(Says)
― koogs, Saturday, 2 August 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Will keep an eye out.*groans*
― Erdős Number 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 August 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Is anyone aware of any really strong essays on The Thief of Bagdad? I need some supplementary material to give to my class when I show the film at the end of October.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Monday, 8 September 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
there's this one from Criterion
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/496-the-thief-of-bagdad-arabian-fantasies
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 September 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Excited about the Tales of Hoffmann restoration:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/tales-hoffmann-exclusive-materials-making-powell-pressburger-masterpiece
― Alba, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link
Nice!
― The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
nice indeed, but still waiting for bluebeard's castle :)
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Spotted this in Marylebone when I was down in London at the weekend:
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010457_zpsd79f9259.jpg
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/17/english-heritage-blue-plaque-archers-scorsese
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
nice!
a few of these guys' movies are my favorite things ever
canterbury talesmall back roommatter of life and death49th parallel (particularly the last reel)
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, those are all aces. Particularly enjoyed Small Back Room.
― The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's a really heady mix of tones--like six movies in one! sometimes with their movies i just want to stand up and fucking clap at various points. they have everything; visual inventiveness, narrative ingenuity, juicy acting, sex, suspense, literate dialogue, political smarts...
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
uh forgot emotion
last time i watched matter of life and death, went to the theater alone. started crying about four seconds into the movie, took me minutes to stop. the whole first few minutes are harrowing. what a way to start a movie.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
well actually i guess it was after the stuff about the universe and once we see david niven resigning himself to dying
agreed. I watched the opening on YouTube and immediately bought the DVD a few years ago. I really need to see 49th Parallel again--I went in not expecting much and became totally absorbed in it pretty quickly.
― rob, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
hey i wrote about The Small Back Room and never linked it.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/the-small-back-room
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 October 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
as a person who struggles with a lot of Great Music, Oh... Rosalinda!! and Tales of Hoffmann could never be among my favorites, tho I apprec the bursting color and visual rhythms.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
as a person who struggles with a lot of Great Music
That explains why you defend Bob Dylan.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
oh you
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I watched "the edge of the world" on mubi recently... what a weird film! some utterly mindboggling camerawork and directorial touches but major narrative disconnect in the editing and a story that went nowhere fastworth it for the images and the scenery tho. moving paintings.
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
the weirdness and tensions in that film feel fully Archers-esque to me but it does have a loveable documentary/soap opera confusion
― Chimp Arsons, Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I've liked every film I've seen except Peeping Tom (don't remember why -- for once the tonal clashes didn't work?) but am rarely tempted to rewatch. Never having seen'em in a theater hasn't helped.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
eric h, i don't know who you are, but you sure are grumpy
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 3 October 2014 06:29 (nine years ago) link
Peeping Tom is Powell alone
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 October 2014 08:08 (nine years ago) link
Pepping Tom is great (for years it was possibly the only Powell-related thing I had seen) and really quite a diff thing altogether.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 October 2014 08:11 (nine years ago) link
a masterpiece indeed
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 October 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link
fuck i need to rewatch all of these. i tried getting my ex to watch black narcissus unsuccessfully for TWO YEARS
― clouds, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
I bought BN Blu-ray for my sister and her husband two Christmases ago. And there it lies.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
even more frustrating as we watch the red shoes together and he loved it
― clouds, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
watched*
― clouds, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
when you visit for the holidays distract them and steal it. I'd love it.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
well, I'm going to demand it back for me, they aren't going to watch it til the daughter is out of the house or at least in adolescent exile.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Or in a nunnery.
― Eric H., Friday, 3 October 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Peeping Tom is on TCM in a couple of hours btw.
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Saturday, 4 October 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
It doesn't have the Pressburger or production magic of the others and I used to resist the overly obvious symbolism, if that's the right way to describe it, and the fish out of water, Peter Lorre on the skids German accent, but I eventually got past the film professor arguments and found my own reasons to like it, which turned out to be mostly the same anyway.
― You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 October 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
karl bohm's accent was real if that's what yr'e referring to
― clouds, Saturday, 4 October 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Hah, yeah I know. I've seen the Fassbinder picture with the sunburn, Martha.
― You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 October 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
He's great in Fox and His Friends.
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 4 October 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
"Happy bersssday."
― Eric H., Sunday, 5 October 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
I've tried to watch Small Back Room twice now and got utterly confused both times about 40 minutes in. I should stop drinking.
― kraudive, Monday, 6 October 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
I watched it again this weekend and loved it. It might help not to drink during the scene when the protagonist isn't drying out.
I also rewatched Peeping Tom. There is something to letting the lead show all his cards from the start; the actor's pretty obvious though.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 October 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
*uring the scene when the protagonist IS drying out
That guy is so great in Small Back Room and Black Narcissus. Was he ever in anything else of note? Am I blanking?
― You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 October 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
also in their Gone to Earth
seems to have retired from the screen in the early '60s
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
peeping tom is great but in such a different register from the Archers classics!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 6 October 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Just watched A Canterbury Tale for the first time – so wonderful.
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Monday, 10 November 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
I do wonder where that was filmed, because it looked idyllic.
― koogs, Monday, 10 November 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
(The start, obviously)
― koogs, Monday, 10 November 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Have you seen this, Koogs?
http://gu.com/p/3hzz5
― Stevie T, Monday, 10 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
I would love to see the documentary about the John Sweet/Sheila Sim reunion in 2000, but I'm not sure it's worth paying 20+ bucks for a used copy of the DVD for that. Maybe in the next Criterion half-off sale.
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Monday, 10 November 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
canterbury tale is my favorite film many days
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 10:07 (nine years ago) link