The Part-Time Voyeur Picks His Five Favorite Clips of the Month

1. We all have movies that we never tire of, right? The Part-Time Voyeur could probably revisit RUSHMORE, LOLITA (the first), SEVEN SAMURAI, and maybe GHOST WORLD every week. Certainly, GHOST WORLD's intro could reward daily viewings. Here is the complete performance of the song "Jaan Pehechaan Ho," which director Zwigoff edited for GHOST WORLD. The players are Mohammed Rafi and a jigging coterie of masked men (and one astonishingly inventive dancing girl, also masked). Rafi, who emerges at 0:54 in the clip, has even more natural swagger than Frank Sinatra. See this clip and you will understand why the Great Rafi is this column's inspiration. 

2. For those of us who thought Jerry Lee Lewis materialized out of thin air, the likewise irresistible Harry Gibson: 

3. Speaking of Jerry Lee, not even the 1970s could change him:

4. The Part-Time Voyeur thought he had seen all of Kurosawa's samurai epics. But one, SANJURO, eluded him until recently. Called "the ultimate samurai satire," SANJURO offers typical Kurosawa pleasures—deft pacing, fresh camera work, poetic swordplay, suggestive music, and, of course, swashbuckling heroes and villains. The so-called satire seems no more, really, than earthy hilarity, and there is so much that SANJURO evokes an earlier Kurosawa comic masterpiece, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (from which STAR WARS derived most of its ideas).

SANJURO also reminds us that Toshiro Mifune was no less than the Japanese Brando. 

5. Roy Head, the Good Ol’ Boy version of James Brown, should have renamed himself Roy Leg.