MOVIES!

Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan

maybe i neeed to watch the thing in bed? y/n?

STRANGE DAYS. <3 <3 <3

i love how "the future" in that movie is set only only 4 years after it was released

cyber-drugs s/d

not so strange, i think -- pre-millennial anxiety was beginning to set in and there was the popular idea that culture and technology were accelerating exponentially.

juliette lewis' pj harvey impersonation was pretty good, though, haha. and i loves me some hard-as-nails angela basset.

it is a crminally underrated movie

one thing that always irked me though: i think the experiences recorded by those head thingies would be tainted by the fact the wearer is all too aware that their experience is being recorded.

oh wait, i guess myspace/reality tv makes that point moot

yeah, i love strange days

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/5825/microje1.jpg
MICROCOSMOS

^^^^ that was a stoner staple in college

ooh, speaking of future depictions in movies, i've been browsing through this site here:

http://www.futuristmovies.com/movies/the_movies.html

i love this gem about Starship Troopers (various story elements are rated according to their "plausibility"):

Society:

The world has adopted a neo-fascist model in which citizenship is dependent on military service. Given the strong global trend toward liberal democracy, this is unlikely.

there's a lot of little blatantly ideological assumptions like that sprinkled throughout the site. still, very entertaining/informative!

Ghost Dog

weird, i just got that in my netflix

GD was pretty good. I was worried about the idea of a Jarmusch hitman/action movie, but he never goes nuts with it.

Obsession (de Palma) @ the SF Castro

I last saw this maybe 28 years ago (on network TV). It's very entertaining for 'Variations on Vertigo,' even tho the Who and the What are laughably obvious.

Picked up DVDs of 'all about lily chou-chou' and Visconti's 'the dammed' on the cheap. both really amazing in their own ways. i feel like i'm recovering.

read a few essays on Alain Resnais that i picked up at the library in time for Resnais weekend at the lumiere (next week).

oh, and 'half nelson' at the cinema.

Is that the one about the crackhead English teacher? Is it still playing?

i like obsession

Pirates 3 - big time fun. If you were to take just one drink of beer every time someone yells "FIRE!" you would be retarded wasted.

Has anybody seen Rescue Dawn yet? It will be playing here in July; it looks fantastic.

Oh and in the theater there was a poster for a movie called Stardust and I was all wtf is this? and my dad had been reading Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys and we were being these big Gaiman fanboys all week and we get into the theater and see a preview for it and wouldn't you know it was based on a Gaiman graphic novel. Anyway I want to see it.

just a novel (or novella, it was pretty short) originally

Cronos

Killer of Sheep = great

And it's still playing and still drawing crowds, which is impressive

The Beat my Heart Skipped kinda sucks.
I really need to see Killer of Sheep.
Paprika was okay; maybe Kon's weakest film though.
But the Music! http://www.teslakite.com/freemp3s/e/paprika/

H didn't come with me and I'd go see it again if you and the lady want to go some time.

knocked up

Good?

just got back from Killer of Sheep - A++++ would watch again.

trailers before KoS that looked good -

Talk To Me w/ Don Cheadle & Chiwetel Ejiofor - looks kind of Oscarbait-y but also possibly hilarious if it's not too touching.

Luc Besson's new Angel-A - hottest maybe-angel ever

Baghdad ER

v v good, the only movie i've seen recently that actually made me cry, and should probably be required viewing for anyone that wants to have an opinion on Iraq

(if only because it's the closest most people will get to real reportage -- ie the opening scene where a nurse has to throw some dude's arm into the garbage)

Knocked Up was funny as fuck

Le Cercle Rouge

my friend won an emmy for her work on baghdad er!

(uh i guess i should see it)

RESCREENED hiroshima mon amour (i got sad ;_;)
finished the wire season 3 (wowooowoweo)

little dieter needs to fly

apparently I only have time/patience nowadays to watch movies that are < 90 minutes long

tuva soundtrack on dieter was awesome, anybody got any recommends?

my friend won an emmy for her work on baghdad er!

(uh i guess i should see it)

-- s1ocki, Monday, June 4, 2007 3:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

it's very good!

"Is that the one about the crackhead English teacher? Is it still playing?"

Yes. I think I just caught it at the end of its London run...

you can get it on netflix in the US, it's on DVD now

watched Last Temptation of Christ last night ... never seen it, it's probably the last Scorsese movie that I felt like I needed to check out (now I'm down to stuff like Kundun and Barry Lyndon)

it was okay. it's really long, and a lot of the dialogue was pretty ponderous. on the other hand some of the scenes representing bible stories or Jesus' dreams and visions were close to Jodorowsky / Lynch territory.

(Barry Lyndon?)

I think Last Temptation isn't his best movie but it might be his most interesting

i enjoyed killer of sheep a lot

(unrelated)

Troll 2

wtf no trolls?? was this a prequel?

I liked it too. scene where they go to get the car engine was great. (xpost re Killer of Sheep)

(Barry Lyndon?)

oops. that's Kubrick. I meant Age of Innocence. I'm not real big on period movies.

We're living in a period right now, you know. (Kundun & Age are certainly better than these last 3 Leo potboilers.... it's not like they're late Merchant-Ivory, where the furniture comes first!)

Keitel is the heart of LTOC: "Yaw place was on da cross!" I also think Dafoe was never better (having played Jesus already in Platoon) I also love Lazarus saying being dead isn't really that much different.