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Woodlands Market in Ross (near Sean Penn's house). It's about as granola as possible.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I like granola now!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Happiness is another movie I tolerated when I saw it (and maybe even admired Solondz's envelope-pushing) but now I think it just kinda blows. If the movie had been about any one of those characters, separately, it might've been interesting. But as an ensemble it mostly comes off like, "YOU THOUGHT THIS GUY WAS FUCKED UP?? WAIT'LL YOU SEE THIS OTHER GUY!!"

I liked Bully. Mostly it demonstrates the banality of evil more intensely than any other film I've seen. It was actually really affecting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

jaymc, what are three of your favourite movies?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Of all-time?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Today anyway. You can change your mind.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, you don't have to answer. Maybe post to this thread!

Sum up your personality with five movies

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(xp)
I dunno. Questions like that always make me extremely self-conscious ("But do I really still like that movie? Gosh, I haven't even seen it in five years. Maybe that last movie I saw! Oh, but do I get to call it a favorite yet? Or do I need to see it again? Or do I just need to dwell on it more? ET FUCKING CETERA.) So I'm just going to give you what it says on my Friendster profile:

Domestic realism (All the Real Girls, Secrets and Lies, You Can Count on Me), surrealism (Mulholland Dr, Spirited Away), mixes of both (Buffalo 66), comedies (Annie Hall, Waiting for Guffman), classic thrillers (Vertigo, Rosemary's Baby)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

john waters does a lot of work at some editing place in berkeley actually. I saw him on shattuck avenue once. I don't like any of his films at all.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

y'all seen KEN PARK?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(I actually had the Lukas Moodysson Together and The Ice Storm filed under "domestic realism" and then took them out to make room for the "classic thrillers" category.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(the "classic thrillers" category = oh no! people are gonna think i haven't seen any movies before 10 years ago!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop worrying about this stuff so much!

I am very pleased that someone else likes Buffalo '66.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

buffallo '66 is amazing!

also, the brown bunny is on it's way to the US apparently; but he re-edited it.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Buffalo '66.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Waters edits at the Saul Zaentz Film Center in Berkeley. I wrote to them three or four times trying to work there.

John Waters
"All the people who work there are great. They completely work with you and understand every bit of pressure you’re under. They make me relax - that’s really hard to do because I’m a hyper person. I love Berkeley, the good restaurants. It’s away from prying eyes of Hollywood and New York. They do a great job, that’s all. I’ve just had a wonderful experience there. I look forward every time to coming to Berkeley."

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG Kyle and Adam in agreement about film SHOCKER

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Re Ken Park: Is there a U.S. distributor yet? Didn't Larry Clark sock someone in the jaw at a banquet who was going to release it here?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a european PAL version that i (downloaded)

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved Fargo.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Larry Clark sock someone in the jaw at a banquet who was going to release it here?

Yes, at the London Film festival.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

My bad, it was the UK distributor:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A872057

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I am very pleased that someone else likes Buffalo '66.

i like it, too. when he buys her the heart cookie from dunkin' donuts? aw, shit.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Buffalo 66 is good here.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

and i'm dying to see the brown bunny too.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i like it, too. when he buys her the heart cookie from dunkin' donuts? aw, shit.

EXACTLY

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope Gear's roommate doesn't think this too.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

is that a heart cookie? did you make that?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

someone said the trailer for Buffalo 66 is amazing. i haven't seen it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

it's nothing the movie doesn't have in it

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to remember it being a rapid-fire succession of stills from the movie, intercut with title cards (black text on white) and accompanied by the Yes song "Heart of the Sunrise." Classic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I linked to it on a thread somewhere. It has Jackson C Frank playing over it.

xpost that's different from the one I linked to. It had Jackson C Frank playing and some scenes from the movie playing in split screen.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I could be wrong, too! This is all based on my memory of those heady days of 1998!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway american beauty is dumb

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

as dear as buffalo 66 is to me, i have no desire to see the brown bunny.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Japanese trailer?

The track is "Milk And Honey", now I remember.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmmmmm, grain.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmm, wmv's turnin' into ASCII bullshit on my iMac.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

no picture only sound on my mac. hmmmph.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Update your Windows Media Players!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

yessir!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

a lovely trailer indeed (though i was actually talking about the Buffallo 66 one earlier).

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@ml my roommate doesn't really watch movies unless they're currently trendy so therefore it's all about Eternal Sunshine and Lost In Translation

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Happiness is bollox, BUT 'Storytelling' DOES contain an amusing AB piss-take.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought it was more of an american movie piss-take.

the neighbor from american movie is IN storytelling and the name of his movie is AMERICAN SCOOBY.

i think you are wrong, sir.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay -- but it DOES have the bit about the plastic bag yes, which would refer to AB?

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, FINE.

but the whole idea of making a "serious" documentary about a subject to later turn it into an exercise of ridicule and laughter is the essence of the american movie/american scooby parallel.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Every time I hear about that "plastic in the wind" thing it reminds me of how much that character was just some bullshitting corny indie fucker trying to get laid with some false sincerity and DV cam shots of a Rite Aid bag.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

so much beauty....*sniff*....sex me up plz
http://www.exuberance.com/photo/2002-05-beach-litter/img/17.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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