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Has anyone seen "Maniac" (1980)? Where in NYC is a good place to shop for trashy VHS at a low cost?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

1) yes. its like a disco era henry: portrait of a serial killer. 2) videotape nostalgia? already????

― fe7 (FE7), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

isn't that romero? or am i thinking of "martin"?

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

1) ox fez, it totally rules. I love that your perspective is aligned with the killer the whole time.
2) videos are so cheap!

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

close to finishing quicktime for java developer notebook. comes with a lot of fun but rough edged utilities. soon i will hear the lamentation of your women to european dance music and tom cruise michael moore fudge up conversations. a new era of awful msp jokery commencing in 3, 4, 1, um...
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cinematical.com/2005/08/16/sam-jackson-v-lots-and-lots-of-snakes/

― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

"I don't like the sexy stuff so much." = martin(romero)

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

i don't know what this 'video tape nostalgia' shit is... i still don't own a dvd player!

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

they have tiny generic ones for around $30 at best buy. mine works great. theres also radio shack

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

should i
-study for lsat which i haven't done in 3 days
-watch fellini movie this creepy guy in the library said was good but i don't believe him
-watch one of 2 fassbinder movies
-read a book
-drink one beer (or more)

select 2?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

if the fellini movie isnt satyricon: lsat then beer

― fe7 (FE7), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

k thx

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

i say pick one movie and one beer

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

oops i only had beer. no lsat! i think i'll have a fassbinder now.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

La Dolce Vita is a'ight. I saw this horrible Fellini clown documentary one time.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

what fassbinderm ovies do you have? i watched one yesterday. i don't remember the title. "cocksucker" or something, in english. the only other fassbinder movie i've ever seen has amon duul II in it.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

i thought la dolce vita was great. 8 1/2 is pretty fun too.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

going to see "2046" tomorrow. DATE MOVIE.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

teh only fassbinder i've seen is "QUERELLE" which makes anal sex look all shiny. Lotsa stylized sailor suit amorality. I liked it.

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

i have a box set called BRD TRILOGY. it has the marriage of maria braun, lola, and veronika voss (i haven't watched that one yet). i like fassbinder while i am watching movies but i hate him when they are over. not because the movie is over but his endings are weird and maddening. i think fassbinder was a cool guy. he was also pleasantly ugly.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

he is my favorite director with a last name beginning with f

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

you should see his version of "berlin alexanderplatz" if you wanna see a weird and maddening ending.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

i came so so close to getting that book out of the library 2 days ago but it's long, a long book. i want to see this movie because i watched the documentary that came with the boxed set, and there was a clip in it. i just watched lola. it was decent, but, the ending

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

Maniac is the film Tom Savino was ashamed of being involved with.

I've also only seen 2/3rds of the BRD trilogy and while I didn't quite understand, even after a bit of voiceover commentary, I was totally wrecked by them, especially Maria Braun, totally fucking tragic situation.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

fassbinder's satan's brew :- ))

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

the last segment of "berlin alexanderplatz" is more a freeform epilogue than anything, and yeah it doesn't really work. 'cept when i saw the whole thing in 2 days at MoMA -- '97 I think -- the two leads came out for Q&A! the novel's great too.

"lola" is killer all the way. have you seen sternberg/dietrich "the blue angel," a partial inspiration?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

you should see his version of "berlin alexanderplatz" if you wanna see a weird and maddening ending.

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), August 17th, 2005. (later)

ISNT THAT LIKE 15 HOURS LONG?

WATCH: FOX AND HIS FRIENDS, BITTER TEARS OF PETRA..., ALI FEAR EATS THE SOUL!

GODS OF THE PLAGUE WAS GOOD TOO.

MARIA BRAUN I WASNT CRAZY ABOUT.

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

16 hours.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

i like ali fear eats the soul a lot

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Night of the Wolf is good.
I watched Pioneers of Ingolstadt last night. It was maddening.
kinda sexy, I guess.
Which Fassbinder movie features ADII???

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.goethe.de/hn/mex/retro/gif/Schygula.jpg

MEOW!!

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Savini denies he was ever ashamed of Maniac on the recent DVD commentary.

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

ALI FEAR EATS THE SOUL

I SAW THIS IN MY UNDERGRADUATE FILM INTRO CLASS AND SINCE COLLEGE IS FULL OF IDIOTS PEOPLE WERE LIKE "EW GROSS1!!!!@1212" EVERY 3 MINUTES

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

i was just informed that there is no dvd release (or even vhs) of fassbinders welt am draht. this is unacceptable

― fe7 (FE7), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I am excited by pending DVD release of Wes Craven's Swamp Thing.

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

my favorite fassbinder is still chinese roulette (especially for the head-fuck music by Peer Raben) though more than 66% of his movies are all my favorites when I'm watching them

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

YES!! Chinese Roulette!!

I forgot about that one...Anna Karina is in it too!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

i used to pick up italian zombie flix, blaxploitation movies and other assorted weird vhs bootleg shit from Kims and other used records shops in nyc. but this was the clinton years.

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I SAW THIS IN MY UNDERGRADUATE FILM INTRO CLASS AND SINCE COLLEGE IS FULL OF IDIOTS PEOPLE WERE LIKE "EW GROSS1!!!!@1212" EVERY 3 MINUTES

Ha! I was in a similar situation during a screening of "Blue Velvet" ... also undergrads will never get tired of laughing about how large Gordon Gekko's phone is.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

My film professor dated caitlin's friend!

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

oh's chinese roulette

http://jclarkmedia.com/fassbinder/images/chineseroulette02.jpg

http://jclarkmedia.com/fassbinder/images/chineseroulette26.jpg

(from this page, which I wouldn't read before seeing the film, but has great stills)

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

the Fassbinder that features ADII is DAS KILASHAUSER FART. AKA THE NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY. it was a very nonsensical movie. There was just an ADII music vid. in the middle of it. weird movie. i liked it.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

need to see that one. and haven't seen world on a wire yet, as fe zaffe noted it's a crime that one's not on DVD

still reading jim's reviews I linked above, that guy really knows his fassbinder, the crosslinks are amazing.

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the link milton parker!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Le Samurai comes out on DVD for real in sept or oct(I have mondo kim's bootleg dvr)

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

does a NOIZE DUDE know wtf is up with this:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0407926/ ?!?!?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

IN A YR OF 13 MOONS
BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VAN KANT
THE THIRD GENERATION

ever time I see a TV listing for that rightwing assfucking Fox & Friends, I think of RWF all leathered-out in FOX AND HIS FRIENDS

if you haven't seen it already y'all might like b-movie god Larry Cohen's THE SECRET FILES OF J EDGAR HOOVER

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

veronika voss is the best one in the BRD trilogy

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Kill Your Idols came out a year or two ago, part of the Tribecca Film Festival. I DJ'd the "opening" party or something with Nick Zinner. I actually played "no wave" music and dancey early 80s ny stuff to great resposne. Nick played hip-hop. I didn't think I could follow that up, but people were really into it, dancing to Ze disco. I didn't get to see the movie though. The guy who produced it was in Circus Mort with Michael Gira, that's kind of noise. Whether they successfully make the case/draw comparisons from the late 70s/80s scene to the then scene of bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flux Information Sciences, Liars etc, who knows.

HOWEVER,

I just watched Bogdanovich's Targets. That's a kick-ass movie! Great back-story also. Check it out.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

m coleman, that is a great TV sketch that almost no one would get ... so, public access!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

speaking of Larry Cohen, I also just watched Special Effects. That movie had a lot of crazy great fun ideas and was kinda enjoyable, despite being kinda bad.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://tinyurl.com/8zbfz

― don't be jerk, this is china (FE7), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/TheBigRacketMontage1.jpg

^... www.mininova.org/tor/127781

best. film. ever.

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Do you have netflix

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview/Stalker/post/Stalker_Large.jpg
I just saw this. STAGGERING.

― Lemmy Caution (sleep), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I think I prefer Mirror, though. I don't know.

― Lemmy Caution (sleep), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

omg i want to so bad i love ol' tarko sacrifice is playing here soon

xpost yeah mirror best ever!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

http://jclarkmedia.com/fassbinder/images/satansbrew25.jpg

Fassbinder fans (and everyone really) should see Kamikaze 89 which is like a great 70s Alphaville kind of a thing starring Fassbinder.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

is that the one where fassbinder humps a lifesize picture of neil armstrong?? if so, classic

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, I think so maybe. Was it like a lifesize wallpaper mural or something? That sounds familiar.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kiddiematinee.com/images/cassandra_cat_01.jpg

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

After having had two features selected in competition – Eureka (2000) and Desert Moon (2001) - Shinji Aoyama is in Cannes this year to present Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? in the Un Certain Regard section. The film takes place in the not-too-distant future, in 2015. A virus is spreading in several of the world's cities. Once a person is infected, he develops the disease: the patient is driven to commit suicide.

"Is this how the world will enter its dark winter ?" wonders the Japanese director. "If we keep cinema and rock n' roll, we will be able to survive this winter and pass through it. This quiet but powerful film was born from this spirit, this Will. We hope you will all share the experience."

― [use of street parade as pivotal set piece] (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 December 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

but eureka was so boring!!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

yall need to rent the sword, the best movie to smoke up to ever

― Yawn (Wintermute), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I liked Eureka! I liked how they kicked out the obnoxious Tokyo cousin and he just disappeared completely from the film..

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 2 January 2006 07:28 (twenty years ago)

OMG that stalker poster!

― it was jody that killed the beast (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 January 2006 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Castellari's 'The New Barbarians' aka 'Warriors of the Wasteland'. There's an awesome decapitation scene with a twitching mechanical dummy. And all the *futuristic* cars make identical electric whirring noises.

whhhhhzrzrzrzrzrzrzrzrzrzrzrrzrzrzrrz!

Also, the blurb on the back explains about the hero fighting '...with the help of a massive black man'

― Mestema (davidcorp), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

'Yawn' sez a great movie is boring HAHAHAHA

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

no, 'yawn' sez a boring movie is boring KEKEKEKEKEKE

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

omg Stalker! I'm a massive Tarkovsky fan and yet.. and yet.. man, that thing really kind of drags on. I saw it a second time just to be sure.

this Tarkovsky site has a neat archive of posters around the world for his films. I like the Japanese one for Stalker. the Finnish one looks like Bergman, the Belgian poster is a crime novel cover, East Germany gets the socialist poster art treatment, Italy it looks like a horror film..

Russia:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/ThePosters/stalker/stalker1.gif

oh cool, Cuba poster for Andrei Rublev
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/ThePosters/andrei/andreicuban.JPG

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/cutie_honey.htm

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.screenselect.co.uk/images/products/7/25967-large.jpg

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Alex saw that Milton. He liked it. I will see it soon.

Have you seen anything by Carlos Reygadas? I was watching Japon last might and thought that you would like it.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

no, is battle in heaven still playing tomorrow-ish somewheres? I'll look to rent Japon.

I want to come to kyle's thing but I'm sorta bound to go to the flössin / blevin show. When's the tactile dome planned?

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Battle In Heaven is sold out at YBCA.

Tactile Dome was only hypothetical. I don't think I can take it.

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

tactile dome is actually a friendly place, a normally claustrophobic friend of mine gave it good reviews. it's too fuzzy in there to be scared.

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

If is dark, I will freak out. I freak out just lying in bed sometimes!

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.acehardwareoutlet.com/(lrymdf5524b4jwu2w21ffvaa)/ProductDetails.aspx?SKU=34153

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

sweet

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

I got cut in the tactile dome, no stitches needed or anything, just a nice slice. Not sure if someone pulled a prank or what.

My ex cut up a goat heart on valentine's day at the SFE.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 February 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

Shit I checked this thread to talk about The 3 Burials of Melquiades Estrada... is there an ILE thread yet?

Also, saw the preview for art school confidential... looks pretty great.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 February 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

Was the ship in the first Alien movie a Predator ship?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 23 February 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

artskool conf. trailer here: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2694254?htv=12&htv=12

― the bitchy guy in the pince-nez from the old films (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 23 February 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

I second Andrei Rubliov.

― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Thursday, 23 February 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

Go see The New World as it's about to vanish, and on TV it won't be the same.

I saw a few minutes of Airport last night and Dean Martin hadda be chucklin thru the whole thing.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.trendesombras.com/num2/imagenes/werk002.jpg
werckmeister harmonies

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tAsLz0Q7-fM

― msp (mspa), Saturday, 6 January 2007 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

children of men was pretty great

― dmr (Renard), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to see that after payday. Meanwhile, ExistenZ was amusing but pretty dumb. Ek Hasina Thi is next.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

I watched Junebug. I sort of liked the idea of the movie, but something about it felt under-realized. Poorly shot too. The mom and the mustachioed younger brother were ace, as was the folk artist. The gallery lady was obnoxious but I guess she was supposed to be. Her husband was a retard - like I was beginning to think he was actually supposed to be mentally retarded and she married him out of sympathy, b/c otherwise it didn't make sense.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

i used to have Maniac on laserdisc! what a great movie.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

That's sad, I didn't think Junebug was particularly strong but I didn't think the gallery lady was that bad, except for the fact that she tolerated her stupid assistant at home. She herself wasn't terrible, but I think we were supposed to find her art-world associates contemptible.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

FYI - this movie is awesome:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/928651~Ladybugs-Posters.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

but it's not as good as one of my fave movies of all time, BUG. william castle! bradford dillman! i've probably watched it 50 times:

http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/NewSite/LAGNIAPPE/SusiesCorner/bug.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

damn, i didn't even know BUG was on dvd. widescreen! i will watch it 50 more times.

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002I838G.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1089428499_.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

such a beautiful movie.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well I had trouble telling how much I was supposed to like her character, partly because I thought she overacted. (xpost)

I thought she was pretty condescending to the family and it was dickish to skip the hospital at the birth and again at the miscarriage.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, worse plot ever:

A dealer in outsider art threatens the equilibrium of her middle-class in-laws in North Carolina. Madeline is a go-getting art gallery owner from Chicago, recently married to George, a near-perfect Southern beau. When Madeline needs to close a deal with a reclusive North Carolina artist, George introduces her to his family: prickly mother Peg, taciturn father Eugene, cranky brother Johnny, and Johnny's pregnant, childlike wife Ashley, who is awe-struck by her glamorous sister-in-law. Madeline's presence exposes the fragile family dynamics as hidden resentments and anxieties surface.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

But she tried to go to the hospital with Ashley in the first place and the adults excluded her! I think her greatest mistake was in not telling George that she'd been shut out, because he just thought she hadn't tried. And then after the miscarriage no one would come and get her, G told her to find her own ride home.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

The folk artist is a thinly-veiled Darger, or a cross between Darger and some racist religious artist, which is sort of fun. He's supposed to be autistic and he draws paintings of white people being impaled on large black penes! (xpost)

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah actually I was confused about the whole ride to/from the hosptial situation. I thought he said something about her taking a cab but then she didn't do it because she wanted to seal the deal with the artist.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

It hardly matters to my overall opinion of the movie, which is that it was *eh*.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, scott

BUG is awesome

have you seen PHASE IV by Saul Bass?

it's got your name in the credits under 'favorite film of:'

― milton parker (Jon L), Saturday, 6 January 2007 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/197244~Maniac-Posters.jpg

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 6 January 2007 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

they have ~~tiny generic~~ piece of shit ones for around $30 at best buy. mine ~~works great.~~ is a piece of shit.

-- amon (...) (webmail), August 16th, 2005 6:48 PM. (eman)

fixed

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 6 January 2007 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

TS: caroline munro & joe spinell in maniac -vs- caroline & joe in The Last Horror Film

SO hard to choose.

MY name, milton? Really? wow, weird. Is Phase IV on DVD? I would buy that too.

http://www.tv.co.kr/DATAFILES/movie_image/5935/NMK_MOVIE_tim001.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

I had a store called Redrum in Philadelphia and we would play movies all day on a t.v. next to the videos we had for sale and I would play Bug ALL DAY LONG. 8 hours of continuous BUG! I did this for weeks! No wonder we ended up closing. I was kinda obsessed. I really identified with that particular vision of madness.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thelooniverse.com/movies/west/saulbass/phaseiv/fase4s.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'll watch frogs tonight.

http://www.1000misspenthours.com/posters/posterse-g/frogs.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

listening to:

http://www.morricone.de/images/jpg/a_time_of_destiny.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

never seen the movie though!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 January 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Children of Men was totally great. Michael Caine remains a perennial hero of mine.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

beer league (worst movie i've ever seen)

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Beerfest, on the other hand....

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

beerfest has jokes in it.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Gabrielle
Two Drifters

(both high recomm)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

stumbled onto black moon on showtime late last night. (good thing too, since apparently not available on video in u.s.) quite odd, nicely dreamy. sort of a joint homage to lewis carrol and luis bunuel. (with joe dallesandro!) a real left turn for malle.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

carroll with two l's, that is.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

i was skeptical going in, but i ended up really liking children of men. a lot.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

i too was a bit skeptical, especially because i hate seeing lines running out of theatres (usually an indicator of crapitude). but damn, a good flick. and that fuji girl was hot.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

MY name, milton? Really? wow, weird.

well, not really of course

but on the other hand

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/10/MPW-5016

it's among the very best (if not the best) of 70's science fiction films. it's not on DVD yet, you'll really have to hunt to find even an aging VHS copy, the only place the has it anymore in SF that I know of is Le Video, all other copies have been stolen from the local stores -- but it is worth it x 10 to find a copy. the only ant horror film that actually stars real live ants as the main characters. electronic music by David Vorhaus of White Noise & it was the only film Saul Bass ever directed.

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

i used to watch that movie on TV all the time as a kid!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

yah, it's beautiful. i remember it from years ago, i think my friend lance had a copy. or my friend joseph. one of the two. lance ran a video store in philly for years. joseph has this place now:

http://www.diabolikdvd.com/

i knew him when he was just a dirty bootlegger running his govideo player day and night. he's a sweetie though!

oh, and in any case, i want a copy! and i want bug on dvd!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

wait, what movie is that?
b/c it's triggering memories but they feel like dream memories...

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think they are still talking about Phase IV

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

(re black moon, showtime is doing it a few more times this week.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

(oh that was supposed to link the schedule. well, it's on the showtime site. worth seeing.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

OMG THE DEPARTED

my nerves, their edges

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, i really liked it
but i also kind of feel like throwing up

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

medicinal whiskey, helping

i get way too into movies

oh, but while shaking inside, hands are totally still - i should be undercover haha :/

still, want to watch BUG (and also go on some crazy rollercoasters)

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, bug will make you nervous too. it's very emotional and harrowing. and beautiful!

i can't rmember what the departed is.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

newest scorsese
alec baldwin is in it!
and mark walberg!

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

you should go see TEH STWANGE ADVENTURES OV MISS POTTERZ & HER WASCALLY WABBITS and tell me how it is.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/2006/potter/potter2.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

right, scorsese. i wanna see that. the history of violence made me pretty nervy and jumpy when i watched it. then, of course, i wished i was a human killing machine.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

haha, totally

oh, i will see the peter rabbit lady movie i am sure

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

One of my favorite scenes from The Departed is where Matt Damon's standing in his office, brooding about something, and Mark Wahlberg walks by and flips him off through the window.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah that one's great - there are so many great scenes!

i have calmed down now, a little

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

i am like 2 minutes into THE DESCENT and wow

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

it sucks?

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

the opposite

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

THE DECENT horror movie of 2006

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

it is scary dudes

i'm going to see miss potter tues morn. will report back.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

just pre-ordered twin peaks season two!!!

― 69 (plsmith), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Comedy of Power

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

Descent rocks, i bought the DVD day it came out

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

and it's got the UK ending versus the arbitrarily shortened USA version

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

just watched Michael Mann's Heat.
-- Natalie Portman was none too attractive when she was young.
-- Al Fucking Pacino.
-- The cool blue shots of fluorescent light.
-- Much too much excess, even for Mann.

i liked it, but could not believe how long it lasted. half-way through, i was ready for the end. too many sub-plots are to blame.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

the gauntlet - most ridiculous movie ending ever? clint eastwood and galpal navigate greyhound bus through deserted city streets, hundreds and hundreds of cops lining both sides of the street firing millions of bullets into the bus as it rides by but they're practically shooting at each other

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds sweet. like the big bank robbery scene in Heat, except better.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

the mirror - holy shit.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare/mirror/MIrror_01_28_53-r1.jpg

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Monday, 8 January 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― false cat (sleep), Monday, 8 January 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

^my fave Tarkovsky

The Nutty Professor (Murphy version; great prof and Mama Klump, generally witless Buddy Love)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Devil Wears Prada

not my choice to watch it but it was pretty watchable

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

so apparently joe carnahan, the dude who directed 'narc' and that piven flick 'smokin aces', will be directing the film adaptation of james ellroy's 'white jazz' and it will star george clooney. hmm i dunno...

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Castle of Cagliostro - very great! Very fun, kind of raunchy even! It just went off.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

Mama Klump is the greatest movie character evah.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm staying up late tonight, and, so far, I really really LIKE The Fountain. The music is especially (unexpectably) great.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

Still 30 min to go.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

No matter how many times you hear someone quote "CAUSE SHE'S GOT A GREAT ASS... AND YOU GOT YOUR HEAD ALL THE WAY UP IT," nothing prepares you for the first time you see that scene.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

Children of Men - if not for that shitty Mexican threesome flick, Cuaron would have a perfect record of good movies.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

Why did I never watch King of Comedy until now? I want to work in the Jerry Lewis disco fantasy office.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

I loved The Fountain! I can see how it could be boring and trite or something to those less emotionally maleable, but I found it beautiful, at points heart-breakingly so.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Children of Men - if not for that shitty Mexican threesome flick, Cuaron would have a perfect record of good movies.

I still love this movie.

― remybean (bean), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Watched Cagliostro because of this thread (though I'd always meant to sometime). I had no idea it lifted/homaged so much stuff from Mr. Wonderbird / The King and the Mockingbird!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mama Klump is the greatest movie character evah.

Clearly, Eddie's fondness for hanging with trans folks paid dividends.

House of Strangers (odd JL Mankiewicz ethnic semi-noir)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I almost forgot but apparently Les Claypool did sound work on Castle of Cagliostro.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe that belongs on oh face emoticon thread?

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh google, why must you always dash my dreams with your facts? (Not the same Les Claypool).

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

gear that casting for white jazz sounds perfect! have you read it?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

rewatched George Romero's Season of the Witch with friends on DVD -- surreal dream sequences and captures 70's hipster suburbia much more horrifyingly than the kitsched-out Stepford Wives -- every scene is powerful, especially the conversations between the main character, her daughter & her daughter's stoner professor boyfriend.

great electronic music score + the donovan song as she does a tour of early 70's san francisco co-op stores = amazing, this is just as resonant as Night of the Living Dead. need to see his other early films _now_.

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

i have read it! it's my favorite ellroy novel, maybe. i'm a little iffy on carnahan directing it, though. his new flick looks dire, like 'one night at mccool's' as remade by mcg. i think clooney could be good. but he could be all wrong. it's 50/50.

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Children of Men - if not for that shitty Mexican threesome flick, Cuaron would have a perfect record of good movies.

I still love this movie.

I like it a lot too.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Milton, The Crazies is great too. And Martin! hell, I like them all. I love Knightriders too. So underrated by normal people.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

"his new flick looks dire, like 'one night at mccool's' as remade by mcg"

Um, what?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

supposedly there is a re-make of The Crazies in the works. Upcoming from Romero: Diary Of The Dead and a movie about a dead rock band.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

oh right. that movie. yeah that does look dire. it's like the 2000s' things to do in denver when yr dead. but narc was great.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Aw come on! Alicia Keys + guns! Yeah!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

when the levees broke
aguirre
stroszek
l'avventura

― false cat (sleep), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

if not for that shitty Mexican threesome flick

yeah, i don't understand how the same person made both of these films

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

No matter how many times you hear someone quote "CAUSE SHE'S GOT A GREAT ASS... AND YOU GOT YOUR HEAD ALL THE WAY UP IT," nothing prepares you for the first time you see that scene.

i am so happy that someone else has seen this movie. that scene reminded me of all of the coke freakout moments in Scarface, but better, because HOLY SHIT. comes out of nowhere.

also, i wonder of the director of 'white jazz' know that people like me refuse to see movies based on the fact that George Clooney is in them. that smug shit needs to stop getting roles.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

^^^

hahah

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

what i love about that scene is he's really close to saying "big ass!" but then switches it up at the last second.

but i think i prefer the 'by the time i get to phoenix' bit.

― ‘•’u (gear), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

people like me refuse to see movies based on ellroy novels

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

people like me refuse to see movies based on ellroy novels

white people? baseball fans? john cougar mellencamp enthusiasts?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

- MUNICH (hey Steve-o!)
- CHILDREN OF MEN (yep)
- some Starz-broadcast doc on "midnight movies" (6 specifically - starts w/ EL TOPO & AJ, spends a good amt of time w/ John Waters, nice little bits w/ George Romero & David Lynch, & even the ROCKY HORROR part wasn't too annoying)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

i am ambivalent about munich, what to think

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

kev, ppl who don't want to enrich racists

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

The last 10 minutes of L.A. Confidential are quite hideous.

-- Dr Morbius

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

just finished Bubba Ho-Tep. pretty great. hated Art School Confidential. thought Talledega Nights was pointless and loved Children of Men

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Thin

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

??? someone explain me bubba ho-tep. least funny hour and a half i've ever spent.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Watched that Wm. S. Hoffman Capote biopic last night. Boringest thing in the world. Incomparably dreary. Like trying to read In Cold Blood.

Earlier this week, Chunking Express, Breathless and Band of Outsiders were all GREAT, though that's kinda cheating, 'cuz I'd seen 'em all before.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

marie antoinette. WEAK.

kith: brain candy not as funny as i remembered. :(

xpost i saw bubba ho-tep when it came out, & geoff OTM -- i cannot understand the appeal to anyone beside schlocky troma fanboys.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

bubba ho-tep is weird. it's not a comedy, but it marketed itself as one. it's a saddo drama about old people, wtf

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

wait, where did you get/see chungking express? b/c i was told it wasn't on video/dvd - but i have not inquired for a while

marie antoinette is awesome

i am seeing children of men tonight!

shopgirl - kinda boring but some pretty scenes. steve martin does a nice job of making LA seem not so weird, appealing even

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

i own chungking express on dvd, it's pretty widely available. i think you can find it at best buy for ten bucks.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

i need to maybe go into stores more :/

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

i think all of wkw's films are now domestically available. i need to pick up 'days of being wild' at some point. and i need to get 'fallen angels' back from someone who borrowed it a year ago.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

bubba hotep was hardly troma besides 5 minutes of mummy action and bruce campbell staring in it. i thought it was pretty funny and pretty subtle. you just wouldn't get it

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

jaxon's on it

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Existenz: momentarily diverting, but I think I did my nails while I watched it. I wouldn't have believed it was possible to make Jude Law look THAT BAD.
Ek Hasina Thi: pretty dumb, but classic for the plot development where she leaves him to be gnawed to death by rats and he's gradually overrun by squeaking fleshy things.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

i find 5 minute soliloquies about pustulent ass-boils to be about as subtle as falling anvils.

and the troma dig was more about it being a zany concept executed very poorly and with intentionally awful writing. my loss, i guess?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I got Chunking Express from Netflix. Think in the wake of In the Mood for Love/2046, all the WKW stuff stays pretty available.

Bubba Ho-Tep is ... okay. Kinda charming, more than a little annoying. Liked it more than Geoff and Elmo, apparently, but I don't feel I ever need to see it again.

Laurel: WTF is Ek Hasinia Thi?

"...classic for the plot development where she leaves him to be gnawed to death by rats and he's gradually overrun by squeaking fleshy things."

Must see this!

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

No no, you really don't need to see it. It's like...what's it like. It's like the J-Lo movie where she kills her abusive husband, if it were made by Bollywood but without any dance scenes so what's the point, really?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

omg the j-lo movie was ENOUGH.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

LOTS OF MVIES SEENERED!

ILLUSIONIST - SUCKED
FACTORY GIRL - SUCKED
APOCALYPTICO - SUCKED
WICKERMAN REMAKE - FUCKING SUCKED
CHILDREN OF MEN - ENJOYED
CRANK - FUCKING AMAZING!!!!! MUST BUY DVD!
SNAKES ON A PLANE - AMAZING
SCANNER DARKLY - AWESOME
LAST KISS - EMO TRIPE...HOT CHICKS THO

― BONERTIME! (ddb1), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

oh dude. did you fly somewhere too? i saw wickerman and last kiss on a plane recently. so awful. the worst part about Last Kiss was even though it was the worst piece of shit i've ever seen, my mom and stepdad are splitting up and i had to turn the movie off for a while because i got all sadface.

also watched My Super Ex Girlfriend on plane and LOVED IT!

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

wife thought it was for 10 yr olds and sucked though (prolly why i liked it)

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

all i've been doing is catching up on the wire. one trip to the cinema to see volver, which i loved. tears of the black tiger or whatever it's called will probably get me out of the house again.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

yr point, ‘•’u ? LAC is the only one I've seen, and he removed all doubt since then. But I'm glad you had time to look for that, champ.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i just remembered you bitching about "l.a. C" at some point, it took about 30 secs. you don't want to see the black dahlia. that's not a question, a statement.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

tears of the black tiger or whatever it's called

yeah that looks interesting

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

how is he a racist, morbs?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've not read any of the guy's books -- I rarely read contemp fiction, especially not crime stuff -- but a print interview around the time of that docu-film about JE satisfied me on that score... It was his comments on racial profiling in the Terror Age and his enthusiasm for it. Sorry, I can't find quotes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Chungking Express DVD was part of the QUENTIN TARANTINO PRESENTS series along with all the other Azn Miramax releases.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, all y'all aren't missing anything, these comments are basically exactly the same as my Netflix notes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

chrishellfaucet: JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT YOU CAN CURRENTLY PRE-ORDER TWIN PEAKS: SEASON 2 ON DVD FROM AMAZON.COM RIGHT NOW FOR THE SHOCKINGLY LOW PRICE OF 36.99. IT HAS FINALLY COME.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

bubba ho-tep is weird. it's not a comedy, but it marketed itself as one. it's a saddo drama about old people, wtf

OTM. nothing funny about cancer on yr dick. I like it for reasons I can't actually explain. I think because the mummy is dressed like a cowboy.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

ellroy: rodney king blown out of proportion, rampart no big deal, etc.

http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy200511150827.asp

I think he is more pro-law-enforcement than out-and-out racist, but when the law enforcement in question is the LAPD .....

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

(I still read his books / see the movies though)

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think the charm of Bubba Ho-Tep is that we all know Bruce Campbell is going to be the most awesome old dude ever.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

People who h8 Bubba Ho-Tep can fucking DIE

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

rrrobyn what screening are you going to?? i'll probably see you there!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

custosishungry

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

friend i was going to go with has to stay late at work :/ and i just got a thesis-writing pep talk from a friend, so really this is for the best, as i am going to write tonight, and go see children of men on the wkend! tho i really want to see the movie *now*...
xpost

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

james ellroy is probably certifiably insane and definitely has some politics i disagree with, but i don't think he's a racist. when i saw him read a few months back he kept going on about how he was going to write six more books, each one better than the previous, and then DIE.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Children of Men

pretty great!

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

tonight: Criterion Mouchette (case is uggggggly)

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 13 January 2007 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

crank
narc

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Mi Viaggio en Italia
Venus
Tucker: The Man and His Dream

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

The Great Yokai War

Like an hour too long, BUT ultra-cool monsters and demons and shit! I mean ULTRA-COOL. Also Chiaki Kuriyama panty shots. Rowr.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

SUSPIRIA

so great, amazing colors. and Goblin of course. been wanting to see this for a while.

http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/Suspiria/SUSPIRIA%2010.jpg

http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/Suspiria/SUSPIRIA%2011.jpg

― dmr (Renard), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

just saw children of men!
i liked it but am feeling kind of overwhelmed
it was very blue and grey. and reminded me a bit of 28 days later, in certain ways (aesthetically and thematically), but not in other ways

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

as tears go by, for wong completism. so '80s! it's like hong kong vice or something. i love how so much of his style and themes are already obvious, even with all the linn drums.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

amazing colors indeed! i envy someone seeing suspiria for the first time. color-wise, he learned from the master (bava):

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/images/131karloff.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

hey that almost looks like it could be a still from pan's labyrinth

which I saw tonight

It was okay ... pretty cool I guess ... wished there was more underworld stuff! It was closer to Devil's Backbone than I expected ...

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 14 January 2007 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

Marie Antoinette
The Warriors (again)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 January 2007 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

I saw The Beguiled, which is wonderful. Very deep, subtle, has perfect dialogue. I don't know how to talk about movies, but it's good!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 14 January 2007 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Idiocracy

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

any NYCers seen the rereleases of EL TOPO and/or HOLY MOUNTAIN?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

saw Babel last night. i thought it was alright, but wanted to shoot myself in the face afterwards. my friend thought it was TERRIBLE. i wouldn't go that far, but it was stretching the interconnectedness of these stories worse than dude's other films and they were hitting you over the head with what was gonna happen

― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I too just saw Suspiria for the first time! Really good, it was either very genuinely scary or I am a pussy when I'm hungover. I have that one chimey jam with the whispery lalalas stuck in my head.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

this is an extra on one of the DVD editions of Suspiria:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbMZePC0SWE

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone seen the remake of 'the hitcher'? s1ocki? i'm actually somewhat interested in seeing this for some reason. sean bean is pretty cool.

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I half-expect him to yell "FOR GONDOR!" in every movie I see him in now.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

no i'm sending someone to that tomorrow gear.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

i love sean bean though. RONING.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

you gotta love a guy you can ambush with a cup of coffee.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

one does not simply pick up a hitcher

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

pan's labyrinth

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Odd little docu called "In the Realms of the Unreal" about Henry Darger, reclusive outsider artist, blah blah blah.

Pretty good, although the decision to animate his paintings was sort of odd, I thought.

"Children of Men" was good, but not the SECOND COMING OF MOVIEDOM OMG some people seem to think.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Monday, 15 January 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Tears Of The Black Tiger is totally amazing. I saw it when it was first released a few years ago (in other words, I WAS THERE) and I bought the soundtrack. His other movies...not so good.

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

'the seven-ups' - a totally dope chase scene, awesome '70s nyc milieu, roy scheider as a borderline crooked cop (i think it's supposed to be the same character he played in 'the french connection').

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I thought the animation in that Darger doc was a mistake. It was also a bit frustrating how nobody actually knew anything about him or even how to pronounce his name.

The animation in that Beatrix Potter movie looks ridiculous too. I'd like to see someone like Ken Burns pick up this technique though so instead of slowly panning pictures of Civil War soldiers we'd actually see them come to life and bayonet each other.

xpost

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

i really like the name "the whispery la-las" for a band.

i watched 54 tonight because i've been reading a book about disco history and i've seen most other disco movies before. it was okay-- i really love Dottie Disco the best, tho. the rest of the movie was sort of 'great, another ryan philippe sexy shot.' fucking stupid.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:56 (eighteen years ago)

the rest of the movie was sort of 'great, another ryan philippe sexy shot.' fucking stupid.

If that were true, I might've loved the movie. Instead I thought it was a strong contender for all-time worsts. Still, it might be Miramax's fault.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 06:05 (eighteen years ago)

'the seven-ups'

Classic! That was one they would play a lot on t.v. during my misspent youth.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 06:06 (eighteen years ago)

Pan's Labyrinth - even better than the Devil's Backbone.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 06:17 (eighteen years ago)

spinal tap
jackass 2

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Desk Set, cute but doesn't hold up so well.

Tears of the Black Tiger not on Nflix.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Black Christmas

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Weren't there two movies about Studio 54? One with Mike Myers? Or is that 54? I can't remember

Saw Before Sunrise the other night for the first time since 1995. There's something a little too mannered about their dialogue sometimes -- which I didn't notice in the sequel -- and Hawke is kind of a douche (although I think that's just how is character is written). But oh man, Julie Delpy is so great. And pretty.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

klute. not a wonderful movie, but jane fonda was just amazing. there's no way men wrote her dialogue.

wait, slocki are you in town?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

tears of the black tiger is playing at the film forum.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

i just saw BLACK SNAKE MOAN

despite a movie featuring a half-naked christina ricci being led around on a chain for an hour being seemingly target marketed directly to me, it was...not good.

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

the machinist (ehh)
season 1 of huff (yay)
season 2 of huff (um)

― indian rope trick (bean), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ha - saw THE MACHINIST, too. Up until the last half-hour, the movie was solid - the reveal, tho, was meh. Spent the first 30 minutes thinking to myself, "HOLY FUCK CHRISTIAN!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

i just saw BLACK SNAKE MOAN
despite a movie featuring a half-naked christina ricci being led around on a chain for an hour being seemingly target marketed directly to me, it was...not good

I heard otherwise!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

well you heard wrong.

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

director dude's pathology is...something.

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

The trailer makes it look like it could fit in with the Tarantino and Rodriguez sections of GrindHouse, but I don't think that was the original plan.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

though perhaps i'm reading too much into a white dude's first movie being about a black pimp's salvation and his second being about a black bluesman's salvation through leading a young white nymphette around on a motherfuckin 40 foot chain

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Dear Zardoz,

WTF kind of movie do you think you are? Whatever kind it is, I love you.

Yr pal,

Nick

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

Henry Fool
The Unbelievable Truth
The Shooting Party

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think there was just a glut of disco-ear films that came out at about the same time. 54 was the same summer as The Last Days of Disco.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

Alpha Dog - I have a newfound appreciation for Larry Clark

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

Dear Domino,

O RLY?

Best,
Ally

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

Man on Fire > Domino > Deja Vu

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't seen Deja Vu yet. I should definitely netflix it, from that description.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

I really liked Domino, though.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

V For Vendetta (it's been a long time since I read the comic, but I seem to recall there being a little more to it than "Ned Raggett in Batman Vs. The RepulicaNazis")

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 07:04 (eighteen years ago)

i hated v for vendetta (the movie not the comic book)

― latebloomer needs to be less crappy (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 07:32 (eighteen years ago)

children of men is the movie vfv wished it could be (as far as bitain-set dystopian sf movies go!)

― latebloomer needs to be less crappy (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

britain-set*

― latebloomer needs to be less crappy (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 07:44 (eighteen years ago)

i couldn't watch 'v for vendetta' -- it was so hackneyed and self-serious yet loaded with lame violence, had to leave after twenty-five minutes. all the former dungeons and dragons lovers in our aisle couldn't believe we were leaving...

x-p: likewise, the lame animation of darger's work in that movie about him made me unable to watch that thing! and i can usually watch, like, anything, really.

time to put zardoz in my "queue."

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 18 January 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

zardoz is pretty incredible

― latebloomer needs to be less crappy (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

whatever happened to lsd ;(

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

I think there was just a glut of disco-ear films

And you had to have a disco ear to watch em! I liked the Whit Stillman one, as disco was quite peripheral. (also, isn't it a mid-80s setting, ie not the classic Disco Era?)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

i love last days of disco. i'm a big fan. my brother-in-law edited that movie! he might do whit's next one too.

i love zardoz too. even though it would be nice to have it on dvd, i broke down and bought a copy on vhs at the thrift store a couple weeks ago. i hadn't seen it since i was an acid-crazed teen.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

devo music video compilation on vhs

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

pan's labyrinth. pretty great! unexpectedly dark and violent.

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

V for Vendetta is kind of bad in parts but I didn't think it was terrible. The cell scenes and the ending were well done.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

I probably shouldn't mention, for fear of appraisal, that I saw Blade Runner for the first time the other day and thought it was kinda meh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc, why you break heart?? ;_;

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

i'm banning you from life.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

get out and don't come back until you are a human boy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

It made me think a lot about the 1982 vision of the future vs. the 2007 vision of the future, and there was some visually stunning sequences, but it wasn't as philosophically compelling as I'd been led to believe, and eventually it just devolved into an action movie (like just die already, Rutger Hauer).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

okay, you can stop now.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

It's simply a very good, bleak action movie to everyone but teens and nerds.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^ OTM X 100 ^^^^^^^^^^^

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Rutger Hauer is very close to unwatchable – a large reason why I can't stand it.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^ NOT OTM X 100 ^^^^^^^^^^^

Though "Just Die Already, Rutger Hauer" would be a good title for many movies he has been in.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I did like the creepazoid sexual tension between him and Daryl Hannah-as-Ziggy Stardust.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

but do you even like action movies in the first place??

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

No. I thought it was supposed to be a smart sci-fi movie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you were right that you shouldn't have brought it up if you think "action movie" and "smart sci-fi" are two separate things.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think they're mutually exclusive, I just mean I probably wasn't aware of the degree to which it was ALSO an action movie, oftentimes at the EXPENSE of all else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

JUST STOP. Anyway, I'm going to watch Crank next!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

The thing is, I was really looking forward to it, and partially because I liked A.I. and Minority Report.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

What, in specific terms, were you expecting from this movie? I'm not sure how it differs from Minority Report in terms of being an action movie. If you were expecting something like Gattaca, then I could understand being surprised by it, but Minority Report?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Though "Just Die Already, Rutger Hauer" would be a good title for many movies he has been in.

EXCEPT THE HITCHER

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

speaking of rutger hauer, does anyone remember the original Hitcher with him in it? i remember seeing it when i was in like 7th grade or something and it scared the piss out of me. my heart kind of shrinks a little whenever i see a commercial for the re-make, there's no way it will scare me as much.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

WHOA!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

The War Room (omg best movie ever obv). I hadn't realized that it features a young Mark Halperin doing his Al Gore impression.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

The Hitcher is a very good movie, i watch it often. i dont think theyll be able to recreate the air of 4am exhaustion in the remake though, thats what made the original special

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

The War Room (omg best movie ever obv).

This is really weird that you mention this, because I was walking to the train this morning and thinking "You know what, I never saw The War Room, maybe I should put that on my Netflix queue."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Also: Ally, I seem to remember more intriguing twists from Minority Report. It's been a while, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

well it's the best movie ever because this is gabbneb talking, but it really is very good as that sort of thing goes, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a screenwriter to match carville

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

well it's the best movie ever because this is gabbneb talking

Yeah, that sort of went without saying.

My girlfriend is kind of a political junkie, too, though, and loves Carville -- so I figured it'd be something we could watch together.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

Rutger Hauer is the bomb.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck Sheen Bean.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

The worst thing about the HITCHER remake (that I gather from the trailer): instead of the hitcher antagonizing the boy (interesting macho / homoerotic subtext!), it's just dude fucking w/ the girl (booooooooring pseudo-slasher bullshit). SEAN BEAN GET ONE MOVIE.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Which version did you see, Jaymc? The one with narration or without? (I actually saw both versions in school, the studio cut ironically enough in a Directing class because the teacher was that fucking clueless). I'm with Morb (??) on the whole action movie thing, re: the director's cut.

x-post I've seen enough of them to tell that if they finally a remake of a horror movie I haven't seen, all that means is I have to go see the original.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

re Rutger Hauer, srch Soldier of Orange (ie, before he became a Walkenlike joke)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

instead of the hitcher antagonizing the boy (interesting macho / homoerotic subtext!), it's just dude fucking w/ the girl (booooooooring pseudo-slasher bullshit).

ugh. that makes my heart shrink and frown.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

These folks fucking w/ 70s / 80s horror movie remakes need to wise the fuck up.

"What was wrong w/ the original BLACK CHRISTMAS? Oh, yeah - not enough gore & tittays!"

"What was wrong w/ the original HITCHER? Oh, yeah - too gay!"

I hope any HALLOWEEN remake replaces the Shatner mask & jumpsuit w/ a polyurethane Q-Bert costume.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

the original hithcer is brilliant. they will ruin it. because that is what they do.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

"What was wrong w/ the original BLACK CHRISTMAS? Oh, yeah - not enough gore & tittays!"

actually, I do kinda want to see that one.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

I like my gore and tittays in seperate scenes, though.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i won't even watch black christmas re-make. no margot kidder no credibility

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

"I like my gore and tittays in seperate scenes, though."

loser

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Morb, is that Hauer flick one of the early Verhoeven movies? I vaguely remember some footage of RH jerking off in that Channel Z doc (because I remember stuff like that).

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Turkish Delight. Evidently the Dutch Love Story or something. Sorta need to see it.

I actually liked the first half of the When A Stranger Calls remake. It's all obnoxious score and long shots in a house designed for maximum ominous shadow.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

The Verhoeven/Hauer flick is Turkish Delight, in case I wasn't clear.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

DR, but I think yr talkin about Spetters -- SOO is a jerkin-free WW2 movie. so they made at least 3 together in Holland?

God, all that horror garbage, no wonder no one watches Iranian films around here.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

if you're keeping score, that's,
Dr Morbius - Iranian films
rest of ILX - all that horror garbage

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

when the iranians make a good zombie movie, call me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

"Rutger Hauer is very close to unwatchable – a large reason why I can't stand it."

i am banning alfred from life too. and all iranian film fans.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

i always thought most people on ilx were boring non-horror fans anyway. or at least i always wanted to kill myself whenever i read genre film threads.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I really dislike horror films because none of them are very scary to me, sometimes I'll think to rent something like The Wicker Man because it seems funny though, I mean really Nick Cage punching Leelee Sobieski in the face, screaming "BITCHES" while wearing a bear suit--that is good for at least one laugh, in a group setting.

The remake of The Hitcher strikes me as pointless.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

Also there are plenty of people around here who are at least familiar with some of Iran's output. It's just questionable how many of us want to go into a huge thing about it with you, Morbius. Long discussions on ILX with you have gone bad about 9 out of 10 times, for me at least.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

And NO I'm not trying to start something before one of the geniuses shows up with the "Why are mommy and daddy fighting" comments again ;_1

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Which version did you see, Jaymc? The one with narration or without?

Without. "Director's cut."

I think I've seen two Iranian films? Taste of Cherry was pretty tedious (lol suicide), but The Apple was cute.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Instead of TITs, the orig BLACK CHRISTMAS features gratutitous Kidder "drunk acting school" techniques she would later transform into "unplaceable foreign accent acting school" techniques for SISTERS, only to finally triumph with "I am reallly high right now and reading poetry in space" techniques in SUPER MAN

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

but really, BLACK CHRISTMAS is all about the phone calls, which are really just the "Double Dog Dare" script from CHRISTMAS STORY pitched up a bit

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

OTM

and the shots of the plastic girl in the attic

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

"The remake of The Hitcher strikes me as pointless."

plus they already kinda did remake the hitcher in that movie where the two dudes crank call the scary truck driver on a cb radio and he stalks them and mayhem ensues. i liked that one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

with Leelee Sobieski (sic)! From the guy that made THE LAST SEDUCTION & a bunch of other crap!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

everyone's heard the story about eric red, the dude who wrote the hitcher and near dark, right? plowing his SUV into this place called Q's on wilshire blvd, killing a couple people, and being so fucked up on coke that when he saw what he'd done he picked up a shard of broken glass and slashed himself across the neck with it?

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

i guess he's doing okay now, though.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

I think!

[xpost]

whoa

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

!!!
ps: does the BC remake even bother the phone calls?
yeah that Leelee number was a cable flip find

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

this is from an l.a. weekly story last year:

As horror stories often do, this one started with a bump in the gathering night.

At 6:30 p.m. on May 31, 2000, Kenny Hughes had just passed Bundy in West L.A., heading east on Wilshire. A minor celebrity in skate circles, Hughes stands out in any crowd — a 6-foot-5, rail-thin African-American with a bushy Afro, whose small-town North Carolina deference belies a competitive streak which at 26 had won him a sponsorship with DC Shoes and, later, Element Skateboards. According to his police statement, riding next to him in his white 1995 Honda Accord was Aine Behan, his Irish girlfriend, whom he’d just picked up at the airport. Hughes himself was just back from Barcelona, where the skating is good, and was following three friends in the car ahead of him, looking for a motel on their way to Vegas. They made the light. He didn’t.

Locked in animated conversation, neither he nor his girlfriend noticed the 1994 black Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo approaching them from behind. It hit them at a dead stop, doing minor damage to the Honda. Hughes had the presence of mind to set the emergency brake before stepping out of his car, arms out, horizontal at his sides — wassup? — to inspect the damage. Angry, but in control, he walked back to the driver’s-side window of the car. This all took maybe 30 seconds.

“I get up to his car, and he’s slumped over the wheel, looking out the window towards me with his eyes open,” says Hughes today. “And I was probably there for a second, two seconds, and then the car just started moving.”

According to witness statements, the Jeep struck his car a second time, gradually picking up speed, until it jackknifed the Honda into oncoming traffic. Hughes’s girlfriend was still in the car and scrambled out of the moving vehicle, just as the Jeep slipped off its right bumper. No longer impeded by Kenny Hughes’ emergency brake, the Jeep’s RPMs found purchase, and suddenly it was going an estimated 35-40 miles per hour the wrong way across Wilshire, witnesses told police. It jumped the curb and obliterated a bus stop, scooping up 26-year-old Santa Monica City College English student David Roos, who was running for the safety of Q’s Billiards, located at 11835 Wilshire, immediately behind him. Taking out an outdoor patio of tables and scattering bodies — among them, 34-year-old environmental lawyer Noah Baum, there celebrating his first trial victory — the SUV continued unabated through the plate-glass windows and front doors of Q’s, stopping only after it had moved the heavy horseshoe-shaped mahogany bar, beer taps and freezer units several feet. Bar employees later said that from his vantage point on the west patio, Baum was the first to notice the careening car, and the first to recognize it as a potential threat.

Those drinking inside or watching the Knicks game on TV heard what sounded like an explosion, followed by a spray of glass, wood and dirt from a sidewalk planter. Many assumed it was an earthquake or a bomb — though bombs were not quite so plausible back in those pre-9/11 days. In statements to police, several witnesses reported the Jeep’s driver — Eric Red, then 39, the screenwriter of horror film classics The Hitcher and Near Dark 15 years before, and more recently the director of progressively lesser-known horror fare — was unconscious and slumped over in his seat. But others remember him wide awake and staring straight ahead, both before and after the impact. One of these, Jason McCourt, was pinned to the bar and began yelling at Red to back up. Bartender Donal Tavey came over the bar and onto the hood of the Jeep, then tried to help him get it into gear. “He went from ‘park’ to ‘reverse’ and back, then started screaming and shaking his head like he was a little kid,” reads Tavey’s police statement. Others told police that Red was “shouting and flailing his arms around” or “shaking hard and screaming like a lunatic.” Another bartender got Red out of the Jeep and popped it into neutral, after which the crowd managed to rock it back off the bar. Miraculously, McCourt was alive, getting off with a broken leg and fractures to his hips and pelvis. But immediately below him, Baum was crushed into a sitting position. Ann Blackburn, a nurse, examined Baum within minutes and reported he was dead at the scene, although she continued CPR until an ambulance arrived.

Rather amazingly, three retired FBI agents — Mike Wacks, Fred Ahles and Richard “Bucky” Sadler — were drinking at the southwest corner of the bar, about three feet from the point of impact. None will comment on the record today, but in his police statement, Wacks — who was once assigned to a detail investigating Carlos Marcello, the notorious New Orleans mob boss widely implicated in the Kennedy assassination — stated: “I looked at the driver after the crash and he appeared awake and alert. It was like he was just a guy in the bar. There was no look of surprise or shock on his face at all.” Sadler’s statement quotes Red as saying, “Is everybody okay? Did I hurt anybody? I didn’t mean to kill anybody.”

Still holding his car keys in his left hand, and bleeding from a small cut on his right eyebrow, Red walked a ways from the vehicle, just in time for Cassady Jeremias, one of Kenny Hughes’ friends in the car ahead of him, to see him pick up a sharp stick and begin ramming it into his chest. Interviewed recently, she remembers thinking, “Well, who’s this joker — he’s not going to kill himself with a stick jabbing himself in the chest?” Undaunted, Red picked up a broken glass off the floor, approximately two inches thick, and slashed once at his neck, cutting it deeply. According to the police report, kitchen worker Ray Garcia and several patrons wrestled him to the ground, then tied a waiter’s apron around his throat to stanch the flow of blood and covered him with a tablecloth to prevent shock. Red continued to speak, telling Wacks, “Don’t bother, I just want to die,” and Garcia, “Don’t bother with me, I’m not worth living.” Alan Levy, who was headed eastbound several cars behind Red and saw the whole thing, told police, “This looked like road rage to me.” And in a follow-up police phone call, bartender Tavey claimed he believed the collision was an intentional act.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

W.T.F.

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Despite what I said earlier, he looks great here:

http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/TopFilms/Hauer/HauerFloris.jpg

A German-language Crimson Pirate?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

someone pls to embed the spinning rutger hauer face cube as seen on this page:

http://www.rutgerhauer.org/submenues/picgalleries.php

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Dave, Red Rock West is not "a bunch of other crap."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

... I didn't even know Rutger Hauer was in Batman Begins until I saw the credits.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Ha - forgot about that one! FWIW, I was thinking of ROUNDERS & UNFORGETTABLE.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think I've seen two Iranian films? Taste of Cherry was pretty tedious (lol suicide), but The Apple was cute.

Wrong and wronger.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, I thought you were talking about that damned disco musical everyone here loves for God knows why.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

I think you guys are missing the craziest part of the hitcher-writer story which is that he was found innocent and then I think he wrote a screenplay about somebody mowing down people with his car or something fucked up like that.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:10 (eighteen years ago)

Good Morning (took a loooong time to get going, but cute)

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:40 (eighteen years ago)

Check out Eric Red's latest project:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800366/

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

"Los Angeles County authorities ultimately declined to file criminal charges against Red due to insufficient evidence, but Red's driver's license was suspended indefinitely as a consequence of his "negligently causing or contributing to a fatal accident.""

Insufficient evidence???

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

i LOVE body parts, i LOVE the hitcher, and i LOVE near dark, but the dude wrote blue steel and boy is that movie a stinker. he didn't write the screenplay though. maybe it wasn't his fault. i blame bigelow.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

I was surprised just how contrived Blue Steel.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:44 (eighteen years ago)

..was

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite part was probable when a bare-ass naked Ron Silver covered in blood leaps through a window in NYC and when Jamie Lee Curtis runs after him two cops at the bottom of the fire escape yell "he got away!"

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

"a bare-ass naked Ron Silver"

yeah, see, that right there...

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

they never really explain how Ron shows up later in some ratty old clothes, sadly no deleted scene for that one.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

homeboy was great in Timecop

― latebloomer needs to be less crappy (latebloomer), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Saw Idiocracy last night. A few laughs, could've (actually, compared to everything else Mike Judge has done, should've) been much better. It was so fucking short, wtf? May watch again in 5 years to remind myself if it was any good, I will probably be disappointed then, too.

― a magical moment with unicorns dancing around you (nickalicious), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Inland Empire (repeat)
The Dreamers (repeat)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

united 93. why the fuck did i ever watch that?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

the president in idiocracy was the best part

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

princess raccoon -- totally nutso. lotsa fun. for all fans of loopy japanese pop-rock operettas starring zhang ziyi as a small furry mammal.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

cutty otm! i so would want that president instead of fucking dubya

― feed latebloomer to the Sharkicons (latebloomer), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

whoa that sentence did not come out right

― feed latebloomer to the Sharkicons (latebloomer), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't realize princess raccoon was out, awesome

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

oo!!!

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

restored print of El Topo at the Castro tonite at 7pm for SF noizers . . .

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

wow, i would go to that. i've never seen it on the big screen.

i might go this weekend to see a hi-def showing of the metropolitan opera on the big screen. er, i can't remember what opera it is. something italian. sounds like it could be neat to see though. or different anyway.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

Breakfast On Pluto
Saw III

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

how was saw III? worse than II? the first one was pretty funny

― feed latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

I was consistently entertained, if never particularly impressed.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 21 January 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

I was also stoned, though.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 21 January 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea why the plot is set around a seemingly drunken Angus MacFayden stumbling around, yelling about his dead son and trying to hide his accent. I've hated this guy ever since I caught his shitty Richard Burton in some Liz Taylor TV biopic and can't understand why he still gets work.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 21 January 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

Pan's Labyrinth

― feed latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 January 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

Some Kind Of Monster

The scenes with Dave Mustaine are insane.

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Sunday, 21 January 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

Some days Some Kind Of Monster is my favorite movie ever.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 21 January 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

haha totally worth watching for that scene

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 21 January 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

"I've never talked to my little Danish friend again."

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Sunday, 21 January 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

two grown metalheads acting like jilted lovers

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 21 January 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

God, I hated Breakfast in Pluto (although Bryan Ferry is unsurprisingly great). I only liked the scenes with Gavin Friday.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 21 January 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

last night in theatre: Notes on A Scandal. pretty good if not great. judi dench was great as twisted spinster bitch w/repressed lesbian hotts for cate blanchett's manipulative yuppie mom character. very Patricia Highsmith in its psychological acuity. my only beef was with the teenage boy at the center of the scandal, total miscast actor who looked closer to 12 than 15, rendering the teacher/student fling pretty much incredible.

the Phil Glass soundtrack is FANTASTIC and drama-enhancing like a Bernard Hermann classic accompaniment to Hitchcock.

― lovebug 2.0 (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Dead Man's Shoes..... u_u

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Sunday, 21 January 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

The boy was pretty cute!

Bill Nighy gave my favorite performance in the film.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

the proposition
heavy.

kinda want to see notes on a scandal, which has been recommended by several people now... and bill nighy is in it? man, i love him!

― more grease in the pianissimo. (tehresa), Sunday, 21 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I wuvwuvwuv Bill Nighy. Let's have a Bill Nighy thread.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

free dvds of little miss sunshine and the departed in the mail :) :) :)

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

throw little miss sunshine out

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

BUT ITS FREE

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

YOU HEARD HIM, THROW IT OUT

― feed latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

RASHOMANS
LIZZOST IS SPIZZACE

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

Holy Mountain 35mm print @ Castro -- anyone in SF even thinking about not going, should go
Butterfly Effect (Director's Cut) -- this film is special, I liked it

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 22 January 2007 07:51 (eighteen years ago)

Munich (nothing in '06 matched it)
Regular Lovers

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Eric: this is The Apple I meant.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

borat XD

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

a friend and i watched thumbsucker the other day and mostly weren't so into it, except for the keanu reeves parts, which were obv the best parts. ever since rewatching bill&ted's i feel vindicated in always having loved keanu reeves, as an actor.

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone imported or seen the host? caught a trailer for it this weekend and it looks INCREDIBLE.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 22 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNbZE8NX0nk

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

yes it is brilliant

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Slap Shot
Henry V

Anyone seen Sherrybaby?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

the wild blue yonder
deep red

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

no purple rain?

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Or White.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

maybe i should rent 'crimson rivers 2: angels of the apocalypse'

― ‘•’u (gear), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Where the Green Ants Dream?

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

the naked city (A+)

― 69 (plsmith), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Sherrybaby. Go ahead, if you must.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

I figured it was one of those love-the-actress-hate-the-movie things.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (YES)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

good shepherd ... it was ok. not great.

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone imported or seen the host? caught a trailer for it this weekend and it looks INCREDIBLE.

yeah I saw it at New York Film Festival, it's pretty cool

I think I saw it cuz s1ocki raved about it on here

the scene from the trailer is def. one of the best scenes though, there is not much that matches it

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

Notes on a Scandal - okay, I guess. Well-made, but the first half is so oppressive (between Dench VO and score) that it's almost unwatchable. I liked Closer better.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

just saw Children of Men.

― attack all monsters (skowly), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

the beaver trilogy

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:05 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone imported or seen the host? caught a trailer for it this weekend and it looks INCREDIBLE.

-- Jams Murphy (littleknow...), January 22nd, 2007 2:59 PM. (ystrickler) (later)

yah dude host is great. i'm actually kinda psyched to see the american version cuz i bet they cut it down to size (which it needs)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

end of season 2 of huff
jaws 3
new world (again)
follow that bird (sesame street movie) (again)
aristocrats (again)
three burials of melquiades estrada
brighton beach memoirs (again)
the black swan (again)
sunshine boys
shallow grave (again)
good thief
pooh's heffalump movie
the hills have eyes

― indian rope trick (bean), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:24 (eighteen years ago)

DVD sale: Andrei Rublev

Library Borowwings: 5x2, Resident Evil (more a carbon copy than just merely Carpenter-esque), The Intruder and Wedding Crashers.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Buffalo Soldiers
The Harder They Come
Croupier
Variety Lights

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

haven't watched too many movies recently but i did see a screener of uh blood diamond last night - it was not that bad!

kinda in the same vein as munich - serious action movie.

the end was really not that cool though.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

actually i saw Idiocracy and notes from a scandal too.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Chinatown!

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

the beaver trilogy

Had you seen it before, Chaki? It's a strange little film.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

no i havent! i like sean penn the best.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone seen decasia? there's a screening with live music this week in ny.

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

yeah. burn one down first.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

GAWD WHY DO YOU ALWAYS RUIN MOVIES WITH WEEDZ

― attack all monsters (skowly), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://lemonodor.com/images/decasia.jpg

what music are they putting with it when they do it live? I think I put some other cd on while I watched it at home

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

i'm actually kinda psyched to see the american version cuz i bet they cut it down to size (which it needs)

but won't they make the Americans the heroes instead of the villains?? that would kind of fuck it up I think.

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone seen decasia? there's a screening with live music this week in ny.

where?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

ok this final dance scene from little miss sunshine is bonkers

― attack all monsters (skowly), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

oh yah you should see napoleon dynamite!

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

i can google:

Decasia Live at Angel Orensanz - NYC

January 25, 26, & 27 at 7:00pm and 9:30pm

Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts
172 Norfolk St., between Houston and Stanton Streets
New York, NY 10002

Tickets for DECASIA LIVE are now available through TheaterMania.com

Ridge Theater presents “Decasia Live”, a symphony by Michael Gordon with film by Bill Morrison.

The 55-piece Manhattan School of Music TACTUS Contemporary Ensemble surrounds the audience behind film and slide projections. Patti Monson conducts.

Projections by Laurie Olinder, Set design by Jim Findlay, Directed by Bob McGrath.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

January 25, 26, & 27 at 7:00pm and 9:30pm

Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts
172 Norfolk St., between Houston and Stanton Streets

xxposts haha

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

i'm actually kinda psyched to see the american version cuz i bet they cut it down to size (which it needs)

but won't they make the Americans the heroes instead of the villains?? that would kind of fuck it up I think.

-- dmr (dmr334...), January 23rd, 2007 8:02 PM. (Renard) (later)

i don't mean the remake but the american release of the orij

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Some Kind of Monster - lolz. There was this span of about 15 minutes where it seemed like Lars was undouchening. Otherwise...Kirk Hammett seems like a nice enough dude.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

I was surprised to find out I sympathized with Lars more than anyone. He at least was excited about making an album, while James was too busy trying not to turn into the Hulk and Kirk was stuck in permanent "lukewarm water" mode (except when they took away his solos and the last shreds of his ego).

God, I love that movie.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

i'm gonna post norman mailer/rip torn hammer fight on here too since it's movie-related and in case anyone missed it:

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2815238?cmpnid=746&if&filmid=2815238

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

awesome. Have you seen Tough Guys Don't Dance?

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

i have. i like that movie. i liked the book too. not that i'm a mailer buff or something.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I'm no Mailer buff but I worship that movie.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Biography for
Wings Hauser

Birth name
Gerald Dwight Hauser
Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)

Mini biography

Extremely proud to be married to his brilliant filmmaking partner: talented young actress/filmmaker, Cali Hauser . Cali's great ancestor is Golden era legend Edward G. Robinson). Cali earned her Master's Degree from NYU at the age of 20, - after having already been skipped several grades in school. With classic "movie-star looks" to match her talent and brains, - she and Wings are a rookie/veteran filmmaking team. Cali will be starring in the film that Wings and she co-wrote, "South of Eden." Cali also co-produces that film, along with Academy Award-winning Producer, Hans de Weers ("Antonia's Line"). Additionally, Cali was granted the rights to Zane Grey's favourite novel, by Grey's son, Loren. Wings and Cali are adapting that novel for the screen - a film in which they will co-star. After a high-school career centered in sports - his name "Wings" is taken from the "Wing-back" position he played in football. Wings chose to lean toward the arts - acting and music (including an album of his original music for RCA) - instead of pursuing professional sports. Having descended from an artistic and talented family, this choice was a heartfelt one. Wings is the son of writer/producer/actor Dwight Hauser, who worked on (amongst many other projects) the Classic "Whistler" radio series. Son of the beautiful Geraldine Hauser, (who was the daughter of author Tom Thienes - "Whimseys" and others). Father of Bright Hauser, - his daughter whom he raised as a single father, having arrived in Hollywood "with thirty dollars and a box of pampers" - and really earned his career accomplishments with hard work and dedication. Father of Cole Hauser.

IMDb mini-biography by
Hauser Management

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

do you know what's an even better bad/great literary-related thriller:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305812136.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

arthur miller's stab at tough guy stuff. it's a hoot!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I've heard about that! Should see if we have it at work.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

i can't believe i didn't know that cole hauser was the son of wings hauser! it makes so much sense. they both rule so much.and they are both really scary. i think cole hauser might be my favorite actor currently.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

all over me makes me cry every time i watch it. i'm kinda gay for cole hauser. don't tell anyone.

http://www.finelinefeatures.com/alloverme/images/07.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite IMdb biography of all time is probably Tom "Biff" Wilson's...
Tom Wilson is a creative artist whose professional career has explored almost every imaginable artistic discipline, blending them into a unique and very individual declaration of a life in the arts. A man of fervent but private faith his whole life...I found it after trying to figure out where I remembered the coach from Freaks & Geeks.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

i'm kinda gay for both of these people:

http://onunterhaltung.t-online.de/c/04/39/39/439398,tid=i.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, in case you were wondering, "Halloween: Ressurection" is crap.

This is what I get for returning all my Netflix movies before my day off.

― John Justen is fucking sick of his username (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

wings hauser has that great courtroom scene in 'the insider' where he tries to intimidate russell crowe with some legal shit while gary sandy of tv's wkrp glowers nearby, then bruce mcgill tells him to shut up.

― roger goodell (gear), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

i heart bruce mcgill so much

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

that movie is awesome. colm feore!

― roger goodell (gear), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Have you seen Tough Guys Don't Dance?
-- Zwan (anthonyisrigh...), January 24th, 2007.

yes!

anyone who's into Twin Peaks sort of needs to check out Tough Guys Don't Dance, it's definitely a Mailer thing but it's an extremely strange film. Isabella Rosselini as 'Ex-wife' and Lawrence Tierney as 'Dad'.

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'll put it in my sub-Netflix Blockbuster queue right above Nice Girls Don't Explode.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

KRULL (Liam Neeson!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

STOP WATCHING CINEMAX, DAVID!!!

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

I'M WATCHING FLIX

AND I'M SICK

(btw, motherfuckers from work that say "you don't SOUND sick" when I've spent the last 2+ days coughing up all sorts of magic from my lungs need to suck everyone's dick.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

haha DICKS!!!

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

I love All Over Me! Cole Hauser is hot in many movies, but he's scary in that one.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

The Krull Princess looks kinda like Teena Marie!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

I just remembered my favorite part of Some Kind of Monster: the Lars/Dave Mustaine therapy session where Dave gets all "I blew it man, everything I've done since has been shit"...yeah, shit to the tune of NINETEEN MILLION RECORDS SOLD WORLDWIDE, you poor fucking baby.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I just remembered my favorite part of Some Kind of Monster! When Dave Mustaine is crying at Lars like "I never got over it man, everything I did after turned to shit"...wtf dude, yeah, shit, to the tune of FIFTEEN MILLION RECORDS SOLD WORLDWIDE.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahaha WTF, sorry guys, I would delete one but I don't remember how to flex admin

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

i just watched Inferno. uh... not really sure how it's supposed to be a sequel to Suspiria, but it was pretty nice. i like the fact that the horror of the whole thing was, per usual, based on strange architectural forms. and the scenes with the murderous cats!

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody told me that Dave Mustaine had just seriously fucked up his hand around the time of his chat with his little Danish friend. He probably would have been less whiny if they had the talk circa Countdown To Extinction.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

fifteen million next to metallica's 90 gajillion's gotta hurt though

― feed latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

The Devil's Backbone, which is practically a first draft of what Del Toro perfected in Pan's Labyrinth.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

ONG BAK

― mothers against celibacy (skowly), Thursday, 25 January 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

god i loved Pan's Labyrinth

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

The Prestige - it was good! I had pretty low expectations going in though. It was like kind of like Primer but with magicians instead of nerds.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone seen THE PROTECTOR, starring tony jaa of ONG BAK?

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

No, just the preview for it, but it's on my list now. Will be next movie.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Vagabond
Slither
The Blob

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Actually I take that back, my next movie will be some gymnastics cotton candy called Stick It because The Protector has a "long wait".

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

GYM-NICE-STICS RETURNS

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Spirit of the Beehive - one of those great films that captures how bizarre childhood is, gothic, poetic, mystic, a new favorite

Akeelah and the Bee - cute, unplug brain before ingesting

THX 1138 - more fun to contemplate than to watch, perhaps the only movie in history where the good guy gets away because the bad guys go over budget, unfortunately Lucas can't resist continuing to fuck with his old movies, why doesn't he just CGI a DeLorean into American Graffiti and leave this one alone? DVD extras are great, include a 1970 documentary about the cast getting their heads shaved

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

anthony, which Blob did you watch?

what'd you think of slither?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

the protector was not that good.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

>:
does tony jaa knee people in the head at least?

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

mick fleetwood in the running man

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

anthony, which Blob did you watch?

the original. it was fun, esp. Steve McQueen as a 28-year-old high schooler.

what'd you think of slither?

Ok enough, great one-liners, but I think I expected Gunn to re-invent the wheel or something. Good debut, just hope the next one isn't a fucking remake.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure Hollywood would love him to do Scanners

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

mini's first time
the rookie
pan's labyrinth

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

the more I think about Pan's Labyrinth the more disappointing it seems. to be awesome it needed about 10 more scenes along the lines of the eyeball-hand-guy.

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

The Fury ("I killed it ... with a machine gun!")

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

The Fury rules!

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif bill nighy on charlie rose now! http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif

― the art of pretend non-lawyering. (tehresa), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

that movie is awesome. colm feore!

-- roger goodell (speed.to.roa...), January 24th, 2007 7:13 PM. (gear) (later)

i've seen too much horrible canadiana to rep for feore

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

continuing the cat mutilation theme, just 'rescreened' re-animator, still gd-great sick fun twenty years on, love the fact that all the sfx were done real time, w/out any opticals

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

Old Joy
John Waters: This Filthy Life

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

~~Life~~ World

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

i saw that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

American Psycho - my new favorite movie.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

The Fury was (from the bits I saw while working @ home) spectacular dogshit. I hope JC & KD made some $$$ for that junk.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Young Dennis Franz & Young Laura Innes, tho - !!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

ok...taking a break from the umbrellas of cherbourg....havent seen this in yrs...demy KNOWS what cinema is all about...wtf has happened since!

― bb (bbrz), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

"The Fury was (from the bits I saw while working @ home) spectacular dogshit"

WRONGNESS. but i still wuv you.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 January 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

jaws: the revenge. michael caine and a guy that (i think) provided the inspiration for hermes on futurama. better than jaws 3.

― indian rope trick (bean), Saturday, 27 January 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

am finally on the deadwood bandwagon! watched the first four episodes in a row. it wasn't love at first sight but by ep 3 i knew there was no going back. i have a bad feeling about what's going to happen to my language.

maybe will see pan's labyrinth tonight
i wish inland empire was playing here already...

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 27 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

the eyes of tammy faye

― dmr (Renard), Saturday, 27 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

slither and jackass2 - both pretty great.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 27 January 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

watching kiss kiss bang bang again. i love this movie so damn much

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 28 January 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

pan's labyrinth was crazy and intense! really good, but i don't know how to feel right now - am left half hopeful, half depressed. though the more i think about it, the more i lean towards hopeful. whatever though, that'll figure itself out - the movie itself was so well done.

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 28 January 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

kiss kiss bang bang is totally rewatchable

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 28 January 2007 03:52 (eighteen years ago)

from over the hedge,

"CURSE YOU PLASTIC MOLDSMAN!"

― msp (mspa), Sunday, 28 January 2007 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

Babel -- I have to say, I was expecting a whole lot worse. This was surprisingly palatable. Not a masterpiece or even really very good, but why this gets as much hate as Crash is, I think, knee-jerk aftershock from that film.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 January 2007 06:48 (eighteen years ago)

or aftershock from 21 grams, which is the main reason i haven't seen it. but a friend who hated 21 grams even more than me said babel was sort of ok. so maybe.

meanwhile...female trouble! i'm not sure which hall of fame divine belongs in, but there has to be one somewhere.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 28 January 2007 07:47 (eighteen years ago)

Dawn Davenport! The scene where (s)he trashes the family Xmass tree because there were no go-go boots underneath is comedy gold.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 28 January 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

OK DR MORBIUS I WATCHED YR PRECIOUS MUNICH.

it was ok. about what i expected. eric bana was pretty good although as the movie went along i could hear spielberg saying "ok but more INTENSE." some fairly ridiculous dialogue. and serious aesthetic conflict between spielberg's affinity for snappy action sequences and the moral freight those sequences are supposed to carry. also, the closing view of the twin towers was the cheapest of cheap shots.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 28 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of Israel - weird 70s Israeli flick called "Metzitzim"

Basically consisted of Arik Einstein acting surly and a lot of dudes perving on ladies at the beach

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

I'll think to rent something like The Wicker Man because it seems funny though, I mean really Nick Cage punching Leelee Sobieski in the face, screaming "BITCHES" while wearing a bear suit--that is good for at least one laugh, in a group setting.
The best part is the facefull of bees!! Don't ya wish that scene was for real?

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

no u guys babel really does suck

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

ps i did not see 21 grams or crash

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm really not saying it's good, but I'm sort of taken by how loathed it is. Maybe not quite as loathed as Munich (hyuck), but both deserve better.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Notes On A Scandal. Total, TOTAL trash but lots of fun.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Human Nature
fun

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

shopgirl, ugh, awful

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:36 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, really? It's on my list.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

i just started watching "A Place Called Chiapas" on google videos

― mothers against celibacy (skowly), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

first half of In The Bedroom - Dubus adaptations appear to be 0 for 2 thus far.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

the good thing about shopgirl is how it portrays LA - i liked that.
mostly though, not such a good movie. lacklustre script that seemed to want to do something else or was just bad. people/lives i was not interested in. overall pretty boring.

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

i liked her apartment stairs, the driving scenes, and the LA views and sidewalks and the light

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

the novella starts out super-twee and sweet and then just kind of peters out after a while.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

Got so stoned and went to Holy Mountain/El Topo double feature last night at the Brattle. Liked Holy Mountain (which I'd never seen) way better, though I don't know if that was because of the "OMG IT'S THE INSIDE OF MY BRAIN" effect (they showed it before "El Topo" for some reason).

― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Monday, 29 January 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

gyps, the WTC shot was so "cheap" I can guarantee you a majority of the audience probably didn't get it (and in some cases, see it -- the towers were in the b.g., after all). I thought the Hitchcock/Costa-Gavras suspense/moral weight thing was perfectly balanced.

I generally didn't mind 21 Grams much, maybe I will rent Babel or see if I can find a $6 show.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

A Scanner Darkly. It's the first tme Robert Downey, Jr succeeded in annoying the shit out of me.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Little Miss Sunshine, it made me feel good about life. There were better movies of 06, but not many that made me want a hug from my little sister so much.

