I won't even mention a certain melancholy Swede.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, apparently in Sweden IB is considered a better theatre director.
xp
jeez, I have a lot to listen to when I go to CT for T'giving.
I like theatrical elements of film too, and wasn't trying to set up a "vs." Count just didn't get under my skin the way it should've if it was a great film, thus my brows rose when I saw it on that list.
Linklater and effing Tu Mama got under my skin badly.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
cuz they were more filmic?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"You know, like a running joke."
i thought it was. thanks!
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
cuz they showed heterosexuality at its worst.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, gentlemen, we can't fight about the decade in here! this is the '07 thread!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
You'll have to explain that one.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
You want embarrassing depictions of het behavior? Try The Notebook.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I will admit that the first time or two I used "detrius," I wasn't actually aware I'd misspelled it.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
So you liked The Simpsons Movie that much, huh Mobrs?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I laughed a lot, but everything after #3 is just a "B" elevated by my underwhelmed filmlog.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
also, the first 2 reviews at my new outlet -- average rating: 0.75 star
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
weirdly enough, I'm going to be helping to contribute to the year-end music feature (at least in the singles capacity) at your new outlet this year, not movies
― Eric H., Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
singles. what a concept.
Seriously, I'm worried a PR firm is going to ban me from screenings. I'm going to start walking like Peter O'Toole in Ratatouille.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Dr. M's "new outlet" = Sl@nt?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Morbs' Slant review of What Would Jesus Do is a polished compendium of his remarks on the 2008 prez thread.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
This audio of Kael taking down Sarris is ... not quite as enjoyably bitchy as the symposium with MacDonald/Simon. It's sort of odd to listen to, actually, since she arguably succumbed to a lot of the stuff she complained about here.
― Eric H., Thursday, 15 November 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
kael is an okay controversialist but not really someone worth arguing with about film form.
mind you, i have no idea how chereau gets into morb's list of cinematic innovators.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know why I'm posting on this thread exactly but here are the best movies I remember seeing this year:
Assassination of Jesse James etc. Inland Empire Knocked Up Ratatouille Zodiac
― n/a, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
he doesn't have to be an innovator, just closer to one than... whoever directed You Can Count on Me.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
that's alphabetically, but shift Knocked Up to the bottom and the list is conveniently in order of preference.
― n/a, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, Lonergan directed as well as wrote. I thought he might've, then didn't.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
and for you extreme fans, he has his first directorial effort since then coming out next Friday:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0466893/
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
it could be ok. i can barely remember YCCOM and would not put it in a list, except maybe 'us quasi-indie movies after us quasi indie movies stopped being interesting.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i like YCCOM a whole lot.
Chereau's "Gabrielle" is incredible and unlike anything i've ever seen -whether or not this makes him an innovator is moot but it does make him someone whose work i'm suddenly very interested in.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 November 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
but does it posess the genius of Reno 911: Miami?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wow, that's fantastic. I was just thinking yesterday, in the midst of our debate, that he should make another movie.
― jaymc, Thursday, 15 November 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
where it'll be released, I don't know. Don't see a NYC venue.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I like that three cast members from YCCOM are in the new one, too (Broderick, Ruffalo, and Culkin).
― jaymc, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Circles and Squares is much better written than the Sarris piece that prompted it, and in general Pauline is more fun to read than Andy and does a billion times better job than him at describing what it was like to be her while she was watching something- so good in fact that she never felt the desire to watch a movie twice, never ever! And yet, it just might be possible that despite years of heavy-handed writing and proselytizing people backed down a little from that original auteurist zeal without throwing the baby out with the watering hose- the same way they backed down from the idea that the novel and the stage were dead and the film was going to replace them- and actually incorporated some of Kael's criticisms and widened the circles (and squares) to include variations, exceptions, qualifications, etc. like "The Studio As Auteur" for example. Me, I am not a good enough viewer to get everything in one sitting, I need to watch again once I know what the director is going to show to be able to see how he is going to show it. Anyway my favorite critic of the two is probably Sarris's wife, Molly Haskell.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, now that I've gone all blountastic on your a$$es, I'm gonna go check on my tcm thread and Akim Tamiroff thread and think about going home tonight to curl up with my Criterions and dream of Hollywood Babylon.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
ken, will you ever use Demarest's exclamation "DAUGHTERS!" on your girls?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, Morbius, I can see it coming.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
This facial expression comes pretty naturally to me. http://www.nndb.com/people/975/000078741/demarest03.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Alba seems to have good taste in movies
― gabbneb, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
it depends whether she finds Julianne Moore annoying.
(only in Safe)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
B-b-but Alba is a man, Doctor!
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
OK. I don't keep track of that stuff.
anyway, did Julie Christie's perf come too early for hardware?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you referring to The Demon Seed?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
'Cause that came out in '77.
lol. I just noticed last night that Maltin gave Demon Seed 3-1/2 stars.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
my rough top 25 or so thus far:
(*not commercially released)
(Killer of Sheep, if it counts) The Wind That Shakes the Barley *Passio I'm Not There Away from Her The Simpsons Movie Offside Ratatouille (US, Brad Bird) 12:08 East of Bucharest Bamako Brand Upon the Brain! (US, Guy Maddin)Summer '04 *The Unforeseen *Glue Lady Chatterley No End in Sight Sunshine In Between Days *Euphoria I Don't Want to Sleep Alone Manufactured Landscapes Zodiac *Silent Light Syndromes and a Century Sicko The Decomposition of the Soul The Host
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Forget I started this thread.
― Eric H., Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
xp: uh that's kinda fuctup, but you get the idea.
(Summer '04 is a title)
no Eric, otherwise the video clerks win.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I want none of you people to win.
― Eric H., Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Vive la guerre.
I Love Film No More Forever.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Personne n'a vécu dans le passé. Personne ne vivra dans le futur. Le présent est la forme de toute vie.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i like everything i've seen on morbius' list (admittedly only like four movies) except "the simpsons movie"!?!?!?! so terrible!
― n/a, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone hear sumpin?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link