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― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yesterday I saw The Good Girl, Zero Effect, and I Hired A Contract Killer.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

Saw TTT for the second time on Friday

― C J (C J), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

I watched Catch Me If You Can last night. It's the best Spielberg movie since Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.

― Michael B, Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

= "even worse than Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade"

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

Now that's cold. But likely accurate.

In my case -- oh, give a guess. I actually haven't seen any movie in the theater this month.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

On video, Svankmajer's Faust and Godard' s Woman is a Woman and Band of Outsiders. In theaters I haven't seen anything since Spirited Away a while back.

― Honda (Honda), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

What did you think of Faust? I was watching that the other day, and I thought it was great, as is Little Otik.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

Lord of the Rings (twice)
Star Trek Nemesis

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

What did you think of Faust? I was watching that the other day, and I thought it was great, as is Little Otik.

I liked it but not as much as Svankmajer's older animated work (Jabberwocky, Punch+Judy, etc). His work is so visceral and material-oriented that the narrative/dialogue (dubbed in English unfortunately) almost felt like a distraction at times, like he was peppering the film with his favorite visual motifs but they didn't all merge quite right. I liked how non-sequitor it was though. I haven't seen Little Otik yet it looks like Eraserhead.

― Honda (Honda), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:48 (10 years ago) Permalink

I plan to see: 8 mile, the Tuxedo and that new one with Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

Shanghai Knights? Surely a classic!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

yeah i think faust is a bit disappointing too

city of god: good but not as good as it thinks it is (just had an argt w.sistrah becky abt this) (involving joe strummer)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

Joe's in I Hired A Contract Killer! (se above) In the East End pub of my dreams, Joe Strummer is forever looking good like he did in the 80s and singing silly but earnest songs about afrobeat.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw Bowling for Columbine last night.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Have you had any conversations recently not involving Joe Strummer, Mark? (Actually that sounds nasty. I was just amused at you working him into a discussion of Czech animation, and we talked of him a bit last night.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

I haven't been to a film since the London Film Festival ended. I do have 'tickets' (it doesn't quite work that way) to see a couple of films at the Japanese Embassy soonish, though. And I might go with Andrew L to see Spider too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:09 (10 years ago) Permalink

In theaters, The Two Towers and Harry Potter. On TV, Chasing Amy and Billy Elliot.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw 7th Street last night. It was a documentary about, well, 7th Street (between Avenues C and D). It was good.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

What did you see at the LFF, Martin? I saw Far From Heaven (excellent), 8 Mile (meh), Lilya 4 Ever (GREAT), Bowling For Columbine (satisfying), and Shanghai Panic (atrocious). I also saw Michael Moore in interview. And I missed both Year Of The Devil and Man Without A Past. Not seeing the latter devastated me, but it's out next week.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

The only one of those I saw was Lilya 4-Ever, which I found pretty miserable. I saw Punch-Drunk Love, which was very good, but of the ten I saw my favourites were Dead Or Alive: Final and A Chinese Odyssey (mental and funny). I mostly saw films from the Far East, as that's a special interest of mine and they mostly won't be available otherwise.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

Martin, you should see a Korean film, Take Care of My Cat, if you get the chance. Was the film you saw A Chinese Odysey 2002 directed by Jeff Lau? That film really is brilliant.

In the last week or two....

In theaters: The Smiling Lieutenant, One Hour with You, Design for Living, The Love Parade, Trouble in Paradise (all of those at the Lubitch festival at the Film Center), Take Care of My Cat.