Hoodwinked, far funnier than it had any business being.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

i could not stand kiss kiss bang bang

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

The scene where (s)he trashes the family Xmass tree because there were no go-go boots underneath is comedy gold.

i believe that the item in question is cha-cha heels, not go-go boots.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

ayep.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Before Sunset
Miami Vice

Not a masterpiece or even really very good, but why this gets as much hate as Crash is, I think, knee-jerk aftershock from that film.

Very much OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

i could not stand kiss kiss bang bang

-- Jams Murphy (littleknow...), Today 2:31 AM. (ystrickler) (later)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (because I was hoping beyond hope I'd see J3nna Jam3son in a non-porn role keeping her top on; WRONG) (also, not even enjoyably bad) (also, take LONGER to kill off the annoying stud-douche, k thx)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

tampopo - hadn't seen in a long time so v classic

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

Recently:
In the Mood For Love
Blood For Dracula - FUCKING AWESOME. AWWWWESOOOOMMMMEEE.

I really need to send these back to netflix. :(

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Repast (Naruse) ... maybe not the best intro to this guy's work, but still great in a low key way

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

just watched spirit of the beehive. haven't caught pan's labyrinth yet.
saw children of men last night. when the title card flashed i thought we'd reached intermission!

― fukasaku bloodbath (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Oh also: The War Room (hi gabbneb)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Tampopo! So classic. Egg scene, still one of the hottest movie moments for me.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

kiss kiss bang bang was good, but suffered from the plot device of, i'll keep accidentally running into the same people over and over, cause this happens in real life all the time

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

I got Two Drifters at home. Anyone seen it?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

It's next up on Netflix for me.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

breach

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

kiss kiss bang bang was good, but suffered from the plot device of, i'll keep accidentally running into the same people over and over, cause this happens in real life all the time

-- cutty (holle...), Today 5:50 AM. (mcutt) (later)

the movie exists in such a fantasyland that really didn't bother me

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

very true, I thought the whole point of the movie was to exist in some noiresque action-adventure fantasyland

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

oh by the way in breach chris cooper uses the phrase "as dumb as a bag of hammers"!!! i almost fell out of my seat!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

oh oh btw Back to the Future was on tv yesterday and I would like to point out that 50's Biff's line, "WHY DON'T YOU MAKE LIKE A TREE AND GET OUT OF HERE?" is one of the greatest lines ever.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

having downloaded the complete 2nd season of Veronica Mars, I watched a seriously unhealthy number of episodes yesterday. oh man. and there's STILL MORE.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

How was Breach, slock!?!??!?! I thought the trailer was kinda hokey, but A) Chris Cooper, B) Laura Linney, C) the director of Shattered Glass (or so you said), so!?!?!??!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

i really liked it. it was like shattered glass 2: the chriscooperning.

laura linney was terrific and cooper was AMAZING... totally fascinating, complicated, weird role.

ryan philippe i actually like but i don't think he really held his own against cooper here.

but it really is similar to shattered glass (which i love) in a lot of really good ways.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

i saw a movie called 'sack of hammers' once. it was 3 hours long.

― roger goodell (gear), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

being there for the first time A+

― 69 (plsmith), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't like Being There at all. I saw it for the first time last summer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

china blue - doc on three teenage workers at a denim mfg factory in canton
blood diamond - this was not as horrible as people are saying!
davinci code - (fell asleep)
koko the talking gorilla - crit. doc. about SF Bay Area gorilla who learned how to converse using a vocabulary of 500-700 sign language words
kicking and screaming - i saw this in the theater! :-\ pretty okay gen x whit stillman rip off. hasn't aged well. too cute in places. blah.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

I saw ten or so Naruses last year, Eric, and that one's as good a place to start as any -- like Fassbinder, his career is one big film.

woooo, Two Drifters very pretty, pokerfaced and totally bananas

Prince Ehtejab
Find Me Guilty

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

kicking and screaming- i saw this in the theater!

so did i. "go away, cookie man, go away!"

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

so did i

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

i do like the scene in the bar between parker posey and chris eigeman, when they end up making out.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

china blue - doc on three teenage workers at a denim mfg factory in canton

hahahahaha

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

totally recommended. i know you prefer other types of film, but you should try to see this.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

My son has completely forgotten everything about Kicking and Screaming except the line "they're forming some sort of mega-person!".

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

(xp) it sounds fine, just a little, on the nose

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

oh... you should see it!

(and then do some industry research.)

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

Nick, I think that's a different Kicking and Screaming.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

haha I know, I make joek, it no that funny

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

you're fired

― mothers against celibacy (skowly), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

wet hot american summer
AWESOMEx999

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

the long goodbye - enjoyed!

*********************spoilerz***************************************

although it seemed kinda out of character when he killed dude at the end - but maybe that just illustrates the enigma of the guy or maybe gould's marlowe just didn't jibe w/chandler's.

*********************spoilerz over***************************************

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

fuck Smokin' Aces

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

oh jeez

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

just watched spirit of the beehive. haven't caught pan's labyrinth yet.
saw children of men last night. when the title card flashed i thought we'd reached intermission!
-- fukasaku bloodbath

Whadja make of Spirit of the Beehive? And speaking of fukasaku bloodbaths, I watched the first 30 minutes of Graveyard of Honor last night. So far, total beserkitude...

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

cocaine cowboys - omg vicarious thrills!

catch 22 - classic

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

i saw cocaine cowboys

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

i saw cocaine cowboys

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

i was pretty awesome huh

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.corpse.org/issue_4/images/Griselda.jpg
i was pretty awesome huh

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

she was thuggish

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/62/80/42/18651937.jpg
the columbians, what fucking retards, god.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://a69.g.akamai.net/n/69/10688/v1/img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/62/80/42/18651935.jpg
i have absolutely no idea why coke never did anything for me?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://a69.g.akamai.net/n/69/10688/v1/img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/62/80/42/18651938.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

i saw cocaine cowboys

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

the new "i am spartacus"?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Crank. Fun, would've been funner with somebody besides Jason State Ham, but well worth the hour+ it took to t0rr3nt. The public fucking scene was pretty hilarious.

I have not saw cocaine cowboys.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

You saw Find Me Guilty on Rosenbaum's recommend, Morbs? I think it's safe to say my days of automatically wanting to see anything he recommends are over.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty not-impartial about Statham, and I still thought that movie sucked. Fun if you can stomach it, though!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

well my entire exp w/ Vin Diesel was Saving Pvt Ryan and The Iron Giant. I have to agree w/ whoever wrote Vin was "charmingly terrible." Lumet's forte is not comedy of any stripe.

Tears of the Black Tiger
The Ruling Class

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Vin Diesel needs to do a D&D movie, an even cornier one than that Jeremy Irons/Thora Birch monstrosity of a few years ago.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Morbs, you haven't seen Pitch Black?? It's the real source of my crush on Vin Diesel, The Fast and the Furious was just icing on the clutch. I mean, cake.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

haha, Laurel, did you see Chronicles of Riddick??

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. It sucked. I was so looking forward to a gritty, mean prequel, to the whole prison story of the flashed eyes, etc. And they gave us...Riddick. Fuck 'em.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

yeah Pitch Black was pretty good. I steered clear of Chronicles though.

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I kept thinking the Rock or Vin Diesel would be capable of a stretch of cinema as awesome as Arnold Schwarzenegger's from '85-'90, but no dice.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, you KNOW I don't watch films like that. or, now you do.

Kind of an ambitious weekend ahead:

The Painted Veil
Inside Man
Friends with Money
Down in the Valley
United 93
The Pied Piper (Jacques Demy -- starring Donovan!)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Hey hey hey - don't discount the Rock just yet!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Vin Diesel should have done so much more in the vein of Pitch Black. He's a sci-fi fan and life-long dork to begin with, he could pick and choose projects, and I like his presence -- for all his gorilla image he's a lot less wooden than Affleck or etc. There are even moments of respectably deft comic timing in PB! His descent into tribal-tattooed stunt man Hollywood schtick makes me sad.

Morbius, I really think you should watch it! You can devote 14 hours to someone's masturbatory French new wave project, you can take 129 minutes out of your busy life for prime Vin Diesel.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I have only watched a 3-hour masturbatory French (retro) new wave project lately. bb is the one wants to see daylong Rivette movies!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

that one where the rock costars with the lumber is pretty sweet

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Hey hey hey - don't discount the Rock just yet!

Walking Tall was SUCH a waterdown that there's no way this guy's gonna make badass shit on an prime-era Arnie level.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

on a prime-era Arnie level. And while the fight scenes were great, The Rundown was disappointing too.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

My biggest issue with Chronicles of Riddick is that I went in expecting folks to be yelling "RIDDICK!!!" every couple minutes (interspersed with lots of explosions), instead everyone just sort of hissed it in disdain (and there were very few explosions). Disappointing.

Isn't there a 3rd movie to the PB/Chron of Rid series?

The Rock needs to do some buddy comedy/cop movies a la Rush Hour with Andy Dick or someone.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, I guess that's kind of what Walking Tall was supposed to be, wasn't it?

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

After the original Pitch Black (2000) proved a success on DVD, Universal became interested in making a sequel. Writer/director David Twohy wrote the screenplays for not one, but three sequels. He and Vin Diesel put them into separate leather binders and presented them to Universal, along with the key for the first binder.

The Rock is making a movie with Kyra Sedgwick about a football player who discovers he has a little girl.

Vin Diesel's next three IMDB plot outlines are more promising:
A man on an alien planet quests to catch an elusive giant fish.

Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

Vin Diesel stars as the Carthaginian general who led an elephant-riding battalion across the Alps to attack Rome in the 3rd Century B.C.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

The Rock should be Hannibal, not Vin!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that seems like a mis-cast -- but the fish one and the symbiotic hosting one sound GREAT TIMES A MILLION.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

morbs let me know what you think of painted veil. i dug it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

whoa those three sound rad

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

esp the giant fish one

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

[10:39] me: those sound amazing!!!
[10:39] tim: those sound like NES games
^otm

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

unless it's just vin diesel in overalls and a straw hit sitting on an creaky old doc with a fishing line tellin' yarns while three moons orbit in a pink sky

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

I believe I read somewhere that Rockfish is going to be animated.

He doesn't just star in the Hannibal movie, he's directing (and producing too, I think?). I remember reading somewhere it's been a lifelong dream of his.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

TS: Bobby vs. The Quest

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.movieweb.com/news/82/7082.php

According to Variety, Vin Diesel's One Race Films production shingle is partnering with Blur Studio to make a CGI feature based on the indie toon house's short Rockfish.

The thesp will voice a lead character in the sci-fi actioner, which will likely be aimed at a more mature audience than most studio-produced digitally animated pics.

One Race is now seeking independent financing for the production, which it hopes to bring in for under $30 million.

Diesel will produce with One Race partner George Zakk and Blur creative director Tim Miller, who wrote and directed the short and will helm the feature.

Rockfish short is about a man on an alien planet trying to catch a giant "rock fish" that lives underground and disrupts the planet's miners.

Diesel provided the voice of the giant in WB's critically acclaimed The Iron Giant.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

maybe there will be a Wii game where you get to do alien fishing as Vin

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

...with sexy results?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

He and Vin Diesel put them into separate leather binders and presented them to Universal, along with the key for the first binder.

omg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Okay I am officially obsessed with Vin Diesel today. Maybe I will rent The Pacifier on my way home.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to think the other two Riddick scripts are sitting, still locked, somewhere in the offices at Universal at the bottom of a big pile. Someone should try to rescue them!

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

clearly none of you want Vin to stretch a la Find Me Guilty.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want anyone to stretch a la Find Me Guilty

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

I remember liking his performance in Boiler Room, though.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Rock 'n Roll High School.

Not as fun as I remembered.

― John Justen waitin to get his W2s back so he can file his tax and ball out (john, Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

A Dirty Shame

Meh. It was definitely John Waters, but he kinda got all "MY POKEMANS LET ME SHOW YOU THEM" with a wide array of sexual fetishes & subcultures, but the overall movie was pretty sex-positive and fun.

Patti Hearst as a recovering froteuse was pretty good, tho.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Not as fun as I remembered.

i used to date a girl who was like two parts riff randle and two parts jenna jameson and 8 parts bat shit crazy.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

haha

i am excited about these upcoming Vin Diesel projects

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

he should combine all 3 into one Vintastic Extravaganza!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to think the other two Riddick scripts are sitting, still locked, somewhere in the offices at Universal at the bottom of a big pile. Someone should try to rescue them!

-- Zwan (anthonyisrigh...), February 1st, 2007.

perhaps...Vin Diesel?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

i think he'd be totally capable of meta-adventure and meta-ass-kicking

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

i loved chronicles of riddick! the goth metal bad guys were so cool.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

and i loved the hot planet that got very hot and the hot hole in the ground prison!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

'seraphim falls' - hey this was good! a little obvious in places, i guess, but it's a western in the classic vein, sans revisionism and with a pretty solid cast (liam neeson, pierce brosnan, michael wincott, tom noonan, angie harmon, wes studi, angelica huston). it sort of loses the plot a little near the end, but it's better than i expected.

― roger goodell (gear), Friday, 2 February 2007 07:05 (eighteen years ago)

Notes on a Scandal

I could never handle being a lesbian.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

Black Narcissus (started boring, got fun, totally ridiculous)
Hard Candy (started fun, got boring, totally ridiculous)

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Hard Candy was really really good up through the, um, balls scene (trying not to be too spoilery). I still enjoyed the rest, but it sort've climaxed too soon

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I don't even know what the term for it is, but I really hate that kind of digital shakycam they use in Hard Candy and the remake of The Hills Have Eyes.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

inside man
ehhhh

― universal death rats (sleep), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

Waking Life
Death of a Cyclist

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

what'd you think of waking life there morbs? i just watched it again a couple months ago, i liked it better than i remembered.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh and i just watched the river (tsai, not renoir or mel gibson). disquieting.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

the protector which was completely bonkers chaki u are WRONG

― universal death rats (sleep), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

i am watching raiders of teh lost ark!!!!

― be home by 11 (orion), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oz: Season 1 - I forgot about Bodie! and Mrs. Soprano!

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 4 February 2007 06:13 (eighteen years ago)

Satantango

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:36 (eighteen years ago)

Last week or so:

TV: At five in the afternoon and Johnny Guitar.
DVD (borrowed): Little Miss Sunshine and All the Real Girls
DVD (bought): Last Year at Marienbad.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 4 February 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

School For Scoundrels (I miss the wrinkles in Billy Bob's forehead and do not understand why Jon Heder exists)
Eddie Murphy: Delirious (it's being released on DVD this Tuesday in honor of Isaiah Washington)

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 4 February 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

orson welles f is for fake is about to be viewed by me for the third time this week...

― bb (bbrz), Sunday, 4 February 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

Graveyard of Honor. Fukasaku's original makes Miiike's remake seem like rational, well-mannered filmmaking.

Fave scene: an army of unarmed cops and mobsters are outside Ishikawa's hideout, he starts shooting them randomly and they respond with a hail of rocks while Ishikawa's drug buddy reels around the room screaming "WE'RE OUT OF FUCKING DOPE!" Classic.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Flags Of Our Fathers (repetitious and overlong, but I liked it overall)
Pulse ("We have to get out of the Wifi!!!", Brad Dourif cameo 50 minutes in)

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

bodie was in oz?!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Sex and Lucia (softcore porn ---> weird, writer-goes-crazy bullshit. totally cheezball, and chockablock with WTF moments)

Good Morning, Vietnam (heh. also a bit cheezball, but brought back memories of cranking the soundtrack when i was a little kid)

― grbchv! (skowly), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

tazza: the high rollers looks good. it's only playing at the imaginasian, though. inconvenient location vs really fun snacks. hmm.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

the descent

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

how many walkouts, Eric?

gyps, I liked Waking Life in '01 and still do. People who complained it was like an undergraduate philosophy bull session kinda missed the point, ie, yeah it is but the net's a bit wider. And the visuals keep the dialogue from becoming deadly (except for fucking Speed Levitch).

Bubble
Death of a Cyclist

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

People who complained it was like an undergraduate philosophy bull session kinda missed the point, ie, yeah it is but the net's a bit wider.

yeah. sidenote, the prof who gives the spiel on existentialism vs. postmodernism just died.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

"Rescreened" Conversations with Other Women the other night. Fascinating to watch a second time, once you know the nature of the relationship.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

said professor was even better in Slacker: "someday I want to pull a Guy Fawkes on it, blow them all sky high"

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

oops got my UT professors mixed up. Mackey (old anarchist) wasn't the professor in Waking Life

bodie was in oz?!
Yeah, he shows up in episode 2 or 3, 16-year old murderer who falls in with Adebisi & Co..

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

david bowie in the prestige rofl

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

Adaptation (Chris Cooper aside, meh)

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

did anyone think the prestige was fucked up and wonderful?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

yes, no

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:56 (eighteen years ago)

how many walkouts, Eric?

Actually, only two that I can remember. A few more of the audience of roughly 50 took off during one of the two intermissions, but I can't call them walkouts necessarily since they were offering to let people break up the screening over two days.

Less walkouts than there were during A Grin without a Cat and (especially) La Commune.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 08:15 (eighteen years ago)

Or, for that matter, Mysterious Object At Noon, which I think still stands as something of a landmark in walkouts. Granted, the film started with only about 20 people in the auditorium, but I was one of only three or four left at the end. And that was only because I fell asleep a few times.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, wait. I almost forgot about the throngs rushing to the exits during Kubelka.

And Femme Fatale, which lost well over half its audience during the film.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

Stupidest walkout of all time: two dudes who left The Passenger about a minute or two before the final shot.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 08:18 (eighteen years ago)

And Femme Fatale, which lost well over half its audience during the film.

Fools! (and what is kubelka?)

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Stupidest walkout of all time: two dudes who left The Passenger about a minute or two before the final shot.

-- Eric H. (ephende...), Yesterday 7:18 PM. (Eric H.) (later)

ouch

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Halloween
favorite parts were the scenes of JLC crossing the street early in the film. HUGE trees. Another scene, MM watches JLC walk away as the soundtrack slowly crossfades into the sound of his beathing and it seems as if the film is slowing down. Ace.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

did anyone think the prestige was fucked up and wonderful?

I did!

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Peter Kubelka talks too much (or, directors present at screening)...

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

i loved the prestige, despite its flaws. it has the kind of murky, sf-tinged convoluted plot that i just eat up.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

Adaptation (Chris Cooper aside, meh)

-- Zwan (anthonyisrigh...), February 6th, 2007.

have you ever seen Identity (with John Cusack)? it's almost the exact same movie that Charlie Kaufman's hack brother comes up with!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

its soooooo bad, i actualy guessed the "plot twist" from the trailer

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

identity was terrible

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

i actualy guessed the "plot twist" from the trailer

haha I did this with that Robert De Niro/Dakota Fanning "thriller" from a couple years ago.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

what identity needed was some culturally relevant nudity

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

prestige too

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

imdb's bio of donald kaufman used to list "The Thr3e" as "in development" or something. but now it's gone. :(

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

(if yr gonna actually give donald kaufman a bio, you might as well go along with the joke all the way.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

i sawr laurel canyon

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

i saw laurel's canyon

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

I, Sawyer. Laurel Canyon.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

You're all too late, a friend of my brother's has been calling me Laurel Canyon for like a year, and I'm pretty sure it hasn't even occurred to him that it's rude. We raise 'em polite-like out there.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

haha I did this with that Robert De Niro/Dakota Fanning "thriller" from a couple years ago.
spoil it for us, plz.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

soilent green, it was I.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

multiple choice spoiler

a) dakota fanning's a ghost
b) someone is schizo
c) it was all a dream
d) made of people

unfortunately it's not "all of the above"

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

HER DAD WAS THE BOOGIEMAN ALL ALONG.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

i vote a but want c

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I guess b is almost correct.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

what was the ending of that Sean Penn movie?

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff Spicoli saves Brooke Shields and is rewarded with money, which he uses to hire Van Halen to play at his birthday party.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

bonus

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

The Protector!! A 4-minute steady cam shot up the stairs and through about 8 fight scenes, scored by RZA, Tony Jaa all over the fucking place. What's not to love??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 February 2007 03:53 (eighteen years ago)

The Queen
Stage Door

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

going to watch netflix of rollercoaster tonight, maybe, if i don't fall asleep first.

― tuesdays with morey amsterdam (get bent), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'm finally going to see Inland Empire tonight.

:-D

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

An Unreasonable Man
Old Joy

(looks like I'm not getting to The Pied Piper after all)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

nader on the daily show last night = 1 strange dude.

he was on pimping a book abt his family values.

if my mom had raised little gorgie bush he would smile more uh yet you seem completely incapable of enjoying yrself.

i think he has the assburgers

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 8 February 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

NEED MORE STRANGE DUDES

Nader is apparently a big Tammy Wynette fan; his public image as somber warrior was quite carefully maintained when he was terrorizing Congress and corporations in his '69-76 heyday (also, hewould come back from hearings and play all the parts for his staff)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

dont get me wrong he did great work - but he seems totally fucked now.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

uh anyway i'll have to see that unreasonable man - what's you think?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

It's good if pretty conventionally made. The last major bio of RN (2002) is more informative, obv.

"totally fucked" is what Eric Alterman and Todd Gitlin should be

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

btw check the Shaw quote the title comes from

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

i dont know who they are and even after googling i'm not sure what yr getting at - do they hate ralph or something?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

yes. RN's "insane," "a megalomaniac," etc.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

he does seem a little crazy and writing a book abt the rules that you were raised by might be symptomatic of megalomania.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Stage Door
-- Eric H.

Your thoughts on this crypto-screwball film, Eric?

Mine:

The Verdict
Pet Shop Boys: Pop Art
Reflections in a Golden Eye (that's Brando's pretty good you know; that Liz Taylor is quite amusing you probably didn't).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

Your thoughts on this crypto-screwball film, Eric?

Hardly a man in site. Ergo, not screwball. Also, ergo, hysterically funny -- especially the last 10 minutes.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

saw the rerelease of mafioso -- good! rly good.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hardly a man in site. Ergo, not screwball. Also, ergo, hysterically funny -- especially the last 10 minutes

Eve Arden's imitation/parody of Katherine Hepburn ("Oh yes, it's TERRIBLY silly to go without food") makes me chuckle every time.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 February 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

andromeda strain
gonna see mafioso tomorrow I think

― dmr (Renard), Friday, 9 February 2007 06:06 (eighteen years ago)

no jhoshea, ppl who still blame Nader for Dubya are the crazies.

I guess we're only allowed to talk about 'butch' stuff on this thread, so more manga and anime pls.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

nader and the nader haters can both be crazy morbs

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

star trek 3
zero focus
couple eps of the wire (!!!)

― universal death rats (sleep), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Nader

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/teenagemutantninjaturtles/trailer1/tmnt_medium.html

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

invasion of thunderbolt pagoda

― dmr (Renard), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

Brick (has anyone seen this AND Bugsy Malone? Which is better?)

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 10 February 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

brick sucks. bugsy is classique.

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

This unveil coincides with IMDB screwing up their page.

― Eric H., Thursday, 22 February 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

nu-imdb seems ok

― s1ocki, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

its the first major layout change in ten years, no?

anyway, i saw The Yakuza, which was a lot sillier than i remembered.

― fies, Thursday, 22 February 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

no, nu-IMDB is too 'stylish,' it needs to be fucking utilitarian.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

i used it for "utilitarian" purposes at my job about 10 times yesterday and it was fine!

― s1ocki, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

fischli and weiss films tonight (at anthology) in rather excited, ill tell you

― bb, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

It's sort of Wikipedia-ized. I like parts and dislike parts.

Really, though, my only big complaint with IMDB isn't any new development -- I hate that they replace poster art with DVD box covers.

― Eric H., Friday, 23 February 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

yes that is lame.

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 February 2007 06:59 (eighteen years ago)

wow, i actually went the longest span of my entire adult life without seeing a movie: 5.5 weeks. i broke it with 'affliction' and 'gold diggers of '35' tonight, which was krad. admittedly, i've been watching keelloads of ass-tv.

― remy bean, Friday, 23 February 2007 07:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.postmedia.net/999/fischweiss2.jpg

fischli and weiss made me very very happy...if this stuff screens anywhere mildly near you, GO!

― bb, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

we jam econo - luvd it! (although this probably has something to do w/my utter affection or the band)

― jh0shea, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

If Curse of the Golden Flower screens anywhere mildly near you, GO! Much closer to Shakespeare (with visual dazzle more than macho tartness) than The D*p*rted. Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li in supercharged star mode. And incest! Also fight stuff and CGI use I hadn't seen before.

Lights in the Dusk, below-avg Kaurismaki

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

...Golden Flower is playing at 2 different theaters here! I might go this weekend.

My roommate keeps trying to get me to watch Layer Cake, he says it's "the best movie ever made". I don't know, this same guy actually walked to Blockbuster to rent the Larry the Cable Guy movie.

― nickalicious, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Layer Cake is a fun little gangster romp, but it's the acting & the panache more than the story that keeps that sucker going.

Curse of the Golden Flower was kinda meh, in my estimation - gorgeous as hell, the last half hour is SPECTACULAR, well done & all that, but it left me kinda meh. And the song @ the end didn't help. Hero (or House of Flying Daggers) is more my speed.

― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

</Roeper>

― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it utterly trumped those 2 other Zhangs! and you folx have gotta get over corny Chinese pop hits over end credits; it can't all be edgy techno.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

How about tasteful orchestral swoops? Or that guy w/ the gong doing his thing?

It wasn't so much the music as the LYRICS (which, thanx to subtitles, I was able to "enjoy"). And the fact that the switch from period-piece ambience to poptones reminded me of the way Dynasty Warriors II through XVII (one of them there video games kids play) end.

― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

btw I believe the singer was the smokin' hot warrior son.

I could cry at the lack of attention this got compared to Crouching Bullshit.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Kinda think you are there, chief.

― David R., Friday, 23 February 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Either Hero or House of Flying Daggers blew. Don't know which one it was.

― milo z, Saturday, 24 February 2007 07:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - okay enough, I guess. All gangster/revenge flicks suffer in comparison to Point Blank.

― milo z, Saturday, 24 February 2007 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

It was Daggers that blew.

― Eric H., Saturday, 24 February 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

The Wedding Director (Bellocchio, not so hot)
Terminal Station/ Indiscretions of an American Wife (achy breaky Monty)

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

The Prestige - Wolverine whining about "never knowing if he'd be the man in the box or the prestige" still doesn't make any sense.

― milo z, Sunday, 25 February 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

ellen-box.jpg

http://cache.defamer.com/assets/resources/2007/02/ellen-box.jpg

― get bent, Sunday, 25 February 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

infamous, which beat the whositz anna whasitz outta capote

― remy bean, Sunday, 25 February 2007 08:21 (eighteen years ago)

35 up
half nelson

― dmr, Sunday, 25 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

35 up is hella depressing, i think the most of all of them (?)

― remy bean, Sunday, 25 February 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

My roommate keeps trying to get me to watch Layer Cake, he says it's "the best movie ever made". I don't know, this same guy actually walked to Blockbuster to rent the Larry the Cable Guy movie.

lol we live the same people

― gbx, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

with. we live with the same people

― gbx, Sunday, 25 February 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

larry the cable douche is coming to my town's enormorena soon.

so psyched.

― latebloomer, Sunday, 25 February 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

parts of 35 were a downer but some of the stuff in 28 seemed worse

just saw taste of tea, it's really good

― dmr, Monday, 26 February 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

RENO 9/11: MIAMI - This movie was fucking funny! It took awhile to get used to some of the more oh-so-we're-allowed-to-do-THIS-with-an-R-rating-ness, but, shit, exploding whales and "tight tit tatt"s!

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 February 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

just saw taste of tea, it's really good

YA

― s1ocki, Monday, 26 February 2007 06:17 (eighteen years ago)

Ten Skies (James Benning)
Children of Men (again -- fuck the Oscars)

I'm eager to see Taste of Tea!

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's only playing in nyc through next weekend

― dmr, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I've never been to ImaginAsian either

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

yeah me neither until yesterday

it's not bad

correction: this thursday is the last day

― dmr, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

yeah whats that place like?

― jh0shea, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

RENO 9/11: MIAMI

we ran into 3 or 4 or these guys on the way to their premiere. sar@h gave them all jumping high fives.

― sleep, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - the lobby feels more like a conference room / office but the theater is okay. they just have one screen, a pretty big room, not some ridiculous tiny corridor like angelika or film forum. seats seem kinda old but decent enough ... i'd go back.

― dmr, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

i rly wanna see taste of tea and i live like 4 blocks from imaginasian but i can't see it by thursday argh. (do they sell sushi or kim chee or anything at the food stand? i've never been in there either.)

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 06:40 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't notice! we got there late and had to run right in, the previews were already on.

tonight I watched a documentary on Stan Brakhage made for Canadian tv

didn't know much about him going in, it was surprising how varied his films were over the years

― dmr, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 07:20 (eighteen years ago)

The Believer (R Gosling's breakout as a Jewish Nazi youth in contemporary NYC)

The Taste of Tea got some great reviews, I gotta hope it'll show up somewhere else.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

i've been hoping it'd get some sort of release for a couple years now

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm an idiot, becuase I've sorta been conflating / confusing Brad Renfro w/ RG, & The Believer w/ Apt Pupil.

― David R., Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone seen Rhinestone and is it as awesome as I think it might be?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePivPcSXXLs

Dolly Parton and Sly: awesome.

― Capn Guthrie, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

see above

― Capn Guthrie, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Sick day distraction: Tuff Turf with James Spader has a hot, hot early 20s babyfaced smart ass. It's so bad it's...no, it's still bad. But I love it.

― Laurel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

A Canterbury Tale
Stingaree (insane 'western' semi-musical set in Australia from '34 w/ Irene Dunne as soprano boosted by love of an outlaw)
A Man to Remember

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Rhinestone once in my teens while home sick. I don't actually remember anything about it though; I had the flu and a 104+ fever, I was in and out of reality.

― nickalicious, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

OK, what should I watch this evening:

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Klute

DEICIDE NOW

― David R., Friday, 2 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

OR shd I leave the confines of my hole & go see Zodiac?

(I think I know my answer!)

― David R., Friday, 2 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

have you seen both?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

I thought "Stingaree" was one of those legendary lost forever films* Obviously not.

(*source of this "knowledge": "I read it on the internet somewhere years ago")

I have "Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" at home from the rental place. I'd better watch it tonight!

― Pashmina, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Mr. Dr. - I have seen none of those yet at all.

― David R., Friday, 2 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

LEONE THEN

Yes, Turner has rescued "Stingaree" from lostness

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

i think i'm gonna watch Oldboy tonight. OR the last episode of the Wire, season 2.

― gbx, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

maybe you should watch like 5 or 6 wires in row

― jh0shea, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

i did that last week, when i had all these discs. now i just have one :(

― gbx, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://btjunkie.org/torrent?do=stat&id=395243db02502b1852d1635ed3fc57beff661f72cf45

http://www.torrentportal.com/details/825670/The+Wire+-+Season+4.html

― jh0shea, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is so good

2 nights ago - da vinci code, lol, terrible
last night - unknown passage: the dead moon story (thx ian!)
tonight - might try to see Vengeance Is Mine at BAM ....

― dmr, Friday, 2 March 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

btw, Kiarosatmi films are at 6 & 8 at FREE night at MoMA (tho tix may be gone by 5:30 or so)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

KIAROSTAMI:

The Experience
The Traveller
First Graders
+ shorts

IMAMURA:

Nishi Ginza Station (nutz)

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

HOLY MOUNTAIN!!!!! (YES!)
ICHI THE KILLER EP ZERO (SUCKS)

― JW, Sunday, 11 March 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

hi 300 sucked ass bye

― am0n, Sunday, 11 March 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

Some Lady From Shanghai

― gabbneb, Sunday, 11 March 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

by David Wells or somebody

― gabbneb, Sunday, 11 March 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

orville wells

― s1ocki, Sunday, 11 March 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

orson redenbacher

― am0n, Sunday, 11 March 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

The Butcher Boy (still ****)

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 11 March 2007 06:33 (eighteen years ago)

mad max beyond thunderdome

how on earth does master go from chains and leather underwear to turn of the century chappy suit???

― river wolf, Sunday, 11 March 2007 07:35 (eighteen years ago)

300

so stoopid

― latebloomer, Sunday, 11 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

I got the 5-disc Phantasm boxed set yesterday. Angus Scrimm rules.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 11 March 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

mulholland drive, finally.

― Edward III, Sunday, 11 March 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

The Butcher Boy (still ****)

Dr Morbius on Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:33 AM (13 hours ago)

you can swear here dude. chill.

― s1ocki, Sunday, 11 March 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

300

holy shit

― river wolf, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

SAW HOST IN THEATER BLOWED MIND BIG TIME

― jhøshea, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

i will see that next

― am0n, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

OMG SEE THAT SRSLY

― jhøshea, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

i aim to see th'host tomorrow.

recent:
flowers of shanghai i guess i should feel bad that for all the exposure of the brutal power games underlying the morally irredeemable brothel system of 19th century shanghai, this movie mostly made me want to smoke opium and play chinese drinking games. good times.

funny ha ha if everybody in this movie doesn't remind you of people you know, you're lying.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

s1ocki: THAT WAS 4 STARS AND YOU KNOW IT, PALANCE-LOVER!

Imamura's TheInsect Woman (soooo sleepy -- me, not film)

Happily, too old to be around those funny ha ha ppl.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Palance-lover?

All I know is it took me a while to wonder why Morb was repping a Demi Moore flick.

― David R., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

― lauren, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Happily, too old to be around those funny ha ha ppl.

yes i shd have said "you're lying or old"

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Marie Antoinette - made fun of Sophia's stupid rich girl problems the whole time
Poseidon - way too violent for me. had to stop watching.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

return of the secaucus 7, which i haven't seen in about... 20 years? it has its charms. the thing is, movies of that era with low production values and amateurish acting really say "HORROR FILM" to me. i was half-expecting a vengeful, axe-wielding maniac to run out of the woods the whole time.

haha, it sounds like one, too. sayles could've made a whole series, revenge of the secaucus 7, attack of the secaucus 7, battle for the planet of the secaucus 7.

― Edward III, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

th'HOST! wahr yar rrraarrr!

real good. ending somewhat unsatisfying and not even for the obvious reason, it just somehow didn't hang together for me. still, great entertainment.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have never seen The French Connection...if all goes according to plan, that will change tonight.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

[i]The French Connection[i]

SO OVERRATED!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

[i]The French Connection[i]

SO OVERRATED!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

[i]The French Connection[i]

NOT OVERRATED!

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

palance lover??

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

I watched like 20 minutes of Get Shorty over the weekend and realized again for the first time in forever I am in love with Gene Hackman.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Gene Hackman should replace everybody in Van Halen

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

how soon we fergit when someone tells one to stfu for showing lack of apprec for Palance obits!

'Serious' contemporary film crix have little use for Friedkin except for maybe TL&DiLA.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

i bring u 'roidddddddddddddddds
http://www.ecanadanow.com/images/Stallone-GH1.jpg

― danbunny, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Bamako (not perfect, but best of 07 so far)

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit i watched the da vinci code last night and i think it was the worst movie i've ever seen

― river wolf, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

yeah seriously, even the book couldve made a breezily forgettable, cheesy tv movie but the movie just draaaags

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

bleh, that didn't come out right

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

agreed though, that movie blew.

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Brooklyn fans of young Sean Penn, Crispin Glover, or being obsessed w/ Olivia Newton-John:
Barbes, tomw 8pm

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

women in cages (cut!)
the todd killings
bruno mattei's robowar. (uncut!)
inland empire more non-endings than return of the king, but more than worth it for the scene with the pygmy lady

― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

legend

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

Kiarostami's Homework

WHAT pygmy lady??

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Where Is the Friend's House?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

zodiac
the day the earth stood still

― dmr, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

shit i keep meaning to see zodiac

dear me in the future,
stop watching leprechaun 2 on cable and go see zodiac and the host in a theater near you (me)

― am0n, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

I had never seen this and I watched the last twenty minutes stoned. It blew my mind.

― jessie monster, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

Cinema: Jeanne Dielman, the print ws 20 mins shorter (very naughty of the NFT to charge the same price as advertised beforehand) so it had a cpl of crude cuts in what ws, at nearly three and a half hours, some of the best time I could've spent at the cinema. Incredibly moving, and very funny (the 'second day' conversation between mother and son ws one of the funnies exchanges ever); the sounds coming out of that kitchen were quite punchy, quite musical.

DVD (library rent): Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, X-Men 3, The Singing Detective (bizarre that Potter's TV series got a re-make for the big screen), Bicycle Thieves.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Stranger Than Fiction - pretty ok! Emma Thompson was funnier than Will Ferrell.
Casino Royale - fun fun fucking fun! My mom almost had a heart-attack during parkour-esque foot chase.
RV - what can I say, Sunday afternoon + cable tv.

― nickalicious, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

The Host isn't playing anywhere near here which is gay because they had a review in the paper.

― nickalicious, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

[i]WHAT pygmy lady??[i/]

sidewalk scene.... 'yur dyin' lady'

― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

ach!!

― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

DR. OTTO AND THE RIDDLE OF THE GLOOM BEAM

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

mommy dearest (wow)
30 min of amityville horror (uh..)
30 min of saw ii (fell asleep -_-)

― sleep, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Got a couple of classic buster keaton movies for £2 each in the bargain CD shop - "steamboat bill jr" and "the general" - print quality OK in the former, though it ends rather abruptly, a bit soft/blurry in the latter. Showed them to the kid, who fucking loved them. I put Steamboad Bill jr on, and b/c he's into thunderbirds & dr who he asks "are there any disasters in this?" Oh yeah, I said, just wait and see. The bit where keaton inspects the boat for the first time, throws the lifebelt into the water and it sinks = just about the funniest thing ever. I'll have to see if I can get a better print of "The General"

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

no horror can compete w/ Dunaway, I guess (she hates the movie btw)

Living It Up (Martin & Lewis)
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk)
Intentions of Murder (brutally bleak Imamura)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

watched first half of hoop dreams until netflix screwed me w/ skippy disc

bastards

― dmr, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

ah that sucks, dave
i loved that doc

― sleep, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

pashmina:

friend of mine does booklets and stuff for...grrrr, cant think of the name...the UK Criterion and just finished a huge book to accompany the definitve Keaton Box due soon. sounds awesome...just save yr pence for that

― bb, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

oh I've seen it like 3 times but wife has never seen it
good one to watch during march madness

xpost

― dmr, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

the UK Criterion

bfi? artificial eye?

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

i cant think of the name right now....i think its with a "c"....no, lies! its masters of cinema http://www.mastersofcinema.org/

his blog is here: http://cinemasparagus.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html

xpost

― bb, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

wow "the prestige" is terrible

― dmr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

THE KILLING was on tcm thursday night so I watched it for like the fifth time

― dmr, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

grrr..netflixed copy of jlg keep yr right up goes all glitchy after 33:20

― bb, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

don't worry, I bet they have a million copies of that...

― Edward III, Saturday, 24 March 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

THE HOST!

― am0n, Sunday, 25 March 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.popmatters.com/images/film_art/h/host-2007-2.jpg

― am0n, Sunday, 25 March 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

ROCKERS

― river wolf, Sunday, 25 March 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

theatre: THE LIVES OF OTHERS does a noize d00d dig last days of communism surveillence thriller? *****
dvd: BLOOD DIAMONDS old-fashion moralistic foreign intrigue ala Graham Green w/good actin'. ***

― m coleman, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

not worried, just annoyed...xpost

― bb, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

BATTLE ROYALE

― dmr, Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man I love Battle Royale!

Big movie weekend for me!:

THE HOST! - so great, all of my favorite things about movies in one movie, how the fuck
TMNT! - so totally badass, cowabungna bitches
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP! - even though something about it made me feel like a douchebag I loved it

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 March 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

Brighton Rock
Glue
The Ballad of Narayama
Black Rain
The Earrings of Madame de...
Offside

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Bill Plympton's Mutant Aliens - incredible, hilarious.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Who do I recommend Mutant Aliens to?

http://gallery.awn.com/data/524/mutantAliens-06.jpg
YOU.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

I've been sick so it's shitty cable flicks time:
16 Blocks - decent acting/stache from B Willis, but cop flick's script was showing
Pretty Persuasion - ridiculous lesbianish "Cruel Intentions" rip-off with great James Woods getting caught masturbating scene, fell alseep before ending
Batman Begins - Only caught bits, good "Elektra Assassin" rips, LSD sub plot, Millerish yuppie satire

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

crimes and misdemeanors

― sleep, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

last night watched most of Bob le Flambeur but netflix fucked me again. maybe I need a better dvd player with more skip resisting powarz.

― dmr, Saturday, 31 March 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Atlantic City

― dan selzer, Saturday, 31 March 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

The Burmese Harp
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Happy Feet
The Beales of Grey Gardens
later tonight, Muriel

― Eric H., Sunday, 1 April 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

high noon at AFI silver. first time seeing it on a big screen!

i've thought, both times i've seen it, that the wife shouldn't [spoiler alerrrrt] get off the train.

― ghost rider, Sunday, 1 April 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

oh fuck that button

― ghost rider, Sunday, 1 April 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

i am watching half nelson and i want ryan gosling to stop touching his fucking face

― cutty, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

miller's crossing, bitches.

― ian, Monday, 2 April 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

REVISED SUNDAY NIGHT PLANS:

bourbon
miller's crossing

-- ghost rider, Sunday, April 1, 2007 11:02 PM (Yesterday)

― ghost rider, Monday, 2 April 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

dr morbius did you like offside? i thought it was really good.

― s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

I did... a little off-the-cuff and light (stylewise), but very touching.

Euphoria
Sacco and Vanzetti (a new doc)
Double or Nothing (Bing Crosby-Martha Raye - print broke 3 times)
Sweater Girl
Reprise
The Mirror (Panahi)

James Cagney, John Garfield and about 500 gangster films from the '30s could certainly use Miller's Crossing as their prison bitch.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

btw, the aforementioned Muriel by Resnais is not only new to disc but begins a week's run at MoMA on Friday. And tonight begins a cross-section of Fassbinder.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

haha ok i'm not going to rise to the bait and defend miller's crossing, but it's a hammett homage, not just a gangster picture.

― ghost rider, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry, it's Ian I'm going to lecture on this!

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

{i]Wild Reeds
The Last Emperor[/i] (zzzzz....)

Got [i]Love Me Or Leave Me[/i} waiting at home, whose title describes my usual reaction to Doris Day.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

I did... a little off-the-cuff and light (stylewise), but very touching.

yeah, but what i really liked about it was how it's got this light touch all the way through until that scene at the end where the central character's motivations suddenly become clear and it kind of changes everything. such a perfectly-struck chord.

― s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone seen this "Air Guitar Nation" documentary? i kind of want to

i saw the zidane film on thursday (for freee yaay at a really nice theatre!) - http://www.zidane-themovie.com/index2.htm - it was totally great, but that site makes it look like it'll be something else. it's 90 min of a soccer game but with cameras and sound focused on zidane, plus some subtitles from an interview with him and a short montage of news footage. in a way it reminded me of that michael snow film "wavelength," which i love, but with more going on.

― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

LOVE AND DEATH
JOE (1970'S HIPPIE KILLING THING)
MACROSS

― JW, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

s1ocki, that was one thing that didn't work for me at all. Too much too late.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

i tried to watch the chumscrubber last nite. pretty bad. ralph fiennes is so weird in it. it's probably worth seeing if you are a carrie-ann moss ogler. best and scariest scene is glenn close screaming silently behind her front door. freaky! i still have to watch the end though. maybe.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

oh also tried to watch paul mazursky's showtime movie *Coast To Coast*, but didn't make it to the end of that either. also pretty bad. though probably worthwhile for selma blair oglers.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

more cable sewer plunge:
"Havoc" - Anne Hathaway / Bijou Phillips teenage gang bang rape movie, oddly not brutal enough for how far it goes
"Alexander" - Flashbacks, flashforwards, all sort of funny accent freestyle, thankfully void of action, good dopey nap flick

― sexyDancer, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

- 16 blocks, courtesy of hbo. man, did that suck.
- morvern callar
- the awful truth

killer of sheep is currently top of my must-see list.

― lauren, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

i really liked that new jap samurai flick "Azumi"

― Fetchboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

i won't be seeing killer of sheep in whatever movie theatres it's gonna play in, but i will be first in line for the dvd when it comes out. although, i don't know, i guess someone could show it here. stranger things have happened.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

i might end up joining you in that dvd line. i am notoriously lazy when it comes to actually leaving the house.

― lauren, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

i never go to the movies anymore. so sad. i am waaaaaaay lazy. we always say we are gonna get a baby-sitter...

the only time i ever go to the movies is with Beth Parker. i saw kill bill, kill bill 2, sin city, constantine, and 300 with her.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Killer of Sheep is super and see it in a theater if poss.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

the image of scott seward and beth parker watching '300' together is kind of blowing my mind right now

― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, in its awesomeness

― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

sans soleil
rosetta
the fountain

― cutty, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

zidane movie is graet.

― s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

i really liked that new jap samurai flick "Azumi"

^ that movie was fun
lol at all the visible mics though XD

mutual appreciation

― sleep, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

'david holzman's diary'

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

visible mics usually mean bad projectionist framing/ DVD mastering

btw Killer of Sheep broke the IFC Center weekend record of Inland Empire

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

The Lookout - okay thriller, kinda flat at the end, Jeff Daniels and the kid from Third Rock are awesome. I want to have Isla Fisher's babies.

― milo z, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

weird that isla fisher disappears like halfway through that movie huh??

― s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

i thought it was pretty sub-memento, sub-simple-plan, sub-fargo. third rock kid channeling keanu.

― s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't care for it.

― s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

None of my friends saw the Keanu in Mr. Third Rock (like the way his accent changed when upset), glad I wasn't crazy.

It wasn't very Memento-like, but it may well have been sub-the other two (I've seen neither, but read A Simple Plan).

― milo z, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dubsession.com/images/rockersdvd.jpg
last night
+ band practice
+ cafe mexicana ii
yesssssssss

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

i'm definitely seeing killer of sheep soon

― dmr, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

tonight at Film Forum:

ANN MILLER TRIPLE FEATURE

(I'll only stay for 2. I think.)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

the puppetmaster good. profound!
clerks 2 funny, also profound.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:05 (eighteen years ago)

BLACKFACE ON TCM RIGHT NOW
"it's only 12:30, can they do this?"

― sexyDancer, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

Cinema: Inland Empire

TV: Performance (taped it a long while ago - just got round to it), Memories of Murder (great film about South Korea's first serial killer with a v moving ending).

DVD library rental: A cock and Bull Story, The consequences of Love, Marie Antoinette.

On sunday I will probably catch an afternoon screening of Erice's Quince Tree Sun.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 April 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

I took kids to Meet the Robinsons Monday. It was pretty good, but because we live at the edge of the world we couldn't see it in 3D. Bastards.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

The Hamiltons: indie flick about a bunch of awful actors fronting as mass murderers when they're just boring-ass vampires (IT'S A TWEEST) w/out any of the cool shit; features retarded incest, retarded lipstick lesbianism, retarded logic, and Brittany Daniel getting mauled to death by a 5-year-old.

High Tension: thanks to The Tweest, this atmospheric slasher flick (love the non-Muse soundtrack!) can take its nods to Last House and Argento and eat them with a bag of French dicks.

― David R., Friday, 6 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, my dazed blackface alert above was due to a chance TCM viewing of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" starring James Cagney, ended up watching a bit of it, pretty cool, like Mark E. Smith doing Stephen Foster or sumshit

― sexyDancer, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

killer of sheep

― dmr, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

i should have rivettes wuthering heights waiting when i get home...should be a fine night...

― bb, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

3 burials of melquiadas estrada
joe
grindhouse

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

i can't decide if i should watch vanishing point or strange brew tonight. i like them both. but haven't seen either in years. i would watch them both, but i'd probably just fall asleep.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/StrangeBrew.png/180px-StrangeBrew.png

http://www.impawards.com/1971/posters/vanishing_point.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

Reveille with Beverly
Priorities on Parade
Killer of Sheep
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Reds

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 7 April 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

casino royale - pretty cool! I was totally wrong

― dmr, Saturday, 7 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

i.e. wrong in thinking it would suck

― dmr, Saturday, 7 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

the new world what a load of moon-eyed pap. badlands aside, what do malick cultists get out of all his leaden poesy?

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 8 April 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

haha i've been watching the new world for like four days now

― river wolf, Sunday, 8 April 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

took me 3.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 8 April 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

i really liked casino royale too (but knew i would)

also watched the lives of others
intense, good, more worried about democracy/art now

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 8 April 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

and i watched half of manhattan when i got home late last night - fell asleep, woke up at the end, felt really really weird.

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 8 April 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

slither
boys town
planet earth (3 - 5)
brother from another planet
coffy

― remy bean, Monday, 9 April 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

i know where i'm going
satyricon
djangomania

― remy bean, Monday, 9 April 2007 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

If it takes you 3 days to see TNW, you haven't seen it.

The Slaughter Rule
24 Hour Party People

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

I woke up after a turkey-induced nap on Easter to the fam watching Star Wars ep III and Anakin said something and Obi Wan goes "only the Sith deal in absolutes" and I was all "wtf dude THAT's an absolute", then I went and peed for like ten minutes.

― nickalicious, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

The Good Shepherd
Pandora's Box
The Aviator's Wife

how was Reds, Morbs?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

teh NEVERENDING STORY
heartbreak ridge

― JW, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

I like Reds a lot except for cutesy Reed-Bryant as sub-Tracy-Hepburn in the first hour. The things that really lifts it are the Witnesses, Keaton, and Beatty pulls off a lot of the epic stuff, especially the Internationale montage and the attack on the train. What's yr beef w/ Jack as O'Neill?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

curse of the golden flower. kinda crap story, but insane lsd visuals were ok

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

What's yr beef w/ Jack as O'Neill?

A poorly written (and conceived) part. The average listener expecting Dr Zhivago is primed to greet Eugene O'Neil as Someone Important, and he remains so; then he becomes Someone Important As Scorned Lover, so I wondered why the hell he needed to be there in the first place. Jack's (predictably) good at hurling invective at Keaton, though.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

bah, no. It's one of the best post-prime Jack perfs. He's also the finest scold in the movie: "Jack dreams that he can hustle the American working man -- whose one dream is to be rich enough not to have to work -- into a revolution led by his party. You dream that if you discuss the revolution with a man before you go to bed with him, it'll be missionary work rather than sex. I'm sorry to see you and Jack so serious about your sports..." also, "When an American intellectual's eyes shine and they start to talk to me about the Russian people, something in me says, watch it. A new version of Irish Catholicism is being offered for your faith."

also, Julie Christie turned down playing Louise, preventing more Zhivago expectations.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Maureen Stapleton: one of the few deserving Oscar winners of the last 30 years. Her last scene with Bryant (ir Reed? I don't remember), analyzing the failure of the Revolution, is a gem.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Happy Feet
Grindhouse
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

― Eric H., Monday, 9 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Opening Night
Grindhouse
Cujo (last half)
The Mighty Celt
Colors (first half)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

^ i've been waiting for that to become available on netflix. where'd you see it?

― sleep, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

^That's one of the Cassavetes I actually like

Alfred, it's with Reed, who comes back to her fairly with "What did you think it was gonna be like?"
Emma Goldman also has a great throwaway line when Reed offers to walk her home late at night -- "What, I won't hurt anybody."

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

I got the box set cheep offa amazon.
Love Streams is my favorite, though.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Morbius, you don't like Cassavetes? You're like the Geir of film opinion these days.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I hate Woman Under the Influence and dislike opening Night. Thje others I've seen are Ok to very good.

(I don't get ILM refs)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Cassavetes films fail to entertain at the most basic level.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

fail to entertain?

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Reviewing Husbands Pauline Kael wrote this great passage in which she analyzes the diminshing effect of Cassavetes' improvisatory exercises. For the first two minutes the actors come up with marvelous bits that you couldn't provoke in a normal setting; then the actors' mannerisms begin asserting themselves, and you're stuck watching the likes of Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk acting like the drunken boors they probably were in real life.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

real life, exactly

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

yes, art SHOULDN'T be real life.

I've been hit on the street by unmedicated folks, I don't need to see Gena Rowlands babble like one for 2-1/2 hours.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

I don't see how entertainment should be a requirement

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

perhaps it's not a distinction btwn art & entertainment, but both and Method wanking.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

I don't see how entertainment should be a requirement

Movies should be EDUCATIONAL.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

hmm

― sleep, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

how does Casino Royale (remake) end?

i fell asleep last night at my friends house.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

why did you bother to see any of his pictures if you don't like Method? Are you fishing for "stunt opinion"

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Sotosyn fails to troll at the most basic level.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

I'm fine w/ Method as a tool, I suppose, not when it's all that's on display.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

heterophobe

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

shasta there is a world series of poker, some torture, then M makes an appearance, and some other stuff I forgot, the end

― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I'd appreciate Cassavetes if he'd given his scripts to Elia Kazan.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

gtfo husbands is gr8

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

Maude: Season One ... since everyone else also lists TV shows.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

Alfred, Li'l Morbius Jr.

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

yes, art SHOULDN'T be real life.

that's it? so "art" can be anything but "real life"?

I've been hit on the street by unmedicated folks, blah blah...'

not hard enough obv.

lol, trollbait

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

am so affected by blood diamond
so intense. and then it got into my dreams.

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=739770838666197366

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

thanks dmr,

i fell asleep when Bond was getting his balls busted. not sure what happened after that.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/the7thart/pictures/7thseal2.jpg

― ian, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

You're like the Geir of film opinion these days.

"these days"

― chaki, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

The Wind That Shakes The Barley - mixed feelings. Well-done, but not particularly effective as a piece of storytelling (the train driver was the only character with any dimension really, the brothers/civil war plot is as old as time itself, the love plot was whatever). It's nice that Loach wants to lecture us on Irish socialism (bravo) but there was no real heart to the movie.

― milo z, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

If it takes you 3 days to see TNW, you haven't seen it.

i would've watched it all at once but it kept exceeding my daily recommended dosage of poncy nature-poet balderdash. (i did make it through thin red line in one go, but w/gritted teeth. malick's an airhead.)

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

anyway last night i watched sonatine, which was great.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

milo and Armond White both off-the-money on The Wind That Shakes The Barley

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

I love the accusation that films that turn on ideology are too "didactic," that the characters aren't "real." Have any of these critics known any politically engaged people?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

Vamp (as bad as it looks)
Carnosaur (awesome)

― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Monkey Business (Marx Bros, not Cary Grant)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

i need to watch Carnosaur again

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

based on armond white's writing lately, i don't want to know which sort of politically engaged people he's been hanging out with.

― rps, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what White said, but there are moments when Loach's politics intrude (the abbreviated dig at Catholic complicity with the capitalists) and times when they feel native (Dan and Damien talk about seeing James Connolly speak).

Damien, at least, is too blank to engender much feeling as a character - partially this is just the scope that Loach went with, a dozen 'main' characters usually shot in large groups with little time to develop as individuals. Can't really say that's a fault of the movie, just a deliberate choice.

― milo z, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

the Jonestown American Experience documentary was amazing.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

damn I wanted to see that.

― m coleman, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

how does the wind that shakes have no "heart"?? (sorry but that's my least favourite criticism ever). because it's naturalistic and doesn't shove the human drama down your throat? that's why it's so good!

― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

Armond sees every film as a "US out of Iraq" screed these days. I've never said he hasn't gone sorta nuts.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Payback: Straight Up - director's cut. Looks very '70s now, bleaker in parts, less comic relief, but the comic parts don't fit as well now. No better or worse than the theatrical (which is pretty good)

― milo z, Sunday, 15 April 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

slocki totally otm

― 冷明, Sunday, 15 April 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

the good shepherd -- tedious & confusing and I LIKE spy movies. wtf @ angie jolie as WASP wife named margaret

― m coleman, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

v for vendetta - maybe victim of low expectations since I disliked all the matrix films but I dug it. even without viewing it through a post-9/11 lens I think it works.

― Edward III, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

TWTSTB isn't really naturalistic, there are a ton of digressions that exist just to get a political point across. It had little (or no) heart because the human drama didn't feel like human drama. It felt like political drama given a human facade (which is fine but rather different).

― milo z, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hentai-vital.com/audiotionbig3.jpg

― JW, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

THE FOUNTAIN SUCKED

― BLASTOCYST, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

i am seeing the new TMNT this week!

― artdamages, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

[i]Peeping Tom
The Good Shepherd
Aliens

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

THE TOXIC AVENGER

― jessie monster, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

i have Aliens too!
i also have Babel - i'm going in positive, but there's a strong chance that i may hate it, right?
first i have to watch dr. who ep though

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

Disturbia - I miss Alfred.

― milo z, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 02:10 (eighteen years ago)

Mirrormask - kind of boring.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

milo, do you love Point Blank? (re the Gibson rehash)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

discreet charm of the bourgeoisie - i fell asleep twice u_u

― sleep, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

did you keep waking up to the scene where they're trudging down the road?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

milo, do you love Point Blank? (re the Gibson rehash)

Oh, yeah, quite a bit more than either version of Payback.

― milo z, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Disturbia - I miss Alfred.

Oh?

Thieves Like Us
Peeping Tom

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

did you keep waking up to the scene where they're trudging down the road?

ha no but that was my favorite part

― sleep, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Same Old Song
The Elephant Man
Escape from New York

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

anyone else seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? some of the dialogue was unbelievably bad and robert downey jr's character narrating was almost unbearable. its too bad because it easily could have been a decent, entertaining movie.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

guys i''m really excited to see jackie chan

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

movies

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Subject: Congratulations!

J0nathan:

You have just been awarded a scholarship to the 3d Gø0dg0ld Scho0l of Adv@nced Rem3dial Cultur3

Movies:
Children of Paradise--one of the greatest
The 39 Steps--Alfred Hitchcock--totally entertaining

Music:
The Ink Spots
The Mills Brothers

Book;
Day of the Locust--Nathaniel West
The Poems of Ogden Nash

More to come

3d Gø0dg0ld
Dean

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Bill Plympton's I Married A Strange Person. So incredibly fucking funny.

― nickalicious, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

things learned about the movie groundhog day from director harold ramis while watching groundhog day with the director's commentary on:

# The man who wrote the original screenplay was a Buddhist.
# The movie was filmed in Illinois not Pennsylvania.
# Director's commentaries are pretty boring and turning them off after 10 minutes is the way to go.

― The Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 20 April 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.chicagotraveler.com/attraction-pictures/woodstock-opera-house.jpg

― félix pié, Friday, 20 April 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

Oh last night I saw Tsang Ming-Liang's "I Don't Want To Sleep Alone". I enjoyed it probably because I gave it the patience I never accorded the other things of his I've seen. Best use of architecture I have seen in a film for some time, also.

― admrl, Friday, 20 April 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

Idiocracy
Black Book

― Eric H., Saturday, 21 April 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

42 Up
first 30 mins of Red Dawn (lulz)

― dmr, Saturday, 21 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

La Grande Illusion and I fell asleep while watching " The Scent of Green Papaya" (happened both times I've seen it).

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - wolverines!

― am0n, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

grand illusion sux

― JW, Saturday, 21 April 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

u suk.

new yorkers do you you like AFTER HOURS???

non new yorkers too i guess

― deeznuts, Saturday, 21 April 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

btw i was talking to my little sister the other day & she said she went to see disturbia & the boom mic was in like half the shots, to the point that the audience began cracking up every time itd appear? does anyone have any idea how this is possible?

(she does not do drugs)

― deeznuts, Saturday, 21 April 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - wolverines!

was surprised by Harry Dean as the dad, did not remember that one at all

― dmr, Sunday, 22 April 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

that was almost definitely due to a shitty projectionist who didn't frame it correctly (i once saw north by northwest projected and at a scene near the end, in a forest, you could see the top of the background and the lights behind it).

― félix pié, Sunday, 22 April 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

Babel - shit, but had that one great moment when the wite kidz have just seen their first chicken beheading.

― milo z, Sunday, 22 April 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

ha thanks felix, i had no idea such a thing was even possible

btw you had a couple nice catches today

― deeznuts, Sunday, 22 April 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

Hot Fuzz, which was fucking funny.

― kingfish, Sunday, 22 April 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

'cuz i'm sick w. terrible sore throat (but i can sing leonard cohen):

sense and sensibility
monster house
yankees / sox today
death of the president

― remy bean, Sunday, 22 April 2007 06:32 (eighteen years ago)

'cuz i'm sick w. terrible sore throat

blechhh...yeah me too:-( it's gone down quite a bit, but still...i feel yer pain, man

― latebloomer, Sunday, 22 April 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

A Simple Plan - dullsville

― milo z, Sunday, 22 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

A Simple Plan is groovy! Thornton never better

Private Fears in Public Places
Tropical Malady

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Freaks

― dmr, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

Fracture (or: THE CASE OF ANTHONY HOPKINS' DISAPPEARING ACCENT; dry lolyer fun, tho)

― David R., Monday, 23 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

I might have liked A Simple Plan if I hadn't read the book. Way too faithful in the adaptation (leaving out much of the more interesting psychological trauma and Billy Bob's death in the book was much less cheesy).

― milo z, Monday, 23 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

the holy mountain - wow! want to see el topo

― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

midnight at IFC on the 2nd & 3rd of may if i remember the advertisement properly.

― ian, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

Zodiac
Parade (Jacques Tati)

There's a new Jodorowsky box set. I am reluctant to have my mind blown.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

I think I have a burned copy of El Topo

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I love the part in Holy Mountain where they reenact some religious war using iguanas

― dmr, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Devil and Daniel Johnston - skeptical going in because I watched the Jandek movie a while ago and it was sort of boring. but this was really good!

― dmr, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Devil and Daniel Johnston - skeptical going in because I watched the Jandek movie a while ago and it was sort of boring. but this was really good!

cool, a friend of mine will be handling the film schedule for delilah's in june and this was one of the films she wants to screen.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

the iguanas are dressed as little aztecs! omg

― bell_labs, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

who's in for this?
http://www.ifccenter.com/film?filmid=57103

― ian, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4d3wqu

pengo's sndtrk to first 30 min of holy mountain

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Watch it, bestiality films sell out well in advance w/ that IFC crowd.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Wild at Heart

― sleep, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

dude I saw that trailer for Zoo before Killer of Sheep

do NOT want

― dmr, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

is wrath of god good

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

do you mean [i]Aguirre[/i}?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

watched the whole series of firefly, then serenity yay

then i saw the serenity rpg book at the bookstore and rofl'd

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

yes that one xpost

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

It's the only great Herzog movie I've seen

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone ever seen that movie about the icky boyfriends "i'm not fascinating"? any good?

― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

battle of algiers (again)
visitor q

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

catching up on 'battlestar galatica'
'jules et jim'
tonight, 'the reaping'

― félix pié, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

I'm chagrined the IFC Center has cut back the new Apichatpong Weerasethakul film in its 2nd week to 2 lousy shows a day in anticipation of all the death-by-bestiality movie's sellouts.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

is wrath of god good

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:25 AM (3 hours ago)

omg n00b

― am0n, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

^ omg liberal arts major

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

watched the whole series of firefly, then serenity yay

This was a good move! I want Jayne to be a real person.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, poor Wash. ;_;

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

aguirre must be seen. popol vuh soundtrack is A++++

― Edward III, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

after the thin man
broadway danny rose
rollercoaster (featuring live performance by sparks! ron smashes a chair at the end of it!)
blades of glory (meh but pickings at the multiplex were slim)
leave her to heaven

ifc's show times are giving me a pain. i really want to see private fears in public places, but it's only on at 1:35 and 9:35 iirc.

― lauren, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

yeah aguirre is teh bestest

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

the people under the stairs
peewee's big adventure
the quiet family

― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

Trust me, private fears in public places can wait for disc. or til I finish this review.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

xp: they don't really teach Herzog in school dood. Cassavetes, neither.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

I love Dr M's baiting "only good X I've seen" meme.
OH WHICH ONES HAVE YOU???

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70's donald sutherland verson)

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

so grindhouse y/n?

― sleep, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

(NO TARANTINO SNIPING FROM DOCTOR MORBIUS PLZ)

― sleep, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

when

― JW, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

better see it now before they split it or it hits dvd (either of which may occur within the next couple of months)

― félix pié, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

maybe tomorrow? i was just asking if anyone saw/recommends it

― sleep, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost)

― sleep, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

"aguirre wrath of god" is great! good popol vuh sndtrk as well.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

^v omg liberal arts major

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:04 (Yesterday)

fixed

― am0n, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

I love Dr M's baiting "only good X I've seen" meme.

cmon SD, I said Aguirre was the only GREAT Herzog film, there are others I think are good (Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, White Diamond, Grizzly Man). I'm not even sure Jerry Lewis has made ANY great films, so I don't toss around "greats" like free bar condoms.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

I Know Where I'm Going
Ball of Fire

Anyone read Anthony Lane's Barbara Stanwyck essay? It's a beaut.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

should I go see that Sturges-written Remember the Night she's in tonight at BAM?

Weinstein is not splitting G'house for US theaters.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's ok. Watching MacMurray and her make nice is a bit disorienting.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

watched Angels with Dirty Faces last night on tcm

― dmr, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

whaddya hear? whaddya say?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

i just finished that essay. my next book purchase is going to be axel madsen's stanwyck.

― lauren, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

"the reaping" isn't nearly bad enough to be entertaining and nowhere near good.

also: david morrissey is to liam neeson as skeet ulrich is to johnny depp

― félix pié, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Ya gotta love NYC when these are all screening theatrically tonight:

The Long Goodbye (last day at FF)
The Birds (MoMA)
Female Trouble (Clearview Chelsea)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, Dr. M, I gave up ranking when I found God.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

"A Woman of the World" (1925) wow, Pola Negri is a TREAT.

― Pashmina, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

it also includes this intertitle:

WTF

― Pashmina, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

had to stop watching "babel" at 1.5 hrs in
i just cannot get through this guy's movies

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

the Anthony Lane Stanwyck essay made me really sad for some reason. he was right about that dick-withering thing she's amazing at, at any rate.

― horseshoe, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

Year of the Dog was really good

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

tonight i watched:

http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/files/thenightwriterblog-The_Shootist.jpg

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeVideoArt/11/225911.jpg

― scott seward, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

Sisters: awesome
Baxter: pointless
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death: surprisingly bad!

― Dan I., Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

Watson really sucked.

― Dan I., Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

land of the dead
united 93
the hills have eyes remake !!

― am0n, Sunday, 29 April 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hoax -- BIG disappointment, played for laughs and hence rendered unbelievable. I wanted to know HOW this guy pulled off such a scam. as for the mega-cliched 60s soundtrack after awhile I wanted to puke everytime Riche Havens started warbling "here comes the sun dododo."

― m coleman, Sunday, 29 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

idiocracy - stupid, trashy, but ultimately verrry entertaining
curse of the golden flower - 98% bad shakespeare stuff 2% badass kungfu
Volver - "women are sooooo strong and witty and men are so creepy" (as annoying as that was i still liked it)

― Fetchboy, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

That's what all Almodovar is like, and it's all annoying.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

(btw drag queens are also strong and witty)

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

borat - enh. barely laffed at anything aside from naked fight.

jack goas boating - since there's no PLAYS! thread guess I'll put it here ... Philip Seymour Hoffman as white-dreadlocks pothead schlub wit' a heart of gold. pretty funny.

― dmr, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

my mom wrote me about 'jack goes boating,' wanted to know if i was going. (she reads in the nyt about all the plays she will never see in rochester.) i will tell her 'dmr sez quote pretty funny unquote.' i like when my mom comes to town because she wants to see like harold pinter revivals instead of 'mamma mia' like some other moms i know.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

oh movies, i saw devil wears prada. i was confused because i had the feeling i was supposed to be sympathetic to anne hathaway over meryl streep but i was 180 degrees opposite (and it felt like the movie was too). who cared about anne hathaway's stupid career? the whole movie should've just been meryl streep and stanley tucci.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

Hot Fuzz

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

tipsy, I had forgotten or didn't know you were part of the Rochester swarm.

"women are sooooo strong and witty and men are so creepy"

This is the way to bet.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

Ball of Fire (Hawks' Capra film?)
Old Joy
The Life and Times of Colonel Blimp

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Hot Fuzz was great.

― nickalicious, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Hot Fuzz
The Wire (Season 2)

― David R., Monday, 30 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

tipsy, I had forgotten or didn't know you were part of the Rochester swarm.

you must've missed the wegmans thread...

last night i watched repulsion. holy christ.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

omg there's a wegmans thread??

I think the thing that made me kind of dig devil wears prada is that the movie does seem to be on meryl streep's side.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

DIG! (ungh)

― David R., Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

i'm still pissed i miss old joy when it played here

― river wolf, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

i think i might get stoned and watch Ronin for like the bazillionth time???

― river wolf, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

I watched the first part of Grindhouse. Surprisingly awesome! Download it, though; don't give Tarantino your $$$.

― BLASTOCYST, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

The Long Goodbye
Cria!
Brick
Passio
Prick Up Your Ears
Love Me or Leave Me

Alfred, Ball of Fire isn't nearly corny enough for Capraesqueness. (Wilder said it was their 'loose' Snow White)

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

I've been watching the Planet Earth series, which is technically tv, but so grand in scope I think it should count. Incredible.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Little Children -- worth a peek if only to admire Patrick Wilson and his Magic Heaving Buttocks.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Planet Earth is crazy and cool but the constant back-patting (for the FIRST TIME EVER you will see a WOLF digest a SMALL CHICKEN, shot from our MAGIC HELICOPTER CAM etc etc) and tons of commercials have kept me from watching very much at a time. would be better on dvd.

― dmr, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

What'd you think of Love Me Or Leave Me, Morbs?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

It was pretty good, esp Cagney and Doris' songs, but for that bleak a story it needed more graphic treatment -- ie, shoulda been made 20 years later. A little too long also.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure how I feel about Day singing stuff like "Ten Cents A Dance"; she worked hard to sell them (you can see her sweat), which is probably the point.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Infamous - I fell asleep, but it wasn't bad
Carandiru - sort of unsatisying and messy and (maybe) bad

Alfred - where did you see Old Joy?

― admrl, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

i saw the departed last night and matt damon's character spoke EXACTLY like my younger sister's boyfriend.

two things made me home sick for boston- a harpoon beer poster in a background shot of a bar and hearing someone get called a donkey.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

I believe Old Joy came out on DVD yesterday

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh!

― admrl, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Alfred - where did you see Old Joy?

Yup, I got it yesterday. Will watch it tonight.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I missed it in the theatre. It is now at the top of my Netflix.

― admrl, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone remarked how the campfire scene in Old Boy resembles the one in My Own Private Idaho?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone interested in a early evening screening on sat of christine, children of paradise or fri 13th part 3?

― JW, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

i finally watched the bird people of china - i am completely and deeply in love with bird girl.

― jhøshea, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

i think i saw her on the train last night u_u

― JW, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

i'm sure at some point she'll come to see that i'm a sounder romantic investment than deaf guitarist.

― jhøshea, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to Alfred

Someone has, in fact.

should I go see Our Man Flint tonight or Syndromes and a Century[/i]?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Gad, I had no idea you reviewed it. The massage scene is all I'll likely remember of the movie (and maybe the dog carrying the stick).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

well, I didn't fully review it. Someone who thought Daniel London was listenning to RIGHT-WING RADIO in the car instead of Air America might have.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

New Yorkers with any '60s / Vietnam / Nixon obsessions might wanna check out some Emile de antonio docs at Anthology -- I need to make time for the Weather Underground one.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

wassup rockers
larry clark likes boys in girl jeans, the end

should i bother with bully and ken park? i did like kids...

― sleep, Saturday, 5 May 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

New Yorkers with any '60s / Vietnam / Nixon obsessions might wanna check out some Emile de antonio docs at Anthology -- I need to make time for the Weather Underground one

Have you seen Point of Order!?

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 5 May 2007 05:06 (eighteen years ago)

Love Me Or Leave Me rules you guys. the scene where Cagney confronts Day and tells her to stop jerking him around is INSANE.

"The debt is too big, I can't pay you back, there's nothing I can do"
Cagney, desperate, pleading: "Isn't there?"

fucked up

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 5 May 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

Colin, yes. Millhouse too.

v1c, Bully is good, Ken Park awful

The Host
Cotton Comes to Harlem ('69 locations, wow)

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 5 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone remarked how the campfire scene in Old Boy resembles the one in My Own Private Idaho?

wow, what version of old boy did you see?

― Edward III, Saturday, 5 May 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

i finished watching babel today - hm. i don't know, it tugged at heart though, really liked the japanese part of the story.

am going to see helvetica for freee tonight
and inland empire is finally here on big screen

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 5 May 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

sleep - bully is the tits, dont miss it.

― jhøshea, Saturday, 5 May 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Timothy Dalton in Hot Fuzz .....

― BLASTOCYST, Saturday, 5 May 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

wow, what version of old boy did you see?

The one in which Will Oldham says everything except "I really wanna kiss you, man" to Daniel London (the massage the next day compensates).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

that is different from the version that i saw, where dae-su just fucks up a lot of dudes

― river wolf, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

but i live out in the sticks, so maybe they cleaned it up a bit. red stater bullshit

― river wolf, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

should i bother with bully and ken park? i did like kids...

Bully is great. I've never felt filthier after seeing a movie - between the dewy bodies and the subject matter, it's just a wonderful two hours of disgust.

Is it worth driving 30 minutes to see the new Verhoeven?

― milo z, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

The Color of Pomegranates

reviews otm

― Milton Parker, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Lupino Lane silent comedies
Syndromes and a Century
Hell in the Pacific
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 13 May 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

The Butcher Boy

― milo z, Sunday, 13 May 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

any NYers seen the Wu Tang doc at the Pioneer?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

!!!!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

"Beverly Hills 90210: Season Two, Disc Two"
Army of Darkness
The Golden Coach

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Underground (Emile de Antonio doc on Weathermen)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
The Firm (Alan Clarke)
Elephant (Alan Clarke)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

how i did rote movies book?

(but i didn't write the little blurb there, which is full of run-ons and WRONG in that there is no alexander payne in the book. but whatever. i figured the noise board movie thread was exactly the place to launch the international marketing juggernaut.)

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 18 May 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

(also book pays potential compliment to both andersons AND sofia coppola, so is probably best avoided altogether.)

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 18 May 2007 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

half of until the end of the world directors cut - eh totally frustrating. silly futuristic swashbuckling dream reading machine wim wenders - theoretically what's not to like. but it's so annoying. like what is the appeal of william hurt - what a fucking drip and no chemistry with the girl. and i know sam neil's character is supposed to be lame but he is oh so lame. i remember liking the much much shorter theatrical release when i was 17. but this, i dunno.

― jhøshea, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Army of Strangers
28 Days Later
Get Shorty

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
-- Dr Morbius

I saw this two months ago. Whaddya think? The most telenovela-esque of the Japanese pantheon?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

It's fine; he did a ton more problems-of-geisha films. Naruse really doesn't shake me tho. I like the empty glass shot. Also, I'm pretty sure I saw this once before and didn't remember a single damn thing.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

watched The Holy Mountain last night

whoa

― river wolf, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

may need to watch it again, not-stoned

(so relieved that roommate didn't come home drunk/stoned with homies last night---trying to 'explain' any of what happens in that movie to an drunk and stupid person would have been unbearable...)

