MOVIES!

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

http://www.ifccenter.com/images/film/quiet_details.jpg
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.

haven't you heard - "mumblecore" is the new big thing, a resurgence of american independent cinema on the level of cassavetes, jarmusch, malick et al.

laurel, this is... is at ifc center. it's excellent.

(and morvern callar is not bad!)

Ahaha sorry! I loved Warner's book The Sopranos but not MC, and sadly the movie didn't make me like it any more. Nicely scored, but ultimately a lose for me.

mumblvetes

morvern callar was weird but i liked it but not as much as ratcatcher (or the shorts that are included on that ratcatcher dvd)

"mumblecore" is the new big thing this month's newspaper-inch column-filler

What's fitting is I had to run back the heroine's last line of dialogue in Funny Ha Ha about 4 times before I understood it.

I liked Morvern Callar but I had read the book first and the endings are sooo different. book was better.

I've always wondered what song they used in the crazy strobey rave scene, it's not on the soundtrack cd

i feel like that question came up before and someone had an answer...? i might be imagining things tho.

yea total deja vu

Morvern Callar the question is asked here but i can't find the answer at a glance

no, i don't think it's in there although that's what occurred to me. that thread mentions the aphex twin songs, which are (i think) on the soundtrack.

I may have asked before but if anyone answered me on here i forgot

The Lookout (good to excellent)

^i beg to differ

And now that I learned you can order movies INSTANTLY from Netflix for no extra charge

this only works for PC and not Mac, wtff

king of kong = captivating

Bedazzled (1967)
Modern Romance
Sons of the Desert

Dawn of the Dead (the 70s one)
3-Iron <-- 2005 indie Korean movie. hated it

Shooter with mark walberg brought up a lot of good points.

Ace In The Hole
The Red Shoes
The 11th Hour (I thought it was worth seeing -- first 10 minutes are a bit stylistically overbearing and dicaprio's moments onscreen require a bit of patience but beyond that it didn't feel like a lecture. the one thing I was hoping we'd get was an aerial shot of the texas-sized island of plastic garbage floating in the Pacific, that's something we need to see)

also spent about three hours with Google Earth, a projection screen & a 3D controller on saturday night, I drove about twenty miles down the same one lane road through the Pyrenees, then I bounced from Paris to Baghdad a lot to compare city planning. Screenshots of Baghdad street layouts = cubism

high noon
the protector
born to win
the birds

oh yeah I also saw 49 Up a while ago. I was a little bored w/ the series by the end.

next up I've got The Proposition.

shattered glass

dug this movie despite gabbneb yuppie shit

bad education

rubin & ed

some great Crispin in that one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bu4erOGQuU&mode=related&search=

the other early Crispin film I need to see again is 'Twister'

shattered glass

dug this movie despite gabbneb yuppie shit

-- and what, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:13 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

excellent movie!!

Netflix sent me the extras disc of Ace In The Hole instead of the movie, those bastards.

I finally watched The Conversation though, and Taxi Driver. Yeah, I have absolutely no idea how I'd never seen either.

Mommie Dearest

Never Promised You A Rose Garden - good mental hospital flick cuz the protagonist is in the bin for being totally crazy, not cuz "society doesn't understand me" Ken Kesey bullshit
Bonnie n Clyde - "hated it"
Coonskin - offa youtube. still one of the NYC greats of all time
Knife in Water - great camerawork, but this macho v macho shit is beyond my sphere
plus:
first 20 of Dial M for Murder (did not pick up on gay stuff seeing this age 11)
first 20 of Ghost Story (flying cock n balls)

9th configuration -- wtf?

Bonnie n Clyde - "hated it" ?

I wandered through HMV last night - they had this thing called the "Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection" which is 6 x DVDs in a crappy cardboard slipcase. Reduced from 60UKP to 12UKP! I bought it of course - it has Strangers on a Train Two-Disc Edition, North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder, The Wrong Man, I Confess, eh a couple of others, I forget. There's an American edition w/2 more DVDs in it, apparently Pretty fucking good score for 12 quid anyway, eh?

I also got the 2DVD of Errol Flynn "Robin Hood" in super-garish technicolor, and a DVD of the old "42nd Street" musical from the '30's, both pretty cheap, I watched "42nd Street" last night, it was great! Saucy, snappy pre-production code dialogue, great tunes, Ruby Keeler v v cute & likeable. Busby Berkeley v obviously & blatantly a "leg man". Jill totally hated it, she was like "this is REALLY annoying".

children of men -- heavyhanded refs to islamofascism and iraq but pretty riveting nonetheless (DVD)

the killers -- vintage minimalist Kubrick good on TV. corny/great hardboil dialogue: Jim Thmpson

shattered glass

"got it right" w/r/t working at a magazine: endless meetings and pointlessly ambitious youngsters

first 20 of Dial M for Murder (did not pick up on gay stuff seeing this age 11)

hmmmmm? apparently I didn't pick up on this at 21.

Saraband
The Apartment

next:
Angel Face
The Assassination of Jesse James by the CowardRobert Ford

Cinema:

Knocked up
Two Days in Paris
...and the season of Allain Robbe-Grillet's films at the Lumiere that continues this sunday w/ Trans-Europ Express

DVD:

Spirit of the Beehive
L'Elogie D'Amour

the killers isn't kubrick! killing is kubrick. tho killers was on tcm the other night and i still get endless pleasure from fat guy and skinny guy hit men.

both involve heists.

one has tim carey, other has jeff corey

yeah The Killing is the one at the racetrack. one of my all-time faves. don't know if I've seen The Killers.

both killers are pretty awesome (lol critereon). 40s one is kinda boilerplate noir in a lotta ways but v well done, beautifully filmed, and YOUNG BURT LANCASTER is all sweaty and doomed 94/7. opening scene is almost word-for-word hemingway (which you don't really see that often) and effect is pretty cool.

plus extended homage to last words of dutch schultz!

I'm such a douche, it was The Killing (on TCM awhile back) not The Killers. The racetrack setting cornfuses.

I saw the 60s version of The Killers on TV back when Reagan was still president, haha at the scene where he slaps around Angie Dickenson. "grandpa how could you?" director is Don Siegel of Dirty Harry fame.

one of those hitmen in the '46 version is William Conrad! aka the narrator on Rocky & Bullwinkle, later TV's "Cannon"

watched the original d.o.a. tonight. silly but great.