On video: Description d'un combat, Letter from Siberia, Le vent d'Est (Godard's "Marxist Western"), Scarlet Diva (awful, I could barely finish it), Come Drink with Me (seminal wuxia film), The Long Goodbye (can't believe I'd never seen this), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

I really need to see Far from Heaven again before it disappears from theaters here.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

I love the Long Goodbye. Especially for those weird yoga girls that live next door to him. Plus it's the best film to start with a man buying cat food ever.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

Spider, The Dancer Upstairs, Gangs Of New York, The Player, Narrow Margin (for the 478th time), Rebecca.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

Rebecca the Hitchcock movie? God, Joan Fontaine is so cute in that.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

P. S. Does anyone else think Maggie Gyllenhaal (sp?) look like Claudette Colbert in her early days?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

yeh she is. it's funny how laurence olivier calls her an idiot in a exasperated affectionate sorta way.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't remember who directed it, Amateurist. It was new, and it was a parody of Chinese mythic tales, with lots of kung fu and music and the princess disguising herself as a boy and running away from the palace and falling in love with an outlaw. Very camp, very funny.

Nordicskillz, was Far From Heaven really on at the LFF? I don't remember it, and the NFT are claiming to have the British premiere of it next month.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:20 (10 years ago) Permalink

Re. Rebecca: That film was ruined I think by the Hays Code. Hitchcock made a good try though.

Martin: that's the one.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

Martin-it was the surprise film. I love the surprise film! And Todd Haynes was there, too.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw most of 'Armageddon' on TV last night. Benjamin Affleck is the worst 'movie star' of all time ever. EVER.

― DavidM (DavidM), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:36 (10 years ago) Permalink

Watched Die Another Day again at the cinema this week.

Watched Excalibur, Suspiria & The Stepford Wives on DVD last night.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:43 (10 years ago) Permalink

Lawrence of Arabia -- cockswinging filmmaking that gets lost as soon as David Lean is out of the desert.

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

Rented an awful gay film called Circuit, about the homo party circuit. Why do I punish myself? I was hoping it'd be something akin to Swingers, a really entertaining, insightful movie about a group of people I hate. No such luck. The worst dialogue.

In the theaters, I saw Chicago. It was OK, a bit too impressed with it's cynicism, in a way that seemed dated. Also, how can Catherine Zeta-Jones be so good when she's such a hideous celebrity and advertising spokesperson? She just can, I guess. She was the best thing about High Fidelity, too. Richard Gere is not convincing as a musical comedy performer.

Also--Gangs of New York Loved the outfits! Those striped pants-yeah! And the sets-it was Pirates of the Caribbean meets Satyricon on the rough-and-tumble streets of Boss Tweed-era NYC! DD Lewis was no big deal, I prefer him when he's soft-spoken. Nobody else made much of an impression.

The Hours-Solid, moving. Made me feel old and melancholy. I didn't think Nicole Kidman's performance was so mind-blowing. Also, what's with the Raging Bull nose? Virginia Woolf's nose always seemed rather elegant and large to me, not broken. I loved the supporting cast--good roles for Toni Collette and Claire Danes and Miranda Richardson-finally!

Catch Me If You Can-his most human film since Sugarland Express. I started out hating it, it's like Speilberg does retro-sixties lounge crap and it's so bad. But once he gets into the fucked up family dynamic, it's really good. For what's supposed to be, on a the surface, such a freewheeling go-go film, it's actually very sad. Christopher Walken was incredible.

Saw Possession on the plane back to LA. Not so hot. God, Gwyneth Paltrow is the most irritating actress alive. I've never seen any of the other Neil Labute movies, but the dialogue in this one was surprisingly bad. "I just want to find out if there's an 'us' in 'you and me' ". Also, he was really heavy-handed with the constant American-bashing. Did he have a bad year abroad or something?

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

argt re strummer was concerning city of god (which is all abt gangs and gangsters) not faust

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

and the argt bit wz abt the film, strummer just kind of popped into it

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm watching Charade right now, with Grant and Hepburn. I've seen it twice before, so I probably won't watch it all the way through, but damn, what a great movie.