― river wolf, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

may need to watch it again, not-stoned

honestly not sure if it makes much difference

― dmr, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

how i did rote movies book?

nice! congrats

― dmr, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

jeez tipsy, I missed that! Super! Will there be any bookstore readings?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

(and you better not say Malick is a pinhead anywhere in there)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think malick is mentioned. no readings. i guess i could do my own podcast of it, in funny voices. it's mostly being sold to libraries and universities i think. (hence the ridiculous pricing.) i'm scared to flip through it because of all the mistakes and dumbness i'm sure to find.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

sick on couch yesterday, watched:

crossfire
arsenic and old lace
here comes the groom (napped midway through)
pbs frontline doc about mormons

― impudent harlot, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

el topo last nite!

― ian, Saturday, 19 May 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

sick on couch today, watched:

minnie and moskowitz
love streams

― impudent harlot, Saturday, 19 May 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

black book! verhoeven is back on track

― ☪, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

The Proposition

― milo z, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

el topo stoned or unstoned?

joe, love streams while sick sounds like worstever

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 20 May 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

i found m&m harder going actually (in terms of overall watchability)

― impudent harlot, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

M&M is easily the weakest Cassavetes, but I think it's pretty watchable. The Timothy Carey diner scene is great.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 21 May 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Zoo 2X
Tonight: Sans soilel and Les maitres fous.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 21 May 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

i watched the transformers movie last night.
doesn't really hold up

― ian, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

I like M&M 2d best of JC's to Chinese Bookie!

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Park Row

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

How is I Don't Want to Sleep Alone? I'm a little wary of Tsai after Wayward Cloud.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 21 May 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

El Topo
Munich

― dmr, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

I liked I Don't Want to Sleep Alone better than the disturbing-not-in-a-good-way Cloud. also slightly better than "Joe's" Mozart movie. The two main sex scenes are kind of amazing.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Shrek the Third. Shortest and least touching Shrek so far, still very very funny though. Previews were great (Transformers, Bee Movie).

― nickalicious, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't know they'd made another Shrek movie! The little feller will be delighted.

J bought me "The Gold Rush" and "The Chaplin Revue". Great, especially "Shoulder Arms"

― Pashmina, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

took my little dude to shrek yesterday & he dug it. I agree w/nicka.

― m coleman, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Love Streams is the best Cassavetes film I've seen, though there are a few blind spots in that group.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 22 May 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

how many noize dads are there?

just curious

― river wolf, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

Like that scene where Gena is demonstrating all sorts of magic tricks, which include that yarn ketchup out of a plastic bottle? That's hilarious.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 22 May 2007 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

can anyone using the IMDb get that motherfucking Bug ad to close? Just one more reason to loathe horror films.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

okay, i saw a bit of script from dark is rising and ... it's not bad. it was just f/x markup stuff from the first act, and not totally indicative of the script-as-whole. but it seems the project's being rushed through production (for a september/october release?) and, given the dumbfuckery of walden media w/r/t both chronicles of narnia and bridge to terebithia i'm not sure i trust them to do homage to cooper's book. i mean, the whole celtic thing is being altered and the stanton family has turned american. the family-dynamic stuff has been elevated from elegant background to near-foreground and the adventury-survivaly theme has been cranked maximally. still, ian macshane as merriman is great casting, and the kid looks suitable if â yeah â american, so who knows what'll happen?

additionally, the trailer for golden compass/northern lights looks pretty swanky. my concern is that it'll be one of those gorgeously vapid filmed readings that, while textually accurate, does jackshit to elevate itself into cinema-stuff, e.g. the last peter pan. i agree with dan elsewhere that the story is perfect for film, but i'd love to see it as a gritty foreign john huston man who would be king yarn than an overdesigned clothes-horse with a horny art department peaking the heap of priorities. also in the trailer, I wondered where the dÃ¦mons were: there's not a panteleimon in sight, except for during a little scuffle fight with another cat. probably just b/c the f/x aren't done?

― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

hah morbs i'm the inverse of you when it comes to JC i guess (love streams and AWUTI are my faves and bookie did almost nothing for me)

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

try Mikey & Nicky (like late-era Lenny Bruce, JC's style is best when done by others)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Mikey and Nicky is so great.

I'm somewhere between IH and Morbs on Cassavetes: Chinese Bookie and Love Streams are my favorites.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Venus (O'Toole receiving the finger from young starlet the best scene).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Fando y Lis

pretty incoherent, even for Jodo

― bell_labs, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

pretty bad :(

― remy bean, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.joespub.com/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=3170

^ HAY

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

so wtf is rofl?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

88 Minutes - I didn't even know it existed before I watched it, and then again immediately after it was over.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

"La Cabina" (1972)

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkN1n9q2_Gc
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O06KfDtxT_k
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJou0V8O7A
Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpE5xfWK1C8

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

KNOCKED UP

A++++++++++

― s1ocki, Thursday, 24 May 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

lucky

― milo z, Thursday, 24 May 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

okay, i saw a bit of script from dark is rising

i didn't know there was an adaptation afoot. but having googled it, this sounds a little worrisome.

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 24 May 2007 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

Episodes 1-2, Season 1, Prime Suspect

Pretty great, but not quite as exciting as the first season of The Wire (though it might well have been in the early '90s).

― milo z, Friday, 25 May 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

sexnological!

― river wolf, Friday, 25 May 2007 03:53 (eighteen years ago)

Bug - worse than you could have ever imagined

― milo z, Monday, 28 May 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

I know this is going to be the least notable post on noize board ever, but I just finally saw Blue Velvet and I am massively excited by it.

I don't know why I never got around to it - I've seen Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Eraserhead, Straight Story, even the short films.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 28 May 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

Dune and Elephant Man are still his best

― TOMBOT, Monday, 28 May 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

months later.. I'm still kind of recovering from how good 'Inland Empire' was. such a real thrill to be around for him as he continues to dazzle.

― Stormy Davis, Monday, 28 May 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

although ... as great as 'IE' was I have to admit I am little bit disappointed about his conviction that he will never use film again.

― Stormy Davis, Monday, 28 May 2007 05:39 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite scene - Mike gets out of car to kick Jeffrey's ass, Dorothy suddenly appears naked with cuts all over her body

― Hurting 2, Monday, 28 May 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

fuck watching a lynch

― remy bean, Monday, 28 May 2007 06:24 (eighteen years ago)

fay grim. i liked it alright - nice to have the old gang back together.

― jhøshea, Monday, 28 May 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ Bug, I saw the play off broadway. the whole point was that the bugs were probably imaginary! can't believe they made that a movie.

watched Born Into Brothels last night

― dmr, Monday, 28 May 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

I noticed echoes of The Graduate in some of the scenes with Dorothy and Jeffrey, and also of 80s teen movies at certain points, but I have this vague memory of hearing Lynch say he doesn't like to reference other films. Did I make that up?

― Hurting 2, Monday, 28 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Monte Walsh
Big Trouble in Little China
The Saddest Music in the World
Cowards Bend the Knee
Brand Upon the Brain!
Barry Lyndon
House of Bamboo

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Dune and Elephant Man are still his best
-- TOMBOT, Monday, May 28, 2007 5:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

WAHT

― sleep, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

which is to say: i just watched elephant man and didn't get a lot out of it. i haven't seen dune in forever.

― sleep, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

festival express

― lauren, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

really? did you like it?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

mr. brooks

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

it was entertaining overall. there's some amazing footage of buddy guy and the band, and some very endearing joplin stuff. good off-stage drama/antics/jams. oh, and sha na na. man... what the hell was their deal? i LOVED them when i was very young (like 5/6 yrs) but i think i was missing something.

― lauren, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

sha na na

i thought festival express was mildly diverting

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

some of the jams on the train were pretty cool

I love The Band

― dmr, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

i saw it too, i was just kinda surprised that it showed outside canada!

sha na na were so weird!!

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

I saw it on netflix but it showed in theaters in new york

― dmr, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

sha na na omg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMVzNKtZvI

― dmr, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

oh man sha na na were totally my favourite band when i was like 7 or 8

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

this is better/less embarassing? footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJmtDgROeP0

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

currently watching the science of sleep

― river wolf, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

into like, minute 30 of random woodstock footage on youtube...

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

grace slick and her hair = aw yeah

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

seeing crazy love tomorrow. i'm pretty excited.

― lauren, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

how many noize dads are there?

HI DERE

king of new york - so trashy, so good. and steve buscemi!

― Edward III, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

anyone else seen hostel 2?

― jeff, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

i'm gonna watch baghdad ER tonight, while house-sitting

(ps party!)

― river wolf, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

i think yr lifestyle is getting out of hand

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

i might shake things up w/some BIOCHEMISTRY, too

― river wolf, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

ps that is code for TAKING DRUGS

― river wolf, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

i think it is just code for beer tho

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

well yeah

― river wolf, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

jeff how was hostel part deux

― s1ocki, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

i wld also be watching movies but i haven't watched a movie in ages :( and i have to go cover electro music fest stuff tonight, which i should just buck up about but i simply do not have teh expensive multi-coloured runners for it all
xpost
i bet it was scary

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

i saw a workprint that looked pretty close to finished, so there were a few nits, but i thought it was good. it's a pretty similar movie to the first one, but somehow the characters are even less sympathetic. the torture scenes are more exaggerated and gruesome, though i think they'll need to be punched up a bit from what i saw in the workprint. i liked it, but i think i would've preferred an entirely new film.

― jeff, Thursday, 31 May 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

electro stuff wasn't v electro in the end plus there were movies! okay, visuals but movie-ish right? they were by semiconductor - freakin great and produced in a live way, controlled via contact mics on a piano played, which this german guy hauschka played (awesomely)

― rrrobyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

i had wine instead of beer. also: w33d

― river wolf, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

THEY HAVE CABLE HERE

― river wolf, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

cable is impossible to resist when you don't normally have it
it gets boring eventually but at first it's pure glory

― rrrobyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:44 (eighteen years ago)

I think i need to go see paprika tomorrow night after brazzaville.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

5 HBO channels, and as many SHOWTIMES

― river wolf, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

oh man awesome

cablestory: after my first semester of grad school i went to toronto to have christmas with my boyfriend, who had recently moved there and found a place that had cable included in the rent whoa, and i was so wiped out and i think had a cold too that all i did for two whole days was lay on the couch and watch cable tv, mostly old movies and the home and garden network and the price is right
and my boyfriend went to work and figured out dinner too
it was sweet

― rrrobyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

i had free basic cable for a year once. i used to stay up and get stoned and watch charlie rose. i made "remote control" out of a wire hanger and used it to change channels by poking the buttons on the tv.

― s1ocki, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

how do i get a friend with basic cable benefits

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 1 June 2007 06:16 (eighteen years ago)

Ronin - better than Heat

― milo z, Friday, 1 June 2007 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

cable without a remote control seems like a kind of v v minor form of purgatory

i'm pretty sure that this time last year i was watching Ronin with gravel puzzleworth and being totally confused (stoned)!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

no wait that was in wintertime. still though, ronin is good and i should be watched again.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

in the commonwealth of canada, ronin watches you

― Edward III, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

my friends made the best remote control substitute: a stuffed rubber glove, with the index/pointer finger extended, tied to a broom handle.

― lauren, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

one of my kid's knucklehead friends hid our DVD remote. hahaha. was not where he said (after torture/interrogation)2 weeks later still can't find the fucking thing. and since we were liberal arts majors the universal remote my wife bought as replacement is un-programmable.

― m coleman, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

ronin better than everything

― s1ocki, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

haha oh i forgot the t on it - ronin does watch back probably

oh i thought many times about the broom/stick remote control but could just not bring myself to do it esp for just like 5 channels. but stuffed rubber glove addition, i salute you

― rrrobyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Just got a copy of Scorpion Thunderbolt in the mail.

Richard Harrison is God!

― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

wow knocked up was good

― jeff, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489049/

Four guys from the Midwest drive across the country to honor the wish of their dying friend: to watch "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch before the movie's worldwide release.

Trivia for
Fanboys (2008)

...
* The scene with the Star Trek: The Next Generation fans in full costume dedicating the Captain Jon-Luke Picard birthplace statue memorial as they confront the Star Wars fans was shot on location in the Town Square Park Plaza of Las Vegas, New Mexico. You can see the historic Plaza Hotel in the background in certain shots.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

Knocked Up

― milo z, Friday, 1 June 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

MEAN GIRLS

it was very funny, i hadn't seen it before.

lohan much cuter in pre coked-up party girl days SHOCKER

― bell_labs, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

she is mad cuet in that.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

"FUNNY GAMES" (Haneke, 97)

whoah, way way way harsh

amazing too

― Drew Daniel, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan

― latebloomer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

maybe i neeed to watch the thing in bed? y/n?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude in bed, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

STRANGE DAYS. <3 <3 <3

― elmo argonaut, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

i love how "the future" in that movie is set only only 4 years after it was released

― latebloomer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

cyber-drugs s/d

― s1ocki, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

not so strange, i think -- pre-millennial anxiety was beginning to set in and there was the popular idea that culture and technology were accelerating exponentially.

juliette lewis' pj harvey impersonation was pretty good, though, haha. and i loves me some hard-as-nails angela basset.

― elmo argonaut, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

it is a crminally underrated movie

― latebloomer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

one thing that always irked me though: i think the experiences recorded by those head thingies would be tainted by the fact the wearer is all too aware that their experience is being recorded.

oh wait, i guess myspace/reality tv makes that point moot

― latebloomer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i love strange days

― river wolf, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/5825/microje1.jpg
MICROCOSMOS

― abanana, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^ that was a stoner staple in college

― river wolf, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

ooh, speaking of future depictions in movies, i've been browsing through this site here:

http://www.futuristmovies.com/movies/the_movies.html

i love this gem about Starship Troopers (various story elements are rated according to their "plausibility"):

Society:

The world has adopted a neo-fascist model in which citizenship is dependent on military service. Given the strong global trend toward liberal democracy, this is unlikely.

― latebloomer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

there's a lot of little blatantly ideological assumptions like that sprinkled throughout the site. still, very entertaining/informative!

― latebloomer, Saturday, 2 June 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Ghost Dog

― milo z, Saturday, 2 June 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

weird, i just got that in my netflix

― river wolf, Saturday, 2 June 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

GD was pretty good. I was worried about the idea of a Jarmusch hitman/action movie, but he never goes nuts with it.

― milo z, Sunday, 3 June 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

Obsession (de Palma) @ the SF Castro

I last saw this maybe 28 years ago (on network TV). It's very entertaining for 'Variations on Vertigo,' even tho the Who and the What are laughably obvious.

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 3 June 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

Picked up DVDs of 'all about lily chou-chou' and Visconti's 'the dammed' on the cheap. both really amazing in their own ways. i feel like i'm recovering.

read a few essays on Alain Resnais that i picked up at the library in time for Resnais weekend at the lumiere (next week).

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 June 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and 'half nelson' at the cinema.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 June 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the one about the crackhead English teacher? Is it still playing?

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 3 June 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

i like obsession

― s1ocki, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Pirates 3 - big time fun. If you were to take just one drink of beer every time someone yells "FIRE!" you would be retarded wasted.

Has anybody seen Rescue Dawn yet? It will be playing here in July; it looks fantastic.

― nickalicious, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and in the theater there was a poster for a movie called Stardust and I was all wtf is this? and my dad had been reading Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys and we were being these big Gaiman fanboys all week and we get into the theater and see a preview for it and wouldn't you know it was based on a Gaiman graphic novel. Anyway I want to see it.

― nickalicious, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

just a novel (or novella, it was pretty short) originally

― milo z, Sunday, 3 June 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Cronos

― milo z, Sunday, 3 June 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Killer of Sheep = great

― Hurting 2, Monday, 4 June 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

And it's still playing and still drawing crowds, which is impressive

― Hurting 2, Monday, 4 June 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

The Beat my Heart Skipped kinda sucks.
I really need to see Killer of Sheep.
Paprika was okay; maybe Kon's weakest film though.
But the Music! http://www.teslakite.com/freemp3s/e/paprika/

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 4 June 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

H didn't come with me and I'd go see it again if you and the lady want to go some time.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 4 June 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

knocked up

― latebloomer, Monday, 4 June 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

Good?

― Hurting 2, Monday, 4 June 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

just got back from Killer of Sheep - A++++ would watch again.

― milo z, Monday, 4 June 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

trailers before KoS that looked good -

Talk To Me w/ Don Cheadle & Chiwetel Ejiofor - looks kind of Oscarbait-y but also possibly hilarious if it's not too touching.

Luc Besson's new Angel-A - hottest maybe-angel ever

― milo z, Monday, 4 June 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

Baghdad ER

v v good, the only movie i've seen recently that actually made me cry, and should probably be required viewing for anyone that wants to have an opinion on Iraq

(if only because it's the closest most people will get to real reportage -- ie the opening scene where a nurse has to throw some dude's arm into the garbage)

― river wolf, Monday, 4 June 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

Knocked Up was funny as fuck

― dmr, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

Le Cercle Rouge

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 June 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

my friend won an emmy for her work on baghdad er!

(uh i guess i should see it)

― s1ocki, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

RESCREENED hiroshima mon amour (i got sad ;_;)
finished the wire season 3 (wowooowoweo)

― sleep, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

little dieter needs to fly

apparently I only have time/patience nowadays to watch movies that are < 90 minutes long

― Edward III, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

tuva soundtrack on dieter was awesome, anybody got any recommends?

― Edward III, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

my friend won an emmy for her work on baghdad er!
(uh i guess i should see it)
-- s1ocki, Monday, June 4, 2007 3:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

it's very good!

― river wolf, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

"Is that the one about the crackhead English teacher? Is it still playing?"

Yes. I think I just caught it at the end of its London run...

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

you can get it on netflix in the US, it's on DVD now

watched Last Temptation of Christ last night ... never seen it, it's probably the last Scorsese movie that I felt like I needed to check out (now I'm down to stuff like Kundun and Barry Lyndon)

it was okay. it's really long, and a lot of the dialogue was pretty ponderous. on the other hand some of the scenes representing bible stories or Jesus' dreams and visions were close to Jodorowsky / Lynch territory.

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

(Barry Lyndon?)

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think Last Temptation isn't his best movie but it might be his most interesting

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

i enjoyed killer of sheep a lot

― sleep, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

(unrelated)

― sleep, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Troll 2

wtf no trolls?? was this a prequel?

― The Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

I liked it too. scene where they go to get the car engine was great. (xpost re Killer of Sheep)

(Barry Lyndon?)

oops. that's Kubrick. I meant Age of Innocence. I'm not real big on period movies.

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

We're living in a period right now, you know. (Kundun & Age are certainly better than these last 3 Leo potboilers.... it's not like they're late Merchant-Ivory, where the furniture comes first!)

Keitel is the heart of LTOC: "Yaw place was on da cross!" I also think Dafoe was never better (having played Jesus already in Platoon) I also love Lazarus saying being dead isn't really that much different.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

Dafoe has a great pungent line about his "flock" – something like "Most of the time they're just a crowd; they mean nothing to me."

Also: David Bowie's best cameo.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, that bowie turn is an inspired bit of stunt casting

― Edward III, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

it was orig sposed to be Sting.

btw NYers, Chelsea Girls is running at MoMA. It's 'trippy' when yer cold sober.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Mean Girls
Shame (best Bergman, best Liv)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

look back in anger
election
shameless series 1 dvd

― lauren, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Troll 2

wtf no trolls?? was this a prequel?

-- The Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, June 6, 2007 6:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

normal rules simply don't apply to this film

― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

the final "It is accomplished!" scene in Last Temptation, with the reel going out and flaring up in the last shot...gets me every time

― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

see also leprechaun 4 -6

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

i love that the Leprechaun has been in space and to the hood TWICE

― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

can anyone recommend any car chase/anti-hero '70s flicks for me? i've gone through "vanishing point" and "dirty larry crazy mary" with "the hunter" on the way (i know that's 1980 and not the same genre but still). i've got bullit, thunderbolt and lightfoot, and two lane blacktop in the queue but after that, anyone have any recommendations? please?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

the gauntlet

― lauren, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

french connection?

― ian, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

french connection isn't the same. even though i've seen it a hundred times i think it's in the top 10 of my queue. one thing i've noticed about all these films (except bullit) is that they all feature mopars. i wonder if chrysler was underwriting these flicks.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

gauntlet sounds good! added to queue!

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

two lane blacktop in the queue

that's been in my saved section with "unknown" availability forever :(

― sleep, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

wait, you mean netflix queue or some other service?

― sleep, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

it's worth it for the bus hijacking alone.

if ambulance chases count, i recommend mother, juggs and speed.

xpost

― lauren, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

recommend mother jugs & speed anyway

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

that's been in my saved section with "unknown" availability forever :(

same. jt looks EXACTLY like kurdt cobain in the final scene, right down to the stringy hair in the eyes and the emaciated junkie arms in the cardigan sweater.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

the final "It is accomplished!" scene in Last Temptation, with the reel going out and flaring up in the last shot...gets me every time

-- latebloomer, Thursday, June 7, 2007 11:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

see also leprechaun 4 -6

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, June 7, 2007 12:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lol

― Edward III, Thursday, 7 June 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

two lane blacktop in the queue

that's been in my saved section with "unknown" availability forever :(

yeah, unfortunately it's out of print. just buy one on ebay, it's a fucking fantastic film.

― Edward III, Thursday, 7 June 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

When I watched MOther, Jugs and Speed I almost shat myself hearing Bill Cosby cuss.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 7 June 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

I bet you can buy 2LB @Kim's

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

I'm thinking that's a long drive for CHICAGO kevin

― Edward III, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure all the 2LB Netflix copies were reported 'lost,' it goes for $50 to $100 now that it's out of print.

― milo z, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Strangers on a Train on 50' screen at this place:

http://www.loewsjersey.org/

Farley Granger was there in (very, very old) person to answer questions after the film, but he wasn't very bright and kept doing bad Hitchcock imitations that had nothing to do with the moderator's questions.

Great film, in spite of rather tortured plot twists at the end in order to keep things Hollywood and avoid a tragic ending. It's all worth it for the carousel.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 9 June 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

Paprika - kind of just what I expected. It was fun though.

― nickalicious, Monday, 11 June 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

Unstrap Me (George Kuchar)
Idiocracy
The Bitter Tea of General Yen

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 June 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

The Chelsea Girls

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 11 June 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Fight Club

― milo z, Monday, 11 June 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

BUG was really weird but somehow held almost together by Ashley Judd.

― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

The Blue Velvet documentary that comes with Blue Velvet.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

anyone up for some macrossssss tonight?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/macross-humburgerpopo.jpg

― ☪, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Resnais weekend at the Lumiere: "My American Uncle" ws fkn great. "Love unto Death"...well, it ws more notable for me bcz of its score (legendary new music ensemble Fires of London going through a score by Hans Werner Henze). Slabs of the score would play out in between scenes from the film, so it ws structured like a piece of music as 'movements' in a kinda banal way - probably distracted me from the film (which ws actually a bit easier to get a hold of than "My American Uncle"). But worth a watch.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

how is last year at marienbad btw

― sleep, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

My second film by him, saw it earlier this year - encouraged me to check out those other ones over the weekend, so it did its job, if you like.

Oh, and I borrowed 'Volver' off my local library. Don't feel that strongly toward Almodovar really (apart from 'Bad Education', i think) and so it is for this.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Bad Education has definitely been my favorite out of the maybe 5 movies of his that I've seen. I liked Volver ok though. Loved the scene where Penelope Cruz sings that sad song at the party.

― dmr, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

noize advice time: should I sell almost all of my DVDs (lots o' Criterions) and just add the titles to my Netflix queue and bump them whenever I feel like it?

― milo z, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

Knocked Up (likely the film of the year, and the best Mazursky film of the last 30 years).

Local Hero
Early Spring

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

CAN'T YOU JUST SAY IT REMINDS YOU OF A MAZURSKY MOVIE

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK MAZURSKY!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

In The Mood For Love.

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

rare chris marker shorts the other night @ BAM

― sanskrit, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

"I liked Volver ok though. Loved the scene where Penelope Cruz sings that sad song at the party."

Yes I agree w/that.

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 June 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

grr where is my macross dvd

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 14 June 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

une femme est une femme

― sleep, Thursday, 14 June 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Tora Tora Tora - awesome awesome awesome.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 14 June 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

also guys i've watched brick again -- with subtitles on this time, very helpful -- and i still really like it.

sorry chaki you are banned and can't talk shit about it.

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 14 June 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

is nobody excited about the silver surfer movie? I think he has eyeballs (which is wrong), but he also has a (silver) nutsack (which is right!)

― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 14 June 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think there's anyone in America as hype for Silver surfer movie as my dad, he is totally geeking out.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 14 June 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

i once found one of my dad's 'adult comics' -- CHERRY -- and it had some weird spoof of Cherry & her friends as the fantastic 4, and galactus' helm had dongs extruding from it and the silver surfer was a shapeshifting ambisexual thing that could morph into male OR female forms.

i would watch an adaption of that, but probably not the new FF movie

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 14 June 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Tales of Hoffman!

oh 1951. there are slow parts, but the high points are astounding wonderful beautiful. Red Shoes makes you wait for the surreal turns, while this one tries to sustain the visual weirdness throughout, so my patience was tried a bit, but then something so strange and colorful hits the screen and you are just gone.

the 'dance of the dolls' scene makes me think Klaus Nomi watched this film a hundred times, but I can't find any images online. also a film like Dr. Seuss' 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, which just seemed like a complete anomaly when I saw it years ago, makes a lot more sense knowing something this extreme was already out there...

also saw Hammer film To The Devil A Daughter, which was pretty worthless, despite Christopher Lee doing his best and Nastassja Kinski being at most 18 years old, the lead was played by Richard Widmark looking about 9000 years old and blowing absolutely every line he had to read

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 14 June 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

i would watch an adaption of that, but probably not the new FF movie

I wouldn't just watch that I would dedicate my lifesavings to it's production.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 14 June 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

Early Spring, one of the few disappointing Ozu films I've seen.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 14 June 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Hostel 2 - Very funny, in a sick way. The humor quotient is way higher this time, and it really plays with genre conventions and your expectations from seeing the first film. Also some great character twists.

Who the Fuck Is Jackson Pollock? - Very slight but entertaining documentary about an old truck driver lady who bought a painting for 5 bucks at a thrift store that might be a Jackson Pollack, and her attempts to prove it's genuine. The "Art Establishment" predictably comes across as arrogant, lady comes across as endearingly stubborn (and possibly foolish).

― latebloomer, Monday, 18 June 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

Little Otik - pretty good, it's like eraserhead + little shop of horrors + a grimm fairy tale

― dmr, Monday, 18 June 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

Croupier -- max fischer play

― river wolf, Friday, 22 June 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

Breach: OK docudrama of FBI traitor Robt Hanson's story. Chris Cooper is good as catholic-fanatic turncoat spy. film's a bit thin overall.

― m coleman, Friday, 22 June 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Croupier -- max fischer play

TOTALLY 8080

― David R., Friday, 22 June 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Cabiria (Italian silent epic, 1914)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
On the Bowery
Prince of the City
Let's Get Lost

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

You're Gonna Miss Me

― dmr, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Britannia Hospital
The Unforeseen
12:08 East of Bucharest

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

In the Realms of the Unreal

― dmr, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Dead Man's Shoes - revenge flicks shouldn't be dull (much preferred the Clive Owen movie like this)
1408 - scary, until it gets overwhelmed with CGI

― milo z, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

1408 - scary, until it gets overwhelmed with CGI

otm. it was pretty good until it (literally!) starts to drown in a sea of suck

― latebloomer, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Breach – better than expected, but that's all it is. Chris Cooper's best perf yet. The usual sterling work by Laura Linney. Ryan Phillippe carving a credible career is opaque second-tier lead.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 25 June 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

anyone know where to get maria magic weaver?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 25 June 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Christian Bale stars as a POW in Werner Herzog's newest movie. The story follows Dieter Dengler, the only American prisoner to escape from Laos during the Vietnam War, as he makes his break. And it comes out on July 4th! Christian Bale makes us feel all patriotic, even though he's not American.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/Rescue_Dawn

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

climates

― sleep, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Sweet Movie DVD

transfer looks unbelievable, extra features include Anna Planeta on a german talk show in 1979, singing the final theme song with new lyrics by Pasolini

I love The Holy Mountain and everything but Makajecev is the man I trust

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Man Holy Mountain... shit!!!!!!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

i keep forgetting to order the jodorowski box

― sleep, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

now is the time

― sleep, Thursday, 28 June 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

jon isn't jodorowsky kind of Overt?

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 28 June 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

i watched "TURISTAS" on Cox on Demand for $3.99 it was stupid but the brazilian prostitute was hot and showed her boobs and butt

― iiiijjjj, Friday, 29 June 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

sleep i got my jodo box set if you want to borrow anything. fando y lis was pretty crap i thought but yay to soundtracks, holy mnt, and topo.

i watched tonight "black snake moan" i can't really say much about this move, except by far the best part was when a giant moth got into our house and kind of was hanging out on the tv screen, and the kitty and puppy were both trying to jump up and catch it. IT WAS PRECIOUS. the rest of the movie was just a very rexy christina ricci chained to a radiator because she is too skanky for samuel l.jackaon's chaste, biblically informed wauys.

― bell_labs, Friday, 29 June 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

oh and justin timberlake was in it an s. epatha merkerson. i give it two and a half stars

― bell_labs, Friday, 29 June 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

i tried to watch mildred pierce last night but i was sad and turned it off after an hour

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 29 June 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

I just started watching The Wire on dvd so you may not see me in this thread for the rest of the summer

― dmr, Friday, 29 June 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

pan's laabyrinth
ggggggg

― bell_labs, Saturday, 30 June 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

I lied. Ratatoille! It was funny. Most impressive animated rat fur evah.

― dmr, Saturday, 30 June 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

~~Blood~~White Diamonds - I find myself constantly questioning Herzog's docs now - "How much of that did he put Marc Anthony up to" etc.. But I suppose that's his goal.

― milo z, Sunday, 1 July 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

Manufactured Landscapes
The Counterfeit Traitor

I gotz the Hearts of Darkness / crazy Coppola doc! from liberry

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

man, Truck Turner sucked

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

i watched "TURISTAS" on Cox on Demand for $3.99 it was stupid but the brazilian prostitute was hot and showed her boobs and butt
-- iiiijjjj, Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:51 PM (4 days ago)

LOL my godsister is in this, I think she's the first to get killed.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Also in the Silver Surfer movie, I think it's her first big role!

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

tell me if manufactured landscapes is any good why because it looks intersting.

― johnny crunch, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/images/2186hail.jpg

i basically want life to be like preston sturges movies

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't life, only with worse dialogue?

yes, Manuf Landscapes will stunningly remind you how many worse jobs you could have, and why the devolved, spiralling-downward USA is still better than China.

JW, hint: blaxploitation sucks.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

White Dog (Fuller)
Retribution (K. Kurosawa)
Le Doulos
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Life on Earth (Sissako)
Heading South
Xala

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 July 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

RESCREENED dog star man, wedlock house

― sleep, Monday, 9 July 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

transformers

― bell_labs, Monday, 9 July 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yi-Yi
Ace in the Hole (tomorrow! at last!!)
Barcelona

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 July 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

i saw this weekend:

the sailor who fell from grace with the sea (i want to move to devon and be the fifth-in-command of a secret posh boys club that kills things to make them pure)

broken english (aging parker posey gets fucked up and sleeps around and zoe cassavetes directs)

― get bent, Monday, 9 July 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

how hot was Melvil Poupaud?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 July 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Live Free or Die Hard (w/tallys of high life) = :D

(i mean, cheeseball, but heckling with pals and beers is fun basically all the time)

― river wolf, Monday, 9 July 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

melvil isn't really my type, but i get the idea of him being hot, i think. who was the guy in the paris gallery? he was more my type.

― get bent, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

beers in Montana cinemas, what ho

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

(I didn't see it, I like Melvil from other things)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Rescue Dawn
I really liked Christian Bale's characterization, and Herzog's avoidance of any kind of Speilbergisms, plus shambling muppet pal funny sidekick guy. You get a real sense of what Herzog likes about Americans.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Street Fight (documentary about the Newark election of 2002) -

Great as a street-level view of machine politics. The villain - incumbent mayor Sharpe James - is also by far the most entertaining character in the film. Something seems like it's missing in the Cory Booker story - yes, he's a handsome squeaky clean rhodes scholar football player child of civil rights activists reformer who chooses to live in the projects, but how is he raising so much money? Vested interests support James, but what interests want so badly to see James unseated? Not saying Booker isn't genuine, just wondering what the rest of the political picture is.

Best moment:

Little girl: "I just touched Cory Booker, smell my hands!"
Filmmaker: "Smell your hands? Does Cory Booker have a smell?"
little girl: "He smells like...the future."

― Hurting 2, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

JW, hint: blaxploitation sucks.

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, July 3, 2007 1:36 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

Truck Turner is boring, but Sweet Sweetback is great, and Black Caesar and Superfly are both pretty good from what I remember of them.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

La Vie En Rose

It was pretty good. The chronological structure of the film was kinda fucked, as it kept jumping around from the 1930s to the 60s to the 50s, which made it a little hard to follow. It was kinda shoehorned so that the movie ended with her performance of "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien," which was kinda clunky.

The lead performance, though, was stellar -- she looked EXACTLY like Piaf, and really physically embodied the character at each point in her life. This may also be the only bio-pic where the aging make-up was 100% convincing throughout.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

My mom saw the new Die Hard and managed to make me not want to see it until it comes on TBS or USA by rambling about it for 10 minutes. ARGH

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

i watched The Taste of Tea last weekend - it was so great! thanks again to slocki for the tip on that one.

watched music and lyrics last night - pretty cringeworthy at times! drew's 'character' especially, eesh, but seems to tone down as film goes on. hugh grant has toned down his deal, it seems. i don't know, it's kind of fun in the way movies like that are middle-of-the-line 'fun.' makes fun of pop while adoring pop but not being brilliant abt it.

am finally going to watch the fog of war. feel good!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

"Life on Earth (Sissako)"

Borrowed 'Bamako' recenty -- anyone else see that?

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

I really liked Fog of War. #1 best Errol Morris imo.

― dmr, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Naked (David Leigh)

Kind of an irritating, pointless film saved by an excellent performance by David Thewlis. I guess it worked well as a character study of the philosophizing reject/drifter type that I'd guess everyone knows at least one or two of.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 14 July 2007 02:52 (eighteen years ago)

It was a bit like watching Reality Bites except less funny and more rapey.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 14 July 2007 02:54 (eighteen years ago)

Matewan = awesome. Will Oldham!!(was totally oblivious til creds)

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 July 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

kes
about half of colossal youth
la vie en rose
ratatouille
transformers

― impudent harlot, Saturday, 14 July 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

yi yi is probably my favorite movie of all time

i've been on a cheap sci-fi kick lately

2010
red planet
one hundred and nights
fred and ginger
henry fool
awakening of the beast
coffin joe

― remy bean, Saturday, 14 July 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

Naked (~~David~~ Mike Leigh)

Sorry - obviously getting mixed up with David Lean.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 14 July 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

Naked is great, and Schindler's List is funnier than Reality Bites.

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 14 July 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, it was so Great, so capital "G" Great, and so tiresome.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 14 July 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

The Devil Wears Prada - I identitfied completely with Streep the whole time and wondered why the protagonist didn't tell off her boyfriend's double-standards a little harder. Not sure where the "Devil" appears in the tale. I don't think the blond hunk dude was wearing Prada.
Ciao Manhattan - a big letdown after reading Jean Stein's biography. Not sure why the most screen time is devoted to some idiot hick kid. A sad, sad film.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 16 July 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Lolita, the old version with Peter Sellers. Holy shit. Pretty lame ending/beginning but wow, he's the best. James Mason ain't too bad, either.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

I kinda feel it goes downhill after Shelly Winters leaves the picture, but I love the showdown between HH and Sellers.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

yeah Shelly Winters and James Mason were cast perfectly, exactly as I'd always imagined those characters

― Mr. Que, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

the tea dance scene is another great Kubrick set-piece -- it wasn't in the book, was it?

― sexyDancer, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think so, but I'd have to check. i spent a good deal of time trying to remember what was in the book and what wasn't. all i know for sure is that Quilty's role is greatly expanded in the film.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Daisies - watch it, its funny

― sleep, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

sexyD OTM re: Devil Wears Prada, fuck the bug-eye ingenue Hathaway, Streep totally wins this movie.

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints - there was a good movie in there somewhere but it didn't have much of a story hook. wanting to move to California and your dad doesn't want you to is not all that interesting ... most of the "plot" seems to happen to the other characters while the main protag. just stands by watching. mostly we had fun trainspotting the locations cause it was shot right where we used to live in Astoria (31st & Ditmars)

― dmr, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hairy Potter

― milo z, Monday, 16 July 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

le doulos

― sleep, Thursday, 19 July 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

i finally saw the Host last night :D

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 July 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

not really scary at all, though, i thought

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 July 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
ha ha "sound designer" Mr. Lynch, he play funny joke:
he turn down sound, you turn up sound to hear whisper whisper.
then BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR NEIGHBOR THINK YOU KILLING YOUR WIFE ONNA TUESDAY NIGHT ha ha

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a85/medicinewitch/bob.jpg
I KNOW, IT'S A GOOD ONE!

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

recently:

ashes of time - fucking kar wai wong sword fighter epic. lots of gender play, some beautiful shots of battle with a huge gang of horse thieves. I only have a 2xVCD version and would like to borrow a DVD version to see if the pic quality is the same1

last night:

talk to her - nice, netflix didn't give away twist

now:
ice station zebra - ROCK HUDSON FIGHTS COMMIES IN GREENLAND YAAAAY
wizards
bad education

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 11 August 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

I just watched the first hour of Moulin Rouge, a movie that seems to be made for me, but...meh. Visually, it was very nice and shiny, but the music bothers me. The medleys were terrible...so unsatisfying. The equivalent of going through Amazon's 30 second samples for a night. Ooh! "Lady Marmalade" remake! Click. "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Click. "Diamonds are a Girl's Friend." Click-Click. "Smells Like Teen Spirit (Dance Remix)." Click. Girl Talk: the Film It feels like the film needs room to breathe, but instead, it tries to quickly cram a bunch of glittery shit into your mouth.

Ewan's acting sucks, but his voice is pretty nice. Nicole is good. The rest of the cast bothers me. They're playing their parts well, but man, those parts are a bit too obnoxious and over-the-top. More comments to come after second hour.

― Tape Store, Saturday, 11 August 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

gummo
halloween

― latebloomer, Saturday, 11 August 2007 08:04 (eighteen years ago)

In Vanda's Room
Nights of Cabiria

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 11 August 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

ashes of time - ... I only have a 2xVCD version and would like to borrow a DVD version to see if the pic quality is the same1

the north american dvd release is shit. one was released in france that looks like half decent: http://fst.omnilounge.co.uk/img/bscap00080.jpg

― abanana, Saturday, 11 August 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

300 - zzz
Don't Look Now - wow this was really good, 1973 Nicolas Roeg with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland
The Last Detail

― dmr, Monday, 13 August 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Bad Timing

man, Roeg put some Haneke-level horror on the screen for that ending. I can't even imagine being in the audience for that in 1979, really almost could not watch. I know the entire film was building to that conclusion but I just didn't want to accept it

the deleted scenes are interesting. Theresa Russell should have won something for this one.

― Milton Parker, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

i finally watched Borat! on the wkend. good for me. it was funnny

am thinking abt seeing this crazy japanese animated movie called Paprika "Based on the serialized novel by Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui, whose futuristic novels are considered to be masterpieces of the
Science Fiction genre"
but press screening is thurs at 10 am and it will prob colour my whole day weird! haha i shld prob go

― rrrobyn, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

ooh I missed Paprika in NY, wanted to go but never found time

― dmr, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Haha "Bad Timing" ws shown on BBC2 last week - taped it, seen an hour so far.

Spent yesterday afternoon with Weerasethakul’s "Blissfully Yours" (sorta belated bday present). Liked this a lot.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 13 August 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Reports from my friends re: Paprika have ranged from "amazing, totally its own world, you can't judge it like a normal story" to "lame... 'dream logic' is not an excuse to make an aimless mess.'" I would for sure see it for free though!

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 13 August 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

dream logic + aimless mess doesn't sound so bad to me... also, free, yes

― rrrobyn, Monday, 13 August 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

At 10am + enough coffee would equal just about the right mood for aimless dream mess, if it were me.

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 13 August 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

haha i was going to say that i'd better make sure NOT to drink too much caffeine b/c i will be too spazzy and i'm trying to confine caffeine and spazzy to mondays (har)

― rrrobyn, Monday, 13 August 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

The first cresting wave of coffee in the a.m. makes me able to love anything.

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 13 August 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

Paprika is okay, kind of reaching for out there but not really grasping it with all five fingers, the animation is great though. If you've ever seen Paranoia Agent (13 episode series) you will possibly almost instantly recognize the style (it has the same writer/director as well as score composter).

― nickalicious, Monday, 13 August 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://twitchfilm.net/pics/nomi%20song%20DVD.jpg

― dmr, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Summer '04 (good German character suspenser)
Hairspray (1988)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

the death of mr lazarescu

― sleep, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

CURSE OF THE DEVIL

― ian, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Peau d'Ane i.e. Donkey Skin

Better than Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, though nothing can touch Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Great premise, a Princess has to run away from home when her widowed father the King demands her hand in marriage. Bogs down, but worth seeing if you've seen Umbrellas more than 5 times

(do not watch if you can't handle terminal levels of Frenchie twee -- contains no spoilers because the plot is that obvious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw7sCNtYOd0&mode=related&search= )

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSJzp9oXFgA&mode=related&search=

additional twee

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

i also watched 'fahrenheit 451' on the weekend. it was awesome. (it is on g00gle vid btw)

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

GUYS, GUYS:
CHILDREN OF MEN

― sleep, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

Donkey Skin is a rioy, and dammit MP, don't compare Roeg to that smug sadist Haneke.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

tonight I go see Superbad :D

― dmr, Friday, 17 August 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I might actually see that, since it's about actual adolescents engaging in adolescent behavior instead of the usual Apatow 'adult' types.

Lady Chatterley
Sunshine (2/3 of a very good s-f space/submarine movie)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 17 August 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

I pay see Paprika, def will see Superbad.

Did anyone ever seen this French animated sci-fi film called Renaissance? I got it via netflix and am considering it sometime this weekend.

― mh, Friday, 17 August 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

i saw little miss sunshine, which i neither loved nor hated nor particularly understand why anyone got excited about it in any direction.

also thank you for smoking, which was about the medium-same.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

superbad was hilarious

― dmr, Saturday, 18 August 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

peau d'ane is also hilarious. wtf at the helicopter at the end???

― river wolf, Saturday, 18 August 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

The Passenger

― dmr, Monday, 20 August 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

the invasion--worst movie i've seen in a long time

― latebloomer, Monday, 20 August 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

The Lookout (good to excellent)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

SUNSHINE, which I really liked despite the retarded survival-horror monster-movie subplot

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

birth - so awes how come no one see
the ten - so awes too
shooter - so absurd how come plot no try to even make any sense

― jhøshea, Monday, 20 August 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

monterey pop -- felt like i'd seen this since i'd seen so many clips from it, but cumulative effect was more than i expected. the ravi shankar jam at the end really builds to ecstatic payoff. best concert film ever?

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Breach - chris cooper always good ... kinda boring tho

― dmr, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Two Weeks in Another Town
If....

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

born yesterday
you're gonna miss me
brothers of the head
this is england
the motel
superbad
be here to love me

― lauren, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ifccenter.com/film?filmid=59978

saw the preview for this and almost vommed. in the name of all that is holy, leave terence malick out of it!

― lauren, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Sabata - totally fuckin excellent Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef

― sexyDancer, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ifccenter.com/images/film/quiet_details.jpg
WAHTS BOOOORING? WHAT?

― jhøshea, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

in that scene, they're about to have a race into the sunlight because they're young and quirky like that.

― lauren, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

"a party deep in the heart of Brooklyn"

― jhøshea, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

i saw the ten @ sunshine last week and every preview was for some twee ass indie romance that no one could possibly care abt

― jhøshea, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

so much more conventional than say yr typical hollywood blockbuster

wtf happend?

― jhøshea, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit I wanna see This is Engerland. Where's it playing?

I watched:
Sixteen Years of Alcohol (Good)
Morvern Callar (Bad)
Hot Fuzz (Awesome)

― Laurel, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

And now that I learned you can order movies INSTANTLY from Netflix for no extra charge I am deep into that shit. This could be bad. Last night was Toy Soldiers OH YEAH YOU HEARD RIGHT, the one with Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Louis Gosset Jr, Jerry Orbach, and so on. The book was better.

― Laurel, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

haven't you heard - "mumblecore" is the new big thing, a resurgence of american independent cinema on the level of cassavetes, jarmusch, malick et al.

laurel, this is... is at ifc center. it's excellent.

― lauren, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

(and morvern callar is not bad!)

― lauren, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Ahaha sorry! I loved Warner's book The Sopranos but not MC, and sadly the movie didn't make me like it any more. Nicely scored, but ultimately a lose for me.

― Laurel, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

mumblvetes

― jhøshea, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

morvern callar was weird but i liked it but not as much as ratcatcher (or the shorts that are included on that ratcatcher dvd)

― sleep, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

"mumblecore" is ~~the new big thing~~ this month's newspaper-inch column-filler

What's fitting is I had to run back the heroine's last line of dialogue in Funny Ha Ha about 4 times before I understood it.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

I liked Morvern Callar but I had read the book first and the endings are sooo different. book was better.

I've always wondered what song they used in the crazy strobey rave scene, it's not on the soundtrack cd

― dmr, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

i feel like that question came up before and someone had an answer...? i might be imagining things tho.

― lauren, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

yea total deja vu

― sleep, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Morvern Callar the question is asked here but i can't find the answer at a glance

― sleep, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

no, i don't think it's in there although that's what occurred to me. that thread mentions the aphex twin songs, which are (i think) on the soundtrack.

― lauren, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I may have asked before but if anyone answered me on here i forgot

― dmr, Monday, 27 August 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

The Lookout (good to excellent)

^i beg to differ

― johnny crunch, Monday, 27 August 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

And now that I learned you can order movies INSTANTLY from Netflix for no extra charge

this only works for PC and not Mac, wtff

― dmr, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

king of kong = captivating

― jhøshea, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Bedazzled (1967)
Modern Romance
Sons of the Desert

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Dawn of the Dead (the 70s one)
3-Iron <-- 2005 indie Korean movie. hated it

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

Shooter with mark walberg brought up a lot of good points.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ace In The Hole
The Red Shoes
The 11th Hour (I thought it was worth seeing -- first 10 minutes are a bit stylistically overbearing and dicaprio's moments onscreen require a bit of patience but beyond that it didn't feel like a lecture. the one thing I was hoping we'd get was an aerial shot of the texas-sized island of plastic garbage floating in the Pacific, that's something we need to see)

also spent about three hours with Google Earth, a projection screen & a 3D controller on saturday night, I drove about twenty miles down the same one lane road through the Pyrenees, then I bounced from Paris to Baghdad a lot to compare city planning. Screenshots of Baghdad street layouts = cubism

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

high noon
the protector
born to win
the birds

― lauren, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah I also saw 49 Up a while ago. I was a little bored w/ the series by the end.

next up I've got The Proposition.

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

shattered glass

dug this movie despite gabbneb yuppie shit

― and what, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

bad education

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

rubin & ed

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

some great Crispin in that one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bu4erOGQuU&mode=related&search=

the other early Crispin film I need to see again is 'Twister'

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

shattered glass

dug this movie despite gabbneb yuppie shit

-- and what, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:13 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

excellent movie!!

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Netflix sent me the extras disc of Ace In The Hole instead of the movie, those bastards.

I finally watched The Conversation though, and Taxi Driver. Yeah, I have absolutely no idea how I'd never seen either.

― mh, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Mommie Dearest

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Never Promised You A Rose Garden - good mental hospital flick cuz the protagonist is in the bin for being totally crazy, not cuz "society doesn't understand me" Ken Kesey bullshit
Bonnie n Clyde - "hated it"
Coonskin - offa youtube. still one of the NYC greats of all time
Knife in Water - great camerawork, but this macho v macho shit is beyond my sphere
plus:
first 20 of Dial M for Murder (did not pick up on gay stuff seeing this age 11)
first 20 of Ghost Story (flying cock n balls)

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

9th configuration -- wtf?

― remy bean, Friday, 21 September 2007 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

Bonnie n Clyde - "hated it" ?

― remy bean, Friday, 21 September 2007 06:23 (eighteen years ago)

I wandered through HMV last night - they had this thing called the "Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection" which is 6 x DVDs in a crappy cardboard slipcase. Reduced from 60UKP to 12UKP! I bought it of course - it has Strangers on a Train Two-Disc Edition, North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder, The Wrong Man, I Confess, eh a couple of others, I forget. There's an American edition w/2 more DVDs in it, apparently Pretty fucking good score for 12 quid anyway, eh?

I also got the 2DVD of Errol Flynn "Robin Hood" in super-garish technicolor, and a DVD of the old "42nd Street" musical from the '30's, both pretty cheap, I watched "42nd Street" last night, it was great! Saucy, snappy pre-production code dialogue, great tunes, Ruby Keeler v v cute & likeable. Busby Berkeley v obviously & blatantly a "leg man". Jill totally hated it, she was like "this is REALLY annoying".

― Pashmina, Friday, 21 September 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

children of men -- heavyhanded refs to islamofascism and iraq but pretty riveting nonetheless (DVD)

the killers -- vintage minimalist Kubrick good on TV. corny/great hardboil dialogue: Jim Thmpson

shattered glass

"got it right" w/r/t working at a magazine: endless meetings and pointlessly ambitious youngsters

― m coleman, Friday, 21 September 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

first 20 of Dial M for Murder (did not pick up on gay stuff seeing this age 11)

hmmmmm? apparently I didn't pick up on this at 21.

Saraband
The Apartment

next:
Angel Face
The Assassination of Jesse James by the CowardRobert Ford

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 21 September 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Cinema:

Knocked up
Two Days in Paris
...and the season of Allain Robbe-Grillet's films at the Lumiere that continues this sunday w/ Trans-Europ Express

DVD:

Spirit of the Beehive
L'Elogie D'Amour

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 September 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

the killers isn't kubrick! killing is kubrick. tho killers was on tcm the other night and i still get endless pleasure from fat guy and skinny guy hit men.

both involve heists.

one has tim carey, other has jeff corey

― ghost rider, Friday, 21 September 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

yeah The Killing is the one at the racetrack. one of my all-time faves. don't know if I've seen The Killers.

― dmr, Friday, 21 September 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

both killers are pretty awesome (lol critereon). 40s one is kinda boilerplate noir in a lotta ways but v well done, beautifully filmed, and YOUNG BURT LANCASTER is all sweaty and doomed 94/7. opening scene is almost word-for-word hemingway (which you don't really see that often) and effect is pretty cool.

plus extended homage to last words of dutch schultz!

― ghost rider, Friday, 21 September 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm such a douche, it was The Killing (on TCM awhile back) not The Killers. The racetrack setting cornfuses.

I saw the 60s version of The Killers on TV back when Reagan was still president, haha at the scene where he slaps around Angie Dickenson. "grandpa how could you?" director is Don Siegel of Dirty Harry fame.

― m coleman, Saturday, 22 September 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

one of those hitmen in the '46 version is William Conrad! aka the narrator on Rocky & Bullwinkle, later TV's "Cannon"

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

watched the original d.o.a. tonight. silly but great.

― get bent, Sunday, 23 September 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

edmond o'brien: noise noir hero

― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.pmsimon.com/images/johnnymidnight.jpg

― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

you gotta love a dude who got to be a leading man in the '40s just because he was ugly in a way that was almost reminiscent of beloved ugmo humphrey bogart

― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

-- Pashmina, Friday, September 21, 2007 10:20 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

woah! s'funny i was going to post on the fopp thread that hmv had another hitchcock box set for £25 that had -- basically -- all of his universal films (eg from 'rear window' onwards excepting 'nnw') and a bunch of forties ones. but then i saw hmv also had that for £25.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 23 September 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

DUDES EASTERN PROMISES IS SO FUCK RAW AWES

SEE IT SEE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

― jhøshea, Sunday, 23 September 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

u probably just tipped me into seeing at the theater instead of renting so it better be good

― dmr, Sunday, 23 September 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

he just tipped me the other way.

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 23 September 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

EASTERN PROMISES IS SO FUCK RAW AWES

TRUE! except too short. is it even 90 minutes? i could have happily sat for another 3 hours.

― lauren, Sunday, 23 September 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

it was a bit short:-/ very entertaining though

― latebloomer, Sunday, 23 September 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

awesome tipping action - would influence again!

― jhøshea, Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

it's not a great monologue but it's a nice moment that is totally necessary for setting up devastating last scene

― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

lol whoops

― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

should not be defending manhattan in the middle of a cronenberg convo

― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

in fact should prob just drink a beer and forget about it

― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

DRAGON WARS - wuz awesome dudez

broken english - meh. needed more dragons, i think.

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 23 September 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

proposition was kinda boring

― dmr, Monday, 24 September 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

on fast-forward

― remy bean, Monday, 24 September 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ultimax Force - Rambo knock-off. With ninjas. In Vietnam.

― Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre, Monday, 24 September 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

The Hole
Eastern Promises
Drugstore Cowboy

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 24 September 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

fires on the plain -- good lord.
the lives of others -- this was ok but i did not love it. nothing surprising in it, and i sort of didn't believe the main character. plus also the boho artists he was spying on were kind of annoying.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 September 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

(i am also watching sapphire and steel which i haven't seen since i was 9 and i'm surprised how spooky it still seems. plus joanna lumley and david mccallum are a great proto-mulder-and-scully.)

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 September 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I hope that means you think fires on the plain is maybe the greatest war film ever

Brothers of the Head (meh)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

yeah pretty much. but i also just mean...good lord.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

(the interview w/ichikawa included on the disc is really great too, talking about his family surviving hiroshima.)

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

THE BRAVE ONE

decent, but man, jodie got off way too easy, wtf

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Sansho The Bailiff : Beautiful but doesn't get the absolute love from me that Life Of Oharu will always get.

Inland Empire 2xDVD: perhaps the single best DVD purchase I've made in - what? - the last
few months and one I always will cherish just because QUINOA on DVD2 is one of the greatest Lynch
moments ever. + the behind-the-scenes footage is rad. "You don't watch movies on a fucking telephone. Get real!"

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

THE BRAVE ONE

decent, but man, jodie got off way too easy, wtf

-- elmo argonaut, Monday, September 24, 2007 4:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

OTFM i thought the same thing. i didn't like the ending at all.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 07:59 (eighteen years ago)

sapphire and steel

sometime in the recent past i watched all the episodes on youtube. fuck, what a great show.

― get bent, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

what do you guys expect from vigilante movies, even when it's Neil Jordan making them "complex"?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

i imagine they expect, or hope, that they are good or satisfying movies, regardless of their subject matter

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

um recently:

man is not a bird (great, if a bit slight)
fitzcarraldo (wowowowow)
anna karenina (the one w/garbo. liked it well enough)
south pacific (good lord, is this badly directed)

― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

Inland Empire 2xDVD: perhaps the single best DVD purchase I've made in - what? - the last few months

How so? I found watching this on DVD the most frustrating film experience of the last year. Maybe I've a shitty TV or "sound system."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

what is "sound system" a euphemism for?

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

ih, you should see Burden of Dreams next

Blowup (neither as great nor dated as different camps claim)
The Long Riders
Hour of the Wolf

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

(i am also watching sapphire and steel which i haven't seen since i was 9 and i'm surprised how spooky it still seems. plus joanna lumley and david mccallum are a great proto-mulder-and-scully.)

-- tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 September 2007 15:21 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

That one with the girl trapped in the old photographs scared the shit out of me as a kid, I couldn't sleep for about a week. I saw it about 5-6 years ago, expecting it to be a bit hokey, but it was still pretty spooky.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

There's Always Vanilla (G Romero's 2nd film -- weird 60's fallout film about a drifter who falls into an affair with a model, sort of clumsily influenced by verité things like Brian DePalma's "Hi Mom" and worth the patience if you like Romero's "Season of the Witch", which is amazing)

The 9th Configuration - fucking horrible sophomoric script about an asylum filled with many fast-paced quippy monologues delivered by 'crazy people' w/ tacked on Jesus imagery, watched the last half ffwd but the very ending is so incompetent it's astonishing, all jaws in the room dropped

The Taste of Tea - totally wonderful & happy, if you like Fanny & Alexander and you like Visitor Q but are more in the mood for surreal / heartfelt emotion tears than Miike's funny sadism / incest / lactation / incontinent necromancy scenes, then this is a film

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

broken sky -- homo-dreamy
the departed -- 50 percent longer than infernal affairs, but only 2/3 as good.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

taste of tea!!!!!!

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

eastern promises
lipstick and dynamite
deadly outlaw rekka

― dmr, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

the man from london
hairspray original
broken english
reno 911 miami

― sleep, Thursday, 4 October 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

how was da Tarr?

geez tipsy, Broken Sky nrly put me in a coma despite the hot Mexican lads. (you are otm on The Departed)

Umbracle (avant-garde Spanish stuff from early '70s w/Christopher Lee walking around reciting The Raven, and chickens being skinned to a Muzak cover of "Close to You")
Werckmeister Harmonies
Shame (Bergman)
Silent Light

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 4 October 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm OK with people not thinking The Departed is all that, but lets put an end to the revisionist history that has it Internal Affairs is anything other than mostly lame.

― Eric H., Thursday, 4 October 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

wait internal or infernal? actually they might both be better than the departed, but infernal affairs is great.

i liked broken sky, so many pretty pictures. and i liked the near absence of dialogue, the performances were very silent film-ish.

i just finally saw borat. tedious.

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 4 October 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

I would say that Internal Affairs isn't anything more than a fun, sharp thriller.

tipsy, I just wanted to scream, as I often do at romantic sufferers, GET THE FUCK OVER HIM!

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 4 October 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison awaits: Deborah Kerr as another nun, on an island with Bob Mitchum (which sounds like the beginning of a dirty joke). Anyone seen it?

Drugstore Cowboy (holds up very well. speaking of dreamy boys, Matt Dillon yum)

All That Jazz

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

I remember Mitchum saying to Kerr, "Let's keep it quiet, Sister." It's good.

next:
Go Go Tales
I'm Not There

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not there is the cover story in this weekend's nyt magazine. makes it sound about like i expected. which means i expect to love it despite its inevitable failings.

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 4 October 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

how was da Tarr?

still thinking about it. the usual moods and motifs make an appearance... visually it's as great as anything else he's done, maybe greater, but the story isn't as engaging as say, werckmeister harmonies imo. good amount of walkouts unsurprisingly.

― sleep, Thursday, 4 October 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Exotica
From Beyond
The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II
Topaz
Family Plot

― sexyDancer, Monday, 8 October 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

WITHOUT A PADDLE
MR DEEDS
harold and kumar
Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead (some really cool bits, but mostly dull dull)

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 8 October 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II

this is out now?!

― impudent harlot, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

came out on dvd last week, yeah

― dmr, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

deadly outlaw rekka was pretty noise btw

flower travellin band + yakuza fights

― dmr, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

The Four Hundred Blows
All That Jazz - awful choreography except for the "On Broadway" opening cred sequence. Roy Scheider surprisingly charming and hawt (must be the leather boots).

Prince of the City (ok, Morbs, let's see if I change my mind)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 8 October 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

even if you don't, you'll be higher on Eric's shitlist for dissin' Jazz

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 8 October 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

he's on mine for shrugging off Irene Dunne.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 8 October 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

ive googled onto this list a few times recently by looking up a few different rad movies.

― 69, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

theres def some stuff ill never see on it, but they do pretty aight by me

― 69, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Edvard Munch
Blood Diamond
V For Vendetta
Army Of Shadows w/ Ginette Vincendeau (sp? ) commentary
47 Ronin
La Muerte Del Asesino

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

All That Jazz - awful choreography except for the "On Broadway" opening cred sequence

?!?!?!?!?!

I understand not liking the movie, but this criticism is strictly from cuckooland.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

Then again, I don't think Fred Astaire is all that fantastic a dancer, though he is a great stylist.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, why did I hit "submit response"?

― Eric H., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

Those hospital room routines! That endless final sequence! It was like watching a 25-minute Carol Burnette routine.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

All Carol Burnett routines should be 25 minutes.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

The endless final sequence is really the only bum one, but it's ballsy. I get a leg up because I really can't tell good choreography from SCTV's Juul Haalmeyer Dancers.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Proposition

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

i watched miami vice which had amazing colors and skies and boats and planes. on the downside there was some story about something, plus colin farrell's mustache.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

also that mullet!

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

"im a fiend for mojitos"

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

"i know a place"

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

"cuba wtf"

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

rules so hard

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I have seen FAIL SAFE and COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT
what other non-satirical, non-ironic cold war end of the world movies do I need to check out
I like when the apocalypse hinges on the perfect fluke in a perfect system and the prometheus character has to get all grim as the realization dawns that has become a cipher. that is basically the face I feel like making all the time.
also I rewatched HIDDEN FORTRESS and I know it is basically awesome but seriously it could be edited down to about half its length?

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Tomboto did you
*SPOILER*
not lol at Henry Fonda nuking the First Lady?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

the whole movie is basically lol materials, the thing was I think F-S makes for better cold war satire now than strangelove does, 43 years on

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

hmmmm, George Clooney wd disagree (he starred in a b&w made-for-TV remake in 2000, you know -- bizarrely still set in the mid '60s)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah wasn't it live or something?

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

wau

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

it was!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_%28television%29

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

ohhhhhhhhh shiiiiiiit!!

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

I remember hearing mumblings a few years ago about Clooney planning to do a live televised version of The Thing. Probably a good thing it didn't come to pass!

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

I would love to see a remake of COLOSSUS TFP
George Clooney would probably not be nerdy enough to play Forbin though

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I get a leg up because I really can't tell good choreography from SCTV's Juul Haalmeyer Dancers.

haha, I love the Juul Haalmeyer dancers. And I'll admit I default to being more impressed by super-athletic and extreme forms of choreogriffany than the subtleties of soft shoe, et al.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

colossus is awesome, i love when he's negotiating with the computer for his sex life.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

on further reflection i think the perfect michael mann movie would be just boats and planes and cars and sex, with lots of urban landscapes and synth-rock and no talking at all.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

you just described grand theft auto: vice city

― dmr, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

lol it would be called CSIMIAMISQAATSI

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

Colossus is great, they used to play that on Saturdays at noon in the 70's, i.e. directly after cartoons

what other non-satirical, non-ironic cold war end of the world movies do I need to check out

tombot, you seen 'seven days in may'? j frankenheimer / rod serling one two. more of a teleplay than 'seconds' or 'manchurian candidate' but the plot, a doozy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

that looks dope and a half.

og manchurian candidate still ranks in my all time T5

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

Michael Clayton - really liked it, it's funny we were just talking Michael Mann, it has the feel of one of his movies, if he shot New York the way he usually does L.A. Outdoes The Insider in the legal thriller conspiracy department imo

― dmr, Thursday, 11 October 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)

except Clooney actually HAS gray hair?

The Thin Man (Myrna Loy may be my current favorite dead chick)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

(a momentary interruption to say that after many recommendations I finally saw Suicide Club, and that movie can suck a dick. carry on w/clooney etc.)

― John Justen, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

days of heaven
last days of disco

both great days - more so the former - cant believe i never saw either before. especially since terence malik has all of 4 movies.

― jhøshea, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

The Thin Man (Myrna Loy may be my current favorite dead chick)

that movie presents a model of cosmopolitan marriage that i'm not sure hollywood has ever bettered. i love christmas morning.

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

(ok i think he knocks her out once or twice in those movies. but it feels like a kiss.)

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

a history of violence
existenz
ball of fire
born yesterday
half nelson

― lauren, Friday, 12 October 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

tipsy, Powell hit her to get her out of bullet's path (tho you'd think a shove wd do)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

michael clayton last nite

spot on!

― jhøshea, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

FILLUMS I've dug lately:

The postman always rings twice
Scarlett Street
House of Flying Dagges (well, its ok-ish, you can't deny the style)
Pickpocket

Looking forward to catching a screening of Tavernier's Clean Slate tomorrow.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 13 October 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

a man escaped

SO SO RAD. seriously, dudes - that arts and faith top 100 list is a goldmine.

― 69, Monday, 15 October 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

Is Half Nelson any good? I never really heard anything about it. xposts

― W4LTER, Monday, 15 October 2007 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

I liked it. got flaws but I thought it was worth watching.

― dmr, Monday, 15 October 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

the problem is that Ryan Gosling's never nude.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

cosign on A Man Escaped, prob my favorite Bresson. And no apologizing for House of Flying Daggers is needed! (style is the POINT)

How's this for a single day:

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Decasia
George Washington

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

looking forward to michael clayton, also terror's advocate.

dmr otm re: half nelson. some silliness, but also some great performances.

― lauren, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

what other bresson you like, morbs? i have ah balthazar next on my netflix, and diary of a country priest later...

― 69, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

blade runner: the final cut yesterday. so good.

― get bent, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Those two are excellent, also Mouchette, L'Argent, then all the rest. well, Lancelot du Lac irritates some ppl.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Zodiac - Starts off with a powerpoint presentation in an art directors' bureaucracy, ends up at the afterparty of an unreliable narrators' convention. Plus Cloe Fu. Four stars.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

what'd you think of George Washington?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

It still holds up, but I'm not quite sold on the mix of the gorgeous sunlit Southland and tragic juvenile naturalism with the chorus of wacky blue-collar guys led by Paul Schneider (who predictably has gone on to be cast in bigger movies for eccentric flavor).

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

some silliness, but also some great performances.

I liked that it's "about" drug addicition and manages not to be judgmental or moralizing

and yeah ryan gosling was good in it

― dmr, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

about in quotes meaning it's also about other stuff

― dmr, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

also, scenes of weeknight debauchery uncomfortably realistic.

― lauren, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

(for the most part.)

― lauren, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

what I liked most about Half Nelson was how the drug dealer was presented. If I remember correctly, it was also non-judgemental. Like you expect him to be made out to be so evil, but he's like, just being what he is and even in his weird and dysfunctional way, cares for the girl as well.

― dan selzer, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

just like real life

― chaki, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it was mostly Sundance bullshit aside from Gosling

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

knocked up - wtf i thought this was supposed to be good
el topo - O_O

― sleep, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I enjoyed both knocked up and el topo

― dmr, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

knocked up was OKAY after i lowered my expectations. the whole thing is too forced. also i saw superbad first which is 10x better.

el topo was crazy and awesome

darjeeling limited - the style/aesthetic is fun, and it was occasionally funny, but the characters and plot are hollow. the girl on the train was hottttt

― sleep, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

oh apatow didnt direct superbad duh n/m

― sleep, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

el topo was so awesome, i have been hesitant to watch holy mtn or anything else on the box, which i bought like two or more months ago! WTF PETE

― 69, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://i20.tinypic.com/2u5gp5i.jpg

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

WATCH HOLY MOUNTAIN

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

i like it better than el topo. also soundtrack is soo good.

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Sweet Movie a week or two ago and now I have to see WR: Mysteries of the Organism (a movie based on the philosophies of NB fave Wilhelm Reich!!)
Holy Mountain is so righteous! Santa Sangre is great, too!

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

the other day I saw a reissue of Sleep's Holy Mountain and thought of v1c

http://sdyrgas.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/holymountain.jpg

― dmr, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

Jodorowsky's commentary tracks on the boxset are priceless.
I need that Sleep record.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

sweet movie and that sleep record are awesome and ok ok ill watch holy mountain this week

― 69, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

I saw WR: Mysteries of the Organism a few years ago, I didn't think it was much good at the time.

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

whos psyched for two-lane blacktop criterion???

― 69, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

WOAH!

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

sleep tripling odds against my watching Knocked Up in the next 6 months

Sleeper
Scenes from a Marriage
The In-Laws (Falk-Arkin version obv)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

darjeeling limited - the style/aesthetic is fun, and it was occasionally funny, but the characters and plot are hollow. the girl on the train was hottttt

otm. girl on train looked very familiar but imdb says no.

the death of mr. lazarescu -- good, sad, unexpectedly funny in parts. made me not want to get sick and die, in romania or anywhere else.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

ha i havent seen the in-laws since i was 12.

"at least we tried,

jfk"

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Blade Runner Final Cut - didn't notice much difference editing wise from the director's cut but it looked and especially sounded amazing on the big screen

― dmr, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Road to Utopia
Shanghai Noon

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Morbs, did u like Shanghai Noon? It may be my fav OW movie!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

the sequel was disappointing, they got the date of jack the ripper's rampage wrong. 1888 not 1887, duh.

(fake latebloomer)

― latebloomer, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

(the real lb would think that but not type it)

― latebloomer, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

(oops:-/)

― latebloomer, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Also Chaplin was WAY WAY WAY too old. By like 7 or 8 years aka shouldn't have been born.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

if they had portrayed chaplin as a scrappy little zygote it would've been the greatest film of all time

― latebloomer, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

maybe as owen wilson's sperm?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Shanghai Jizz: The Butterscotch Tramp

― latebloomer, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'd seen SN before -- it's OK, better when Chan & Wilson are actually together (bathtub drinking game)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

date-checking big-studio escapism, OH YOU KID

(I figured you guys wdn't go on a Hope & Crosby tangent)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Woyzeck
George Washington

Saw Salvador for the first time in 15 years: a right-wing fantasia in left-wing drag, and probably O. Stone's best film.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

early Warhol (Kiss, Couch, Haircut #1, Harlot)
The Proposition

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone seen control? thinking about going at nyff after work today.

― sleep, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Gone Baby Gone - good + Michelle Monaghan is v. v. pretty
30 Days of Night - not so good + Josh Harnett is v. v. pretty

― milo z, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hartnett

― milo z, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

hairnet

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5217/pelham2fy6.gif

― Dan I., Thursday, 25 October 2007 06:47 (eighteen years ago)

Michelle Monaghan is v. v. pretty

There seem to be two Michelle Monaghans...

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
ROMAN HOLIDAY

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 26 October 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

The Son
12:08 East of Bucharest
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
more Warhol (tomorrow) incl Vinyl

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 October 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

how was 12:08?

― s1ocki, Friday, 26 October 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

i wanted to see that.

― lauren, Friday, 26 October 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

american gangster leaked - im psyched to see denzel shoot some dudes in the face like no big deal

― jhøshea, Friday, 26 October 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

it sucks

― s1ocki, Friday, 26 October 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

saw The Warriors for the first time. David Patrick Kelly wins again. Pretty great watching it with the windows open and not being able to tell between sound effects and reality. Sad to find out 321 Contact guy in the flick died of AIDS.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 26 October 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

12:08 was very wry, dry and funny about history and hypocrisy the first time, I'm watching it again tonight to write about it cuz I can't remember anything after 5 months.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 October 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Verhoeven's Black Book, which was very good and had excellent boobs in it.

― Dan I., Friday, 26 October 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

it sucks

-- s1ocki, Friday, October 26, 2007 11:07 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

it did suxd :(

― jhøshea, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

The Birds
The Sopranos: Season Six, Part Two
The American Friend

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

au hasard balthazar not my favorite bresson

― 69, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

why do you hate donkeys?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

squid and the whale

― dmr, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

xp - no the girl's martyrdom didnt come across to me as really necessary, so she just seems depressed and self-destructive, when i wanna be like DUDE RUN AWAY WTF

― 69, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

we own the night. v bad.

― lauren, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

so im left just feeling for the donkey

― 69, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

i liked squid&whale

shaun of the dead

― sleep, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

310 to yuma

― jhøshea, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

dude i was supposed to watch shaun of the dead last night, but instead watched au hasard balthazar

― 69, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

shaun of the dead is the fucking woooorst

― jhøshea, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

no its fun!

― 69, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

BAD MOVE xxpost
shaun of the dead was funny and i am going to watch hot fuzz tonight i think

balthazar didn't do a lot for me outside of the closing shot, but i want to give it another chance sometime

― sleep, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

no its so annoying and schlocky and lame and i hate it

― jhøshea, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

is eva mendes purely decorative? she was so incredibly bad in wotn, but the script was so rotten that even robert duvall was awful. i haven't seen her in anything else that i can recall.

― lauren, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

balthazar didn't do a lot for me outside of the closing shot, but i want to give it another chance sometime

-- sleep, Monday, October 29, 2007 3:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

yeah whole closing seq was awes

― 69, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

shes really funny and charming in that shitty movie where matt damon is stuck to greg kinnear. also: wicked hawt. xp

― jhøshea, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

pulp fiction
the fat camp documentary on mtv

― impudent harlot, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Control (makes Ian Curtis boring)
who in NY want to see Night of the Living Dead @MoMA on Halloween night?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

American Gangster was so freaking boring, I fell asleep like 10 minutes after the opening round of spot-the-rapper-in-a-bit-part. This was the first movie I'd watched in nearly a month.

― nickalicious, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

e.m. is so hot that it verges on being a distraction. sadly, nothing could distract from movie's awfulness.

oh, right - control. saw that last week and loved it, for the most part. fwiw, i suspect that ian curtis WAS boring.

― lauren, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

morbs how come biopics always suck and make their subjects just seem boring and miserable huh? you got a theory?

― jhøshea, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

ROCKERS

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

zigeunerwisen seijun suzuki he crazy. liked!

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

hose, because condensing the events of someone's whole life into 2 hours doesn't work if they're worth thinking about? btw, I'm Not There is a (frequently) successful antidote to this.

There isn't much in Control about why IC's fans were drawn to him, how JD's music evolved, or even an acknowledgment that their name was controversial! The last half is all about the downward spiral of the last weeks of his life, and his (not at all interesting) wife and mistress.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

im fuckin glad they didnt do the cliff notes version of IC's life

― s1ocki, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

how does Control stack up against 24 Hour Party People? or is that apples & oranges

― dmr, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

as & os

― s1ocki, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

they did the cliff notes version of IC's DEATH

24HPP had the media circus aspect (actual entertainment) and gave Curtis a third of a movie, which is about right.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

aren't you guys a little too old to care about Ian Curtis?

― ian, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

haha!

i'm not that invested in ian curtis. i am finding that morbius aside, teh split seems to be: film ppl like the movie, music bloggers dont.

― s1ocki, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i am more just trying to figure out if I should see the movie or not, I'm not that worried abt whether they are DISRESPECTING TEH CRUTIS LEGEND

― dmr, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am no believer in his legend, but I certainly liked JD plenty when I came to their stuff 2-3 years after his death. The film just does its own version of the "tortured artist" cliche and dotes morbidly on why Curtis was suicidal (torn btwn two women, dissatisfaction of fame, epilepsy) and doesn't even provide a coherent answer or non-answer to that. I'd rather watch Kirk Douglas as van Gogh roaring through his madness in Arles again.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

ALL OUR MOTHERS MADE US FEEL IRRECONCILABLE GUILT
TRANSFERENCE IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE TO ~~SCREAM~~SCREEN THIS FILTH

-- El Tomboto, Monday, October 29, 2007 4:46 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

(ian, I am just old enough to have been young enough to have cared somewhat about Ian Curtis when it was a timely thing to do.)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

im glad the movie doesnt come up with some stupid "answer" to his suicide!

― s1ocki, Monday, 29 October 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

it was that damn chicken

― dmr, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

its my feeling that biopics suck because conventional freudian bullshit is easier to portray than brilliance.

― jhøshea, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

i am forever confusing eva mendes with rosario dawson for some reason, even though rosario >>>> eva imo.

i can't remember seeing anything w/ e.m. that was worth a shit, though. i saw "hitch" on tv for like five minutes and wanted to headbutt everyone in it.

is anyone else stoked for the haneke "funny games" remake? i'm excited, but also dubious. :/

― sugarpants, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

rosario's not that great

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 05:02 (eighteen years ago)

it's not much of a comparison.

