#current viewing

[seanleelevin]

My second film of the day.

[lionofchaeronea]

I'm watching a 1952 movie called Untamed Women. It's about a lost tribe of Amazons, descended from Druids, who do battle with Neanderthals on a volcanic island overrun by dinosaurs. ...No, really, that's the plot. (As often, the "dinosaurs" are portrayed by lizards with fins glued to their backs, in footage swiped from 1940's One Million B.C.) All I can think of is the brilliant bit in Tim Burton's Ed Wood where Ed improvises a movie plot around random snippets of stock footage. "We open on a series of explosions. No one knows what's causing them, but they're upsetting all the buffalo..."

[seanleelevin]

First film of the day.

[seanleelevin]

I've seen Mystery Science Theater 3000's riff of this film a number of times, but this is the first time I'm watching unriffed and uncut.

[seanleelevin]

Next up in today's film-viewing slate...

[seanleelevin]

Rewatching.

[seanleelevin]

One can never see this film too many times!

[seanleelevin]

Beginning my morning with some Jess Franco.