Before that, um...But I'm A Cheerleader. Which is now my kneejerk response to "xXx is the best movie ever."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ah yes, Nordicskillz, I'd forgotten the surprise film. I was tempted but restrained myself because I was spending enough already. Actually, I'm not sure why I went to see the Anderson or Moodyson, given that they will get decent releases, and I have friends who I might have gone with. Then again, at the LFF both those directors and their female leads were present and answered questions afterwards, so there was a bonus there. I was within arm's reach of PTA, Emily Watson and Michael Moore during the festival.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw Ice-T sitting down in the front row of the showing of R'Xmas at the Chicago IFF, and he was chortling his ass off at this stupid before-film commercial where I guy falls asleep while pumping gas. It really humanized him for me.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw Ice-T sitting down in the front row of the showing of R'Xmas at the Chicago IFF, and he was chortling his ass off at this stupid before-film commercial where I guy falls asleep while pumping gas. It really humanized him for me.

I think his humanity, which isn't mine, is all over his music.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

Oh I know, but when you see Coke spilling out of the nose of your average ex-jewel thief gangster rapper because he's laughing at some dumbass advert you've seen a dozen times, it allows a new perspective.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

i saw crackerjack in the lorne theatre last week - we paid the extra $1 and sat upstairs. it was quite good although almost every song was a james reyne song and the main character was WAY too much like the crackman o'toole.

― minna (minna), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

adaptation a couple of weeks ago.. and 24 hour party people before that. i think they're the only two times i've been to the cinema in the last six months

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

did you like 24hrpp jim?

― minna (minna), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:21 (10 years ago) Permalink

yes i did, but i would have preferred watching it at home (too many expat Brits sniggering all the way through it)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Craft last night. Wz OK.
Coyote Ugly. Lovely, but took me to the end of the film to confirm the lead character wasn't being played by Leann Rimes.
Down to You. Completely not memorable, but very sweet.
She's All That. Lovely.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

Last movies I saw... Hmmm... This weekend:
Arsenic and Old Lace - Perfect.
Amy's O - Hated it.
40 Days and 40 Nights - Entertaining and mindless.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

Rental:
The Slipper and The Rose
The Red Shoes
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Penny Serenade
An Affair To Remember
Dead of Night
War of the Worlds
The Haunting (original)
The Man who Wasn't there
Dude, Where's My Car

Cinema:
Star Trek Nemesis

Telly:
Conspiracy Theory
FORTRESS!
Terminal Error
~~Logopolis~~Goldeneye

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

Last five or so:
The Transporter "I like it quiet, but this is too quiet:" BOOM! - Fun tat.
Gangs Of New York "I took der Faaader, now I'll tek the son" Mixed bag of tat.
The Good Girl "What's your name - Catcher?" Good, but dull
Take Care Of My Cat - Bit of dialogue in Korean. Excellent (if a touch melodramatic nr the end)
City Of God. Something in portuguese. Pretty impressive - though it innoculates itself from serious criticism by setting itself in the seventies.

I might bring back the City Of God thread so I can hear the Joe Strummer argument.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

the surprise film is never really a surprise, is it? same kinda type "big hollywood indie sleeper".. i remember when it was american beauty

now if they'd had dead or alive: final as the surprise then i'd tip my hat

― zemko (bob), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

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p sure i have indignant & blustering defences of the future elsewhere on ilx so won't repeat, but yeah the dismissal of that stuff/this film in general as twee is really lazy, i think - it's a really thoughtful, personal film about anxiety & creativity but receives a lot of the same reflexive rejection as something like girls, with assumptions that it's just some kind of miranda july video diary capturing entitled whites. such an interesting film, it really gets at some of the boundaries that people draw around their activities in a way that nothing else i can think of does.

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 20:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

a funny thing about The Future is that Miranda July let the Old Christine guy play the "Miranda July part".

― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

trailer for the future was insufferable, were any of those bits in the film

― too busy s1ockin' on my 乒乓 (wins), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:07 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I liked The Future and the cat parts were heartbreaking

― Operation Gypsy Dildo (silby), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 00:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I actually went out and strangled a cat on the way home from seeing that movie.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 03:29 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

nooooooo

― Operation Gypsy Dildo (silby), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 03:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

we can't talk anymore xp

― clouds, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 06:32 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i pretty much avoid all movies where bad things might potentially happen to cats

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 06:34 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

but it's a cat voiced by Miranda July

― Number None, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 09:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i pretty much avoid all movies where bad things might potentially happen to cats

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 06:34 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never ever watch Satantango!

