MOVIES!

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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).

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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= )

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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.

superbad was hilarious

peau d'ane is also hilarious. wtf at the helicopter at the end???

The Passenger

the invasion--worst movie i've seen in a long time

The Lookout (good to excellent)

SUNSHINE, which I really liked despite the retarded survival-horror monster-movie subplot

birth - so awes how come no one see
the ten - so awes too
shooter - so absurd how come plot no try to even make any sense

monterey pop -- felt like i'd seen this since i'd seen so many clips from it, but cumulative effect was more than i expected. the ravi shankar jam at the end really builds to ecstatic payoff. best concert film ever?

Breach - chris cooper always good ... kinda boring tho

Two Weeks in Another Town
If....

born yesterday
you're gonna miss me
brothers of the head
this is england
the motel
superbad
be here to love me

http://www.ifccenter.com/film?filmid=59978

saw the preview for this and almost vommed. in the name of all that is holy, leave terence malick out of it!

Sabata - totally fuckin excellent Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef

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WAHTS BOOOORING? WHAT?

in that scene, they're about to have a race into the sunlight because they're young and quirky like that.

"a party deep in the heart of Brooklyn"

i saw the ten @ sunshine last week and every preview was for some twee ass indie romance that no one could possibly care abt

so much more conventional than say yr typical hollywood blockbuster

wtf happend?

Oh shit I wanna see This is Engerland. Where's it playing?

I watched:
Sixteen Years of Alcohol (Good)
Morvern Callar (Bad)
Hot Fuzz (Awesome)

And now that I learned you can order movies INSTANTLY from Netflix for no extra charge I am deep into that shit. This could be bad. Last night was Toy Soldiers OH YEAH YOU HEARD RIGHT, the one with Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Louis Gosset Jr, Jerry Orbach, and so on. The book was better.