MOVIES!

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

french connection?

french connection isn't the same. even though i've seen it a hundred times i think it's in the top 10 of my queue. one thing i've noticed about all these films (except bullit) is that they all feature mopars. i wonder if chrysler was underwriting these flicks.

gauntlet sounds good! added to queue!

two lane blacktop in the queue

wait, you mean netflix queue or some other service?

it's worth it for the bus hijacking alone.

if ambulance chases count, i recommend mother, juggs and speed.

xpost

recommend mother jugs & speed anyway

that's been in my saved section with "unknown" availability forever :(

same. jt looks EXACTLY like kurdt cobain in the final scene, right down to the stringy hair in the eyes and the emaciated junkie arms in the cardigan sweater.

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

-- latebloomer, Thursday, June 7, 2007 11:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

see also leprechaun 4 -6

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, June 7, 2007 12:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lol

two lane blacktop in the queue

that's been in my saved section with "unknown" availability forever :(

yeah, unfortunately it's out of print. just buy one on ebay, it's a fucking fantastic film.

When I watched MOther, Jugs and Speed I almost shat myself hearing Bill Cosby cuss.

I bet you can buy 2LB @Kim's

I'm thinking that's a long drive for CHICAGO kevin

I'm sure all the 2LB Netflix copies were reported 'lost,' it goes for $50 to $100 now that it's out of print.

Strangers on a Train on 50' screen at this place:

http://www.loewsjersey.org/

Farley Granger was there in (very, very old) person to answer questions after the film, but he wasn't very bright and kept doing bad Hitchcock imitations that had nothing to do with the moderator's questions.

Great film, in spite of rather tortured plot twists at the end in order to keep things Hollywood and avoid a tragic ending. It's all worth it for the carousel.

Paprika - kind of just what I expected. It was fun though.

Unstrap Me (George Kuchar)
Idiocracy
The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Chelsea Girls

Fight Club

BUG was really weird but somehow held almost together by Ashley Judd.

The Blue Velvet documentary that comes with Blue Velvet.

anyone up for some macrossssss tonight?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/macross-humburgerpopo.jpg

Resnais weekend at the Lumiere: "My American Uncle" ws fkn great. "Love unto Death"...well, it ws more notable for me bcz of its score (legendary new music ensemble Fires of London going through a score by Hans Werner Henze). Slabs of the score would play out in between scenes from the film, so it ws structured like a piece of music as 'movements' in a kinda banal way - probably distracted me from the film (which ws actually a bit easier to get a hold of than "My American Uncle"). But worth a watch.

how is last year at marienbad btw

My second film by him, saw it earlier this year - encouraged me to check out those other ones over the weekend, so it did its job, if you like.

Oh, and I borrowed 'Volver' off my local library. Don't feel that strongly toward Almodovar really (apart from 'Bad Education', i think) and so it is for this.

Bad Education has definitely been my favorite out of the maybe 5 movies of his that I've seen. I liked Volver ok though. Loved the scene where Penelope Cruz sings that sad song at the party.

noize advice time: should I sell almost all of my DVDs (lots o' Criterions) and just add the titles to my Netflix queue and bump them whenever I feel like it?

Knocked Up (likely the film of the year, and the best Mazursky film of the last 30 years).

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