MOVIES!

sick on couch yesterday, watched:

crossfire
arsenic and old lace
here comes the groom (napped midway through)
pbs frontline doc about mormons

el topo last nite!

sick on couch today, watched:

minnie and moskowitz
love streams

black book! verhoeven is back on track

The Proposition

el topo stoned or unstoned?

joe, love streams while sick sounds like worstever

i found m&m harder going actually (in terms of overall watchability)

M&M is easily the weakest Cassavetes, but I think it's pretty watchable. The Timothy Carey diner scene is great.

Zoo 2X
Tonight: Sans soilel and Les maitres fous.

i watched the transformers movie last night.
doesn't really hold up

I like M&M 2d best of JC's to Chinese Bookie!

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Park Row

How is I Don't Want to Sleep Alone? I'm a little wary of Tsai after Wayward Cloud.

El Topo
Munich

I liked I Don't Want to Sleep Alone better than the disturbing-not-in-a-good-way Cloud. also slightly better than "Joe's" Mozart movie. The two main sex scenes are kind of amazing.

Shrek the Third. Shortest and least touching Shrek so far, still very very funny though. Previews were great (Transformers, Bee Movie).

I didn't know they'd made another Shrek movie! The little feller will be delighted.

J bought me "The Gold Rush" and "The Chaplin Revue". Great, especially "Shoulder Arms"

took my little dude to shrek yesterday & he dug it. I agree w/nicka.

Love Streams is the best Cassavetes film I've seen, though there are a few blind spots in that group.

how many noize dads are there?

just curious

Like that scene where Gena is demonstrating all sorts of magic tricks, which include that yarn ketchup out of a plastic bottle? That's hilarious.

can anyone using the IMDb get that motherfucking Bug ad to close? Just one more reason to loathe horror films.

okay, i saw a bit of script from dark is rising and ... it's not bad. it was just f/x markup stuff from the first act, and not totally indicative of the script-as-whole. but it seems the project's being rushed through production (for a september/october release?) and, given the dumbfuckery of walden media w/r/t both chronicles of narnia and bridge to terebithia i'm not sure i trust them to do homage to cooper's book. i mean, the whole celtic thing is being altered and the stanton family has turned american. the family-dynamic stuff has been elevated from elegant background to near-foreground and the adventury-survivaly theme has been cranked maximally. still, ian macshane as merriman is great casting, and the kid looks suitable if – yeah – american, so who knows what'll happen?

additionally, the trailer for golden compass/northern lights looks pretty swanky. my concern is that it'll be one of those gorgeously vapid filmed readings that, while textually accurate, does jackshit to elevate itself into cinema-stuff, e.g. the last peter pan. i agree with dan elsewhere that the story is perfect for film, but i'd love to see it as a gritty foreign john huston man who would be king yarn than an overdesigned clothes-horse with a horny art department peaking the heap of priorities. also in the trailer, I wondered where the dæmons were: there's not a panteleimon in sight, except for during a little scuffle fight with another cat. probably just b/c the f/x aren't done?

hah morbs i'm the inverse of you when it comes to JC i guess (love streams and AWUTI are my faves and bookie did almost nothing for me)

try Mikey & Nicky (like late-era Lenny Bruce, JC's style is best when done by others)

Mikey and Nicky is so great.

I'm somewhere between IH and Morbs on Cassavetes: Chinese Bookie and Love Streams are my favorites.

Venus (O'Toole receiving the finger from young starlet the best scene).

Fando y Lis

pretty incoherent, even for Jodo

pretty bad :(

http://www.joespub.com/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=3170

^ HAY

so wtf is rofl?

88 Minutes - I didn't even know it existed before I watched it, and then again immediately after it was over.

"La Cabina" (1972)

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkN1n9q2_Gc
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O06KfDtxT_k
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJou0V8O7A
Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpE5xfWK1C8

KNOCKED UP

A++++++++++

lucky

okay, i saw a bit of script from dark is rising

i didn't know there was an adaptation afoot. but having googled it, this sounds a little worrisome.

Episodes 1-2, Season 1, Prime Suspect

Pretty great, but not quite as exciting as the first season of The Wire (though it might well have been in the early '90s).

sexnological!

Bug - worse than you could have ever imagined

I know this is going to be the least notable post on noize board ever, but I just finally saw Blue Velvet and I am massively excited by it.

I don't know why I never got around to it - I've seen Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Eraserhead, Straight Story, even the short films.

Dune and Elephant Man are still his best

months later.. I'm still kind of recovering from how good 'Inland Empire' was. such a real thrill to be around for him as he continues to dazzle.

although ... as great as 'IE' was I have to admit I am little bit disappointed about his conviction that he will never use film again.

My favorite scene - Mike gets out of car to kick Jeffrey's ass, Dorothy suddenly appears naked with cuts all over her body

fuck watching a lynch

fay grim. i liked it alright - nice to have the old gang back together.

lol @ Bug, I saw the play off broadway. the whole point was that the bugs were probably imaginary! can't believe they made that a movie.

watched Born Into Brothels last night

I noticed echoes of The Graduate in some of the scenes with Dorothy and Jeffrey, and also of 80s teen movies at certain points, but I have this vague memory of hearing Lynch say he doesn't like to reference other films. Did I make that up?

Monte Walsh
Big Trouble in Little China
The Saddest Music in the World
Cowards Bend the Knee
Brand Upon the Brain!
Barry Lyndon
House of Bamboo

Dune and Elephant Man are still his best

-- TOMBOT, Monday, May 28, 2007 5:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

which is to say: i just watched elephant man and didn't get a lot out of it. i haven't seen dune in forever.