MOVIES!

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).

some silliness, but also some great performances.

I liked that it's "about" drug addicition and manages not to be judgmental or moralizing

and yeah ryan gosling was good in it

about in quotes meaning it's also about other stuff

also, scenes of weeknight debauchery uncomfortably realistic.

(for the most part.)

what I liked most about Half Nelson was how the drug dealer was presented. If I remember correctly, it was also non-judgemental. Like you expect him to be made out to be so evil, but he's like, just being what he is and even in his weird and dysfunctional way, cares for the girl as well.

just like real life

yeah, it was mostly Sundance bullshit aside from Gosling

knocked up - wtf i thought this was supposed to be good
el topo - O_O

I enjoyed both knocked up and el topo

knocked up was OKAY after i lowered my expectations. the whole thing is too forced. also i saw superbad first which is 10x better.

el topo was crazy and awesome

darjeeling limited - the style/aesthetic is fun, and it was occasionally funny, but the characters and plot are hollow. the girl on the train was hottttt

oh apatow didnt direct superbad duh n/m

el topo was so awesome, i have been hesitant to watch holy mtn or anything else on the box, which i bought like two or more months ago! WTF PETE

http://i20.tinypic.com/2u5gp5i.jpg

WATCH HOLY MOUNTAIN

i like it better than el topo. also soundtrack is soo good.

I saw Sweet Movie a week or two ago and now I have to see WR: Mysteries of the Organism (a movie based on the philosophies of NB fave Wilhelm Reich!!)
Holy Mountain is so righteous! Santa Sangre is great, too!

the other day I saw a reissue of Sleep's Holy Mountain and thought of v1c

http://sdyrgas.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/holymountain.jpg

Jodorowsky's commentary tracks on the boxset are priceless.
I need that Sleep record.

sweet movie and that sleep record are awesome and ok ok ill watch holy mountain this week

I saw WR: Mysteries of the Organism a few years ago, I didn't think it was much good at the time.

whos psyched for two-lane blacktop criterion???

WOAH!

sleep tripling odds against my watching Knocked Up in the next 6 months

Sleeper
Scenes from a Marriage
The In-Laws (Falk-Arkin version obv)

darjeeling limited - the style/aesthetic is fun, and it was occasionally funny, but the characters and plot are hollow. the girl on the train was hottttt

otm. girl on train looked very familiar but imdb says no.

the death of mr. lazarescu -- good, sad, unexpectedly funny in parts. made me not want to get sick and die, in romania or anywhere else.

ha i havent seen the in-laws since i was 12.

"at least we tried,

jfk"

Blade Runner Final Cut - didn't notice much difference editing wise from the director's cut but it looked and especially sounded amazing on the big screen

Road to Utopia
Shanghai Noon

Morbs, did u like Shanghai Noon? It may be my fav OW movie!

the sequel was disappointing, they got the date of jack the ripper's rampage wrong. 1888 not 1887, duh.

(fake latebloomer)