MOVIES!

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!

(it's not, but it's telling that he can only pursue a remembrance of death, like madeleine in her act...as that chris marker crit piece says, midge is painted out entirely for the second half)

fallen angels - reaffirmed as my favorite wkw movie
eastern promises - zzzzzz

on the dock
the wrestler
the third man

I just bought an expander hard drive for my DVR, so I'm getting ready for some serious movie watching.

big fan

did u like

it was simple, but good. patton was great, but i think it could've used some more laffs.

obsessed football fans are maximum laughter under any circumstances

did u see this

it's been on my table for about 6 weeks; I need to watch then give to allyz4y!

thanks 4 the comments

big fan

Sin Nombre

500 Days of Summer - ugh terrible. cutesy indie bullshit overload

Foreign Correspondent - Alright Hitchcock until the total WTF last 20 minutes
Wings Of Desire - Loved it more this time around than I remember. Classic.
Faraway, So Close - "So Close" is right. But no cigar. I thought it started off great then just devolved into almost a completely diff. movie

yeah 'faraway so close' is a weird one.

cool hand luke is the only film i've watched recently, i need to catch up on a bunch for the film poll.

p.s.

~~~~The Top 75 films/movies of the 2000s/oughties VOTING THREAD~~~~

Foreign Correspondent - Alright Hitchcock until the total WTF last 20 minutes

ha. yeah I watched that one last year

don't recall much wrong w/ last 20 mins

Moscow on the Hudson -- one of Mazursky's underrated films; wonderful lead performance by Robin Williams; robust use of comic stereotypes (funny blacks and swishy Franklin Pangborn wannabe).

A Tale of Springtime
Streets of Shame

don't recall much wrong w/ last 20 mins

There's nothing wrong with the last 20 minutes, it's just that the movie kinda comes to a natural end, and then suddenly there's this whole plane crash plot twist out of nowhere after that.

exactly

Sherlock Holmes (2009) : A good looking loud mess. I thought Downey Jr. was going to wink at the camera after every poorly accented, mumbled quip. Lamest bad guy in a looong time, too, though the actor would make a good Fantomas if they ever tried to remake the Feuillade serials. Just sayin'.

HAUSU

the rest of the film is just as good as the scenes on youtube, like Suspiria levels of good

bad santa
kings and queen
in the loop
public enemies

^^^pretty dope flicks

yup

the historical inaccuracies in 'public enemies' are pretty nuts but mann sells them well. love the little bohemia scene. stephen lang deserves some serious props for his work in that film, too. he's kinda underrated.

should i see broken embraces

the historical inaccuracies in 'public enemies' are pretty nuts but mann sells them well. love the little bohemia scene. stephen lang deserves some serious props for his work in that film, too. he's kinda underrated.

― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:13 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

loved him in this, especially the last fight with dillinger in the power loader

Nid de guêpes aka The Nest (2002)

*incredibly* dope French action flick, basically a remake of "Assault on Precinct 13" with a little bit of Hard-Boiled and a tiny dose of "Aliens" (stylistically) thrown in for good measure. See this immediately imo.

stuff i watched this week on "vacation"

capturing the friedmans (liked)
together (liked)
chop shop (was ok)
ballast (very good)
rachel getting married (*barfs*)
4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days (really liked)
stepbrothers (lol)
sin nombre (not very interesting)
beau travail (great)

Avatar
Ten (Kiarostami)
Notre Musique
Inglourious Basterds
A Foreign Affair

Dogville (felt like they could have shaved 120 minutes off the running time, but it didn't make me angry)
In The Mood For Love (v pretty)

also

Serious Man (i enjoyed it but i don't think i got it)
Charly (not great, a bit too much groovy 1960s stuff, cliff robertson good tho)