Last (x) movies you saw

Is there anything else in Dolly's cinematic oeuvre worth looking at?

Steel Magnolias.

If you don't like 9 to 5 I doubt you'd like The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas but I like that one too.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes, 1986) 9/10
Man of Steel (Snyder, 2013) 2/10

well I should def see Man of Steel!

Nine to Five does suck tho. Maybe two good scenes.

You have two good scenes

not bad for an amateur

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Tokyo Story
Performance

ie things my wife wouldn't want to sit through

I thought Erin Brockovich > Traffic back then, and I think Erin Brockovich > Traffic still today.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, June 24, 2013 2:57 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed.

cosign

all the non-Benicio del Toro parts of Traffic are kind of terrible

exactly.

I thought Erin Brockovich > Traffic back then, and I think Erin Brockovich > Traffic still today.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.)

you old so and so!

at the time preferring EB was like saying you preferred En Vogue to Radiohead.

but I do

exactly!

gays in falling-for-Julia's-2000-teeth shockah

plus, damn, Finney and Roberts work so well together. If this was the early eighties they'd be given a shitty CBS sitcom.

I'm not gay!

Finney was p much doing a Southern Lou Grant

that's praise, right?

And the problem is ... ?

lol xp

"Oh bite my ass, Krispy Kreme!"

I liked EB, mostly, but sighed wearily when Julia started nodding and smiling while listening to some helpless woman about 2/3 of the way through. Candyass sentiment is why American movies don't do politics.

No, candyass sentiment is the only thing that allows American movies to do politics.

I've been called a lot of things but never loving gay icons (speaking of, where does it say that Julia Roberts is a gay icon?).

I liked EB, mostly, but sighed wearily when Julia started nodding and smiling while listening to some helpless woman about 2/3 of the way through

OK how was this scene not "political" (especially with Marg Helgenberger's restraint helping)?

I'll get back to you someday, as I haven't seen it in 12+ years.

Or realistically, maybe not.

i saw erin brockovich when it came out, the theater was filled with gay dudes hooting in delight at julia's outfits

gawd

Same gay dudes were hooting at Benicio Del Toro playing gay in Traffic's bar scene.

anyone seen Against All Odds, the forgotten eighties remake of Out of the Past? The commentary track by James Woods, Jeff Bridges, and Taylor Hackford is amazing: an exegesis on L.A. real estate, Woods and Bridges' reminisces, what it was like in Paramount to finance a movie when Don Simpson and Michael Eisner were in charge. Quite worth the time.

that sounds great

wow yeah

It makes up for Rachel Ward's defiant unsexiness.

But god Jeff Bridges never looked better. His Thin White Duke phase.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5256/5540078793_1af9070e3e.jpg

The great Phil Collins ballad you know. The rest of the soundtrack: top drawer Stevie Nicks, Kid Creole (performing live in the film!), Peter Gabriel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_All_Odds_%28soundtrack%29

as eighties thriller hokum it's much beter than To Live and Die in L.A..

idk, bridges in cutter's way is like an apparition to me; like michelangelo's david rendered in golden california sun

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mWIl6ptMJUs/ThQ19fCko9I/AAAAAAAACWo/klTwHP54y1I/s640/JeffBridges15.jpg

*dreamy stare*

so um hi yes I would like to see this movie plz

Turn Me On, Dammit! (4/5)
The Horse Thief (drifted...sorry, Marty)
The Squid and the Whale (5/5)
The Social Network (5/5--initial misgivings are gone; I completely love this now)
The Andromeda Strain (remake--3/5)
Alien (3.5/5)
Oblivion (3/5)
The Goddess (Ruan Lingyu, mentioned in The Story of Film; slept through half, not the film's fault)
Farewell My Concubine (3.5/5)
Valley Girl (3.5/5)

Project AII (1987, Chan) 8/10
Project A (1983, Chan) 7/10
Armor of God II: Operation Condor (1991, Chan) 7/10
Stage Struck (1925, Dwan) 7/10
Fruitvale Station (2013, Coogler) 6/10
Of Human Bondage (1934, Cromwell) 6/10
Manhandled (1924, Dwan) 8/10
The Master (2012, Anderson) 7/10
Nostalghia (1983, Tarkovsky) 7/10
Blackfish (2013, Cowperthwaite) 6/10
The Only Son (1936, Ozu) 8/10
An Inn in Tokyo (1935, Ozu) 9/10

Anyone seen No, the Chilean film about the '88 plebiscite? It's pretty good, although Gael Garcia Bernal doesn't smile often enough.

yes

I like dour GGB better

oh i dug it. i think i am a sucker for the whole modified u-video mania in general, but i thought it was very interesting; something kinda powerful in its idea of community or allegiance, like the last shot & the distance between the guy & the crowd. sorta wishing i could remember this movie better rn but i really dug it, found it v rich.

No smiles, its not a comedy.

Much Ado About Nothing (Joss Whedon, 2012) - best Shakespeare at the pictures ever! Or maybe the language is finally registering around my ear. Anyway I laughed along, wasn't expecting to at all.

Like Someone in Love (Kiarostami, 2012) - so I hear people might get annoyed at the abrupt ending? Get over it! Loved the main character listening to her messages as she rode around in a taxi.

Thérèse Desqueyroux (Miller, 2012) - wonder how it compares with the Franju adap?

so I hear people might get annoyed at the abrupt ending? Get over it! Loved the main character listening to her messages as she rode around in a taxi.

kiarostami movies have very pleasing, circular ways of ending &, remembering this criticism a week after seeing it, i was pretty bemused; i didn't think it abrupt or premature at all. like do people need some kind of grizzly onscreen denouement?

Or some bits of dialogue to neatly wrap up. Really must see Certified Copy sometime.

Also saw:

Szindbad (Zoltán Huszárik, 1971) - a screen adap of Gyula Krudy's short stories (which I re-read a couple of weeks ago, love the bk!). Gorgeous looking film, manages to captures the mixture of play, utter doom and chaos in the relations between men and woman as described.

Repo Man (Cox '84)
They Were Expendable (Ford '45)
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (Les Blank 1980)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson 2001)
(nostalgia) - (Hollis Frampton 1971)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Anderson 2004)

Neil Jordan's Byzantium is well filmed with some nice acting but right around the time lil vampire Saoirse Ronan started telling the kid she just met who she was falling in love with "have you ever had a secret you could never ever share but wanted to more than anything else" i realized i was not a fourteen year old girl and bailed

Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer 1972) 4/5
Black Christmas (Clark 1974) 3/5
Paris Nous Appartient (Rivette 1961) 4/5
Man of Steel (Snyder 2013) 2/5
You, The Living (Andersson 2007) 3/5
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates 1973) 4/5
Scarlet Street (Lang 1945) 4/5
World War Z (Forster 2013) 1/5
The London Nobody Knows (Cohen 1967) 3/5
Histoire(s) Du Cinema (Godard 1988-1998) 4/5
The Silent Partner (Duke 1978) 3/5
Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch 1943) 3/5