MOVIES!

Matewan = awesome. Will Oldham!!(was totally oblivious til creds)

kes
about half of colossal youth
la vie en rose
ratatouille
transformers

yi yi is probably my favorite movie of all time

i've been on a cheap sci-fi kick lately

2010
red planet
one hundred and nights
fred and ginger
henry fool
awakening of the beast
coffin joe

Naked (David Mike Leigh)

Sorry - obviously getting mixed up with David Lean.

Naked is great, and Schindler's List is funnier than Reality Bites.

Yes, it was so Great, so capital "G" Great, and so tiresome.

The Devil Wears Prada - I identitfied completely with Streep the whole time and wondered why the protagonist didn't tell off her boyfriend's double-standards a little harder. Not sure where the "Devil" appears in the tale. I don't think the blond hunk dude was wearing Prada.
Ciao Manhattan - a big letdown after reading Jean Stein's biography. Not sure why the most screen time is devoted to some idiot hick kid. A sad, sad film.

Lolita, the old version with Peter Sellers. Holy shit. Pretty lame ending/beginning but wow, he's the best. James Mason ain't too bad, either.

I kinda feel it goes downhill after Shelly Winters leaves the picture, but I love the showdown between HH and Sellers.

yeah Shelly Winters and James Mason were cast perfectly, exactly as I'd always imagined those characters

the tea dance scene is another great Kubrick set-piece -- it wasn't in the book, was it?

i don't think so, but I'd have to check. i spent a good deal of time trying to remember what was in the book and what wasn't. all i know for sure is that Quilty's role is greatly expanded in the film.

Daisies - watch it, its funny

sexyD OTM re: Devil Wears Prada, fuck the bug-eye ingenue Hathaway, Streep totally wins this movie.

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints - there was a good movie in there somewhere but it didn't have much of a story hook. wanting to move to California and your dad doesn't want you to is not all that interesting ... most of the "plot" seems to happen to the other characters while the main protag. just stands by watching. mostly we had fun trainspotting the locations cause it was shot right where we used to live in Astoria (31st & Ditmars)

Hairy Potter

le doulos

i finally saw the Host last night :D

not really scary at all, though, i thought

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
ha ha "sound designer" Mr. Lynch, he play funny joke:
he turn down sound, you turn up sound to hear whisper whisper.
then BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR NEIGHBOR THINK YOU KILLING YOUR WIFE ONNA TUESDAY NIGHT ha ha

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a85/medicinewitch/bob.jpg
I KNOW, IT'S A GOOD ONE!

recently:

ashes of time - fucking kar wai wong sword fighter epic. lots of gender play, some beautiful shots of battle with a huge gang of horse thieves. I only have a 2xVCD version and would like to borrow a DVD version to see if the pic quality is the same1

last night:

talk to her - nice, netflix didn't give away twist

now:
ice station zebra - ROCK HUDSON FIGHTS COMMIES IN GREENLAND YAAAAY
wizards
bad education

I just watched the first hour of Moulin Rouge, a movie that seems to be made for me, but...meh. Visually, it was very nice and shiny, but the music bothers me. The medleys were terrible...so unsatisfying. The equivalent of going through Amazon's 30 second samples for a night. Ooh! "Lady Marmalade" remake! Click. "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Click. "Diamonds are a Girl's Friend." Click-Click. "Smells Like Teen Spirit (Dance Remix)." Click. Girl Talk: the Film It feels like the film needs room to breathe, but instead, it tries to quickly cram a bunch of glittery shit into your mouth.

Ewan's acting sucks, but his voice is pretty nice. Nicole is good. The rest of the cast bothers me. They're playing their parts well, but man, those parts are a bit too obnoxious and over-the-top. More comments to come after second hour.

gummo
halloween

In Vanda's Room
Nights of Cabiria

ashes of time - ... I only have a 2xVCD version and would like to borrow a DVD version to see if the pic quality is the same1

the north american dvd release is shit. one was released in france that looks like half decent: http://fst.omnilounge.co.uk/img/bscap00080.jpg

300 - zzz
Don't Look Now - wow this was really good, 1973 Nicolas Roeg with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland
The Last Detail

Bad Timing

man, Roeg put some Haneke-level horror on the screen for that ending. I can't even imagine being in the audience for that in 1979, really almost could not watch. I know the entire film was building to that conclusion but I just didn't want to accept it

the deleted scenes are interesting. Theresa Russell should have won something for this one.

i finally watched Borat! on the wkend. good for me. it was funnny

am thinking abt seeing this crazy japanese animated movie called Paprika "Based on the serialized novel by Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui, whose futuristic novels are considered to be masterpieces of the
Science Fiction genre"
but press screening is thurs at 10 am and it will prob colour my whole day weird! haha i shld prob go

ooh I missed Paprika in NY, wanted to go but never found time

Haha "Bad Timing" ws shown on BBC2 last week - taped it, seen an hour so far.

Spent yesterday afternoon with Weerasethakul’s "Blissfully Yours" (sorta belated bday present). Liked this a lot.

Reports from my friends re: Paprika have ranged from "amazing, totally its own world, you can't judge it like a normal story" to "lame... 'dream logic' is not an excuse to make an aimless mess.'" I would for sure see it for free though!

dream logic + aimless mess doesn't sound so bad to me... also, free, yes

At 10am + enough coffee would equal just about the right mood for aimless dream mess, if it were me.

haha i was going to say that i'd better make sure NOT to drink too much caffeine b/c i will be too spazzy and i'm trying to confine caffeine and spazzy to mondays (har)

The first cresting wave of coffee in the a.m. makes me able to love anything.

Paprika is okay, kind of reaching for out there but not really grasping it with all five fingers, the animation is great though. If you've ever seen Paranoia Agent (13 episode series) you will possibly almost instantly recognize the style (it has the same writer/director as well as score composter).

http://twitchfilm.net/pics/nomi%20song%20DVD.jpg

Summer '04 (good German character suspenser)
Hairspray (1988)

the death of mr lazarescu

CURSE OF THE DEVIL

Peau d'Ane i.e. Donkey Skin

Better than Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, though nothing can touch Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Great premise, a Princess has to run away from home when her widowed father the King demands her hand in marriage. Bogs down, but worth seeing if you've seen Umbrellas more than 5 times

(do not watch if you can't handle terminal levels of Frenchie twee -- contains no spoilers because the plot is that obvious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw7sCNtYOd0&mode=related&search= )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSJzp9oXFgA&mode=related&search=

additional twee

i also watched 'fahrenheit 451' on the weekend. it was awesome. (it is on g00gle vid btw)

GUYS, GUYS:
CHILDREN OF MEN

Donkey Skin is a rioy, and dammit MP, don't compare Roeg to that smug sadist Haneke.

tonight I go see Superbad :D

I might actually see that, since it's about actual adolescents engaging in adolescent behavior instead of the usual Apatow 'adult' types.

Lady Chatterley
Sunshine (2/3 of a very good s-f space/submarine movie)

I pay see Paprika, def will see Superbad.

Did anyone ever seen this French animated sci-fi film called Renaissance? I got it via netflix and am considering it sometime this weekend.

i saw little miss sunshine, which i neither loved nor hated nor particularly understand why anyone got excited about it in any direction.

also thank you for smoking, which was about the medium-same.