Kelly's Heroes at the weekend. Think I've seen it several times but only rarely from the beginning, this might be 2nd or 3rd time.Like the film. Just looked it up and it was written by the same guy as the Italian Job. Had assumed it would be somebody to do with MASH or something similar. But same writer also went onto do Red Heat maybe that says more about it?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
ive had that on my dvr to watch for like 6 months. how was rickles in it?
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not bad. He's in it for most of the film I guess, not quite central but in the main group. Don't remember him being overly funny. He's the wheeler dealer quatermaster guy that Kelly enrols.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Bad And The Beautiful 5/5 - Kirk Douglas was so great in this. Him and Turner together were great. Loved the structure of the story too. That final scene when they're all crowding to hear him talk on the phone was so perfect.
A Star Is Born 5/5 - cannot believe I never saw this movie til now. Beautiful and so sad.
The Right Stuff 3/5 - the flight sequences were beautiful and thrilling, and Sam Shepard was a perfect Yeager, so steely and handsome and just right on the money...but I didn't like the way the Mercury astronauts/NASA were played for comedy, the Goldblum/Shearer bits were actually kind of annoying to me. And I *hated*, HATED the handling of Grissom's splashdown. I want to give the movie 5 just for handling the adrenalin of flying/space travel, but I just can't. But I wish I had seen it as a kid, I know I would have loved it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I need to see A Star Is Born.
― tanuki, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
stevolende, if you're on a troy kennedy martin kick, check out the original bbc edge of darkness tv series, its p amazing (prob best to avoid the american remake w/ mel gibson)
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost tanuki, you should! It's so captivating.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
I may actually have that on file somewhere from a couple of years back. Seem to remember downloading it. May have even burnt it to disc but somehow not watched it. TV series that is.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
'37 or '54? James Mason is great and Judy brings the songs, but Gaynor-March is a better film (and also has many of the remake's good lines).
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
54. James Mason was fantastic.
Can I ask a dumb question? Why did they make the same movie with Judy twice?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh wait never mind, lol I thought Judy was in both. DUH
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Deep End on Film4 last night - good damn that was beautiful. And how many films will have Cat Stevens AND Can on the soundtrack.
El Anachoreta - Spanish man locks himself in the toilet for 11 years (its a huge toilet, so its cheating as far as I'm concerned). Yeah you know why he's there so its not like the film needs to spend time pretending there is something special about it. The girl who tries to tempt him out is v beautiful tho', so that kept me watching.
Kanal - Wadja smash hit, from '57, detailing the Polish resistance's flight to Warsaw's sewers. Really brutal and to the gut.
The Fall of the House of Usher - Jean Epstein's adaptation, just saw this at the NFT with piano/accordion accompainment. Awesome, such a strong visual language (read about some of his theories beforehand and glad I did). French cinema from the 20s through to the end of the war is my 'biggest gap' and I need to correct this.
Decasia by Bill Morrison followed. Bunch of found silent films that have decayed, now strung together. There is no structure to discern and the score totally gave it away: there is an eletric guitar, but its like it wasn't plugged in. Certainly not worth an hour.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
she did a radio play version of the first movie around 1940, when she was "the right age"
xp
Decasia is nearly great.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
seven samurai - great great great, rewatching it makes 13 assassins seem that much more disappointing in retrospectthe rum diary - a river of shitpom poko - non-myazaki studio ghibli flick about balls animals, odd & kind of sadknife in the water - maybe my favorite polanski, certainly one of his best
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
also:
the wicker man (2006) - huh
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bottle Rocket 3/5: You can tell it's his first film and it'll get better, but all the things I love about WE (composition, pace, character) are half-formed imo.To Kill A Mockingbird 4/5: Gregory Peck gives a authoritative performance and I think the two main kids are sweet and fun, but it's got serious POV issues, I think. And I don't get the central theme - is it that justice is universal to all, or that bad people can go without justice? I don't get it. I suppose "sometimes we gotta do bad things for the best" is a very cold war opinion.
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 07:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha I like julio's takedown of Decasia
― Luomas (admrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
dont avntgrd film bros generally poop on decasia
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
would like his films more if he didn't insist on adding dreary portentous soundtracks to all of them
― althea and (donna rouge), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes!
― Luomas (admrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bill Morrison and Jem Cohen are like the guys avntgrd bros seem to love to hate.
― Luomas (admrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
er...I had no idea of Bill Morrison's existence, ws there for the Epstein.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh I wasn't saying you were one of these bros
― Luomas (admrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thx :-)
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
last night:
watched hamlet 2. great! laffed my bo.
tried to watch i know who killed me. became stupefied about 10 minutes in, so i went to bed.
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Babydoll
― *tera, Sunday, 11 March 2012 05:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rio Grande - I think I'm in love w/ Maureen O'Hara.Les Maitres Du Temps - RIP Moebius. Lovely film. The ending always chokes me up.
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 11 March 2012 09:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
I finally saw Control. It was pretty good.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 11 March 2012 10:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Footprints On The Moon (dir L Bazzoni, 1975) got watched at film club last night. Was considering a double-bill with Bazzoni's 'The Fifth Cord' but didn't quite manage it.
