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― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

I guess is was pretty gay to watch and admit to watching Stage Door.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

Army of Shadows

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

Still Pan's Labyrinth because I keep managing to somehow not see Children of Men. At this rate I'll just hope it's out on DVD when I get to the UK.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 February 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

That's what you get for ILFing the Noize sanctuary, dude.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 9 February 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. That's what I get.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Chien Andalou
Thin Blue Line
The O.C., Season II

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 9 February 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

will whoever has Berlin Alexanderplatz from Netflix please return it? I know it's someone on here..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 9 February 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

Keane, which I thought was going to be a piece of virtuoso pointlessness for the first half hour but actually turned out to be rather interesting.

― chap (chap), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

Ned, "Children of Men" is out in the UK on DVD already! Do you have a multi-region player?

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

last 5 (all off the telly) were

The Ring (remake)
Dawn Of The Dead (remake)
Sailor Of The King
Andromeda Strain
Hero

both remakes were better than expected. Sailor of the King is Boulting Brothers and has two endings (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046267/). Andromeda Strain has always struck me as odd given that it's mostly about scientific procedure. Hero was lovely to look at but the storyline seemed like an excuse for it to be lovely to look at. started on The Dark Corner yesterday but didn't get that far into it.

― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

Last five were

The Last King Of Scotland
Infamous
Notes On A Scandal
The Queen
Blood Diamond

I like them all, but Infamous was the best of the lot, and I've just realised the only one to get totally blanked by the awards nominations. You should really see it if you can. Much better than Capote, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hoodwinked: avoid.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 9 February 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot London To Brighton in that list, which Cineworld was handily showing as part of a BAFTA nominations tour along with The Queen (which was much more interesting than I expected).

Andrew - why did you go and see Hoodwinked??

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 9 February 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

The Pink Panther, The Lives of Others, A fost sau n-a fost, Rocky Balboa . Four good or at least very entertaining movies in a row. Next up is probably Inland Empire (or another one of the Pink Panther movies)

― Jibé (Jibé), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

It's not that gay to watch Stage Door once to get your Homo Card, but Alfred's got some whole Rocky Horror stylee goin with it.

Double Indemnity
An Unreasonable Man
United 93

A Quiet Place in the Country (mod artist Franco Nero goes mad with visions of a nympho ghost and murdering lover Vanessa Redgrave, like Rosi doing a '68 precursor to both Nicolas Roeg and The Shining, with lots of zooms and Morricone)

Old Joy (how gay is the penultimate hot-springs scene, and I ask that literally)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Watched the remake Hills Have Eyes, it was okay. The first half was more interesting, since it actually tried to flesh out the characters and build tensions between them, but not surprisingly most of this was discarded when it turned into a typical horror shockfest. Still, it managed to be better than the original, which isn't much of a praise though, since the original was one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Chinatown
The Good Shepherd
Diabolique
Les Poupees Russes
L'Auberge Espagnole

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Old Joy (how gay is the penultimate hot-springs scene, and I ask that literally)

I think you're obviously supposed to ask the question, but you're supposed to answer that it's besides the point?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

i.e. whatever the nature of what happened off-camera, the relevant point is that dude who couldn't act as well as will oldham submitted to him/it/something outside of himself

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

See, nearly all the critical interp I've seen is "ah, poor sad Will Oldham, can't connect socially or ever grow up." And one blog-ogger even said "Of course, there's nothin homosexual here..."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

well i think that's right about poor, sad will oldham, but the point is he still has something to teach more together bad-acting dude

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, i didn't think much of the movie because a) it didn't come close to meeting my desire for mountain pron, but more relevantly b) the release didn't seem to justify the agony that preceded it

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Pan's Labyrinth - last movie seen in the theater.

California Split - last movie viewed at home.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

and it wasn't that PSWO couldn't connect socially, but that he couldn't maintain a connection

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

if you want to read it a different way from me, maybe bad-actor-dude gave him one last connection, but now he's really on his own.

but that's another of my problems with the movie - there just isn't enough there for you to hang something on

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

hmmm, I really didn't find Daniel London bad. not of WO's caliber, but meh.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Ran
A.K.: The Making of Ran (DVD bonus unsurprisingly, but really a film in itself)
The Last King Of Scotland
Porco Rosso (far better on second viewing)
About 20 minutes of the remake of The Ring on TV. Pish.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

well truthfully I had a hard time telling apart the acting and the directing/scriptwriting. and maybe i just find a portland-aged-out-hipster affect really really annoying. but if it makes any sense i was both very conscious of his acting and of the opinion at times that he seemed not fully in the movie.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

APOCOLYPTO!

