MOVIES!

Le Ronde
Lola Montez
Le Plaisir
Z.P.G. - Zero Population Growth (hadn't seen this for a while, unbelievably low budget but as far as over-population dystopia it did come before 'Soylent Green' and 'Logan's Run' -- 30 year moratorium on reproduction, punishable by death, leads to hysterical crowds chanting 'BABY! BABY! BABY!' whenever an unauthorized baby is found on the streets. hideous robot baby surrogates, killer smog, abortion machines in every bathroom & bad electronic muzak for everyone)

(& kind of amazing considering it was released two years before roe vs. wade)

i've never even heard of it! will have to watch

double indemnity - never seen it, was great

state and main - good times, but it's like mamet's never seen a film or real life before

Oshima:

Violence at Noon
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Death by Hanging
The Ceremony
Taboo (Gohatto)

other:

Tokyo Sonata
Ashes and Diamonds (w/ Wajda q&a)
Rachel Getting Married
Frontrunners (I bet gabbneb went to Stuyvesant HS)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
One Day You'll Understand
Saving Marriage
Zidane
Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (the book as a one-man play as a film starring the blond boy from The OC)

I really liked death by hanging. how were the other oshimas?

not as funny!

My favorites are Boy, The Ceremony and Violence at Noon (it's been too long since I've seen Cruel Story of Youth).

i would like to see zero population growth!

no one should see a movie called "profit motive and the whispering wind" because i just did and it was BAD

the last mimzy

omg this has to be the best kids movie to watch tripping since willy wonka

just don't watch it with your kids while you're tripping

that would be irresponsible

I'm looking @ you sexyDancer

is it bad for baby to see you tripping

no one should see a movie called "profit motive and the whispering wind" because i just did and it was BAD

only the last 5 mins were bad

you are right! i liked it until then but i felt like it was completely ruined by the ending. i don't feel that strongly about it anymore. i wouldn't say it was bad now i would say it's "not for everyone"

forgetting some:

speed racer - ok
tropic thunder - not bad but merely "enjoyable"
the postman - lol why did i watch this

"Red Dragon" (nowhere near as bad as I was expecting, but I was expecting it to be atrocious, so....)

"Hostel" (did not watch all of this, was disgusted by its grossness)

first 10m of some Shannon Tweed vehicle lololololololo IT WAS "BETTER" THAN "HOSTEL"

I was at relatives in W Yorkshire, they have a TV set, probably would not have watched any of these otherwise.

I saw Red Dragon too. It was on TV at the weekend, right?

It was funny when he ate the picture but the rest of it was pretty yawn.

Yeah it was on ITV I think? I can't remember I'd drunk some beer.

The funniest thing was how blatantly they'd bulked up Hannibal Lector's part in the story compared w/the original book or "Manhunter". Also, A Hopkins' performance was ridiculous. Some of the other actors were good though, which saved it from being total rubbish I thought.

Emily Watson cannot do a Baltimore accent. Feinnes was pretty good. He seems like he's probably v. creepy IRL. Ed Norton is boring.

I can't remember, but I think it was a little long too.

And you are totally right re: overplaying the Lecter card. The fact that you see so little of him in SotL is obviously one of its strengths.

Yeah it went on a bit, but by no means the worst I've seen in that respect. Yeah, Feinnes was pretty convincing, they totally overplayed the "he was abused so of course he turned into a serial killer like 1 + 2 = 3" angle but he rose above it somehow. Norton was boring and dorky but it kind of fitted I thought? I dunno. I somehow doubt I'll ever watch it again TBH.

Yes, we are probably overthinking this movie : )

Ha! Yes.

back to the future
the happening w/rifftrax (rofl)

how hard is syncing up riff trax

funny farm - miss u chevy chase
love guru - waaaay less bad than i thought it'd be
pineapple express

how hard is syncing up riff trax

it's kind of a bitch, but i got a torrent with it already synced up.

The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (I like films like Go Go Second Time Virgin and Visitor Q which are obviously trying to provoke, but this is basically just straight up pron, which makes the rape scene straight up inexcusable, it's totally clear they included it for kicks)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (just watching it again to check -- the best of the five hands down)
Otto Muehl -Kardinal 1967

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (just watching it again to check -- the best of the five hands down)

haha, MP you are a character. "I reveal my Inmost Self to my God."

9 to 5 (stopped paying attention halfway through; just not funny)
The General (Keaton)
The Boys in the Band

bourne ultimatum - pretty good ... I liked these

has anyone seen synecdoche new york yet. i'm interested but skeptical

Is that the new DVD of "The General", Morbs? I saw a clip of this online and was astonished at the clarity & detail of the image. It's def. on the list.

This edition:

http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=936

I just ripped the General and Steamboat Bill jr for iPhone :)

classe tous risques
near dark

you got it Pash, and JW stop that shit, you can't see Buster's face on a fuckin phone.

sure you can

“It’s such a sadness, that you think you’ve seen a film on your fucking telephone”

cry me an iriver

i was a stalwart "fuck watching movies on an i-whatever" type until I had to buy a new iPod last week to replace my old music-only model. No more. I have a bunch of Godard and the Gainsbourg video comps and some Fellini on there and it's been fun watching them on a little screen.

recent (on a TV)

Carmen
El Amor Brujo
An Autumn Afternoon
VHS -->DVD-R rip of Rossellini's "Louis XIV"
recent Kino restoration of 'Nosferatu"

that sounds like Herzog, Milton

Re: David Lynch on iPhone

ha! I knew it was Lynch. he uses that same phrase ("it's such a sadness") in Catching the Big Fish

also:

Andromeda Strain (a little on the boring side maybe -- I remember Westworld & The Terminal Man being better for early 70's Crichton)
The Leopard (last night at the Castro, only way to see this is in a theatre, 75% of the content = the sweeping shots of Sicilian landscapes & the outfits during the hour long ballroom ending)

anyone seen this? looks crazy good: http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/endgamedvd.html

mainly it's been 10 years and I'm still waiting for documentary filmmakers to pick up the slack left hanging by This Week In Bible Prophecy

Bill have you ever even seen an iPhone?

fast & furious tokyo drift - not as funny as I was hoping. there was hella drifting though
genghis blues - pretty good, could have been a half-hour shorter
next up - persepolis, the fall (tarsem), disc 1 of the prisoner