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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

the DVD:
the man who fell to earth
paris, texas

the VHS at a friend's flat while we had a few beers before we went out:
armageddon [from about half an hour in]

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

Did you speak to Ice-T, Amateurist? I'm just trying to decide if I would, if our paths crossed. I'm guessing that middle-aged white English people aren't his main target audience, so I don't know whether he'd be amused or contemptuous.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

middle-aged white English people
he loves phil collins

― , Monday, 20 January 2003 20:55 (10 years ago) Permalink

Martin, no, I didn't talk to him; your post made me think of you and Ice-T walking past each other, in slow-motion, on a rain-drenched cobblestone street . . . then you turn around, and notice Ice-T, smiling wistfully, as he turns out of sight.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

Or it could be like that one false-note moment in Ghost Dog, where Forest Whittaker meets the RZA.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

2nd LOTR movie. it was ok.

― duane, Monday, 20 January 2003 21:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

We have paved the way for the American remake of In the Mood for Love starring Ice-T and Alan Cumming.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

"What's up Ghost Dog?"

Yeah, right.

I saw Jim (aka GOD) Jarmusch being interviewed at the LFF to promote Ghost Dog, and he said that the RZA would deliver his tapes for the soundtrack by pulling up on broadway in a van with tinted windows under cover of night.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

Or Ice-T and Forrest Whitaker, he's femme enough.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

I mean, does anyone else see it?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw Adaptation today, and I'm so sorry that I did.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 05:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

ooooh, i saw donnie darko last night.

twas very good. spent hours figuring out what the fuck happened though.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

just saw Removed, it was really funny & beautiful & sad & haunting

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't watch a lot of movies these days, but here's everything I've seen in the last month or so:

"Catch Me If You Can"
"Election"
"White Christmas" (starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye)
"Magnificent Obsession" (dir. by Douglas Sirk)

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Y Tu Mama Tambien" - shit, shit, shit.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw Adaptation today, and I'm so sorry that I did.

This film is the current candidate for most divided opinions. I've heard dribbling praise and acidic excoriations in equal amounts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

That's because the second wave of DePalma hate/love is yet to come when Femme Fatale bursts upon European shores like unto a rotten ass.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

Oh I'm gonna regret this - yesterday:

Signs
The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Barbershop

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

Are there any good comedies out in the U.S. right now? Or failing that, what should I rent?

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

I liked About a Boy, J LU. It's light-hearted.

Umm... Saw 24- Hour Party People last night and enjoyed it. Tonight will watch any special features.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 20:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

Me and DV went to see Divine Intervention, the madcap palestinian comedy. It's really good minute to minute, but it's best when it doesn't have a plot.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

theatrer - Lord of Ring
DVD - Insomnia, Citizen Cane
VHS - Big City Bright Lights, Alphaville

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

hey london film fans if ur not busy on sunday u should go see the "hour of the furnaces" documentary on at the OTHER (yuk yuk yuk must i call it that) cinema on sunday afternoon, it looks a treat

i however will be at work booo

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 23:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

(it's all about 60s south america n' ting)

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 23:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

x=5, order = latest to far-est

I Just can't stop this uncontrollable dancing" [not quite finished edit, screening at the director's house! thatbeing Campbell Walker - it has orig Loren Connors music on it!]

Roger & Me by Michael Moore, it was on telly

Dogs in Space hmmgh

Sweet Home Alabama [!!??HgghgHjmm]

Buffalo 66

― spectra, Thursday, 23 January 2003 00:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

okay so I haven't fully read this thread (only have net pay places access now) but I really would like to know if anyone else thought Donnie Darko is a mistakenly lauded, botched, stupid, trying too hard (and not hard enough) to be profound, crappy yuck boring film???? or at least just overrated? I cannot fathom why it wasn't marketed to it's appropriate audience, ie. 12 to 15 year olds? okay so it was aimed successfully at it's other appropriate audience (just about the equiv of the aforementioned group) - ie. "indie kids".

― spectra, Thursday, 23 January 2003 00:46 (10 years ago) Permalink

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The Sure Thing (3.3174/5)

Daphne Zuniga is fetching; the rest is from some world I missed by about seven years, though I will add it to my list of road movies. Doesn't anyone else on this thread ever watch stupid movies?

― clemenza, Sunday, 28 April 2013 13:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

yes. I watched Trance.

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Subway (1985, Besson) 2/5
The Wages of Fear (1953, Clouzot) 5/5
Italian for Beginners (2000, Scherfig) 3/5
Stroszek (1977, Herzog) 5/5
The Queen of Versailles (2012, Greenfield) 4/5
What Richard Did (Abrahamson, 2012) 4/5

― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 11:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

A couple from the SFIFF:

The Act of Killing (2012): I found this incredibly disturbing and a bit morally questionable, but it was fascinating nonetheless. Also it made me painfully aware of how little I know about Indonesia and its history. 4/5

After Tiller (2103): Very good documentary about the four US doctors who provide late-term abortions, in the years after the murder of their mentor Dr. George Tiller. Surprisingly moving and well-made. 4.5/5

― polyphonic, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:52 (1 week ago) Permalink

2013, not 2103!

