MOVIES!

awesome tipping action - would influence again!

it's not a great monologue but it's a nice moment that is totally necessary for setting up devastating last scene

lol whoops

should not be defending manhattan in the middle of a cronenberg convo

in fact should prob just drink a beer and forget about it

DRAGON WARS - wuz awesome dudez

broken english - meh. needed more dragons, i think.

proposition was kinda boring

on fast-forward

Ultimax Force - Rambo knock-off. With ninjas. In Vietnam.

The Hole
Eastern Promises
Drugstore Cowboy

fires on the plain -- good lord.
the lives of others -- this was ok but i did not love it. nothing surprising in it, and i sort of didn't believe the main character. plus also the boho artists he was spying on were kind of annoying.

(i am also watching sapphire and steel which i haven't seen since i was 9 and i'm surprised how spooky it still seems. plus joanna lumley and david mccallum are a great proto-mulder-and-scully.)

I hope that means you think fires on the plain is maybe the greatest war film ever

Brothers of the Head (meh)

yeah pretty much. but i also just mean...good lord.

(the interview w/ichikawa included on the disc is really great too, talking about his family surviving hiroshima.)

THE BRAVE ONE

decent, but man, jodie got off way too easy, wtf

Sansho The Bailiff : Beautiful but doesn't get the absolute love from me that Life Of Oharu will always get.

Inland Empire 2xDVD: perhaps the single best DVD purchase I've made in - what? - the last
few months and one I always will cherish just because QUINOA on DVD2 is one of the greatest Lynch
moments ever. + the behind-the-scenes footage is rad. "You don't watch movies on a fucking telephone. Get real!"

THE BRAVE ONE

decent, but man, jodie got off way too easy, wtf

-- elmo argonaut, Monday, September 24, 2007 4:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

OTFM i thought the same thing. i didn't like the ending at all.

sapphire and steel

sometime in the recent past i watched all the episodes on youtube. fuck, what a great show.

what do you guys expect from vigilante movies, even when it's Neil Jordan making them "complex"?

i imagine they expect, or hope, that they are good or satisfying movies, regardless of their subject matter

um recently:

man is not a bird (great, if a bit slight)
fitzcarraldo (wowowowow)
anna karenina (the one w/garbo. liked it well enough)
south pacific (good lord, is this badly directed)

Inland Empire 2xDVD: perhaps the single best DVD purchase I've made in - what? - the last few months

How so? I found watching this on DVD the most frustrating film experience of the last year. Maybe I've a shitty TV or "sound system."

what is "sound system" a euphemism for?

ih, you should see Burden of Dreams next

Blowup (neither as great nor dated as different camps claim)
The Long Riders
Hour of the Wolf

(i am also watching sapphire and steel which i haven't seen since i was 9 and i'm surprised how spooky it still seems. plus joanna lumley and david mccallum are a great proto-mulder-and-scully.)

-- tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 September 2007 15:21 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

That one with the girl trapped in the old photographs scared the shit out of me as a kid, I couldn't sleep for about a week. I saw it about 5-6 years ago, expecting it to be a bit hokey, but it was still pretty spooky.

There's Always Vanilla (G Romero's 2nd film -- weird 60's fallout film about a drifter who falls into an affair with a model, sort of clumsily influenced by verité things like Brian DePalma's "Hi Mom" and worth the patience if you like Romero's "Season of the Witch", which is amazing)

The 9th Configuration - fucking horrible sophomoric script about an asylum filled with many fast-paced quippy monologues delivered by 'crazy people' w/ tacked on Jesus imagery, watched the last half ffwd but the very ending is so incompetent it's astonishing, all jaws in the room dropped

The Taste of Tea - totally wonderful & happy, if you like Fanny & Alexander and you like Visitor Q but are more in the mood for surreal / heartfelt emotion tears than Miike's funny sadism / incest / lactation / incontinent necromancy scenes, then this is a film

broken sky -- homo-dreamy
the departed -- 50 percent longer than infernal affairs, but only 2/3 as good.

taste of tea!!!!!!

eastern promises
lipstick and dynamite
deadly outlaw rekka

the man from london
hairspray original
broken english
reno 911 miami

how was da Tarr?

geez tipsy, Broken Sky nrly put me in a coma despite the hot Mexican lads. (you are otm on The Departed)

Umbracle (avant-garde Spanish stuff from early '70s w/Christopher Lee walking around reciting The Raven, and chickens being skinned to a Muzak cover of "Close to You")
Werckmeister Harmonies
Shame (Bergman)
Silent Light

I'm OK with people not thinking The Departed is all that, but lets put an end to the revisionist history that has it Internal Affairs is anything other than mostly lame.

wait internal or infernal? actually they might both be better than the departed, but infernal affairs is great.

i liked broken sky, so many pretty pictures. and i liked the near absence of dialogue, the performances were very silent film-ish.

i just finally saw borat. tedious.

I would say that Internal Affairs isn't anything more than a fun, sharp thriller.

tipsy, I just wanted to scream, as I often do at romantic sufferers, GET THE FUCK OVER HIM!

<i>Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison</i> awaits: Deborah Kerr as another nun, on an island with Bob Mitchum (which sounds like the beginning of a dirty joke). Anyone seen it?

<i>Drugstore Cowboy</i> (holds up very well. speaking of dreamy boys, Matt Dillon yum)

<i>All That Jazz</i>

I remember Mitchum saying to Kerr, "Let's keep it quiet, Sister." It's good.

next:
Go Go Tales
I'm Not There

i'm not there is the cover story in this weekend's nyt magazine. makes it sound about like i expected. which means i expect to love it despite its inevitable failings.

how was da Tarr?

still thinking about it. the usual moods and motifs make an appearance... visually it's as great as anything else he's done, maybe greater, but the story isn't as engaging as say, werckmeister harmonies imo. good amount of walkouts unsurprisingly.

Exotica
From Beyond
The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II
Topaz
Family Plot

WITHOUT A PADDLE
MR DEEDS
harold and kumar
Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead (some really cool bits, but mostly dull dull)

The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. II

this is out now?!

came out on dvd last week, yeah

deadly outlaw rekka was pretty noise btw

flower travellin band + yakuza fights

The Four Hundred Blows
All That Jazz - awful choreography except for the "On Broadway" opening cred sequence. Roy Scheider surprisingly charming and hawt (must be the leather boots).

Prince of the City (ok, Morbs, let's see if I change my mind)

even if you don't, you'll be higher on Eric's shitlist for dissin' Jazz

he's on mine for shrugging off Irene Dunne.

ive googled onto this list a few times recently by looking up a few different rad movies.

theres def some stuff ill never see on it, but they do pretty aight by me

Edvard Munch
Blood Diamond
V For Vendetta
Army Of Shadows w/ Ginette Vincendeau (sp? ) commentary
47 Ronin
La Muerte Del Asesino