr. Wright aptly opened the movie by sharing a truncated list of the keywords that appear on imdb for each movie. I kinda have to admit, this might just be my new favorite thing. The first movie was Shaolin Soccer, a movie I think almost everyone has seen before (except for the people at The Bloor last night, apparently). I had seen the movie before, but only on my old 27″ tube TV and, I can honestly say, that after seeing it at on the big screen last night, I really don’t feel that I had ever truly seen this movie before. As a result of having the camera, and many, many thanks to Shannon the Movie Moxie for showing me the ropes on the uploading video to Blogger front, I can now share with you Mr. Wrights intros to both of these movies. Below for Shaolin Soccer.
Now, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky…. now that’s another thing altogether. I had never seen this movie before. At the end, Mr. Wright stood up and said ‘So the next time you’re at a dinner party and someone says, “What’s the greatest movie of all time, the answer is *not* Citizen Kane, the answer is Ricki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.’ And I kinda gotta say he’s right. It’s flat-out ridiculous and the things that happen on this screen defy all manner of logic, but the thing that is the most endearing about this movie is that it never flinches, not even for a moment, from *believing* this it is, in fact, the greatest movie of all time. If you missed it last night at The Bloor, it’s a shame, but get to a video store and get this movie asap. And again, the brilliant intro.
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