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Or Maurice Pialat's L'enfance nue.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:18 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Or Boondock Saints

― Frederik B, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:48 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

or Gummo

― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Or an american tail

― bob_sleigher (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

or disney's cinderella

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:51 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

that scene in satantango...

― clouds, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:51 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i will second the request to never watch gummo

― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Or Dogtooth

― polyphonic, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:42 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Is there a doesthecatdie.com?

No?

Only a doesthedogdie.com?

Nobody cares about cats.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:47 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

or ppl who aren't American, in Argo

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 19:19 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i've seen dogtooth but fortunately got warned ahead of time so i knew when to avert my eyes.

tbh i am completely fine with never seeing satantango, boondock saints, or gummo.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 19:38 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

what about 1900?

― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

you should totally see gummo. bicycle scene = the tree of life that actually works.

― wolves lacan, Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:02 (1 week ago) Permalink

All rewatches except for the first and then the last two on the list.

The Organizer (Monicelli, 1963) 7/10
Husbands and Wives (Allen, 1992) 8/10
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) 10/10
Reality Bites (Stiller, 1994) 6/10
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951) 9/10
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming etc, 1939) 9/10
Battle Royale (Fukasaku, 2000) 3/10
Mysteries of Lisbon (Ruiz, 2010) 5/10

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 8 June 2013 04:05 (1 week ago) Permalink

Madame Bovary (Chabrol, 1991) - Don't really care for Chabrol and haven't paid any attn to Flaubert, just any ol' excuse to watch Isabelle Huppert walking around in triffic gowns for a couple of diverting hours on a breezy Sun afternoon.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 June 2013 17:48 (1 week ago) Permalink

^^^^ first Chabrol I ever saw (in the theatre!)

Before Midnight
8 1/2 (third viewing)
Nat'l Lampoon's European Vacation (christ this was junk -- the worst of the original trilogy?)

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 June 2013 17:50 (1 week ago) Permalink

Yes, I saw it at a nice screening today. Really liked the scene @ the ball, and I suppose given the lack of human feel to any Chabrol the literary material suits. Not sure what Flaubert fans think of it?

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 June 2013 17:56 (1 week ago) Permalink

mysteries of lisbon is excellent. so sensual.

i can't remember what i've seen but I loved the secret of the grain. so rich. even its portrait of small-town racism is somehow warm.

― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Sunday, 9 June 2013 18:43 (1 week ago) Permalink

The Snowtown Murders - been wanting to see this for a while. As disturbing as expected, if not more so. I imagine it might be a touch confusing for those unfamiliar with the story, since the director doesn't really underline many of the relationships or who many of the victims are. Lead actor was impressive, played the charmer/predator role incredibly well, eerily so. And the look was spot on- bleak rural-suburban. I read that the director cast using mostly locals aside from the main leads, which def added an eerie reality to it. Graphic as hell though...v hard to watch in places.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 June 2013 18:57 (1 week ago) Permalink

xpost

Yeah I was with it for the first half but then it just became one more flashback within a flashback within a flashback too many. Absolutely gorgeous to look at, though.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Sunday, 9 June 2013 19:10 (1 week ago) Permalink

8 1/2 4.5/5 Snap Alfred! This was my second attempt. Loved it.
The Virgin Suicides 3.5/5
The Life and Death Colonel Blimp 5/5 perfect film.

― cajunsunday, Sunday, 9 June 2013 20:39 (1 week ago) Permalink

This morning I cashed in some gift cards I got for donating blood on DVDs - included Blimp (+ Repo Man, Certified Copy, Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic).

