Metallica: Some Kind Of MonsterDig!Auto FocusDonnie Darko - the director cutZero To SixtyStrays
and a couple more I'm forgetting. Comments to follow shortly
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)
I also re-watched Blow Up. I've found it's consistently rewarding to re-watch Antonioni. Though there are a lot of filmmakers whose films are specifically designed for successive viewings.
― theodore fogelsanger, Friday, 16 July 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)
Casablanca--I can't believe I hadn't ever seen this before! It's, y'know, said to be a good movie. And it is.
Three Kings--Loved it, was stunned. Started a thread on it.
Anatomy of a Murder--I really like Jimmy Stewart. I liked the line he says about liking a "womanly jiggle" (or something like that), referring to a woman (gasp)not wearing a girdle.
Mon Oncle--Turned out I'd seen it before and forgotten having seen it. Endearing and funny, but a bit slow-moving for my taste.
The Color of Paradise--A sweet movie. In a way, it was cool that it's in a foreign language that I don't understand at all because of the importance of sound in the movie (it's about a blind boy). Reading rather than hearing the dialogue emphasized the other sounds that much more. Maybe I'm entirely full of shit, but that was my feeling.
Under the Tuscan Sun--An optimistic movie, which was exactly the sort of thing I needed that day to cheer me up a bit. Typical Hollywood mainstream predictable whatever? Yeah, but entertaining nonetheless.
Ghost World--Liked it. I'm just going to list now.
The Razor's Edge
Following
Happiness--(I said something about it in a chat and someone said, "oh yeah, the jizz movie!")
(yes I am a netflix addict)
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Morvern CallarDidn't grab me at all. Reasonable soundtrack.
Dude, Where's My Car?I was expecting a lot more than this.
TubeLacklustre Korean Speed / Money Train inspired flick. And dubbed too! Jesus, in this day and age that's just unforgivable.
Men Suddenly In BlackEnjoyable sleaze comedy on infidelity, lampoons HK film / culture
A Page Of MadnessHave seen very little silent cinema, but this impressed me tremendously. Way ahead of its time with compositing / visual effects.
Also: Suture, Ritual In Transfigured Time, Tornado!, Voices Of A Distant Star, Tampopo, Sodomites, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, New Tenant, Black Hawk Down, The Backyard, Friday Night.... yes, I've had a lot of free time on my hands lately ;)
― Mil (Mil), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)
i dont quite have the energy to detail which where crap/okay/good/fantastic right now. i think thats it. but i have no concept of time so there may actually have been more/less.
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 17 July 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― PVC (peeveecee), Saturday, 17 July 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Fred (Fred), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)
touching the voidall the real girlstokyo storyanchorman
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)
spiderman 2 (good)blade runner (not as good as i'd hoped, after all the expectation)the fifth element (wonderful! madcap!)the usual suspects (ok, but i guessed the end, or i think i did. i may have needed to pay more attention)chronicles of riddick (to be honest, it played like mediocre fan-fic)jan svankmeyer's alice (out of control)the stepford wives(1975) (wonderful, esp. soundtrack. well paced)bullet to beijing (horrid. it's the second sequel to the ipcress file. still with michael caine, but absolutely nothing else.)
definitely more that i'm forgetting.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)
spiderman 2the corporationfahrenheit 911bukowski: born into this
― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 22 July 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)
chicken runspiderman 2bad santaeurotrippuce momentbroken down filmfear of fearjulien donkey-boymeshes of the afternoonle corbeauanchormanthe creeping terror (mst3k)last life in the universelady chatterley's lover
― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)
born into this: i think that anyone who has any interest at all in bukowski should see the documentary. a lot of great footage that shows you how bukowski actually was. great great stuff.
all in all, fahrenheit 911 shouldnt have a chance of winning the oscar for best documentary.
― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 22 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)
Evil Dead 3 - also amusing, and not offensive (though it is dumb :)
Aliens - always great
Fahrenheit 9/11 - 2nd time I saw it, this time I took conservative friends; all were converted except one. xpost: All of the "facts" are in fact, facts, and have been extensively researched, by many independent parties. Perhaps by 'facts' you mean opinions.
I, Robot - terrible
Van Helsing - even worse
― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)
And six seasons of Buffy. Hey--it's shot on film.
― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)
Wow. You're the very first person I've ever heard describe this film in this way.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)
Prelude to a Kiss: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk, talk, talk, talk, talk through Before Sunset.
For thirtysomething narcissists who look back fondly on the memory of their romantically feckless early 20s, Before Sunset is hard to beat. For everyone else, it’s likely to be an endurance test of the most trying sort.
Filmed in a fuzzy-focused, sunny glow once reserved for tampon commercials, its dialogue—co-written by director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life) and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy—is post-bong-hit, faux-heavy pabulum. Which is really bad news in a movie that’s basically one 80-minute-long conversation.
― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― kephm, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― kephm, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)