MOVIES!

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.

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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).

Local Hero
Early Spring

CAN'T YOU JUST SAY IT REMINDS YOU OF A MAZURSKY MOVIE

FUCK MAZURSKY!

In The Mood For Love.

rare chris marker shorts the other night @ BAM

"I liked Volver ok though. Loved the scene where Penelope Cruz sings that sad song at the party."

Yes I agree w/that.

grr where is my macross dvd

une femme est une femme

Tora Tora Tora - awesome awesome awesome.

also guys i've watched brick again -- with subtitles on this time, very helpful -- and i still really like it.

sorry chaki you are banned and can't talk shit about it.

is nobody excited about the silver surfer movie? I think he has eyeballs (which is wrong), but he also has a (silver) nutsack (which is right!)

I don't think there's anyone in America as hype for Silver surfer movie as my dad, he is totally geeking out.

i once found one of my dad's 'adult comics' -- CHERRY -- and it had some weird spoof of Cherry & her friends as the fantastic 4, and galactus' helm had dongs extruding from it and the silver surfer was a shapeshifting ambisexual thing that could morph into male OR female forms.

i would watch an adaption of that, but probably not the new FF movie

Tales of Hoffman!

oh 1951. there are slow parts, but the high points are astounding wonderful beautiful. Red Shoes makes you wait for the surreal turns, while this one tries to sustain the visual weirdness throughout, so my patience was tried a bit, but then something so strange and colorful hits the screen and you are just gone.

the 'dance of the dolls' scene makes me think Klaus Nomi watched this film a hundred times, but I can't find any images online. also a film like Dr. Seuss' 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, which just seemed like a complete anomaly when I saw it years ago, makes a lot more sense knowing something this extreme was already out there...

also saw Hammer film To The Devil A Daughter, which was pretty worthless, despite Christopher Lee doing his best and Nastassja Kinski being at most 18 years old, the lead was played by Richard Widmark looking about 9000 years old and blowing absolutely every line he had to read

i once found one of my dad's 'adult comics' -- CHERRY -- and it had some weird spoof of Cherry & her friends as the fantastic 4, and galactus' helm had dongs extruding from it and the silver surfer was a shapeshifting ambisexual thing that could morph into male OR female forms.

i would watch an adaption of that, but probably not the new FF movie

I wouldn't just watch that I would dedicate my lifesavings to it's production.

Early Spring, one of the few disappointing Ozu films I've seen.

Hostel 2 - Very funny, in a sick way. The humor quotient is way higher this time, and it really plays with genre conventions and your expectations from seeing the first film. Also some great character twists.

Who the Fuck Is Jackson Pollock? - Very slight but entertaining documentary about an old truck driver lady who bought a painting for 5 bucks at a thrift store that might be a Jackson Pollack, and her attempts to prove it's genuine. The "Art Establishment" predictably comes across as arrogant, lady comes across as endearingly stubborn (and possibly foolish).

Little Otik - pretty good, it's like eraserhead + little shop of horrors + a grimm fairy tale

Croupier -- max fischer play

Breach: OK docudrama of FBI traitor Robt Hanson's story. Chris Cooper is good as catholic-fanatic turncoat spy. film's a bit thin overall.

Croupier -- max fischer play

TOTALLY 8080