― Home Despot (WilliamC), Sunday, 9 June 2013 21:02 (1 week ago) Permalink

Just watched The Hunt "Jagten", Danish drama with Mads Mikkelsen (casino royale bad guy).
Well worth a watch.

― not_goodwin, Monday, 10 June 2013 08:49 (1 week ago) Permalink

Marriage Italian Style - Mastroianni and Loren (esp.) are great in this.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 00:52 (1 week ago) Permalink

reality (matteo garrone '12) 2/5
traveller (jack n. green '97) 3/5
white hunter, black heart (eastwood '90) 2.5/5
the sadist (james landis '63) 3.5/5
those lips, those eyes (michael pressman '80) 3/5
rosetta (dardennes '99) 3.5/5

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 June 2013 11:50 (6 days ago) Permalink

Zaza (1923, Dwan) 7/10
Me Too (2012, Balabanov) 7/10
Days of Youth (1929, Ozu) 6/10
Man to Man (1930, Dwan) 6/10
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013, Gibney) 7/10
Killing Them Softly (2012, Dominik) 6/10
Trouble in Paradise (1932, Lubitsch) 10/10
Citizen Kane (1941, Welles) 10/10
Student (2012, Omirbayev) 6/10
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974, Kotcheff) 8/10

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:25 (6 days ago) Permalink

Behind the Candelabra (2013) 3.5/5
Mother and Son (1997) 3.5/5
Raw Deal (1948) 3.5/5
Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980) 3.5/5
Upstream Color (2013) 3.5/5
Yoyo (1965) 3/5

― Chris L, Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:22 (6 days ago) Permalink

seen some awesome films lately:

ink - movie somewhat set in dream state/alternate reality but as this is explicit from the beginning it's not lame. plus surrealism, kung fu, feels, 10/10
wreck-it ralph - as if a disney cash cow was scripted by pixar writing team, 8/10
movie 43 - random and silly but hillarious, 8/10
my uncle boonmee who can recal past lives - thai art film, started off interesting but i lost the thread a ways in, not sure that's entirely my fault, 6/10
triplets of belleville - a bit slow but interesting, awesome chase scene at end, 7/10
dazed and confused - still incredibly watchable on 17th viewing, 10/10

― messiahwannabe, Friday, 14 June 2013 06:42 (5 days ago) Permalink

did you like the catfish scene in boonmee? hot stuff. 17th viewing of D&C? wow! I wonder if i've seen any movie that much.

Tabu (Murnau) 4/5
Queen Kelly (Stroheim) 4/5
Mouchette (Bresson) 4/5
L'argent (Bresson) 4.5/5

― cajunsunday, Friday, 14 June 2013 12:08 (5 days ago) Permalink

cajun, i applaud your filmic explorations. you're watching some good stuff.

― clouds, Friday, 14 June 2013 14:08 (5 days ago) Permalink

I've been watching Mark Cousins' The Story of Film series lately, haven't made time for actual films. But I did watch They Were Expendable (Ford, '45) when it was on TCM a couple of weeks ago.

