MOVIES!

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.

Dafoe has a great pungent line about his "flock" – something like "Most of the time they're just a crowd; they mean nothing to me."

Also: David Bowie's best cameo.

yeah, that bowie turn is an inspired bit of stunt casting

it was orig sposed to be Sting.

btw NYers, Chelsea Girls is running at MoMA. It's 'trippy' when yer cold sober.

Mean Girls
Shame (best Bergman, best Liv)

look back in anger
election
shameless series 1 dvd

Troll 2

wtf no trolls?? was this a prequel?

-- The Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, June 6, 2007 6:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

normal rules simply don't apply to this film

the final "It is accomplished!" scene in Last Temptation, with the reel going out and flaring up in the last shot...gets me every time

see also leprechaun 4 -6

i love that the Leprechaun has been in space and to the hood TWICE

can anyone recommend any car chase/anti-hero '70s flicks for me? i've gone through "vanishing point" and "dirty larry crazy mary" with "the hunter" on the way (i know that's 1980 and not the same genre but still). i've got bullit, thunderbolt and lightfoot, and two lane blacktop in the queue but after that, anyone have any recommendations? please?

the gauntlet