― sugarpants, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 05:41 (eighteen years ago)

its my feeling that biopics suck because conventional freudian bullshit is easier to portray than brilliance.

alternately: practically everybody worth biographying has the same life-shape: early indicators of success, long hard struggle, fame but with personal bullshit intruding, some morbid death/unfamous shit at the end, redemption

― remy bean, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:14 (eighteen years ago)

p.s. i don't believe this

― remy bean, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:14 (eighteen years ago)

last night was the monkees' head, previously tivo'ed from tcm

over the weekend was lars and the real girl

on dvd: the after-school special dvd with the 18th emergency and summer of the swans

― get bent, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

Notre Musique
Mouchette
The Big Heat

all great. But I <3 ...Balthazar much more than Mouchette.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 08:20 (eighteen years ago)

28 Weeks Later - not bad, could have been better. why did they give the zombie the ability to think and use key-cards and follow them around :/ stadium night scope scene was pretty scary tho

― dmr, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Spiderman 3
Onibaba
V miniseries -- anyone watch the full series?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 November 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't seen this Ian Curtis movie, but I think the reason biopics of artists/musicians/writers tend to suck is because the moment of creative inspiration is really hard to represent. so mostly you get really cheesy one-to-one art-directly-imitates-life scenes.

― horseshoe, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

The Lookout <--- crappy

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

American Gangster - so pointless

― milo z, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

horseshoe, yes

The Chelsea Girls
Duck Season

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

saturday was two more '70s after-school specials on dvd. sunday was american gangster, which i kind of enjoyed -- it was no better or worse than a semi-decent law and order episode.

― get bent, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN STARRING WALTER MATTHAU

― ian, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

the lookout (okay when it was avoiding heist bullshit b/c the crooks were pretty lame)
30 days of night (not bad, but too long)
dirty harry (classic, but it was on a shitty dvd from '99 or something so it looked like crap)

― omar little, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Five Easy Pieces
Picnic on Hanging Rock
Night of the Hunter

― sexyDancer, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Picnic on Hanging Rock

this movie!!! so amazing and terrifying.

― horseshoe, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

the sound

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

the kinckers!

but seriously, EVERY FRAME of Night of the Hunter terrified Mrs. Dancer

― sexyDancer, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

the lookout is bullshit

― s1ocki, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Picnic on Hanging Rock

this movie!!! so amazing and terrifying.

-- horseshoe, Monday, November 5, 2007 7:27 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

otfm, it's almost my favorite movie!

― latebloomer, Monday, 5 November 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

The Chelsea Girls

I got there an hour late and left about 30 min early ;_;

― sleep, Monday, 5 November 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Overlord. Also: just saw Control.

― fukasaku tollbooth, Monday, 5 November 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

In Like Flint <--shouldnt every movie end w/ the lead dude gettin 2 chicks in SPACE?

Kontroll
Tony Takitani
American Cannibal

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:26 (eighteen years ago)

when a woman ascends the stairs
vanishing point
the kids are alright

― lauren, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

Picnic At Hanging Rock is so good. It's "generally considered the best Australian movie ever made" or something like that.

― W4LTER, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

take care of my cat -- sort of a korean ghost world. charming but eventually tedious.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 07:29 (eighteen years ago)

I got there an hour late and left about 30 min early ;_;

doh! did you miss Ondine slapping Pepper? they started a half-hour late, at 5:30.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

no i think i missed that part. i think the best part was mary fighting the girl with the huge eyelashes, or the latter throwing her makeup at the really fucked up girl under the desk. i wonder if there was only supposed to be one audio track at times or if there was some technical difficulty?

― sleep, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

also brigid was terrible/great

― sleep, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

bully
shadows

― sleep, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Darjeeling Ltd.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

sanskrit has seen the projectionist tipsheet on Chelsea Girls! There was def a problem with that 4 boys hanging out reel, but I think the first time I saw it they also stuck w/ 1 audiotrack at a time. The reel where Ondine goes nuts is one of the last two, along with Nico crying amid numerous color light gels (incl the photo on the back of the 1st VU album?).

The Darjeeling Limited (it's OK)
The Way of Hope (very moving & rarely screened)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Ratatouille (tonight)
No End in Sight (unsurprising, but one of the year's best)
Viridiana (Criterion's new print)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to see american gangster tomorrow night at a $3 theater. their projections are often out of focus and the sound tends to pop and occasionally ppl get shot near there but i'm not paying full price for this movie based on the ilx reviews.

― omar little, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

often out of focus and occasionally ppl get shot

american gangster synopsis

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Rear Window (Grace Kelly...<3 wow?)
Lancelot Of The Lake
The Crime Of Monsieur Lange
Diary Of A Chambermaid (Renoir. Weird Burgess Meredith action going on here.)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

The Grifters -- fantastic.

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

The Man Who Knew Too Little - not Murray's best.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. Mabuse The Gambler
A Man For All Seasons

― Dan I., Wednesday, 7 November 2007 07:18 (eighteen years ago)

shooter -- rubbish morelike
domino -- rubbish morelike
be kind rewind -- braggin 2007

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

how was be kind

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Burgess M ruuuules in Diary Of A Chambermaid (altho it's not as great as Bunuel version)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Mandabi

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

more like 'block party' than any of his other stuff -- but also more like 'le crime de monsieur lange'. it's very, very sweet, very idealistic, JB is just reined in enough, and the first sequence of them remaking a film -- 'ghostbusters' -- is probably the most joyous thing i've seen in years. it wasn't as funny as i expected, and as usual gondry is funny about gurls, but it was very smart and i kind of welled up at the end so kudos to him.

xpost

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://nastynets.com/secretstash/iancurtisvrsherzog.png

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

what'd you think of Black Lizard, dleone?

also: rescreening of Teorema:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_-o446A4-ToY/Ruw_IyBwlhI/AAAAAAAAAk8/KmXMM-ig01s/s1600-h/t2.jpg

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

yes well "?" about sums it up

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:OqrSQ-4HPmQJ:thecamerajournal.blogspot.com/2007/09/teorema.html+teorema+%22ennio+morricone%22+blogspot&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=safari

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

anyone see that joe strummer movie?

― jeff, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

yeah.

i didn't think it was worthy of a cinema release.

you probably need to be invested in joe strummer and the clash to enjoy it. otherwise it's fucking bono and johnny depp telling what the true meaning of punk is. it is that anyway really.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

blecch

― latebloomer, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

Play Time - wow
watching the first half I thought the reputation was a little overblown but the second half was crazy

― dmr, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

huh, I've never made it to the second half

― sexyDancer, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

love that movie

― sleep, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

first half is him doing a chaplin impression and sitting on poofy chairs

second half mostly takes place in a "snooty" restaurant / nightclub and is a farcical set piece with a million moving parts

― dmr, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

have no idea how they shot that scene in the traffic circle

― dmr, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

yes that scene is amazing

― sleep, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Hardly a Chaplin impression, he'd been playing Hulot for 15 years... The pre-restaurant half is like a spatial theory about modern urban dehumanization.

You have to look for the next NY theater showing, it's in the Top 5 of Only Fully Works on the Big SCreen.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 November 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

any interest in seeing: http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/movies/17love.html

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 10 November 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

The Driver

― Eric H., Saturday, 10 November 2007 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

street fighter

http://img314.echo.cx/img314/5838/bc_sftm_blanka.jpg

a 'casablanka' for our times

― am0n, Saturday, 10 November 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

RIP http://www.psmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/raul.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 10 November 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

first half is him doing a chaplin impression and sitting on poofy chairs

So RONG. The dinner is obv. far more impressive than what comes before it, but wouldn't be nearly as much so if the first half of the film didn't take it slowly and teach you how to watch it.

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 10 November 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't mean the Chaplin comparison as an insult

Tati fans be sensitive

― dmr, Sunday, 11 November 2007 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

tonight saw No Country for Old Men (recommended!)

also saw the trailer for There Will Be Blood

― dmr, Sunday, 11 November 2007 07:14 (eighteen years ago)

saw No Country For Old Men last nite and dug it too. ending was controversial w/my friends but it worked.

― m coleman, Sunday, 11 November 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

I probably dislike Tati for the same reason I dislike Chaplin. Anti-human snobbery?

― sexyDancer, Sunday, 11 November 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Playtime is sort of insistently humanist, I think.

I saw I'm Not There. I liked most of it, but not as much as I expected to. Some of the segments are v. dull.

― C0L1N B..., Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

clowns are not humanist. every child knows this.

― sexyDancer, Sunday, 11 November 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

i started to watch the damned but turned it off after about an hour. part of the problem was the english dubbing (is there a non-dubbed version on dvd) but it was also just so overbearing. like, compared to the conformist, e.g., which occupies some of the same moral turf but so much more intelligently.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 12 November 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

I just watched the Lost World (1925) with David Shepard. AWESOME...deserves lots of praise (great score, great animation, etc.)

― Tape Store, Monday, 12 November 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

vacancy

― sleep, Monday, 12 November 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think Tati is humanist while detesting most of civilization. (I didn't think it was nec an insult, Dave, but CC is much more proletarian and knockabout than Tati, if anything JT is closer to Keaton)

Stan Brakhage's Pittsburgh trilogy
Lonesome Jim
Undertow

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

The Player

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

holy mountain !!!

― sleep, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

tonight saw No Country for Old Men (recommended!)

also saw the trailer for There Will Be Blood

-- dmr, Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

this happened to me too at the 520 show at union sq

i loved this movie. javier bardem is the best ever

― jhøshea, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://nastynets.com/secretstash/iancurtisvrsherzog.png

please tell me he's talking about whitey herzog.

― bnw, Monday, 12 November 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

transformers (so much worse than i thought it was going to be)

― omar little, Monday, 12 November 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Finally realized the TV was on ch. 103 instead of 03:

20 sec of some cheeseball "western" with Selma Hayek and P Cruz.
*Could have been written and filmed in the 1910s.

2nd half of When a Stranger Calls (remake)
*Bougie fear of the help realized, but needed L Lohan in the lead. Screaming, crying children always a plus in this type of thing.

Idiocracy
*Red State satire better than Huxley in many regards. Ingenious, uncanny matte paintings galore. Very close to my own personal nightmares. Kinda racist, though?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

^classist, moreso I thought

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Probably more grewupintexasist.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Have heard very good things abt Idiocracy. I would like to see it.

Tonight I watch "Revisiting Father & The Source Family"--has anyone seen this? SexyD? Milton? Tim Ellison?

― ian, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

not yet, but I will.
yeah, Idiocarcy was wall-to-wall laffs, but I hate "people."

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

idiocracy was kind of disappointing to me, not for any ethical/moral objections, just kinda unfunny for much of its running time.

cosign the greatness of no country for old men, tho

― deej, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

The best thing about having a dim view of humanity, is that you're never disappointed.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

best thing about pessimism is, you're always either right or pleasantly surprised.

― ian, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

great minds, etc

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Hope for the best, expect the worst
You could be Tolstoy or Fannie Hurst

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/023/905/23905128.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

daisies

so great.

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cgkoebel/images/daisies2.jpg

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 08:23 (eighteen years ago)

"Sabrina" (1954 vers, obv) it's one of this dude's yuotueb uploads:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=atarumyth&page=18

Dude is 100% certain to get his/her profile pulled sooner or later, I'm enjoying it while I can though.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

Casino Royale
Bond is good, but the problem with this trend in high-contrast processing is that it eliminates depth perception, leaving the action scenes flat and incomprehensible. Good poisoniong scene, though.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Weird -- I watched Casino Royale last night. I felt like M's role was a little bit contrived to use Dame Dench as much as possible.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

it had some nice action but having bond catching feelings like that is just totally unconscionable

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

also dudes face looks like it got stepped on - no debonair!

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

pursed lips fu

yeah there were all sorts of bizarre concessions to fashion.
they should have chopped that chick's arm right off.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure what stopped them from chopping her arm off!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

bond didnt catch those feelings, he gets rid of them! "the bitch is dead" = classic line in the novel, which was the first of the bond series. (actually come to think of it theres a later book/film where he falls in love & is going to get married & the girl ends up getting shot in a failed assassination attempt but whatever)

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

anyway that was a great fucking movie

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm thinking of that great scene in Diamonds are Forever in which Plenty O'Toole seduces Bond, and seconds after she takes her dress off, thugs burst into the room and throw her out the window without so much as a word. That's the kind of misogyny I expect.

And that collapsing building sequence? Half expected Dick Van Dyke to come flying in on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to save the day.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

anyway that was a great fucking movie

-- deeznuts, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:18 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ttoally

― deej, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

still, I like this Bond. Are they going to start re-doing them all?

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

eh wouldnt end and all that poker why

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

THOUGHTS ON YAHOWA MOVIE:

- crappy narration
- skip the last ten minutes (kid who made the film crappily justifying it to some kind of college panel)
- sloooow opening
- all clearly acid casualties

+ food at their restaurant sounds awesome
+ intermittent animated .gif aesthetic catering to stoner crowd
+ Yod's peyote freak-out
+ (very) relative sanity of the one man interviewed who was born into the family
+ awesome soundtrack
+ i never knew Father Yod was an athletic CHAMPION (unclear on whether he was literally an olympic medalist) and a highly-decorated marine

― ian, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

- men only had about one orgasm per month

― ian, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.freefever.com/animatedgifs/animated/hippies.gif lollll

― bell_labs, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

oh also a BIG plus: Yod's obsession with the masonic background of the founding fathers.

― ian, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/The_Newest_Bond_Girl

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha if this movie's called Bond 22 that will be interesting

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

ian do you own that movie? I kinda want to borrow it if it's yours

I can offer Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda for a swap if you haven't seen that yet

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0611/hoberman2.jpg

― dmr, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

yes, i do own it dave! we'll arrange a swap later in the week--i haven't seen thunderbolt pagoda, just heard the sdtrk.

― ian, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

southland tales -- at least as much fun as i expected from all the grumpy baffled reviews. (i also don't really understand the anti-hipster ire richard kelly seems to inspire. i guess it has something to do with too many hipsters geeking out over donnie darko. i missed all that. i like both his movies.)

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 17 November 2007 08:03 (eighteen years ago)

ok so b/c i have way less work to do this wkend than i originally thought, what movie should i see this afternoon/evening?? i have been v busy and not paying attention :( need something to relax my mind a bit but not depress me with state-of-the-effed-up-world stuff (for instance, dl-ed idiocracy last week and found it pretty depressing tho i commend it for being able to do that i guess. anyway, don't want to feel like that today.)

no country for old men
american gangster
eastern promises
into the wild
across the universe (for some reason i feel like i should see this?)
beowolf (haha i have a friend who would prob be into this tho)

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 17 November 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

no country for old men & eastern promises are both great american gangster is awful havent seen the rest although i am planning a 3d imax beowolf screening

― jhøshea, Saturday, 17 November 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

they are showing beowolf in 3d imax here too! i think it might be too much for me right now though unless it involves a beer or two prior to watching
no country for old men is probably the right level

haha i am watching sabrina now! thx for link above, pash

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 17 November 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

hey rob

1. eastern promises
2. no country for old men
3. american gangster (i think i might see this today)
4. beowolf
last. into the wild
last. across the universe (i heard it was tough to get through)

― 69, Saturday, 17 November 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait 3d beowulf might push that up to 1st or 2nd

― 69, Saturday, 17 November 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Noisers love the arty slaughter pix.

Tony n' Tina's Wedding (worst comedy ever?)
Murmur of the Heart

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 17 November 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

I think ZARDOZ watching night at my house this week

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 17 November 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

god that movie is so...sublime

― latebloomer, Saturday, 17 November 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

they just don't make 'em like that anymore

― latebloomer, Saturday, 17 November 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

tonight I think I watch Nicolas Roeg's Performance

xpost - yeah zardoz is sweet. my old boss in VA told me about that movie! I had never heard of it. he had seen it on tv as a little kid or something @__@

― dmr, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

i saw zardoz when it came out -- on acid :D

― m coleman, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

was it considered a "cult" movie from the start or was it supposed to be a big mass-market scifi sean connery flick??

― dmr, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

choice b, sci-fi and futuristic movies were big in the 70s, even before Star Wars. supposed to be mass-market but I don't know how big of a hit it was. Soylent Green's another good one, that came out a couple years before Z. another cult favorite from highschool days was Westworld w/Yul Brynner. and Rollerball?

― m coleman, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

I want to see more SciFi in the vein of og battlestar galactica, zardoz, logan's run, etc

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

i saw zardoz when it came out -- on acid :D

-- m coleman, Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:06 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

awesome

― latebloomer, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I may be able to get acid if anyone wants to drop acid and watch zardoz

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

I want to see more SciFi in the vein of og battlestar galactica, zardoz, logan's run, etc

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:23 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

otm. is there anything that comes close these days?

zardoz is one of those movies that seems like it could ONLY have been made in the 70's

― latebloomer, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

I should put Soylent on my netflix, always meant to see that

I wasn't that into westworld

― dmr, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

"And in a funny way, the shaving of my, uh, head has been a liberation from, uh, a lot of, uh, stupid vanities really. Uh, it has simplified everything for me, it has opened a lot of doors maybe."
(SM)
I'm not what you think I am
I'm the king of Siam
I've got a bald head
My name is Yul Brynner
And I am a famous movie star
Perhaps you saw me in Westworld
I acted like a robotic cowboy
It was my best role
I can not deny I
Felt right home deep inside
That electronic carcass

― dmr, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

westworld probably was enhanced by copious amounts of w33d. a campy drive-in classic.

in retrospect I'd say tripping at the movies is a bit redundant...

logans run is good movie

― m coleman, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

I want to see more SciFi in the vein of og battlestar galactica, zardoz, logan's run, etc

try the omega man: biohazard mutants, blaxploitation, charlton heston, what more could you want?

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

In that new I Am Legend version with Will Smith that's coming they're doing the vampires entirely CGI. how lame is that?

― latebloomer, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

you had me at will smith.

the godfather of all the 70s sci-fi movies is thx-1138.

also recommend some of the planet of the apes sequels. beneath, escape
from, and conquest of the planet of the apes all have these freaky 70s dystopian endings... just thinking about conquest makes me want to see it again. is it really as fucked up as I remember? the talking apes are an enslaved underclass who stage a violent revolution, not just against the man, but against MAN!

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

westworld is pretty tits.

― chaki, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

ohman zardoz yeah

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

ended up on off chance checking the dollar cinema listings and omg they were playing THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM at 5. which was really and truly the only movie that was going to suit me PERFECTLY today. and it.was.sweet. wow. then ate a bunch of indian food. aw yeah.

will see eastern promises soon though for sure

bourne movies rule

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

apparently my recollection of conquest of the planet of the apes is accurate...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Conquest4.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Conquest2.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/conquest-04.jpg

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/conquest-11.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Conquest8.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/conquest-09.jpg

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/conquest-10.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Conquest3.jpg

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

omg @ orange jumpsuits

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

wow!

i had a friend who went through a planet of the apes phase a couple years ago. i haven't gone through that phase. i remember seeing some of the sequels on tv when i was younger though.

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:09 (eighteen years ago)

omg @ john huston, too

http://www.mediamercenary.com/POTAimages/Battle3S.jpg

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

I am so close to jumping in the car and driving down to the video store to rent conquest of the planet of the apes. on-demand video, where is your victory?

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

if you were a kid in the 70s pre-star wars you had two choices: planet of the apes and star trek. I went through my pota phase early on. I even had the treehouse! and yes I had the same expression as the kid on the box when I got it...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/potagift.jpg

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

probably the same haircut, too

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

that treehouse is worth smiling about!
i think i have seen grown adults with that haircut these days :/

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

3 control sticks AND 3 rifles AND a detention pen!

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

children today have been cheated of such simple pleasures

― Edward III, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/ea/200px-Performance_VHS_cover.jpg

― dmr, Saturday, 24 November 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

i think i have seen grown adults with that haircut these days :/

-- rrrobyn, Sunday, November 18, 2007 2:25 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

have u seen no country for old men yet

― s1ocki, Saturday, 24 November 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

haha

― am0n, Saturday, 24 November 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

I'm Not There - pretty great

― dmr, Monday, 26 November 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

The Green Mile - worse than I was expecting.

― caek, Monday, 26 November 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised that a lot of the reviews (even the positive ones) have been panning the Ricard Gere / Billy the Kid / Basement Tapes segment ... that was my favorite part! (xp to myself)

― dmr, Monday, 26 November 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

Holy fuck, Paul Williams.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 26 November 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

ha, I was wondering if anyone would notice that!

watched tout va bien tonight... it was kind of like conquest of the planet of the apes, except without the cool makeup.

― Edward III, Monday, 26 November 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised that a lot of the reviews (even the positive ones) have been panning the Ricard Gere / Billy the Kid / Basement Tapes segment

i know, i liked that. it was like the embodiment of that whole back-to-nature weird-america basement-tapes thing. so many reviews say "peckinpah" about that part, but it's not peckinpah at all.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 26 November 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

i didnt know paul williams played an ape!

― chaki, Monday, 26 November 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

Sal Mineo too... (and John Huston w/ gratuitous makeup)

I did BOTH Star Trek and Apes in the '70s! I have a socio-study book of the Apes series that reveals the filmmakers very consciously based the visuals of the rebellion sequence on the Watts riots footage.

Zardoz is dreck, btw, and not even fun dreck. Maybe if Connery in a loincloth was more my type.

Divorce - Italian Style
Such is Life... (a Mexican Medea)
Away from Her
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (overrated pretentious bilge)
Southland Tales (at least funnier than Zardoz, barely)
Dont Look Back / 65 Revisited
Summer with Monika (Bergman)
Gone Baby Gone
Green for Danger

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 November 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

it's not peckinpah at all

is it just that critics haven't heard the basement tapes so they don't get the references as much as the '60s segment? e.g. New Yorker review said something like "at this point we've wandered so far off tangent from Dylan's art ..." but half the dialogue is straight outta the lyrics. dude from My Morning Jacket singing Going to Acapulco in the bandshell was A+ scene.

― dmr, Monday, 26 November 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

I really hate My Morning Jacket, so that was the nadir for me.

It is unfortunate they interpret that 'act' as being solely Peckinpah-related bcuz Gere is playing "Billy", when clearly Gere-Dylan look over the horizon at the start of the segment and 'hears' Woodstock. (I haven't heard The Basement Tapes tho.)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 November 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Planet.Of.The.Apes.Quadrilogy http://www.2torrent.com/tor.php?id=455236

― jhøshea, Monday, 26 November 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

how come im not there is only playing at shitty little screens

― jhøshea, Monday, 26 November 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I was shocked it didn't just open in 2 NYC theaters as orig planned last summer; I think the Weinsteins did a 'last-minute' expansion that didn't give them much of a choice on where to book it.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 November 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

A huge holiday "weekend" (from Tues - Sun) + my parents' house's 60-ish movie channels =

Night at the Museum - not bad, far better than I expected
Wild at Heart - remember when Nicolas Cage was awesome?
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The Princess and the Warrior) - mostly unsettling but ultimately pleasing; Franke Potante is the best

Also thanks to the internet =

Futurama: Bender's Big Score - hahahaha hooray!!!!
BBC special GALAPAGOS - cute little lizards + tectonic plates etc!

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 November 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

No Country For Old Men STILL not playing here.

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 November 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

BUT it starts this week.

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 November 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

(I haven't heard The Basement Tapes tho.)

and I havent seen Peckinpah's Billy the Kid movie so I don't know how much of that is in there .... but check out the album art

http://www.maggiesfarm.it/testivariquater.jpg

― dmr, Monday, 26 November 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

where's the giraffe?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 November 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

hear the basement tapes ffs

― jhøshea, Monday, 26 November 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

the only one of those songs I know is "Wheel's on Fire" from the AbFab theme, haha

'70-76 is my least fave rock period. My slightly younger sister was a big Dylan fanatic -- when she was, like 13 -- so I would do braying impressions of "Hard Rain" and stuff to irk her.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 November 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

byrds version of wheel's on fire is teh best of all versions.
dr. byrds & mr. hyde is so underrated.

― ian, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

last night some crappy harrison ford movie was on My9 instead of Star Trek and I was PISSED.

― ian, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

'70-76 is my least fave rock period.

just for the record, basement tapes is '67-'68. it just wasn't released til '75.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 26 November 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

The Mist - I have never seen a movie fuck up the ending this badly. Jesus.

― milo z, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

gonna watch Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman tonight

― dmr, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

i keep hearing that about the mist ending ;_; i still want to see tho

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

seriously i was half expecting "that was a bit depressing, let's do the scooby-doo ending"

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

Robin and Marian
Casino Royale '06
The Holy Modal Rounders ... Bound to Lose
Pigpen
Letter from an Unknown Woman (great great great)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

what think you neu Bond?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Daisies
American Grafitti
Bug

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Hour of the Wolf.

― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

boy, that's one of Bergman's clear failures in that period.

sD, I liked it fine -- it's probably the best one since at least, oh, Octopussy? (I skipped the entire Brosnan Era) -- and wouldn't even argue that Craig might be the best actor ever for the role, incl Connery. But "gritty," extending to a semi-realistic torture scene, is just not what I need from a 007 film. As stinko as the spoof version of Royale was, I'm glad we didn't see Orson Welles whacking on naked Peter Sellers' balls.

Also, I don't understand poker.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

^wdn't even argue against Craig being etc^

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, Craig has the charisma and physicality for the role. And I agree the torture scene was out of place (PG-13??? Vat Hast Spielberg Wrot?)
if only that the "realism" detracted from the trademark Bond preposterousness (ridiculous climax sceme).

oh I also saw Bergman's Magic Flute, but feel alseep in the middle, waking up to find myself in stylized Swedish Hell.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad we didn't see Orson Welles whacking on naked Peter Sellers' balls

.............

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

daisies is great.

― lauren, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Golden Eye spawned a good video game.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

naw dudes craig is all brutish and emo not suave and sociopathic - he totally had the dude who never wears a suit wearing a suit vibe going the whole time - dud!

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

license to kill, yo

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

The funny thing is, all these attempts to make a "feminist James Bond" are now out-of-date. I would think a more ruthless misogyny would be respected by the modern cineaste.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

yah totes

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

well, given that he's only "Bond...James Bond" at the very end, doesn't that promise nothing but brutish misogyny to come in the next 4 films?

also, I couldn't believe all Jeffrey Wright's Felix Leiter got to do was lose at cards.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

maybe they'll remake "Live at Let Die" next and Wright will get to tap dance around all sorts of racist bugaboos.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

when is Judi Dench getting a lesbian love scene?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

it depends on when they cast a Miss Moneypenny.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Toni Colette?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

I liked that we saw Mr. M in bed next to her, but no glimpse of her bedside reading. The Sensuous Spook?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

also, I couldn't believe all Jeffrey Wright's Felix Leiter got to do was lose at cards.

yes wtf

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Cinema: Rescue Dawn, Rules of the Game

TV: Zaitoichi, North by Northwest

DVD: La Captive

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

what the hell does felix leiter ever do except give bond some intel or get eaten by sharks?

bottle rocket -- thumbs up!
live free or die hard -- solid, i s'pose, but this movie was really kind of weird and i wish hateable evil emo hacker had received a less throwaway death scene
perfume: the story of a murderer -- it started out gross, then got interesting (love the stuff with dustin hoffman and what's his face learning the trade), then it fell off the rails. too long, too 'who gives a shit?'

― omar little, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

i rewatched bottle rocket the other day also - thumbs still up!

― sleep, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

rescue dawn was yes!

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

cinema: I'm Not There, The Holy Mountain
DVD: Lacombe Lucien, Helvetica

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

drunken viewing of superbad

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

best way

― dmr, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Bottle Rocket is still the only Wes Anderson I really like

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

No Country For Old Men

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

^good movie 5/5

3:10 to Yuma: 3/5
30 Days of Night: 3/5
The Prestige: 3/5
Aftermath: 1/5
Rob Zombie Halloween remake: 1/5
Salo/120 Days of Sodom: 1/5
You're Gonna Miss Me: 4/5
Superstar, the Karen Carpenter Story: 4/5

― BLASTOCYST, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

come and see - first half brilliant, poetic and absurdly comic yet terrifying. the last sequence, while entirely necessary, didn't stand up execution-wise (no pun intended). also, film ends with ill-advised bush league montage of WWII footage run backwards wtf.

― Edward III, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

I don't remember that last; did you have a jokey projectionist?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Opinons are divided on the film's penultimate scene. Flyora comes upon a portrait of "Hitler the Liberator." He shoots it. After each shot, we see war footage run backwards: We see concentration camps liberated and Pearl Harbor bombed; we see Paris fall and Hitler's willful Triumph. Then we loose sight of WWII. Weimar is marred by riots. Those crowds scurry exactly like the men hurtling out of WWI trenches. Finally we are faced by a portrait of Adolf Hitler as a baby. Flyora stops shooting.

http://logomorphoses.blogspot.com/2007/03/come-and-see.html

― omar little, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

just watched ecstasy of sculptor steiner/how much wood would a woodchuck chuck.../la soufriere - SO AWESOME.

HMWWAWC has this one segment where they go to PA, and theres this version of "take me home, country roads" that is just like THE most beautiful thing ever.

all three docs just great. the shit WH says in his narration in the beginning of la soufriere is ridiculous and great.

― 69, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

I watched "Joe" last night for the first time. Maybe it was partly my frame of mind at the time, but shit, that was a seriously fucking grim movie.

― dell, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:55 (eighteen years ago)

but I highly recommend it to anyone who's not seen it...

― dell, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:56 (eighteen years ago)

Elizabethtown - surprisingly not the worst movie I've ever seen

― milo z, Saturday, 8 December 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

The Brood

― latebloomer, Saturday, 8 December 2007 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

day after tomorrow ok this was horrible but where did the wolves come from? the zoo? the 8 wolves or whatever in ny zoos somehow escaped and broke into the exact same cvs as jake gyllenhaal?

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 8 December 2007 06:36 (eighteen years ago)

stranger things have happened

― latebloomer, Saturday, 8 December 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

I saw "Dig!" for the first time recently, as well. Shockingly entertaining, all things considered.

― dell, Saturday, 8 December 2007 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

"I WRITE ALL THE SONGS."

― sexyDancer, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

"ALL THE SONGS!"

― sexyDancer, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

really? as Cosloy wrote, behind the music with 2 crappy bands?

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Lola Montes

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 8 December 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

really? as Cosloy wrote, behind the music with 2 crappy bands?

Yeah, that's not a completely off-the-mark comparison. I don't know, maybe it helps if you have a fascination with psychopathology, nineties west coast indie rock culture, and have known people in your personal life who remind you of some of the people in the film.

― dell, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

I watched it and "Joe" on the same night, and it's kinda funny-- in the same way that one ends up sympathizing with Joe at times even though he is a pretty jerky guy, at certain points in "Dig!" I was astonished to find myself sympathizing with Anton, who otherwise came across as being quite repellent. I think that's in large part due to the fact that Courtney Taylor and some of the other Dandy guys are so incredibly annoying in the film.

― dell, Sunday, 9 December 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm Not There
Don't Look Back
Through a Glass Darkly

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 9 December 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Severance - kinda dumb

― milo z, Sunday, 9 December 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

man, through a glass darkly is INSANE. i was watching that this summer when i was real tired, and i drifted to sleep, then woke up when the daughter is SCREAMING about god as a spider. v v harrowing

― 69, Sunday, 9 December 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

yeah what was really funny is i watched all those movies yesterday, in the order i placed them. so they're all black and white and the first two have a lot of dylan with those ray bans on. and then in one of the last scenes of through a glass darkly the daughter puts on ray bans just like dylan's. spooky.

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 9 December 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

how was im not there?

― 69, Sunday, 9 December 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Disappointing. I liked the first hour or so okay. The kid was great, Cate Blanchette was great, but the Heather Ledger/Charlotte Gainsbourg and Christian Bale stuff was too confusing. And then parts of it were almost Mighty Wind-ish? I didn't like any of the Richard Gere stuff except for the version of Going To Acapulco, which was lovely.

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

yeah christian said the gere part was sorta shitty

― 69, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Heath Ledger/Charlotte Gainsbourg and Christian Bale stuff was too confusing, how?

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 9 December 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

i thought it was weird that Bale played two personas--the NYC singer and the reformed Xtian singer. Wasn't the whole idea that if there was a change in Dylan=new actor/actress?? maybe i missed something. i thought the whole Xtian persona should have been cut, it didn't work for me at all. Also, the whole time during the drunken award ceremony with Bale I kept trying to figure out if it had a parallel to dylan's real life.

the timing and stuff with the heath/charlotte scenes confused me. like the first time we see her, she's got the two kids who are like 8 and 10 years old maybe, and then one of the last scenes--the one where they're outside in the cafe and he yells at the photog--she has a baby in her arms. so it was going back in time, right? confusing.

also, ha ha "Heather" Ledger, i am an idiot.

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 9 December 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

i thought it was weird that Bale played two personas--the NYC singer and the reformed Xtian singer

He played the same character in two phases of his career.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 9 December 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i got that. i just thought it disrupted the flow of the movie.

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 9 December 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

WILD ZERO!!!!

ROCK N ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― nickalicious, Monday, 10 December 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't the whole idea that if there was a change in Dylan=new actor/actress??

I'm glad he disrupted that. Besides, hardcore folk is another variation of evangelizing.

La Ronde
El Violin
Le Plaisir
Guelwaar

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 December 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Flight Plan <--- lolol has anyone seen this? it was on cable last night. so ridiculously bad it was kind of riveting.

― dmr, Monday, 10 December 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

it was like Die Hard meets 6th Sense / fake script from Adaptation in an elaborate post-9/11 allegory

― dmr, Monday, 10 December 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

on a plane

― dmr, Monday, 10 December 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

i loved how the scheme's success or failure hung upon 99% of the plane's passengers not noticing that jodie foster had her daughter with her.

― omar little, Monday, 10 December 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 December 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Flight plan Budget: $ 55,000,000
Flightplan grossed $89,602,378 at the box office and over $223,000,000 worldwide. It also grossed $49,270,000 on DVD rentals.
they laughin it up now

― carne asada, Monday, 10 December 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

i watched caligula last night. i knew it would be bad, but i had no idea how bad it would be. it was one of the least erotic, ugliest, most gratuitious and inept things i have ever seen. guccione failed me.

― remy bean, Friday, 14 December 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

also: malcolm mcdowell's taint

― remy bean, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

I would describe 75% of Italian cinema I've seen just as you have described Caligula.

― BLASTOCYST, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

i want to see the spanish horror movie slocki wrote abt in wkly paper this wk - looks good/scary!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

called the orphanage

― rrrobyn, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

i am already scared by its italicized name!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

i want to see that, too.

― lauren, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

BOURNE ULTIMATUM

― milo z, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

sherrybaby
no country for old men
the departed (which made me even more sad about the terrible, cheap, ugly renovation of the park luncheonette)

― lauren, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Liebelei
Charlie Wilson's War
Caught ('49 Ophuls)
Emitai

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

"The Phantom Carriage". Glooooomy.

― Pashmina, Friday, 14 December 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Charlie Wilson's War <–- &?

― remy bean, Friday, 14 December 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

the NY Post said it best: AFGHANISHTAR

(not as funny tho)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 December 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

maggie cheung just hit jackie chan in the face withe a cake ^_^

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 16 December 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

SHE HIT HIM AGAIN

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 16 December 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

Suburbia
Margot at the wedding
George Washington
Wonderwall

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 16 December 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

wts There Will Be Blood v. badly

― The Macallan 18 Year, Sunday, 16 December 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

fell asleep halfway thru Hitchcock's "Lifeboat"

probably see Juno next ... and There Will Be Blood once it opens

― dmr, Sunday, 16 December 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

The Yards
Into the Wild
In the Year of the Pig
Billy the Kid

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 17 December 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Fitzcarraldo
Night at the Roxbury

― Mr. Que, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Wait Until Dark - audrey is decent but alan arkin wtf

re-watching Barbarella lolz re: TEH MATMOS

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

how was billy the kid?

― lauren, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

it's OK, but sorry, seemed kinda "set up" a lot of time (ie, camera can't be a fly-on-the-wall). Also, aspie kid likes too much bad '70s rock -- he'll be on ILX any day now.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

while i'm at it, how was the yards? i liked little odessa well enough but we own the night was so bad that i deleted the yards from my netflix queue in a fit of pique.

― lauren, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Elevator To The Gallows
The War Game
Spirit Of The Beehive
Tristana

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not dr. morbs but i liked the yards, in a blue-collar-drama sort of way. (besides wahlberg doing his usual reglar-guy thing, it was the movie where i realized charlize theron could act.)

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

that's ok. your input is appreciated.

― lauren, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'd seen The Yards when it came out and liked it w/ reservations, which are still there. The milieu is really spot-on, but it looks too much like The Godfather (even when J Caan is not on screen), and the contrived operatic seams show. Wahlberg is fine, but he's basically doing Brando in On the Waterfront. He and Joaquin Phoenix have one of the more convincing street brawls on film.

I also forgot that was Theron til it was over, and til midway that the scarily Faustian Queens frau was Faye Dunaway. (still amazing: Steve Lawrence chilling as corrupt Queens boro prez -- that's as in Steve & Eydie)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 17 December 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Just watched "The Andromeda Strain" because I had been enjoying the Gil Mellé score that Creel Pone reissued and whoah, that movie is righteous. So weird that this the guy that directed The Sound of Music. Sheesh. I would love to see the weird Ann McGuire video piece "Strain, Andromeda, The" which is just the entire movie re-edited so that each scene plays forward but in a shot-by-shot reverse order from that of the film. That sounds really good. Milton, do you have that piece by any chance?

― Drew Daniel, Monday, 17 December 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Andromeda Strain for the first time earlier this year, it was great!

― dmr, Monday, 17 December 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

arlington road unexpectedly awesome

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 20 December 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

don't look back - good
manufactured landscapes - kinda boring, but good

― sleep, Saturday, 22 December 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

Day of the Jackal
Yunnan Colorfree
2 Fast 2 Furious
Oceans 11

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 24 December 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

arlington road unexpectedly awesome

-- tipsy mothra, Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:07 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

RONG

― and what, Monday, 24 December 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/teeth/trailer/

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 24 December 2007 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wizardishungry/sets/72157603535345883/

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 24 December 2007 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

Teeth: What. the. fuck.

― milo z, Monday, 24 December 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

RONG

no! i thought it was probably horrible because why wouldn't it be, but it's more or less a twlight zone episode. or maybe a tales from the darkside, it even did that spooky-negative thing in the credits. or what it really is is a 50s cold war paranoia movie, updated for terrorism. anyway i liked it even as it got more ludicrous. and they didn't wimp out on the ending.

PLUS the opening sequence w the kid staggering down the road and jeff bridges in the car is great.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 December 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

RONG

― omar little, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

the old "oh noes!" dark twist ending shit is kind of a pussy move imo, as if it's the easiest way to impress people ("oh it's uncompromising!") and make them forget they're watching an overdirected, overacted film which contains not one whit of true suspense or understanding of how people actually act and operate in real life.

― omar little, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

it's the 'mr brooks' of the mad bomber genre.

― omar little, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

mr brooks is hilarious though

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

plus Dane Cook gets pwn3d with a shovel

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

well i did like that scene.

― omar little, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

also arlington rd is interesting to see several years post-9/11, its ideas of terrorism mostly shaped by okla. city.

and yes it's a ridiculous movie, i'm not concerned with its plausibility. twilight zone stories are mostly ridiculous too, fables or whatever you want to call them.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 December 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

i liked the yards until joaquin phoenix started crying

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

Jodorowsky box set for xmas woohoo.

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

under my tree:

Marx Bros Paramount box
Dr Strangelove
early Hitchcock (Juno & the Paycock, Number 17)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

juno & the paycock is what "juno" was based on, right?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

i got a herzog box set for xmas
later we are watching (morbius fave) ratatouille

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

serious family crisis when the grinch wasn't on last night, sister freaked out.
yogi bear christmas was pretty good.

― ian, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

i got a herzog box set for xmas
awes gift

i watched half of xmen 3 and got pretty bored

― sleep, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

'for a few dollars more' - kinski cameo

― am0n, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ratatouille is OK despite racial chef caricature, I liked Simpsons Movie more

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

oh maaaaan, was this bad.

i enjoyed it.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

i wanna see it so bad
no spoilers

― and what, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

i was talking morbs' ear off about AVP:R the other night at the bar and he didn't seem very interested. I AM SO EXCITED

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

elmo suggested tila tequila: alien versus predator

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

SURPRISE!!!! I LIKE ALIENS *AND* PREDATORS

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

the first a.v.p. barely delivered on the premise (which should be a sort of infallible premise). new one looks more fun.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

it's almost comically bad when it comes to the humans but there's much more alien/predator carnage.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

I Am Legend - what is this shit...why go to so much effort to make it not a vampire movie when it was such a great vampire story!?

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

I know! So frustrating and baffling.

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

just sawr it - so sweet - who care abt vampires - not me

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

I grew to like the dog subplot but then they killed the fucking dog! Fuck that movie.

I am going to watch The Last Man On Earth (starring Vincent Price!) later - according to my dad a far superior adaptation.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

The whole movie (I Am Legend) was like that scene in Shawn of the Dead where Shawn's like "don't say the Z word!" only it's the V word instead of the Z word.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0758730/Ss/0758730/434.jpg

i mean come on, how can this movie not kick ass.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

i liked the "mountains of madness" theme in the first AVP
the parts with humans were stupid tho

― bell_labs, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

AvPR is so brainless it's almost sublime.

Two of the main characters disagreeing on which rescue plan of theirs will succeed:

"I hope we're both wrong."

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

Elf - I had no idea it was so dull

― milo z, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 03:52 (eighteen years ago)

the cgi vampires were the worst part of I Am Legend. also awful: what happens to the movie in the last 30 minutes. good: will smith + nyc streets gone feral.

Eastern Promises - pretty good. could have done w/out 10 minutes of Vigo's schlong though.

The Kingdom - the attempts to make this anything other then a 'revenge on dem Arabs' flick are so muddled and dumb.

― bnw, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://mgrsti3030s.seamlesstech.biz/Merchant/alien_predator_shop.jpg

AWWW

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

it's weird, they filmed some of i am legend outside my work and just put a bunch of shrubs around on the steps and it looked so cheesy.

i saw "juno" and it sucked more than i ever could have believed possible

― bell_labs, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

persepolis is A+++, def in my top 5 of the year; actually that, the savages, and right at your door ('07 US release) could be my top 3.

― get bent, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

maid in manhattan
christmas story
searchers

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

persepolis was awesome.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 06:27 (eighteen years ago)

i wish my marxist parents would send me to a lycée français in vienna to escape the perils of my war-torn homeland!

― get bent, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

TV: Red River, Elf, Inspector Gadget

DVD: Watching Ritwik Ghatak's "A River Called Titas". Nice change of pace to say the least.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

i wish my marxist parents would send me to a lycée français in vienna to escape the perils of my war-torn homeland!

-- get bent, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:16 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

haha!

i interviewed her in toronto. she was an awesome lady. she was basically sitting on a hotel patio humiliating one clueless interviewer after another.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

the savages was great. bonus: chris from the wire as a supporting character. i've entered a new phase in which i cry at EVERYTHING, though, so i spent much of the last 20 minutes snuffling into scratchy napkins from the concession counter.

― lauren, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Over the Xmas and today:

Boudou Saved From Drowning (my hero, that Boudou)
El Bruto (ok Mexican Bunuel)
Rob Zombie "Halloween" (garbage. Such shit. Out of the DVD player after 45 mins.
Poor Malcolm McDowell. Is he that hard up for $$?)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (3 Stars)
Les Carabiniers (Go Go Godard. "Venus" was hot)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 28 December 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

The Fury
Juno
Spider-Man 3

― dmr, Friday, 28 December 2007 06:30 (eighteen years ago)

I watched two movie about hbigh school

Klass: good
Elephant: bad

― BLASTOCYST, Friday, 28 December 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

Darjeeling Ltd. (better than Hotel Chevalier, at any rate)

― Eric H., Friday, 28 December 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

diving bell & the butterfly - brilliant imo but maybe not for everybody

schnabel as film director >>>>> schnabel as painter but I havent seen his art since the 80s.

― m coleman, Friday, 28 December 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

white christmas

rosemary clooney singing 'i want to wash my hands, my face, and hair with snooooooow' inexplicably hilarious

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

also, eastern promises

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

black mama, white mama
the stepford wives (1975)

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 31 December 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

there will be blood - pretty awesome. preacher kid was great, and daniel day lewis of course ... very different from anything else pt anderson has done .... can't think of another movie like it, really.

― dmr, Monday, 31 December 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

the diving bell and the butterfly
the landlord
im not there
i am legend

liked them all (in that order)

― jhøshea, Monday, 31 December 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

didn't make it through Sweet Sweetback's Bad Asssssssss Song with Mrs. Dancer...
Strike one: extralong underage sex scene
Strike two: extralong stabbing sequence
Strike out: taking a shit on camera

― sexyDancer, Monday, 31 December 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

my modernism-is-not-pornography argument did not hold!

― sexyDancer, Monday, 31 December 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

id guess that argument gets threatened rather constantly...

it does complement my "i am very very bored by other people's sex" perspective

i may watch zodiac today...as my head doesnt seem to be working right so far

― bb, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

its good for napping! (zodiac)

― jhøshea, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

wake up after a bit, it gets better in the 2nd half

― sexyDancer, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

The Savages
The Last Winter
Charlie Wilson's War

The Savages was so sad and bleak it took me a few days to get over it. Really affecting.

See CWW for the sheer pleasure of hearing Philip Seymour Hoffman say "Excuse me, what the fuck?"

― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

im thinkin this might be a watch someting silly on netflix insta-view, then read for a bit day..might save very ehh killer thriller for tonight, as plans have gone very nowhere-fast.

mr herzog, here i come

― bb, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

booya!

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh6/fun_and_love/GustAvrakotos-PhilipSeymourHoffman.jpg

― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Don't bother with The Orphanage unless you've decided that replacing Roman Catholicism with Psychology is a major step forward.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

ill take virgins, whores, and redemption over lacan anyday

― bb, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

what's Lacan's big deal again? The Mirror Phase? I know what. In my film I'll represent this by showing my character looking at herself in the mirror.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

fitzcarraldo

― bell_labs, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Cinema: I'm not There

DVD: South Park Bigger, Louder, Uncut

TV: The Harder They Come, Claire's Knee (Rohmer early 70s flick), Stranger on the Third Floor (ho-hum noir).

Should be going to see Kings of the Road, part of the Wenders season going on over here.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

9th configuration

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

Barton Fink

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

SUPERVOLCANO: BBC's idea of a disaster movie. Yellowstone blows the fuck up and... there's a lot of ash. And dead people that you never see.

― milo z, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 05:02 (eighteen years ago)

painted veil
little children

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

i vegged on the couch watching terminator 3. it sucked of course.

― bell_labs, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

AH YOO KAATE BROOSTAHHH

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

Bad New Bears - I noticed the only other film the screenwriter did besides the Bears sequels was John Carpenter's The Thing.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

sD, when I saw Melvin vPeeb introduce a Sweetback screening once, he yelled from the back of the auditorium during opening underage sex scene, "THAT'S MARIO!" (ie, son -- you shoulda told the wife)

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

jesus camp - major lols at ted haggard pre-disgrace cameo

― dmr, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Blonde Crazy
Blondie Johnson (two Joan Blondell films - Tarantino was at the second)
Punch-Drunk Love (aieeee)
Knocked Up (you know)
The Last King of Scotland (blah)
Give a Girl a Break
Starter for 10
The Pajama Game (fun)
City Lights
That's Entertainment! III
Sinner's Holiday (Cagney's debut)
Daisy Kenyon

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 3 January 2008 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

morbs u finally saw knocked up! wahd u think? next u have to see superbad - rules

― jhøshea, Thursday, 3 January 2008 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

oh boy

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 3 January 2008 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

i imagine "you know" was typed with an aw shucks grin as he finally gave in to the film's charms

― omar little, Thursday, 3 January 2008 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

sweeney todd

better than i was expecting.

― latebloomer, Friday, 4 January 2008 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

the KU banter can be found on ILE, if yr not taking th' piss

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

i was only kinda takin the piss - i am actually curious what you thought

― jhøshea, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

and superbad is way better - next level shit that

― jhøshea, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/Gold_diggers_of_1933.jpg

I got "The Busby Berkeley Collection" 6xDVD for Christmas! Yeah, fuckers...

― Pashmina, Friday, 4 January 2008 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

is Footlight Parade in that?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Yes! It's got "42nd Street", "Gold Diggers of 1933", "Footlight Parade", which are all A+, "Dames", which is B, "Gold Diggers of 1935", which is C, except for the "Lullaby of Broadway" bit, which is about as good as it gets. (the numbers in "Dames" - the title piece and "I only have eyes for you" are 2 of the best as well, the film is a bit hokey though), there's also a disc with just the routines, as well as a few from other films. The extra features are all very good as well - contemporary WB cartoons and shorts, a set of great little documentaries spread across each disc. It's the best xmas present I've ever had.

I have teh hotts for both Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell.

― Pashmina, Friday, 4 January 2008 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

The Lives of Others - pretty good, I woulda lopped off the last 20 or 25 minutes after the fall of the wall tho. it felt long

― dmr, Sunday, 6 January 2008 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

I would have lopped off the parts where what's-his-name reads Rilke and is moved.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 7 January 2008 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

there will be blood is my new favorite movie ever

― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

no country for old men -- kinda flat. story seems just as silly as it did in the book. (well made etc i know i know)

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 7 January 2008 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it was pretty solid but not mindblowing. Not even as good as The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

― milo z, Monday, 7 January 2008 07:34 (eighteen years ago)

I would have lopped off the parts where what's-his-name reads Rilke and is moved.

that whole movie felt that way to me. mystical-power-of-art stuff. i mean i guess the point of something like that domestically is to redeem old national sins and whatever, so it has a context where it makes sense. but outside that context it just seems to be trying awfully hard.

xpost: so many people i know like three burials. i guess i should see it. i like tommy lee jones.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 7 January 2008 07:39 (eighteen years ago)

Simpsons Movie <--- awful

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 7 January 2008 08:31 (eighteen years ago)

Mean Streets
Blow Out

― latebloomer, Monday, 7 January 2008 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

It stretches credulity to imagine a guy created by the Stasi would suddenly feel his soul expand.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 7 January 2008 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

oh that wasn't his soul expanding. (rimshot)

yeah, lots of things about the movie strain credulity.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 7 January 2008 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

I've stayed away from it cuz it looks like the German Mississippi Burning

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 January 2008 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

I liked it in general, I just had some people tell me it was their favorite movie in a long time so my expectations were too high

I didn't think he was converted only by art .... more like if you monitor someone's daily life for a long time you might come to sympathize with them (kind of a reverse stockholm syndrome)

― dmr, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

infernal affairs 2 - badass

― sleep, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

°_°

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 7 January 2008 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

TV:

The Red Shoes: Ballerina Drama, with a mad enough ending

A ton of noir thrillers and melodramas taped over Xmas week. 'The Narrow Margin' (mob informant escorted on train journey), plenty of double-crossing on 'Build my Gallows High', Humphrey's awesome monologue on 'Dead Reckoning', then playing the psycho writer on 'In a Lonely Pace'; an unlikey, unspoken, doomed-before-it-starts love affair in 'The Reckless Moment'. Plus 'The Third Man'

Cinema: '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'. My one Romanian movie hoho, but it ws something. Might see Rivette's new one next weekend.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

fully flared

^^^ oh SHIT

― sleep, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

i'm really looking forward to 4 months.

― lauren, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (yes)
War (had potential but only fair)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (v. good)
Katelmacher (my guess is that all early fassbinder is like this?..meaning no real pt in seeing them??)

― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

meaning no real pt in seeing them??

no. Different early Fassbinders are different.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

i watched the perfect storm and i think it is actually the worst movie ever

― jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/chicago10/trailer/

discuususs

― am0n, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

i bet dragon wars is worse than perfect storm

― bell_labs, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

there will be blood - DARK and gr8

― sleep, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

looks great am0n

― remy bean, Thursday, 10 January 2008 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

yes ive heard bad things abt this dragon wars

― jhøshea, Thursday, 10 January 2008 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

terrible movies with dragons vs. terrible movies with no dragons

1. is the movie terrible? if yes, continue
2. does the movie have dragons? if yes, continue
3. the movie is better than terrible movies with no dragons

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 10 January 2008 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

on a Preminger binge:

Bonjour Tristesse
Where the Sidewalk Sleeps
Exodus

Also:

3:10 to Yuma

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of liked 3:10 to Yuma.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

I watched it right after Eastern Promises though which was very gnarly so I might have been hardcore-violenced out already.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Superbad (better 2nd time around cuz the fat kid becomes less obnoxious)
La Commune
Crime Wave
Decoy (a total "wtf?!?" noir)
Murnau's "Nosferatu"

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 11 January 2008 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

mission impossible 3
babel
the cell (lol)

http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/08/18/donofrio/story.jpg

― dmr, Friday, 11 January 2008 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

planet of the apes (1968) - seen before, watched as a prelude cause i downloaded THE WHOLE PENTALOGY!

PLANET OF THE APES
BENEATH THE PLANTET OF THE APES
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

!!!

― jhøshea, Friday, 11 January 2008 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

russell crowe's great in 3:10 to yuma. the story's just so stupid.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

Crowe's sidekick (aka wispy Billy the Kid) is horrible. That guy is terrible in every single role.

― milo z, Friday, 11 January 2008 05:39 (eighteen years ago)

rush hour 3

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

the cell (lol)

tarsem singh! i kind of love that movie. it's terrible but i saw it twice on the big screen anyway.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:40 (eighteen years ago)

imdb says tarsem singh has an "uplifting epic fantasy" coming out soon.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:43 (eighteen years ago)

there will be blood is my new favorite movie ever
-- jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 01:36 (4 days ago) Link

yes. that shit blew my mind, no questions asked.

also can't wait to see apichatpong weerasethakul thingies (Syndromes and A Century (2006) (Jan. 13), Tropical Malady (2004) (Jan. 20) and Blissfully Yours (2002)). i finally saw 'tropical malady' on my tv and omg. big screen will be omgOMGomg

― strgn, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:51 (eighteen years ago)

Atonement
Seduced and Abandoned (I'm not much for Germi comedies, it seems)
Beaufort (astoundingly dull Israeli combat film)
The Lookout
Loggerheads
The Clock (V. Minnelli/Garland)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

tried & failed watching 3:10 to Yuma, awful awful

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I watched that Bros Grimm movie, it sucked.

― Laurel, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

the Terry Gilliam one? quel surprise!

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know these filmy knowledge things, I just thought "Hell, it's about fairy tales, it can't be worse than a superhero movie (clearly I was repressing Elektra at the time), how bad can it be??"

― Laurel, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

You're right, they should have "Disowned by the Director" on the DVD box. (Gilliam is a stoner favorite, ie, hasn't made a good film in 20 years.)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

12 monkeys is great, you grumpus

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

time bandits is classicest

― bell_labs, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

fisher king

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

i like him. i skipped bros grimm though.

― bell_labs, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

pretty bad. i recall heath ledger being passable, matt damon was really awful in it though.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 11 January 2008 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

it was all downhill after Brazil (Fisher King is treacle); Time Bandits and the Python movies were his least pretentious, and the first half-hour of the Hunter Thompson movie.

12 Monkeys worked way better as a half-hour of still photos.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 January 2008 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

oh thx morbs you just reminded me to add some chris marker to netflix queue1

― bell_labs, Friday, 11 January 2008 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

For some reason I feel The Bros Grimm is redeemed by the Gingerbread Man sequence. Gilliam flicks are best when you're home, sick.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 11 January 2008 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

The Ten - terrible, just god awful
Sweeney Todd - good times, would rather have re-watched Little Shop of Horrors though

― nickalicious, Friday, 11 January 2008 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Bros Grimm movie was not bad, Peter Stormare was hilarious, scene when Heath Ledger bro was on top of the tower looked nice.

― nickalicious, Friday, 11 January 2008 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

the cell (lol)

tarsem singh! i kind of love that movie. it's terrible but i saw it twice on the big screen anyway.

yeah we had seen it before too. added it to netflix thinking "was this as weird as we remembered it?" (yes.) actually held up better than I thought, pretty good for post-"lambs" / pre-"saw" sick serial killer shit. love that scene with the timer and the horse (damien hirst amirite)

also toward the beginning j-lo burns one down and watches "la planete sauvage"

― dmr, Saturday, 12 January 2008 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

12 Monkeys worked way better as a half-hour of still photos.

you'd think I didn't bring this parallel to its own thread

― Eric H., Saturday, 12 January 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

mobs otm abt gilliam goin waaaay downhill (except 12 monkeys is awz) time bandits was my fav childhood movie

when i saw 12 monkeys in the theater my friend pete kept kicking the guy in front of hims chair cause hes a spaz when the movie ended the guy stood up and punched him in the face

it was pretty tremendous

― jhøshea, Saturday, 12 January 2008 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

General Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait
There Will Be Milkshake

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 12 January 2008 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

310 to yuma is so much better than eastern promises

― s1ocki, Saturday, 12 January 2008 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

nuh uh

― nickalicious, Saturday, 12 January 2008 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

xpost: I was looking forward to a boilerplate western, but Mangold can't shoot an action sequence worth a damn, and the last 15 minutes are almost as shameful as Eastern Promises'.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 12 January 2008 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

diving bell and the butterfly

― dmr, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

just started to watch MI3 and stopped

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

The Dead Pool

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

the past week or so:

berlin alexanderplatz (first seven episodes today, rest to follow tomorrow)
times and winds
bunny lake is missing
there will be blood
sweeney todd
charlie wilson's war
wayne's world
don't be a menace to south central etc etc

― impudent harlot, Sunday, 13 January 2008 07:46 (eighteen years ago)

The Searchers
All About Eve
Bridge Over the River Kwai

― sexyDancer, Sunday, 13 January 2008 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Smiley face
One Missed call (Miike one)

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 January 2008 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

watched blood diamonds last night and was actually sort of impressed with it? like, expected nothing from it, but dicaprio i thought was good! some preachiness but whatever, it's a movie about BLOOD DIAMONDS in AFRICA

― gbx, Sunday, 13 January 2008 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

next up:

I am Legend
Altered States

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

I keep watching Brainstorm.

― caek, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

Tales of Earthsea (Studio Ghibli) - better than I expected.

― nickalicious, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
The Devils (did not like this as much as I did years ago, starting to think Lisztomania is his best film)
Sweeney Todd (loved the insane amounts of blood during the musical numbers, I'm more of a sucker for michel legrand than stephen sondheim but the film is fun)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

oh man, Lisztomania is such a bonkers movie. I can really not understand that some people are like "yeah, serious good movie" abt it. Yer not the first, Milton. I had a professor during my brief time at college whose email was LISZTOMANIA at like yahoo or something. It just seems so whacky.

― ian, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

-- gbx, Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:08 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

the film is called BLOOD DIAMOND and it was filmed in montreal

okay just kidding about the montreal part, but the memes are attacking, invading our world, we must stop them

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

Out Of The Past (WOW. Now one of my fave noirs. Go Jacques Tourneur!)
Indiana Jones...Last Crusade (good except for: Cartoon Nazis/Grail Bit)
Eastern Promises (What's the big deal? It was...ehhh)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

uhm no the films was called BLOOD DIAMONDS and it is the new respek knuckles

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

I have crush on 1940's Jane Greer

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Just watched:

Favela Rising: hurrah!
Shopgirl: surprisingly weird and gross and off-putting.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

BLOOD DIAMONDS is the new THE INFOTAINMENT SCAM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

DOMESDAY TRIAD PLUS

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

WHOM FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?

― 69, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

EPISODE IV: A NUDE HOPE

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

JOE CURSES THE VOLCANO

― 69, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

SEX ENDUCTION HOUR

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

DUDE, WHERE'S MY CONTAINER

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

D.C. CAB IT UP

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'M INTO DB SWEENEY

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

SPECTRE VS PREDATOR

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

TEMPO HOUSE PARTY

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

CHRISTOPHER GUEST INFORMANT

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

NEW FACE IN HELLBOY

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

MARK'LL SINK THE BISMARCK

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

BUBBA HE PEP

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

TWO LIBRANS AND A PACK MULE

― Edward III, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

NO CHRISTMAS STORY FOR JOHN QUAYS

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

WHERE IS SAMUEL L. JACKSON?
HEY THERE FUCKFACE! HEY THERE FUCKFACE!

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Warning: on the off chance that somebody proposes that you watch the Japanese-Polish video-game sci fi movie "Avalon" - don't.

― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

OPRAH WINFREY, SHE STUDIED BEE MOVIE

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

I have fallen into incredibly deep sleeps 3 times attempting to watch Avalon at my parents' house.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

I kept trying again why because it look interstin based on the description and I figured it would eventually get good. I guess it didn't.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

"kiss kiss bang bang" was essentially crap, but val kilmer and RDjr are never really boring

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

and Michelle Monaghan is cuet

― milo z, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:14 (seventeen years ago)

PENELOPE CRUZ'S CREEK

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:59 (seventeen years ago)

Juno - not entirely terrible, the dad/stepmom were excellent. Michael Bluth was CREEPY though!

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

TMZ HASSLE SCHMUCK

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

I'm in the middle of Born to Fight a Thai action (but so far not muy thai-centric) movie, and it's pretty enjoyable. The PREVIEWS on the disc, however, make Seven Swords and Police Story 2 look AWESOME.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

DVD: Kore-eda's "After Life", wanted to see this for a couple of years. Glad its as good as I thought it would be.

Cinema: Rivette's new one - s'ok, he doesn't do the things he's known (enough clock metaphors tho') for, but more than superior period adaptation. Must read Balzac this year. Maybe every year.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

ATL
^ GOOD

― sleep, Thursday, 17 January 2008 05:04 (seventeen years ago)

just watched 3:10 to yuma last night. anyone seen the original?

― t. weiss, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

Clash of the Titans - a little slow in the last scenes.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

yes t. weiss, it is very dated.

jon, i used to watch HH's kids in the afternoons.

― remy bean, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

Born to Fight is TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE. I love dumm action movies and it's STILL terrible. ABORT ABORT

I have Bullitt at home and I'm starting The Wire: Seas 1.

― Laurel, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

we just started Wire Season 3

― dmr, Friday, 18 January 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

Everyone on this board MUST see the Hong Kong horror/boxing/monastic Buddhism/zombie blowout that is "The Boxer's Omen". I mean, wow. WOW. So good.

Netflix it and prepare to be amazed.

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 18 January 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

well im sold

― sleep, Friday, 18 January 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

when you see the cackling Thai black magicians cut the rectum off a live chicken, eat it with rotting bananas, then pass that repellent chicken banana mixture in and out of each other's mouths in a single uninterrupted shot, and then feed it to the sexy naked zombie lady covered in maggots that they have just ripped out of the inflatable corpse of a crocodile in order to hypnotize her into stabbing a photograph of the Abbot Qing Zhao in the eyes with her pointy metallic fingers, you will thank me for recommending this film to you.

NONSTOP BLOOD DIAMONDS

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 18 January 2008 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

omg

― dmr, Friday, 18 January 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

Nooooooo wait I do not need to see this. CANCEL CANCEL

― Laurel, Friday, 18 January 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago)

way to tell drew

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 18 January 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago)

i mean you DID say blood diamonds so ill see it

― 69, Friday, 18 January 2008 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

buddhist resurrection-from-crocodile sounds like a pretty uninspired rip of mayan death-in-centipede but I'm game

I don't see how it's going to be able to beat Ninja 3: The Domination

― Milton Parker, Friday, 18 January 2008 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

ha ha Milton good guess, "The Omen's Boxer" was also recommended to me by my cinema guru and wise teacher John Wi3s3

hey milton not to twitter here but I don't know enough about how to set up a Bmore show, we should talk about it soon I don't mean to be so slow on the draw but work is crazy lately and I've been dropping things

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 18 January 2008 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

ATL
^ GOOD

i liked it. body doubles in skating scenes too obvious tho, t.i. should've gotten his skills up to speed.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 18 January 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

did we ever figure out if that Ninja 3 DVD was actually transferred by Wi3s3 himself? we owe him one either way, callin' soon

for people who haven't seen Ninja 3, it's got Kelly from Breakin' 2 as a cute innocent LA girl trying to deal with a budding romance while dealing with the fact that she's been possessed by a vengeful NINJA. Alternately adorable and bloody and more 80's kitsch than your brain can process & Diamanda Galas provides music for the exorcism scene

― Milton Parker, Friday, 18 January 2008 23:26 (seventeen years ago)

Sunshine - mostly good, but the melty-man stuff was so stupid and unnecessary.

― milo z, Sunday, 20 January 2008 08:19 (seventeen years ago)

ACE IN THE HOLE! ACE IN THE HOLE!

― Tape Store, Sunday, 20 January 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

there will be blood

― latebloomer, Sunday, 20 January 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

Cloverfield - ain't that just some shit.

― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 06:28 (seventeen years ago)

Babel - wow, hated it. Crash meets Amazing Race?

I liked Amores Perros but I think I'm done w/ this dude now

― dmr, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)

only good scene in Babel is the chicken beheading

― milo z, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 04:33 (seventeen years ago)

I liked Amores Perros but I think I'm done w/ this dude now

this is what i said when i saw 21 grams

― sleep, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 05:55 (seventeen years ago)

Just watched "Rhapsody in Blue" (ancient Gershwin biopic)
and "Robert Rauschenberg: Open Score" (performance piece from '66)

good times and great oldies

― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 06:31 (seventeen years ago)

this is what i said when i saw 21 grams

u are smarter than me cause I hated that one too

― dmr, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

babel is probably worse though, except for the chickens and some of the stuff w/ the japanese girl (nightclub scene etc)

― dmr, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

The Ten -- basically the premise is a thin pretext for a bunch of skilly sketches but I lol'd hard.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

silly sketches, lol

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

unknown pleasures: still good!
infernal affairs 3: WACK

― sleep, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

ACE IN THE HOLE! ACE IN THE HOLE!

-- Tape Store, Sunday, 20 January 2008 18:15 (2 days ago) Link

so good

― 69, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SP-cMlpq-zM&feature=related

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

I have reserved "The Boxer's Omen" at the liberry.

No idea what remy means by the '57 original of 3:10 to Yuma being dated, but it's real good, esp Glenn Ford.

Fallen Angel
The Gospel Acc to St. Matthew
Army of Shadows (so overpraised)
These Earthly Days Go Rolling By
Apichatpong Weerasethakul shorts
Odds Against Tomorrow (good Robt Ryan-Belafonte perfs, disapp finish)
Woman on the Beach (yay)
Orthodox Stance
The Counterfeiters
Bug (3 acts: excellent, good, oh no)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

Lacombe Lucien
Cat People (original)
The Lady In the Lake
Interstella 555
Toni

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)

Cloverfield (didn't really catch any hype before seeing this, thought it was pretty effective & scared the shit out of me a few times)

Black Sheep (bad NZ creature feature, at least tried to be funny)

Octopus II (awful creature feature, foam tentacle wrestling & all, and apparent from the credits it was made ENTIRELY BY RUSSIANS)

Mosquito Coast (i love this movie)

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

The TV Set

― latebloomer, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

first 5 minutes of Rush Hour 3

― latebloomer, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

eastern promises
no country for old men
the warriors
first 20 minutes of labyrinth god wtf jennifer connelly is a bitch in this

― sleep, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

YOU GUYS BULLITT WAS AWESOME.

I also added The Warriors to my queue today cos I've never seen it.

― Laurel, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

bullitt is SO fucking awesome

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

Bullitt rocks

Last few days:
The Blue Gardenia
Andrei Rublev
Veruschka (in Italian but visually awesoem)
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh. this was GOOD)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

Also The Big Sleep (1946) where Dorothy Malone plays the world's sexiest bookstore employee. No, really. Also, the plot is friggin' exhausting and I love R. Chandler. And Lauren Bacall is scary looking in this

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

Exhausting is like a lot of the v best noir to me.

Taped and watched: 'The Lady of Deceit', which is decent enough late40s noir.

Zodiac was my recent library borrow. Mostly excellent, now I might have to read the ILE thread.

Bought an on sale copy of Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse (from '76). This was kinda noise, therefore good.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

Away From Her - julie christie is "good" in this I guess but it plays out like a lifetime / we network disease-of-the-week movie, turned it off halfway

― dmr, Monday, 28 January 2008 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

margot at the wedding*
the man who shot liberty valance
the apartment
the wind that shakes the barley*

*had not seen before; excellent.

― lauren, Monday, 28 January 2008 21:40 (seventeen years ago)

just watched camille 2000..well, it was on i got bored..but let it run to break in bro's new tv for a bit...

silly italian erotica..i got it cause i like the soundtrack...i have learned a lesson.

― bb, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

Andrei Rublev
is awesome, is my favorite movie evevevev

the wind that shakes the barley
ive heard is rad, will have to investigate

― 69, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

Camille 2000 is totally charming.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

thats true..but, its thin...the costumes and sets are fantastic!

― bb, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)

Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse

I LOVE THAT FILM, Love is Alive

Valerie and her Week of Wonders (liked it! some people said they were thrown by budget production but psychedelic Czech 1971 children's fable = automatically engaging for me and I liked the dreamy weasel vampire legions. also seemed honestly from the girl's perspective, innocently wandering through forest orgies, just trying to get some sleep as the scary world of adults keeps beckoning her to grow up)

Seconds (hard to believe this film even exists)

RAMBO (CGI is now capable of depicting bodies crumbling into pulped bits under machine-gun fire with heretofore unknown degrees of realism)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

julie christie is "good" in this I guess but it plays out like a lifetime / we network disease-of-the-week movie, turned it off halfway

This is so OPPOSITE of the case that I am dumbstruck. You missed when she went homicidal in a bowling alley at the end. Gordon Pinsent is just as GOOD tho not famous.

The Witnesses (splendid French AIDS drama)
Year of the Dog (woefully misjudged, but Peter Sarsgaard is creepily spot-on as gay vegan animal-shelter guy)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

thanks for the spoiler warning, morbsius

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:30 (seventeen years ago)

elmo punk'd!

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

Seconds is awesome.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

dumbstruck! what can I say, I was bored by it. too many touching, wry meaning-of-life chats with the nurse.

― dmr, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

ok, those were the most routine, purely expository scenes, but there were some great Alzheimers jokes, and I found Christie and Pinsent totally made for a lifelong couple.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

Pinsent should have gotten an Oscar nod.

Bug (christ, this set a new standard for awfulness)
Fort Apache, The Bronx
Southern Comfort

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

laurel is renting my netflix queue from last spring. i predict you will segue into peter fonda/warren oates/adam roarke films next.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

FOR INSTANCE

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

^I would only watch that at a drive-in^

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

QQQQQQQQQ the winged serpent
(awesome)
(please recommend me more movies about dragons and/or aztecs thx)

― bell_labs, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

Some fucker is holding onto Disc 1, Seas 1 of The Wire -- every other disk is available except the first one.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

Actually, Kevin, I'm thinking of going on a Robert Mitchum bender next.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

i think i gave tehresa a copy of season 1 xpost

― sleep, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

Actually, Kevin, I'm thinking of going on a Robert Mitchum bender next.

i don't think he was in either race with the devil or 92 in the shade so you're losing out.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

mitchum is dreamy. not nec. one of his best, but 'his kind of woman' is a must-rent for scene-stealing vincent price scenery-chewing.

― lauren, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

Cloverfield. Cloverfield is BAD ASS.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

Sunshine.

it was...ok i guess

― latebloomer, Friday, 1 February 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

prince of the city (good shit)
searching for the wrong-eyed jesus (weirdly hypnotic, strangely moving)
+ a failed attempt at seeing rambo

― omar little, Friday, 1 February 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

a bill of divorcement melodrama and all, but hepburn + barrymore = great

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 1 February 2008 04:35 (seventeen years ago)

planet earth....and more planet earth...(though i did watch primal fear the other night ..dvd collection here is v.v. all over)

but once new tv is warmed up there will be hours of brackage!

― bb, Friday, 1 February 2008 04:57 (seventeen years ago)

"Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse

I LOVE THAT FILM, Love is Alive"

Was the last scene a nod to Ballard. I assumed so..

Lately: 'Lust, Caution' at the cinema; 'All about Eve' on TV; 'Superbad' and 'Obsessione' on DVD.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:03 (seventeen years ago)

director larry cohen is total noise, guys. (his screenwriting credits are even longer, lotsa 60s tv episodes)

"Masters of Horror" (1 episode, 2006)
- Pick Me Up (2006) TV episode
Air Force One: The Final Mission (2004)

Original Gangstas (1996)
... aka Hot City
As Good as Dead (1995) (TV)
The Ambulance (1990)

Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Deadly Illusion (1987)
... aka I Love You to Death
... aka Love You to Death (USA)
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
... aka Island of the Alive (USA)
The Stuff (1985)
Perfect Strangers (1984)
... aka Blind Alley
Special Effects (1984)
Q (1982)
... aka Q: The Winged Serpent
... aka Serpent
... aka The Winged Serpent
See China and Die (1981) (TV)
... aka Momma the Detective (USA)
Full Moon High (1981)
... aka Moon High (Australia: TV title)

It Lives Again (1978)
... aka It's Alive II
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
God Told Me To (1976)
... aka Demon
It's Alive (1974/I)
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Black Caesar (1973)
... aka The Godfather of Harlem (UK)
Bone (1972)
... aka Beverly Hills Nightmare (USA)
... aka Dial Rat (UK)
... aka Dial Rat for Terror
... aka Housewife

― m coleman, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:41 (seventeen years ago)

the witnesses
still life

― sleep, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

^ best jia zhangke

― sleep, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

Still Life (after Platform, yes!)
Strayed
Shorts starring Bert Williams (1916)

why does Strand Releasing send out DVD screeners of The Witnesses where a 2.35:1 film is squeezed into a 1.85:1 frame, is what I'd like to know.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

don't forget that a face in the crowd is goddamned genius like i did ('till last night)

― bb, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

oh, platform is amazing. i've got the world coming up at some point in the nflix queue.

― lauren, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

should i watch:
sweeny todd
the hunting party
across the universe
saw 4
or the golden compass

im gonna take a shower then go buy some ice cream - id like a decision by the time i return

― jhøshea, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

i have from netflix:

times square (which i've seen a few times but robin johnson has been on my mind lately)
cruising (william friedkin, never seen it)

― get bent, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

and finally saw there will be blood last wknd. thought it was very good! i'm very happy to see this resurgence of westerns.

― get bent, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

except it's not a western.

Probably too soon, ben:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/face.html

Carnival Night
The Cranes are Flying
Persepolis
Les Enfants Terribles
Black Book
La Vie de Marianne
The Lives of Others
The Mirror

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

it fits in the genre

― omar little, Thursday, 14 February 2008 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.deadofthelivingnight.com/

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 15 February 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

Phantom India Episode 3
"The Idiot" (Kurosawa)
Passion (Godard)
De Eso No Se Habla
Scorsese "My Voyage To Italy" (even Marty can't convince me about Antonioni)
Les Aventuriers (again. guilty pleasure)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 15 February 2008 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

since no one gave me guidance i watched the hunting party - booooooo

― jhøshea, Friday, 15 February 2008 03:00 (seventeen years ago)

TWBB is set in the West, and fits no other classical requirement of the genre very well

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 February 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

The King of Kong

― Mr. Que, Friday, 15 February 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

election - mildly funny

― sleep, Friday, 15 February 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

I tried to watch Beautiful Swordswoman but it had 1970s subtitles: very small and ball-serifed and all in white. Even when the background was white. I gave up.