― Home Despot (WilliamC), Friday, 14 June 2013 15:15 (5 days ago) Permalink

haven't done one of these for a while

The Phantom of Liberty 3/5 - lolled @ michel lonsdale in bottomless chaps
Beyond the Hills 4/5 - a shade below 4 3 2 - the long-tracking-shot-directly-behind-the-head-of-the-protaganist-style is already hardening into stylistic cliche - but i was still absolutely gripped, and thought the antireligiosity was much more nuanced than i was possibly expecting
The Kentucky Fried Movie 3/5 - watched this old teenage fave at my place, v. mashed, w/ a friend who had never seen it before, and who laughed VERY heartily at certain points - and that was more pleasing to me as host than parts of this film, which really fell flat all these years later(the 'hands-on cinema' sketch esp overstays its welcome)
Spring Breakers 3/5
Tabu (2012) 3/5 - MUCH preferred the first half of this split film - was rather wearied by the archness of the second part
This is not a Film 3/5
Evil Dead (2013) 1/5 - a fucking disgrace
Great Expectations (1946) 4/5 - film does lose some of its oomph once john mills enters - plus a sickly horrible performance by alec guinness! - but up till then the pictorial filmmaking is of a very high quality (the atmospheric scenes in graveyards and marshes are enough to make me regret that lean never directed a purely supernatural movie)
Rosetta 3.5/5 - i agree w/ j.crunch!
Iron Man3 2.5
The Campaign 2/5
The Girl 2/5 - saw this as an inflight movie so obv not ideal viewing conditions - but thought it was bloody awful, just as much of a travesty of hitchcock and cinema as the one w/ Hopkins (which at least moved at a zippier pace and didn't take itself so seriously)
Beasts of the Southern Wild 2/5
In the Fog 3/5 - i'd been working, i was very tired, i fell asleep for a while, what can i say
The Place Beyond the Pines - 2.5/5 - another movie i've seen recently where the first half is the best - only in this case the third act is p close to a total disaster
Theorem 4/5
Star Trek: Into Darkness 3/5 - an above average dopey star trek movie - loved all the future london cgi
Something in the Air 4/5
Marnie 4/5 - hadn't realised before just how much of a foundational giallo text this is - sean connery is fucking horrible throughout
Le Amiche 4/5 - love the BBFC 'warning' on the back of this beautifully presented Masters of Cinema Blu-Ray - "contains suicide references and scenes of smoking" - antonioni's entire career in a nutshell
Hors Satan 5/5 - this wonderfully mysterious film has haunted me since i've seen it - makes me want to drop to my knees like the lead character and worship before dumont
We jam econo 3/5 - a friend said to me abt this, "richard meltzer (oh dear) and richard hell (oh dear oh dear)"
Behind the Candelabra 3.5/5
Scarecrow 3.5/5 - funniest moment: when gene hackman shouts FUCK OFF suddenly at the old guy pawing at his sleeve in the diner - pure essence of 70s cinema - so lots of indulged method acting manchildren and marginalised female characters - but also glorious images, some kind of engagement w/ social inequality, moments of human reality - the final scene, with hackman hammering the heel of his shoe on the counter, is a perfect ending

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:30 (5 days ago) Permalink

yea i did like 'rosetta' but it felt a touch more contrived than la promesse or kid w/ the bike imo

― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:36 (5 days ago) Permalink

id like to see hors satan

― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:37 (5 days ago) Permalink

Oh good you really liked Hors Satan too!

I didn't know the behind-the-head tracking shot was a cliche. Don't see it utilised that often, or maybe it didn't leave that much of an impression whenever its been used.

We Jam Econo was disappointing (didn't finish but I should). Meltzer was horrible.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:44 (5 days ago) Permalink

Hors Satan staying on my 10 Worst for the year, i'm confident

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:48 (5 days ago) Permalink

say whatnow?! we jam econo is great! idgi

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:48 (5 days ago) Permalink

iirc it had lots of gd footage, Mike Watt was good, that's about it...really couldn't take the whole "rock was meant to be over" in a doc about a band that covered a Steely Dan song.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 14 June 2013 19:52 (5 days ago) Permalink

The best scene in Kentucky Fried Movie:

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 15 June 2013 00:34 (4 days ago) Permalink

Scarecrow 3.5/5 - funniest moment: when gene hackman shouts FUCK OFF suddenly at the old guy pawing at his sleeve in the diner - pure essence of 70s cinema - so lots of indulged method acting manchildren and marginalised female characters - but also glorious images, some kind of engagement w/ social inequality, moments of human reality - the final scene, with hackman hammering the heel of his shoe on the counter, is a perfect ending

― Ward Fowler, Friday, June 14, 2013 3:30 PM (Yesterday)

I think this would be #1 on my list of Rorschach tests for one's tolerance of American films in the first half of the '70s. "Let's make a film about a couple of guys"--script done, begin shooting.

― clemenza, Saturday, 15 June 2013 14:25 (4 days ago) Permalink

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