This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2007

and for you extreme fans, he has his first directorial effort since then coming out next Friday:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0466893/

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.

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.

but does it posess the genius of Reno 911: Miami?

and for you extreme fans, he has his first directorial effort since then coming out next Friday:

Oh wow, that's fantastic. I was just thinking yesterday, in the midst of our debate, that he should make another movie.

where it'll be released, I don't know. Don't see a NYC venue.

I like that three cast members from YCCOM are in the new one, too (Broderick, Ruffalo, and Culkin).

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.

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.

ken, will you ever use Demarest's exclamation "DAUGHTERS!" on your girls?

Haha, Morbius, I can see it coming.

This facial expression comes pretty naturally to me.
http://www.nndb.com/people/975/000078741/demarest03.jpg

Alba seems to have good taste in movies

it depends whether she finds Julianne Moore annoying.

(only in Safe)

B-b-but Alba is a man, Doctor!

OK. I don't keep track of that stuff.

anyway, did Julie Christie's perf come too early for hardware?

Are you referring to The Demon Seed?

'Cause that came out in '77.

lol. I just noticed last night that Maltin gave Demon Seed 3-1/2 stars.

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

Forget I started this thread.

xp: uh that's kinda fuctup, but you get the idea.

(Summer '04 is a title)

no Eric, otherwise the video clerks win.

I want none of you people to win.

Vive la guerre.

I Love Film No More Forever.

Personne n'a vécu dans le passé. Personne ne vivra dans le futur. Le présent est la forme de toute vie.

i like everything i've seen on morbius' list (admittedly only like four movies) except "the simpsons movie"!?!?!?! so terrible!

Anyone hear sumpin?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/11/07/images/west_side_story_screengrab_1.jpg

How many bullets are left in this gun?

http://www.chucksconnection.com/westside/westside3.jpg
Keep cooly cool, boy!

Dang
http://www.chucksconnection.com/westside/westside3.jpg
Keep cooly cool, boy!

you don't need to write your own scripts to be an auteur.

the original definition was used for, like, alfred hitchcock.

who didn't write his own scripts.

the simpsons movie sucked shit

you crazy

I agree that THIS is the thread to debate what an auteur is, though I still think its basically a meaningless term (really another redundancy like "filmic"), though it might actually mean something if it described directors who brought their own ideas to life from the blank page to the editing room rather than filmmakers who are "filmic."

x-post re: simpsons movie, yeah a "stop seeing mall movies" dis doesn't really sting from somebody repping that.

hitch didn't write his own scripts, but he spent lots of time with the screenwriters acting out the scripts he wanted. like lubitsch.

i'm sure fincher did that with his xbox ad

You made yr 'populist' retard thread bed, nrq, now stew in it. Don't bring the shit here.

Redd OTM Hitchcock commonly co/re-wrote his scripts without screen credit, as many directors have always done.

ON TOPIC, Oscar Foreign Film submissions:

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2007/07.10.17a.html

mad overrated: Zodiac (more like zzzzzodiac, amirite), Ratatouille (Incredibles much better!)

Create a Super-ILXer!

lol populist retard thread bed

that's pretty good.

ratatouille was pretty meh too

hitch didn't write his own scripts, but he spent lots of time with the screenwriters acting out the scripts he wanted. like lubitsch.

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, November 16, 2007 3:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yeah but so does fincher. and hitchcock seldom wrote dialogue.

itchcock commonly co/re-wrote his scripts without screen credit,

maybe -- even more famously hitchcock never credited his collaborators.

so BAFTA didn't submit the Gaelic language film SEACHD after all. that's a shame.

xpost to Morbius.

The Simpsons Movie (somewhat less so Ratatouille) got me emotionally involved, unlike nearly all of Zodiac.

I think you need to see more mall movies

Though I'm definitely in the "what's the big deal about Zodiac" camp.

you liked 'spider-man 3'

Damn straight!

more of a populist retard thread discussion point i guess.