― Laurel, Friday, 15 February 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

DVD borrows: 'Taste of Cherry' (didn't partic care for this), 'Trans America', 'Vertigo'.

TV: 'I Vitelloni' (early 50s Fellini), 'Sleep, my Love' (ho-hum noir from Sirk)

'The Marriage of Maria Braun', good-to-excellent, though really you can really easily hate on the extra DVD materials that are tacked on these.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

suspiria

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

Buster Keaton "The General" 1927 silent (freaky Confederate Buster hijinks)
"Alien Contamination" 1980 (low budget "Alien" ripoff, major lolz)

― Drew Daniel, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

that Union train falling into the river was the most expensive shot ever to that time

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 17 February 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

You're Gonna Miss Me
La Dolcha Vita

― sexyDancer, Monday, 18 February 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

that Union train falling into the river was the most expensive shot ever to that time

-- Dr Morbius, Sunday, February 17, 2008 2:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I said don't do it that way, you'll never make a dime

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

remaining fragment from "Gold Diggers of Broadway", 1929, bizarrely turns into a jazz-era high-energy breakdancing movie about 3/4 of the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfomcfVGqCQ

;_; for real @ when the surviving film fragment runs out, but they still have the audio.

― Pashmina, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

Like, from about 5.00 on HOLY SHIT!!

― Pashmina, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

margot at the wedding - just kill them aaaaaallllllll

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

elizabeth: golden age -- gorgeous, bromidic, boring, fell asleep

klute: meh, also fell asleep

eyes of laura mars: just so fabulously retarded

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

aw, i love klute.

― lauren, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

elmo must've fallen asleep before the disco scene! rewind for sodom 'n gommorah early 70s style

― m coleman, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Joy Division
Ex Drummer
Before I Forget Taxi to the Dark Side

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

Memories of Murder - ok serial killer movie by the guy who made The Host

― dmr, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

GUNHED

― sleep, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

t/s long, detailed mech-building montage vs long, detailed mech-repairing montage vs apprx 80 mecha smashing thru walls scenes

― sleep, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

TEKKON KINKREET IS PRETTY GOOD GUYS

White is 69 and Black is pretzel walrus + I claim my $5

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

donald sutherland is KLUTE
jane fonda is SEX ON FILM
her wardrobe/hair is HIPSTERIFFIC A++
the score is SPOOKY AS SHIT
the line deliveries are READY AIM SAMPLER
ROY SCHEIDER IS A PIMP NAMED FRANK

― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 February 2008 06:26 (seventeen years ago)

seven days in may was pretty good too. could use a remake?

― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 February 2008 06:31 (seventeen years ago)

bought science of sleep, i heart huckabees (lol indie) and jarhead on special.

currently up to III in my rewatching of the star trek movies. III sucked, II was awesome and I was fine.

― caek, Friday, 22 February 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

elizabeth golden age is EXTREMELY boring. battle scenes are pathetic.

― caek, Friday, 22 February 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

what kind of prez would the crazed militarists want to take out in the Seven Days in May remake, Tom? Chiwetel Ejiofor as Obama?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 February 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

part of the dirty dozen

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

about to watch The Conversation once the ramen is done

― latebloomer, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

Last week: Blade II. Hhhooo boy was it bad. I can't say I wasn't warned...but I want to see the third one, so I slogged through.

This weekend:

The Island: starring ScarJo and Scottish Bloke McGregor
Evil: Swedish movie about boys' school bullying

― Laurel, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

i just downloaded this

http://bp1.blogger.com/_xHRnVgc3-_k/R2Qcv9Po1bI/AAAAAAAAAFI/pmem4pm5Gx8/s1600-h/rudeboy2ux0.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

this

http://www.blackstarvideo.com/img/rude-boy2.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

last weekend:

the girl from monday ok. its hal lartley, what did i expect
the monkees head: was told to actually see it. saw it. whatever
a roxy music doc. some sort of critical look into 1st 4 records. critics were idiots. footage was sparse...basicly a waste

hospital, rififi, and something else coming today...mismanaged queue again

^^looks better than the clash film of the same name..though strummer hamfisting "let the goodtimes roll" is priceless..in the way that he can be

― bb, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

Uggggg I have tried to watch The Girl from Monday twice. Can't work up much enthusiasm...?

― Laurel, Friday, 22 February 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, thats about it...started it on sat...watched the rest on tues due to lack of other options

― bb, Friday, 22 February 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

hal hartley should team up with george lucas.

morbius, I guess I wasn't really thinking about the presidential character as much as I was thinking of all our latter-day lancasters and douglases (cf departed etc) in the other roles, and patented "which of these people who all look alike is double crossing me" moments. anyway obviously the answer is martin sheen.

― El Tomboto, Friday, 22 February 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

JOHNNY GUITAR (a little too much kitsch-factor)
NEVER CRY WOLF (i love carroll ballard, even if he's an ass)
ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
MICHAEL CLAYTON
BREACH

― remy bean, Friday, 22 February 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

IT"S NOT KITSCH, remy. Drink yr milkshake.

xp: I have the novel somewhere in my house... seemed like Freddy March was Adlai Stevenson (just like Sellers!), at least Serling's script made it so. Lancaster played another rebelling general (this time sympathetic?) in Twilight's Last Gleaming, which I've never seen.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 February 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

no kitsch in johnny guitar

― bb, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:00 (seventeen years ago)

"The Gang's all Here" phantasmagorical alice faye/carmen miranda musical from 1943. Terrible, really but very enjoyable for all that. Always weird to see blatant political propaganda in Hollywood musicals "Here's your good neighbor" and all that.

― Pashmina, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

HMV has "That Night in Rio" which appears to be the same cast, playing the same roles, only made 2yrs earlier, on sale. I might pick it up tonight.

― Pashmina, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

Stalag 17
The Great Escape
Champion (Kirk Douglas) - on TCM now

Oscar month is awesome

― milo z, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

i know the movie is not kitch, and i really liked it.

but i was watching it with two friends who just oozed over every goddamn thing joan crawford did, and every clowny melodramatic nick ray moment like it was the best goddamn piece they'd ever seen. sorta emphasized by counterpoint exactly what it is that irritates me about his movies. something about the theatricality and exaggeration that i think was handled much better by someone like vincinte minelli without verging so close to campiness.

honestly, i am not now (nor have i ever been) all that taken with any of ray -- but i love sterling hayden, so this was an enjoyable pic

― remy bean, Friday, 22 February 2008 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

I thought Blade II was supposed to be the best one. or at least "the one guillermo del toro did." I didn't like it enough to fuck with blade 3 at all

― dmr, Friday, 22 February 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

on dangerous ground
secretary
the king of kong

― omar little, Friday, 22 February 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

that is a hat-trick of awesome

― remy bean, Friday, 22 February 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

Elena And Her Men
The Lower Depths (Renoir)
Prenom:Carmen
" The War " Episode 1 (still on the fence about Ken Burns. Is that Nora Jones singing over war footage somewhere on here? Sheeesh)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 22 February 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

wow tekkon kinkreet rules good call mr tomboto

― sleep, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

and every clowny melodramatic nick ray moment like it was the best goddamn piece they'd ever seen. sorta emphasized by counterpoint exactly what it is that irritates me about his movies. something about the theatricality and exaggeration that i think was handled much better by someone like vincinte minelli without verging so close to campiness.

Yup, although I've never minded In a Lonely Place.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 25 February 2008 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

a boy and his dog (crazzzzzzy)
superbad (though i missed the last 20 minutes)
and last night i watched the law & order CI marathon instead of the oscars, because the oscars are boring.

― bell_labs, Monday, 25 February 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

hmmmm, not as boring as cop shows

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 25 February 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

I finally watched Pan's Labyrinth. Maybe it was having to take five breaks to check on the crying cat, but I feel like I sort of missed something. Maybe the movie was just so punishing that I sort of checked out, emotionally.

― Laurel, Monday, 25 February 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

punishing, indeed. (did you get my Boleyn webmail?)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 25 February 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

Oh sorry! No, I'll check it now.

― Laurel, Monday, 25 February 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

Charlie Bartlett - I'm a complete sucker for rich kid-public school or poor kid-private school movies, and there's a lot of good here, but it's the most haphazardly written movie I've ever seen.

― milo z, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 03:54 (seventeen years ago)

Who Killed The Electric Car made me cuss at a teevee

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 04:16 (seventeen years ago)

(not because it sucked, because of subj matter)

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 04:16 (seventeen years ago)

it is effing infuriating, esp. the bits where all the cars are just sitting on the far side of the chain-link fence turning to shit and rot.

― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 04:17 (seventeen years ago)

vantage point - ugh avoid avoid

― dmr, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

saw it in times square, people were heckling the screen and I was enjoying the heckling

― dmr, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 14:34 (seventeen years ago)

were you transported back to 1981 Times Square?

Mandingo (not at all bad, and far more honest than GWTW & other antebellum South potboilers)
10 Rillington Place
In Harm's Way (surprisingly anonymous Preminger WW2 Navy epic)
Backstage

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

Pet Sematary - So unfrightening, so many poor decisions ...

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

In the Valley of Elah (frustrating)
Be Kind Rewind (meh)
Star Trek IV (awesome)
Star Trek V (terrible)
Golden Compass (terrible)

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

tried to watch Infernal Affairs 3 (disc scratched)
saw I am Legend

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

My *mom* likes Star Trek IV

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

if you actively dislike star trek iv then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

the Whale one? that launched Nimoy's sterling career as a film director?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

yeah 4 is the whale one and it's the best

― sleep, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

Nimoy wrote it too

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

well, shared the "Story" credit

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

Doesn't Spock put a Vulcan death grip on a "punk" in that one?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

yes

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

YES

― sleep, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

On a bus crossing the golden gate bridge. Minutes later, Gracie the whale tells him she is pregnant when he mind melds with her.

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

I like Spock's attempts at profanity. They are lolsome.

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

I am watching the films in order, and this theory that the odd ones suck and the even ones are awesome is 100% accurate.

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

how come hoods don't carry "ghetto blasters" anymore?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

for shame!

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

p.s. http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

I am watching the films in order, and this theory that the odd ones suck and the even ones are awesome is 100% accurate.

-- caek, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:29 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

TREKIST!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

Shatner is pretty awful in IV and the love interest sucks.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

xp, I discovered this theory last night, I've never seen any of the films except IV before this week.

She's not aged well since, that's for sure

http://www.geocities.com/big7thheavenfan/Me2006CH1.jpg

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)

Catherine Hicks on the left, btw

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)

gone baby gone (casey affleck and amy ryan both awesome, good film overall)

― omar little, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:45 (seventeen years ago)

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

"lewis, a man's heart is stonier...he plants what he can..then tends it"

^^perhaps the best thing about pet cemetery (we inherited a copy back in ithaca and ended up watching it all the time, as we had no tv reception). can't quite sort out how they did such a bad job

― bb, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

got gone baby gone at home right now on netflix, looking forward to it

― dmr, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

yeah ST IV is way overrated, and none of the others can touch Khan

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

xx-post

the book is so good and one of King's scariest. the movie is like some retarded cliff's notes version.

― Vas Djifrens, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

otm. I blame the director and dp. Every scene is set up so inefficiently, the focus on all the wrong elements.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

IV is the one where one of the old stalwarts, Bones I think? picks up a PC mouse and starts talking into it, trying to address the computer? That was pretty funny. Khan is the best I think, but that's the next best. Most of the others, meh.

Book of "Pet Semetary" was very grim and scary, the morbid atmosphere of the thing lingered for quite a while after I finished the story. The film sucked ass, but most Stephen King films do, don't they? (obvious exceptions, er, excepted)

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

I got "Singin' in the Rain", after that thread on ILM, we watched it at the weekend. I knew I was in for a rough time when about 15m in, Jill goes "does this get any better?" Watched most of the film through loads of sniping & heckling from dear wife.

Pro:
Colo(u)rs are gorgeous
Songs/routines are great (except for boring long-ass bit in the middle w/cyd charisse dressed as ~~louise brooks~~colleen moore)
satire on early sound movie scene pretty clever and dead-on a lot of the time
Con:
Acting a bit stagey & hammy, dialog too a lot of the time
Gene Kelly strangely lacking in charisma (though his singing & dancing rulz)

I thought Lina was very hott and wanted her to WIN, but of course she gets fucked over by that scheming sneaky cow Kathy.

It was OK, I suppose, but I wish I'd got "High Society" instead.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

great, now i have "high society" in my head...

i just don't really understand what exactly the director or the dp thought they were doing. perhaps hoping to get more viewers by not going wholehog on the creepy factor...the lighting is just all off too. you dont get a spook-filled new england feel at all...

― bb, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R5e1vfaST2I

― caek, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

for example: in one of the many "soft focus" flashbacks, dude's brother comes back from the dead and attacks woman hanging clothesline. This is shot from a high angle so we see him heading towards her in the distance. How is this suspense? We've never seen the woman before and never get even a close-up of her--it's an abstraction. It would have been much creepier to shoot the woman facing the camera in medium, so we see the dead guy slowly walking up behind her. Every scene is like that! The simple solution avoided. I guess somebody paid for the crane, so they felt like they had to use it.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:00 (seventeen years ago)

Pet Sematary - So unfrightening, so many poor decisions ...

only thing i remember about it (apart from the ramones song, which is good) is walking out of the theater behind these people who had for god-knows-why brought a 5- or 6-year-old girl to the movie. she was clutching onto her father and crying hysterically. great moments in parenting.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:32 (seventeen years ago)

Pash, I think that movie is magical. I cannot understand your reasonable criticisms.

― remy bean, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

Tips, my mother was taken to see Psycho when she was like 12? I think her mother thought it was a credible artsy film by a prestigious director, she was exposing her chilluns to KULCHUR. Alas....

― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 02:50 (seventeen years ago)

See, this, to me, is magical, Remy. It's like a wonderful message from the past, from pre-depression America. The musical film that this is excerpted from, I am completely obsessed with. If someone were to locate a copy of the full movie, I would be so happy I don't know what I'd do.

Looking for this ^ clip, I found, in the same guy's account, the strangest of things - I think the weirdest thing I've ever seen on youtube, a fancy German musical routine, very sub Fred & Ginger, colour, er, from 1944:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh5MUbMJG-U

That's something you don't see everyday, is it. The tune is pretty catchy, I must admit. Wau. 0_o

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 03:15 (seventeen years ago)

To be fair, if I hadn't had my dear wife sitting beside me loudly complaining about how annoying Don O'Connor was and so on, then "Singin' in the Rain" might have worked it's magic on me. The bit where Gene gets into the car with Debbie to escape from the fans, and she's all snarky because he's a movie actor was very cute & good.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 03:20 (seventeen years ago)

that is an excellent clip, huh?

― remy bean, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 03:24 (seventeen years ago)

That nazi musical clip has done my fucking head in. I think it's the contrast between the number taken on its own merits - it's charming and likeable, the tune is good, and the woman is a graceful dancer - and knowledge of the times & circumstances under which it was made. The little documentary that's an extra on the DVD of "Gold Diggers of 1933" does a pretty good job of explaining how that film was escapist entertainment from a really bad time that we today would find hard to imagine living through. I guess the clip of aryan maiden hoofing it is like that but much, much moreso never mind the fact that in that case, the people responsible for making the film were employed by the very people who were directly responsible for the mess that the film's audience would have been in in 1944. Faustian, eh.

I know shit about nazi-era cinema, apart from the usual stuff everyone knows about propaganda, leni riefenstahl etc. I think the Fritz Lang Mabuse talkie was made for nazi-controlled ufa just before he came to the states, and I know Pola Negri made a run of films, one of which, "mazurka", is supposed to be very good, before she bailed and returned to america. I did a quick trawl on imdb and wikipedia, and read about a high-budget napoleonic-era war film, "kolberg", which came out in 1945, it sounds like some pretty heavy shit, all round. I noticed that in the cast was Gustav Diessl, who played jack the ripper in "Pandora's Box"! WTF. It's all kind of very grimly fascinating, but I don't know if I want to know any more about it or not.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

Pash, you know all those songs in SitR are from the '20s or '30s (except one, maybe), right? It was a nostalgic piece in its time. Its Greatest Musical Ever partisans are totally daft, but a lot of the songs are funny and the numbers exuberant, especially when O'Connor is involved.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

Nazi control of studios didn't necessarily mean that the moviemakers were Nazis; by 1944, NSDAP fuckers had a lot more on their mind than micromanaging films that appeared to have no political content. There were plenty of classic German films made during WWII that are not even close to propaganda and still get shown on Saturday morning tv. Heinz Rühmann, for example, (really old guy who drove the Mercedes in "Wings of Desire") was personally anti-Nazi, but Goebbels and Hitler loved his acting, so he got to keep making movies.

― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I see that (for example) G.W.Pabst kept making films in Germany, and it's hard to imagine him having any sympathy with the regime, in fact I think one of his films was banned? Also, I get the impression with Negri that she basically went where the work was, and where she'd get some kind of star billing/treatment after her hollywood career bombed and she lost her fortune in the stock market crash.
You read/hear a lot about the talented creative individuals who bailed in the '30's - Walter Gropius, George Grosz, Fritz Lang, Marta Eggerth off the top of my head - but very little about the ones who stayed, and I guess the ones who stayed outnumbered the ones who left, and many of them must have stayed for perfectly valid reasons, a stable regular job w/income no doubt having more meaning to someone from the '30's than it would to you and me in 2008.
I did a little bit of looking around online about the films from this era, the only ones that were vaguely familiar were the "Munchausen" spectacular, and the Titanic film, the latter of which does appear to have a deal of propaganda in it. Nothing else was remotely familiar to me. The pages I looked at on Wikipedia were surprisingly informative and well-written, as an aside. One striking thing I read was the director of "Titanic" getting pulled off the picture by Goebbels, executed, and replaced with someone else! Holy fuck...

I'm kind of tempted to try and get a copy of that film the musical routine is from, the synopsis I read sounds just as off the wall as a Hollywood '40's musical.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

Pash, you know all those songs in SitR are from the '20s or '30s (except one, maybe), right?

No, I didn't know that. I did notice that they had the kind of correct-period feel about them, like the little sequence where the 2 guys are doing the vaudeville number with the violins sounds just like the vaudeville shorts I have on one of the busby berkeley DVDs, I guess I figured they were clever pastiche, just like the disastrous talkie film they're making with Lina Lamont. I suppose when the film came out plenty of people back then will have remembered seeing or hearing about "du barry, woman of passion", and got the reference straightaway, also Jack Gilbert and his "I love you" x 3 thing that they take off as well. It is really cleverly done. I'll watch it again on my own in a month or two.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

gone baby gone was good

gone baby gone (casey affleck and amy ryan both awesome, good film overall)

-- omar little, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

omar little was in it! I didn't know that dude's scar is real o_0

― dmr, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

MKW got it in a fight!

― omar little, Thursday, 28 February 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

we own the night - preposturous. well-directed i guess, well-acted yeah, but some really shitty dialogue and lousy plotting and pacing.

― omar little, Thursday, 28 February 2008 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

saw that last night. i really appreciated the understated direction.

― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:00 (seventeen years ago)

quintet
parts: the clonus horror
life and death of colonel blimp (at first there were moments where this seemed almost too sentimental, then I realized it was shot & released before the war had even ended, raising the stakes)

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 28 February 2008 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

Play Misty for Me <-- eastwood put a lot of jazz footage in this!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

plus "gay neighbors"

― sexyDancer, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

There's only one gay character in this right -- the blonde's boss? I was wondering if this was an early example of the "gay" speech pattern; don't know any others this early.

"EW SEAFOOD"

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

hmm, dunno Bogey does a "gay" accent in the bookstore scene in The Big Sleep

― sexyDancer, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

King of Kong

very entertaining.

― latebloomer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 13:45 (seventeen years ago)

Wicker Man remake ... to what degree was this "on purpose?"

― sexyDancer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

Yo, sD did you get the "extended" version

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 1 March 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

APPARENTLY THERE'S LIKE 2 MINUTES MORE TORTURE

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 1 March 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

in the extended version they show the bees stinging his face. in the theatrical version it's overheard as they fade to him caged in the wicker man.

― latebloomer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

or being taken to the wicker man

― latebloomer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR PRECIOUS HONEY

― latebloomer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

FOR JOHNNY RAMONE

― latebloomer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

I guess I saw the extended. LOL

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 1 March 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

Still haven't seen "Wicker Man" remake. I keep meaning to, but can't bring myself to pay money for it, even when I saw it at 3.99.

― Pashmina, Saturday, 1 March 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

naw, I saw it on cable ... they fade away while breaking his legs.

like many films, this would have been better with Bruce Campbell in the lead.

― sexyDancer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

don't know any others this early.

V brief movie portrayal of "swish" gay man, 1931, @ 1.12:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXBb80VAXm0

Oldest example I've seen, there's probably older, though.

― Pashmina, Saturday, 1 March 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

DVD (local library borrow): 'Eastern Promises'. Really enjoyed the holes in the plot, the tiny mysteries scattered throughout, when it could've been annoying...the ILE thread is making want to re-watch, but there isn't the time. The fight in the sauna ws fantastic, wish I had caught this at the cinema at the time. Really liked that Naomi Watts was in this, whatever the merits of her performance -- which now heightens my anticipation for 'Funny Games'.

Cinema: 'Signs of Life'. Herzog's first film -- its all in place, execution not quite there, but oh boy didn't we get some of that later..

VHS: picked up a cheap copy of Rivette's 'Secret Defense' and Haneke's 'Time of the Wolf'. Looking fwd to seeing a cpl more of his this week at the Lumiere.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 March 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

3:10 to yuma - it was "okay"

― omar little, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

the end was wack

― sleep, Saturday, 1 March 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

3:10 to yuma is a great character in search of a better movie. some kind of adventures of ben wade thing would have been way more fun than bogging it down with christian bale proving his manhood.

tonight i watched the phantom of liberty, which was good and weird and funny.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 2 March 2008 08:51 (seventeen years ago)

"3:10 To Yuma" was awesome - except for scenery chewing evil-sidekick guy. Damn good western even though it's a remake.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 2 March 2008 11:31 (seventeen years ago)

gone baby gone -- no make sense (and I even read the book)

― m coleman, Sunday, 2 March 2008 12:39 (seventeen years ago)

original ending of "I am legend"

^ possibly worse

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

what is the original ending of "I am legend"?

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, Quintet is pretty much a non-movie in a non-good way.
The Prestige was intriguing, though

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 23:34 (seventeen years ago)

http://buzzfeed.com/buzz/I_Am_Legend_Alternate_Ending

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

california split

noizest movie ever

― s1ocki, Thursday, 6 March 2008 18:39 (seventeen years ago)

lol i am legend zombie luv alternate ending really makes u think

― jhøshea, Thursday, 6 March 2008 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

california split

noizest movie ever

O T M

― dmr, Thursday, 6 March 2008 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

seven dwarfs scene so classic

― dmr, Thursday, 6 March 2008 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

"seven coming at you like a GATLING GUN."

― s1ocki, Thursday, 6 March 2008 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

hahaha

I saw it for the first time right after Sideways and lolled @ payne's apparent shameless swiping of the nose bandage. altho I guess it's in Chinatown too.

http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/altman-californiasplit.jpg
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/041118/122812__sideways_l.jpg

― dmr, Thursday, 6 March 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.canoe.com/divertissement/cinema/dossiers/2007/02/17/chinatown.jpg

― dmr, Thursday, 6 March 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

busted noses: a picture thread

― dmr, Thursday, 6 March 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

you can't "swipe" a bandaged nose. ppl get their noses bandaged.

3:10 to yuma is a great character in search of a better movie.

Like the 1957 one?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 March 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

i liked 3:10. it was just a good oater.

― s1ocki, Friday, 7 March 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

delirious

steve buscemi playing usual quasi-sympathetic loser character, michael pitt looking more like cobain than he did in that gus van sant movie. wan stabs at satire.

― latebloomer, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

trouble in paradise
king of kong
knowing me knowing you (complete series; sort of like a movie)

― lauren, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

just watched BRIDGE, the documentary about golden gate bridge suicides. basically dude filmed the bridge every day for a year from diff't angles and caught 23 suicides on camera. then he went back and interviewed the families and friends of the suicides, told their story, allowed people to meditate a bit on the process of grief and loss and living with people who have depression and bipolar disorder and scizophrenia

really recommend it to everyone, it was really amazing

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

sorry, i think that should be THE BRIDGE

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

Sounds cool! I'll look for it for sure.

Watched the 1st half of Into the Wild at some point last week, felt inspired to go on snow hike yesterday, which was fun, came home last night and watched the second half. ha. I liked it though.

― nickalicious, Sunday, 9 March 2008 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

that movie is good, vahid

― remy bean, Sunday, 9 March 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

chameleon street

wow so so good

― jhøshea, Monday, 10 March 2008 01:42 (seventeen years ago)

also lol vantage point wow so so bad

― jhøshea, Monday, 10 March 2008 01:44 (seventeen years ago)

the fountain - ugh
cocksucker's blues (bootleg stones movie) - pretty cool, could be tedious if you're not in the mood but I dug it

― dmr, Monday, 10 March 2008 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

michael clayton -- the clooney was good & wilkinson's bipolar was on point, but <3 <3 tilda swinton the most

margot at the wedding -- why do i only like nicole kidman when she plays borderline psycho cunts from hell? pretty great movie

darleeing ltd. -- i despise that fucking luggage

becoming jane -- uh, this was pretty awful, no way around it

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 10 March 2008 03:23 (seventeen years ago)

you really liked margot at the wedding?

― remy bean, Monday, 10 March 2008 03:24 (seventeen years ago)

for reals

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 10 March 2008 03:26 (seventeen years ago)

On Dangerous Ground (whoah. Though I would've preferred borderline psycho cop Robt Ryan to stay in the city and wreak havoc on the "garbage" )
Port Of Shadows (wow. Gabin, Michele Morgan (<3!!), Michel Simon and a li'l dog)
One Wonderful Sunday (sweet)
The Racket (also really great)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 10 March 2008 05:47 (seventeen years ago)

The Bank Job - flashy and well-directed but too many loose ends and implausibilities in the plot. the sub-p about the real life radical/criminal "michael x" was strange because I just read a 30 year old book about this guy Guerillas by VS Naipaul. now that would make a great movie in the right hands

― m coleman, Monday, 10 March 2008 10:06 (seventeen years ago)

"Rope" is the kind of thing people would lose their fucking mind over if some 32-yo director made it any time within the last decade and a half

― El Tomboto, Monday, 10 March 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

too bad hitchcock was around way back to pwn every dipshit since him

― El Tomboto, Monday, 10 March 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

hahaha otm

― latebloomer, Monday, 10 March 2008 11:35 (seventeen years ago)

chameleon street

wow so so good

YES

I like Rope well enough, but c'mon, Stewart is the least convincing Nietzschean evah, and Dall and Granger are kinda terrible.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 March 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)

the perfect crime!

― jhøshea, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:06 (seventeen years ago)

resaw Zodiac last night. I liked it better this time around, but the ending still sucked buckets.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 March 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch)
It Always Rains on Sunday
The Boston Strangler (surprisingly creepy Tony Curtis)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Roman de Gare
Brokeback Mountain
Changing Times
War Made Easy
Under the Same Moon
The Other Boleyn Girl (ugh)
Frownland (even worse)
Never Back Down (the pits)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 March 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

what were YOU doing watching Boleyn – was it for Eric Bana's sake?

and wtf Brokeback Mountain?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 March 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, Brokeback sucks.

― Eric H., Monday, 10 March 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

Frownland is basically a no wave Adam Sandler movie.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 10 March 2008 15:45 (seventeen years ago)

I had to review Boleyn...

Frownland is sub-Woman Under the Influence trendy bullshit.

I had only seen MMtn once! and I recall Eric calling it "a harmless mediocrity." Which it is, but Ledger is good, esp in his last scene w/ Gyllenhaal. (Also I'd never seen the choice Jake-in-wifebeater making-of footage.)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 March 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

^BMtn

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 March 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

I got "That Night in Rio" for a fiver, reduced from 14 quid or whatever. Way better than I thought it was going to be, w/funny script & appealing performers. The tunes were great, Alice Faye was very attractive, this not always obvious from stills of her, where she always looks kind of matronly. Her singing voice is gorgeous. Carmen Miranda is the most wired performer I think I've ever seen. Also the technicolor was nice and lurid. Was it some kind of rule that in any latin-american flavoured fox musical, they had to refer to the good neighbor policy in the first 5 minutes or something? Funny bit near the end where Don Ameche carts Alice Faye off upstairs to bed, which cuts to one of the performers from Carmen Miranda's band playing some kind of percussion instrument which seems to involve vigorously pumping yer forearm in and out of a wooden cylinder. Outrageous!

― Pashmina, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

Eh, we watched "Dames" as well. The musical numbers apart, this film is so bad! EXCEPT when Joan Blondell shows up, then it gets good again. There's nowhere near enough of her in it though.

― Pashmina, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

Before The Devil Knows Your Dead — made me sad
Terminator 3 - serious bullshit
The Graduate - I like this film

― caek, Monday, 10 March 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

I wish Zodiac had been an adaptation of the Neal Stephenson book and not the movie it actually was.

― nickalicious, Monday, 10 March 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, Brokeback is more mediocre. I wish it sucked a little more, harhar.

― Eric H., Monday, 10 March 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

Most of the wives' scenes are among the weakest. Needed more classic-Disney-style misogyny. ;)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 March 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

Nu-uh, Anne Hathaway was like the perfect person for a closeted but way gay guy to marry.

― Eric H., Monday, 10 March 2008 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

Sudden Impact

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

I read an excerpt of BBM slash fiction when the film was originally released in which Lureen helped Jack Twist in the bois department.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

Trading Places
Lifeforce (aka Space Vampires)
Dogfight

― sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

I haven't seen Dogfight in years! Still my favorite Lili Taylor performance.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

she even almost charmed Mrs. Dancer, who hates Lili Taylor.
Phoenix makes sure to have a different "funny walk" in every film he's in. My coup was to indentify an bit character in the penny arcade scene as one of the Hayward sisters from Twin Peaks. (The poet one, not the piano playing one)

― sexyDancer, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

TV: Repo Man (just awesome!). Love Alex Cox, wish I'd seen more than just Repo and 'Sid and Nancy'.

Cinema: cpl of Haneke's Austrian films at the recent retrospective at the Lumiere.

Bande a part. V funny, awesome use of music.

There will be Blood. Some good stuff in it, uses too much music.

The Edge of Heaven.

Gonna see a screening of this on thursday.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 20:39 (seventeen years ago)

Bank Job - eh

― milo z, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

dogfight is good, yeah. felt like a little undiscovered piece of something. a different angle on the '60s movie.

i like this scene. (it's true about river's funny walk.)

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:30 (seventeen years ago)

More River funny walks:
-in Running On Empty, during the nature walk with ol whats-her-name from Goonies
-in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, River pulls off a strange, pigeon-toed squat gallop descending a sand bank

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

maybe he was walking funny cuz he was sleeping w/Martha Plimpton at the time

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

wonder if he did speedballs with Short Round...

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

Plimpton used a dildo?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

great world of sound

― lauren, Thursday, 13 March 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

triplets of belleville

― Edward III, Thursday, 13 March 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

It's Errol Morris week:

The Thin Blue Line
The Fog of War
Standard Operating Procedure

also
Chop Shop
The Housemaid

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 13 March 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

how was standard operating procedure

― Edward III, Thursday, 13 March 2008 15:44 (seventeen years ago)

national treasure 2 was pretty fun

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 13 March 2008 15:53 (seventeen years ago)

xp: I'm seeing SOP tnite

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 13 March 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

Happiness - this film was funny when I was 17
Rollerball (1975) - long
Gone Baby Gone - confusing and not interesting enough to try and keep up

― caek, Friday, 14 March 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

Black Book - very entertaining.

― latebloomer, Saturday, 15 March 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

M*A*S*H* - had never seen before & feel like its aged badly; reminded me of porky's

The Nines - good except RPG angle is boring

I like killing files - totally loved this + wanted to eat everything made

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 March 2008 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

phase iv

― Edward III, Sunday, 16 March 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

capricorn one -- less fun then i hoped
now shitty dub of infernal affairs 3

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 03:36 (seventeen years ago)

three burials of melquiades estrada

― dmr, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 04:20 (seventeen years ago)

capricorn one -- less fun then i hoped

When every critic wrote "this sucks" 30 years ago, not always wrong.

The Insect Woman (insane '72 Kim Ki-young melodrama, like a Sirk movie taken over by Ken Russell)
Francisca (Oliveira)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:35 (seventeen years ago)

Gold Diggers of 1935, by request of my dear wife, she's developed a thing for Dick Powell. Unfortunately she got loaded on the strong beer I bought her & fell asleep halfway through it. This AM she was like "did I really wake up and see a load of grand pianos all spinning round on a flight of stairs". Oh yeah. Film starts well, but flags pitifully after a little while. The bit where the gold-digging stenographer tricks the snuff tin collector into writing some sappy love song lyrics, which she gets him to "autograph", and then uses it to sue him for breach of promise is pretty funny. Portrayal of tricky gold-digging female as protagonist in these films is pretty o_0. Lack of Ruby & Joan in this film is :(

After she went to bed I watched "Hotel Imperial" 1927, Mautritz Stiller, feat Pola Negri. Great! Pola is so good in this, a good print of this, with a lush orch. soundtrack would be amazing to watch.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

Pola's American filmography makes for some srsly depressing reading:

Bella Donna - survives
The Cheat - lost
Hollywood - lost
The Spanish Dancer - survives incomplete
Shadows of Paris - lost
Men - lost
Lily of the Dust - lost
Forbidden Paradise - survives
East of Suez - lost
Flower of the Night - lost
The Charmer - lost
Woman of the World - survives (I've got this one, it's great)
The Crown of Lies - lost
Good & Naughty - lost
Hotel Imperial - survives
Barbed Wire - survives
The Woman on Trial - lost
The Secret Hour - lost
Three Sinners - lost
Loves of an Actress - lost
The Woman from Woscow - lost

I mean for fuck's sakes, you know? There's almost nothing left. The 2 films I have from that list are great, it really gets me down.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

man, infernal affairs 3 sucked but was funnier with American Dubbing.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

Ulrike Ottinger's 'Ticket of No Return', from '79, is fantastic. The 'plot' centres on a group of women on an unapologetic weekend bender along Berlin's many drinking establishments. The un-apologetics are matched by the style (throwing great, often funny images away in a drunkenly fashion), the design, as well as a score by the recently departed Peer Raben.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

Magnolia. What is this shit?
Epic of the inner struggle of fallen child actors?
Or does for melodrama what Space Mountain did for rollercoasters?
It's always sad to finally see the source material for all these wack Tom Cruise quotes.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

To Die For
Do You Remember Love

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 21 March 2008 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

Psych-Out (Roger Corman)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0EIKC0YbyE

- wau jack nicholson's ponytail
- omg dean stockwell
- music by seeds, strawberry alarm clock, spirit ...

dvd is a double feature with "The Trip" but I havent gotten to that one yet

― dmr, Saturday, 22 March 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

psych-out is corny as hell but I enjoyed it

― dmr, Saturday, 22 March 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

cornier than Away from Her, even

The Taste of Tea
The Queen of Spades
Oliveira shorts
Head Aginst the Wall (Franju)

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 22 March 2008 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

bugcrush

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 23 March 2008 05:46 (seventeen years ago)

king of kong - makes me wanna go to Barcade

― dmr, Sunday, 23 March 2008 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

the tv show breaking bad is recommended

― jhøshea, Sunday, 23 March 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

The Moustache (Le Moustache?)
The Unfaithful Wife (I'm really loving 60's Chabrol)
new Roxy Music DVD vol. 1 which is *waaauuu*
The Killing (cool. great to see all the noir icons in a Kubrick but no real tension in this one. Kubrick's no Dassin.)
The Good Thief (love this. Great remake of "Bob Le Flambeur")

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:52 (seventeen years ago)

i am ~~working on homework~~watching this jeff goldblum movie and his character's name is HATCH and it is kind of making me lol every time they say his name even though they are all v. serious ppl.

― tehresa, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:49 (seventeen years ago)

housesitting for fellow grad student in ms f0zi's department (french). slim pickings in the DVD dept. most of the stuff we'd already seen 1000 times (jules et jim, dead man, blues brothers) or had no interest in watching.

but then i stumbled on

http://palais.wikidot.com/local--files/la-planete-sauvage/planete.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 24 March 2008 04:57 (seventeen years ago)

ooh i would like to watch this ever since i leonardo'd the soundtrack someone upped.

― tehresa, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:05 (seventeen years ago)

it's good. i've seen it a few times before.

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:07 (seventeen years ago)

it's maybe not as "trippy" as i expected. sort of like a cross between what you'd expect from a 70s postapocalyptic sci-fi (like "city of gold and lead" or "war of the worlds" done all in off-white, beige, sepia and institutional greens and oranges) and a particularly drab episode of the pink panther.

very very french, now that i think of it, but nowhere, i mean nowhere near as visually crazy as an issue of heavy metal from the same time. also not as trippy as most disney movies.

it's atmospheric though. and the plot is sort of a nailbiter.

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:10 (seventeen years ago)

help me decide a debate i'm having with "giles manius" on ichat:

liquid sky vs liquid television

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:13 (seventeen years ago)

haha i guess i forgot some of the weirdest sequences from the movie.

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:57 (seventeen years ago)

there's some pretty weird stuff .... gladiator sequence where they tie little chompy monsters to two dudes and they fight it out. <3 that movie

also the bit 1:30 into this trailer o_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E&feature=related

last nite watched requiem for a heavyweight w/ anthony quinn

― dmr, Monday, 24 March 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

my super ex girlfriend on amtrak just a minute ago

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 24 March 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

elizabeth
never ending story 2
juno (in-flight)

― sleep, Monday, 24 March 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)

procrastination:

no country for old men
there will be blood
l.i.e.
the devil wears prada lol
little miss sunshine

― tehresa, Monday, 24 March 2008 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

no end in sight
the razor's edge (1946)
waitress (rip adrienne shelly, but what a silly movie)

― lauren, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

nights of cabiria

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

On The Silver Globe

after years of loving Possession so much I didn't even want to see anything else

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

dark victory (bette davis becoming my fave actress)
john adams (only thing I can tolerate on tv right now)

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

is it true, as the NYT said, Giamatti in breeches & wig looks like Shrek?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

I do not watch Shrek.
but he does not play Adams inna "giamatti" stylee, didn't recognize him at first. Jefferson is cool, though--played as aloof "artist" type. Washington has a putty nose. The Southernern statesmen are all gay dandies. Tar and feather fu. Pox fu. four stars. check it out.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

-ern

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

how many episodes is this John Adams series?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

Still sad that Tracey Morgan isn't playing Jerfferson in that.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

All I needed to know about Shrek I learned from I am Legend

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

xp: 7 parts. it's the "on demand" thingy.
(no shrek plz!)

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.funnyphotos.net.au/images/eddie-murphy-as-donkey-in-shrek-the-third1.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

i have seen shrek 3 on an airplane :( :( :(

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

as a matter of fact im pretty sure i saw shrek 2 on a plane too

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

ive seen all the shreks

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

midwestern inlaws attempted a shrek 3 screening but the Dancer family is immune to such.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

back in hs a friend of mine went to watch shrek alone on a friday night after his gf broke up with him, i made sure to rag on him about what mustve been behind his eyes when he went up to the ticket counter & said the words 'shrek for one please'

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

^^ ??

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:39 (seventeen years ago)

sexyDancer, you will have viewed Shrek within 3 years.

― ORACLE, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:40 (seventeen years ago)

shrek sucks, moonship

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

I grew up in a "no TV" household, so I have ambitions of being a media-nazi parent.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

i did too, and i wasted 5 years of my life working in film ....

― remy bean, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

yep, film major, 9 years in tv job.
still, I don't have to sit through "shrek" or the fuckin bernstein bears or even gaze into Tim Allen's slack face

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

my parents didn't let me own anything plastic till I was 3 and I'm using a MacBook right now...

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

cool movie talk dudez

― 69, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

Gone Baby Gone - ok
Intolerable Cruelty - bad
Together - great
American Friends - objectively awful but I really enjoyed it

― caek, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

Fishing w/ John - good
Yi Yi - fantastic
Mannequin (Borzage) - meh

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 02:46 (seventeen years ago)

Gone Baby Gone - confusing and not interesting enough to try and keep up

-- caek, Friday, March 14, 2008 1:49 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 02:58 (seventeen years ago)

return of the living dead - on cable lol
vantage point - poop

― W4LTER, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 03:09 (seventeen years ago)

the first Shrek was OK except strange anti-midget bias.

William Daniels in 1776 will always be John Adams to me, sorry... "I'm obnoxious and disliked, you know that, sir!"

Blissfully Yours
Boys Don't Cry
Japan Japan
Stop-Loss
Hot Fuzz
Leatherheads

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

Is Leatherheads any good?

― nickalicious, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

I mean, I figure if its good enough for you then I will probably shit my pants over it.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 27 March 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

I'm going tonight, sorry

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

John Adams: Why is the camera always all slanty and waaaay too close to the actors? Is the DP invoking Battlefield Earth as a visual influence??

Other I love it, esp. Laura Linney!!

― The Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

"Bare Knees" (1928) a jazz-era exploitation film, with a wild flapper girl showing up at the house of her straight-laced sister and causing all kinds of trouble. I was o_O from beginning to end, I've never seen anything like it in my life before. Great.

2 Norma Talmadge vehicles from 1916 - "Going Straight" and "Children in the House", both pretty bad - crudely edited and acted, a bit corny.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

Zelig - a little disappointing but fun while I ate dinner

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

Zelig is awesome! "I hate your pancakes!"

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:50 (seventeen years ago)

Zelig is pretty great, yeah.

The flapper girl from "Bare Knees":

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2366656471_ebb47ed14e.jpg?v=0

― Pashmina, Thursday, 27 March 2008 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

Intolerable Cruelty - bad

For this RONGness, you are sentenced to watch Leatherheads

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 March 2008 13:52 (seventeen years ago)

La Vie En Rose -- wow this gets weird toward the end. I liked it

― dmr, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

almost walked out of Intolerable Cruelty when I saw it at the theater

― dmr, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

Th Darjeeling Limited

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

A Free Soul - pre-Production Code Norma Shearer vehicle costarring a rar-rar Clark Gable.

Love and Death in Long Island

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

Aeon Flux - I feel bad for Peter Cheung

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 29 March 2008 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

Raise the Red Lantern - v depresso copout ending

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 29 March 2008 04:29 (seventeen years ago)

Lars and the Real Girl - not half as bad as I expected it to be. Paul Schneider very good.
Total Recall - always great

― caek, Saturday, 29 March 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

Me Myself & Irene - the "white dude" with black kids schtick didn't work

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 29 March 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)

the good shepherd -- zzzzzzzz

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 29 March 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

hudsucker proxy

good view pre-3xp3ctre with a bottle of jameson

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 30 March 2008 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

The Trip (double feature on the Psych-Out dvd) was even nuttier than I expected. seems like they had a lot of fun in the editing room on that one

― dmr, Sunday, 30 March 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

Paranoid Park - not bad, not great either ... I'm not really a GVS fan but was curious enough to see this.

― dmr, Monday, 31 March 2008 13:03 (seventeen years ago)

Took the kid to see "spiderwick chronicles", not expecting much, it was pretty corny, but there were a few good bits and a couple of laffs. Reasonably enjoyable, if you have to take yr kid/s to see it.

― Pashmina, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

But, you know, don't go out of yr way otherwise.

― Pashmina, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

Repo Man - still the best movie evah

― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

lol showed that to my sisters (they'd never seen it) the other night - 'still the best movie evah' heavily seconded.

― balls, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

good lord Time After Time is a piece of crap

― sexyDancer, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

Repo Man is so good, one of the perfect films, I can't imagine how they could possibly have made it any better. Weirdly it doesn't seem to date either, watching it, I forget how long ago it was made. I think I'll pull it off the shelf and watch it tonight, it's been about a year since I last saw it.

― Pashmina, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

that punk chick is soooooo hot

― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)

I remember really clearly looking at the Repo Man box before my dad made me watch it and saying "this looks lame"...and my dad just laughed and laughed. And then I watched it and loved the SHIT out of it. I think I was 13.

― nickalicious, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

Ended up watching a big chunk of WATERWORLD this weekend. It is hilarious. There's this part where Dennis Hopper's goons are all sliding down these big polls to row they're big stupid boat and one guy just LEAPT down the whole. I DON'T NEED NO POOOOOOLL!!!

Also at least 3 times Kevin Costner's fancy curved knife got knocked out of his hand/mouth and reappeared magically in his scabbard in the following frame.

They have to have known how ridiculous all this was, right?

― nickalicious, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

one thing that i liked was the appearance of that freaky shark that kevin costner wrestles and then serves for dinner. i really would've liked to see more of that kind of thing, seeing how the ocean's fauna evolved to adapt to the ecosystem. and why the dude had gills to begin with.

but that is because i am a total fucking nerd.

― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 22:58 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0JUVCMIRwA

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 00:15 (seventeen years ago)

haha

― sleep, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

the man who never was

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 04:47 (seventeen years ago)

stranger than paradise - great. eva is a traet

― sleep, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

"i am the winner."

<3 aunt lotte

― lauren, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

taxi driver

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

poseidon adventure
beneath the planet of the apes
kiss me deadly

i XOXO shelley winters

― remy bean, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

even after place in the sun and night of the hunter?

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

not so much. still:

http://www.handbagproductions.org/history/poseidon/images/dolls-belle.jpg

― remy bean, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

awesome

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

Anne of the Thousand Days
No Country for Old Men
Street Kings (Keanu as Dirty Harry/Serpico)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

The Orphanage - sucked balls
Lions for Lambs - Tom Cruise and Robert Redford giving each other hand jobs. Makes me dread to think what's going to happen when Cruise directs.
The English Patient - lame, colin farrell is so shit in everything
Behind Enemy Lines - kept thinking of tombot during this
The Verdict - awesome, slightly unbelievable big finish
The Illusionist - terrible, predictable. Horribly over-graded.

― caek, Thursday, 3 April 2008 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

colin firth that is. farrell is awesome in everything.

― caek, Thursday, 3 April 2008 20:02 (seventeen years ago)

fever pitch - lolol
meet joe black - the sex scene was totally filmed by different people at tacked on post production i think

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 6 April 2008 05:49 (seventeen years ago)

er whatever "post production" -- after the movie was done essentially

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 6 April 2008 05:49 (seventeen years ago)

oh is that what you meant

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 6 April 2008 05:53 (seventeen years ago)

cloverfield

― balls, Sunday, 6 April 2008 07:37 (seventeen years ago)

Tom, I didn't want to get all the film dorks to correct me for using a wrong term.

Westworld - man lol love crichton

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 6 April 2008 08:11 (seventeen years ago)

tried to watch Sans Soleil, but it was boring and Momus-y so I had to turn it off.

― Dan I., Sunday, 6 April 2008 09:01 (seventeen years ago)

Cinema: The all Reduced Personality, from the late 70s (by Helke Zander, who plays the main role) about a single-mother and freelance photographer in Berlin who is trying to put a show together with her fellow colleagues...love the way it was shot, framed, with an absolute ton of material about the feminist movement, the lameness at the heart of '68...you can easily get lost, and I did at many points. Need to watch it again.

Def a counterpart to 'Jeanne Dielman', and as good.

'The Awakening of Christina Klages' by Margueritte Von Trotta, the title is a bit of a mislead, its more to do with her actions awakening two other women (and hopefully the audience).

DVD sale: L' Eclisse.

DVD library borrow: the first two seasons of 'The wire', finishing the 2nd season today. I think they have the 3rd season as well so I'll crack on with that.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 April 2008 10:59 (seventeen years ago)

friday night, saw the midnight showing of cannibal holocaust at the nuart.

― get bent, Sunday, 6 April 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

fresh turtle anyone?

― sexyDancer, Sunday, 6 April 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

the ruins. eh.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 6 April 2008 17:37 (seventeen years ago)

my fucking postman keeps stealing my netflix; have fun watching Stalker and Silent Running bro

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 6 April 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

lol

― latebloomer, Sunday, 6 April 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

leatherheads - mediocre but pleasant enough i guess. it was neat seeing greenville locations being used.

the ruins - not terrible but it's really hard to make plants scary

― latebloomer, Sunday, 6 April 2008 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

the band's visit (a+)
california split (a+++++++++++++++++++++++++++)
the woman in the window (didn't enjoy it as much as i was expecting to)

― lauren, Sunday, 6 April 2008 19:57 (seventeen years ago)

just got parallels working with netflix watch online :)

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 6 April 2008 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

it's really hard to make plants scary

did you see last night's snl w/ christopher walken?

― get bent, Sunday, 6 April 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

i watched california split this wkend too & agree w/ the a++++++++++++

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 April 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

it's really hard to make plants scary

yeah it worked better in the book. hard to do it in a movie without looking like little shop of horrors.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 7 April 2008 06:48 (seventeen years ago)

Jules & Jim

― dmr, Monday, 7 April 2008 12:53 (seventeen years ago)

the patriot
barton fink

― jhøshea, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)

tried to watch Sans Soleil, but it was boring and Momus-y so I had to turn it off.

-- Dan I., Sunday, 6 April 2008 09:01 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Boring and Momus-y!!

― Pashmina, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:03 (seventeen years ago)

Paprika (wack & nice looking, what it was about I have no clue)
The Good Shepherd (not worthless depite the zzzzzzzzs)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

hey morbs street kings looks like the worst ever whatd u think?

― jhøshea, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

The Good Shepherd (not worthless depite the zzzzzzzzs)

i thought it was pretty drab, but its drabness was kind of conceptually interesting -- felt more like a dour bbc drama than a big-star hollywood movie. if the goal was to make intelligence work seem crabbed and dull, it succeeded.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 7 April 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

Damon's is a very weird figure to put at the center of a big-budget film. also, needed at least another minute of Skull&Bones mud wrestling.

Street Kings is pretty ridiculous mating of Lethal Weapon crap and Ellroy crap, but I find Keanu sort of touchingly mournful and middle-aged in it.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

No Way Out (1950). Way, way better than the thought of giving Joseph L. Mankiewicz an uneasy collision of agitprop and film noir has any right to be.

i thought it was pretty drab, but its drabness was kind of conceptually interesting -- felt more like a dour bbc drama than a big-star hollywood movie.

^^^ this. Matt Damon's perfectly cast too. He looked like he'd waited his entire professional life to utter that xenophobic one-liner.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

blank actor, blank role, blank movie

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

Paprika (wack & nice looking, what it was about I have no clue)

^^ love this movie

scientist develops device allowing you to enter a dreamer's dreams, multinational corporation tries to misuse, detective with guilty secret in past tries to help

dream sequences are a++++++++++++++++

I like the part when the godzilla-sized ichimatsu doll starts destroying the city

― Edward III, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

wikipedia plot summary, what about this is unclear? lol

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. A device called the "DC Mini" allows the user to view people's dreams, exploring their unconscious thoughts. The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside the research facility, using her alter-ego "Paprika", a persona she assumes in the dream world. The movie opens with Paprika counseling Detective Konakawa Toshimi, who is victimized by a recurring dream, the incompleteness of which is a great source of personal anxiety for him. This type of counseling session is not officially sanctioned, so Doctor Atsuko Chiba and her associates must be cautious that word does not leak out to the press regarding the nature of the DC Mini and the existence of Paprika. Her closest ally is Doctor Kōsaku Tokita, a morbidly obese child-at-heart genius and the inventor of the DC Mini. Unfortunately, before the government can pass a law authorizing the use of the device, three of the prototypes are stolen. Because of their unfinished nature, the DC Minis can allow anyone to enter another person's dreams, giving the culprit an opportunity to get away with all sorts of malicious deeds. Almost immediately, the chief of the department, Doctor Toratarō Shima, goes on a nonsensical tirade and jumps through a window, nearly killing himself.

Upon examining Shima's dream (which consists of a lively parade of inanimate objects, instrument-playing animals, and various cultural icons), Tokita recognizes his assistant, Kei Himuro, which confirms their suspicion that the theft was an inside job. After two other scientists fall victim to the DC Mini, the Chairman of the company, who was against the project to begin with, bans the use of the device completely. This fails to hinder the crazed parade, which manages to claim Tokita and intrude Konakawa's dream. Paprika and Shima take matters into their own hands, and find that Himuro is only an empty shell. Tracing the "roots" that controlled him, Paprika confronts the Chairman, who claims that he is in fact the "protector of the dreamworld", guarding this last haven against the inhumane horrors of reality and technology. Again, she is chased by the Chairman but also finds out that the researcher, Doctor Morio Osanai, agreed to give the Chairman his body and become the Chairman's lackey as long as he got to have equal powers over his own dreams. Chiba/Paprika is eventually captured by the pair after an exhausting chase. Paprika wakes as a butterfly pinned to a table in a room surrounded by pinned butterflies. There, Osanai admits his love for Chiba, and attempts to peel away her Paprika disguise. However, he is interrupted by the Chairman, whose head sprouts on his shoulder (the two share Osanai's body, housing the Chairman's spirit). As the two argue over Chiba's fate, Konakawa bursts through the wall from his cinema dream, snatching the naked Chiba away from the bickering antagonists. After a chase through Konakawa's cinema dream, Osanai attempts to flee from Konakawa's homicide dream. It is there that Konakawa realizes that his recurring nightmare and anxiety result from his guilt that he never finished the film he was making with a friend. He decides to finish the film and shoot the escaping Osanai, finishing with the memorable phrase "I am justice!" as he poses proudly. This kills Osanai and supposedly the Chairman in one fell swoop. All seems well.

Chiba, believing the dream is finally over, runs through the research facility with Shima only to find that dreams and reality have merged. Amidst the chaos, Tokita, in the form of a giant robot, eats Chiba and prepares to do the same for Paprika, but is thwarted in his efforts by two bartenders from Paprika's website. A ghostly apparition of Chiba appears and reveals that she has in fact been in love with Tokita this whole time and has simply been repressing these emotions. She comes to terms with her own repressed desires, reconciles herself with that part of her that is Paprika, and is thus reborn in the dream world. The Chairman, in the form of a dark colossus, reveals his twisted dreams of omnipotence, and threatens to darken the world with his delusions. Realizing that everything has its opposite, Paprika returns to Tokita, throwing herself into his body. A ghostly apparition of a baby emerges from the robotic shell, like a womb. Sucking in the wind, the child grows until she sucks up the Chairman himself, becoming a full grown beautiful combination of both Chiba and Paprika. In this new form, she is able to consume the Chairman's dream form and end the nightmare he created.

In the final scene, Chiba sits at Tokita's bedside. Konakawa and Shima leave the two as Chiba puts her hand in Tokita's. As Konakawa and Shima walk down the street, Shima asks if Konakawa ever figured out the meaning to all this. Konakawa, turning to his reflection and seeing the figure of his film friend, realizes that he in fact became the character from their original film, the cop. Konakawa visits the bar-website one last time, and the bartenders give him a message from Paprika: "Atsuko will change her surname to Tokita... and I suggest watching the movie Dreaming Kids." The film ends as Konakawa purchases a ticket for the movie.

― Edward III, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

for a really good time, try watching it with poorly translated subs like on the bootleg dvd I bought in mainland china

― Edward III, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

Dewey Cox - one laugh per 20 minutes for 2.5 hours = not fucking good enough
Until the End of the World - boring and Momusy

― caek, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

xp: yeah, I know what HAPPENED (most of it), I just don't know what it was ABOUT.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

for a really good time, try watching it with poorly translated subs like on the bootleg dvd I bought in mainland china
-- Edward III, Monday, April 7, 2008 1:17 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

http://db.rambleschmack.net/images/posts/so_that_was_the_worst_possible_outcome/do_not_want.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 7 April 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

Shine A Light

― milo z, Monday, 7 April 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

THE MIST --> marcia gay harden == scariest monster, loved her, rest of the movie sucked

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 7 April 2008 20:45 (seventeen years ago)

btw guys

http://www.karcreat.com/TheMistGame.ZIP

^^^ the mist txt adventure game just like you remember

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 7 April 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

oh Lord: Chapter 27

― sexyDancer, Monday, 7 April 2008 20:53 (seventeen years ago)

re: The Good Shepherd - I spent the entire movie waiting for everyone to gay it up.

― milo z, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

Conspirators of Pleasure......

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 03:44 (seventeen years ago)

flight of the red balloon pretty great.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

bicycle thieves
shivers
the water horse

― Edward III, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 06:29 (seventeen years ago)

Margot at the Wedding - pretty awful
Mad Max - not great
Mad Max 2 - AWESOME. recommend me more movies about sieges!

― caek, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

ROLLERBALL
MAD MAX 2

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

its called the road warrior u guys

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

BEYOND THUNDERDOME EPISODE ZERO

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

not the road warrior where i'm from

― caek, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

Juno. Just as annoying as it looks.

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

almanac of fall
kaspar hauser

― sleep, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 04:07 (seventeen years ago)

the omega man

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 17 April 2008 04:30 (seventeen years ago)

zardoz!! <- awesome

― Doraemon, Thursday, 17 April 2008 05:09 (seventeen years ago)

parents

^^crepey

― tehresa, Thursday, 17 April 2008 05:12 (seventeen years ago)

In The Heat of the Night (slap!SLAP!)
where eagles dare
sleuth

I saw those last two before. where eagles dare holds up to RESCREENING cause of all the explosions, but Sleuth is only really good the first time (but it's really good the first time)

― Dan I., Thursday, 17 April 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)

The Business of Being Born -- pretty amazing documentary on just how fucked up & systematized hospital births have become, terrifying statistics like 1 out of 3 american women end up having C-sections, not because they need them, but for economic / scheduling reasons, hospitals = factories. Film is very pro midwife and at first cames off like propaganda but near the end when the filmmaker has her own child, you really get a very big picture. five onscreen births, one in hospital, four with a midwife (including Ricki Lake who I am now a 100% fan of)

also The 49th Parallel, crazy Powell / Pressburger film about 6 Germans who escape a bombed U-Boat in 1941 and trek across Canada, getting picked off one by one. WWII films actually shot during WWII = intense

also watched Possession again, my favorite divorce film

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 April 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)

Possession the Andrzej Żuławski film, not Possession the Byatt adaptation, right? I've seen neither, but I like divorce films.

― caek, Thursday, 17 April 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

Mad Max 3: so awesome.

― caek, Thursday, 17 April 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.andrzej-zulawski.com/

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 April 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

Going back a few months:

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:32 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

Well how about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94QR4v3zsnc&NR=1

The finale from "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" is a whole crowd of silent-era actors and actresses singing "Singin' in The Rain" itself! Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Buster Keaton and John Gilbert all there, plus a bunch of other people I don't recognise. There's a whole bunch of these 2-strip technicolor musical numbers on youtube, and I think I've seen like one bad one out of the lot of them. I thought all the musicals from this era were supposed to be really crappy & shit? they look great to me (OK maybe the rest of the films were bad, how would I ever find out though)

― Pashmina, Saturday, 19 April 2008 14:04 (seventeen years ago)

Solo performance of the song from earlier in the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZFVQd5t5k&NR=1

― Pashmina, Saturday, 19 April 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

my netflix this weekend are MIRROR and THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE

― 69, Saturday, 19 April 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

terminator 3 w/rifftrax (easily the best one i've heard yet)
forgetting sarah marshall (pretty funny!)

― latebloomer, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

the sentinel - wasn't too into this. scary christians will save us all.

― dmr, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall may be the best movie about a chubby guy dating way out of his league yet

― AJ Styles, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

Glass
Becoming Jane
Be Kind Rewind
The Puffy Chair
Baghead
The First Saturday in May
Alexandra
Night and the City (Dassin/Widmark)
TRIBECA:
My Winnipeg
Baghdad High
57000 Km Between Us
Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha (Melvin Van Peebles, fun)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 21 April 2008 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

"The Garden of Eden" (1928) romantic comedy/farce, very sub-Lubitsch (dir Lewis Milestone, who I think did "All quiet on the Western Front"?), very very good, one of the best silent films I've seen. The lead actress, Corrine (or maybe Corinne, I've seen it spelled both ways) Griffith, is unbelievably hott:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2054/2432691802_4df1f86db4.jpg?v=0

― Pashmina, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall may be the best movie about a chubby guy dating way out of his league yet

-- AJ Styles, Monday, April 21, 2008 8:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

dude was not chubby

― latebloomer, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

cary ewes is pretty funny in liar liar

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 03:16 (seventeen years ago)

the MIST lol

― balls, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 04:54 (seventeen years ago)

lol... we watched river's edge last night... so bad/good. crispin glover was a freak. awesome metal mullets abound. ugh, total nonsense tho.

― msp, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 04:59 (seventeen years ago)

no, it's good. esp Glover & Hopper & blowup doll.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall may be the best movie about a chubby guy dating way out of his league yet

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=77103&rendTypeId=4

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 13:10 (seventeen years ago)

Summertime
In the Valley of Elah
The Wire: Season One

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

28 weeks later - don't bother

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)

I disagree!

Although the turning point of the film really defies logic on multiple levels.

― AJ Styles, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

it started out ok then got pretty bad in the 2nd half imo

― dmr, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

well I suppose if I saw my wife in quarantine, under armed guard, and securely strapped to a gurney, I'd think nothing of it

― AJ Styles, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

errol morris: first person complete season
miller's crossing
before the devil knows you're dead

― t. weiss, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

liar liar - Jim Carey's romantic leads got younger as he got older after this I think!
a bridge too far - too short!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 03:10 (seventeen years ago)

the cable guy - i spotted all the cameos correctly! yay

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 04:53 (seventeen years ago)

I like to fall asleep while watching A Bridge Too Far after enormous meals on Sunday afternoon. I have a VHS copy labelled "A Bridge To Far".

Morbs: what are the buzz movies at Tribeca? What have you enjoyed so far?

― caek, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 10:02 (seventeen years ago)

It's all I can do to go to 9-10 screenings and write reviews quickly, I really don't hear 'buzz' much. I really like the Guy Maddin (out in June, and this mumblecorish comedy-horror Baghead (July) is pretty good. Also, Van Peebles' video picaresque has a limited audience but is very ballsy and playful for a 75-yo guy (he plays the lead from teenager on) to turn out.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

First half of in the mood for love

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

mumblecorish

kill this adj, plz

― David R., Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

suggest a synonym, Grouchy!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:50 (seventeen years ago)

The Voice calls it "lo-fi," lol

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

that thing you do (on tv; had forgotten all about that one)
chinatown
the long goodbye (<3 elliot gould)

― lauren, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

suggest a synonym, Grouchy!

Kettle! Baby!

Of course I have no other suggestion, but I read a post on the otherwise-enjoyable IFC Movie Blog that used that term about 60 times in the space of 300 words, and it was unnnnnnnnnnnngh

― David R., Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

Baghead (July)

i thought this meant miranda july for a second

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

baghead: the movie
mumblecore

― balls, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:40 (seventeen years ago)

Just saw Starting Out in the Evening. I don't remember if it was discussed in the 2007 film detrius thread; maybe it should have been. Occasionally too precious about lit-era-chur, but Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor, and Adrian Lester are all excellent. Langella should have gotten the Oscar nod that was (briefly) discussed.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

First half of in the mood for love

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

is exactly my experience w that movie

― 69, Thursday, 24 April 2008 02:45 (seventeen years ago)

what is this "first half" shit

(I do prefer 2046)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 24 April 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

this is on right now

http://www.joblo.com/dvdclinic/dvd_review.php?id=1355

― get bent, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

Howl's Moving Castle

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

oh, thank you Tribeca, for scheduling a 2-hour program of political experimental films that I have to review for 10:30 pm, on a work night.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 24 April 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

DEAD RINGER

http://www.rbebout.com/getfree/pix/bdgun.jpg

LOL

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 25 April 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

antonia's line

I saw about 3/4 of howl's moving castle but then my kids got freaked out so we had to turn it off

― Edward III, Friday, 25 April 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

Babel: not great
Wayne's World: great

― caek, Saturday, 26 April 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

reno 911: miami -- kinda funny. exactly like watching the tv show.
topsy-turvy -- watching this yet again (it's on tv all the time, somehow). love it.

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 26 April 2008 05:50 (seventeen years ago)

forbidden_planet_1956.avi

gg allin doc from pitchfork

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 26 April 2008 08:12 (seventeen years ago)

Watched "Night And The City" earlier today and realized the fat club owner had to much screen time compared to the awesome Widmark/Lom... and Gene Tierney should have had more screen time, too. If only for that overbite (K-Rowr).

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 26 April 2008 09:32 (seventeen years ago)

TV: 'The Name of the Rose', 'The Deer Hunter'

Cinema: 'Funny Games U.S.', a couple of weeks ago now

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 26 April 2008 11:20 (seventeen years ago)

JV you are bananas, Francis L Sullivan & Googie Withers are both great in N&TC.

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 26 April 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

They're great!! I just wish there was less of them, more of the others.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 26 April 2008 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

smart people: nice pittsburgh exteriors, and the a/c in the theater was good

― get bent, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

i wanted to sneak into baby mama which was playing next door

― get bent, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

saw harold and kumar last night too. it was funny but "trying to stop your ex-gf's wedding" isn't the instant comedy gold motivating force "trying to get to white castle" is.

― get bent, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:24 (seventeen years ago)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Pretty funny until lame ending
Knocked Up - to see if the FSM dude was funny in it
Sky Fighters - fucking terrible

― wilter, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:31 (seventeen years ago)

hannah takes the stairs
M
42 Up
hubert selby jr. doc
my blueberry nights

― johnny crunch, Monday, 28 April 2008 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

Oxford Murders: so bad I walked out after 30 minutes (haven't done this since My Summer of Love)
GG Allin thing on Pitchfork: meh
All Summer in a Day (1982, short): weirdly atmospheric despite terrible child actors and limiting production (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWmahMdeGU)
Cable Guy: This is a good film? Seriously? Very boring, never laughed.
Schindler's List: not lols

― caek, Monday, 28 April 2008 03:17 (seventeen years ago)

Innocents With Dirty Hands: Romy Schnieder (sic?) I <3 U but LOL Rod Steiger. Not my fave Chabrol.
Darjeeling Limited: Liked this way more than I expected to.
That Obscure Object Of Desire: So much in this I didn't pick up the last time I watched it - 5/ 6 years ago. But NOW... hell, probably one of my Top 5 Buñuels. And Angela Molina vs. Carol Bouquet: POLL?

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 28 April 2008 05:25 (seventeen years ago)

CASSHERN is almost completely incomprehensible

― El Tomboto, Monday, 28 April 2008 06:04 (seventeen years ago)

irma la douce -- shirley maclaine's good, the rest of the movie not so much

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 28 April 2008 07:22 (seventeen years ago)

The Darjeeling Limited - Don't get the Adrien Brody hate.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
In the Heat of the Night

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

yesterday i watched 2 (1.5) movies!

gone baby gone - omg v frustrating! awzom twisty plotting and sweet boston gangsta action interspersed w/corny narration and sentimental bullshit W T F

spider - one of the last cronenbergs i hadnt seen - i was enjoying its trippy observations until they lulled me to sleep - maybe watch the rest today

― jhøshea, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:10 (seventeen years ago)

The Outsiders (Uchida, 1958)
The Band's Visit (one of the best comedies of last year)
Profit motive and the whispering wind
Hidden in Plain Sight
Is It Really So Strange? (doc of LA Latino youths idolizing Morrissey)
Panic in the Streets (Kazan, v good)
This Is England
Somers Town

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:34 (seventeen years ago)

how was the morrissey doc?

― jhøshea, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

The Darjeeling Limited - Don't get the Adrien Brody hate.

Certainly not in this movie. He's great here.

― caek, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

best aquatic vertebrate actor since that kid who played nemo!

― jhøshea, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

the morrissey doc is OK, esp for fans or queer theorists, but phaps overlong at 80 mins, esp as he couldn't get any rights to Moz/Smiths tunes, save "This Charming Man" over the end credits.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 April 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.williamejones.com/collections/about/16

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 April 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

lets say yr not so into morrissey or queer theory but are interested in weirdo fandom - would this movies amuse you?

― jhøshea, Monday, 28 April 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_%28film%29

did anyone see this he he

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 00:18 (seventeen years ago)

panic in the streets o_O
rapid fire
bloodsport

― omar little, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

xp: probably, jhoshea.

(also it's a video, not film, but no one seems to care anymore judging by the Tribeca ~~Film~~ Fest)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

omar, are you now trailing my viewings? isn't it great to see Jack Palance and Zero Mostel run from the cops through a warehouse together?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

some interesting dynamics going on in blackie's little trio there imo. richard widmark is awesome!~

― omar little, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

lol imdb

William E. Jones, a Smiths fan, made a documentary about some kind of a phenomenon that occurred in LA, or somewhere in southern California (I'm not sure about the exact location): it seems that twenty years after The Smiths broke up, there's this huge fan community there, and they're mostly Hispanic. I went to see this one at a festival, 'cause I thought it would be really interesting... Like, sociologically or so. Why would this people relate to Morrissey, an Irish man, living in England, and to his lyrics about teenage angst, despair and frustration, lyrics full of sexual ambiguity and so on. What could this man and this band mean to them? Well, at first, everything was great... There's this tribute band there, The Sweet and Tender Hooligans, and loads of people go to see their shows, as if they really were in a Smiths gig; a bunch of Hispanic people who are really enthusiastic about The Smiths, and that's okay, I'm a fan myself. Then it just got silly. The director started interviewing some of these fans, and it suddenly became all about their sick obsession. The way they asked Morrissey for autographs and tattooed them afterwards; the way they fought for Morrissey's shirt during his gigs; their opinion on Morrissey's sexuality or political views; how Morrissey helped them coming out to their moms... I can't really explain what happened there. "Sick people" is the most I can say without being offensive (and I sure did get offensive in the theater). Well, they made me laugh, that much is true... But I don't think that the director's goal was to make a comedy or fun of those people. So, if you want to see a bunch of sick Morrissey fans, go for it; but you won't get anything from this experience, besides, perhaps, a higher self-esteem.

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

Delicatessen

― dmr, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

Amateur
Trust

― t. weiss, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

The Vanishing (the inferior US version, according to my gf anyway)

― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

Polanski's Macbeth
L'Enfer

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

street kings - man wakes up cocks his gun looks in the mirror and pukes - a genuinely awful movie

manufactured landscapes - gorgeous and disturbing as billed - artist statement style narration is a huge mistake

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 13:17 (seventeen years ago)

flight of the navigator
the proposition
may

― Edward III, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

flight of the navigator

:D :D :D

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)

EIV spent the first 15 minutes saying I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared and the last hour jumping up and down yelling THIS IS AWESOME THIS IS AWESOME THIS IS AWESOME

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 02:50 (seventeen years ago)

oh sure time travel is pretty terrifying before you learn it is impossible

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 1 May 2008 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

it's possible we just haven't worked out the details yet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 03:59 (seventeen years ago)

yeah I mean why you think the swiss got such a leg up on shit man it's cause they all from the future

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 May 2008 04:01 (seventeen years ago)

though I like the notion that time travel is proven impossible by the simple fact we have not been overrun by tourists from the future

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 04:08 (seventeen years ago)

it is possible the swiss have cleverly disguised their time tourist status

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 04:09 (seventeen years ago)

the time travel in flight of the navigator IS pretty scary ... in the 4th dimension there's scary purple clouds, and loud bass rumbles, and lightning strikes that go upside down!

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 1 May 2008 04:25 (seventeen years ago)

I think he was more scared of the scene where the boy went to his house and his family didn't live there anymore, and the trip to the hospital. he was cool with the purple clouds and upside down lightning strikes.

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 05:32 (seventeen years ago)

i was always unsettled by the creepy NASA technocracy / STAR MAPS in your BRANE parts

but oh, that movie is so full of wonders

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 1 May 2008 12:52 (seventeen years ago)

"Flight of the Navigator" v v entertaining.

I like to contemplate the possibility that time-travellers from the future, the most secretive motherfukers that ever lived, actually walk among us, and we are unaware of this.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

Young Sarah Jessica Parker == way hot

― caek, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ truth-bomb bait.

― caek, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:38 (seventeen years ago)

was always unsettled by the creepy NASA technocracy / STAR MAPS in your BRANE parts

o yea that was another I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared moment

which was soon offset by his realization that the kid was the smartest person in a room full of grownups and we were back to THIS IS AWESOME

also young sjp dying her hair purple for twisted sister concert roffles

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

too_many_twinkies.wav

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 1 May 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

adhd.jpg

― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 1 May 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

We actually had a "John Titor" register last year sometime. He never posted though that I saw, which was dissapointing. Probably just some IRE dude anyway, but still, I wanted to believe and all that.

― Pashmina, Saturday, 3 May 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

the prestige yeesh

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 3 May 2008 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

(bowie as tesla was funny though)

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 3 May 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

both of those magician movies blew (prestige and illusionist)

― dmr, Saturday, 3 May 2008 17:35 (seventeen years ago)

born yesterday again. judy holliday in this is really one of my favorite performances ever.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:48 (seventeen years ago)

First chunk of astonishingly good KG haul that's been watched:

Big Man Japan
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe (s.3)
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges gem!)
Mind Game
Nekojiru-So (Cat Soup)
Three short films by Osamu Tezuka

also, the stunningly boring bad Tales from Earthsea, the first Ghibli I ever walked away from.

In the wings:
Ben X
Black Limelight
K Terror
Kakurenbo
Sang Sattawat (yay new Weeraseethakul!)
The Dragon Painter (silent 1919 Japanese neatness)
Before the Nickelodeon (documentary on Edwin S. Porter)
Cowboy and the Lady
Nel Nome Del Padre
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Noiseman Sound Insect
Glassy Ocean
She and Her Cat
Bagi the Monster of Mighty Nature

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 4 May 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

had a rad movie weekend!

mirror - amazing, cant wait to watch it again and again. started a whole nother thread about tarkovsky so...

the swimmer - maybe a lil too ham-handed w the high-society satirrre, but wvs. really good-looking, and burt lancaster rules, and the existenti-o element is awes

cockfighter - TOTAL GAG MOVIE. amazing how many times the can say cock, and the fighting footage is pretty wild and brutal, but sort of totally falls short of two-lane blacktop for desolation/oblivion (LOL movie tag: he came to town with his cock in his hand, and what he did was illegal in 49 states)

the grateful dead movie - watching now, deadhead footage is awesome. donna/keith being in the band makes me a lil less psyched abt the concert recording though

― 69, Sunday, 4 May 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago)

mister lonely
the counterfeiters
6ixtynin9

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 4 May 2008 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

the swimmer is classic - used to be on TV all the time pre-cable - so weird.

"swimming across connecticut"

― m coleman, Monday, 5 May 2008 10:53 (seventeen years ago)

Live Free or Die Hard

― dmr, Monday, 5 May 2008 13:27 (seventeen years ago)

Talladega Nights is not as awful as I had expected

― AJ Styles, Monday, 5 May 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

the mist - blah, watch the host instead.

the ending was interesting tho. it was problematic in that the director didn't earn the moment (probably why people react so negatively to it). on paper the ending's in line with the rest of the movie's concerns; faith, tenacity, how people act under pressure. but this is stephen king here, not arthur miller. if the rest of the movie didn't burn so many cycles on its facile social commentary I might actually watch the black & white version - maybe the cgi doesn't look so crap in that one.

