MOVIES!

black narcissus
homicide (mamet)
burden of dreams
the nomi song
mona lisa

Watched My Dinner with Andre for the first time last week. Loved it.
Will watch The Postman Always Rings Twice tonight or tomorrow.

also:
Zigfield Girl

Peau d'Ane (Donkey Skin)- omg -- yeah liked this a lllot better than Girls of Rochefort. But nothing's Parapluies.

Splendor in the Grass - aw gee whiz

The Swimmer - Super Good! Totally overdone pathos late 60's mid-life crisis film -- you know Burt Lancaster is playing someone who's lost their mind, but the slow reveal to show you just how completely mad he's become takes it to the level of an A++ Twilight Zone episode

Killer of Sheep - at moments it almost seems too beautifully stylized, but then you blink and you realize it's not style at all, the camera's just effortlessly showing you beautiful things and interactions and you're just not used to seeing a film about life in the projects in the 70's outside the lens of blaxploitation films, it's an incredible film

500 Days of Summer - you will see this on a plane

The Room - I expected youtube to have all the best moments, but no, EVERY SCENE DELIVERS, it's the real thing

Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans - I expected more, but yes pretty good

what did you expect more of?

mark, Eric hates the "screwball" elements.

bah

Children of Paradise
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond ('new' Tennessee Williams)
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (nice, docked for too much jazz)
The Bad Lieutenant -- Port of Call: New Orleans

what did you expect more of?

expectations set by the promise of a franchise (the title is pure marketing, Ferrara's within rights to feel disrespected), Herzog keeping things relatively normal apart from a few precious moments of Gator & Iguana, and I'm still waiting for the film where Cage goes to where he did in 'Vampire's Kiss' but this time around as a terrifying mid-lifer, and this could have been it. so... led astray by expectations but when promised Herzog + Cage + Ferrara, no way around having expectations

Ferrara's films that I've seen, The Funeral excepted, are kinda shit, and this is the better Bad Lt, unrelated or not.

Gomorrah (we'll see)
The Bad Seed
On Dangerous Ground
Funny People
An Education

I rather enjoyed Bad Lieutenant. I have not seen the original film tho. I think the most WTF moment for me was the ----
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there were some serious lols in this movie. recommended.

killer of sheep is dope

Ferrara's films that I've seen, The Funeral excepted, are kinda shit, and this is the better Bad Lt, unrelated or not.

will always have a soft spot in my heart for Ms. 45. don't get me wrong, this new Action Film by Werner Herzog is definitely worth $10 and the last half hour keeps the laughs coming

xpost yeah think I have to watch Killer of Sheep again, hopefully next time not on a laptop, such a sadness

G.I. Joe : Rise of Cobra (so bad, obviously)
Ferocious Beast with a Gun (unhinged giallo)

mark, Eric hates the "screwball" elements.

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

man, nxnw puts the screw in screwball. it's a sexy movie. and things like the auction scene are just timed and played so well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsE9g-0xmY

james mason at 5:06 here kills me

Heartbeeps (Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as robots who fall in love, w Mary Woronov cameo)
Die, Die My Darling! (So bad, only watched it because of the Misfits song, Tallulah Bankhead is awes, but . . . )
Madame Bovary (Vincente Minelli weepie version of Flaubert with crazy James Mason voiceover)

Canyon Passage (Tourneur goes west)
Portrait of Jennie
Seraphine
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Capitalism: A Love Story
$9.99 (sleeper Australian-Israeli stopmotion animation)
Katyn
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Corman, 1967)

killer of sheep is dope

― luol deng (am0n), Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:19 PM (5 days ago)

it's true

i watched:
grizzly man - why did i not watch this before it was hilarious & great
la bête humaine - pretty good but i bet the book is better

The Misfits
Tyson
Mahanagar
El Dorado

My November (+ Halloween):

THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN
THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX
NINJA ASSASSIN
DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY
THE WIZARD OF OZ
LIVERPOOL
TONY MANERO
THE STUFF
LATE MARRIAGE
PRECIOUS
KONTROLL
ANTICHRIST
2012
PLATFORM
HIS WIFE'S LOVER
YELLOW EARTH
A SERIOUS MAN
REPRISE
BIRTH
AN EDUCATION
HOWARDS END
SLITHER
THE FUNHOUSE
THE SHINING

i saw fantastic mr fox and i did not lvoe it.