Which was quite enjoyable.

I watched sex, lies and videotape a few nights ago for the first time since '89. Not bad, despite Andi McDowell, and James Spader's distracting flicky gold mullett.

― DavidM* (unreal), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

"Watched the remake Hills Have Eyes, it was okay. The first half was more interesting..."
-- Tuomas

Here's something that's been bugging me for quite a while: the Hills Have Eyes remake and Hostel were both released around the same time. Both high-profile, big-studio horror flicks from up-and-coming young directors (Eli Roth and Alex Aja, respectively).

Both films concern the plight of a small group of "ordinary people" who symbolically represent America. In Hostel this representation is direct: the protagonists are Americans abroad, isolated by language and their sense of estrangement from local culture. They're ultimately tortured and killed simply for being American. In THHE, the representative Americanness of the victim-family isn't so literal: they are American, of course, but so are their antagonists and the film's setting. Still, Aja repeatedly and very obviously places the American flag in the middle of establishing and action shots of the group. This is done so relentlessly and so intentionally that we have to accept it as somehow significant.

I know it's arguable, but both movies posit "America" as a victim-entity stuck in the middle of an unfamiliar and deliberately hostile larger world. And here's the crucial bit: in both films, the main character is held captive while two fingers are cut from his/her right hand (in both cases, it's the ring finger and pinky). This commonality is kinda odd, right? It's not often that our cinematic leads are so graphically mutilated, and in exactly the same way?

Why two fingers? I'm tempted to read it as a weird 9/11 thing, but I dunno. Could just be coincidence. Any thoughts?

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

didn't come close to meeting my desire for mountain porn

ha, you always have Palace records for that.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and I've recently watched the following:

Art School Confidential -- insulting garbage
Running With Scissors -- okay, but just barely
several episodes of Sex & the City -- why was this so popular?
The Descent -- fucking awesome, but I'd seen it already
The Thin Man & the Thin Man Returns -- cool, but some of the laffs were pretty labored
Feast -- dunno, gonna watch it tonight

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

didn't come close to meeting my desire for mountain porn

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

i mean

ha, you always have Palace records for that.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Old Joy (how gay is the penultimate hot-springs scene, and I ask that literally)

A bit. (SPOLIER ALERT) Homeless guys are known for trying to suck dick.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

of old friends of theirs?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

Ned, "Children of Men" is out in the UK on DVD already! Do you have a multi-region player?

I do, so thanks for the tip. If I can find it for cheap secondhand there or something I'll snag it then. In any event, I'll just assume Andrew already has it and will watch it at his place!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

the last king of scotland - excellent. funny how all the attention is on whittaker when the young scottish bloke is really the lead (and quite deserving of kudos too)

for your consideration - its good, i guess you could say its a semi-return to form after a mighty wind (which was a bit of a letdown)

a dirty shame - not a massive waters fans (tho have enjoyed a couple of his pics) but this was surprisingly great! it seemed so quoteable while watching it, yet it can't seem to remember any of the good lines right now.

thank you for smoking - i was looking forward to this (after missing it at the cinemas) as it totally seemed like my kind of film (great cast, dark humour) but i came away a bit underwhelmed. it's decent but didn't really push as far as i was hoping (and i would've liked to see more of the alcohol lady and gun dude as i thought they were a bit underused)

the fountain - meh.

― Mil (Mil), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

Mon oncle d'Amérique
f for fake
gilda
friday night lights
smokin' aces
dames

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

Films in general? That's different -- most recent would be Mr. Arkadin and Dig!, both excellent in much different ways. But for the past few days it's been pretty much a music and reading kick.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

6:46 PM, 8 Feb 07 MOVIES! locked user Eric H. by spaceball.gif

Whew! I wasn't alone. I will never mention Eve Arden in polite company again.

Anyway...

Reflections in a Golden Eye
A Day in the Country
Re-screened The Verdict (pungent dialogue, Great Unheralded Jack Warden Performance #32, awful construction and denouement).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oh blimey - I forgot I'd seen The Fountain in the last fortnight too. I've seen rather a lot lately. I feel like I'm clearing the decks before The Science Of Sleep finally comes to UK cinemas. I still managed to miss Apocalpyto before it finished, though. It was always showing at stupid times.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

* De Ja Vu - Denzil Washington's time travel caper!
* Casino Royal - Better than most Bond films
* Art School Confidential - depressing
* Junebug - Will Oldham was cool in this, and that's the guy from the OC!
* Pan's Labyrinth - Really good
* Talladega Nights - errrrr

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 10 February 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

That car-chase-through-space-and-time scene in Deja Vu had me laughing so hard. I love my movies to be completely over the top. Thank god for Tony Scott and his weird ideas ... that one, the cameras that can make out objects in 3d just by seeing one side of them (in Enemy of the State, though I dunno if I was very clear about what I mean) etc.

