MOVIES!

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

Cabiria (Italian silent epic, 1914)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
On the Bowery
Prince of the City
Let's Get Lost

You're Gonna Miss Me

Britannia Hospital
The Unforeseen
12:08 East of Bucharest

In the Realms of the Unreal

Dead Man's Shoes - revenge flicks shouldn't be dull (much preferred the Clive Owen movie like this)
1408 - scary, until it gets overwhelmed with CGI

1408 - scary, until it gets overwhelmed with CGI

otm. it was pretty good until it (literally!) starts to drown in a sea of suck

Breach – better than expected, but that's all it is. Chris Cooper's best perf yet. The usual sterling work by Laura Linney. Ryan Phillippe carving a credible career is opaque second-tier lead.

anyone know where to get maria magic weaver?

Christian Bale stars as a POW in Werner Herzog's newest movie. The story follows Dieter Dengler, the only American prisoner to escape from Laos during the Vietnam War, as he makes his break. And it comes out on July 4th! Christian Bale makes us feel all patriotic, even though he's not American.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/Rescue_Dawn

climates

Sweet Movie DVD

transfer looks unbelievable, extra features include Anna Planeta on a german talk show in 1979, singing the final theme song with new lyrics by Pasolini

I love The Holy Mountain and everything but Makajecev is the man I trust

Man Holy Mountain... shit!!!!!!

i keep forgetting to order the jodorowski box

now is the time

jon isn't jodorowsky kind of Overt?

i watched "TURISTAS" on Cox on Demand for $3.99 it was stupid but the brazilian prostitute was hot and showed her boobs and butt

sleep i got my jodo box set if you want to borrow anything. fando y lis was pretty crap i thought but yay to soundtracks, holy mnt, and topo.

i watched tonight "black snake moan" i can't really say much about this move, except by far the best part was when a giant moth got into our house and kind of was hanging out on the tv screen, and the kitty and puppy were both trying to jump up and catch it. IT WAS PRECIOUS. the rest of the movie was just a very rexy christina ricci chained to a radiator because she is too skanky for samuel l.jackaon's chaste, biblically informed wauys.

oh and justin timberlake was in it an s. epatha merkerson. i give it two and a half stars

i tried to watch mildred pierce last night but i was sad and turned it off after an hour

I just started watching The Wire on dvd so you may not see me in this thread for the rest of the summer