MOVIES!

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

Public Enemiesszzzzzzz
The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner
Up in the Air

gumshoe
the fearless vampire killers
willie and phil
orpheus
the designated mourner (only made it thru like 30 mins)
the landlord

Romantico (good doc on sixtyish Mexican 'illegal' who sings in SF restaurants)
Mulholland Dr.
lots of mediocre to awful year-end movies

xmas break movies lol catching up/turning brain off
started out well, and then...

Terminator 2
Up
the empire strikes back
Anvil the story of anvil
star wars
two lovers
x-men origins: wolverine
love happens
four christmases
easy virtue
the proposal
lost in translation (i like this movie and so, rewatch)

to come:

an education
departures
moon
taking woodstock (uh?)
inglorious basterds
the hurt locker
(etc)

avatard
vertigo (no matter how many times you see it, it's always more twisted than you remember)
a scanner darkly (the visuals make the film, pretty good as philip k dick adaptions go)
au hasard balthazar (WORST CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVER)

vertigo (no matter how many times you see it, it's always more twisted than you remember)

also funnier, but maybe that's just me.

An Education has nothing to do with xmas but it is so far the best movie i have watched over xmas break

Me and Orson Welles (generally delightful)
Burma VJ (riveting doc of hellacious doings)

whip it
up in the air
the third man
my son, my son what have ye done

the hurt locker omg whoa

i watched everything on my 'to come' list except had to stop Taking Woodstock 30 minutes in because boring
also watched
The Ugly Truth
The International
and was force fed Extraordinary Measures today, which sounds like it might be an espionage thriller but is actually abt sick kids and biotech venture capital and brendan fraser's face. could hardly sit through it.

i'm taking a good break from hollywood movies holy crap
this thread has good ideas

(gonna go see hurt locker today)

Bala
Days & Nights In the Forest
Pull My Daisy
Life Of Brian

Old Joy - pretty awesome if you're in the mood for something quiet. think I liked this better than Wendy & Lucy which I saw first

also saw Baghead and Away We Go which both had some ok parts and some annoying parts

Cocaine Cowboys (doc)
Trading Places
Escape From New York
There Will Be Blood -- great soundtrack
Popeye (Altman vers) -- quite possibly the most stoned movie ever

popeye is on my rescreen list... mad movie.

example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz884EUAqi4
widescreen photography with a consistent lack of 90 degree angles:
sea sick on land

I have the soundtrk LP (1980 purchase)

Popeye is my fave Altman movie between 3 Women and Short Cuts.

vertigo (no matter how many times you see it, it's always more twisted than you remember)

also funnier, but maybe that's just me.

― sarahel, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 08:32 (1 week ago) Bookmark

i am watching this tonight. after rear window and nxnw i am ready to have my mind blown and my senses thrilled a third time round

this is such a slow-burner!! gotta say i didn't see the twist coming. i'd already worked out a far more outlandish one in which midge was madeleine :D that'll teach me to second-guess!

midge is way hotter and saucier and generally more attractive than the kim novak character obv. snappy chick who paints and has a sense of humour? will take that ahead of doomed tragic...oh wait maybe that's the point of the movie!