MOVIES!

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!!

I remember hearing mumblings a few years ago about Clooney planning to do a live televised version of The Thing. Probably a good thing it didn't come to pass!

I would love to see a remake of COLOSSUS TFP
George Clooney would probably not be nerdy enough to play Forbin though

I get a leg up because I really can't tell good choreography from SCTV's Juul Haalmeyer Dancers.

haha, I love the Juul Haalmeyer dancers. And I'll admit I default to being more impressed by super-athletic and extreme forms of choreogriffany than the subtleties of soft shoe, et al.

colossus is awesome, i love when he's negotiating with the computer for his sex life.

on further reflection i think the perfect michael mann movie would be just boats and planes and cars and sex, with lots of urban landscapes and synth-rock and no talking at all.

you just described grand theft auto: vice city

lol it would be called CSIMIAMISQAATSI

Colossus is great, they used to play that on Saturdays at noon in the 70's, i.e. directly after cartoons

what other non-satirical, non-ironic cold war end of the world movies do I need to check out

tombot, you seen 'seven days in may'? j frankenheimer / rod serling one two. more of a teleplay than 'seconds' or 'manchurian candidate' but the plot, a doozy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May

that looks dope and a half.

og manchurian candidate still ranks in my all time T5

Michael Clayton - really liked it, it's funny we were just talking Michael Mann, it has the feel of one of his movies, if he shot New York the way he usually does L.A. Outdoes The Insider in the legal thriller conspiracy department imo

except Clooney actually HAS gray hair?

The Thin Man (Myrna Loy may be my current favorite dead chick)

(a momentary interruption to say that after many recommendations I finally saw Suicide Club, and that movie can suck a dick. carry on w/clooney etc.)

days of heaven
last days of disco

both great days - more so the former - cant believe i never saw either before. especially since terence malik has all of 4 movies.

The Thin Man (Myrna Loy may be my current favorite dead chick)

that movie presents a model of cosmopolitan marriage that i'm not sure hollywood has ever bettered. i love christmas morning.

(ok i think he knocks her out once or twice in those movies. but it feels like a kiss.)

a history of violence
existenz
ball of fire
born yesterday
half nelson

tipsy, Powell hit her to get her out of bullet's path (tho you'd think a shove wd do)

michael clayton last nite

spot on!

FILLUMS I've dug lately:

The postman always rings twice
Scarlett Street
House of Flying Dagges (well, its ok-ish, you can't deny the style)
Pickpocket

Looking forward to catching a screening of Tavernier's Clean Slate tomorrow.

a man escaped

SO SO RAD. seriously, dudes - that arts and faith top 100 list is a goldmine.

Is Half Nelson any good? I never really heard anything about it. xposts

I liked it. got flaws but I thought it was worth watching.

the problem is that Ryan Gosling's never nude.

cosign on A Man Escaped, prob my favorite Bresson. And no apologizing for House of Flying Daggers is needed! (style is the POINT)

How's this for a single day:

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Decasia
George Washington

looking forward to michael clayton, also terror's advocate.

dmr otm re: half nelson. some silliness, but also some great performances.

what other bresson you like, morbs? i have ah balthazar next on my netflix, and diary of a country priest later...

blade runner: the final cut yesterday. so good.

xp

Those two are excellent, also Mouchette, L'Argent, then all the rest. well, Lancelot du Lac irritates some ppl.

Zodiac - Starts off with a powerpoint presentation in an art directors' bureaucracy, ends up at the afterparty of an unreliable narrators' convention. Plus Cloe Fu. Four stars.

what'd you think of George Washington?

It still holds up, but I'm not quite sold on the mix of the gorgeous sunlit Southland and tragic juvenile naturalism with the chorus of wacky blue-collar guys led by Paul Schneider (who predictably has gone on to be cast in bigger movies for eccentric flavor).