The Criterion edition is excellent.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 August 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
So bummed--almost checked out The Small Black Room from the Flushing Library, but went with multiple Chaplins instead. In the summer time, I just don't feel like spending so much time in movie theaters. As a type this, it sounds strange, as many people go just for the ac.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 10 August 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Two technicolor Brit Noirs tonight look kind of interesting.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
They didn't do much for me (well, Valerie Hobson was a standout -- but the Stewart Granger wife-killer one was directed by the guy who helmed most of "Mr. Ed").
James Mason noirs prob at 7:50 for me, when it's barely cool enough to leave the house.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I probably liked them a little more than you did, but I think you've got it about right.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
why is there separate admission for tonight's single Mason feature AND Edward Dmytryk's Obsession? Not very recession-friendly, Film Forum.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 August 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Headless Woman.classic or dud?
― Zeno, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
might see today
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
might see tommorow
― Zeno, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
the Anonioni comparsions making me curious.though i'm not one of Antonioni's biggest fans - films from the pov of a mentally unstable character are always interesting, at least from the technichal aspect of directing.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"Holy Girl" is one of my fav films of the past 10 years (and La Cienega is excellent too), so I have high hopes for this one.
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
dug headless Woman! Need to see it again, I know some stuff got by me. It's like Haneke without the bullshit, ie not that much like Haneke.Antonioni comp mostly due to mystery/ambiguous-reality element, her film doesn't look like his.
liked La Cienaga a lot, Holy Girl not so much.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
If yer interested in next Thursday's single screening of Brit whatzit No Orchids for Miss Blandish at Film Forum, I advise buying an online ticket now:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/britnoir.html#orchids
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 August 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked Headless Womam, though it looks more like an exercice in directing style than an actual "film". she uses the same shooting ideas most of the film over and over again, so you kinda get the point after a while, (till of course the twist in the end, a-la Bunuel, which wraps everything nicely).regardless, it's a good,original exercise in the combination between the camera use and the riddley storytelling,which together makes the viewer think,digging deep into the movie,trying to understand it - story and "message" wise.after all, thats the power of great cinema.
― Zeno, Friday, 28 August 2009 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
from the NY Times:
HILL-- Roberta, died on July 18, 2009 shortly after her 73rd birthday. Roberta was born in Washington, DC to Dorothy Dyar Hill and Robert Lindsay Hill. She was a consummate collector and animal lover. When she moved to New York in 1983, her love of cinema took center stage. She has been a fixture at almost every film festival and movie house in the City ever since, as captured in the film Cinemania (2002). She was a true New York character and will be missed by many.
A friend was told she had known her illness was terminal for months, but continued going to films.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 August 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
400th-best film of all time (per TSPDT) showing @ Reade tonight:
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/watershed/thecloudcappedstar.html
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 September 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know how much of this i can make but i would see everything i could. w/andersson in person:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/990
― peter falk's panther burns (schlump), Saturday, 5 September 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Daaaamn, that's hot.
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Sunday, 6 September 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Think I'll finally see this Monday:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/mason.html#pandora
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
also, NYFF tix on sale to gen public tomorrow. Only 2 films for me, pending increase in income.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
AFA's fall schedule is up: directed by jerry lewis retro in november!
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Saturday, 12 September 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
also roger corman, ulrike ottringer, warhol (inc. chelsea girls)
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Saturday, 12 September 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Last day of Odd Man Out.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 September 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Fat City and Claire Denis this week.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
35 Rhums is one I've liked more than any of hers in years.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you like Nenette and Boni back in the day?
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yes (google review of the recent disc)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah. Did you know that VBT was J4ck 4nstr31ch's ideal woman? At least back then.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
(Misspelled his name anyway. Doubly g00gleproofed)
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
You don't have to G-proof him as long as he's doing stuff like this:
http://1linereview2.blogspot.com/2009/06/jack-angstreich.html
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Still haven't made it to the FF this week. Wen to see Paradise at MoMA last night instead.
― Garnet Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to get to that when I'm twiddling my thumbs @temp sinecure.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 September 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
35 Rhums is easily the best movie of the year.
it's hard to find something negative to say about it, which is another way of saying it's a masterpiece.
Denis is the best user of imageries in current movie making, and her subtle,silent humanity here ranks high as Ozu, (more than Koreeda in Still Walking - which look more like an Ozu film,but falls apart at the end of his movie with banality and over-written dialouges),with other influences as wide as The Dardenne brothers,
the rare,complex combination between abstract,realism and humanism is what make the film so great,along with the quiet and assured pacing which avoid social problems almost entirely,cause "they closed anthropology" (as oppose to what the Dardenne Brotehrs would have make with such a story - another clear influence on Denis here)
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the Commodores dancingnsequence, the father-daughter horse riding on the train tracks, and the pots at the end are things to cherish.
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I like it fine -- but I thought the depressed metro retiree subplot didn't quite work.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Still haven't seen it- it was held over so hopefully can go soon- so trying not to read about it on this thread.
― Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it worked fine as a cmparison to the father soon-to-become-state, and how to deal with it.the sequence that didnt work for me is the ellipse sequence in Germany. the film did rush in the end, with his sudden lapses of time, but it's a minor fault i think.
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
the best surprise about this film:inserting yet a new blood for the we've-seen-it-all-family-drama movies
― Zeno, Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone seen Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die? Two-plus hours of John Gavin seems dicey! At BAM tom'w, I may go to the 3pm because of baseball.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw it back at the Public many years ago. You gotta go!
― Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Tarr-nation!
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-10-20/film/s-aacute-t-aacute-ntang-oacute-turns-15-moma-throws-serious-party/
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I recommend that you all see LOOT today (Monday) at IFC: http://stfdocs.com/films/loot/
It's a fantastic, strange, emotional, eery documentary...
― ben folds' cover of "such great heights" (Tape Store), Monday, 2 November 2009 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, doubt anyone went, but you can still catch it: LOOT opens for a week at IFC starting on Nov 20th!
http://www.hammertonail.com/monologues/loot-at-stranger-than-fiction/
― ben folds' cover of "such great heights" (Tape Store), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 07:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Shatner in Corman's astounding Intruder tom'w night
http://www.villagevoice.com/events/the-intruder-1460597/
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Jerry Lewis retro @Anthology. I'll be at Three on a Couch either this Sat eve or a week from Thursday.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Three on a Couch is pretty fantastic, imo.
― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Sylvia Prieto at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday.
― Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Tonight at 7:00, FF has special members only screening of My Dog Tulip and special Swedish Consulate screening of Mauritz Stiller's The Saga of Gosta Berling. Think I'm going to try to go to the Stiller.
― Meade Lex Louis (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeez, you and comedy! It had its moments (about 3).I saw the Marker doc Le Joli Mai before.
Looks like I'm skipping Garbo at FF tonight for Police, Adjective at MoMA.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Morbs, you missed something pretty spectacular.
― Meade Lex Louis (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link