Buy The Rocky Horror Picture Show   1975

Best Director   Stanley Kubrick

    Barry Lyndon   1975 Ryan O'Neil and Marisa Berenson

Best Counterculture   Director: David Cronenberg

    Naked Lunch   1991 James Woods, Peter Weller

    Read Naked Lunch   William Burroughs

Best Crime

    In Cold Blood   1967 Director: Richard Brooks

    Read In Cold Blood   Truman Capote (basically creates the genre)

    The Onion Field   1979 James Woods Director: Harold Becker

    Read The Onion Field   Joseph Wambaugh

    Read Helter Skelter   Vincent Bugliosi

Best Swashbuckler   Director: Richard Lester

    The Three Musketeers   1974

    The Four Musketeers   1975

    Buy Both   Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch, Michael York, Oliver Reed

    Read Dumas   Easily one of history's greatest novelists

Best Action   Director: Steven Spielberg

    Indiana Jones Complete Collection (Full Screen)

    Indiana Jones Complete Collection (Wide Screen)

Best Science Fiction   Directors: George Lucas, Irvin Kershner

    Star Wars Trilogy (Full Screen)

    Star Wars Trilogy (Wide Screen)

Best Horror   Director: Alfred Hitchcock

    Buy Psycho   1960 Anthony Perkins

Best Monster

    Alien Quadrilogy   1979-97 Sigourney Weaver

    Read Alien   Alan Dean Foster

Best Western

    How the West Was Won   1962   (Jeremiah Johnson included)

    Once Upon a Time in the West   1968   Charles Bronson

Best Car Chase   Director: Peter Yates

    Buy Bullitt   1968 Steve McQueen

Conspiracy Theory - Mel Gibson - Director: Richard Donner

Not but fiction. That conspiracies of every sort have ever existed everywhere is no great revelation. Once human organization exists conspiracy for power exists. Such as belonging, identification and membership may be benign forms of such. But they have a way of causing people to care less about what is good than what appears good, especially to a majority for it is the way of the herd. Whatsoever that "good" may be it must be at least outwardly mimicked, whether one recognizes that one is mimicking or not. Be as may, I'm a firm witness that there exist powers which exceed that of human organizations and human means. However relevantly films like Bladerunner or The Matrix may approach that notion in relation to machines, those powers which exceed the human are at the least psychical and spiritual. Humans are instrumental and vehicular to such, their comprehension of what they do and to what they belong, even in but a human sense, being greatly limited. For instance, let's grant for sake of exposition that there are "good" and "evil" powers. As such, to what advantage would it be to either to make their good or evil unmistakably apparent? Then again, to what advantage to be utterly mysterious? Regardless, the purpose of any conspiracy is to manipulate, as secretively or deceptively unto its own design as is any good God dissembling as to the good, without manipulation, ever so patient, though just as selfishly. Be as may, I've experienced conspiracy, alone against great number and power, nor but once. Just as in the Conspiracy Theory what makes it a Jesus-against-the-world experience is that the adversary is adept at making it appear that you are the mental case (not the adversary) and that you are the evil (not the adversary). Add that you aren't believable because most people own no notion of such matters (it is psychical yet active in the everyday) though the extra-intelligence and crucifixion of the above has been taught for centuries. Add that the adversary generally enjoys positions of influence and wealth, is generally seen as "good" and finds customary modes of thinking useful. Yet, at once, the adversary exists in Jesus himself as hero against his own better interests. (Jesus shares identity with Lucifer as the morning star. In Isaiah 14 there exists passage analogously peculiar. One further notes - whatever relations exist between Jesus, Lucifer and Satan - that Venus is the morning star, though not the day star) I haven't seen Gibson's The Passion. I hear it's a couple hours of physical abuse and bullying in the worst manner. That wouldn't be tolerated in these times. (At least to humans. See more innocence terrorized so that who know not what they do may eat potpies.) Perhaps better (perhaps not) had Gibson approached a much more difficult film - the economical, psychological and spiritual beating up - both by those who delight in that and those who simply know no better - of someone in ways unusually special. Because that is done in these times. But who would believe it? For a curious investigation of espionage and flying monkeys terrorism in accusation mode via one of the most powerful American industries read The Beasts. One wonders how it is that I'm selling DVDs in a war against poverty instead of writing. Be as may, one reason the film below, Devil's Advocate, is of significance, is that it attempts to breach the veil, howsoever Hollywood-style, between the psychical outer and the psychical inner.

Not but fiction. Terrorization does, in fact, occur in ways less conspicuous than September 11. For instance, it can occur psychically (which is not wholly inner) to those who deeply contemplate. That few know this is something of a clue that few contemplate, including not a few intellectuals who in speaking or writing chirp like birds, just as not a few artists wholly miss this website. But that's all right just as it is for birds. Be as may, if terrorization can play with a lone thinker, it can play, or needn't play, with whole peoples who aren't at all given to contemplation, nor exactly heroic unto greater knowledge or truth because this must always involve the gain - or at least no sacrifice - of material profit. One great instance of such, upon which civilization has been built for the last two thousand years, while at once wholly missing, is the crucifixion of Jesus, so utterly isolated - while taking the sins of the good and acceptable upon himself - as to seem forsaken even by God. It is all the more astonishing that two thousand years of Christian religion occurs with Christ invisible (isolated) in that the Bible and its great characters is an illumination of the self full with inverse relationships: though such as Jesus and Satan are other, they are also you. Which to express makes Devil's Advocate - a complex film with undercurrents that the majority of its audience will never recognize nor experience - an important film. It is a film which makes simplistic, as all expression

does (E=mc² one of the briefest texts in existence for all it means). But there is genius in the Devil's Advocate that can't be guessed by intellect alone and has somehow survived, to the credit of all involved, the art-for-money syndrome. A combination of mastery and knowing more than one knows. Read Andrew Neiderman's The Devil's Advocate.

 

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