― Jibé (Jibé), Saturday, 10 February 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Viridiana - why hadnt i ever watched this? fantastic
The Naked Mile - surprisingly okay, long boner olympics scene aside
Sherrybaby - nothing special, maggie g naked lots aside
The Thing - awesome

― Jimmy_tango (Jimmy_tango), Saturday, 10 February 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Deja Vu was great. And was I just in a very good/stupid mood or did the logic of the time travel and its effects actually make internal sense in a way other time travel plots don't?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 11 February 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Old Joy (Will "Loog" Oldham and Daniel London sepnd 76 minutes hangin' out)
Top Secret (who thought giving Val Kilmer a comedy role would work?)
The Ring (the bit with the horse, Jesus)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Sunday, 11 February 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

The Fall (Peter Whitehead, 1969)
Iron Island

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Jules et Jim

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 22 February 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

how was the whitehead, morbs?

recently:

junebug (great!)
little children (awful!)

― impudent harlot, Thursday, 22 February 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

I had a near opposite reaction - thought Little Children was good, though perhaps not great, and Junebug was meh, though perhaps not awful.

Little Children did have a profoundly awful ending though.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 22 February 2007 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ace In The Hole (thanks TCM!)
Mafioso (1962 Alberto Sordi)
Notes On A Scandal (liked it, but wasn't sure why this was a feature vs. Made-For-BBC-America. Bill Nighy is my NuGod)
Das Fräulein (Weakly liked it)

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 February 2007 07:05 (eighteen years ago)

Saboteur (first time; the characterization was mostly great but damn that's the most lenient 5th column cabal one could imagine. otto kruger is the shit)
Big Combo(seen it before, still love Conte but Cornel Wilde's slight, constipated take on moral ambivalence early on makes a bigger impression the 2nd time around too. a richer ending was in order(the pre-climax with the boytoys getting doublecrossed resonates more than the actual ending) but not too many complaints)

― tremendoid, Thursday, 22 February 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

how was the whitehead, morbs?

Great footage of the Columbia 'rebellion,' Newark smoldering, Mayor Lindsay & Sammy Davis singing We Shall Overcome etc; Whitehead and his preening model plus trippy psych sequences disposable.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

"Children of Men" lived up to the hype. "Marie Antoinette", which I avoided for ages, was surprisingly enjoyable.

― Roz, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

All for the first time:

The Syrian Bride - This was okay. At the end, I felt a little dirty realizing I'd watched an Israeli film about Arabs.
All About Lilly Chou-Chou - If I'd known how grim this was going to be, I probably wouldn't have rented it, but I did end up enjoying it.
The Enforcer (Jet Li) - Not one of his better films, but I liked the kung-fu kid, and also somehow ended up getting curious enough to find out that thefamiliar looking actor in the film was named Anita Mui, which led me to find out something about her, which turned out to be very interesting. Quite a life story. (I hadn't even realized she was in The Return of Drunken Master.)
The Warrior (aka Musa) - This was really annoying after a while. Too many characters I didn't care about involved in power struggles (just like real life). Just ditch the damn princess already.
The Sixth Sense - I liked this and I was slow enough not to figure out the surprise ending until the end.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

The Prestige (needlessly complicated)
[i]Babel[/i[ (just needless)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Colossal Youth (disapointed at first, but now can't stop thinking about it)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly

― C0L1N B..., Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Recently:

Play - A Chilean film!
Music and Lyrics - Probably my favourite Hugh Grant film, even better than that one with Sandra Bullock.

― jel --, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Goal II: Living the Dream.

Because I keep telling myself I had to.

― Gukbe, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, alba, that's true about De-Ja Vu, it totally made sense!

― jel --, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Little Miss Sunshine -Pretty good. Kept me smiling.
A Double Tour -Pick of the bunch. An early Chabrol Hitchcock tribute w/Jean-Paul Belmondo, Madeleine Robinson and Bernadette Lafont (whom I'm currently crushing on). Very entertaining.
Diary of A Shinjuku Thief -Next best. Bad crazyness from Nagisa Oshima who out Godards Godard.
Stormy Weather -An all-black musical from the 40s, with Lena Horne and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Show stolen by Fats Waller and the Nicholas Bros.
Marnie -Interesting to say the least.
Les Carabiniers -Pretty meh anti-war Godard.
A Very Curious Girl -More Lafont goodness.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

A Perfect Candidate, a documentary film about Oliver North's 1994 run for the Senate. It includes clips of Sen. Chuck Robb, his opponent who was ultimately re-elected. The film itself is really good and interesting, but I came away from it glad that I've never wanted to go into politics, and that Virginia has an impressive record of crappy candidates.

