Daily Double Feature

Daily suggestions for movie combinations. Nothing blatantly obvious that you've seen a million times (unless it matches with something in an enlightening way).

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Tech Boom! Holiday Special

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Uber: Rides of Glory

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Sharing is caring. Just be careful who is on your friends list!

Special thanks to Jukie Schweit and Good Vibrations!

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Disruptive Buzzwords

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The Sharing Economy

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Tech Boom!  Google Bus Stop

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Tech Boom!  Pop Up Restaurant

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Menudo, too close to home.

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Tech Boom!  Doggystyle

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Meta-sexual

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TECH BOOM! A comedy series about the San Francisco economy.

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Loss of a Child

The Sweet Hereafter (1997):  The residents of a small town in Canada hire a lawyer to find out who is to blame for the tragic bus accident that kills most of the town's children. 

Blue (1993):  The sad film in Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy stars Juliette Binoche as a woman who loses her husband and child in a car accident.

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Kurosawa's Hollywood Downfall and Resurrection

Runaway Train (1985):  Akira Kurosawa came to Hollywood in 1966 and his first project was to be Runaway Train, but the production ended up being cancelled.  Almost 20 years later, Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky would take Kurosawa's screenplay and make a pretty good action movie.

Kagemusha (1980):  Kurosawa's only other attempt to work within the Hollywood system was 1970's subpar Pearl Harbor spectacle Tora! Tora! Tora!, which he was fired from after only two weeks of shooting.  After returning to Japan and only making two films over the next 10 years, Kurosawa was unsure if he would ever make another film.  Then, superfans George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola would step in with their newfound Hollywood clout to help get the phenomenal Kagemusha off the ground. 

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Miscarriages of Justice

The Thin Blue Line (1988):  Errol Morris's breakthrough documentary about a man wrongfully imprisoned for murder led to the man's eventual release.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008):  Not really up to snuff on the filmmaking end (the editing style is over-the-top and thoroughly annoying), but the story told here will boil your blood. 

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The Compulsives of Paul Schrader Films

Affliction (1997):  Paul Scrader made a bit of a comeback with this dark film about two generations of alcoholics in New Hampshire.  James Coburn plays the surly father to Nolte's sad sack cop character.

Auto Focus (2002):  Another dark film from Schrader, this one telling the story of Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane's sex addiction.

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May-December Romance

Harold and Maude (1971):  Everybody loves this comedy about a young suicidal man, Harold, who falls for the septuagenarian Maude.

Ali:  Fear Eats the Soul (1974):  Rainer Werner Fassbinder's powerful story about a Moroccan immigrant's turbulent relationship with an older German woman was modeled after the melodramas of Douglas Sirk.

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Wildly Different Movies with the Same Title (part 2)

Spellbound (1945):  Alfred Hitchcock's collaboration with Salvador Dali is a dated, but enjoyable thriller.

Spellbound (2002):  A fascinating look at the world of the National Spelling Bee.

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Wildly Different Movies with the Same Title

Election (1999): Alexander Payne's comedy about Machiavellian tactics at work in a Nebraska high school.  

Election (2005):  Johnnie To's crime drama about Machiavellian tactics at work in a Hong Kong triad.

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Lighthearted Thrillers

Charade (1963):  A lighter-than-air romantic comedy with a fun caper plot.

Family Plot (1976):  Alfred Hitchcock's swan song is not in the same league with his classics, but it's got a goofy charm to it.