― polyphonic, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:52 (1 week ago) Permalink

saw the russian movie in the fog at the cinema tonight, anyone seen it? Wartime thriller about collaboration/resistance with like philosophy & that, pretty #slowcinema, started off with an incredible long-take scene at a hanging. I knew just from that that it was my kinda movie, drifted off for a bit but it was really good I reckon

― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 22:46 (1 week ago) Permalink

Le Rapace
Colors
Gangs Of Wasseypur 1

― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 9 May 2013 01:52 (1 week ago) Permalink

Post Tenebras Lux 7/10
*This Is Not a Film 8/10
Something in the Air {Apres Mai] 7/10
In the House 6/10
*The Kid with a Bike 8/10
Four Around the Woman (1921, Lang) 7/10
Sorcerer (1977, Friedkin) 7/10
No 7/10
*Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock) 9/10
Portrait of Jason (1967, Clarke) 8/10

*rewatches

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 May 2013 02:57 (1 week ago) Permalink

is Sorcerer worth tracking down? always been curious about it.

― ryan, Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:55 (1 week ago) Permalink

A Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
48 Hours (1982)
Who'll Stop The Rain (1978)
The Lords of Salem (2012)

All great films save 'Salem' which is Rob Zombie's newie. Bailed an hour in, though.

― viacom dios, Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:51 (1 week ago) Permalink

Also, xpost, yes, Sorcerer well worth watching. Among Friedkin's best.

― viacom dios, Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:53 (1 week ago) Permalink

Cracks (2009)

― *tera, Thursday, 9 May 2013 06:24 (1 week ago) Permalink

Oblivion
Withnail & I
Groundhog Day
City Lights
Crumb
Chungking Express
Ordet
The Last Laugh

― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Thursday, 9 May 2013 06:26 (1 week ago) Permalink

Sorcerer DVD due at year end

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 May 2013 12:50 (1 week ago) Permalink

Saw "Fire Over England" (1937) on TCM the other day, great film about the Spanish Armada with Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Excellent period sets and costumes. Doesn't seem to be well loved or talked about much.

― Johnny Hotcox, Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:31 (1 week ago) Permalink

Lady and the Tramp (1955) first viewing since childhood -- i like the beginning where the dogs act like dogs. the 50s social mores are pretty WTF, like Lady's platonic friends almost proposing marriage after she leaves the tramp.
Killer Joe (2012, Friedman)
Alien 3 (1992, Fincher) ["Assembly Cut"]
Friday the 13th (1980, Cunningham)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Bigelow)
Django Unchained (2012, Tarantino)
Get Crazy (1983, Arkush) on youtube while distracted
Great Ziegfeld, the (1936, Robert Z. Leonard)
All the King's Men (1949, Rossen)
Around the World in 80 Days (1949, Rossen) rewatch -- at least i think i saw this before. early todd-ao photography is interesting. not much else is.

― oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Thursday, 9 May 2013 16:30 (1 week ago) Permalink

oops on 80 Days, that's '56, can't remember who the director is

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 May 2013 16:33 (1 week ago) Permalink

yeah, michael anderson. he also did logan's run

― oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:25 (1 week ago) Permalink

The Godfather - 4.5/5
The Godfather Part II - 4.5/5
The Godfather Part III - First time watch, and, yeah, it pales in comparison to parts I and II. Andy Garcia and George Hamilton are no substitutes for John Cazale and Robert Duvall, and the film just doesn't have compelling enough characters, and the bloodbath set-pieces don't have the same power. But it's Pacino that is the biggest let down - so contained and intense in the first two, here he sleepwalks through, bleary-eyed with a Bart Simpson haircut. It's as if he had completely forgotten how to play the character. Otherwise, ah, it was okay if you view it as a standalone film, out from the shadow of near masterpieces. Coppola's audio commentary on this is basically a three-hour apologia for a film he openly resents. 2/5

Star Trek Into Darkness (Abrams, 2013) - it's one long sugar rush. Cumberbatch may be the best thing about it; the heavy-handed moments of pandering to the base, the worst. The film itself is mindlessly entertaining and bombastic, but it doesn't leave much of an impression. I preferred it to the 2009 film, for what it’s worth. 3/5
Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013) - A strange mess of a film. I did enjoy Ben Kingsley's character, and the '80s action-series-style titles over the end credits. Enough, now. 2/5
Cloud Atlas (Wachowski's/Tyker, 2012) - I quite liked the novel, but here they took the book's 'eternal recurrence' gimmicky narrative device very seriously and it made the film very ponderous. All of the separate stories get short-changed, and the black/white/yellowface make-up and prosthetics were really distracting and argh... 2/5
The Place Beyond the Pines (Cianfrance, 2013) - Feels like it's cut from the same cloth as other indie-cop films like End of Watch and Copland; I didn't like this nearly as much, though. Bradley Cooper's good, and the middle-section focusing on his character is the strongest. Ryan Gosling needs to get a new schtick, though. 3/5

― DavidM, Monday, 13 May 2013 15:23 (5 days ago) Permalink

Killer Joe (2012, Friedman)

Friedkin

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 May 2013 15:42 (5 days ago) Permalink

thx

― oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Monday, 13 May 2013 16:05 (5 days ago) Permalink

black swan (aronofsky)
the second circle (sokurov)
zebraman; zebraman 2 (miike)

― clouds, Monday, 13 May 2013 17:07 (5 days ago) Permalink

The Cat o' Nine Tails (Dario Argento, 1971) - watching American actors dubbed into Italian with English subtitles is disconcerting. (4/5)
In The Fog (Sergei Loznitsa, 2012) - pretty good; good acting, slow burning atmosphere etc but any film about the Nazi occupation of Belarus really has to be compared to Come And See, in the same way that any film about the water supply in California would have to be compared to you-know-what. And it's nowhere near, unfortunately. (3/5)

― OORT (Matt #2), Monday, 13 May 2013 17:17 (5 days ago) Permalink

He Who Gets Slapped
Gangs Of Wasseypur 2
The Grandmasters
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die
The Place Beyond The Pines

― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 13 May 2013 17:20 (5 days ago) Permalink

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