― Edward III, Monday, 5 May 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

Yoshiwara: The Pleasure Quarter
The Naked Jungle (Heston vs army of soldier ants)
Sitcom
Paranoid Park
The Secret of the Grain

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 May 2008 17:43 (seventeen years ago)

bourne ultimatum -- snappy. the less realistic matt damon cia movies are, the better they get.
inland empire -- liked it even better the second time.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/One_Hour_With_You.jpg

in 1932 the singer directly addressing the audience was normal on Broadway, but in an early talky Chevalier directly addressing the audience is so hyper-modern it is bizarre. pre-code, every line pretty scandalous, he ends up spending more than an hour with her

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

That looks totally awesome; I need more more more lubitsch in my life.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

Planet of the Apes '68
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Pickup on South Street
Trumbo

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/One_Hour_With_You.jpg

-- Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 02:08 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Is this on that 4-movie Lubitsch set that's recently come out? That's next on my list after the 2 Forbidden hollywood" sets, it looks awesome.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

how much of charlie brooker's schtick is lost in translation for you, forks?

― caek, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

Iron Man was quite a thing

― AJ Styles, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

The bit after the credits was good

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

if you are a NERD

― AJ Styles, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

god told me to
i know where i'm going

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

john adams ep 1-5

im enjoying the shit out of this - tho it just dawned on me that i absolutely hate everyone in it - especially motherfucking john adams (ben franklin and george washington excepted)

― jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

thwn you shd follow up with 1776! singing John Adams!

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

terrifying!

― jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

im enjoying the shit out of this - tho it just dawned on me that i absolutely hate everyone in it - especially motherfucking john adams (ben franklin and george washington excepted)

yeah i like that they don't go out of their way to make him likable (although it gets more sentimental toward the end). i love those early scenes in the senate, where it's just like 30 guys insulting each other in a drab drafty room. nicely de-mythological.

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

yah i was just admiring how ordinary the senate chambers were last night

― jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

before the devil knows you're dead - what a stinker, how did this get good reviews? a+ for marisa tomei's tittays and d- for the rest

― dmr, Sunday, 11 May 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

sunshine is not as horrible as people said.

― bnw, Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

i liked sunshine until the last half-hour or so. i thought it did a good job of the whole lonely-remoteness-of-space thing.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 12 May 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

watching rosemary's baby right now

haha, happy mother's day everyone

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 12 May 2008 03:28 (seventeen years ago)

i thought sunshine was alright up until ---SPOILER--- they decided that the technological and psychological suspense of a suicidal deep space mission wasn't sufficient to make the film scary and they shoe-horned that meltyface monster russian crap into it.

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 12 May 2008 03:35 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, especially odd b/c it was working so well until that crap. if spoiler would have been just what they initially found, that'd been plenty to get across the point.

― bnw, Monday, 12 May 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)

the magic christian - mad silly. but worth it for the strobelight scene on the train

― dmr, Monday, 12 May 2008 04:39 (seventeen years ago)

quatermass and the pit
robocop 2

― latebloomer, Monday, 12 May 2008 07:41 (seventeen years ago)

before the devil knows you're dead - what a stinker, how did this get good reviews?

Sidney Lumet must practice black magic.

I also like first 2/3 of Sunshine.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 May 2008 13:35 (seventeen years ago)

cillian murphy has serious DSLs, like woah

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:18 (seventeen years ago)

Digital subscriber lines?

I'd consider flying into the sun w/ him & Chris Evans.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:19 (seventeen years ago)

d-ck s-ck-ng l-ps

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

you can't take it with you (classic capra corn)
taste of tea (awesome)

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

The End of Summer (middling but still good late Ozu)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

SPEED RACER - IT WAS A MOVIE A BOUT A KID NAMED SPEED RACER

― nickalicious, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:11 (seventeen years ago)

the magic christian - mad silly. but worth it for the strobelight scene on the train

-- dmr, Monday, May 12, 2008 12:39 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark Link

<3<3<3 magic christian

― jhøshea, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

some of the satire is a little too on the nose (but then again at one point sellers turns to ringo and goes "hmmm that one is a little too on the nose wot wot?")

― dmr, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

Daft Punk Electroma

i like! it's sad though. not what I expected. but, good. some ppl seemed irritated by the long tracking shots which didn't seem all that long in fact?

― daria-g, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 02:44 (seventeen years ago)

dave, have you read the Southern book? It's on my shelf, havent gotten to it.

I Served the King of England
It's Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, but the Situation in Which He Lives (Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt)
Deserted Station
Spartacus

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

haven't read it but I do like terry southern, him + sellers is pretty much why I rented it

― dmr, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

huh, magic xian convinced me I don't like southern or sellers

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

omg fite

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

same reason I don't like zappa

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

so i dont like zappa either - you cant not love peter sellers tho - its against the law

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

well, Sellers' films are all over the quality map. I never cared for Clouseau (aside from A Shot in the Dark), but in I'm All Right Jack, Kubricks, omg.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

(not to mention his record parody of Olivier declaiming "A Hard Day's Night")

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

also the party i love you alex b toklas and being there!

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

antonio gaudi
in the name of the king ;_;

― omar little, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

didn't like "being there" ... haven't seen those other two

so yeah I guess sellers is hit or miss and magic xian is somewhere in the middle for me

― dmr, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

i read magic christian in hs and thought it was funny. i'm not sure if that's a recommendation. (i also read candy and liked it, but that was mostly because it was dirty. i don't imagine that book has aged very well.)

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

first movie i've seen in awhile: katyn (really weirdly paced/plotted, friend says it's "very spielberg" and i think he's right tho i'd be at a loss to explain that more fully)

― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 05:12 (seventeen years ago)

Death Bed - The Bed That Eats
Chinese Roulette (saw this with friend. I think out of all Fassbinder, this might be the best one to start with, non-stop action)
My Winnipeg (GREAT)

― Milton Parker, Friday, 16 May 2008 06:43 (seventeen years ago)

seriously you guys, Death Bed

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2088630670_284262d981_o.jpg

― Milton Parker, Friday, 16 May 2008 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

Chinese Roulette (saw this with friend. I think out of all Fassbinder, this might be the best one to start with, non-stop action)

and bonus anna karina. it's too bad a lot of the fassbinder dvds seem to be going out of print.

― Edward III, Friday, 16 May 2008 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

on a California streak:

Night of the Comet
The Long Goodbye
Chinatown
Suburbia
Some Kind of Monster

up next:
Miracle Mile

― sexyDancer, Monday, 19 May 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

repo man after that?

― Edward III, Monday, 19 May 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

or maybe safe

― Edward III, Monday, 19 May 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

I watched the director's cut of rob zombie's halloween. michael meyers emo!

― Edward III, Monday, 19 May 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

xp: probably both!
...so far Some Kind Of Monster has the bleakest vision.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 19 May 2008 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

Robinson in Space
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Gone to Earth (a wack Archers film)
The Edge of Heaven

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 May 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

this is the story of how the little people answer the big questions

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UT4uVAjaq7U

― Milton Parker, Monday, 19 May 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

^ nsfw

― sleep, Monday, 19 May 2008 17:50 (seventeen years ago)

ok was that trailer custom made for me? YES

― latebloomer, Monday, 19 May 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

metallica: bleaker than polanski

― Edward III, Monday, 19 May 2008 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

watching the therapist contribute lyrics to st anger is a pretty fucking bleak experience

― latebloomer, Monday, 19 May 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

a hilarious experience, as well

― latebloomer, Monday, 19 May 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

sure sounds like polanski

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

Robinson in Space

I love this movie. Was it screening somewhere or did you just watch it on DVD?

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 20 May 2008 05:29 (seventeen years ago)

DVD. I thought you hadda be British to really get into it. I know what they were going for but it just didn't grab me.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

Le gai savoir
California Split
New York Portraits 1-3
Looking at the Sea
Skagafjördur
Young Mr. Lincoln

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 24 May 2008 06:03 (seventeen years ago)

heathers
river's edge
ed wood
road house
indy 4
walk hard: the dewy cox story

― latebloomer, Saturday, 24 May 2008 07:03 (seventeen years ago)

street kings - not completely awful, watchable pulp
the orphanage - decent but not really that scary

― bnw, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

George Landow program (Super-8 fragments/Fleming Faloon/Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, etc/Diploteratology/The Film that Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter/Institutional Quality/Remedial Reading Comprehension/What's Wrong With this Picture/Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present)

At Sea

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

The Namesake - a snooze, hated it

― dmr, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

haha someone was trying really hard to get me to watch that and warned me that i would cry a lot?? *SKEPTICAL*

― sleep, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

breathless - i now love this movie

― sleep, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

xp: Kal Penn is a crykiller.

My Father My Lord
Sex in Chains
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou's worst in awhile)
War, Inc. (yikes)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940; if you know any 10-year-old Star Wars fans, BUY THIS FOR THEM)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

(altho the Coppola/Scorsese commentary track may be lost on them)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

I thought Flight was about 10x better than Three Times.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:10 (seventeen years ago)

I liked the Second Time of 3x better than anything he's done lately.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

Agreed, but there are still those pesky other 2/3rds.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

i rly like flight. of course i also have childhood fondness for the red balloon. but i think j.binoche is pretty great in that. i forgot she could act.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:24 (seventeen years ago)

(morbz what is/are your favorite hou(s)?)

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:33 (seventeen years ago)

xp: Kal Penn is a crykiller.

he was pretty bad

― dmr, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

tipz: Flowers of Shanghai (his masterpiece I think), Puppetmaster, second "silent" segment of Three Times

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)

I kinda wanted Binoche to shut up after awhile, and also to GET OUT OF THAT APARTMENT!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:10 (seventeen years ago)

My Dad took me to see Thief of Bagdad when I was eight. all time fave.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

I took my friend's kid when he was nine! Perfect stuff, looking better than ever on this disc.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

"i want to be a bandit, can't you understand it?"

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

tipz: Flowers of Shanghai (his masterpiece I think), Puppetmaster, second "silent" segment of Three Times

oh good. i haven't seen three times, but i love those other two.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

"i want to be a bandit, can't you understand it?"

Francis Coppola sings along with this line on his commentary track.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

Brazil - do not get what is so interesting about this film. everything that happens is so completely arbitrary. i guess it looks good.
Persepolis - awful
Bonnie and Clyde - wow, people weren't kidding when they said this was good
Gerry - Quite liked it but skipped forward a lot. Could have had an awesome soundtrack, but they went for no music.
Crystal Skull - such a disappointment. fuck you, aliens. say what you like about hitler, but at least he makes a compelling character in a film. solid first 20 minutes, I guess.

― caek, Friday, 30 May 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

my boyfriend wants to see the strangers tonight

i'll be listening to liv tyler scream for over an hour, hooray my luck

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 30 May 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

Sympathy for the Devil - much better than I had been led to expect
Real Life
Modern Romance
Elephant (Clarke)

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

do ppl in couples ever say re movie watching "Sorry hon, yer on yr own on this one?" I think so. (just for future ref, elmo)

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

My girlfriend is pretty good at that.

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 31 May 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

lol, i don't wonder!

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 31 May 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

i watch most movies by myself because my wife's not interested. we have a separate category of date-night movies we select to watch together. (next up, the original bedazzled.)

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 31 May 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

do ppl in couples ever say re movie watching "Sorry hon, yer on yr own on this one?" I think so. (just for future ref, elmo)

my guy volunteers to make certain films (usually comic-book adaptations) "stag night" for himself. he likes chick flicks when they're good, so we end up going to those together anyway.

― get bent, Saturday, 31 May 2008 18:03 (seventeen years ago)

tipsy: original bedazzled is brilliant!

― get bent, Saturday, 31 May 2008 18:06 (seventeen years ago)

twee as fuck double feature:

the darjeeling limited (very good)
juno (better than i expected, but certainly nothing mind-blowing)

― omar little, Saturday, 31 May 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

schplitter schplatter:

saw doomsday yesterday (oh my fucking LORDIE lord. when sol was doing his punk stylee dance while fine young cannibals' good thing was playing i was about to run to the screen and rub my body against it. but my sweet cousin was with me and she need not be exposed to my freaky sides.)

saw cloverfield which was okay, i guess, but my husband had been raving so much, as has other ppl, so i was a bit underwhelmed. twas good but not like... ok ok i was scared.

― stevienixed, Saturday, 31 May 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

Cinema: Persepolis - pretty good, for the most part.
A love in Germany - Wadja's film was fantastic.

DVD: Alphaville - probably one of my fave 30 sec beginnings of any movie ever. The rest of it matches that.
Damnation/Wreickmeister Harmonies 2-DVD set

VHS - Ugetsu Monogatari - late Mizoguchi flick

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 31 May 2008 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

The Edukators ... amusing by the time it's over.
Sex Is Comedy ... film about film... fun to watch.
iron man ... good fun.
crystal skull ... okay i guess. i had really low expectations.

can't wait for hellboy 2.

― msp, Sunday, 1 June 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

ok i lied the next date movie turned out to be knocked up cuz it was on demand. i don't love or hate apatow, he's just very of-his-era. sort of a watery kevin smith.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 1 June 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

300 (this wasn't a date movie. v. pretty. fascist. got boring.)

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

21 - don't remember anything about this except kevin spacey is good at being an asshole

― bnw, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 04:40 (seventeen years ago)

oh except the initial demonstration of how brilliant the main character is that he is able to grasp the concept of probability.

― bnw, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 04:45 (seventeen years ago)

happy together
once upon a time in china
death becomes her
the rocketeer

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

paranoid park

― Edward III, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 06:06 (seventeen years ago)

The Firm (Clarke)
Dangerous Liaisons
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Lost in America

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 4 June 2008 07:14 (seventeen years ago)

Raging Bull

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 08:32 (seventeen years ago)

Bruce Willis with a mustache was best part of Death Becomes Her

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

oh u kid

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

A Woman's Vengeance
The Lion Has Wings
Indiana Jones and the Best Script They Could Manage in 19 Years?
Up the Yangtze (splendid doc)
Operation Filmmaker (almost as good)

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

Thirteen Days (plodding hagiography)
The Golden Coach
Love Affair (the Boyer-Dunne, not the Beatty-Bening one)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

but it was a hagiography of Kenneth O'Donnell!

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 June 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

Murder, My Sweet -- Dick Powell = BEST Phillip Marlowe? Prob'ly.
La Chinoise
Testament of Dr. Cordelier
British Sounds

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 5 June 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

O Lucky Man! ruled so hard.

― t. weiss, Thursday, 5 June 2008 23:35 (seventeen years ago)

fast-food nation (linklater's john sayles movie. agenda-driven, preachy, intermittently effective.)

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 6 June 2008 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

the river (renoir) - awesome

― omar little, Saturday, 7 June 2008 18:06 (seventeen years ago)

head-on -- kinda overheated. two leads are sexy though.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 9 June 2008 20:39 (seventeen years ago)

Ornette: Made in America
My Winnipeg (disappointing)

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 14 June 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

BE KIND REWIND - CUTE BUT WORST GONDRY
JUMPER - TERRIBLEARIOUS

― 404 Error: Page Not Found, Saturday, 14 June 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

Cassandra's Dream - terrible
Control - tedious
Next - worst shit ever; turned it off when nic cage tries to be smooth, tells zen/hot dog joke INCORRECTLY; then GETS LAID CUZ CHIK HTINKS HES SMOOTH

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 June 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

Next is maybe the worst thing I have seen in years

― bnw, Saturday, 14 June 2008 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

oasis (i really liked this. bummed that netflix doesn't have secret sunshine yet.)
hot fuzz

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 15 June 2008 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

saw hulk... worthwhile summer popcorn flick but too much real actual violence (e.g. gunfire) compared to funny HULK SMASH car-throwing stuff.

― get bent, Monday, 16 June 2008 02:33 (seventeen years ago)

Sweeney Todd - beginning and end were good, could have cut a couple songs outta the middle though imo

― dmr, Monday, 16 June 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

they cut one outta the beginning!

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 June 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

around the time of h b-c's "I'd like to live by the seashore" tune it was losing me a little bit

― dmr, Monday, 16 June 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

That was a wonderfully funny scene (and a badly needed 'break' from all the misery).

WR: Mysteries of the Organism
American Outrage
The Dictator Hunter
USA vs Al-Arian
My Blueberry Nights
Scene of the Crime
Encounters at the End of the World (wanted to use nailgun on Film Forum audience)
Redacted (blah)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 June 2008 14:20 (seventeen years ago)

--yeah we were ready to kill the dumb bitches behind us at FF.

Encounters at the End of the World
Apocalypto

― sexyDancer, Monday, 16 June 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

what did you think of it? i watched it last week when it first aired. fascinating, but i thought there way too much to cram into 90ish minutes.

― lauren, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

er, there was.

― lauren, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

epic stoned victory at sea marathon

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

Has anyone seen /White Sun of the Desert/?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

xp: The Sharon Tate stuff was so heartbreaking, the rest of it seemed like a nightmare ... great edits with footage from his films.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

Wild Things (lol)
Wild At Heart
Daredevil (rifftrax)

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, i was quite impressed with that editing. it surprised me how little samantha geimer appeared in the film, but then she was pretty much an afterthought throughout the entire disgusting circus.

― lauren, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

a little goes a long way with her.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

what was the deal w/ the film forum audience?

― get bent, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:45 (seventeen years ago)

usually the people in line there remind me of the marshall mcluhan scene in annie hall.

― get bent, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

My guess is that Morbs is complaining about young people laughing at everything. In my experience, Film Forum is usually crowded with old people complaining loudly. Also mice.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 17 June 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

there's plenty to complain about (what my 30-YEAR-OLD friend calls "the smug Sorkin audience").

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, it's the laugh-at-every-edit crowd. Same clowns that clog up every Lynch screening.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

Ah yes, the unavoidable swarms 20-something Aaron Sorkin fanboys. But yeah, those people are obnoxious and Film Forum is pretty bad. Luckily, there's rarely a reason to see anything new there.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 17 June 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

it's always fair weather
the thief of bagdad (well, this is the template for fantasy action films all right)
incident at loch ness (like watching herzog in an episode of The Real World, a little uncomfortable & obvious, they get off some good laughs but ffwd'd through a lot of it)

tonight, DVDR of titicut follies - http://www.zipporah.com/films/22

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

Enjoy the forced feeding scene!

― admrl, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

Anyway, I saw S*P*Y*S*. SO shit

― admrl, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

Rosemary's Baby (homemaking lolz)

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

Get Smart (get stuffed)
Three Days of the Condor

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

As I've said on some other thread: I can't fucking stand sitting in the audience at Film Forum. I skipped the recent Godard retrospective just because I didn't want some mummy seated behind me cawing " What's happening here?! What is this ABOUT?!" every ten seconds. Or Mr. Laugh-Out-Loud_Because_I-"Get It" just chortling throughout.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

omg i hate the people who have to chuckle because they're "in the know"!!

― lauren, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ otm! ^^^

― sleep, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

career opportunities

― sleep, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

flight of the navigator

― sleep, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

Mr. Laugh-Out-Loud_Because_I-"Get It" has sat all around me; the other, not so much.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:39 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/uglypan.jpg
Mr. David Lo Pan wishes these fools to be dropped into The Hell of Being Skinned Alive

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

but dudes sometimes movies are funny!

― 69, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

It's the laughing-at/laughing-with distinction

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 21:01 (seventeen years ago)

does it count if i laughed when julianne moore popped up as joan baez? cuz that was funny, but it was totally in an i-get-it way (if you didn't get it, it wasn't funny).

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

anyway all i really require of other people in the theater is for me not to notice them too much for any reason. anything that makes me notice them is bad.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

reprise -- norwegian cinema eh? though this would be boring -- too "literary" -- but I liked.

― m coleman, Thursday, 19 June 2008 00:10 (seventeen years ago)

really? I thought it was pretty crap

― admrl, Thursday, 19 June 2008 00:10 (seventeen years ago)

well I could certainly see people thinking it was too sentimental or self-conscious about the crazy guy

but I liked the way the guys partied & hung out w/their friends, that seemed credible. norwegian bros.

― m coleman, Thursday, 19 June 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

anyway all i really require of other people in the theater is for me not to notice them too much for any reason. anything that makes me notice them is bad.

qft

― get bent, Thursday, 19 June 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

King of Kong was freaking touching! I want to buy Wiebe a beer so bad.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 19 June 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

I too was somewhat underwhelmed by Reprise's crisis-laden 20somethings, cute blond buzzcuts notwithstanding.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 19 June 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)

Soylent Green

― dmr, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

apparently neckscarf is the height of 2022 fashion

also lols at future videogames looking like original Asteroids but in a molded white plastic case

― dmr, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

The Silent Partner (1978) must have been discussed on here somewhere, due to ILX Elliott Gould love. It's really good! Lots of nice twists

― Dan I., Sunday, 22 June 2008 11:53 (seventeen years ago)

Fox and His Friends -- Wow. I can't believe I put off seeing all these Fassbinders for so long.

― C0L1N B..., Sunday, 22 June 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

Just Friends - not so bad w/ plenty of merlot-in-a-box

― milo z, Sunday, 22 June 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

10 hours on a train today:

Tootsie
Ronin
Threads (Yaow. Ruined my day.)

― caek, Monday, 23 June 2008 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

'never too young to die' starring john stamos, gene simmons, and vanity

― omar little, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 06:32 (seventeen years ago)

The Pursuit of Happyness. Y'know, I'm as annoyed by the film as Will Smith's character with the letter Y. What a crock of shit.

Running Scared with Paul - I'm a pretty prat and I know it - Walker. Well, just the first ten minutes cause I didn't want to sit through that shit again.

― stevienixed, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:50 (seventeen years ago)

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - much hard one @ naked Marisa Tormei, movie was pretty weak overall though.

― carne asada, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)

Citizen Kane - omg guys ROSEBUD was his SLED!

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

I'd never seen it before - it was touching and Orson Wells was very charming in it.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare/walkabout/1.28.46-r0.jpg
WALKABOUT DOGGZ

― 69, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

Enchanted
Freaky Friday
The Furies (Walter Huston overrated, Wendell Corey underrated)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 26 June 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)

anvil: the story of anvil
bay of angels
model shop
wall-e

and i bought 2 dvds from the amoeba clearance section:

someone to love (1987 jaglom w/ orson welles and sally kellerman)
forever lulu (1986 desperately seeking susan ripoff with deborah harry and alec baldwin)

― get bent, Sunday, 29 June 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

'never too young to die' starring john stamos, gene simmons, and vanity

gah, i've seen this

― get bent, Sunday, 29 June 2008 22:27 (seventeen years ago)

Hot Fuzz - kinda slept through, but woke up for WTF scene where dude gets head shoved into torso by falling castle ledge, lives to stumble around a bit. special effects fu.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 30 June 2008 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

ref @ 2:27
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pYzliklaMug

― sexyDancer, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:00 (seventeen years ago)

River of Grass
Privilege (Rainer) - Truly awful. Condescending, boring, and stupidly structured.
Careful - Really liked this, maybe more than any of the other Maddins I've seen.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 1 July 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion <-- guess this was a big inspiration for Kill Bill (didn't see it); lots of ( . )( . ) ; any idea who did sntrk?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

battles without honor and humanity

― omar little, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

somehow watched almost half of running with scissors before i snapped out of it. awful acting and script. the plot also sucked. i think that about covers it.

― am0n, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

tell no one - fun!

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

on a plane home to the USA, British Airways permitted me to select:

The Other Boleyn Girl (Bana beefcake action as Henry VIII)
The Oxford Murders (oh my god, so so so bad)
Cloverfield (Blair Witch does 9/11 ala War of the Worlds starring models)
Annie Hall (has aged in weird places)
21,000 B.C. (the racial politics of the casting/plot are so insane)

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

WALKABOUT DOGGZ
The local indie theater showed a print of this a few weeks ago and I'm really glad I caught it. There were maybe seven people in the theatre. There was a trailer for THE FALL and I think I want to see that. They are showing Plan 9 on Saturday night.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

WALL-E
Werckmeister Harmonies

― C0L1N B..., Friday, 4 July 2008 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

ganja queen -- part of that hbo documentary series. about an australian girl locked up (probably framed) for marijuana smuggling in indonesia. not a slick production, and pretty grim, but pretty hard to stop watching.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 4 July 2008 03:22 (seventeen years ago)

battles without honor and humanity

what did u think?

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 5 July 2008 13:09 (seventeen years ago)

No Direction Home - four hours of Dylan and you only get up to 1966?? liked disc 1 but the second half spent too much time on the one period everybody already knows about. I wanted interviews with the Band about making the Basement Tapes and Dylan talking about going Christian, instead his whole career 1966-2006 is summed up with the title card "after the motorcycle crash, Dylan continued to write and record music." lame!

― dmr, Saturday, 5 July 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

pretty awesome imo. loved the endless bloodletting, docu-style, and the yakuza-as-vindictive creeps and/or blubbering weaklings.

― omar little, Saturday, 5 July 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i pretty well loved that series. one of my friends noted how chaotic and dumb and at best half-competent most of the violence was -- not all coolly efficient like in a lot of gangster stuff, mostly just young asshole hotheads starting stupid fights.

talladega nights -- dragged on a bit, but plenty of funny stuff.
breach -- worth seeing for chris cooper, but kind of a nothing movie.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 6 July 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

wall-e

― dmr, Sunday, 6 July 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

encounters at the end of the world (loved this)

― get bent, Sunday, 6 July 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

dario argento's "third mother" ... was awful

"encounters at the end of the world" opens here next saturday!!

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 6 July 2008 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

wall-e

― omar little, Sunday, 6 July 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

Another State of Mind - favorite part is the interview with the rich-kid OC punks who have a super nice pool in which to practice their stage-diving
Decline of Western Civilization

started too late to get to Suburbia

― milo z, Sunday, 6 July 2008 23:47 (seventeen years ago)

Decline of Western Civilization

^^
is this available on DVD yet?!?

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 7 July 2008 06:34 (seventeen years ago)

tora tora tora
ronin
behind enemy lines <-- want to know what morbz thinks

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

ganja queen - yeah I saw this too. kinda thought she and her whole family was guilty ... of something at least.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

also:
The Corporation
Suspicion
The Wanderers

― sexyDancer, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

Hulu.com is pretty dope this summer if you like really long war movies

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

Decline is not on official DVD, I got a bootleg a couple of years back.

― milo z, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:41 (seventeen years ago)

I Am a Cat (Ichikawa, kinda nuts)
Chris & Don: A Love Story
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (pretty hard-edged studio war film for '54)
Black River (Kobayashi)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 14:04 (seventeen years ago)

Vexille - if you can stomach anime, this is pretty solid sci-fi

― bnw, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

United Red Army - Sort of scattered and formless and never seems to find a real focus. The long Asama incident scene is great, but the preceding two and a half hours are pretty dull. The Jim O'Rourke score is used indiscriminately and leads to a number of flat montages.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 8 July 2008 17:43 (seventeen years ago)

My blueberry nights. actually not as bad as i expected.
Wall-E. Decent
In Vanda's Room. More heroin than the previous two.

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

behind enemy lines <-- want to know what morbz thinks

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:58 (Yesterday) Link
http://aralbalkan.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/never-forget-the-blink-tag.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

is that the Hackman/Owen W double-paycheck movie? y wd i have seen?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 10 July 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

"Look at the shize of that ruby!"

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:55 (seventeen years ago)

wall-e
phase iv
auto focus

― Edward III, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

i kind of want to go see 'journey to the center of the earth' :/

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:02 (seventeen years ago)

I saw a review that described it as one long trailer for a movie that never transpires

this was a pejorative statement

― Edward III, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)

picked up a shit-ton of dvds recently, what should I watch tonight?

the long good friday
brother
don't come knocking
3-iron
bubba ho-tep
paths of glory
burnt offerings
the dunwich horror
rollerball '75
the fog '80
the dead zone '83
the brood
class of 1984

or maybe I will just go to a show

― Edward III, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

I'd vote paths of glory

did not like 3-iron

― dmr, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

i kind of want to go see 'journey to the center of the earth' :/

-- rrrobyn, Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:02 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

have you seen the promo youtubes?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

I went to 3 shows tonight, no movie, I are tired

ok maybe just the fog

― Edward III, Friday, 11 July 2008 04:59 (seventeen years ago)

the dunwich horror is wild IIRC. pre-VCR late night TV crepe show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM8EbSvNFqg

― m coleman, Friday, 11 July 2008 10:49 (seventeen years ago)

the simpsons movie -- i loved the south park movie and was even ok with the beavis and butthead movie, but this really really is just like a long tv episode. and a mediocre one.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

The Long Good Friday, every time

― admrl, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

hellboy 2. so much fun!

― latebloomer, Saturday, 12 July 2008 04:39 (seventeen years ago)

Trafic (Tati)

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 12 July 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, dunwich horror is a treat, especially if you only saw it as a kid on broadcast tv. it has the dopey acting + script of a late 50s horror flick but spices it up with 60s sex, psychedelia, and hippie fear.

the conclusion features sandra dee moaning orgasmically half nude while dean stockwell gets his aleister crowley steez on and recites from a necronomicon wedged snugly in her crotch...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Opr4tQDq0

in this scene if you can wait 3 minutes for the sacrificial actress to make her way up a flight of stairs you'll be treated to the sight of a psychedelic tentacle monster stripping her naked + eating her. fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkhDCeLvVx4

too bad youtube doesn't have the scene where sandra dee goes into a hallucinatory trance and gets mauled by the members of a hippie orgy. quality!

― Edward III, Saturday, 12 July 2008 21:03 (seventeen years ago)

also if there's a big lots store near you, check it out. they're selling dvds for $3, that's where I picked up most of what's on that list above.

― Edward III, Saturday, 12 July 2008 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

dmr why you no like 3-iron?

― Edward III, Saturday, 12 July 2008 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

has anyone seen mother of tears? is it worth going to for a midnight movie or should i just get a six pack and hope there's a ball game on somewhere?

― chicago kevin, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:29 (seventeen years ago)

dario argento's "third mother" ... was awful

"encounters at the end of the world" opens here next saturday!!

-- moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 6 July 2008

oops, looks like i got the name wrong. it was THAT bad.

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 13 July 2008 08:39 (seventeen years ago)

i'm into that sort of thing, too. i don't have very high standards to begin with. but it was bad.

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 13 July 2008 08:41 (seventeen years ago)

"encounters at the end of the world" was tremendous, though. i am buying this the day it comes out on DVD and watching again.

don't want to drop any spoilers but the thing w/ the penguins was the most amazing moment of classic herzog, up there w/ his "breakdown in the jungle" monologue during the doc about fitzcarraldo.

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 13 July 2008 08:42 (seventeen years ago)

dario argento's "third mother" ... was awful

yeah, that seemed to be the consensus so we stayed in and watched this instead.

― chicago kevin, Sunday, 13 July 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

dmr why you no like 3-iron?

I dunno, repetitive, weird swings in tone & mood, got bored by the end and watched the last 20 mins or so in fast forward

― dmr, Monday, 14 July 2008 02:05 (seventeen years ago)

Nathalie - eh. Emmanuelle Beart is a total babe.
Happy Go Lucky - I liked it! Chick is a total babe.

― wilter, Monday, 14 July 2008 05:15 (seventeen years ago)

the bridge - good! also sad, shocker

― sleep, Monday, 14 July 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)

sweeney todd. bunch of crap, but it made me shave

― admrl, Monday, 14 July 2008 05:40 (seventeen years ago)

oh you kid

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 July 2008 13:17 (seventeen years ago)

the tv set -- not bad. sigourney weaver as rampaging network chief was pretty funny. fat beardo david duchovny too.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 14 July 2008 13:30 (seventeen years ago)

via a friend:

fun fact: Sean Connery had no idea what League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was about
he read his lines in much the same way Bela Lugosi did: word by word, with no grasp of the context

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 14 July 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

Ghostbusters -- there's like 3 effect shots in this whole movie!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 14 July 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

weird swings in tone & mood

welcome to korean cinema lol

I didn't dig kim ki-duk's early films, something too shrill and faux profound about them, but 3-iron I liked. it's got a unique premise but I guess you gotta be in the right mood for a movie where the two leads speak less then wall-e and eve.

― Edward III, Monday, 14 July 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)

Cross of Iron: seemed like Stransky changed half way through into a total unsympathetic bastard. enjoyed the russians' boobs

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:02 (seventeen years ago)

welcome to korean cinema lol

ha. yeah the tone/mood thing didn't bother me in, say, The Host but one particular incident in 3-Iron (don't wanna get spoilery) had me saying WTF.

― dmr, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

enjoyed the russians' boobs

lol

― admrl, Thursday, 17 July 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

La France (flummoxed)
The Man Who Lies (Robbe-Grillet; disappointing)
No Regret
Conflagration (Ichikawa)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:49 (seventeen years ago)

steamboy

― Edward III, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

Def try and see Grillet's Trans-Europ-express, also eden and after I quite liked...

Also saw Conflagration last week. Ok but Actor's Revenge is something else.

Best of recent weeks = Oshima's Boy

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 July 2008 13:02 (seventeen years ago)

batman begins
hellboy dc

(prepping for summer sequels obv)

― Edward III, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

didn't like batman begins much. not sure if this makes sense, but the combination of a heavy + bleak atmosphere with an almost campy attitude towards plausiblity rubbed me the wrong way.

still really like hellboy. it's not perfect but it doesn't overreach in any direction.

― Edward III, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

battle of the bulge
the dark knight

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 05:09 (seventeen years ago)

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.

― get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 05:59 (seventeen years ago)

oh yeah and the schnabel concert film of lou reed's berlin (a lot of the hauntingness of the album does get lost in live performance, but lou's delivery & facial expressions are A++++)

― get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:11 (seventeen years ago)

The Reckless Moment (Great Max Ophuls noir/woman-on-the-brink drama)
The Lineup (nasty and fun)
Desperate (pretty dope Anthony Mann noir)
La Chienne (Finally! One of my fave Renoirs now. DVD-r bootleg but there really needs to be a restored dvd of this baby.
It could be as awesome as...)
Nosferatu (new Kino restoration. wow. Looks amazing, score sounds incredible and add to that a bunch of scenes I had never, ever seen before that just really add to the classicness. Best dvd purchase this year.)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 07:27 (seventeen years ago)

prepping for summer sequels obv

It's a full life!

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (pretty good until Friday shows up)
ANDRE TECHINE:
Hotel America
I Don't Kiss
Ma Saison Preferee
Wild Reeds

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.

-- get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:59 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

This? http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/322659/Made-in-Sheffield-The-Birth-of-Electronic-Pop/overview

― caek, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

In Search of a Midnight Kiss - good
The Man Who Fell To Earth - too long but good
Saving Private Ryan - it is a film
Papillon - waaay tooo long
Elephant - brilliant

― caek, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.
-- get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:59 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link
This? http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/322659/Made-in-Sheffield-The-Birth-of-Electronic-Pop/overview
-- caek, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:43 PM (1 hour ago)

that's the one. it just focused on too many bands and was too short to deliver adequate insight on any one of them. peel's appearance was nice; he was talking about a band called artery.

― get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

IN HARM'S WAY - John Wayne Pacific theatre shit

^ basically I'd rip this off 100% if Theresa and my dreams of a live action Macross could ever be realized.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)

Wall-E (haven't seen a film in theatre this many times since Heavenly Creatures)
Demon Seed (only saw this on TV growing up, uncut version is much more sadistic & gratuitous & hilarious)
Films of Kenneth Anger Volume I (hadn't seen these early ones. watching 'Rabbit's Moon' feels like opiates in the bloodstream. shouldn't have rented this, should have just bought it)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

Saving Private Ryan - it is a film

haha

― sleep, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

In Harm's Way is not a pimple on Saving Private Ryan's ass

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

milton: yeah rabbit's moon is great!

xposts

― sleep, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

K-PAX
Sunshine <-- suxxxxxxxxx
some shit i was too stoned to remember

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

lol k-pax

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

Sunshine had some potential before it turned from nu-Solaris into a slasher pic

― mh, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

Katzelmacher - I get something out of every Fassbinder I've seen, but this one took more than a little patience. maybe just self-conscious because I was seeing it with someone who'd only seen one of his other films
Elia Kazan's The Arrangement - kind of shocked how much I loved this, I was expecting something a little more haphazard, it may be self-indulgent but it also doesn't flinch. one of the better midlife crisis films & maybe my favorite Faye Dunaway character (really need to see Barbara Loden's Wanda, the film directed by the woman Dunaway's character was based on)

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

Cloverfield - pretty scary at the beginning! 9/11 type shit creeps me out. better than I expected overall
The Dark Knight - overhyped, overlong, still enjoyed it

other than that haven't seen much cuz we're catching up on Mad Men season 1 and watching some mega History of New York PBS series from 1999

― dmr, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

Sunshine was fantastic right up until the slasher part, yeah. I wish directors would just let us get our claustrophobia/paranoia on without bogeymen. (see also: The Descent)

― milo z, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

t/s: sunshine vs event horizon

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

Lots of bloody awful short films at Soho Shorts film festival - bloody awful
Dark Knight on IMAX - pass
In Bruges - couple of big laughs, fine

Cloverfield was totally scary at the beginning, and everyone OTM re the first 2/3 or so of Sunshine being great

― caek, Thursday, 31 July 2008 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

One Take Only - Pang Bros imitating QT basically, not bad

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 31 July 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

Shutter - godawful even for a straight-to-video Asian horror remake

― milo z, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

Swing Vote (flush)
The Horse Soldiers (Ford)
The Exiles

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

I have been watching Ronin in bits and pieces during dinner. It's pretty great. No clue why it went so far over my head when it first came out.

― bnw, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

daer guyz,
i wanna take my girl to see wall-e because her dad recently died and maybe a heartwarming kids movie could cheer her up some, but i'm wary of any kind of bambi scenes. is this a good idea?
-f

― Fetchboy, Friday, 1 August 2008 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

it's not exactly the feel-good flick of the year .... nothing specifically related to the death of a parent but it's pretty dark for a kids' movie, esp. the first half

― dmr, Friday, 1 August 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

n/m,
apparently her dad dying caused her to fall out of love with me and in love with her ex-boyfriend.

― Fetchboy, Saturday, 2 August 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

:(((

― sleep, Saturday, 2 August 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

no shit man. how does that shit happen?

― Fetchboy, Saturday, 2 August 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

so emo (/8-(

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 3 August 2008 07:06 (seventeen years ago)

venom - klaus kinski in a loltastic english dub of a german predecessor to home alone that verges on black comedy.

the frisco kid - morbius is going to make a gene wilder joke that I won't get next time I see him. the math teacher from better off dead is rly creepy in a cameo role.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 3 August 2008 07:09 (seventeen years ago)

I've never seen tHE fRISCO kID

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 3 August 2008 12:28 (seventeen years ago)

in bruges - well i thought this was okay up to a point and i liked the characters up to a point but it would have been nice for the movie to not end in a completely moronic and unbelievable way

night moves - nice gloomy dark hopeless '70s noir, totally awesome ending

― omar little, Sunday, 3 August 2008 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

escape from la - missed the charlton heston omega man homage the first time I saw this (lol 1997! gravity kills) -- any other bits like this in it?

morbs the frisco kid is pretty fun; a good bromance

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 3 August 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

The Clash: Westway to the World

― milo z, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

caché

― Edward III, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

venom - klaus kinski in a loltastic english dub of a german predecessor to home alone that verges on black comedy.

This is the one where som,e blonde girl wearing too much eyeliner gets killed by a black mamba or something? And Kinski jumps out of a window at the end with the deadly snake biting him all over? It was pretty terrible if so, & Kinski waaaay overdoes it.

― Pashmina, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:38 (seventeen years ago)

This is the one where som,e blonde girl wearing too much eyeliner gets killed by a black mamba or something? And Kinski jumps out of a window at the end with the deadly snake biting him all over? It was pretty terrible if so, & Kinski waaaay overdoes it.

Yea, it was lolz

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

night moves - nice gloomy dark hopeless '70s noir, totally awesome ending

― Trip Maker, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

^^What I was gonna say re: the above post is that I was contemplating starting a HACKMAN IN THE 70'S POLL on ILE and it would've come down to Night Moves Vs The Conversation for me.

― Trip Maker, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

in bruges - well i thought this was okay up to a point and i liked the characters up to a point but it would have been nice for the movie to not end in a completely moronic and unbelievable way

this didn't bother me so much. seemed to tie in with the fairy tale thing they kept going on about.

― caek, Monday, 4 August 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

I saw Sweet Movie, liked it a lot. That scene where the old lady and that dude were pushing that chick into the swimming pool over and over was wonderfully shot.

― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Monday, 4 August 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

also the set design in the candy ship was almost more disturbing than the NAZI EXPERIMENT FOOTAGE that the criterion people use as their sales pitch for the movie. The movie was definetly funnier than the holy mountain, and yeah yeah both of their aims are for different purposes, but both have a lot of shit in them worth remembering and visually accomplish that feat in the same way.

― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Monday, 4 August 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

brimstone & treacle - one of my favorite opening credit sequences.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7XSa__5I54

― Edward III, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:27 (seventeen years ago)

THE WACKNESS
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

it is a pretty good summer for stoner movies i guess? enjoyed them both

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 8 August 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

xpost 'Holy Mountain' is brilliant and fun but in the end it's all about ego, 'Sweet Movie' actually leaves you with something at the end, I trust that film

'Funky Forest: The First Contact' - didn't realize this was the same director as 'The Taste of Tea' until I looked it up, he's come a long way, this makes 'Tea' look completely traditional. Like 'Tea' I wasn't sure I actually liked it until the halfway point, when things go from merely non-sequitous to completely Cronenberg surreal, the difference being that the Japanese really have a way of making the most terrifying things seem totally adorable

'Colossus: The Forbin Project' - first time seen since high school, still great

'The Devil' - Zulawski! new favorite director. when characters begin acting this hysterically insane within the first five minutes of a film, pacing is usually a problem, how can you sustain interest when you start by flooring it. but somehow the plot is well constructed enough, the film just keeps getting heavier. and even though many of the details are specific to Polish national history, the basic story of a soldier who's become an unflinching murderer, and sent home to witness how he's been betrayed by his decadent family... when he starts taking his revenge, you're left without any moral center whatsoever, the film does not flinch. and the ending is _masterful_

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

Funky Forest:

http://twitchfilm.net/pics/funky5.html

first five minutes of 'The Devil' without subtitles -- just the sound of the asylum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxQmJHglMbU

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/05/david-lynch-making-new-films-with-herzog-jodorowsk.html

waht

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

Frans Zwartjes - Living (1971)

http://esotika.blogspot.com/2007/10/living-frans-zwartjes-1971.html
http://www.filminnederland.nl/index.php?id=8&show=film&oid=38993

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 14 August 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

the food of the gods (terrible but fun, ably assisted by free tecate at the theater)

― omar little, Thursday, 14 August 2008 00:59 (seventeen years ago)

Paranoid Park - yawn
Man on Wire - I hate this kind of feature documentaries
Harold & Kumar (both) - few laughs
Heathers - predictable and never funny, but I sort of enjoyed it. Dated badly.
Wall-E - objectively brilliant but left me cold

― caek, Thursday, 14 August 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

Jodorowsky's film will be the metaphysical gangster movie King Shot. Already guaranteed to be NC-17 (no surprise given his earlier works), the film features Marilyn Manson as a 300-year old pope and will star Nick Nolte.

lolol

― dmr, Thursday, 14 August 2008 02:40 (seventeen years ago)

haha

― sleep, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

night of the lepus - giant killer rabbits terrorize arizona after 2 scientists (stuart whitman and janet leigh) inject one with an experimental serum and it gets loose and within days passes whatever it's been injected with onto thousands of other rabbits. lots of "amazing" special effects ensue. a proto "food of the gods", pretty awful but nonetheless entertaining. the climactic scene was almost seizure inducing w/r/t the special effects and sound editing, imo.

― omar little, Sunday, 17 August 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

Good show. I only wish I could be this brutal sometimes.

― Eric H., Sunday, 17 August 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

A Girl Cut In Two (pretty good new Chabrol. Some really over-the-top acting from guy who plays the young boyfriend. Ludivine Sagnier is (CRUSH). Loved the name Chabrol gave his son's character)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 18 August 2008 00:15 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.technoccult.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/jodorowskymarilynmanson.jpg

http://www.endandend.com/pre.php?id=11

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 18 August 2008 03:34 (seventeen years ago)

'33 "Invisible Man" w/Claude Rains. Amazingly, I've never seen this before. It was great! Way better than I expected it to be.

― Pashmina, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:05 (seventeen years ago)

Coffee and Cigarettes. The weirder ones were what kept me watching (lee siblings + buscemi, renee french alone, benigni/wright, descas/benkole). OK.

― strgn, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:34 (seventeen years ago)

star wars: clone wars - it's like watching someone play a video game for 1 hour and 45 minutes

― Edward III, Monday, 18 August 2008 13:12 (seventeen years ago)

The Pilgrim (Chaplin)
Her Brother (Oshima) - formidable but almost put me to sleep
M. Hulot's Holiday
Little Murders - I suppose some dingdong wd call this "dated"
Boy (Oshima) - one of his best that I've seen
The Island (Shindo, 1960) - took the first half to get with its rhythm, but pays off
The Small Back Room - scaled-down, intimate Archers
WALL-E - my vision of humanity's future brought to the screen

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 18 August 2008 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

Swamp Thing - This wasn't good this time either.
The Scorpion King - I think I wrote a short story of this in 7th grade English.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 18 August 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

battleship potemkin

― Edward III, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 04:00 (seventeen years ago)

dirty harry

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

I go to the Silent Movie Theatre too, Omar Little

― admrl, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 06:56 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

five easy pieces
easy rider <-- the "tripping" scene v v nice

― html tarsier (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, 11 September 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

Getting Straight
The Touch
Macario
Trouble the Water
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Earthquake
Cool Hand Luke
The Ladykillers (Coen remake)
Burn After Reading

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 11 September 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

The Reckless Moment
Caught! - http://www.celtoslavica.de/chiaroscuro/films/caught/caught.html
Szamanka - Zulawski's THE BESTEST - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szamanka
California Split (not sure if this was 'Long Goodbye' great but pretty great)

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

oh whoops, that wikipedia link kinda gives away the last scene of Szamanka there. which in traditional Zulawski style comes as such a complete shock, when I saw it all five people in the room screamed at the top of their lungs at the exact same time, so don't read that, just look at the nice picture of Iwona

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

I saw:
Near Dark
The Boys From Brazil - "mild mannered international thrillers for old people" is a whole genre, isn't it? Stuff like this movie, and that Matthau movie Hopscotch (which I hated though)

― Dan I., Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

Greg Peck being eaten by dogs is mild-mannered?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 11 September 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

he was eaten by dogs in a tasteful and subdued manner

― Dan I., Thursday, 11 September 2008 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

"The Jazz Singer" (vv boring, Jolson incredibly irritating)
"the dawn of sound: how the movies learned to talk" (awesome, well worth the price of the DVD)

― Mildred Dixon (Pashmina), Thursday, 11 September 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

Hey Milton

Was the print of "Reckless Moment" you saw decent quality?

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 12 September 2008 12:34 (seventeen years ago)

Joldom rules, Pash ;)

Haynes put a Reckless Moment scene into Far from Heaven.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 12 September 2008 13:05 (seventeen years ago)

that's Jolson^

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 12 September 2008 13:06 (seventeen years ago)

Was the print of "Reckless Moment" you saw decent quality?

was a home screening of a decent 16mm print, my friend is an obsessive film collector with a screening room in his microbasement

last night was 'The Smiling Lieutenant'. slower pacing & not as over-the-top raunchy as 'One Hour With You', where the dialog is so modern it's almost shocking -- I'm glad I saw that one first. But the ending of 'Smiling Lieutenant' crept up on me, it works.

http://www.criterion.com/asp/boxed_set.asp?id=2000800

― Milton Parker, Friday, 12 September 2008 18:37 (seventeen years ago)

Reading "Easy Riders..." at the moment so:

Shampoo
The Last Detail

Started on "Berlin Alexanderplatz". This is might take some doing. Or maybe not. Something about Fassbinder irks me - can't
pinpoint it - but the first episode was pretty engaging.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 14 September 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

Is "Sorcerer" worth seeing? I'm a fan of "Wages Of Fear".

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 14 September 2008 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

Being There
Wedding Crashers

― html tsar (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:18 (seventeen years ago)

Charlie Wilson's War (Hanks and Hoffman charming, but I wanted a two-hour movie)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
My Night at Maud's
American Dream

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

I actually really liked CWW. The fest scene where you meet Hoffman is brilliant. Interesting to hear about the final scene they removed. I think I heard Sorkin discuss the decision at length in a podcast somewhere.

― With the enormous power and flexibility of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

CWW was kinda disgusting, as is Sorkin.

Pardon Us (Laurel & Hardy)
Mon Oncle
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Man in the White Suit
Man's Castle
Liliom (F Lang)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

Man's Castle

Where/how did you see this?

― plastic fork (Pashmina), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

CWW was kinda disgusting, as is Sorkin.

How so?

― With the enormous power and flexibility of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

In typical Mike Nichols fashion, it doesn't engage the material other than to exploit in the glibbest way.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

*exploit IT

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

Right.

― With the enormous power and flexibility of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

Pash, it ran on TCM here.

my full CWW response:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=3391

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

Thanks. Will read.

― With the enormous power and flexibility of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

Is "Sorcerer" worth seeing? I'm a fan of "Wages Of Fear".

I've got a soft spot for gritty 70s films, but can't recommend sorcerer. some people call it underrated, but it's draggy when it should be pulse-pounding. given the source material it seems like it would be right up friedkin's alley but something went wrong. music by tangerine dream is pretty good though. take a pass and watch to live and die in l.a. instead.

― Ned Raggett (Edward III), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

Wicker Man (o.g. version)

― dmr, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

superman ii

― Edward III, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

haha for a second I was all like "what's ned doing posting on noise board?"

sonned by self in imposter beef

― Edward III, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 14:07 (seventeen years ago)

Shit:
Fear X
Looker

Shinola:
The Rapture
Superbad
The Most Dangerous Game
We Own the Night
Grey Gardens

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

hey sd where u been

― Edward III, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.netministry.com/clientfiles/63727/promisekeepers.jpg

― html tsar (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

been being a dad. side effects: very little computer time; lots of tv time; catsup dude otm

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

wholly shit

congrats

― Edward III, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

the great thing about babies is they don't complain if you put on andrei rublev or fata morgana

― Edward III, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

the bad thing is they cause you to be awake watching said movies at 3am

― Edward III, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

the better thing is falling asleep wathcing The Rapture, missing the titular scene, and waking up to the sound of your son screaming bloody murder.... HOT TV!

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

Elephant (Alan Clarke version)

― caek, Sunday, 21 September 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

the better thing is falling asleep wathcing The Rapture, missing the titular scene, and waking up to the sound of your son screaming bloody murder.... HOT TV!

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:56 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that has got a be a disturbing movie to watch with kids in the house, considering what happens 2/3rds of the way through!

― I want to be your Dairy Queen (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 September 2008 02:16 (seventeen years ago)

Choke (trivial)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
The Big Sky

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 21 September 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

burn after reading - meh, occasional lolz

on the plane: ironman, semi-pro, smart people

― update prefs (ice crӕm), Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

virgin america is a top notch airline btw and semi-pro was funnay - also you can order drinks from yr seatback tv and they bring them right to u!

― update prefs (ice crӕm), Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

elephant alan clarke version is a humdinger

saw that in a double bill with the g.v.sant "version", quite the difference

― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:26 (seventeen years ago)

virgin america is awes. i took four flights from la to sf/jfk in the space of a couple of weeks last year. never more than half full. stewardess recognized me on all the flights, remembered my drink, and kept em coming all flight long.

xp, maybe I'm just too impatient, but the Alan Clarke film was kinda dull. my favourite revenge killing was the only one with any dialogue.

― caek, Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

watched these, these past two weeks

love liza
dark city
the taking of pelham 1, 2, 3
ghostbusters 2
trafic
pan's labyrinth
unser täglich brot ("our daily bread")
l.a. confidential
the lady from shanghai
son of rambow
hellboy
la jetee/sans soleil

― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

son of rambow = gash

― caek, Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

yes

― cozen (cozwn), Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

Hellboy2
Noise <--awesome
Be Kind Rewind <-- terrible
The Host
Nil By Mouth

― sharmuta (wilter), Monday, 22 September 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

The Night Porter (haven't watched this in 10 years. it's still incredible.)
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Zulawski doing a sweet Felliniesque romantic comedy is still Zulawski, his version of an accessible film does mean there's not as much screaming)
Kin-Dza-Dza (first half is purposefully slow and torturous, but second half is great once you acclimate to the pace, took work but definitely worth seeing.)

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 25 September 2008 08:00 (seventeen years ago)

that has got a be a disturbing movie to watch with kids in the house, considering what happens 2/3rds of the way through!

right after my son was born I made the mistake of watching the first episode of the decalogue while he slept on my chest == real tears

― Edward III, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

I saw salo, I wish it was funnier
Kind of just fast forwarded through it after a while
I haven't seen any of the Saw movies but I imagine they're kind of like it
I liked a lot of Mama Roma tho

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

Force 10 from Navarrone - kind of cool, but not very cohesive over the entire movie

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)

Saints & Soldiers - I didn't know about the low budget for this film and it was a nice modern return to this genre. The fact that the Mormon's religion was implicit was a little o_O to me.

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

the foot fist way - r-rated napolean dynamite, but i liked it.

― Brosef Stalin (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

Sorcerer (a mess, but pretty fuckin' great nonetheless)
Dillinger {John Milius version} (not a mess and pretty fuckin' great)
Faust (Svankmajer. Niiice)
The Quiet Duel (super melodramatic Kurosawa. OK)
Return To Oz (always AMAZING)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 26 September 2008 03:59 (seventeen years ago)

The Sound Barrier
Tokyo Story
All My Good Countrymen

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 September 2008 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

does a morbius want to see a boredoms movie?

http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=28450

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 29 September 2008 03:08 (seventeen years ago)

There Will Be Blood
Hart's War

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 29 September 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

gattaca - ok

― caek, Monday, 29 September 2008 23:34 (seventeen years ago)

not even when the playoffs are over, no JW

Starstruck (Aussie new wave musical)
24 City
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Walker (Alex Cox, worse than I remembered)
Jeremiah Johnson
Humoresque (1920, Borzage)
Touchez pas au Grisbi

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 6 October 2008 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

The Earrings of Madame De...
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
The Nikolhausen Journey
World on a Wire (I wish Fassbinder had done more Science Fiction)
The Third Part of the Night (Zulawski's first film, about a man whose wife & son are executed during the Nazi occupation of Poland. he stumbles into a random apartment to hide from the SS to encounter his wife's doppleganger giving birth, while the SS seize her husband outside. to support them in his absence, he takes a job as a test subject in a Nazi lab, getting injected with Typhus while lice feed on his legs, which he then takes to the lab to dissect. he spends the days trying to figure out the degree to which he is hallucinating. I had to pause this film about four times to go do anything else, almost too much, but would make an incredible double feature with Black Book.)

― Milton Parker, Monday, 6 October 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

Walkabout - loved it

― dmr, Monday, 6 October 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

repulsion

― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:22 (seventeen years ago)

i feel like i never go to the movies even tho i love the movies
and so last night a friend and i decided we needed to go, but i don't know, so much just seemed not worth it, or boring/depressing. (and lol i forgot to check festival listing b/c there is a good festival in town right now. ah well.)

anyway, we saw City of Ember - and it's really good! kind of a kids/family movie but also kind of freaky and cool and exciting, reminded me of feeling of city of lost children but not as dark obv, nor as french, and with more linear plot and action. and bill murray is great :)

afterwards we went and had martinis

― terminator boyfriend (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

Rachel Getting Married - oscillates btw Rachel's borderline overly precious twee wedding and the intense self-absorbed druggie narcissism of her sister Anne Hathaway .... but I still ended up kinda liking it. pretty big part for the tv on the radio dude, he's like third billing (plays the groom)

― dmr, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

wall-e last nite - pretty great - wish i had seen it in the theater

― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

Le Ronde
Lola Montez
Le Plaisir
Z.P.G. - Zero Population Growth (hadn't seen this for a while, unbelievably low budget but as far as over-population dystopia it did come before 'Soylent Green' and 'Logan's Run' -- 30 year moratorium on reproduction, punishable by death, leads to hysterical crowds chanting 'BABY! BABY! BABY!' whenever an unauthorized baby is found on the streets. hideous robot baby surrogates, killer smog, abortion machines in every bathroom & bad electronic muzak for everyone)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

(& kind of amazing considering it was released two years before roe vs. wade)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

i've never even heard of it! will have to watch

― terminator boyfriend (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:36 (seventeen years ago)

double indemnity - never seen it, was great

― dmr, Sunday, 19 October 2008 03:12 (seventeen years ago)

state and main - good times, but it's like mamet's never seen a film or real life before

― caek, Sunday, 19 October 2008 12:46 (seventeen years ago)

Oshima:

Violence at Noon
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Death by Hanging
The Ceremony
Taboo (Gohatto)

other:

Tokyo Sonata
Ashes and Diamonds (w/ Wajda q&a)
Rachel Getting Married
Frontrunners (I bet gabbneb went to Stuyvesant HS)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
One Day You'll Understand
Saving Marriage
Zidane
Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (the book as a one-man play as a film starring the blond boy from The OC)

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

I really liked death by hanging. how were the other oshimas?

― Edward III, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

not as funny!

My favorites are Boy, The Ceremony and Violence at Noon (it's been too long since I've seen Cruel Story of Youth).

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

i would like to see zero population growth!

― horrible (harbl), Friday, 24 October 2008 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

no one should see a movie called "profit motive and the whispering wind" because i just did and it was BAD

― horrible (harbl), Friday, 24 October 2008 01:06 (seventeen years ago)

the last mimzy

omg this has to be the best kids movie to watch tripping since willy wonka

― Edward III, Friday, 24 October 2008 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

just don't watch it with your kids while you're tripping

that would be irresponsible

I'm looking @ you sexyDancer

― Edward III, Friday, 24 October 2008 01:32 (seventeen years ago)

is it bad for baby to see you tripping

― I'm glad the chihuahua beat it this wkend (latebloomer), Friday, 24 October 2008 02:41 (seventeen years ago)

no one should see a movie called "profit motive and the whispering wind" because i just did and it was BAD

only the last 5 mins were bad

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 October 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

you are right! i liked it until then but i felt like it was completely ruined by the ending. i don't feel that strongly about it anymore. i wouldn't say it was bad now i would say it's "not for everyone"

― horrible (harbl), Friday, 24 October 2008 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

forgetting some:

speed racer - ok
tropic thunder - not bad but merely "enjoyable"
the postman - lol why did i watch this

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Sunday, 26 October 2008 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

"Red Dragon" (nowhere near as bad as I was expecting, but I was expecting it to be atrocious, so....)

"Hostel" (did not watch all of this, was disgusted by its grossness)

first 10m of some Shannon Tweed vehicle lololololololo IT WAS "BETTER" THAN "HOSTEL"

I was at relatives in W Yorkshire, they have a TV set, probably would not have watched any of these otherwise.

― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

I saw Red Dragon too. It was on TV at the weekend, right?

It was funny when he ate the picture but the rest of it was pretty yawn.

― caek, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah it was on ITV I think? I can't remember I'd drunk some beer.

The funniest thing was how blatantly they'd bulked up Hannibal Lector's part in the story compared w/the original book or "Manhunter". Also, A Hopkins' performance was ridiculous. Some of the other actors were good though, which saved it from being total rubbish I thought.

― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

Emily Watson cannot do a Baltimore accent. Feinnes was pretty good. He seems like he's probably v. creepy IRL. Ed Norton is boring.

― caek, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

I can't remember, but I think it was a little long too.

― caek, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

And you are totally right re: overplaying the Lecter card. The fact that you see so little of him in SotL is obviously one of its strengths.

― caek, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah it went on a bit, but by no means the worst I've seen in that respect. Yeah, Feinnes was pretty convincing, they totally overplayed the "he was abused so of course he turned into a serial killer like 1 + 2 = 3" angle but he rose above it somehow. Norton was boring and dorky but it kind of fitted I thought? I dunno. I somehow doubt I'll ever watch it again TBH.

― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:45 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, we are probably overthinking this movie : )

― caek, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

Ha! Yes.

― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

back to the future
the happening w/rifftrax (rofl)

― imperial management trainee (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

how hard is syncing up riff trax

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 22:21 (seventeen years ago)

funny farm - miss u chevy chase
love guru - waaaay less bad than i thought it'd be
pineapple express

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Saturday, 1 November 2008 05:58 (seventeen years ago)

how hard is syncing up riff trax

it's kind of a bitch, but i got a torrent with it already synced up.

― human cactus (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 November 2008 06:35 (seventeen years ago)

The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (I like films like Go Go Second Time Virgin and Visitor Q which are obviously trying to provoke, but this is basically just straight up pron, which makes the rape scene straight up inexcusable, it's totally clear they included it for kicks)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (just watching it again to check -- the best of the five hands down)
Otto Muehl -Kardinal 1967

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (just watching it again to check -- the best of the five hands down)

haha, MP you are a character. "I reveal my Inmost Self to my God."

9 to 5 (stopped paying attention halfway through; just not funny)
The General (Keaton)
The Boys in the Band

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

bourne ultimatum - pretty good ... I liked these

― dmr, Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

has anyone seen synecdoche new york yet. i'm interested but skeptical

― dmr, Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

Is that the new DVD of "The General", Morbs? I saw a clip of this online and was astonished at the clarity & detail of the image. It's def. on the list.

― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 November 2008 16:51 (seventeen years ago)

This edition:

http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=936

― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 November 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

I just ripped the General and Steamboat Bill jr for iPhone :)

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

classe tous risques
near dark

― omar little, Thursday, 6 November 2008 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

you got it Pash, and JW stop that shit, you can't see Buster's face on a fuckin phone.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

sure you can

― BYE! GOOD (latebloomer), Thursday, 6 November 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

“It’s such a sadness, that you think you’ve seen a film on your fucking telephone”

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 6 November 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

cry me an iriver

― BYE! GOOD (latebloomer), Thursday, 6 November 2008 22:40 (seventeen years ago)

i was a stalwart "fuck watching movies on an i-whatever" type until I had to buy a new iPod last week to replace my old music-only model. No more. I have a bunch of Godard and the Gainsbourg video comps and some Fellini on there and it's been fun watching them on a little screen.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

recent (on a TV)

Carmen
El Amor Brujo
An Autumn Afternoon
VHS -->DVD-R rip of Rossellini's "Louis XIV"
recent Kino restoration of 'Nosferatu"

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

that sounds like Herzog, Milton

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 November 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

Re: David Lynch on iPhone

― Milton Parker, Friday, 7 November 2008 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

ha! I knew it was Lynch. he uses that same phrase ("it's such a sadness") in Catching the Big Fish

― dmr, Friday, 7 November 2008 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

also:

Andromeda Strain (a little on the boring side maybe -- I remember Westworld & The Terminal Man being better for early 70's Crichton)
The Leopard (last night at the Castro, only way to see this is in a theatre, 75% of the content = the sweeping shots of Sicilian landscapes & the outfits during the hour long ballroom ending)

anyone seen this? looks crazy good: http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/endgamedvd.html

― Milton Parker, Friday, 7 November 2008 19:25 (seventeen years ago)

mainly it's been 10 years and I'm still waiting for documentary filmmakers to pick up the slack left hanging by This Week In Bible Prophecy

― Milton Parker, Friday, 7 November 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

Bill have you ever even seen an iPhone?

― LUTE JOINTS (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 7 November 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)

fast & furious tokyo drift - not as funny as I was hoping. there was hella drifting though
genghis blues - pretty good, could have been a half-hour shorter
next up - persepolis, the fall (tarsem), disc 1 of the prisoner

― dmr, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

Andromeda Strain >> Westworld imo. I'll have to check out Terminal Man.

― dmr, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

Westworld is fucking great

― LUTE JOINTS (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 10 November 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

City of Ember...it was fun. Kind of dumb, looked great though, the girl was really good.

― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Monday, 10 November 2008 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

Westworld must be great on an iPhone

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

hey dickweed, i don't generally watch movies on my iphone but but it has lines of resolution than your fucking interlaced zenith boob tube.

― LUTE JOINTS (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 10 November 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

ok rented that Endgame documentary. Turns out to be about the Bilderbergs, speculation about their aims and the history of Eugenics. It's extremely well edited and hypnotic for something this paranoid, it's like a version of Craig Baldwin's 'Tribulation 99' made by people who actually mean what they're saying. Ending worth transcribing: (read in creepy voice w/ minor key orchestral music)

"And the Georgia Guidestones stand today as a testament to the Elite's sacred mission. To have a two class system, where the underclass are forced to live as slaves in tiny enclosed cities, while the elite enjoy the land of the earth, evolve into Superhumans with the aid of advanced implantable technologies, live eternal lives, and travel throughout the Cosmos. THIS is the promise given to the members of the new world order, and the agenda of the Bilderberg group."

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:07 (seventeen years ago)

(each one of those sentence fragments is accompanied by 2-3 second visual fades illustrating the underground cities, the subcutaneous chips, hordes of mindless slaves staring at a monitor crossfaded into an closeup image of lindsey lohan, davinci supermen travelling the cosmos, etc)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:15 (seventeen years ago)

I'm still betting you can't see Buster Keaton's face in a wide shot on an iPhone, call me crazy

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/3022990175_e1f2416309_o.png

― LUTE JOINTS (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

drooooooooool

― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

What is really funny is that if you look at this thread on an iPhone you can see Buster Keaton's face in iPhone.png haha.

― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:31 (seventeen years ago)

http://i36.tinypic.com/33a3u9v.png

― the night of counting the years (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://i38.tinypic.com/rsh6hd.png

― the night of counting the years (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://i38.tinypic.com/9k55di.png

― the night of counting the years (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:46 (seventeen years ago)

Are you taking those screenshots with an iPhone?

― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

yea i have my iphone IN MY SCANNER

― the night of counting the years (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

^not enough detail

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

and that's not even the correct aspect ratio.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

"Carrier"

― a country packed with ponies (sunny successor), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

Persepolis - very good, totally gorgeous looking

― dmr, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

Destiny (Fritz Lang)
Bitter Victory (N Ray)
Quantum of Solace

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

how was james bond

― dmr, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

sorry, I cheated -- seeing tonight to write an InstaReview

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:13 (seventeen years ago)

police story - jackie chan goes so hard in this
jackie chan's first strike - stupid as hell lol
lone wolf and cub: white heaven in hell - these movies are good but i wish there were more sword duels and less reliance on that weird cart with the guns and shit
paranoid park - good
hidden fortress - good

― sleep, Thursday, 13 November 2008 04:50 (seventeen years ago)

"Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill"
"Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear"
"Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night"

"House of Fear" has appearance in minor role by silent leading man Holmes Herbert, whom I last saw in a movie being flogged with a horsewhip by Pola Negri in "A Woman of the World"

― Pashmina, Sunday, 16 November 2008 00:39 (seventeen years ago)

i want to see the baader-meinhof complex but i don't think it will be showing near me. even though reviews i read were mixed, i think i would like it.

― ketchup dood (harbl), Monday, 17 November 2008 00:36 (seventeen years ago)

The Fall -- wow pretty sweet. this was like princess bride meets el topo.

― dmr, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

Just watched ROCKERS. REMOVE YA.

― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:36 (seventeen years ago)

Slumdog Millionaire - silly-ass plot but pretty good, I dug it

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 06:45 (seventeen years ago)

anyone remember if this is good?

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/188/985/01/o_SATURN_3.JPG.jpg

i saw it a long time ago and remember being creeped out by "hector"

― eman, Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

The screenplay was written by award-winning British novelist Martin Amis. O__o

Awards and nominations

* Golden Raspberry Awards

Nominated: Worst Picture
Nominated: Worst Actor (Kirk Douglas)
Nominated: Worst Actress (Farrah Fawcett) o__O

― eman, Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:29 (seventeen years ago)

Pather Panchali
Aparajito
Ikiru
Voyage in Italy
Synecdoche, New York
None Reconciled (Straub)
Always for Pleasure (Les Blank)
Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29
The Way You Wanted Me
Sugar
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 24 November 2008 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

Baby Mama - like a shitty two hour episode of 30 Rock with only the gentle comedy retained. Perfect for a flight, which is where I watched it.

Blood Simple - Pretty good. I think I may have preferred this to No Country for Old Men, despite the premise (people go nuts in violent situations) being v. unconvincingly written and acted. Frances McDormand was way hot.

― caek, Monday, 24 November 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

The Manchurian Candidate '62
Smiles of a Summer Night
Camp de Thiaroye (Sembene)
Compulsion (Welles as Darrow)
The Day the Earth Stood Still '51
The Times of Harvey Milk
Tomorrow, the World!
Man on Wire
Frost/Nixon (puke)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

Frost/Nixon (puke)

: (

24 TV movie (meh)
The Player (meh)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (lol)
Half Nelson (this was not well-served by being watched immediately after COAHTR, but i'm convinced it objectively sucked because it goes fucking nowwere)

― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

Pather Panchali

this has been on my Netflix "alert me when this comes out on dvd" limbo forever

watched Children of Men for a second time. it's still really good. long takes are long.

― dmr, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:46 (seventeen years ago)

if it's OOP, you can reserve Pather Panchali (and the other Apu films) at the NY library. as long as we still have one.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 December 2008 23:24 (seventeen years ago)

caek, the Frost interview with Nixon was of no substantive importance whatsoever (aside from the "prez can't do anything illegal" punchline) and this movie just lies about it. Watch the interview DVDs instead if you must.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 18:42 (seventeen years ago)

Frost's quasi-memoir published last year on the experience of interviewing Nixon and evaluating his evasions is pretty good though.

Still Life
Arthur Russell: Wild Combination
Only Angels Have Wings
The Russia House

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

deep cover (ultimate jeff goldblum and laurence fishburne performances)
in the dust of the stars (i think milton mentioned this on a '70s sci-fi thread. this is a weird, fun movie)
secrets and lies (excellent)

― omar little, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

Gypsy - (brought this to watch with family at thanksgiving to make up for what I brought the last three years: Cremaster 3, Star Wars Holiday Special & Eyes Without A Face -- I thought I'd bring a nice musical, but I guess I'd kind of forgotten what this one was about)
The Hellstrom Chronicle - this was FANTASTIC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle ("I have been called everything from a Fanatic to a Lunatic, but the insects will outlive us all")
The War Game - http://www.amazon.com/War-Game-Michael-Aspel/dp/B000007SYV - yeah there was just about no way this ever could have played on broadcast television in the 60's. even today many of the makeup effects, especially the charred flesh, are still almost too realistic to watch
The Weather Underground - good. it slants towards the WU, but after this election that even seems called for
Wall-E DVD

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

Hellstrom Chronicle Part 1

principal cinematographer Ken Middleham's next project was Phase IV

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

lol u brought cremaster 3 to watch @ thanksgiving

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

"for incubating in the darkened womb of pre-history was a seed of grotesque variation, a fetus with the capability to DOMINATE ALL."

so good. watching this makes it clear that as much as I loved "In Search Of", it was basically fourth-generation repress of this

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

'phase IV' (excellent)
'À l'intérieur' aka 'inside' (holy shit)

― omar little, Monday, 8 December 2008 07:46 (seventeen years ago)

Amadeus
Munich

No opinions on either

― caek, Monday, 8 December 2008 11:36 (seventeen years ago)

Milk (wow, good)
The Wrestler (good scary Rourke, otherwise meh -- Tomei breasts on standard display)
A Christmas Tale (looks great, ambitious, annoyed hell outta me)
Europa (von Trier)
Johnny Got his Gun ('71, Trumbo)
Good (Viggo as Nazi, yawn)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 8 December 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

seriously, 'À l'intérieur'...pretty amazing movie. graphic, twisted, nightmarish horror film about a pregnant woman holed up in her house trying to fend off a psycho played by beatrice dalle, who wants to basically rip her child from her womb. pretty remarkable.

― omar little, Monday, 8 December 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

The Manchurian Candidate '62

― Dr Morbius, Monday, December 1, 2008 3:30 PM

caught that on cable over thanksgiving, thought it was great

― craig sager (eman), Monday, 8 December 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

sukiyaki western django (makes no sense, is bonkers, recommended)
fistful of dollars
two-lane blacktop
encounters at the end of the world

― sleep, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 02:20 (seventeen years ago)

crank
no country
gone, baby, gone
maniac (1980)
frogs (1972)
melqiuades estrada
assassination of jesse james
the departed
casino royale
quantum of solace
hunger
let the right one come in
(rec)

some others

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

michael clayton

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

i saw blood of dracula/flesh of frankenstein and both were so fucking good

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 03:11 (seventeen years ago)

oh yea slumdog millionaire was real good

― sleep, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

let the right one come in

oh how was this, almost saw it last week

― dmr, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 04:14 (seventeen years ago)

Let the Right One In is great, thumbs up

just watched "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" last night, yowsa, so good- plus it has Judith Anderson in it (aka "Mrs. Danvers" from Hitchcock's "Rebecca")

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

DD, check out Judith A in The Furies, where she lives to regret meeting Barbara Stanwyck.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

THE MACHINE GIRL - incredible.

― "I Like My Hogen-Mogen" (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:36 (seventeen years ago)

transporter
transporter 2
hunger

― omar little, Friday, 12 December 2008 08:03 (seventeen years ago)

Into the Wild was good

― dmr, Monday, 15 December 2008 04:05 (seventeen years ago)

Welles' Macbeth
Side Street
Iron Mang

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 15 December 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

Still Life (still the best new film I've seen in '08)
In the City of Sylvia (super new-new wave)
Wendy and Lucy
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Che
Gran Torino
Revolutionary Road (not a disaster)
Slumdog Millionaire (pretty, appalling)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 15 December 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

Seventh Heaven
Sunrise (unbelievable restoration)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 15 December 2008 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

The Lathe of Heaven (1979) - really enjoyed this. enjoyed everything about it.
The Lathe of Heaven (2001) - still fun: James Caan / Lukas Haas / Lisa Bonet = one crazy cast, but they sucked up all the budget -- all the time reality distortion is mainly done by changing the characters wardrobes every time he wakes up, and they omit the Space Turtles entirely. How could they do such a thing in good conscience?

2nd one makes you realize just how good a film The Butterfly Effect really is

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:01 (seventeen years ago)

No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
Encounters at the End of the World
The Times of Harvey Milk
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Last Detail

― caek, Friday, 19 December 2008 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

The World of Apu
Terror's Advocate (disappointing)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

i watched http://i35.tinypic.com/2yvuwdv.gif

― eman, Sunday, 21 December 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

jumped at that for real!

― caek, Sunday, 21 December 2008 03:49 (seventeen years ago)

in the city of sylvia
mishima: a life in four chapters
sweetie
milk (totally ;_;) (no homo)

― lyndonna larouge (donna rouge), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:34 (seventeen years ago)

an american crime - I am not even sure if this was "good" or that i'd recommend it. so fucking depressing I had to mute parts of it.

― bnw, Saturday, 27 December 2008 21:02 (seventeen years ago)

Phase IV - as awesome as everybody said it was, thx for recommendation

― dmr, Saturday, 27 December 2008 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

Blue Velvet
Sex, Lies and Videotape
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hard 8

― caek, Sunday, 28 December 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

Pretty good couple of days!

― caek, Sunday, 28 December 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

Milk

― dmr, Monday, 29 December 2008 04:15 (seventeen years ago)

phase iv is made of people! nah it was pretty good

― ¯\㋡/¯ ☜㋡ (eman), Thursday, 1 January 2009 02:31 (seventeen years ago)

Phase IV is pretty great, it's true.