Did you anti-love it?

i uncle-loved it

It is a sort of family movie.

the cotton club - really good, really entertaining film imo. this film has one of my favorite scenes in any film ever, involving bob hoskins, fred gwynne, and an argument over a broken watch that's pretty hilarious and kinda touching.

suddenly! - mid-'50s sinatra/sterling hayden flick. sinatra plays a killer hired to assassinate the president, situating himself at an open window in a nearby building, using a high-powered rifle. if sinatra actually wanted to hide an assassination flick he starred in from the public, this would have been the one. not great, but decent enough. pretty crazy ending.

the great escape

Lots:

Goodbye Solo
The Fantastic Mr Fox
Funny People
Sweet Smell of Success
Gomorrah
An Education

bob hoskins, fred gwynne, and an argument over a broken watch that's pretty hilarious and kinda touching.

from one viewing in 1984, I seem to recall this is one of maybe 3 good scenes in the film (the others involving the almost-dead Julian Beck).

sweet smell of success is one of the greatest ever. alfred was it your first time?

I find Sweet Smell v entertaining but a tad slick. Great J W Howe b&w tho.

ya, well it's about slicksters! so it fits i think.

as a lapsed Wes Anderson fan who thought the last two of his sucked pretty hard I enjoyed Mr. Fox

thanksgiving with the in-laws --

Twilight: about what I expected I guess, watchable but pretty lame
Angels and Demons: was kind of enjoying this as a straight-up thriller until the last third when it got super ridic

it's a very good scene, morbs. i would recommend giving it another "screening", i liked it a lot more than i did when i saw it ten years ago.

the cotton club - really good, really entertaining film imo. this film has one of my favorite scenes in any film ever, involving bob hoskins, fred gwynne, and an argument over a broken watch that's pretty hilarious and kinda touching.
― jØrdån (omar little), Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:49 PM (Yesterday)

probably the first celeb crush i ever had was Diane Lane from this.

Boogie Nights
Videodrome
Casablanca
Adventureland
Badlands
Chinatown
District 9
The Watchmen
Days of Heaven
Inglorious Basterds
In The Loop

Apart from district 9 and the watchmen, which were both awful, that was a pretty good month of films.

Falcon & the Snowman (ace)
Repo Man (memorized)
Day The Earth Stood Still (remake)
88 minutes (wot crap)

3/4 of these were with the parents...

in the loop
the descent (whyyyy did i wait so long to see this?)
fantastic mr. fox
funny people
twilight (perversely entertaining)
adventureland
the last days of disco
lymelife
knowing (!!!)
i love you man (not quite as bad as i expected)

sweet smell of success is one of the greatest ever. alfred was it your first time?

Heavens no! I wish. The rare times it lapses into Mankiewicz/Wilder I'm-rotten-you're-rotten-we-belong-together twaddle no longer bother me.

well i mean come on.. "you're a cookie full of arsenic. i'd hate to take a bite outta you." DAMN

or maybe he says it the other way around

It's the other way around, but yeah.

"You're a good man, Harvey, and someday, god willing, you may want to be president..."

J.J. Hunsecker: You're dead, son. Get yourself buried.

"I know there was another time when you didn't put things together. Boy, was the mayor mad!"

did you ever read that VF feature about the making of? it was so fascinating... mackendrick was terrified of lancaster and his producing partner...there was this one story of lancaster stepping out of the bathroom in his office, zipping up his fly and saying "she swallowed!" in front of the horrified brit, who he'd just met...

About eight or nine years ago? Yep. Lancaster didn't think much of it ultimately since it didn't make much money, right? Curtis, on the other hand, maintains (still does, to his credit) that it's the best role he ever got.

curtis is truly one of the weirdest men alive. have you ever seen his interviews on the some like it hot dvd?

None too closeted fagito.

I know I've read that Lancaster's miscast in SSOS, but if so it's one of the most inspired miscastings in film history. Look at his physique. If J.J. looked like H.R. Haldeman or the real Winchell we and everyone on screen wouldn't be so terrified of'em.

ya his physicality is so unexpected. i think it's fantastic.

the small back room (powell/prssbrgr brit noir about alcoholic bomb-defusers, great trippy DTs sequence)