MOVIES!

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)

Peter Ibbetson ( weird and beautiful. Can totally see why the Surrealists loved this )
Inspector Lavardin (somewhat hammy Chabrol but dude pulls it off)

Straight Time - vintage dustin hoffman as a burglar (also gary busey, harry dean stanton, young kathy bates, theresa russell (WS))
Drag Me To Hell - awesome

Vicky Christina Barcelona - I mean, I know everyone's been saying Woody Allen is now little more than a creep way past his prime but I had no idea. Jesus wept this movie.

I only watched it for ScarJo - who, incidentally, is looking less and less likely too get a role that actually suits her. For gawd sake ppl, stop putting her in roles that require her to ACT. That isn't her thing. Go back and look at her work from the Golden Years (2001-2003, roughly The Man Who Wasn't There -> Girl w/the Pearl Earring) she does basilisk-eyed, insouciant ice-teen and that's it. I speak as a fan. So, yeah, maybe the game's up.

Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee - Anyone seen this? Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine pissing about, basically. Some really lol moments, but kind of eh overall. Needed more Scor-Zay-Zee tbh, he stole it from Considine whenever he was given half a chance.

Q: The Winged Serpent

100% awesomeness

Come and See - Russian WW2 movie - surreal in parts and definitely grim

The Bank Job
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

rosenstrasse - it was bad

The Hangover

Q: the winged serpent is great!

Q: The Winged Serpent

― unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:17 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

100% awesomeness

― unified theory of objectionable thoughts (latebloomer), Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:25 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

second post really should have been "A: 100% awesomeness"

latebloomer is slippin : /

need more rest ;_;

where the wild things are
to live and die in l.a. (someone told me this is a xmas movie o_O)
avatar
house of the devil (pretty good)
martyrs
captivity (meh)
they live! (great)
big trouble in little china (not as good :/)

curse of the jade scorpion (wooden woody)

tonight we're gonna watch:

the third generation
i spit on your grave

Q: The Winged Serpent is so great -- At this point I've played God Told Me To for so many people, I'm overdue to go back to Q & The Stuff & Bone again

Equinox - 1967 $6500 horror film by the guy who went on to do Star Wars -- the claymation is fun and the bad acting is is just amusing enough, just barely rewarding enough to check out on a slow night
Sweet Smell of Success - thank you guys for bringing this up upthread, media critique movie that's always been on my list. Burt Lancaster's eyes are so terrifying, he plays the curve from intense to completely deranged so well, did he ever get a role where he gets actively violent? Not like he needs to, the psychological setup in this one is so depraved and damaged, it's impressive for 1957. Friend just lent me her copy of Elmer Gantry, so that's next...

xpost oh man 'Third Generation' is maybe in my top 5 Fassbinders. I think M.C. will like that one, the number of impossibilities per second, speeding past Udo Kier's afro

i need to see this third generation

it's a lot funnier than The Baader-Meinhof Komplex

& about Lancaster... anyone who's into films about American suburbs made surreal, I haven't stopped thinking about 'The Swimmer' since I saw it, it's weird and good

Third Generation is really great

Need to see The Day After

quatermass xperiment
point blank (omg @ the dvd transfer of this)
blue steel