Over Xmas/Newyear:

Baby Face
Three on a Match
Night Nurse (all excellent aaaa+)
Female (dated/hokey but v v entertaining. Also Ruth Chatterton is really cute)
Red-Headed Woman (terrible - Jean Harlow unbelievably irritating)
I'm no Angel (got 6DVD Mae West set for 8 quid. I'll take this one a little bit at a time I think)
Double Indemnity
Golden Boy
The Lady Eve (last three are 1/2 of 6DVD Barbara Stanwyck box set I got for a tenner, all great, esp "The Lady Eve")
Diary of a Lost Girl (this is really outstanding. Film obv cobbled together from abt 6 different prints. thank fuck it exists at all I guess)

Have "Der Letzte Mann" still to watch. Still saving for Murnau/Borzage box. (I pipedream that this will sell well enough to get "Man's Castle", "Flirtation Walk", "Shipmates Forever", "Secrets" and "the Lady" out on DVD. This is very unlikely though I guess?)

― Pashmina, Saturday, 3 January 2009 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

MArgot at the Wedding
Belly of an Architect
Man on WIre

― dmr, Saturday, 3 January 2009 04:57 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.craphound.com/images/gudiolondircut.jpg

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

Grey Gardens
Fury
Sisters Of the Gion
I Am Legend
Hellboy II

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 4 January 2009 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

Oh - and Christmas In July yesterday : so great. <3 <3 Sturges

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 4 January 2009 00:10 (seventeen years ago)

Hunger (WOW)
Bigger Than Life
Waltz with Bashir
Cargo 200
Theodora Goes Wild
Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters
Remember the Night
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Gomorra
The Order of Myths
Detour
The Visitor
Summer Palace
The Gang's All Here
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (Ken Jacobs)
Iron Man
The Left Handed Gun
Dong
Doubt
Mock Up on Mu
Boarding Gate

Doug Fairbanks silents: When the Clouds Roll By, A Modern Musketeer, Down to Earth

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 January 2009 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

waltz w/ bashir is next on my list to see ... any good?

― dmr, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

yes, only ppl need to stop calling it an animated documentary.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

Classic morbs. The movie you recommend. It's the audience you have reservations about.

― Eric H., Monday, 12 January 2009 17:43 (seventeen years ago)

Ganja and Hess (saw this twice this weekend - I can see why some people might not have the patience for this, but all the confusing edits I took for continuity errors on the first viewing all came across as brilliantly surreal or hyper-real on the second viewing -- the film does account for everything, it's just hard to catch the entire narrative in a film this surreal. this film captures things about black america I've never seen anywhere else, and I think I'm on the side of all the people who call it a masterpiece)

― Milton Parker, Monday, 12 January 2009 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

hunger was ridiculously good. i was worried it was gonna be a terry george kinda thing but lol was i wrong!

waiting at home right now:

the corporation
le deuxieme souffle
the clockmaker

― shook pwns (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2009 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

Eric, not rlly the audience doing it, but CRITICS

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 January 2009 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

le deuxieme souffle (GREAT)

― shook pwns (omar little), Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:43 (seventeen years ago)

Yes. It rocks. Criterion (or somebody) needs to get Melville's "Magnet Of Doom" on DVD.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

watched Ganja and Hess a third time w/ another friend, things she caught: music is by Nina Simone's brother, who plays the minister in the film, and the Queen of Myrthia is played by Mabel King aka Rog's Mom from

also:
Spermula (softcore french 70's sci-fi film w/ Udo Kier, sort of funny, not really though)
The Children - kind of incredible to rediscover a torrent of this online after seeing it on late night TV many many years ago. also, anyone who knows Negativland's 'A Big 10-8 Place' will now know what really happened to Tommy - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080527/
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

oops aka Rog's Mom from What's Happening

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

the children is a movie with great remake potential, it has a super creepy premise it couldn't deliver on. talk about an enemy you're defenseless against, what parent is gonna kill their kid even if it is some moptopped zombie?

― Edward III, Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

there is another film called 'the children' with the same concept due soon, substituting an insanity virus for the radioactive cloud

but I think the original does deliver: http://www.flixya.com/video/1623524/The_Children_1980

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

I should probably watch it again, I'm going with my opinion of seeing it once in the 80s

have you been here?
http://www.cultrararevideos.com/

lotsa old culty stuff, kinda low res but where else are you going to find a copy of when you comin' back, red ryder?

― Edward III, Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, that's where I got 'the children' and 'spermula'. as well as the terrible english dub of 'stay as you are' (which I still watched) and 'tunnel vision' (not that funny, but way ahead of its time / proto-SCTV)

any other recommendations from that site?

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

ha, weird!

the classic tv horror flicks:
bad ronald
crowhaven farm
dark night of the scarecrow
don't be afraid of the dark

vengeance is mine (*not* the immamura flick) is worth checking out if you've ever wondered, "what if they made straw dogs with ernest borgnine instead of dustin hoffman?"

and black devil doll from hell is.... well, it's unspeakable

― Edward III, Thursday, 15 January 2009 22:41 (seventeen years ago)

stay as you are: the most twisted midlife crisis sex fantasy ever filmed?

― Edward III, Thursday, 15 January 2009 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

you see there's this really hot young chick who wants to jump your oldass bones - but there's a catch - she might be your daughter! what do you do? if you are marcello mastroianni you furrow your brow for half the movie and then spend the other half frolicking naked in soft focus w/ her.

― Edward III, Thursday, 15 January 2009 22:48 (seventeen years ago)

NETFLIX POLL: what should i watch tonight

assassination of jesse james
foreign correspondent (hitchcock)
OR who's afraid of virginia woolf

never seen any of em

― dmr, Friday, 16 January 2009 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

assassination looks very boring
i finally watched apocalypto despite jewhater mel. Decent but steals from so many other movies, no idea why it got "praise".

― bnw, Friday, 16 January 2009 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

Va Woolf is a great play on film, ForeignC excellent lightweight Hitchcock.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 January 2009 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

yay drunken method acting

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 16 January 2009 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

"Sunset Boulevard", so good, twisted, sad & funny at the same time. Hard to see how they could have made it any better, really.

― Pashmina, Saturday, 17 January 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

watched Foreign Correspondent

(***** mild spoilerz ****** )

that plane crash scene was harrowing!! really changed the tone at the end (on some hey America better get in the war sloganeering)

********

― dmr, Sunday, 18 January 2009 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

Assassination is pretty great. Long, though.

Just watched:

Street Of Shame
The Fall
Blaise Pascal
Age Of The Medici Part 1

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 18 January 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

quite a few 1940-41 films feature hey America better get in the war sloganeering

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 January 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

the namesake
little deiter needs to fly
after life (koreeda) - didn't finish
wall-e
still life
boogie nights

― sleep, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 03:58 (sixteen years ago)

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/fail-owned-combo-movie-fail.jpg

― "Set phasers to thrill!" (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 05:06 (sixteen years ago)

chugyeogja http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/705_angry_smiley_hitting_his_friend_on_the_head_with_a_hammer.gif http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/705_angry_smiley_hitting_his_friend_on_the_head_with_a_hammer.gif http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/705_angry_smiley_hitting_his_friend_on_the_head_with_a_hammer.gif

― ☪, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 05:14 (sixteen years ago)

Waltz With Bashir was good ... true that it's more of a memoir than a documentary, and I liked that the animation downplayed the solipsism / narcissism that can dominate that kind of a "personal journey" movie ... the little surreal dream parts were great

― dmr, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

pineapple express - not good
above the rim - chee-zee

― eman, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
Timecrimes
Fanboys
Inkheart

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 24 January 2009 22:26 (sixteen years ago)

So you finally watched the Akermann Dr Morbius, did you like it?

As for me I watched 'The Reader'. Kill me now, etc. But I saved myself when I caught a screening of Wavelength, both on 16mm and the DVD 17 min 'cut' of it. The panel discussion in between was mixed: real neglect of what Snow's relationship w/sound brings to that film but a member of the audience asked about it...

after life (koreeda) - didn't finish: Oh didn't you like it? One of last year's underrated DVD releases...

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 24 January 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

morbz that is a truly weird playlist

― s1ocki, Saturday, 24 January 2009 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

god how bad was inkheart tho rite

― s1ocki, Saturday, 24 January 2009 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

after life (koreeda) - didn't finish: Oh didn't you like it? One of last year's underrated DVD releases...

i wasn't in the right mood for such a slow pace i guess, i kept getting distracted. i really liked nobody knows and maborosi though so i'll give this another shot sometime.

― sleep, Sunday, 25 January 2009 02:03 (sixteen years ago)

The Reader
Che (part 1)
Parenthood

― Eric H., Sunday, 25 January 2009 03:42 (sixteen years ago)

Harlan County USA

― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Sunday, 25 January 2009 06:00 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, on a Lang kick at the moment
Man Hunt (awesome)
Secret Beyond The Door (not so awesome)
You Only Live Once (wow. and young Sylvia Sidney = What a cutie.)
Ganja And Hess (unable to finish. Is this a mess or is it brilliant and I'm just an idiot?)

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 25 January 2009 10:44 (sixteen years ago)

The Thin Man (awesome)
Save the Green Planet! (also awesome xcept 4 the ~hr of torture porn in the middle...<3 what was supposedly writer/director's inspiration = partially inspired by an anti-Leonardo DiCaprio Web site that claims the "Titanic" star is an alien who is seducing all of Earth's women in a bid for global conquest. Equally inspired by the popular movie version of Stephen King's "Misery,")

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 25 January 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

All or Nothing
Appaloosa
Zorro: The Gay Blade

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 25 January 2009 16:11 (sixteen years ago)

was I missing something or was appaloosa really awful? I feel like it is the worst film I have seen in a long time.

― caek, Sunday, 25 January 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)

I'll let you know: it's sitting on my DVD player.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 25 January 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

yes mark, it was Stinkheart.

"finally," xyzz? I think you're confusing me with Casuistry -- this is at least my 2nd viewing of Jeanne Dielman.

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

saw the louise bourgeois movie last night it was good

― Schwwww (harbl), Sunday, 25 January 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

Free screening of "Hail the Conquering Hero" (1944) tonight. Do I bother y/n?

― caek, Monday, 26 January 2009 12:51 (sixteen years ago)

Free Sturges? Yeah, go see it. And it's a fun one.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 26 January 2009 14:28 (sixteen years ago)

will do

― caek, Monday, 26 January 2009 15:01 (sixteen years ago)

who's afraid of virginia woolf? was a lot crazier than I expected, wow

― dmr, Monday, 26 January 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

did you have a drink of BERGEN after?

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis
Memories of Underdevelopment
Made in USA
Terence Davies trilogy
Mary (Ferrara, echhh)
Mala Noche
Up the Yangtze
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
IOUSA
Stranded (Andean plane crash doc)
Dear Zachary (horrific story and aesthetics to match)
The Dark Knight :p
Coraline

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 22:51 (sixteen years ago)

no but I got off at the bergen st. stop every day so it's hard not to think of that now. to the point that it's sort of annoying.

― dmr, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:43 (sixteen years ago)

after life (koreeda) - didn't finish: Oh didn't you like it? One of last year's underrated DVD releases...

i wasn't in the right mood for such a slow pace i guess, i kept getting distracted. i really liked nobody knows and maborosi though so i'll give this another shot sometime.

Been wanting to see 'maborosi' for ages and ages :-(

"finally," xyzz? I think you're confusing me with Casuistry -- this is at least my 2nd viewing of Jeanne Dielman.

Oops I thought you said something about 'spoiling the ending' in some other thread.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 31 January 2009 10:59 (sixteen years ago)

Cloak And Dagger
Sign O' The Times
The Bridesmaid
Little Rascals vol 1 ( this new collection is <3 <3 )

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 31 January 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

jesse james was v good, not sure how I felt about all the voiceover though. at times it worked I guess, other times it seemed like it was a voice from a totally different movie

that director kinda came out of nowhere huh? never heard of him, I looked him up on imdb and all he's done is "Chopper" w/ Eric Bana eight years ago

― dmr, Saturday, 31 January 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

train robbery scene at the beginning was awesome ... those elephant man looking masks and the guy jumps up on the barrier in a swirl of trainsmoke

― dmr, Saturday, 31 January 2009 19:21 (sixteen years ago)

macunaima <---- awesome

― charles bronson reilly (donna rouge), Sunday, 1 February 2009 02:03 (sixteen years ago)

have you been here?
http://www.cultrararevideos.com/

lotsa old culty stuff, kinda low res but where else are you going to find a copy of when you comin' back, red ryder?

― Edward III, Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:37 PM

lol this site. i'm downloading "j.c."
(1972) 99 minutes
Jesus Christ is born again on Earth. But his father is a hardcore Southern Baptist, and during his teen years, Jesus rebels, joining a biker gang and leading an LSD-fueled pilgrimage to "the West" to fight "the establishment."

― eman, Sunday, 1 February 2009 04:29 (sixteen years ago)

The Stewardesses
Mary Poppins
Bolt
Oliver and Company
24 City
Collateral
all but one of the Oscar-nominated animated shorts

― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Sunday, 1 February 2009 08:25 (sixteen years ago)

the v/o in Assass of Jesse James seems like Books on Tape. (stole that from somebody)

man Eric, your take on Poppins makes a Catherine Breillat remake sound superfluous. Did you see 24 City on a big screen? I thought the HD image was amazing.

When Tomorrow Comes
Up the Down Staircase
Heartbeat Detector
Easy Living
Black Is... Black Ain't
To Kill a Mockingbird

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 February 2009 15:35 (sixteen years ago)

blanche

― cozwn, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 10:18 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.cultrararevideos.com/blackdevildollfromhell.jpg

― cozwn, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 10:26 (sixteen years ago)

Which was it?

― O Bama, Up Yours! (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)

Did you see 24 City on a big screen? I thought the HD image was amazing.

Yes I did. Yes it was.

― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

Do not watch Taken. It's a piece of shit. I thought a movie with an 8 on imdb must have some redeeming value but it doesn't at all.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:56 (sixteen years ago)

hungry - :(
we jam econo - :)

― eman, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 20:19 (sixteen years ago)

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h110/emanthecrazy/1217373109_3_FT1230_avatar.gif

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

the best part about we jam econo is either the drummers hair in the acoustic show or when they were all "I'm gonna play with my strings tight today!"

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

why am i crazy

― eman, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)

the piss stain is surprisingly subtle

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

i liked both those films btw. hunger (mistyped) was just heavy and wore me down. great for a directorial debut though

― eman, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

uh oh you're having a fantasy

― eman, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

wd've been 10x better if called hungry imo

― cozwn, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 23:55 (sixteen years ago)

or maggie u cunt

― eman, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/tokyo/ ?

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 5 February 2009 07:41 (sixteen years ago)

mostly a '68-78 week

FTA
The Panic in Needle Park
David Holzman's Diary
Blue Collar
The Nightmare Before Christmas

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 February 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

Left Behind: The Movie
Spectres of the Spectrum
Tribulation 99
Death and the Maiden

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

Our Man in Havana
Life Flesh
Dead Man Walking
All About My Mother

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

eyes wide shut - so bad, not sure why i sat through it all

― eman, Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:22 (sixteen years ago)

the chanting/ritual scene was cool. also t & a.

― eman, Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:26 (sixteen years ago)

it's better than anything that came out of Hollywood the last 3 years (except the first 25 mins of WALL-E)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:30 (sixteen years ago)

I liked it when I saw it in the theater and was like hey this is suspenseful & compelling. tried to watch again one night on cable and it just seemed ridic.

― dmr, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

Kubrick is better if you realize all his movies are comedies.

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

well i did want to lol every time someone said "bill" to tom cruise

― eman, Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

Let the Right One In, liked it a lot

― dmr, Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

wicker man - og 70s version, great!

― eman, Saturday, 7 February 2009 22:26 (sixteen years ago)

Poto and Cabengo

― Milton Parker, Sunday, 8 February 2009 01:14 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.nova-cinema.org/archives/2001/44/cabengo.jpg

http://www.esotericrabbit.com/blog/?p=375

― Milton Parker, Sunday, 8 February 2009 01:16 (sixteen years ago)

also going through the Unseen Cinema box set. so far the one that took me by the biggest surprise is Henwar Rodakiewicz's "Portrait of a Young Man" from 1925-31. I've just left it looping on my laptop for hours this week.

http://theartofmemory.blogspot.com/2007/03/henwar-rodakiewicz-water-light-and.html

― Milton Parker, Sunday, 8 February 2009 01:24 (sixteen years ago)

someone told me to see poto and cabengo and i promptly forgot about it. thx 4 reminder

― straight b*tch (harbl), Sunday, 8 February 2009 01:27 (sixteen years ago)

kurosawa's "high and low" ... so fucking good. maybe top 10 material.

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:43 (sixteen years ago)

The NFT are running a Kubrick season *sigh*

Watched a screening of Renoir's 'La Marsellaise' and caught bits of 'Robocop' last night.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 February 2009 11:00 (sixteen years ago)

am working on frederick wiseman's public housing. good but i wish i could see it on big screen, i get bored otherwise.

― straight b*tch (harbl), Sunday, 8 February 2009 13:36 (sixteen years ago)

Seven Men From Now
Return Of Frank James
House Of Bamboo

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 9 February 2009 12:59 (sixteen years ago)

Taxi to the Dark Side

― dmr, Monday, 9 February 2009 14:05 (sixteen years ago)

Seven Days to Noon
Variety (1925, EA Dupont)
Brother (very fine, dark Russian crime comedy, 1997)
Battleground
No More Excuses (Robt Downey Sr, 1968)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

Miami Vice - for some reason I thought this wasn't gonna suck, but I was wrong

― dmr, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:07 (sixteen years ago)

<3 miami vice ;_;

― ice cr?m, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:08 (sixteen years ago)

o rly

I dunno, I wanted to like it .... none of the characters had personality tho ... tubbs was barely in the movie and crockett was mainly a haircut

I thought Mann would do it proper but I think even Collateral was a lot better than this

― dmr, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:45 (sixteen years ago)

i kinda luv miami vice

― eman, Monday, 16 February 2009 02:45 (sixteen years ago)

alien
invasion of the body snatchers (1978)
four friends

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 February 2009 04:43 (sixteen years ago)

Miami Vice is fantastic, even though they cut the "taking it to the limit, one more time" plane line that was in the trailer. Avoid the director's cut, though. Theatrical is tighter.

recently:
Wendy and Lucy - usually love MW as an actress, but this entire thing was a bit too blank even for neo-neo-realism
Taken - not as good as Bourne I/II/III or Ronin, but a pretty solid adult action movie
The Uninvited - actual surprising ending, Elizabeth Banks, David Straithern and older sis are all very good for a horror movie
Disaster Movie - um, not my choice

― sad man in him room (milo z), Monday, 16 February 2009 05:29 (sixteen years ago)

im a fiend for mojitos

― ice cr?m, Monday, 16 February 2009 06:53 (sixteen years ago)

Serbis (a fetid sensory experience, good one)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Murder in Harlem
The Exile

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:17 (sixteen years ago)

The Uninvited - actual surprising ending, Elizabeth Banks, David Straithern and older sis are all very good for a horror movie

if you liked it you should check out the korean film it's based on, a tale of two sisters. it's like a david lynch directed ringu.

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

Changeling (not looking forward to this)
The Horse's Mouth (maybe my favorite Guinness performance)

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:56 (sixteen years ago)

Man on Wire
Call of Cthulu
Paranoid Park

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

i liked changeling. and i dont like fatlips jolie in anything, usually.

― ☪, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:26 (sixteen years ago)

beast with a gun (courtesy of ^that guy)

― eman, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:43 (sixteen years ago)

the korean film it's based on, a tale of two sisters

oh wild. I saw that at Tribeca fest a couple years ago, didn't know there was a remake

― dmr, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 17:02 (sixteen years ago)

Fixed Bayonets
The Lost Patrol

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:56 (sixteen years ago)

eyes of laura mars -- soooo '70s, in so many ways. kinda loved it. (good lord @ tommy lee jones' hair.)
coraline -- yeah, pretty cool.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 06:26 (sixteen years ago)

goodfellerz
baghead
sunday the 15th

― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 06:31 (sixteen years ago)

they show clips of Laura Mars at the W'burg gay bar's nu-wave night, I've seen that chick fry in the tanning bed at least 8 times.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:29 (sixteen years ago)

bought tickets for Fabulous Stains next week at lincoln center
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/fcs09/ladiesandgentlementhefabulousstains.html

― dmr, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:05 (sixteen years ago)

manhunter

― eman, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

simpsons movie - fuckin awful

― dmr, Monday, 23 February 2009 19:00 (sixteen years ago)

pineapple express - lol

― dmr, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 06:33 (sixteen years ago)

taken (the best)

― Win A Car From Suicidal Tendencies! (jeff), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 08:06 (sixteen years ago)

Birdsong
Border Incident
Within Our Gates (1920, Micheaux)
Superbad (good til cops derail it)
An American Affair (as bad as it gets)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

Daft Punk's Electroma
The Holy Mountain
The Year of Living Dangerously

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:51 (sixteen years ago)

it occurred to me while watching The Simpsons Movie in the theater that it was designed to be seen there -- otherwise you're just watching the Simpsons on TV.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

pretty much. glad I didn't pay money to see that in a theater tho.

― dmr, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:50 (sixteen years ago)

glad i didn't pay to see friday the 13th. started off great but the rest was shitty.

― eman, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 05:06 (sixteen years ago)

also i thought it was a screener rip i dl'ed until i saw two giant shadow people mst3k-style walk to the middle of the screen and sit down lol.

― eman, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 05:06 (sixteen years ago)

Fabulous Stains was fun

"If you work hard, maybe, in a couple of years time, you might be something different. At the moment, you’re just two white stripes."

is this line where the White Stripes got their name? kinda makes sense, the Stains rocked all red white and black and didn't have a drummer

― dmr, Thursday, 26 February 2009 07:01 (sixteen years ago)

White Stripes have a dru--oh i c what u did there

― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 07:05 (sixteen years ago)

xpost -- oh wait white stripes have a drummer but no bass. lol

anyway this wuz cool

― dmr, Thursday, 26 February 2009 07:06 (sixteen years ago)

haha yeah I actually wasn't going for a gag there I just repeated some dumbass imdb comments without thinking

― dmr, Thursday, 26 February 2009 07:06 (sixteen years ago)

i've always hears Stains is bad; Lou Adler was a music guy who only directed one other movie (Cheech & Chong)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 February 2009 12:01 (sixteen years ago)

I thought it was pretty solid for a late night b-movie. teenage diane lane is grate (laura dern only has like two lines)

― dmr, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh/John Wayne)

Guy Debord:
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
The Society of the Spectacle

Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
Everlasting Moments (you said it)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 March 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

The Hobbit
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Pineapple Express

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:27 (sixteen years ago)

double feature last night with crumb & space is the place. sara had somehow never seen space is the place despite us owning it for several years.

recently watched "the last wave"--maybe would benefit from a re-watching.

― ian, Monday, 2 March 2009 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

watched "exposed" by james toback and except for the very end it was pretty fuckin great. cool to see a young ian mcshane and also toback himself playing a cliched english prof that gets punched out by rudolf nureyev. also nastasja kinski was terrific in it.

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 March 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

Bought 14 Marilyn Monroe films for UK30£. Also a bunch of Garbo films for similarly el cheapo cheapo. £Camille" has the silent Alla Nazimova version as a bonus. Which to watch first...

― Pashmina, Thursday, 5 March 2009 22:59 (sixteen years ago)

"i've always hears Stains is bad"

It's not.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 5 March 2009 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

Fabulous Stains is great.

Southland Tales (never have I looked forward less to watching a film for the second time. first half-hour is really something, or however long it takes you to figure out the whole thing is a bluff)
The Brood (hadn't seen this for years, but this time I nearly had to eject the disc. most horrifying film about the effects of divorce on children possible, a snuff film would be easier to watch)
Kiss Me Deadly
Night of the Hunter
Blind Beast (highest possible recommendation -- do not read spoilers, but Blind Beast >>>>>>>> Woman in the Dunes > In the Realm of the Senses. I was expecting another campy execution of Rampo like Black Lizard, but 40 years later and it's all tame compared to this ending)

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 March 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

lakeview terrace

^^ wtf was this garbage

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 6 March 2009 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

wow i saw blind beast last week and while it did remind me of a woman in the dunes i didnt think it was better. woman in the dunes is operating on a whole nother level imo

― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 March 2009 00:10 (sixteen years ago)

admittedly it is bad of me to recommend this film in the abstract. the friends I watched it with had seen it before at Pacific Film Archive and said it was the only time they'd seen a third of the audience leave during the last 10 minutes of a film. I can't say I was ready for the final stretch, and I can just imagine a wider audience weighing the decision to stay -- 'almost done, but... oh god I know where this is going and I just don't want to see it, get me out of here'

actually I can't imagine seeing this film in public at all! I like all the films I compared it to, 'Woman in the Dunes' is restrained, 'Blind Beast' is far more psychedelic and gaudy. Dunes is more social allegory than a stripped-down relentlessly dark romantic fable, your call

― Milton Parker, Friday, 6 March 2009 00:41 (sixteen years ago)

yea idk i still dug it and would recommend it be seen (tho it is hard to imagine seeing it in a packed theater, but many things are...)

― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 March 2009 00:48 (sixteen years ago)

Mary Poppins
The Hurt Locker (K Bigelow Iraq psych thriller, coming in June)
Female (1933, Curtiz)
Law and Disorder
American Violet
Easy Virtue (crap new Noel Coward adap)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 March 2009 15:05 (sixteen years ago)

Little Children - wtf this actually won writing and acting awards wtf

― dmr, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

gonna watch Woman in the Dunes tomorrow. I actually had Blind Beast on my queue for a minute but Milton's second post scared me off, lol. maybe later

― dmr, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 05:05 (sixteen years ago)

saw hunger just now. i liked it, save a few things. however probably will not watch again anytime soon :( was kinda painful imo

also steve mcqueen was there 4 q&a and he seemed really nice

― HHooHHHooHH-oob (harbl), Thursday, 19 March 2009 02:14 (sixteen years ago)

GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen

― from beyond the anal destiny citrus fruit explosion (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

Boiling Point
The Fountain (eeeh)
Sex & Fury
Gran Torino
Sword Of The Beast

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 20 March 2009 10:38 (sixteen years ago)

The Devil's Rain

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 20 March 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

Intimate Lighting (1965, Passer, excellent)
35 Rhums (Claire Denis, pretty super)
The Girl on the Train (Techine, disappointing)
Kuchar Bros films (1959-86; national treasures)
I Love You, Man (ugh)

― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2009 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

you saw i love you, man on opening day?

― cutty, Friday, 20 March 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

before.

― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

P2 - tit fetish "torture" flick (watched with the sound off cuz too much screaming/shouting)

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 20 March 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

from you or the movie

― i stole a metal dude's t-shirt in richmond just to watch him cry (latebloomer), Friday, 20 March 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

encounters at the end of the world - basically a Planet Earth episode with herzog narrating ... good formula imo

― dmr, Sunday, 22 March 2009 06:14 (sixteen years ago)

wayne's world w/my kid. no OVERT bonging scenes (implied's ok) so uh "excellent."

― m coleman, Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:22 (sixteen years ago)

altered states - http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/goat2.gif = A+ // script & story (esp. the end) = F

― eman, Saturday, 28 March 2009 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Lang, 1924)
Adventureland
The Class
Master of the House (Dreyer silent...comedy!)

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 3 April 2009 13:31 (sixteen years ago)

25th hour - wtf this rules
airheads - mildly amusing
bangkok dangerous - pretty worthless
sweet sweetback's baadasssss song - weird sex scenes, harsh cop vs black violence, the editing and audio technique makes a lot of scenes pretty incomprehensible but its fun to watch imo, reminds me of brakhage at times

― sleep, Friday, 3 April 2009 13:56 (sixteen years ago)

love the nightclub scene in 25th Hour, that part where he's cutting up Cymande. DJ Dust is the TRUTH

― dmr, Friday, 3 April 2009 17:32 (sixteen years ago)

Apocalypto - silly and brutal but I thought it got better toward the end. great shot when he pulls himself outta the quicksand
Zak and Miri Make a Porno - ugh Kevin Smith. still had some lols
I Love You Man - funny at first, overall pretty lame

― dmr, Friday, 3 April 2009 17:38 (sixteen years ago)

Indiana Jones Crystal Skull
Southland Tales

both awful. I'm really on a roll lately, serves me right for not paying attention to my Netflix queue

― dmr, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:15 (sixteen years ago)

Iron Man
Apocalypse Now Redux
Full Metal Jacket

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

I've been watching a lot of Mystery Science Theater lately.
Also, Hot Fuzz.

― ian, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

dave, taking shelter in a fridge and teen horniness are NOT crimes. (i basically agree on ST tho)

havent watched MST in eons! can it be worked into Passover?

Night and Fog in Japan (Oshima)
Slacker
Unmade Beds
Blessed Event (Lee Tracy, a force of sass)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 6 April 2009 18:11 (sixteen years ago)

had you seen Slacker before? love that movie

Southland Tales, I just had to see it for myself. wtf was up with The Rock twiddling his fingers for a solid hour and a half. yeesh.

― dmr, Monday, 6 April 2009 18:34 (sixteen years ago)

I didn't think the Rock and Buffy sounded like they'd ever acted before. loooved S Wm Scott tho (both of em)

I probably hadnt seen Slacker since '91; I rewatched before going to Austin (but most of the locations are gone, tho KJB showed me a couple).

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

"GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen"

was this from the season at the NFT? how was it?

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 April 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

Let the Right One In - really good!

― bnw, Monday, 6 April 2009 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

wtf was up with The Rock twiddling his fingers for a solid hour and a half.

haha i forgot how annoying this was! actually i forgot most of that movie, thankfully

― sleep, Monday, 6 April 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

I've been watching a lot of Mystery Science Theater lately.
Also, Hot Fuzz.

― ian, Monday, April 6, 2009 5:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― A Very Powerful Whale Runs To Heaven (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 03:23 (sixteen years ago)

mst3k is all i feel like watching these days tbh

― A Very Powerful Whale Runs To Heaven (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 03:34 (sixteen years ago)

Loved the dudes who listened to the seal noises through the ice in Encounters at the End of the World.

Favorite movie I've watched in the past month or so was probably OFFSIDE.

― GLEEPGLOP BLOOPBLORP (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 05:15 (sixteen years ago)

The Daytrippers
A Canterbury Tale

both good!

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 11:24 (sixteen years ago)

Loved the dudes who listened to the seal noises through the ice

yeah that was great! I pasted that youtube in some other thread

― dmr, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:20 (sixteen years ago)

met a load of guys who'd spent time at mcmurdo at a conference. there's a lot of cosmology/astroparticle stuff going on down there these days. they all loved the herzog film (and big dead place)

― caek, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 15:00 (sixteen years ago)

GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen

was this from the season at the NFT? how was it?

From the DVD set. I've only watched the Video Works disc so far but the amount of creativity crammed into every minute is just staggering.

― a turducken of Hindu deities (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Black_Rain/Black_Rain.htm

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:41 (sixteen years ago)

^ dope

― sleep, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 07:29 (sixteen years ago)

super dope

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)

wolverine workprint a.k.a. xavier renegade angel the movie

― ☪, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

that sounds kind of amazing

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

"Love Nest", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

― mroo (Pashmina), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Black_Rain/Black_Rain.htm

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 2:41 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

O_O bad ass

― bnw, Friday, 10 April 2009 17:53 (sixteen years ago)

for people who liked Black Rain here's a hi-res .mov of 'Brilliant Noise', their video edited from direct captures of solar flares. you really don't want to waste your time watching it on youtube:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xc93gc

Ruth & Joe made it on residency at Lawrence Berkeley Labs and at first the guys running the archives of sun footage said 'you don't want the raw video, this server has the same data with all the static and noise cleaned out of it' and they had to yell about five times 'no, we -want- that interference'

― Milton Parker, Friday, 10 April 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

absolutely no post-production or CGI, just the Sun

― Milton Parker, Friday, 10 April 2009 18:45 (sixteen years ago)

The Big Bad Swim - had never heard of it but it was really good!

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:17 (sixteen years ago)

so many movies this weekend

the fog
the transporter
the dead zone
heckler
tyson
jumper
shoot em up
ski school
the informers

― fuck you chelios (jeff), Monday, 27 April 2009 19:02 (sixteen years ago)

Vampire's Kiss (I needed to see a good Nic Cage film again, and this one really holds up, it is the real American Psycho)
The Most Important Thing... Love (expectations were high, as so many people rank this as the best Zulawaski... it is certainly the most restrained & sedate Zulawski... Klaus Kinski as independently wealthy actor ripping up Macbeth was amazing, and I never understood Romy Schneider adoration before but she's pretty remarkable in this one... need to see this again I think)
Please Vote For Me - http://pleasevoteforme.org/about.html
Encounters at the End of the World
Hands on a Hard Body (as existential as it gets, this one)

― Milton Parker, Monday, 27 April 2009 19:23 (sixteen years ago)

nice. im going to watch vampire's kiss tonight.

― fuck you chelios (jeff), Monday, 27 April 2009 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

son of rambow - pretty good, made me ;_;

― bnw, Monday, 27 April 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

re: Hands on a Hard Body -- "You got to understand, in Texas, a truck is like a man's hat: it defines who he is as a person."

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 27 April 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

dreaming of hats and trucks (that is a super doc)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 00:48 (sixteen years ago)

fave screenshot from 'Please Vote For Me'

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/PleaseVoteForMe.jpg

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - High Fidelity + Juno + After Hours? guessing a lot of you would hate this but I thought it was pretty fun. although Cera is so deadpan he's barely alive. I lol'd when they went to Union Pool, my wife was checking for any possible hipster grifter cameos

― dmr, Monday, 11 May 2009 19:51 (sixteen years ago)

08 lol oscar catch up:

the wrestler - aronofsky finally made a decent movie hey I'm as surprised as you are

slumdog millionaire - entertaining ya but made me wonder who exactly was slumming here

family fun:

encounters at the end of the world - my 8 yo son loved it, turning grade schoolers on to herzog is such a kick

earth - safari tour guide piffle for the most part, but some stunning sequences like the slo-mo near-romantic clinches of hunter + hunted

battle for terra - what wall-e did for american gluttony, battle for terra does for american mililtary aggression... all in all a pretty big bummer for a summer kids movie, no wonder it's already on its way out of theaters, it is worth seeing tho

bookends of hyperviolent gaul horror trend:

trouble every day - I have a soft spot for dis weirdo vincent gallo/beatrice dalle vampire art flick from 2001, and it was interesting to see it again now that blood-drenched french babes are practically a cinematic trope

martyrs - the latest in stylish torture porn, except this one effectively explodes the genre... I can guarantee you will not see where it is going, when it got there I was agog at its smarts + brio

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 11 May 2009 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

earth - safari tour guide piffle for the most part, but some stunning sequences like the slo-mo near-romantic clinches of hunter + hunted

did you watch the Planet Earth series? trailer makes this movie look like the same Planet Earth footage repackaged into a feature but I wasn't sure

― dmr, Monday, 11 May 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

i.e. I know it's "from the makers of Planet Earth" or whatev but some of the stuff in the trailer looked real familiar, wasn't sure whether Earth was worth seeing

― dmr, Monday, 11 May 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

yeah afaik earth is just repackaged planet earth footage

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 11 May 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

gotta squeeze that revenue out somehow in the 2009

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 11 May 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

the wrestler was decent but totally overrated

― bnw, Monday, 11 May 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

Earth - is the BBC series' footage completely reedited by Disney. I went thinking it'd be just good to see the images on a big screen, and it would have been if the narration / new disney music weren't so boneheaded & condescending as to make me want to start yelling back at the screen

Star Trek - i.e. mother's day

Aliens vs. Monsters IMAX 3D - really enjoyed this, it's all about insectasaurous. not sure if I'd recommend this for home viewing, but the uncanny valley is spookier than ever in 3D

Fear of Fear - good Fassbinder. is this the only one where he let Margit Carstensen look beautiful instead of like a cancer patient? great film about how people easily mistake the mentally ill for being selfish / lazy

Nightwatching - Peter Greenaway 2007 is a little on the normal side, I guess that's why I never even heard of this, Martin Freeman (Tim from the Office) as Rembrandt seems like it'd be too tame but he's actually an incredible actor

― Milton Parker, Monday, 11 May 2009 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

milton you should check out battle for terra

my impressions may have been gilded from watching it w/ the kids but subversive peacenik themes and some weirdly poetic moments (giant meowling sky whale) stuck w/ me

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 11 May 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

Julia - Tilda Swinton going fucking nuts for 144 mins

― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 11 May 2009 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

I.O.U.S.A. - debt armageddon meets infographic porn

― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 11 May 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

Chocolate - Action film about an ass kicking autistic girl from Thailand

― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 11 May 2009 23:53 (sixteen years ago)

Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
Viridiana
The Connection (Shirley Clarke)
American Casino (doc about subprime ripoff)
Wise Blood (Brad Dourif really sells it)
In the Loop (opens in July, generally hilarious)
The Red and the White
Vegas: Based on a True Story
Star Trek
Moon (not-bad existential sci-fi suspenser w/ Sam Rockwell, directed by Zowie Bowie)
Revue (USSR '50s archival footage)
DUVIVIER: Poil de Carotte, La Belle Equipe
Treeless Mountain
Smorgasbord (Jerry Lewis' last self-directed film, 1983)
Management (horrible Zahn-Aniston stalker comedy)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:06 (sixteen years ago)

any scene in wise blood w/ dourif + harry dean stanton is A+++++

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

wish they did more movies together, they could've been the 70s antihero version of martin + lewis

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 01:52 (sixteen years ago)

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

i dunno, i prefer BD's scenes w/ Amy Wright -- she's so determined to mount him

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 13:30 (sixteen years ago)

but he wasn't beholden to none uh her fast eye!

oh look, the criterion wise blood is out today and I'm having a hard time coming up with reasons not to drop $30 on it

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:07 (sixteen years ago)

i'm reviewing it. I don't love the film (Huston apparently realized at end O'Connor's Christian vision had won over his), but if you do, it's worth it i should think.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, you'd think Huston's rancidness and the cynicism creeping around the edges of O'Connor's work would be natural partners, but she shows him up at the end. The movie's still as good as end-time Huston got.

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:14 (sixteen years ago)

nah that would be Prizzi's Honor

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

the friends of eddie coyle
the hit
burn after reading
hiroshima mon amour
sunshine

― gangsta hug (omar little), Friday, 12 June 2009 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

what did you make of The Hit?

― admrl, Friday, 12 June 2009 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

i liked it a lot. totally unusual, bizarre but vv good twists at the end w/r/t characterization imo. stamp and glover were excellent.

― gangsta hug (omar little), Friday, 12 June 2009 17:14 (sixteen years ago)

They Were Expendable
Sgt. Rutledge
Juan Moreira
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Space Is The Place

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 12 June 2009 23:43 (sixteen years ago)

i watched Foxes and Righteous Kill. 1 was a lot better than the other o_O

― johnny crunch, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

Lady In The Lake
Adam's Rib
The Ghost Ship
Attack The Gas Station
Hard Times

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 13 June 2009 10:46 (sixteen years ago)

There Goes the Bride
Evergreen

Both pure fluff, but v v entertaining.

Got Pabst's Beggar's Opera on DVD, going to watch it over the w/e

― "Bytchass of Juxberry" (Pashmina), Saturday, 13 June 2009 12:12 (sixteen years ago)

I love love love the Pabst Beggar's Opera.

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 13 June 2009 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

Notorious - holy cow. so much worse than I expected (and I wasn't expecting that much). basically a Hallmark movie of the week starring Biggie. apparently in the last minutes before his death he had touching cell phone conversations with everyone from his past ... lots of closure! also whoever cast Puffy and 2Pac, wtf

― dmr, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:48 (sixteen years ago)

Zabriskie Point (still laughable, but seen with friends it's a fun time, the music is good and in spite of everything the ending actually not only hilarious but beautiful)

Jubilee (what Derek Jarman do you see after this one if you mostly liked this one?)

Specter of the Rose - Morbius, have you seen this? I thought it was wonderful. Amazon reviewers write it off for bad acting, but it's more like a screenwriter getting to direct one of his own scripts and telling a strange mix of actors & non-actors to read his lines as self-consciously campy and removed as possible, so it ends up coming off as weirdly modern for 1946, and the ending is psychotic

La Fidelite - Zulawski's last film to date. I loved it, though I can understand why all the reviews didn't take it seriously, when he holds off on the histrionics, they can seem random to a viewer who isn't expecting them

also going through this 12 hour long compilation of Black Panther newsreels & home movies
http://www.amazon.com/What-We-Want-Believe-Panther/dp/B000ILYYPS

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

"what Derek Jarman do you see after this one if you mostly liked this one?"

Maybe the Last of England? But you are bound to be disappointed. Or you could seek out the Super-8 stuff.

― admrl, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

Joseph Losey's Accident: the liner notes compare it to Muriel. I can see that to a certain extent, but right now all I'm thinking about is how great and hilarious Pinter's script for this was, considering that I had no expectations due to not being exposed to his theatre work, only his angry old man politics and people saying how BAD his poems were.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 22:10 (sixteen years ago)

MP, I'd never even heard of that Ben Hecht film.

I wonder what the Brooklyn crowd for The Wiz will be like tom'w night given yesterday's news:

http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1302

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 27 June 2009 02:30 (sixteen years ago)

distant - reminded me a lot of antonioni. film nerd lolz at stalker scene
chop shop - good. queens scrapyard flavor

― sleep, Saturday, 27 June 2009 06:11 (sixteen years ago)

shaun of the dead - pretty funny, I was down

― dmr, Saturday, 27 June 2009 13:57 (sixteen years ago)

"The Bridge" = ultra-depressing documentary about suicides on Golden Gate Bridge; sad and intense
"Maniac" = loved the slow motion shotgun blast to the head and the synth score throughout
"Mongol" = some gappy plot problems but very beautiful-to-look-at life story of Genghis Khan

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Saturday, 27 June 2009 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

V - never saw the whole thing, now I have! Pretty entertaining.
V: The Final Battle - Pretty ok for the first two parts then goes to complete shit in the last one. Michael Ironside and lizard baby birth obvious higlights.
The Blob ('88 version) - Solid B-Movie fun.
The Room - no explanation necessary

― looks faintly retarded (latebloomer), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 08:16 (sixteen years ago)

Westworld - sort of boring even for a 70's science fiction movie
Buckaroo Banzai - still wonderful
Putney Swope - I'd always heard about this without hearing what it was about, black radicals taking over an ad agency in 1969 to make unairable commercials, total fun
Santiago Alvarez / He Who Hits First Hits Twice - http://www.othercinemadvd.com/al.html

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

Westworld - sort of boring even for a 70's science fiction movie

recently made the mistake of watching the sequel Futureworld thinking it was Westworld under a diff. title

― am0n, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

dim memories of seeing bits of that when I was maybe twelve. The dream sequences with Yul as dream-robot-lover have kept me away from it. There's nothing to recommend it at all, right?

just looked up the poster's tag line: Futureworld - Where the only way to survive is to kill yourself

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

dream sequence with Yul is on youtube

even worse than 'Capricorn One'

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

Tried to watch Idaho Transfer (Peter Fonda's early seventies time traveling hippie utopia movie) but holy crap it was boring and the acting was just terrible. I liked Ridley Scott's "The Duellists" a lot, though. Described it to my girlfriend and she said "sounds like a dude movie." She's right!

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 20:44 (sixteen years ago)

I saw Putney Swope in '78 when it was re-released on a double bill w/ Animal House!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

The dream sequences with Yul as dream-robot-lover have kept me away from it.
thats his only scene in it, lol

There's nothing to recommend it at all, right?
nah its shit

just looked up the poster's tag line: Futureworld - Where the only way to survive is to kill yourself
nice. that gives away the pisspoor twist ending

― am0n, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

Powder Blue-horrible flick with some j biel nudity

― carne asada, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:59 (sixteen years ago)

Santiago Alvarez / He Who Hits First Hits Twice

This is good!

― admrl, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:59 (sixteen years ago)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona - uggghhh. I am off any new Woody Allen for life. terrible dialogue, terrible voiceover, Scarlett and the other chick totally annoying. Penelope Cruz was the only thing decent in this imo

― dmr, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:29 (sixteen years ago)

not that I was in any danger of seeing Whatever Works, but this clinches it

― dmr, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 13:30 (sixteen years ago)

Caprica - all the brooding seriousness of Galactica and none of the action, but still some interesting moments. better than the ending of season 4, still slightly better than most TV series, who knows
Grey Gardens - this took me about twenty minutes to enter into it, but then...

Arthur Lipsett - Very Nice Very Nice, 21-87

http://www.nysun.com/arts/remembering-arthur-lipsett-the-collage-makes/83924/

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

"Camille" w/Nazimova. Interesting but not awesome. Nazimova somewhat annoying I thought. Valentino pretty great tho.

― f1f0 (Pashmina), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 19:11 (sixteen years ago)

the hurt locker - fantastic

― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 19:32 (sixteen years ago)

Scott Walker: 30th Century Man - Fascinating doc and - for once - some talking heads (his musical arranger on Scott 1-4, Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker) who generally know who they're talking about.

The Masseurs And A Woman - short and sweet

Alien (Director's Cut) - Gets better with age. Probably my fave of the bunch. Used to be Aliens but
I've since grown up.

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:15 (sixteen years ago)

grownups like haunted-house movies set in spaceships?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:22 (sixteen years ago)

I agree that the first Alien is superior but:

but I've since grown up. = gag me w/a spoon

― real men love cheeses (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 July 2009 04:04 (sixteen years ago)

that's some snooty b.s.

― real men love cheeses (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 July 2009 04:04 (sixteen years ago)

The first one is most artfully done but it's all outer space make believe with monsters

― real men love cheeses (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 July 2009 04:08 (sixteen years ago)

*it's still all

― real men love cheeses (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 July 2009 04:11 (sixteen years ago)

Sorry to offend. PS I knew Morbs would pop his pointy littl head in and diss

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 2 July 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)

primer
running scared (80s)
timecrimes
rope

― Mariela Ure (jeff), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

Light Rhythms - Music and Abstraction 1923-1947 - http://www.unseen-cinema.com/disc3.html
A Grin Without A Cat - http://icarusfilms.com/new2001/grin2.html
Sans Soleil (the music is the perfect marriage between Jarré / Tomita / Mother Mallard and the hardcore abstract Parmegiani & Bayle. The music in Grin Without A Cat is absolutely my speed too. How could there not be Chris Marker LPs out there somewhere?)

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:54 (sixteen years ago)

midnight run
find me guilty
the hurt locker

― Mariela Ure (jeff), Friday, 10 July 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

wanna apologize to Capitaine Jay Vee for being kind of a dick upthread.

― Bradolf Pittler (latebloomer), Sunday, 12 July 2009 08:47 (sixteen years ago)

"The Divine Lady" (1928) late silent w/music & fx soundtrack detailing the affair between Horatio Nelson & Lady Emma Hamilton, bit of a bloater TBH. Most of the characters in the film act in a a shitty manner towards Lady Emma, fuck them all b/c they're a bunch od stuffed shirts and she's cute & funny. The film seems to be mainly a vehicle for the costume dept @ 1st national to play dressy-up with Corinne Griffith, which is cool, seeing as she spends 1/2 the film looking like a William Holman Hunt painting brought to life, the other 1/2 looking like someone did a computer morph between Kate Bush and Pola Negri, so obviously I kind of had the major hots for her, like. Print looked in places like it had been gently rubbed over with wire wool. Also a bit mouldy here & there. (I got a friend in Calif to forward me the WB archive silent collection (of which this film is a part) & the Dick Powell/Ruby Keeler set so I have a shitload to watch over the next week or so.)

― f1f0 (Pashmina), Friday, 17 July 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

so last night I see a listing who's title sounds cool and I see it's one of two movies with the same basic name so I set them to record and watch the first one and holy crap it was insane. It was called Hanzo the Razor, The Snare and is an early 70s Japanese movie set during samurai times about a lawman who beats his giant penis then fucks a giant barrel of rice before rudely going after people for corruption in the government and he tortures women to find answers but also shows them "heaven" by rotating them on his giant penis as they're tied up in a net from the ceiling and oh yeah, his entire house is rigged with booby traps to kill his attackers and so on. It's seriously crazy. I have another of the trilogy saved to watch.

Reminds me of some of the Suzuki films I've seen like Branded to Kill. Another film with rough sex and a bizarre sexual obsession with rice.

― dan selzer, Sunday, 26 July 2009 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

The Hanzo movies rule! Too bad that describing them to friends made me look like a psychotic misogynist for enjoying them :(

― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 26 July 2009 15:38 (sixteen years ago)

watched Fantastic Planet again for the first time in like a decade the other night, and last night we watched The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 26 July 2009 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

no hurt locker thread? it was pretty solid. thought it could have done with a little less action/incident though.

― bnw, Monday, 27 July 2009 02:45 (sixteen years ago)

The Orphan was pretty awesome. Too many people brought 3-10 year old kids when I saw it tonight.

― dan selzer, Monday, 27 July 2009 05:11 (sixteen years ago)

Totally put the Hanzo movies on my queue.
I watched Mr. Freedom last night and found it enjoyable, but its pretty bad.

― Trip Maker, Monday, 27 July 2009 18:58 (sixteen years ago)

man, duel to the death is so good

― sleep, Sunday, 9 August 2009 05:32 (sixteen years ago)

^ really cool ninjas in this film

― sleep, Sunday, 9 August 2009 05:36 (sixteen years ago)

no hurt locker thread?

there's a kathryn bigelow thread with some discussion

I saw it Saturday, liked it a lot. that first explosion scene with the rust shaking off the abandoned car was crazy

― dmr, Sunday, 9 August 2009 13:17 (sixteen years ago)

i saw revanche & in the loop.

both are good movies, as u may have heard

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 August 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

finally watched Wild Combination. so good

― dmr, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 13:04 (sixteen years ago)

Death Proof

next up: Tell No One, The Class, L'Avventura

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 00:58 (sixteen years ago)

Tonight:

Nosferatu (Herzog, German version)
maybe Excalibur

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 20 August 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

watched platoon last night.
watched iron man tonight for the third time. turns out, it does not get better with repeated viewings.

― ian, Thursday, 20 August 2009 04:49 (sixteen years ago)

my favorite part of Iron Man was Downey's last line (tho I sorta liked it).

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

cure (pretty good)

tonight: watchmen (this movie is 162 min, i hope it's good)

― the moreno you knowshon (omar little), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

I think i'd rather hang with the captain then the rest of yous.

Just saw Tropic Thunder. It wasn't funny.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

yeah I got a couple chuckles out of it. not so great.

Watchmen was mad boring.

― dmr, Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

Burn Before Reading: meta-awesome
The Happening: not

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

Killing of a Chinese Bookie directors cut
Detroit 9000
at home, on deck.

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 20 August 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

ha: which one is the "director's cut?" long or short one?

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

I think it's the long one.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 21 August 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

short one's better imo; jc shot new footage for it and it's a better edit. actually, they're both good. long one's a bit repetitive, tho.

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 21 August 2009 15:49 (sixteen years ago)

I've seen one of them before. It won't be hard to watch, anyway.
I believe in what Scott S said, more Ben Gazzara can't be a bad thing.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 21 August 2009 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

agreed. "The Paris Number?!"

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 21 August 2009 16:26 (sixteen years ago)

"Fido" was a fucking ridiculous Canadian movie that is basically a genre-exercise Lassie-parody in which the family dog is replaced by "the family zombie".

Totally awesome art-film bizness: "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" is a note-perfect Eric Rohmer time machine of a movie in which you are transported to the highly stylized and artificial world of a 17th century French pastoral romance. Queers of all genders take note that Andy Gillet is super-scrumptious in and out of drag as Celadon. This is a fussy rendition of an already *highly* artificial genre (early modern pastoral) and it is the kind of artsy fartsy celebration of Renaissance classicism that probably acts like Kryptonite to Michael Bay. In short, I loved it.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 21 August 2009 22:41 (sixteen years ago)

I think Rohmer announced that as his last, I still haven't seen it.

Partial recent list (since, um, May):

Lorna's Silence (good not great Dardenne)
Yasukuni
The Seventh Veil
You, the Living
Milestones
Party Girl
In a Lonely Place
On Dangerous Ground
Hamlet Goes Business
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Bruno
The Beaches of Agnes
Devi
Bullitt
Sex Positive
Rashomon
Army of Lovers, or Revolt of the Perverts
The Middleman (S. Ray)
Magnificent Obsession (both versions)
Summer Hours
The Friends of Eddie Coyle

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 August 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)

InglorioUS BasterdSS
The Reckless Moment
L'Argent
La Horse

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 22 August 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

We finally hooked up our VCR so that we could watch "Hell Comes to Frogtown"! Roddy Piper as the last fertile male human in a post-apocalyptic batrachian nightmare world of 80s Nagle-girl bimbos. Like "A Boy and His Dog" with brain damage ("A Boy and His Frog?"). Fun n trashy.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Saturday, 22 August 2009 06:14 (sixteen years ago)

Apparently there is a sequel, which I've been unable to find. On the trashy post-apocalyptic fun tip -- World Gone Wild with Bruce Dern and Adam Ant, and Warriors of the Wasteland which is pretty much a seriously homoerotic low-budget Italian re-imagining of Road Warrior

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Saturday, 22 August 2009 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

Not by design, 3 by women directors:

The Headless Woman (one of year's best thus far)
Born in Flames
Near Dark

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 August 2009 16:11 (sixteen years ago)

Born In Flames is playing Walter Reade soon? I only know it because of the post-punk soundtrack.

― dan selzer, Saturday, 29 August 2009 16:54 (sixteen years ago)

it just did. I'd say it's aged badly, except I see a few contemporary reviews also thought it was soapboxy, dullish rad-feminist claptrap. (one Red Krayola song get replayed endlessly.) Most amusing for tiny roles filled by 1980 downtown types -- Pat Place, Eric Bogosian, Ron Vawter, Kathryn Bigelow (!).

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 August 2009 17:31 (sixteen years ago)

Lesbian Vampire Killers - ineptly made and insanely unfunny. It even fails to live up to the Nuts magazine level of titilation the title promises. Just feeble, amateurish and boring.

Also rented Electra Glide in Blue - where my display name comes from - an interesting little low budget '70s cop movie with a really good central performance from Robert Blake. Shot like a kind of western noir, the long, lonely desert highways and the desolate Arizona landscape look great.

― all you proper coppers... i'm zipper the slipper (DavidM), Saturday, 29 August 2009 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

The Final Destination 3D **HIGHLY REC'D**

― The Macallan 18 Year, Saturday, 29 August 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

inglourious basterds - massively entertaining and the cinema scene at the end had my fiancee teary-eyed(!)

― the moreno you knowshon (omar little), Saturday, 29 August 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

Still Walking (likely into the year's best list)

The Most Dangerous Man in America (good Daniel Ellsberg doc)

Beach Red (1967, Cornel Wilde -- sort of a precursor to both Thin Red Line & Saving Pvt Ryan, w/ Rip Torn as a hayseed sergeant)

The Criminal (1960, Joseph Losey -- hardbitten Brit prison pic)

Yield to the Night (1956, Diana Dors on death row)

Kind Lady (1951, Maurice Evans leads home invasion on Ethel Barrymore)

Hell Drivers (1957, trashy, fun UK spinoff of Wages of Fear)

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 September 2009 13:12 (sixteen years ago)

Tell No One was pretty bad

― dmr, Thursday, 3 September 2009 13:37 (sixteen years ago)

The Damned United. I had fairly middling expectations for this, but it far exceeded them. I don't think it adds up to much, but it was fun to watch.
Michael Sheen's become the go-to guy for playing real life flawed/driven/quirky Englishmen of course, but this was his best work since Fatabulosa. He dominates, naturally, but others do fine work, especially Colm Meany and Jim Broadbent.

― DavidM, Thursday, 3 September 2009 14:14 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Near Dark - Bill Paxton was funny in this

― dmr, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

xpost
Warriors of the Wasteland

contains hilarious decapitation

― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

Baader-Meinhof Komplex (shamelessly pro-Baader-Meinhof, plodding plotline resulting from incoherent patching together of the timeline, tedious final hour, still -- liked it)
Heaven (best reason to love Diane Keaton = her first Negativland-ish media cut-up / interview film of strange people talking about what happens to you when you die)
A Face in the Crowd (more amazing now than ever)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (in 1969, the concept of open marriages was still an innocent & open-eyed one, Robert Culp's character is so hard to pin down because his gold chain outfits later became associated with sleazy middleaged horrorshow guys, a stereotype that later became a stand-in for someone you're supposed to hate, and yet in this film, he's kind of a likable guy who loves his wife more than anything -- all the group therapy scenes are so hilarious & wonderful and wow I really loved this film)
Mary Hartman Mary Hartman - volume 1 DVD box (some of the most surreal and demented television I've ever seen)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

watched Two-lane blacktop yesterday and a couple of documentaries.
Poto and Cabengo by j-p gorin, made after the dziga vertov group was over, that sort of addresses what he had done with godard \ his voluntary exile in a foreign language for a change via the story of 2 little girls who invented a private language .

hands on a hard body. a contest for a truck where the winner among the couple of dozens of contestants is the one who keep a hand on it for the longest amount of time. after many hours of standing in the heat pain +hallucinations ensues but still it turns out that for most contestants this experience gets to be, uh, a sort of a rite of passage to... nothing in particular, it's absurd but still most feel it's a transformative experience. one of those participants said :"Don’t they realize that we’re sufferin’, that we’re hurtin’? And you feel like they’re kinda bloodthirsty. It seems so absurd, very absurd. It’s a human drama thing; it’s more than just a contest, and winning a truck."

memorable thing i watched a couple of weeks ago : The Polish Ambulance Murders . if it was a fiction, a diatribe against market economy and the commodification of death i would have wished they toned the grotesque down a bit. more realism for a better deliverey of the criticism. but it's all real and revolting. messed up stuff.

― Sébastien, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

i want to see the baader-meinhof complex but i don't think it will be showing near me. even though reviews i read were mixed, i think i would like it.

― ketchup dood (harbl), Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:36 PM (10 months ago)

k it's finally here. should i go?

― steamed hams (harbl), Sunday, 27 September 2009 15:45 (sixteen years ago)

someone told me to see poto and cabengo and i promptly forgot about it. thx 4 reminder

― straight b*tch (harbl), Saturday, February 7, 2009 8:27 PM (7 months ago)

lol, forgot again. thx myself and sébastien 4 reminder

― steamed hams (harbl), Sunday, 27 September 2009 15:46 (sixteen years ago)

devil fetus - hong kong ghost story horror film that is completely inexplicable and basically makes zero sense, but features some decent gore. i still have no idea what happened, if there actually was a devil fetus, and there were many other questions left unsolved. also one of the best things about HK films is how they have wonderfully inconsistent tones, and this one just stays on one the entire time. and even by HK standards this has bad subtitles.

possessed II - a much better hong kong ghost story film, with lots of awkward comedy and good bloodletting, just the sort of juxtaposition of tones that i like in HK films. it doesn't make much sense either, though.

― omar little, Sunday, 27 September 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

Who Can Kill a Child? - opening montage of atrocities against children in history take on a different meaning in the context of the film

A Face in the Crowd (more amazing now than ever) - It's one of my all time favorites

Casino Royale - starring Daniel Craig's neck - it seemed like almost every close up shot of him focuses on his neck

― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Sunday, 27 September 2009 22:12 (sixteen years ago)

i want to see the baader-meinhof complex but i don't think it will be showing near me. even though reviews i read were mixed, i think i would like it.

― ketchup dood (harbl), Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:36 PM (10 months ago)

k it's finally here. should i go?

― steamed hams (harbl), Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:45 PM (Yesterday)

yes, its pretty entertaining. fast-paced, surreal at times. im not sure if the movie makes sense to those not familiar with raf history, though.

― ☆, Monday, 28 September 2009 02:14 (sixteen years ago)

i was only vaguely familiar with the history, and it still made sense. It made that movie, The Third Generation that came out a few years ago make more sense.

― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Monday, 28 September 2009 02:15 (sixteen years ago)

The Third Generation (Fassbinder) was 30 years ago.

― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

ok i think i am familiar enough, will probably go tonight

― steamed hams (harbl), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

yes it was entertaining. not the best thing ever but it was about all i expected. thank you, ☆.

― steamed hams (harbl), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

The Third Generation (Fassbinder) was 30 years ago.

― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 28, 2009 5:22 AM (13 hours ago)

Sorry, I meant The Edukators.

― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:15 (sixteen years ago)

kontroll -- stylish enough and some nice moments, but oh the heavy hand of allegory. memo to filmmakers: your christ figures do not need actual bleeding wounds on their palms.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

also just watched rikyu, which i enjoyed but would have liked more if the digital transfer hadn't been so godawful. like watching a movie through a dirty window.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

Werewolf of Woodstock - dude hates hippies and festivals so much he turns into a werewolf (that's simplifying the plot a bit)

― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

Still Walking (very fine)
The Cloud-Capped Star
35 Shots of Rum (2nd time, among year's best)
Fat City
Sawdust and Tinsel
Paradise (Michael Almereyda)
Liverpool
A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson)
various Andersson shorts
That Hamilton Woman
The Gay Divorcee
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (crazy-bad UK gangster film)
The Architecture of Doom
The Bigamist (Ida Lupino)
The Milk of Sorrow
An American Journey
JAMES MASON:
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Odd Man Out
The Upturned Glass

― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 October 2009 14:08 (sixteen years ago)

the band wagon -- why have i never watched this before?

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

Hurt Locker
Fire Walk With Me (whoa)
Wendy & Lucy (i don't think i could bear these films if they were longer than 70 mins, but as they are i really like them)
Hud

No more cinema for me for a while now that I'm in Germany. Non-English films are not an option (subtitling is in German) and only the blockbusters make it to the one place that screens English-language films undubbed.

― caek, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

phantom of the paradise

the 1970s were funny

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, 9 October 2009 21:35 (sixteen years ago)

To Die Like a Man (Rodrigues, NYFF)
Son Frere (best Chereau of the '00s?)
Marlene (Dietrich doc)
Visual Acoustics
Road House (yes, the Swayze cheeseball)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Sirk)

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 October 2009 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

how was visual acoustics?

― caek, Saturday, 10 October 2009 08:08 (sixteen years ago)

I liked it, not knowing anything about Shulman aside from that one famed Hollywood Hills nightscape photo, and he had a charming persona.

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

looking forward to it

― caek, Sunday, 11 October 2009 17:34 (sixteen years ago)

Kings and Queen, which holds up well.
Dangerous Liasions
The Informant!
Belles Toujours

― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 October 2009 18:01 (sixteen years ago)

Swing Time (Fred & Ginger being awesome, until Fred Astaire blackface number oh noes)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (glitch on DVD fucked me up, never made it to the crucifixion)

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 11 October 2009 18:47 (sixteen years ago)

sometimes you feel like a motherless child.

White Material (NYFF, Claire Denis, intense but wobbly)
Pit and the Pendulum (Corman/Price; less, Vincent, less)

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

L'Avventura
Adventureland

^^^^ lol nice accidental double feature. see what I did there

― dmr, Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

the hired hand, enjoyed thoroughly.

― ian, Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

Been on holiday for a week, took a bunch of DVDs with me:
"Gold Diggers of 1933" poss my favourite ever film.
"The Circus" (great, unfuckable w/.)
"Bare Knees" (1928) great, totally "other" in every way.
"Shipmates Forever" Borzage romance w/Dick Powell & Ruby Keeler, atrocious.
"When a Man Loves" (silent vers of Manon Lescault w/John Barrymore & Dolores Costello) really bad, Ms Costello a terrible actress
"Colleen" 1936 Powell/Keeler musical w/Joan Blondell. Pure fluff, but for what it was, just about perfect. Probably dug this film the most this week. A pleasant surprise, i was expecting it to blow.
"Ready Willing & Able" Ruby Keeler w/o Dick Powell. Oh dear. Not too great, but not actually terrible.
"The Sea Hawk" silent swashbuckler. A++++ fucking great. Totally thrilling from start to finish.
"The First Auto" Silent movie depicting the arrival of the first motor car in a hick town. Snore.
What I have learned:
1/DARE I SAY IT WB/1st National silents not A PATCH on Paramount's.
2/Add Joan Blondell to any movie = you have a better movie
3/what kind of nutjob puts Ruby Keeler into a film, but doesn't have her sing or dance?! Dancing was about all she could do really.

― mu-mu (Pashmina), Sunday, 11 October 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

going through the George Kuchar films: http://www.ubu.com/film/kuchar.html

first two are good. third one 'Eclipse of the Sun Virgin' is the first one that really just did me in. sort of like Kenneth Anger crossed with a straight repressed John Waters.

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 21:54 (sixteen years ago)

moolaadé -- wow, good movie. so lively and colorful and entertaining that it shouldn't be as heartbreaking as it is, or vice versa.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

MP, I don't find George K straight and repressed...

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:37 (sixteen years ago)

Baby Doll (So great, why did I wait so long to see this one?)

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:50 (sixteen years ago)

>MP, I don't find George K straight and repressed...

maybe he's not, it's just so much of the love scenes in his films are beautiful young straight couples shown in a campy but pretty gratuitous & uncritical light, cut in with lumpy shots of kuchar by himself looking excluded so I may have jumped to a conclusion about the nature of the exclusion

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 18:37 (sixteen years ago)

donna rouge & I saw some SF school stuff he shot w/ his students in the '70s that was the most blatantly queer stuff I've seen from him (and I've seen a lot)

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2009 00:09 (sixteen years ago)

Remember The (That?) Night
La Nuit du Carrefour
Hour Of the Wolf
A Double Tour
Kraftwerk/Krautrock doc

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 15 October 2009 05:44 (sixteen years ago)

>donna rouge & I saw some SF school stuff he shot w/ his students in the '70s that was the most blatantly queer stuff I've seen from him (and I've seen a lot)

ok well last night I got to Pagan Rhapsody in 1970, and that's the first one where you can't miss it. scanned through the earlier ones and it's there too, less blatant -- like the occasional lingering POV shot of a guy's neck. overall orientation seems more omnivore than queer though, any character can suddenly be fucking any other character at any time, except for kuchar himself who just sits there with a strange expression on his face and his hair uncombed

they're all total fun though, I love the way he uses music

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 15 October 2009 18:34 (sixteen years ago)

Two Lovers
36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup
Ne change rien
In a Dream
35 rhums

― C0L1N B..., Friday, 16 October 2009 04:01 (sixteen years ago)

I just watched The Time of the Wolf also. Interesting but kinda clammy example of Haneke's aesthetic working through a hostile genre form. I liked the weird overlaps with his over movies (the premise that starts it resembles Funny Games, but now the whole world has been levelled down into a Hobbesian war of all against all, a young boy named Benny ala Benny's Video, etc.).

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

other movies, oops

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

L'Avventura
Adventureland

^^^^ lol nice accidental double feature. see what I did there

― dmr, Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:21 PM (5 days ago) [IP: 69.112.173.223] Bookmark

ha, i just watched adventureland too. pretty enjoyable and v. nice soundtrack imo

did you like l'avventura?

― sleep, Friday, 16 October 2009 18:52 (sixteen years ago)

The Mist (loved it, especially the Cthulhu elephant creature at the end)

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 18 October 2009 05:36 (sixteen years ago)

Anvil The Story of Anvil - pretty good!

― dmr, Saturday, 31 October 2009 04:49 (sixteen years ago)

Wings of Desire
Z
A Serious Man
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
Bright Star
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Wild River (Kazan)
White Material
The Shout (Skolimowski, 1979)
Afterschool
The Third Man
Paper Flowers
A Day in the Life (Italian neorealist tale of nuns and partisans, 1946)
Rembrandt's J'accuse (Greenaway)
Motherhood

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

Buffalo Bill & The Indians
Vincent & Theo
Le Jour Se Leve
Teorema
Subarnarekha

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 5 November 2009 03:54 (sixteen years ago)

and slowly finishing Berlin Alexanderplatz but the last couple of episodes (10 & 11) actually gave me nightmares!

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 5 November 2009 03:55 (sixteen years ago)

did he lose his foot there?

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 November 2009 07:36 (sixteen years ago)

North by Northwest
Force of Evil
The Hand of Fatima
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:24 (sixteen years ago)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A++ hater tots

― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:25 (sixteen years ago)

I bet you're glad Fox didn't send Slant a Blu-Ray of NxNW!

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:56 (sixteen years ago)

(Warner, I mean)

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:57 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, dodged a crop-duster on that one.

― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:58 (sixteen years ago)

and so it got 4 stars instead of 2!

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

Everybody wins.

― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:12 (sixteen years ago)

Talladega Nights
Two Lane Blacktop

^^^ another unintentional double feature courtesy of my Netflix q

― dmr, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Buffalo Bill and the Indians
A Perfect Couple
Touch of Evil

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

going to see bad lieutenant this afternoon
at home to watch: poor pretty eddie.

― ian, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

Man Push Cart
The Delinquents
Mammoth
Scanners

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

how is it possible to not like north by northwest!!

― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

La Cage Aux Folles - nuff said
Peau d'Ane (Donkey Skin)- omg Jacques Demy incest fairy tale movie starring Deneuve with wayyyy trippy sets n costumes

― twice boiled cabbage is death, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:22 (sixteen years ago)

black narcissus
homicide (mamet)
burden of dreams
the nomi song
mona lisa

― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

Watched My Dinner with Andre for the first time last week. Loved it.
Will watch The Postman Always Rings Twice tonight or tomorrow.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

also:
Zigfield Girl

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

Peau d'Ane (Donkey Skin)- omg -- yeah liked this a lllot better than Girls of Rochefort. But nothing's Parapluies.

Splendor in the Grass - aw gee whiz

The Swimmer - Super Good! Totally overdone pathos late 60's mid-life crisis film -- you know Burt Lancaster is playing someone who's lost their mind, but the slow reveal to show you just how completely mad he's become takes it to the level of an A++ Twilight Zone episode

Killer of Sheep - at moments it almost seems too beautifully stylized, but then you blink and you realize it's not style at all, the camera's just effortlessly showing you beautiful things and interactions and you're just not used to seeing a film about life in the projects in the 70's outside the lens of blaxploitation films, it's an incredible film

500 Days of Summer - you will see this on a plane

The Room - I expected youtube to have all the best moments, but no, EVERY SCENE DELIVERS, it's the real thing

Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans - I expected more, but yes pretty good

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 21:13 (sixteen years ago)

what did you expect more of?

mark, Eric hates the "screwball" elements.

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

bah

― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 22:28 (sixteen years ago)

Children of Paradise
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond ('new' Tennessee Williams)
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (nice, docked for too much jazz)
The Bad Lieutenant -- Port of Call: New Orleans

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

what did you expect more of?

expectations set by the promise of a franchise (the title is pure marketing, Ferrara's within rights to feel disrespected), Herzog keeping things relatively normal apart from a few precious moments of Gator & Iguana, and I'm still waiting for the film where Cage goes to where he did in 'Vampire's Kiss' but this time around as a terrifying mid-lifer, and this could have been it. so... led astray by expectations but when promised Herzog + Cage + Ferrara, no way around having expectations

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:31 (sixteen years ago)

Ferrara's films that I've seen, The Funeral excepted, are kinda shit, and this is the better Bad Lt, unrelated or not.

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 02:53 (sixteen years ago)

Gomorrah (we'll see)
The Bad Seed
On Dangerous Ground
Funny People
An Education

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 03:02 (sixteen years ago)

I rather enjoyed Bad Lieutenant. I have not seen the original film tho. I think the most WTF moment for me was the ----

SPOILER _----___S_D______

the most wtf moment for me was the first time he shakes down the club kids & smokes all that crack. he's yelling some far out shit tbh and it was kinda intense.

END SPOILER!!!!!!

there were some serious lols in this movie. recommended.

― ian, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 03:29 (sixteen years ago)

killer of sheep is dope

― luol deng (am0n), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 04:19 (sixteen years ago)

Ferrara's films that I've seen, The Funeral excepted, are kinda shit, and this is the better Bad Lt, unrelated or not.

will always have a soft spot in my heart for Ms. 45. don't get me wrong, this new Action Film by Werner Herzog is definitely worth $10 and the last half hour keeps the laughs coming

xpost yeah think I have to watch Killer of Sheep again, hopefully next time not on a laptop, such a sadness

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:16 (sixteen years ago)

G.I. Joe : Rise of Cobra (so bad, obviously)
Ferocious Beast with a Gun (unhinged giallo)

― twice boiled cabbage is death, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:17 (sixteen years ago)

mark, Eric hates the "screwball" elements.

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

man, nxnw puts the screw in screwball. it's a sexy movie. and things like the auction scene are just timed and played so well.

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 07:53 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsE9g-0xmY

james mason at 5:06 here kills me

― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 15:03 (sixteen years ago)

Heartbeeps (Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as robots who fall in love, w Mary Woronov cameo)
Die, Die My Darling! (So bad, only watched it because of the Misfits song, Tallulah Bankhead is awes, but . . . )
Madame Bovary (Vincente Minelli weepie version of Flaubert with crazy James Mason voiceover)

― twice boiled cabbage is death, Friday, 27 November 2009 06:15 (sixteen years ago)

Canyon Passage (Tourneur goes west)
Portrait of Jennie
Seraphine
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Capitalism: A Love Story
$9.99 (sleeper Australian-Israeli stopmotion animation)
Katyn
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Corman, 1967)

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 November 2009 17:55 (sixteen years ago)

killer of sheep is dope

― luol deng (am0n), Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:19 PM (5 days ago)

it's true

i watched:
grizzly man - why did i not watch this before it was hilarious & great
la bête humaine - pretty good but i bet the book is better

― harbl, Sunday, 29 November 2009 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

The Misfits
Tyson
Mahanagar
El Dorado

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

My November (+ Halloween):

THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN
THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX
NINJA ASSASSIN
DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY
THE WIZARD OF OZ
LIVERPOOL
TONY MANERO
THE STUFF
LATE MARRIAGE
PRECIOUS
KONTROLL
ANTICHRIST
2012
PLATFORM
HIS WIFE'S LOVER
YELLOW EARTH
A SERIOUS MAN
REPRISE
BIRTH
AN EDUCATION
HOWARDS END
SLITHER
THE FUNHOUSE
THE SHINING

― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

i saw fantastic mr fox and i did not lvoe it.

― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:56 (sixteen years ago)

Did you anti-love it?

― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Monday, 30 November 2009 01:59 (sixteen years ago)

i uncle-loved it

― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Monday, 30 November 2009 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

It is a sort of family movie.

― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Monday, 30 November 2009 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

the cotton club - really good, really entertaining film imo. this film has one of my favorite scenes in any film ever, involving bob hoskins, fred gwynne, and an argument over a broken watch that's pretty hilarious and kinda touching.

suddenly! - mid-'50s sinatra/sterling hayden flick. sinatra plays a killer hired to assassinate the president, situating himself at an open window in a nearby building, using a high-powered rifle. if sinatra actually wanted to hide an assassination flick he starred in from the public, this would have been the one. not great, but decent enough. pretty crazy ending.

the great escape

― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 30 November 2009 03:49 (sixteen years ago)

Lots:

Goodbye Solo
The Fantastic Mr Fox
Funny People
Sweet Smell of Success
Gomorrah
An Education

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 November 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

bob hoskins, fred gwynne, and an argument over a broken watch that's pretty hilarious and kinda touching.

from one viewing in 1984, I seem to recall this is one of maybe 3 good scenes in the film (the others involving the almost-dead Julian Beck).

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 November 2009 03:52 (sixteen years ago)

sweet smell of success is one of the greatest ever. alfred was it your first time?

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Monday, 30 November 2009 04:16 (sixteen years ago)

I find Sweet Smell v entertaining but a tad slick. Great J W Howe b&w tho.