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

The Conversation
Histoires Du Cinema Part 5
Whisper Of The Heart : Aawwwww.
Leon Morin, Pretre

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 23 February 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

Curse of the Golden Flower breaks into my top 10 of '06 -- SO glad I didn't see it in a theater packed with giggling hipsters. On TV it will have significantly less impact.

Lights in the Dusk -- more dour Kaurismaki than usual, even

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Pinocchio 964. Similar to Tetsuo: Iron Man.

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 23 February 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Hot Fuzz. It was marvellous. Before that, I hadn't been to the cinema since Casino Royale (also marvellous). I can't even remember the last film I watched on TV.

― ailsa, Saturday, 24 February 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

27 Missing Kisses, last night on the telly. Really fine, too.

― t**t, Saturday, 24 February 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Rush Hour
Romeo Must Die
Heathers
Kamikaze Girls

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 25 February 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

Christiane F.

They left out all the better bits of the book (like when she gets heroin therapy from the Scientologists!) but probably because they would be dull on film.

Good use of the Bowie music: it was the first time I actually dug "Heroes," those crazy kids dashing in their glam heels through the train station, falling over and laughing.

Lil' 14teeny actress gave off a Linda Blair vibe but w/out all the goopy satan makeup: barely pubescent lass squirting red wine vom everywhere cold turkey. Messy!

― Abbott, Sunday, 25 February 2007 07:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh p.s. Rockist Scientst---I am very surprised the ending hasn't been spoiled or given away to you! How rare. i had the privilege of seeing it on a very pleasant double date right before the HYPE omg surprise madness. I also was nicely thick and did not figure it out. I won't give away the SURPRISE to all two of you who don't know...the...very...spooooky....end! Booga booga booga.

― Abbott, Sunday, 25 February 2007 07:20 (eighteen years ago)

This re: the 6th Scents. (If I had ESP it would be my fifth sense as I'm anosmic.)

― Abbott, Sunday, 25 February 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's a byproduct of how out-of-the-loop about movies I was for a while. I just wasn't paying attention. Although after I watched the movie, it came back to me that a friend had just said something to me recently about the video for Hector the Father's "Sola" being like the Sixth Sense, but I had forgotten all about it. So who knows how many mentions of the film, with spoilers, I may have heard, without them sticking.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 25 February 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

In the theater:
Inland Empire - a little long and oppressive, but I'm psyched to get it on DVD!
Volver - Fine, but doesn't quite live up to the hype. Almodovar's done better in the past. However, I must praise him on the excellent showcasing of Penelope Cruz's cleavage. Good one on ya mate! ...and to think, he doesn't even like boobies...

On DVD:
Talladega Nights - Pretty funny
Manhunter - Fairly good, but cheesy. Hannibal Lecter = not scary!
Reds - Quite good, loved that Henry Miller was in this film!
Miami Vice - I liked this way more than I should have
This Film Is Not Yet Rated - Very interesting, really got me pissed off about the film industry.
Prizzi's Honor - Not nearly as good as I remembered, very goofy.
United 93 - Very well done.
Flags of Our Fathers - Another heavy-handed snoozefest from Clint Eastwood.
The Illusionist - Not great, I preferred The Magician.
A Dirty Shame - The best John Waters has done in a long time.
Marie Antoinette - Loved it!
To Live and Die in L.A. - Great! One of the best car chase scenes I've seen! Terrific Wang Chung soundtrack!
For Your Consideration - somewhat funny
The Insider - Dull, dull, dull!
Half Nelson - Could have been so much worse, but managed to avoid falling into cliche, I was really impressed by Ryan Gosling's performance.
Babel - Terrible, I've hated every movie this guy's made. The only things that kept my attention were some salacious Japanese schoolgirl scenes that had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

― Moodles, Sunday, 25 February 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

The Science of Sleep - not without its charms, but pretty pointless and overly whimisical, really.

