MOVIES!

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

All That Jazz - awful choreography except for the "On Broadway" opening cred sequence

?!?!?!?!?!

I understand not liking the movie, but this criticism is strictly from cuckooland.

Then again, I don't think Fred Astaire is all that fantastic a dancer, though he is a great stylist.

Ugh, why did I hit "submit response"?

Those hospital room routines! That endless final sequence! It was like watching a 25-minute Carol Burnette routine.

All Carol Burnett routines should be 25 minutes.

The endless final sequence is really the only bum one, but it's ballsy. I get a leg up because I really can't tell good choreography from SCTV's Juul Haalmeyer Dancers.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Proposition

i watched miami vice which had amazing colors and skies and boats and planes. on the downside there was some story about something, plus colin farrell's mustache.

also that mullet!

"im a fiend for mojitos"

"i know a place"

"cuba wtf"

rules so hard

I have seen FAIL SAFE and COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT
what other non-satirical, non-ironic cold war end of the world movies do I need to check out
I like when the apocalypse hinges on the perfect fluke in a perfect system and the prometheus character has to get all grim as the realization dawns that has become a cipher. that is basically the face I feel like making all the time.
also I rewatched HIDDEN FORTRESS and I know it is basically awesome but seriously it could be edited down to about half its length?

Tomboto did you
*SPOILER*
not lol at Henry Fonda nuking the First Lady?

the whole movie is basically lol materials, the thing was I think F-S makes for better cold war satire now than strangelove does, 43 years on

hmmmm, George Clooney wd disagree (he starred in a b&w made-for-TV remake in 2000, you know -- bizarrely still set in the mid '60s)

oh yeah wasn't it live or something?

wau

it was!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_%28television%29

ohhhhhhhhh shiiiiiiit!!