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 November 2009 04:30 (sixteen years ago)

ya, well it's about slicksters! so it fits i think.

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Monday, 30 November 2009 04:33 (sixteen years ago)

as a lapsed Wes Anderson fan who thought the last two of his sucked pretty hard I enjoyed Mr. Fox

― dmr, Monday, 30 November 2009 05:10 (sixteen years ago)

thanksgiving with the in-laws --

Twilight: about what I expected I guess, watchable but pretty lame
Angels and Demons: was kind of enjoying this as a straight-up thriller until the last third when it got super ridic

― dmr, Monday, 30 November 2009 05:13 (sixteen years ago)

it's a very good scene, morbs. i would recommend giving it another "screening", i liked it a lot more than i did when i saw it ten years ago.

― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 30 November 2009 07:00 (sixteen years ago)

the cotton club - really good, really entertaining film imo. this film has one of my favorite scenes in any film ever, involving bob hoskins, fred gwynne, and an argument over a broken watch that's pretty hilarious and kinda touching.
― jØrdån (omar little), Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:49 PM (Yesterday)

probably the first celeb crush i ever had was Diane Lane from this.

― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 30 November 2009 08:15 (sixteen years ago)

Boogie Nights
Videodrome
Casablanca
Adventureland
Badlands
Chinatown
District 9
The Watchmen
Days of Heaven
Inglorious Basterds
In The Loop

Apart from district 9 and the watchmen, which were both awful, that was a pretty good month of films.

― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 10:37 (sixteen years ago)

Falcon & the Snowman (ace)
Repo Man (memorized)
Day The Earth Stood Still (remake)
88 minutes (wot crap)

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 30 November 2009 16:54 (sixteen years ago)

3/4 of these were with the parents...

in the loop
the descent (whyyyy did i wait so long to see this?)
fantastic mr. fox
funny people
twilight (perversely entertaining)
adventureland
the last days of disco
lymelife
knowing (!!!)
i love you man (not quite as bad as i expected)

― psychgawsple, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:47 (sixteen years ago)

sweet smell of success is one of the greatest ever. alfred was it your first time?

Heavens no! I wish. The rare times it lapses into Mankiewicz/Wilder I'm-rotten-you're-rotten-we-belong-together twaddle no longer bother me.

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

well i mean come on.. "you're a cookie full of arsenic. i'd hate to take a bite outta you." DAMN

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 02:56 (sixteen years ago)

or maybe he says it the other way around

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 02:56 (sixteen years ago)

It's the other way around, but yeah.

"You're a good man, Harvey, and someday, god willing, you may want to be president..."

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

J.J. Hunsecker: You're dead, son. Get yourself buried.

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 03:05 (sixteen years ago)

"I know there was another time when you didn't put things together. Boy, was the mayor mad!"

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 03:08 (sixteen years ago)

did you ever read that VF feature about the making of? it was so fascinating... mackendrick was terrified of lancaster and his producing partner...there was this one story of lancaster stepping out of the bathroom in his office, zipping up his fly and saying "she swallowed!" in front of the horrified brit, who he'd just met...

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 03:16 (sixteen years ago)

About eight or nine years ago? Yep. Lancaster didn't think much of it ultimately since it didn't make much money, right? Curtis, on the other hand, maintains (still does, to his credit) that it's the best role he ever got.

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 03:18 (sixteen years ago)

curtis is truly one of the weirdest men alive. have you ever seen his interviews on the some like it hot dvd?

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 03:24 (sixteen years ago)

None too closeted fagito.

I know I've read that Lancaster's miscast in SSOS, but if so it's one of the most inspired miscastings in film history. Look at his physique. If J.J. looked like H.R. Haldeman or the real Winchell we and everyone on screen wouldn't be so terrified of'em.

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 03:27 (sixteen years ago)

ya his physicality is so unexpected. i think it's fantastic.

― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

the small back room (powell/prssbrgr brit noir about alcoholic bomb-defusers, great trippy DTs sequence)

― twice boiled cabbage is death, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 18:54 (sixteen years ago)

Peter Ibbetson ( weird and beautiful. Can totally see why the Surrealists loved this )
Inspector Lavardin (somewhat hammy Chabrol but dude pulls it off)

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 02:22 (sixteen years ago)

Straight Time - vintage dustin hoffman as a burglar (also gary busey, harry dean stanton, young kathy bates, theresa russell (WS))
Drag Me To Hell - awesome

― dmr, Monday, 7 December 2009 15:12 (sixteen years ago)

Vicky Christina Barcelona - I mean, I know everyone's been saying Woody Allen is now little more than a creep way past his prime but I had no idea. Jesus wept this movie.

I only watched it for ScarJo - who, incidentally, is looking less and less likely too get a role that actually suits her. For gawd sake ppl, stop putting her in roles that require her to ACT. That isn't her thing. Go back and look at her work from the Golden Years (2001-2003, roughly The Man Who Wasn't There -> Girl w/the Pearl Earring) she does basilisk-eyed, insouciant ice-teen and that's it. I speak as a fan. So, yeah, maybe the game's up.

Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee - Anyone seen this? Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine pissing about, basically. Some really lol moments, but kind of eh overall. Needed more Scor-Zay-Zee tbh, he stole it from Considine whenever he was given half a chance.

― DavidM, Monday, 7 December 2009 15:33 (sixteen years ago)

Q: The Winged Serpent

― unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:17 (sixteen years ago)

100% awesomeness

― unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:25 (sixteen years ago)

Come and See - Russian WW2 movie - surreal in parts and definitely grim

― sarahel, Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

The Bank Job
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

― dmr, Sunday, 13 December 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

rosenstrasse - it was bad

― harbl, Sunday, 13 December 2009 22:12 (sixteen years ago)

The Hangover

― dmr, Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

Q: the winged serpent is great!

― mu-mu (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:35 (sixteen years ago)

Q: The Winged Serpent

― unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:17 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

100% awesomeness

― unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:25 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

second post really should have been "A: 100% awesomeness"

― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

latebloomer is slippin : /

― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:56 (sixteen years ago)

need more rest ;_;

― krampus activities (latebloomer), Friday, 18 December 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)

where the wild things are
to live and die in l.a. (someone told me this is a xmas movie o_O)
avatar
house of the devil (pretty good)
martyrs
captivity (meh)
they live! (great)
big trouble in little china (not as good :/)

― cozwn, Friday, 18 December 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

curse of the jade scorpion (wooden woody)

tonight we're gonna watch:

the third generation
i spit on your grave

― twice boiled cabbage is death, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:02 (sixteen years ago)

Q: The Winged Serpent is so great -- At this point I've played God Told Me To for so many people, I'm overdue to go back to Q & The Stuff & Bone again

Equinox - 1967 $6500 horror film by the guy who went on to do Star Wars -- the claymation is fun and the bad acting is is just amusing enough, just barely rewarding enough to check out on a slow night
Sweet Smell of Success - thank you guys for bringing this up upthread, media critique movie that's always been on my list. Burt Lancaster's eyes are so terrifying, he plays the curve from intense to completely deranged so well, did he ever get a role where he gets actively violent? Not like he needs to, the psychological setup in this one is so depraved and damaged, it's impressive for 1957. Friend just lent me her copy of Elmer Gantry, so that's next...

xpost oh man 'Third Generation' is maybe in my top 5 Fassbinders. I think M.C. will like that one, the number of impossibilities per second, speeding past Udo Kier's afro

― Milton Parker, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:10 (sixteen years ago)

i need to see this third generation

― harbl, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:12 (sixteen years ago)

it's a lot funnier than The Baader-Meinhof Komplex

& about Lancaster... anyone who's into films about American suburbs made surreal, I haven't stopped thinking about 'The Swimmer' since I saw it, it's weird and good

― Milton Parker, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:23 (sixteen years ago)

Third Generation is really great

Need to see The Day After

― sarahel, Friday, 18 December 2009 20:44 (sixteen years ago)

quatermass xperiment
point blank (omg @ the dvd transfer of this)
blue steel

― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Friday, 18 December 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

Public Enemiesszzzzzzz
The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner
Up in the Air

― dmr, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:38 (sixteen years ago)

gumshoe
the fearless vampire killers
willie and phil
orpheus
the designated mourner (only made it thru like 30 mins)
the landlord

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:28 (sixteen years ago)

Romantico (good doc on sixtyish Mexican 'illegal' who sings in SF restaurants)
Mulholland Dr.
lots of mediocre to awful year-end movies

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

xmas break movies lol catching up/turning brain off
started out well, and then...

Terminator 2
Up
the empire strikes back
Anvil the story of anvil
star wars
two lovers
x-men origins: wolverine
love happens
four christmases
easy virtue
the proposal
lost in translation (i like this movie and so, rewatch)

to come:

an education
departures
moon
taking woodstock (uh?)
inglorious basterds
the hurt locker
(etc)

― dragon movies (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 02:07 (sixteen years ago)

avatard
vertigo (no matter how many times you see it, it's always more twisted than you remember)
a scanner darkly (the visuals make the film, pretty good as philip k dick adaptions go)
au hasard balthazar (WORST CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVER)

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 08:28 (sixteen years ago)

vertigo (no matter how many times you see it, it's always more twisted than you remember)

also funnier, but maybe that's just me.

― sarahel, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 08:32 (sixteen years ago)

An Education has nothing to do with xmas but it is so far the best movie i have watched over xmas break

― dragon movies (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:26 (sixteen years ago)

Me and Orson Welles (generally delightful)
Burma VJ (riveting doc of hellacious doings)

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 December 2009 17:00 (sixteen years ago)

whip it
up in the air
the third man
my son, my son what have ye done

― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 05:58 (sixteen years ago)

the hurt locker omg whoa

i watched everything on my 'to come' list except had to stop Taking Woodstock 30 minutes in because boring
also watched
The Ugly Truth
The International
and was force fed Extraordinary Measures today, which sounds like it might be an espionage thriller but is actually abt sick kids and biotech venture capital and brendan fraser's face. could hardly sit through it.

― dragon movies (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 06:12 (sixteen years ago)

i'm taking a good break from hollywood movies holy crap
this thread has good ideas

― dragon movies (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 06:26 (sixteen years ago)

(gonna go see hurt locker today)

Bala
Days & Nights In the Forest
Pull My Daisy
Life Of Brian

― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 15:23 (sixteen years ago)

Old Joy - pretty awesome if you're in the mood for something quiet. think I liked this better than Wendy & Lucy which I saw first

also saw Baghead and Away We Go which both had some ok parts and some annoying parts

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

Cocaine Cowboys (doc)
Trading Places
Escape From New York
There Will Be Blood -- great soundtrack
Popeye (Altman vers) -- quite possibly the most stoned movie ever

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:29 (sixteen years ago)

popeye is on my rescreen list... mad movie.

― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:35 (sixteen years ago)

example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz884EUAqi4
widescreen photography with a consistent lack of 90 degree angles:
sea sick on land

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

I have the soundtrk LP (1980 purchase)

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

Popeye is my fave Altman movie between 3 Women and Short Cuts.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

vertigo (no matter how many times you see it, it's always more twisted than you remember)

also funnier, but maybe that's just me.

― sarahel, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 08:32 (1 week ago) Bookmark

i am watching this tonight. after rear window and nxnw i am ready to have my mind blown and my senses thrilled a third time round

― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 18:32 (sixteen years ago)

this is such a slow-burner!! gotta say i didn't see the twist coming. i'd already worked out a far more outlandish one in which midge was madeleine :D that'll teach me to second-guess!

midge is way hotter and saucier and generally more attractive than the kim novak character obv. snappy chick who paints and has a sense of humour? will take that ahead of doomed tragic...oh wait maybe that's the point of the movie!

― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:47 (sixteen years ago)

(it's not, but it's telling that he can only pursue a remembrance of death, like madeleine in her act...as that chris marker crit piece says, midge is painted out entirely for the second half)

― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 05:22 (sixteen years ago)

fallen angels - reaffirmed as my favorite wkw movie
eastern promises - zzzzzz

on the dock
the wrestler
the third man

― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Thursday, 7 January 2010 05:34 (sixteen years ago)

I just bought an expander hard drive for my DVR, so I'm getting ready for some serious movie watching.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 06:00 (sixteen years ago)

big fan

― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Thursday, 7 January 2010 06:47 (sixteen years ago)

did u like

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 07:17 (sixteen years ago)

it was simple, but good. patton was great, but i think it could've used some more laffs.

― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Thursday, 7 January 2010 08:00 (sixteen years ago)

obsessed football fans are maximum laughter under any circumstances

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2010 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

did u see this

― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Thursday, 7 January 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

it's been on my table for about 6 weeks; I need to watch then give to allyz4y!

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 January 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

thanks 4 the comments

― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Thursday, 7 January 2010 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

big fan

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Friday, 8 January 2010 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

Sin Nombre

500 Days of Summer - ugh terrible. cutesy indie bullshit overload

― dmr, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

Foreign Correspondent - Alright Hitchcock until the total WTF last 20 minutes
Wings Of Desire - Loved it more this time around than I remember. Classic.
Faraway, So Close - "So Close" is right. But no cigar. I thought it started off great then just devolved into almost a completely diff. movie

― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

yeah 'faraway so close' is a weird one.

cool hand luke is the only film i've watched recently, i need to catch up on a bunch for the film poll.

p.s.

~~~~The Top 75 films/movies of the 2000s/oughties VOTING THREAD~~~~

― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

Foreign Correspondent - Alright Hitchcock until the total WTF last 20 minutes

ha. yeah I watched that one last year

― dmr, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

don't recall much wrong w/ last 20 mins

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 11:46 (sixteen years ago)

Moscow on the Hudson -- one of Mazursky's underrated films; wonderful lead performance by Robin Williams; robust use of comic stereotypes (funny blacks and swishy Franklin Pangborn wannabe).

A Tale of Springtime
Streets of Shame

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:28 (sixteen years ago)

don't recall much wrong w/ last 20 mins

There's nothing wrong with the last 20 minutes, it's just that the movie kinda comes to a natural end, and then suddenly there's this whole plane crash plot twist out of nowhere after that.

― I Am Curious (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

exactly

― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:45 (sixteen years ago)

Sherlock Holmes (2009) : A good looking loud mess. I thought Downey Jr. was going to wink at the camera after every poorly accented, mumbled quip. Lamest bad guy in a looong time, too, though the actor would make a good Fantomas if they ever tried to remake the Feuillade serials. Just sayin'.

― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:49 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

HAUSU

the rest of the film is just as good as the scenes on youtube, like Suspiria levels of good

― Milton Parker, Friday, 29 January 2010 08:34 (fifteen years ago)

bad santa
kings and queen
in the loop
public enemies

^^^pretty dope flicks

― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, 30 January 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

yup

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Saturday, 30 January 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)

the historical inaccuracies in 'public enemies' are pretty nuts but mann sells them well. love the little bohemia scene. stephen lang deserves some serious props for his work in that film, too. he's kinda underrated.

― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, 30 January 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

should i see broken embraces

― harbl, Saturday, 30 January 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:13 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

loved him in this, especially the last fight with dillinger in the power loader

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Saturday, 30 January 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

Nid de guêpes aka The Nest (2002)

*incredibly* dope French action flick, basically a remake of "Assault on Precinct 13" with a little bit of Hard-Boiled and a tiny dose of "Aliens" (stylistically) thrown in for good measure. See this immediately imo.

― ('_') (omar little), Sunday, 31 January 2010 08:06 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

stuff i watched this week on "vacation"

capturing the friedmans (liked)
together (liked)
chop shop (was ok)
ballast (very good)
rachel getting married (*barfs*)
4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days (really liked)
stepbrothers (lol)
sin nombre (not very interesting)
beau travail (great)

― harbl, Sunday, 14 February 2010 18:37 (fifteen years ago)

Avatar
Ten (Kiarostami)
Notre Musique
Inglourious Basterds
A Foreign Affair

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 February 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

Dogville (felt like they could have shaved 120 minutes off the running time, but it didn't make me angry)
In The Mood For Love (v pretty)

― caek, Sunday, 14 February 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

also

Serious Man (i enjoyed it but i don't think i got it)
Charly (not great, a bit too much groovy 1960s stuff, cliff robertson good tho)

― caek, Sunday, 14 February 2010 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

Coming Apart - vintage late 60s/early 70s interpersonal psychosis with interesting ending music - Milton Parker have you seen this movie? If not, you should!

― sarahel, Sunday, 14 February 2010 20:09 (fifteen years ago)

tender mercies - liked it a lot, duvall was fantastic
shotgun stories - pretty good
the fury - couldnt even get thru it
tempest - strange pacing, i dont like cassavetes as an actor, too long

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 February 2010 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/IM000053a.jpg

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 February 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

The Wolfman - lols for real. could've actually worked with dif director (e.g. guy ritchie, robert rodriguez), alas... super gory tho

morbs, am about to watch Far From Heaven, which i somehow never saw

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Monday, 15 February 2010 01:38 (fifteen years ago)

xp - Milton - is that staged or did you just happen to have that dvd out and the Marissa cd?

― sarahel, Monday, 15 February 2010 01:45 (fifteen years ago)

nice pipe, milton ;) and monoshock! i was listning to liquorball yesterday.

― Joint Custody (ian), Monday, 15 February 2010 03:18 (fifteen years ago)

oh i had seen far from heaven! but hardly remembered it, don't know why
it's great!!

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Monday, 15 February 2010 04:42 (fifteen years ago)

also, dennis haysbert WS (also the reason why i held on past S3 of The Unit tbh dude is awes)

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Monday, 15 February 2010 04:46 (fifteen years ago)

xpost picture is several years old now, dates from old threads back when mari55a was still posting, only thing still on the desk is the pipe

recent DVDs:
Emergency Broadcast Network: WARNING Authorized Bootleg Auto-Entertainment Device (video work 1991-1998)
Keeping Score: Ives / Holidays Symphony
Mellodrama (pretty amazing documentary on the history / development of the Mellotron -- the footage of people playing the Chamberlin with the lid off & directly manipulating the gear wheel & tape heads is flat out amazing)
The Boxer's Omen

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 February 2010 05:54 (fifteen years ago)

did I say 'amazing'? god I wish I could edit posts

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 February 2010 05:57 (fifteen years ago)

it's not amazing?

― sarahel, Monday, 15 February 2010 05:57 (fifteen years ago)

it's amazing twice

― dmr, Monday, 15 February 2010 06:35 (fifteen years ago)

I watched W and Gomorra back to back

― dmr, Monday, 15 February 2010 06:35 (fifteen years ago)

fyi for peoples

3 CD box of Peer Raben's Fassbinder scores. Not as complete as I want and omits a lot of the electronic Schnitzler / Cluster type moments, but the Chinese Roulette suite ends disc 1.
http://www.eggcityradio.com/?p=425

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 February 2010 07:43 (fifteen years ago)

i'm gonna go and watch takeshis' this week

― anita bonghit (rionat), Monday, 15 February 2010 11:55 (fifteen years ago)

Putney Swope - I'd always heard about this without hearing what it was about, black radicals taking over an ad agency in 1969 to make unairable commercials, total fun

watched this tonight. thought it was mostly pretty dated and unfunny but it did have a good De La sample ("got to have soul!")

― dmr, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 05:57 (fifteen years ago)

Takeshi's is good fun.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:35 (fifteen years ago)

moon
bad santa
liberty heights
my best fiend

― am0n, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:37 (fifteen years ago)

excalibur - great/mental
cemetery junction - EMBARGOED
look back in anger - awful play but gd claire bloom was hot
a prophet - s'ok
blow up - on the big screen: amazing
a funny thing happened on the way to the forum - godawful, quit after 20min. nice colours
a kind of loving - very good

― 67 (history mayne), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

o yeah i should have added royal tenenbaums - quit after 10 minutes what is this

/grandma

― this is awful I want Togo home (harbl), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:03 (fifteen years ago)

scott walker: 30 century man (dope)

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

and really surprising considering his rep. he seems like such a nice, decent dude and one who is very forthright about his career.

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:19 (fifteen years ago)

whoa milton thx 4 fassbinder

― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 23:42 (fifteen years ago)

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Andy Serkis is an ugly bugger. Some good performances (I liked the flashback scenes with Ray Winstone as Ian Dury's Dad, and the girl playing Dury's mistress was cute), but this film didn't work. Not a Telstar like disaster, but scrappy as hell.

Adventureland - Oh good another awkward indie dweeb meets more sexually confident, cool but kooky girl flick. Oddly unsympathetic lead character. A few lols. Not hateful like Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.

Wolfman - Not quite as bad as I'd feared, not as good as I'd secretly hoped. Watchable. Hopkins phones it in and is the best thing in it. Sounded like they autotuned the Awooos as well. Inert.

Daybreakers - Can't remember. A bit shit.

Avatar - Like a kid's Saturday morning cartoon made with bleeding-edge technology and a titanic load of money. Every bit as good/bad as that sounds.

Up In the Air - Don't get the hate, but thought this was, ultimately, just a bit ho-hum. Though she had a more unsympathetic role, I liked Anna Kendrick more than Vera Farmiga. Clooney was Clooney.

The New Barbarians - A cautionary tale: A drunken evening adding titles to my Lovefilm high priority list results in them sending me this. Which I last watched back in the early days of VHS rental - golden years. As with me, time has not been kind to the Italian-made b-movie, set in a post-Mad Max apocalypse in the far flung year 2019 ("the Earth has died - it raped itself"). Thrilling 30mph chases in rickerty future-cars! So bad it's actually... just bad. Saying that, it's not often you get a sci-fi film where the bad guy actually sodomises the good guy. It may have happened in Attack of the Clones though, can't remember.

― DavidM, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:20 (fifteen years ago)

Gamer (ouchy contradictions sink the kitsch fun, falls all over itself to be very *now* about the net and gaming)
Pontypool (pretentious but I really loved it, end cops out but *amazing* weirdness inside, Trojan horse of a fake zombie movie)
Silk Stockings (kinda Oedipal and eww to see a 57 year old Fred Astaire making out with Cyd Charisse here, tbh)
I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell Pressburger comedy, weird that a body double was used for every outdoor shot for the male lead- good fun)
Sunset Boulevard (watched on British Airways flight, hadn't seen it in forever, duh great)

― twice boiled cabbage is death, Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done - (much weirder than 'Bad Lieutenant poc:no', if a lot more self-conscious / pretentious. much more Herzog-per-second, but it's also a weird Lynch-Herzog mashup, especially with Grace Zabriskie walking around and being incredible every second she's on the screen. second half is a little auto-pilot but if you like Herzog you won't mind much. in hindsight his Bad Lieutenant actually comes off as the stranger film, because the occasional gator-cam and spontaneous shaving moments pop out at you more)

― Milton Parker, Friday, 19 February 2010 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

man i just watched the special-features from the frost/nixon film, with the actors, directors and production crew heaping praise on frank langella as nixon. i know langella got equal praise for his stage portrayal of nixon in the frost/nixon play.

i don't get it. i understand that he wasn't going for a mere impersonation of nixon, and i'm glad he didn't. but langella played nixon like a doddering, kindly grandfather, a portrayal that's worlds-away from the ruthless, calculating, openly-hardman political operator that nixon was. and that isn't just an overall assessment; you can see it in the actual frost/nixon interviews.

i mean, it's fine to locate the humanity in a villain-like historical character, but i think langella missed the mark in accurately drawing-out nixon's humanity (what there was of it) in the context of the real historical figure.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 20 February 2010 05:48 (fifteen years ago)

The Loves Of Sumako The Actress (Not my fave ever Mizoguchi though still excellent. Kinuyo Tanaka is the GOAT)
Le Voleur (Beautiful but a little overlong Malle period piece with Belmondo as an 1890s Parisian burglar/thief. Great cast.)
Kapurush ( Satyajit Ray. Not sure about this one - may be my least fave by Ray so far but need to watch again.)
The Voice Of the Moon (Fellini's last film. Kinda restrained yet lovely. Didn't mind Benigni in this.)

― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:04 (fifteen years ago)

berlinale special:

Howl: was dreading a hollywood biopic of a writer/poem i don't really like/get, but it was actually very enjoyable. franco was really, really great, wonderfully charismatic. animation that forms a big part of the poetry reading looked kind of cheap at first but turns out to pretty effective. recommended.

Killer Inside Me: awful, childish and morally idiotic film that presents sexual violence as welcome and humorous. taleban recruitment advert. the world is a worse place with this film in it. unlike coen stuff, which it's initially reminiscent of and not just because of the setting, it actually deserves the nihilist tag, but it is also very very stupid. many walk outs. several boos. casey affleck fantastic as a psychopath, for what it's worth, although the character is totally empty.

Making The Boys: solid doc about the play/film The Boys in The Room. Didn't know much about that or the debate surrounding it beforehand, so much of it perhaps lost on me.

― caek, Sunday, 21 February 2010 23:18 (fifteen years ago)

i've been hating on winterbottom for years and although he's done a few decent films, he really is a tool. just really thick.

― sharter the unstoppable ilx machine (history mayne), Sunday, 21 February 2010 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

the worst thing is this film is going to get an awful lot of attention because in addition to being "problematic" in a media-friendly and no doubt intentional way, it's got an accessible plot (not conceptual, totally mainstream-audience-friendly in that sense) and a star lead cast (and solid ensemble) who turn in good to great performances. but it's a fucking retarded, thoughtless film that makes the world a dumber place : (

― caek, Sunday, 21 February 2010 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

but it's a fucking retarded, thoughtless film that makes the world a dumber place

we have a lot of these ;_;

― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Sunday, 21 February 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

ay. like 'the white ribbon'.

― sharter the unstoppable ilx machine (history mayne), Sunday, 21 February 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)

very long rough cut trailer for festivals/distributors here btw: http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/promo-trailer-for-winterbottoms-the-killer-inside-me

i only watched the first couple of minutes up to the first sex scene because i got the impression spoilers we coming, so beware if that sort of thing bothers you.

― caek, Sunday, 21 February 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

stoked for the thread though.

― caek, Sunday, 21 February 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

fragments (aka winged creatures) - bullshit. seems to be a 'crash' ripoff, but never having seen all of 'crash' i can't attest to that. it's about what happens to various folks who survive a shooting in a diner. features another bizarre forest whitaker performance. avoid like the plague.

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)

into great silence - dope documentary about monks at a monastery in the french alps

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)

that's a beautiful movie

― autotuna fish (Tape Store), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

taking of pelham 123 (2009) - saw it two hours ago, forgot already. but not that bad.

― sharter the unstoppable ilx machine (history mayne), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:32 (fifteen years ago)

City Of Pirates - Raul Ruiz is a god among men.
Three Lives And Only One Death - ditto
Inglourious Bastards - Even better the second time around.

― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 16:11 (fifteen years ago)

caek, do you like Jim Thompson books, or is the problem Winterbottom?

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:42 (fifteen years ago)

I was gonna ask the same thing. I remember Killer Inside Me as being a pretty good read ... don't recall much sex stuff in it specifically, although I can imagine if some of Thompson's 1950s sensibilities were put onscreen verbatim it could be trouble. (There's one pretty fucked up sex scene in "The Alcoholics" that essentially would be "presenting sexual violence as welcome and humorous" if you filmed it)

― dmr, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

going to see Alice in Wonderland tomorrow morning!

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

caek, do you like Jim Thompson books, or is the problem Winterbottom?
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 5:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I haven't read any Jim Thompson, so I couldn't say whose fault the film is. I did see the Winterbottom quote saying he just shot the line "her face looked like hamburger meat" as written.

― caek, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)

i'm paraphrasing him innacurately there. here's where i read that: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2010/02/23/berlinale_60_day_nine_en_familie_the_killer_inside_me_rock_hudson_-_dark_an/.

Affleck’s lack of affect (rhyme intentional) works fine for me, but the tone of the movie doesn’t. And I question my response to the beating scenes. I’m generally a fan of violence in movies – where it belongs, as opposed to real life – but I never got around to seeing Antichrist last year, having never missed a Lars von Trier movie before, even after years of disappointment. Maybe I’m getting soft. Even though I know that the scenes are completely justified by what’s in the book (Winterbottom said, defensively, at a q’n’a in Sundance that one of the women was described by Thompson as having a “face like hamburger meat”), it’s a question of degree. When you read, of course, you make up your own images, and don’t pause to savor a woman’s beating for minutes. Or anyway I don’t. (At the end of the day, when I run across this in my bedtime reading of The Talented Miss Highsmith in reference to Mickey Spillane – “I always say never hit a woman when you can kick her” – it brings the uneasy question up all over again.)

― caek, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)

"don't recall much sex stuff in it specifically"

You've forgotten then. There is plenty.

Preview looks like the book scene for scene, word for word, which could be a good or bad thing depending.

"casey affleck fantastic as a psychopath, for what it's worth, although the character is totally empty."

Sort of missing the point, I think.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:56 (fifteen years ago)

i didn't say it was a bad thing that the character was empty

― caek, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:00 (fifteen years ago)

It is a very nihilistic book btw and the violence in it is quite often grisly and occassionally played for "laughs" so I am not surprised that people would object to a faithful and graphic adaptation of it just for that.

I've never seen the Keach/Tyrell version btw, but Coup De Torchon (based on the very similarly constructed Pop 1280) is quite good and pretty faithful (minus the setting obv)--albeit less graphically violent IIRC.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)

i would like to see a film of thompson's 'south of heaven', mostly because it's kind of unusual and more like 'the wages of fear' crossed with noir and set on an oil pipeline.

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks, I didn't realise it was quite as straightforward an adaptation as it sounds like it is.

To me it seemed banal, crude and relentlessly unpleasant, but above all _pointless_. If that's the point then I don't get it.

p.s. I do think a nihilisitcally violent book is one thing, but a nihilistically violent film is another, both in terms of impact on the reader/viewer and the # of people who read/see it, and film-makers rightly have to walk a finer line. Not saying I would find the book harmless, but if it's projected at 20mx8m in an extremely uncomfortable cinema with people yelling "fuck you" at the screen, when you see and hear women get beaten to death for the lols in THX, and you just don't care what the point is because maybe you're not smart enough but you're fucked if you can tell what it is, the effect is memorable. so basically i'm happy to blame winterbottom.

― caek, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

xp btw

― caek, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

p.s. 4 morbs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2D51MPs10

― caek, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)

i think in a lot of cases film violence is more unsettling and helpful to the story when it's deployed subtly. in some other cases, i think seeing the brutality is kinda key as well (spielberg and scorsese are pretty good with this) but in some other cases i've seen films where it was just almost immature with how pointless the in-your-face grisliness was.

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

just watched the hurt locker. not sure how i feel about it, tbh. it was certainly a well-directed, smart movie. i flipped over to the metacritic page, just to see what the critical reception was, and i was struck by the discrepency between the critics' rating (94) and the readers' ratings (7.9). i bypassed the critical reviews and began digging-down into the reader reviews, and was amazed to see so many people giving the film a zero. many of them claim to have combat experience in iraq, and were complaining that the film was unrealistic.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 25 February 2010 05:12 (fifteen years ago)

I am pretty sure I would have liked Alice in Wonderland more if it hadn't been in 3D :/

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

Need to watch the Hurt Locker again. Also I don't think it was meant to be an authentic portrayal... Yes it's set during war, but moreso than being about realities of war, it's just a well-realized movie about a certain character and how he puts himself in, deals with, and partly creates, situations of extreme intensity.

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

But I guess that's for the hurt locker thread...

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

redbelt - pretty cool, though there was shit left unexplained at the end that i wish had been.

― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:35 (fifteen years ago)

Shutter Island - Enjoyed. First Scorsese in years I can say that about.
7 Women - Very strange final John Ford but compact and excellent.

― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:50 (fifteen years ago)

Body Double - not what I expected, did not realize it was so wacky and wtf

― dmr, Sunday, 28 February 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

duh, it's de palma!

― mandible corrective (latebloomer), Monday, 1 March 2010 00:45 (fifteen years ago)

de, it's duh palma!

― mandible corrective (latebloomer), Monday, 1 March 2010 00:50 (fifteen years ago)

Supposedly he's in the running to direct Paranormal Activity 2. No joke!

― mandible corrective (latebloomer), Monday, 1 March 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

No joke!

Good, cause I'm not laughing. (Though I guess I hope he could make an interesting movie out of the second one, I'm also sure TPTB would be standing in the way of that happening.)

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2010 02:01 (fifteen years ago)

But I guess that's for the hurt locker thread...

there's a hurt locker thread? i didn't see it via the search engine.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 1 March 2010 02:03 (fifteen years ago)

the kathryn bigelow poll thread iirc

― johnny crunch, Monday, 1 March 2010 02:04 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

lourdes is great.

― egregious apostrophising (schlump), Saturday, 27 March 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)

It was good. I liked the "vacation" joke.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 March 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

Hurt Locker - kind of ridiculous? watched last 2/3rds at 8x speed and didn't feel like I missed a thing.

The Comedian - from the Criterion Golden Age of TV box - late 50's, directed by John Frankenheimer from a Rod Serling screenplay, sort of cliched play with Mickey Rooney as a ruthless comedy star & his production cast preparing for a big national broadcast in a TV studio -- but the fact that the whole thing was acted & televised in real time (fake studio in a real studio) makes it sort of fascinatingly meta, some of the cameras aren't props, lots of five minute long shots & the acting stays really intense because no one ever yells 'cut'

Survive Style 5+ - very surreal, slightly emo j-film. Almost thought for sure it was directed by one of the people who did 'Funky Forest', but if you did like that & 'The Taste of Tea' then this one's prolly worth seeing. the main story about the wife who keeps reincarnating, by the end I was all aw <3

― Milton Parker, Saturday, 27 March 2010 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

bird with the crystal plumage

― ian, Saturday, 27 March 2010 06:42 (fifteen years ago)

A whole lot of Raul Ruiz lately. Kind of obsessed.

Cela S'appelle l'aurore - pretty straight yet entertaining Buñuel set in some backwatery French island. The straightforwardness makes the occasional Surrealist touches that much more intense.

Dr.M - Weird 90's Chabrol take on "Dr. Mabuse" with Jennifer Beals, Alan Bates, some hammy German actors and Andrew McCarthy in an awesome cameo. Pretty rad if u stick with it.

Les Noces Rouge (sp?) - Early 70's Chabrol with Piccoli and Audran gettin' all amor fou n' shit. Excellent.

― Bow Before Zeezrom!!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)

Persecution (Chereau)
Tearoom; Massillon; Finished; v.o. (Wm E Jones)
Hausu (blah, too cute)
The Runaways
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Generale Della Rovere (Rossellini, 1959)
Lonelyhearts (M Clift)
La Captive (Akerman)
The Prowler (Losey)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

It was good. I liked the "vacation" joke.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, March 27, 2010 1:12 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark

it was so participatory; while there was this beeline towards an inevitable dreyer moment, in the back of your mind you were separating out all the stratas of pilgrims, deserving and undeserving, reverent or misguided, etc, correlating the different connections between people and events. i feel like the main story made it seem one dimensional, but it was so communicative. seemed like a french analogue for recent 'world' stuff too; relatively strict like 4 months, calm and ambiguous like martel.

also i did not recognise elina lowensohn.

La Captive (Akerman)

how was this?

― egregious apostrophising (schlump), Saturday, 27 March 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)

just watched mirror

― teresa banks (r1o natsume), Saturday, 27 March 2010 23:28 (fifteen years ago)

I liked La Captive -- it reminded me in its dreamlike ambience and sneaky humor of Eyes Wide Shut, which C.A. mentioned in an interview on the disc. (modern adap of Proust vs Schnitzler)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 March 2010 15:10 (fifteen years ago)

i love you phillip morris ~ gay romcom by luc besson & the bad santa authors, starring jim carrey & ewan mcgregor. entertaining, even amusing imo. cant wait to hear the resident film snobs take on this ; o

― ☆, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:13 (fifteen years ago)

been looking fwd to that since I saw the trailer, like, a year and a half ago.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:17 (fifteen years ago)

just saw diary of a wimpy kid with my daughter and her cousin. my wife loved it. i was . . . less impressed. the main character was a vain, social-climbing jerk who had virtually no regard for his best-friend. eventually, he supposedly redeems himself, but it felt like too little, too late. also, i guess there are some kids that could endure that kind of social abuse and keep coming back like the lead-character here, but it didn't ring true to me. (n.1)

___________________________________
(n.1) as i told my wife when we left the movie, in jr. high and HS, i was a toxic combination of Rowley's looks and demeanor, and Greg's luck. probably not much better now, but there you have it.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.musicomh.com/films/images/cracks.jpg

Cracks - the debut film by Jordan Scott. It reminded me an awful lot of the French film, Innocence, as well as just about every other gals at boarding school movie.
Eva Green somewhat over-eggs her portrayal as an exotic, boho teacher (who doesn't appear to actually 'teach' anything, unless you count getting her class high-diving into the lake at any given opportunity, and telling romantic tales of her travels), she looks great though. As does everything else - especially the Spanish actress who plays the new girl.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2009/12/4/1259933629728/cracks-girls-valverde-001.jpg

The whole thing is a bit silly and predictible, but not a bad contribution to the haunting, dreamlike, sexual and otherwise awakening of lissom school-girls sub-genre.

― Duke Newsom (DavidM), Friday, 2 April 2010 10:08 (fifteen years ago)

i liked the white ribbon quite a bit

― harbl, Sunday, 4 April 2010 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

Godfather Pt. III - not as bad as i was expecting, especially the last hour or so, but Sofia Coppola and Andy Garcia (and their characters) were p pretty awful
Fantastic Mr. Fox - rubbish
Before Sunrise - lots of very 90s dialogue
A.I. (for the first time since I saw it in the cinema just after 9/11) - beautiful film, loved it so much

― caek, Sunday, 4 April 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

dvds i got at the yard sale next door this morning. dollar a piece.

underworld - rise of the lycans (classic!)

what dreams may come (pothead's delight!)

hero (quentin tarantino presents)

the legend of boggy creek (double classic!)

underworld (way classic!)

the village (i don't know if i can watch it! i've avoided it, thus far.)

ultraviolet (truly, milla's finest moment. jovoclassic!)

escape from l.a. (watching this every day this week. probably.)

troy (looking forward!)

sky captain and the world of tomorrow (the world will tremble!)

mortal kombat (lest we forget one of the pioneering films of modern film history. it shaped a nation.)

quills (quills!)

planet of the apes (2-disc extra marky mark special edition)

van helsing (van awesome is more like it!)

starship troopers (every generation gets the citizen kane it deserves.)

angel heart (reminding me that i still need to get dvd copy of jacob's ladder and wonder how i ever lived this long without one.)

the skeleton key (don't really want to watch this. i might have to force myself.)

apocalypse now redux

mystery science theater 3000 volume 7 four disc thing

― scott seward, Sunday, 25 April 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)

i watched the coal miner's daughter and was disappointed it was not about coal mining

― harbl, Sunday, 25 April 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)

Awesome scores/lol list, scott
Hahaahaaa @ 'quills (quills!)'

I saw Crazy Heart on the plane :)

― planes/octaves/dimensions of existence (rrrobyn), Monday, 26 April 2010 05:00 (fifteen years ago)

star trek: generations
casino royale (remake)
the incredible hulk (gave up halfway through; bruce banner looks like ice_craem.)
now watching the x-files: i want to believe

cat sitting!!

― ian, Monday, 26 April 2010 06:12 (fifteen years ago)

o brother, where art thou - so great

― caek, Monday, 26 April 2010 09:03 (fifteen years ago)

99p rental on uk itunes btw

― caek, Monday, 26 April 2010 09:04 (fifteen years ago)

Five Mack Sennett comedy shorts from 1926

(one featured a cat chasing a mouse up both of Vernon Dent's pants legs)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

Cargo - 'Switzlerland's first science fiction film' - total love letter to 70's science fiction film plots, looks beautiful, but in the end is ripping off so many earlier films that the plot really just falls apart at the end, still hope it finds US distribution

Punishment Park - pretty amateurish production & annoying improv acting, but I got over wanting the activists to sound less incoherent & naive while they were 'on trial for their lives' by the end -- I kind of have endless patience for this kind of 1971 time capsule. Glad I saw it, but this is the lefty 1971 equivalent of Glenn Beck's new book -- except that no one saw this film when it came out, and I don't even want to know how many copies Beck is selling

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 18:25 (fifteen years ago)

The Interior Scar: Philippe Garrel, Nico and Pierre Clementi in the desert. Wackiness ensues.
Excellent Corpses: Judges are being assassinated in 1970's Italy so Lino Ventura investigates. Then Alain Cuny and Max Von sydow show up and things get heavy. Great flick.

― Bow Before Zeezrom!!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:27 (fifteen years ago)

going to see Human Centipede tonight.

― ian, Saturday, 1 May 2010 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

ohman I really want to see that and I also really don't!

― planes/octaves/dimensions of existence (rrrobyn), Sunday, 2 May 2010 05:16 (fifteen years ago)

it was not as disgusting as i thought it would be!
the lead does a pretty incredible job tbh. and there are plenty of lols.

― ian, Sunday, 2 May 2010 06:25 (fifteen years ago)

oh good! I'm glad bc I unconditionally love/appreciate the premise anyway

― planes/octaves/dimensions of existence (rrrobyn), Sunday, 2 May 2010 07:48 (fifteen years ago)

"Beggars of Life" (1928) and "Hotel Imperial" (1927) both really outstanding.

― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Sunday, 2 May 2010 10:33 (fifteen years ago)

saw furry vengeance today with the kids. best part was definitely when the raccoon pissed into brendan frasier's mouth.

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2010_Furry_Vengeance/2010_furry_vengeance_004.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:42 (fifteen years ago)

thought it was brave of BF to be so chubby onscreen too.

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/more_names/blog/fraser.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

sorry, FRASER.

― scott seward, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

SCREWBALLS
NAVAJO JOE

― ian, Saturday, 8 May 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

Army of Shadows
A Serious Man

― dmr, Saturday, 8 May 2010 07:44 (fifteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

should i go see easy rider, i don't remember if i liked it or not when i saw it when i was 11

― harbl, Monday, 7 June 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

actually it's prob too late now but it's showing again on thursday

― harbl, Monday, 7 June 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

Carlos - still not sure how I feel about this one. Other than the aw3soem prod. values it just seemed like a 5 hour movie about an arrogant dude
who was kind of a lame terrorist. But ... I feel like watching all 5 hours again because it was all somehow very rad. And the use of New Order and Wire on the sndtrk is totally random and hilarious.

Red Riding Trilogy - Dug this, esp. the first two films. Third one not so much but still good stuff.

― ¿Can Your Gato Do the Perro? (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 18:20 (fifteen years ago)

Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death - had a few laffs but not up to their previous high standards imo

― dmr, Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

saw the secret in their eyes (el secreto de sus ojos) last weekend, argentinian murder mystery featuring an intense futbol arena manhunt scene and an unpredictable twist ending, very very good

― del griffith, Monday, 21 June 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)

Miller's Crossing - hadn't seen this since college, even better than I remembered it
The International - started out ok, turned nonsensical
Sunshine Cleaning - was only half paying attention while this was on, that was a half too much

― dmr, Monday, 21 June 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)

this weekend:
Shutter Island - pretty crap, nearly gave up just before the big 'twist'.
Hot Tub Time Machine - so much fun.

― sofatruck, Monday, 21 June 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

psychomania
the keep
the outfit
the lusty men

― ¿Can Your Gato Do the Perro? (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

Miller's Crossing

dave, do you like '30s gangster films? serious Q.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 02:32 (fifteen years ago)

I like the ones I've seen, which ain't many ... pretty obvious ones like Little Caesar and Public Enemy, probably some other Cagney movies I'm forgetting ...

― dmr, Tuesday, 22 June 2010 03:04 (fifteen years ago)

anyone seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/user/EarsplitPR#p/f/63/9oWhW4mVctM

― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 02:44 (fifteen years ago)

um, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oWhW4mVctM

― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

just watched the hunger. catherine deneuve is the classiest vampire ever.

― tehresa, Thursday, 24 June 2010 00:42 (fifteen years ago)

dirty harry

― ian, Saturday, 26 June 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)

should i go see easy rider

I watched ER for the very first time only last week. It wasn't as bad or as messy as I'd feared it was going to be, but no masterpiece either. Interesting how none of the characters - even the two 'heroes' of the piece - really get along. A lot of barely suppressed antagonism going on. Just a bad mood generally.
This movie is like a Homeric Odyssey across a spoiled John Ford's America with a couple of unlikeable dicks. Hopper and Fonda are best when they have someone to play off, like Luke Askew's glib hippie (Fonda: "Ever thought you could be someone else?" Hippie: "Think I might try Porky Pig"), and Nicholson ("Nik nik nik fuh fuh fuh... INDIANS!"), who it is left to provide the movie some heart, namely his "they talk about individual freedom, but when they see a free individual they get scared" speech.

And Phil Spector! And Toni Basil!

Also watched Bloody Kids (1979), an early work for Stephen Poliakoff and Stephen Frears. I remember very distinctly seeing the first half hour or so when it was shown on TV (1980 or so) when I was quite young, especially a scene where two bloody kids stage a fight where one was to pretend to stab the other, bursting a concealed bag of blood. He ends up (accidentally) stabbing him for real. I was quite shaken by it at the time. What I didn't see was the kid them going on the lam, eventually hooking up with a older ne'r-do-well played by Gary Holton (later Wayne in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet)(and replacing Richard Beckinsale who died during filming).
Problem I had with this is we never get to the bottom of what motivates any of the actions of these characters, especially Holton's going off the rails at the end. Most of it makes little sense, but it works as a time capsule of the period. It captures the listless boredom b'dum-b'dum of a tatty late '70s Britain quite well. And I liked the bit in a caff when Holton points to a table of glum youths and says "look, punks wearing last year's clothes".

― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Saturday, 26 June 2010 10:29 (fifteen years ago)

crazy heart - was fine I guess, don't really understand why it won oscars but I liked it

― dmr, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 19:20 (fifteen years ago)

i didn't end up seeing easy rider after all

― Hans-Jörg Butt (harbl), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

is your new screenname a reference to the director of the feminist fantasy Nekromantic 2?

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

who me? sounds cool but no, it's a reference to german goalkeeper Hans-Jörg Butt

― Hans-Jörg Butt (harbl), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 20:57 (fifteen years ago)

watched a very bad, very precious movie last night about an aspie electrical engineer who really really likes amy's organic frozen macaroni and cheese, anyway there's a scene where he gets laid off and i recognized his boss as cousin larry from perfect strangers

― del griffith, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

Everlasting Moments just released on DVD yesterday; it's as wondrous as Armond White claims (for once).

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

mmmmm, not to me

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:32 (fifteen years ago)

― del griffith, Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i love this sentence

― LB (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 02:58 (fifteen years ago)

partial list, last couple of months:

A New Leaf
The Burmese Harp
Everyone Else
Tulpan
Greenberg
DDR/DDR (one of the year's best)
Elena and Her Men (Renoir)
Metropolis
Looking for Eric
You Only Live Once
The Fugitive Kind
The Killer Inside Me
Nero's Guests
Le Amiche (Antonioni)
Out in the Silence
The Old Place (Godard/Mieville)
JLG/JLG
Brothers (blah)
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:47 (fifteen years ago)

Bigger Than Life
Rolling Thunder
Partner
M (1951 remake)

― ¿Can Your Gato Do the Perro? (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:56 (fifteen years ago)

^^^ All four movies about some pretty crazy fellows.

― ¿Can Your Gato Do the Perro? (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:57 (fifteen years ago)

Z
More
The Rules Of The Game
Over The Edge
The Century Of Self (outstanding)

in the age of wikipedia summaries I'm not sure anyone actually most people would actually need to see a low budget film like Nekromantic 2 anymore. But it's always stayed with me for being so completely depraved and so over-the-top sentimental at the same time

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 July 2010 04:06 (fifteen years ago)

Masillon
Obsessed (with Beyonce and Stringer Bell)

― Salted gnocchimole (admrl), Thursday, 1 July 2010 04:07 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

"Service with a Smile" 1934 WB mini-musical, a very early full-process technicolor short about a roadside service station. Colours glow from the screen with radioactive intensity, music is a full-on brass section aural assault, script is corny as can be w/cro-magnon sexual politics, but nevertheless a few proper laughs here & there. Great!

― Take my hand, we'll make it I swear (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 July 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

The Hitcher starring Rutger Hauer.
I am liking this, about halfway in.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 15 August 2010 03:22 (fifteen years ago)

why the lead suddenly loses his shit and resorts to force and carjacks the cops i can not really get but okay, w/e, i'm gonna roll w it.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 15 August 2010 03:29 (fifteen years ago)

paris is burning

― dmr, Sunday, 15 August 2010 03:32 (fifteen years ago)

irreversible

incredible

― sleep, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

eat pray love

i would stab all these people

― Mosquepanik at Ground Zero (abanana), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:13 (fifteen years ago)

hahaaaa
i saw The Switch this morning, which is based on a J Eugenides story, so i was hopeful. no stabbing urges but ugh. solid 2.5 stars. i wish that rom-coms wld stop it already with the 'here's what to feel *now*' tinkly-tink piano musical cues. so insulting, to both script (which was doing a decent job) and audience.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:22 (fifteen years ago)

I saw ALIENS last night, I'd never seen it before!

― Eyewona (admrl), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:28 (fifteen years ago)

WHAT

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

saw I Am Love. not sure how i felt about it. the cinematography and sets were beautiful, but i didn't care much about any of the characters and there was something hollow about the romance.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 04:01 (fifteen years ago)

People I know were talking about that movie, but I can't get excited about it. I should see more movies like ALIENS. Also lol Bill Paxton in ALIENS

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (admrl), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 04:53 (fifteen years ago)

the expendables - everything i was anticipating and more (and less)
excalibur - insane and dope
a prophet - pretty grim in the best possible sense. could have cut a few bits and not missed them, though
the crazies - pretty good, and timothy olyphant is pretty great when he's playing these small-town law enforcement types

― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 05:03 (fifteen years ago)

Death of a Scoundrel - very impressive 1956 potboiler film about a Czech immigrant who lands in the states and games his way through iffy stock market deals to the top of the heap while moving through women at a surreal rate, as played by George Sanders aka Addison DeWitt from All About Eve -- the characterizations of the women are actually pretty fantastic and the American Dream gone wrong (he finally flies his mom over, she gets into his limo, she says 'Is this yours? Who paid for this?' -- he answers, 'The People!')

Death Watch - it's got a slow ending, but that doesn't explain why no one ever talks about this 1980 SF film about a future in which almost every disease has been eliminated, making any terminal patient an instant celebrity hounded by the media for interviews & coverage -- Romy Schneider says no to the money and heads out of town but has no idea that the charming stranger Harvey Keitel is actually a cameraman who has had his eyes surgically removed and replaced by cameras, making her the unwitting nightly star of a reality TV show filming her decline. Harry Dean Stanton is Harvey's boss, and Max Van Sydow makes it clear the director was aiming for Bergman by the end, I didn't like the ending when I saw it 10 years ago but this time I loved it all the way through

Things to Come - Kind of clunky, silly effects, sure did get it wrong. But inherently amazing to see a film from 1935 showing you the dystopian future WWII (1940-1970), and the unimaginable utopia of 2035

Three Penny Opera - They really tampered & tamed the message of the original opera, but it looks great, it's fast paced, and Lotte Lenya

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 07:45 (fifteen years ago)

oh yeah I also saw Inception and liked it

― dmr, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:39 (fifteen years ago)

man death watch sounds rad

― just sayin, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:46 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Mother (Bong Joon-ho) - thumbs up

― dmr, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 20:42 (fifteen years ago)

really want to see that.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:07 (fifteen years ago)

MACHETE

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:50 (fifteen years ago)

I screamed/went 'aaaagh!' at the serious gore more than a few times. It was pretty awesome this movie.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

Damned United - really A+ swearing
Ghost Writer - good
The Apartment - good
The Maltese Falcon - good
Kick Ass - dreadful
The Messenger - eli from freaks and geeks was good
Assassination of Jesse James - pretty i guess. casey affleck good.

― caek, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:36 (fifteen years ago)

'good'?

'GOOD'!???!

― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:37 (fifteen years ago)

sentence fragments are reserved for not good films

― caek, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

The Apartment is more than good.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 September 2010 16:21 (fifteen years ago)

yes, i loved it. maybe the best film i have seen this year (incl. maltese falcon, sorry dmac)

― caek, Thursday, 2 September 2010 16:23 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

two lane blacktop
le samourai
phantasm
life with the dice bag (cheaply made doc about ppl who play d&d, go to gencon etc.)
escape from alcatraz

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 10 December 2010 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

'vengeance' - johnnie to film w/johnny hallyday, anthony wong, simon yam, lam suet, and some of to's other regulars. not bad i guess but it was a lot like his film 'exiled': a crew of hitman protecting/helping a man out, facing off against a crazed mob boss played by simon yam. it looks amazing, it's not boring, but it feels a little samey.

― omar little, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:43 (fifteen years ago)

lol phantasm

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)

i watched 'eat pray love' on the wkend and thought some of it was good/interesting tbh but much of it was hollywood-annoying obv

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

le samourai is next up on my netflix list! synergy

― dmr, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

le samourai been sitting on my hard drive too long

― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:00 (fifteen years ago)

hmm the hallyday character in 'vengeance' was originally supposed to be played by alain delon and the character's name is costello. o_O

― omar little, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

Le Samourai is about as awesome as it gets.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

Watched Hitcher on sunday.
Widescreen vhs.
Fucking awesome.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

new laptop + new wifi connection at home = went on a downloading spree recently:

-haunting of

-his name was holy ghost
-herbie goes to monte carlo
-smithereens
-antichrist
-visitor q
-femme fatales aka calmos
-comme la lune aka as the moon (cant find subtitles for this)
-BIG MAN JAPAN
-the dancing outlaw
-in the electric mist
-kynodontas aka dogtooth
-picnic at hanging rock
-red hill
-smithereens
-the body (1970 doc)
-the dunwich horror (1970)
-seven secrets of sumuru aka the girl from rio
-the square (2008)
-the wayward cloud
-valhalla rising

fuck where do i start guys

― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

>-femme fatales aka calmos

hey gr8080

I downloaded this too recently. I'm a big fan of Blier's Buffet Froid and watched the first 40 minutes of Calmos last night, but the english subtitles only seem to cover about 50% of the dialogue, and I'm just missing too many of the lines -- did you have this problem with your subtitle track or is it just me?

visitor Q a++ film btw

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

Hey Milton-

no i dont think i had a problem. cant remember where i got the subtitles now but they worked out OK.

NSFW + SPOILERS: http://threeframes.net/tagged/calmos

― gr8080, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 23:46 (fourteen years ago)

hey milton- webmail me again w/ your email address so i can reply. webmails just get sent from ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧

― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:33 (fourteen years ago)

robot @ ilxor . com

― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:34 (fourteen years ago)

Le Samourai is about as awesome as it gets.

It was pretty awesome.

Also watched recently --

House (aka Hausu, the Japanese one, got this because of the clips I saw on 3Frames. it's wacky)
The Kids Are All Right
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Objectified (movie abt industrial design by the guys who made Helvetica. it was aiight)

― dmr, Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:35 (fourteen years ago)

recently have watched

trouble every day - liked a lot even tho im not a horror/new french extremism guy in the least
days of being wild - not my fave wkw
blue sunshine
cop out - ugh
some like it hot
who's afraid of virginia woolf? - this just exhausted me
duck season

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

i went on a jeff bridges kick for a bit

True Grit (2010, Coens)
Crazy Heart (2009)
Starman (1984, Carpenter) -- cheese
Fat City (1972, Huston) -- wise blood did this better imo

also
King's Speech, the (2010, Hooper) -- mon!tage!

― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

haha blue sunshine

― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

Winter's Bone was awesome.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 January 2011 18:05 (fourteen years ago)

lol whoops

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 20 January 2011 18:06 (fourteen years ago)

you mean you didnt watch this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC23RzhrH5Q

― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

i have seen that actually. now im imagining a blue valentine/sunshine mashup

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 20 January 2011 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

hahaha

― gr8080, Thursday, 20 January 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)

overlord
the keep

didn't consciously realize this was a weird WWII dbl feature until just now

― children of the church planters (Edward III), Thursday, 20 January 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

I got the SHOGUN miniseries from the public library out of boredom. I've only watched the first part so far but it is pretty awesome.
Was totally stoked when Rhys-Davies showed up. Whatta bro!
Also checked out The Young Ones complete series 3 dvd set.

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 20 January 2011 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

Winter's Bone was awesome.

yep I liked that one too. thought I had mentioned it on the thread before but I hadn't so

winter's bone

― dmr, Friday, 21 January 2011 05:23 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

yall seen devils on the doorstep? its really good

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:05 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

"New York Nights", 1929 gangster movie, seemed to be not quite complete, but story was intact. Archetypal early talkie, somewhat stagy & stilted. Jean Harlow briefly visible as an extra in a party scene. Gilbert Roland ridiculously handsome. Couple of scenes where the silent movie style acting & talking actually works surprisingly well. Probably of limited interest TBH. I kind of enjoyed it though.

"Her Sister from Paris", 1925 romantic farce w Ronald Colman & Constance Talmadge. Viennese couple are always arguing, Helen, the somewhat frumpy wife leaves her argumentative husband then pretends to be her twin sister, a parisian dancer called "La Perry" to win him back. Both roles played by Talmadge w clever trick photography. Colman is all bluster but Talmadge runs rings around him. Very very funny. The ending, where the fake "La Perry" reveals to Colman that she is actually Helen, is brilliant. Strongly recommended, a treat!

― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Sunday, 27 February 2011 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

Repulsion
A Single Man
Get Him to the Greek

― dmr, Monday, 28 February 2011 18:48 (fourteen years ago)

i watched repulsion last nite!

― gr8080, Monday, 28 February 2011 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

Visages d'enfants (1922) dir. Jacques Feyder

gorgeous silent family drama set in the swiss alps — amazing scenery and a beautifully emotional ending — the only silent other than Sunrise to make me tear up.

― corey, Monday, 28 February 2011 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

Goupi Mains Rouges
Montparnasse 1919 (both of these Jacques Becker. One of my fave directors. "Goupi..." Really shows the influence of his mentor Renoir but still v. weird n'fun. "Montparnasse 1919" kind of yr typical melodramatic 50's artist biopic and also a tremendously moving and handsomely produced piece of work. And Anouk Aimee is bee-yoo-t in this.)
Golgotha - Jesus flick from "Pepe Le Moko" director with Jean Gabin as Pontius Pilate (!). Pretty great.

― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 28 February 2011 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

i watched repulsion last nite!

ha I figured, I saw it start showing up on 3frames, that's partly what reminded me to bump this thread

I watched it last Thursday

― dmr, Monday, 28 February 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

<3 young catherine deneuve

― dmr, Monday, 28 February 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

watched this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzBTsWE0LQ

its pretty noize!!

― gr8080, Sunday, 6 March 2011 06:54 (fourteen years ago)

Deneuve intro'd Repulsion last night at BAM, I didnt go

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 March 2011 09:27 (fourteen years ago)

the killer inside me - enjoyable, until bill pullman showed up; not his fault though. i wish i had seen this with an enraged berlinale crowd, as caek did.

― ☆, Sunday, 6 March 2011 12:36 (fourteen years ago)

The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974) dir. Tavernier

Some nice fluid camerawork and the lead (Philippe Noiret) is great — the politics of the film seemed confused however

― corey, Friday, 11 March 2011 05:28 (fourteen years ago)

The Damned (1969) dir. Visconti

baroque, hysterical — great mise en scène and Helmut Berger is gorgeous

― corey, Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:24 (fourteen years ago)

Recently watched a 4 episode French miniseries of "Fantomas" from the 80s - based on Feuillade's serials and directed by Chabrol and Bunuel's son Juan Luis. Berger played a great Fantomas. Straight up evil.

― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 13 March 2011 03:05 (fourteen years ago)

Ha, I have one of the Feuillade Fantômas on hold at the library!

― corey, Sunday, 13 March 2011 05:58 (fourteen years ago)

watched Les Bonnes Femmes (Chabrol) — beautiful photography by Henri Decae; plot seemed kind of aimless

― corey, Monday, 14 March 2011 23:27 (fourteen years ago)

The End of Summer (Ozu) — the best-looking Ozu in color I've seen — the shots last few minutes are incredibly composed.

― corey, Thursday, 17 March 2011 00:56 (fourteen years ago)

Fassbinder's Martha — the most disturbing Fassbinder I've seen. It's basically a horror movie.

― corey, Sunday, 20 March 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

the lincoln lawyer - the dad from malcolm in the middle was in this

― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 23:36 (fourteen years ago)

two:

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir) — the cheeky editing and dark humor (one joke based on a baby being stillborn!) make this seem like a film from the 60s rather than the 30s, and the character of Batala oozes sleaze.

Europa (von Trier) — the B&W photography is gorgeous and the exaggerated breaks from realism add coherence and come off as genuinely surreal rather than pretentiously polystylistic as other attempts to do the same can be. Max Von Sydov's narration is great.

― corey, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:14 (fourteen years ago)

pretty much exclusively awesome classic stuff the past week or so:
come and see (klimov)
"life" (peleshian)
in a lonely place (ray)
taste of cherry (kiarostami)
god's country (malle)

and, uh, not at all awesome (but somehow sticking w/ me): road to nowhere (hellman)

― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

i watched Il Sorpasso last year and fuckin loved it and was just thinking i hadn't seen any good italian 60's stuff since

what's good?

― gr8080, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

accattone and mamma roma

― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:11 (fourteen years ago)

l'avventura and l'eclisse

― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:12 (fourteen years ago)

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/479372/Young-Eglantine-in-Legend-of-the-Guardians-The-Owls-of-GaHoole_gallery_primary.jpg

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS THE OWLS OF GAHOOLE

― dmr, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:34 (fourteen years ago)

I liked it

― dmr, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:34 (fourteen years ago)

xp to gr80 Antonioni's La Notte

― corey, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:54 (fourteen years ago)

Nostalgia de la luz at the IFC Center

Really really good. I was worried that the astronomy = archaeology = investigation of Chile's recent troubled past metaphor was going to be a bit laboured/on the nose (whatever that means), but I was totally sold. Unusually for this sort of thing (i.e. pop astronomy) the main astronomer was capable of speaking articulately and ~poetically~ about what he does. Guzman's v/o almost Mallickian at times. Personally I totally agree with the astronomy = very important and very trivial at the same time thesis, especially compared to disappeared political prisoners, etc. Also of note: I enjoyed it despite serious pizza indigestion, which is impressive. See this movie.

Cedar Rapids at BAM

this was rubbish

― caek, Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:34 (fourteen years ago)

new yorkers you have until tuesday to see nostalgia

― caek, Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:35 (fourteen years ago)

i remember thinking of you when i was reading abt nostalgia de la luz last year, glad to hear it has your seal of approval

i have not watched any movies lately :/

― Lamp, Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:36 (fourteen years ago)

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - first 2 opening scenes were the best part. Melissa joke o_0 ... I lolled
Kings of Pastry - pretty good DA Pennebaker doc about impossibly tough French pastry competition the MOF
The New World - started out slow but ok, got worse after Christian Bale came in

― dmr, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:43 (fourteen years ago)

joan rivers doc bummed me out

― gr8080, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1mv22s5qE1qbvx0xo1_500.gif

― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

awes film

― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:48 (fourteen years ago)

saw this lil jammy called Of Gods And Men - its about some cool french bros wearing comfy robes and hangin out in algeria - pretty good, would recommend

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

Nakh wtf is that?

― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

joan rivers

― caek, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

pretty much

― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

limitless - lol at this movie

― bantonio banderas (history mayne), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

eraserhead baby ;_;

― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:41 (fourteen years ago)

oh shit it HAS been a long time since I've seen that and now I know why!

― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:41 (fourteen years ago)

Also that is the second time that's come up on ilx today. weird.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:42 (fourteen years ago)

I watched MACHETE over the weekend and lol'd real hard when he grabbed that dude's small intestine then jumped out the window.
Would lol again.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

Gonna watch In A Lonely Place tonight..

― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 22:16 (fourteen years ago)

i watched CARNY recently- young Gary Busey and Jodie Foster love story set in a traveling carnival-- some pretty cool Busey freakouts

― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:14 (fourteen years ago)

joan rivers doc bummed me out

really? I dunno. she's doin what she wants to do. grindin' hard. I got tired just watching it and I'm def. going to be kicking back at age 75 but to each her own I guess

giant file cabinet of jokes was pretty wild the way they were cataloged by topic

COMMUNISTS -
TONY DANZA

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:15 (fourteen years ago)

Rivette's last one "36 Vues du Pic Saint Loup" (sic?): OK Rivette I think. Jane Birkin's face now looks like she just woke up from a 48 hour bender.

"A Game Of Chess": 60s intvw w/ Marcel Duchamp. Badass 4evah.

La Chienne/The Two Of Us/ Boudu ... Had a Michel Simon fest the other night. Wish he was my granddad or something.

― Winky Dinky Dawgz (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:21 (fourteen years ago)

yeah it was interesting to see how Rivers lived and worked but the way the whole thing came with a "I'm Joan Rivers and I Approve This Docu-Comedy" feel that turned me off in the end

i guess i went in hoping for something more like Valentino: The Last Emperor and got let down

― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:25 (fourteen years ago)

I just find Joan Rivers to be a tiresome, pathetic creature, at 45 or 75

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:25 (fourteen years ago)

Damn I still need to watch that Valentino one.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:26 (fourteen years ago)

ERICA HE OWNS LIKE 13 PUGS AND THEY RIDE ON HIS PRIVATE JET AND HIS MANSERVANTS BRUSH THEIR TEETH HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THIS FILM

― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:32 (fourteen years ago)

I don't know! I have no excuse.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:33 (fourteen years ago)

oh damn it's on instant view - c u in a couple of hours

― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:34 (fourteen years ago)

dude knows how to live
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7b-UuYDjTeg/SfVIIwL1mAI/AAAAAAAAAEw/iwvh_Denpq0/s400/valentino+pugs.JPG

― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

La Chienne/The Two Of Us/ Boudu ... Had a Michel Simon fest the other night. Wish he was my granddad or something.

My ideal fantasy grandfather is a toss-up between Simon and Chishu Ryu.

― corey, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 01:22 (fourteen years ago)

x-post - Yes, yes he does and omg at his pugs. I can't even. That was too much!

― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 02:47 (fourteen years ago)

i dont know why but my favorite part in that whole film is when he's talking about how tacky a fucking HANDRAIL looks and he goes

"its is like... like when you are walking down the stairs... and there is a thing for your hand.. it is tacky... like a MACY's."

― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 03:44 (fourteen years ago)

hahahaha oh no not a MACY's!

― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 10:49 (fourteen years ago)

All good things has a commentary track w/ Andrew jarecki & the real Robert durst that I cannot recommend highly enough

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)

Point Blank - couple great scenes but I was surprisingly a little bored by this movie
Jean Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child

― dmr, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

love point blank. i watched it every day 5 days in a row the first time i saw it.

― a slippery shit (gr8080), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

it is in my top 100

― jay lenonononono (abanana), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

Escape from L.A. - quality entertainment
Imitation of Life - felt really guilty that I hadn't responded to my mom's email in a few days; called mom the next day

― sarahel, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:15 (fourteen years ago)

maybe just wasn't in the right mood for point blank

― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:25 (fourteen years ago)

fight scene at the soul club was pretty great though

― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i was gonna say thought that would be right up yr alley

― a slippery shit (gr8080), Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

my fave is Lee sighing after Angie punches at him

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:37 (fourteen years ago)

shooting the bed, soul club fight, Angie whaling on Lee were the best parts

it was more the frequent disjointed flashbacks and voiceovers and stuff that lost me. and the convoluted noir plot. but hey maybe I'll watch again sometime.

― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

I think it's been posted on ILX somewhere, but it's worth checking this out, Point Blank used to perform Reich's clapping music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY4bL_bO8sA

― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

"Most accidents happen within 3 miles of home"

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:17 (fourteen years ago)

haha dan that is awesome.

i love the scene where he sneaks into the apartment building too. legit suspense.

― gr8080, Thursday, 14 April 2011 18:44 (fourteen years ago)

Valentino: The Last Emperor (thx for recommendation)
I Like Killing Flies - not sure why people try to make a hero out of this douche
Black Swan
Enter the Void - wanted to check out the "famous opening credits" and it's on Netflix Instant so I just flipped it on for a bit but didn't watch past the first 10 minutes. worth seeing?

― dmr, Monday, 18 April 2011 19:02 (fourteen years ago)

https://www2.bc.edu/~yanno/Chinatown.jpg

Watched Chinatown for the very first time. Terrific slow-burn neo-noir, obviously, and I would say career bests for both Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Also, does this contain the two best cameo appearances by film directors? John Huston is just chilling, and then there's Polanski himself, of course. "Hey kitty-cat, you know what happens to nosey fellows? They lose their noses".
Though maybe the real star of the movie is L.A. itself; sun-bleached and unforgiving.

― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Monday, 18 April 2011 19:33 (fourteen years ago)

well Huston's role is hardly a cameo. Also he was acting pretty regularly in other ppl's films by then.

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2011 19:37 (fourteen years ago)

i havent seen chinatown in a minute. i think i was too young to "get it" the first time i saw it

― 2㋡㋡9 style (gr8080), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

I took a class on Polanski and wrote a paper about Chinatown. Some interesting thoughts that came from that include the fact that although it's often discussed as an updated noir or an homage to noir, it is a decidedly contrary perversion of the cliches of noir. Major themes such as the classic idea of not trusting the femme fatale because in the end she's out to get you. In chinatown at every turn Jack doubts and doesn't trust Faye, and many of the events that take place in the movie are caused by this, by Jack not realizing that she is in fact the victim. And it's all about the consequences of actions, Jack later on visiting Burt Young and we see that he beat his wife because of Jack's information, all the way to the end where the first cop is actually firing a warning shot and Jack gets in his way, which causes the second cop to fire the fatal shot. So Jack is absolutely not the noir hero.

There was also a lot of fun stuff like all these things coming in pairs with one thing missing or flawed, like pulling the guy out of the water and he has one shoe, breaking one of the tailights of the car, letting the car break one of the two watches, all the way to the ridiculous foreshadowing of Faye lying in bed saying "There's a flaw in one of my eyes".

Anyway, great movie on many many levels.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:46 (fourteen years ago)

>well Huston's role is hardly a cameo. Also he was acting pretty regularly in other ppl's films by then.

re: ridiculous over the top Huston roles, recently saw Myra Breckinridge. was expecting it to be 'bad' but actually really enjoyed it.

also saw Elizabeth Taylor in 'The Driver's Seat', on youtube. Yeesh. Not exactly good, but... Elizabeth Taylor. Incredibly stilted dialogue that's trying so hard to be non-sequituous that it ends up even more inexplicable than I think it was trying for.

and saw the Ballet Russes documentary. Mostly interviews, but the short 8mm/16mm film stock of the productions from the 30s/40s/50s is enough to make a Ballet fan out of anyone within seconds. Lots of Leonid Massine from the decades before The Red Shoes, and definitely a great next stop after Black Swan.

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:59 (fourteen years ago)

Myra Breckinridge is awesome! You only just saw it???

― sarahel, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:01 (fourteen years ago)

had been saving it. saw it with the Prelingers, we'd been meaning to watch it for a few years now but we're all ludicrously busy

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

yeah - I have movies that I have been "saving" - I know what you mean.

― sarahel, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:07 (fourteen years ago)

people keep telling me I'm an idiot for "saving" the Godfather movies.

― gr8080, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:31 (fourteen years ago)

i saw them for the first time last year. they are good!

― caek, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:59 (fourteen years ago)

weird choice since so many movies and tv shows reference them

― jay lenonononono (abanana), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:08 (fourteen years ago)

Borzage's "Street Angel", excellent, Janet Gaynor especially good.

― Letzte Tage - Letzte Pächmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 April 2011 23:51 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

i saw some ~thillers~

The Woman

- this felt like a decent film ruined in the cutting room; soundtrack possibly worse than the crow ost.

A Lonely Place to Die
Kill List
The Veteran
The Dead

- really enjoying these new uk genre movie vibes. none of these made any sense, but they made up for in viciousness, or nightmarish atmosphere, or both (kill list).

The Yellow Sea

- hong-jin na quickly approaching all-time status imo.

― ☆, Saturday, 3 September 2011 05:27 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

watched: robert siodmaks' menschen am sontag (1930) — his first film, with a script written by a very young billy wilder. naturalistic acting by non-professional actors, gentle humor and beautiful sunlit scenery. 4/5

― tanuki, Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:19 (fourteen years ago)

working my way through this:

http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story

cant believe i hadn't ever watched easy rider or head before-- so great

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

Head is just a good movie full stop

This is not as much a 'good' movie but I'm definitely glad I saw it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Freedom

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:43 (fourteen years ago)

& it can't be overstated how much fun this one is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_Living_(film)

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:46 (fourteen years ago)

need to see more lubitsch

just watched: loulou (maurice pialat, 1980) — isabelle huppert and a hunky gerard d. seems to be about unconventional relationships, one's expectations clashing with another's. realistic acting, frank eroticism. very nice.

― tanuki, Friday, 6 January 2012 04:47 (fourteen years ago)

just heard: lulu — metallica and a hunky lou r. seems to be about unconventional relationships, one's expectations clashing with another's. realistic acting, frank eroticism. very nice.

― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 6 January 2012 10:44 (fourteen years ago)

― tanuki, Friday, 6 January 2012 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

satantango
videodrome

― tanuki, Sunday, 8 January 2012 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

chantal akerman: the new york films (early experimental shorts) — studies of space and movement that seem like studies for "jeanne dielman"
birth (glazer) - expected to hate this after reading about the premise but found it pretty affecting
playtime - 2nd viewing, looked amazing on a decent hdtv. noticed lot of hidden gags i hadn't noticed before.

― tanuki, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

some movies i got queued up

* On the silver globe

* schizopolis

* clean shaven

* she monkeys

* conspirators of pleasure

saw finisterrae while nodding off: i was dreaming up bits that could have been in, like at one point the 2 characters come across a white electric oven in the middle of the forest, one said "well go on, then" the other stuck his head in and looked around. then i woke up .

― Sébastien, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:48 (thirteen years ago)

lol that would work perfectly in finisterrae

― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:50 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

HOLY MOTORS

― caek, Friday, 6 July 2012 23:28 (thirteen years ago)

barmy

― caek, Friday, 6 July 2012 23:51 (thirteen years ago)

also at munich ff this year

it looks pretty from a distance - dreadful, ugly, but short polish feature about awful people
shut up and play the hits - looked + sounded great
robot and frank - twee indie scifi. ok i guess.

― caek, Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:30 (thirteen years ago)

shut up and play the hits

oh shit that's next week right?

there's prob a thread where people are talking about it

― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 12 July 2012 18:18 (thirteen years ago)

yeah I posted about it a bit on the main LCD sound system thread

― caek, Friday, 13 July 2012 12:00 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://annyas.com/screenshots/images/1972/dont-torture-a-duckling-title-still.jpg

― fuck google analytics (am0n), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:07 (thirteen years ago)

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tE5OEjF-hGs/TW8x6Tm0B6I/AAAAAAAAAnQ/yzsV1JLT_mE/s1600/pdvd979.png

― fuck google analytics (am0n), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:08 (thirteen years ago)

don't torture a duckling

― fuck google analytics (am0n), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:40 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

anyone recommend a good movie recommendations book? kinda like the 1001 movies you must see (is that one any good?)

― niels, Monday, 7 August 2017 10:11 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

i have this and its good

https://i.imgur.com/eQIGUP8.jpg

― gr8080, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:28 (eight years ago)

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