― chap, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Children of Men
The Queen

The Lost Weekend
On Dangerous Ground
Love And Death (best of the lot)
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
Orpheus
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

― abanana, Sunday, 25 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I finally watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou all the way thru this afternoon. It was v. good.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 25 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

The Life Aquatic soundtrack CD 's pretty fab also :)

― t**t, Sunday, 25 February 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

first half of Full Metal Jacket on Blu-Ray = AWESOME

― milo z, Sunday, 25 February 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

In the theater :

Letters from Iwo Jima : soooo much better than Memories of our fathers

DVD :

Thief: it's a Michael Mann movie, you kinda know what to expect and it's all good
Miami Vice : it was a Mann weekend for me I guess. Farrell wasn't any better than when i saw it in the theater
Spiderman : it is what it is, an enjoyable enough movie to watch while a bit drunk
Signs of life : Herzog not at his best but it is nice enough anyway

― Jibe, Monday, 26 February 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

DVD:

Producing Adults
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (pretty fascinating)
Jackie Brown

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

The Departed (less impressed with Mark Wahlberg this time, enjoyed Ray Winstone and Martin Sheen a lot more)

Glengarry Glen Ross (with each viewing the staging appalls me, but the cast is uniformly fine, even Al Pacino, especially when he's condescending to Jack Lemmon)

The Virgin Spring

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

I saw the Departed and was very bored. Everyone had to keep reminding me what it was/who directed it/actors et. al beforehand...it has the most generic title. Then about an hour ago someone told me the Departed won best picture. I was completely confused. 'Have I even heard of that movie?

I just realized now it was that movie that barely permeated my consciousness. All i remember thinking during the film is: the Langoliers' elevator death scene was far more entertaining.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh...I've got that Patty Hearst docu on my NTFLX Q. I'm excited to hear it's good.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like the only one who can't even remember Ray Winstone in The Departed.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 27 February 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

I can't remember anyone in The Departed...I couldn't even keep Damoncaprio differentiated for the first 15 minutes. Go on, make the fun.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 05:50 (eighteen years ago)

Bollywood extravaganza Diwale Dulhanie Le Jayenge, which had some seriously annoying characters - so much so we stopped watching the movie and just cut to the musical numbers (at the 1 hour mark - it's 3 hours long).

The original Manchurian Candidate with evil evil evil Angela Lansbury. 24 Hour Party People which was great. And Shaun of the Dead.

And going to see The Earrings of Madame de... on Thursday, the opening of the Seattle International Film Festival.

― Jaq, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Shut Up and Sing - loved it
For Your Consideration - OK
Babel - liked it more than I thought I would
Fahrenheit 451 - interesting
Science of Sleep - like being hugged by a pantless Belle & Sebastian fan for 90 minutes

― darin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

You know waht's super-gay is that the last five movies I've seen are:

There's No Business Like Show Business
The Wicked Lady
Carmen Jones
Three Coins in the Fountain
The One That Got Away

OK that last one's actually maybe the gayest of them all. Incredibly pretty German POW tries to escape from like five different army prisons in England and Canada, miraculously gets to keep wearing his leather bomber jacket no matter how many times he gets caught, and is reluctantly admired by every officer he meets. And they are ALL officers of course. Brandy all around.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

I just watched Brick - rented out of curiosity - and now I want to hurt the makers of this movie. Such a pointless, empty excercise, I shouldn't have even bothered watching it all the way to the end.

And I LOVE noir stuff! And teen movies! And Bugsy Malone even! But this was just horrible.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I coulda sworn there was some discussion of Brick on ILE somewhere but I can't find it...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

I saw and liked Breach, it was exactly what I expected but no problem there.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

The Good German
Bug
Another Friedkin movie with Del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones whose title I can't remember

― Jibe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Avenue Montaigne
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver

― j.lu, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

What I've watched in the past month:

Putney Swope
Quinceanera
13 Tzameti
The Quiet (so bad)
Snakes on a Plane
The Illusionist (the worse of the two "magic" movies)
The Prestige
Zodiac (best on this whole list)
Open Hearts
La Moustache
The Heart of the Game
Save The Tiger
For Your Consideration
The Lives of Others (not as good as Pan's Labryinthe)
Days of Glory (ditto)
Marie Antoinette
US Vs. John Lennon (bleh)
Sherrybaby (meh)
The Science of Sleep (feh)
The Macintosh Man (heh)
Catch A Fire (gah)

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

Roman Holiday
Hot Fuzz
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (!!!)
Million Dollar Baby

― G00blar, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

The Prestige
Pepe Le Moko
Heaven Can Wait

all ok, none really great

― abanana, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

I actually thought The Prestige was pretty good (it was completely telegraphed, but I didn't mind) but it might have been because The Illusionist was so godawful terrible that I thought so.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

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