what new movies do you like?

Look for My Life As McDull, Shaolin Soccer, Unknown Pleasures, Take Care of My Cat, etc. etc. etc.

Shaolin Soccer!!!!!!!!!

Maybe I'll go see Catch Me if You Can this weekend then...

When my bf and I were making our way into the theatre to see Adaptation, it was letting out. This old couple passed us on the sidewalk and the man was like, "I can't believe I sat through that whole movie!" and the little old lady was shaking her head back and forth saying, "Confused... so confused..."

ha! I knew it would be good.

Mmmmm, eye candy....

Still MC does have one the best--also one of the saddest--sex scenes I've ever seen, and Morton is really memorable. A sequence in a sort of Spanish tourist villa for bored European 20somethings is wonderful. One shot in particular made me think of "MTV Spring Break" with all the euphoria drained out.

i'm looking forward to Tarantino's new one Kill Bill as well altho i'm worried the fact that Thurman and Madsen are both in it will spoil things a bit in that there will be too much comparison and nudge-winking to their roles in previous Quentin films

still waiting for Donnie Darko :( tried to download it but for some annoying reason, i cant view the .avi file until its entirely complete and the final 10% just wouldnt come on Soulseek so i got rid of the whole thing

It's getting a few nods and nominations in the EOY critics awards in the US, mostly for Day-Lewis, but not enough to give it sufficient Oscar momentum, I think. Looks to me like Scorsese will miss out yet again.

(insert Monkees joke here)

Does that mean it's wonderful and entertaining? Heh heh heh...

I want to see Darkness Falls, because it's about the Tooth Fairy being a pitiless butcher! What's not to love? It may put Leprechaun to shame.

I've heard mixed reviews of Gangs of NY. My sister said it was great, but a little gorey for her taste. But my drummer said he hated hated hated it.

Often old ladies have the right idea.

Yes, this is odd but true, or even if you disagree with them, as I did in my example here, you seem to believe it's a convincing idea whatever it is. Heard from one old lady to her old-peeps clique as I was walking out of nearly-empty theatre showing Moulin Rouge: I THINK THAT WAS THE WORST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN!

The implied franchise is "films based on Marvel Comics", I think.

I definitely want to see "Drumline". Hmm, maybe that's what I'll do to entertain myself this week...

Don't think of it as a Cronenburg movie, he's more a director-for-hire here, the benefits of using him as opposed to a English director (for what is a very English story) is that you get some views of London on film that you don't often see, at least on the big screen. The vibe is a little reminiscent of Dennis Potter TV plays, actually. As for the plot, it's nothing you may not have seen before but a reasonably compelling examination of mental illness nonetheless, with good performances from Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson. I gave it five points in the ILX poll.

The Everglades? In Florida? Never been there.
And what does that have to do with new movies?

This whole posting multiple times to get up higher on the list thing is totally unfair. I work for my position on the list! I work hard!

come on: the weather is perfect for it!

I'll pick some of the Bergmann season up.

just looked at the NFT website. def see something this week.

Catch Me If You Can is not bad.

Far From Heaven is pretty pictures and good acting but a lousy, lousy movie.

Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.
Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.
Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.

Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.
Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.
Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.

Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.
Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.
Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.

Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.
Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.
Can't sleep, the tooth fairy will eat me.

(Okay, where am I on the statscock now?)

http://kangaroojack.warnerbros.com/_images/poster.jpg

He's a wise-crackin' CGI kangaroo and he's about to have a crazy adventure with all his friends!!!

The best movie out right now is Catch Me If You Can.

I went to a museum screening of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Goodbye South, Goodbye (an extraordinary beautiful film, BTW). There was some old couple in the theater who kept shouting out things at each other (I think due to a hearing problem coupled with encroaching senility), mostly regarding how confused they were by the film. At one point he said to his wife, "What LANGUAGE is this in?" The theater manager had to ask them to be quiet, twice.

As I exited the theater, said old man was sitting on a bench outside and pointed to me, "Young man! Young man! Did you understand that at all??" "Um, you didn't like it?" "It didn't make any SENSE! What LANGUAGE were they speaking in?"

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No offense to the oldies, but I usually sit as far away from y'alls in the theater as I can, since in my experience y'all are prone to talk all through the movie (when you're not snoring loudly like the lady at a showing of Taste of Cherry five years ago). Unlike a lot of noisy teenagers and 20somethings, y'all are also likely to be totally oblivious to people shushing you and giving you cold stares.

Although more recently I shushed ("be quiet!") two middle-aged men who were shouting at the screen during Gangs of New York. After the movie was over, one of them turned to me and asked, "Did you call my friend a MORON?"

!!

Catch Me if You Can is okay. Fun enough, but too long.

Gangs of New York is a total mess. Daniel Day Lewis is amazing. Leo is ehhh. Cameron Diaz needs to go away, please. Footage of dead Civil War soldiers, no thanks.

Lord of the Dance had some good battle scenes. Its just too bad you can't skip past all the hobbit bonding in the woods parts, like you could in the books.

The Star Trek movie was horrible, awful, and just not very good.

I can easily envision Michael Flatley as Gollum.

Which of the following recent movies should I watch this evening:

Rams
The Ones Below
The Invitation
The Assassin
Trumbo
Sicario

ive only heard of the last one but its dope!

and the assassin is a hou hsaio hsien film so that would probably be even more dope

rams is dope

I was leaning towards Rams.

The Invitation

The Assassin is the best 'new' film I've seen in a UK cinema this year. The other day I spotted it on sale in my local Sainsburys, racked next to the Deadpool DVDs, and had to laugh at the thought of an eager fisticuff fan taking this one home; needless to say it is very slow, and fairly oblique, with only tiny little flurries of Crouching Tiger-like 'action'. The costumes, decor etc are all exquisite.

Rams is like Kaurismaki at his least antic, which is fine.

Assassins does sound lush but I'm two ales down and it might send me to sleep.

I think it'll have to be Rams as my girlfriend is away and she turned her nose up the other night when I suggested watching an Icelandic sheep farmer movie.

Ah balls, my tOrrent of it doesn't have subtitles.