Footprints is a hell of a visually striking film, amazing architecture and interior design all through, and Florinda Bolkan is perfect for those surrounds. The ending is so brilliantly done.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 11 March 2012 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
and they are in turn pooped on by me
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 March 2012 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Laura - this ws awesome, v funny. Tierney is gorgeous, found myself wanting imperfections tho'.Renoir - La Chienne. Really good, didn't think the tracking shot up and down the building worked, or what that was for. The thing itself ws good.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 March 2012 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
the makioka sistersdie hard 1-3la pianistecarnagemarcy mae bla
cbfed finishing blank city & a dangerous method which means both of those films are empirically worse than die hard 2
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 March 2012 01:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
how was The Makioka Sisters?
― tanuki, Monday, 12 March 2012 01:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's sweet, very well observed and mostly quite subdued
the tanizaki novel is v canonical in japan & it's maybe a bit 'dutiful literary adaptation'
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 March 2012 01:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
That novel and Some Prefer Nettles have been on my list for a while. Starting Sōseki's Kokoro next so I can get up on my Japanese literature.
― tanuki, Monday, 12 March 2012 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had trouble finishing Carnage and it's only 80 mins long
― Number None, Monday, 12 March 2012 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
surely u didnt find it boring? it is pretty trying tho, certainly, and a minor film but even minor polanski is worth seeing
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 March 2012 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
It wasn't funny basically, which i thought was the point. And obviously you're meant to find the characters annoying but in that sense i thought it worked a bit too well
― Number None, Monday, 12 March 2012 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
they were supposed to prettty unbearable and they were, it had a cumulative effect of utter acrimonious hatefulness that put me in mind of haneke, or some of that new french extremity stuff like seul contre tous
which is quite impressive given he is just filming some 'controversial' 'thinkpiece' theatre rather than a screenplay full of stabbings and dead foetuses and the like
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 March 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Woman In Black- really nice gothic horror which suffered from showing the woman in black up close, otherwise good.The Grey - maybe the best horror film I've recently seen, cause I'm terrified of wild dogs, wolves, nature in general. Babydoll - kind of a sexy movie in a uncomfortable wayBorderland - why are so many movie about mexico shot in that color?
― JacobSanders, Monday, 12 March 2012 04:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lars and the Real Girl - loved thisA SeparationAgora - unwittingly channels Life of Brian early on with the crowd scenes and stonings, but the final act redeemed it.The Woman in BlackYou, the Living - seen this many times, but watched via a UK HD channel and it looks so beautiful in hi-def. Wish Andersson's stuff would come out on blu.Cold Fish - pretty nuts, certainly not what I expected.The Guard - tone a bit sketchy, but some good stuff. Gleeson awesome as ever.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Monday, 12 March 2012 07:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I loved Decasia. Boo all the rest of you.
― emil.y, Monday, 12 March 2012 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
</i>The Grey - maybe the best horror film I've recently seen, cause I'm terrified of wild dogs, wolves, nature in general.</i>
i loved this too. its refreshing to see a horror/action movie with a bit of heart for a change.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 12 March 2012 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Project X lol
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2012 17:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I caught the last part of The L Shaped Room, wishing I watched it from the beginning.
― *tera, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's a good movie. i always remember the club scenes, like i wish i could go to somewhere like that, on the end of my block, working musicians working.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lars and the Real Girl - loved this
gah. saw this a couple days ago. horrid! nothing credible about anything anyone in the movie said or did. perhaps that's okay as it's a fantasy of sorts in that it's set in a world devoid of conflict, difference and ill will. everyone in the film loves everyone else unconditionally, they all share the same basic point of view, and they all work hard to guarantee the best outcome for everyone. this is a potentially wonderful idea, but it's played out in such a simpering, witless, cutie-pie fashion that it killed any interest i had in the concept. and ryan gosling kind of freaks me out. i've seen him in three films now, and he's played the same bizarre, quasi-autistic cipher in each of them. soulful, romantic vacancy in lars and the real girl, pick-up-artist with a heart of gold vacancy in crazy stupid love, and homicidal, romantic vacancy in drive. it's fucking bizarre.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
i know who killed me - dumb, incoherent and relentlessly ugly, but strangely fascinating, especially as a portrait of its star
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean, i know that's the CW on the film, but it's true, especially in the here and now
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
>i've seen him in three films now, and he's played the same bizarre, quasi-autistic cipher in each of them. soulful, romantic vacancy in lars and the real girl, pick-up-artist with a heart of gold vacancy in crazy stupid love, and homicidal, romantic vacancy in drive. it's fucking bizarre.
I'm not getting a buy in for the (almost) universal bromantic feelings for Ryan G from this post :D
I rly enjoyed Lars and it just felt like a sweet little film to me, didn't get a witless cutie-pie vibe at all but our mileage clearly varies.
Ryan departs from the template in Blue Valentine a bit, but not enormously. When I saw that I clocked his receding hairline in the first reel and figured that the T-1000's weakspot had been identified, but in fact he'd just had it cut to look like he's losing his hair, the bastard.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 12:48 (1 year ago) Permalink