MOVIES!

cry me an iriver

i was a stalwart "fuck watching movies on an i-whatever" type until I had to buy a new iPod last week to replace my old music-only model. No more. I have a bunch of Godard and the Gainsbourg video comps and some Fellini on there and it's been fun watching them on a little screen.

recent (on a TV)

Carmen
El Amor Brujo
An Autumn Afternoon
VHS -->DVD-R rip of Rossellini's "Louis XIV"
recent Kino restoration of 'Nosferatu"

that sounds like Herzog, Milton

Re: David Lynch on iPhone

ha! I knew it was Lynch. he uses that same phrase ("it's such a sadness") in Catching the Big Fish

also:

Andromeda Strain (a little on the boring side maybe -- I remember Westworld & The Terminal Man being better for early 70's Crichton)
The Leopard (last night at the Castro, only way to see this is in a theatre, 75% of the content = the sweeping shots of Sicilian landscapes & the outfits during the hour long ballroom ending)

anyone seen this? looks crazy good: http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/endgamedvd.html

mainly it's been 10 years and I'm still waiting for documentary filmmakers to pick up the slack left hanging by This Week In Bible Prophecy

Bill have you ever even seen an iPhone?

fast & furious tokyo drift - not as funny as I was hoping. there was hella drifting though
genghis blues - pretty good, could have been a half-hour shorter
next up - persepolis, the fall (tarsem), disc 1 of the prisoner

Andromeda Strain >> Westworld imo. I'll have to check out Terminal Man.

Westworld is fucking great

City of Ember...it was fun. Kind of dumb, looked great though, the girl was really good.

Westworld must be great on an iPhone

hey dickweed, i don't generally watch movies on my iphone but but it has lines of resolution than your fucking interlaced zenith boob tube.

ok rented that Endgame documentary. Turns out to be about the Bilderbergs, speculation about their aims and the history of Eugenics. It's extremely well edited and hypnotic for something this paranoid, it's like a version of Craig Baldwin's 'Tribulation 99' made by people who actually mean what they're saying. Ending worth transcribing: (read in creepy voice w/ minor key orchestral music)

"And the Georgia Guidestones stand today as a testament to the Elite's sacred mission. To have a two class system, where the underclass are forced to live as slaves in tiny enclosed cities, while the elite enjoy the land of the earth, evolve into Superhumans with the aid of advanced implantable technologies, live eternal lives, and travel throughout the Cosmos. THIS is the promise given to the members of the new world order, and the agenda of the Bilderberg group."

(each one of those sentence fragments is accompanied by 2-3 second visual fades illustrating the underground cities, the subcutaneous chips, hordes of mindless slaves staring at a monitor crossfaded into an closeup image of lindsey lohan, davinci supermen travelling the cosmos, etc)

I'm still betting you can't see Buster Keaton's face in a wide shot on an iPhone, call me crazy

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/3022990175_e1f2416309_o.png

drooooooooool

What is really funny is that if you look at this thread on an iPhone you can see Buster Keaton's face in iPhone.png haha.

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Are you taking those screenshots with an iPhone?

yea i have my iphone IN MY SCANNER

^not enough detail

and that's not even the correct aspect ratio.

"Carrier"

Persepolis - very good, totally gorgeous looking

Destiny (Fritz Lang)
Bitter Victory (N Ray)
Quantum of Solace

how was james bond

sorry, I cheated -- seeing tonight to write an InstaReview

police story - jackie chan goes so hard in this
jackie chan's first strike - stupid as hell lol
lone wolf and cub: white heaven in hell - these movies are good but i wish there were more sword duels and less reliance on that weird cart with the guns and shit
paranoid park - good
hidden fortress - good

"Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill"
"Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear"
"Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night"

"House of Fear" has appearance in minor role by silent leading man Holmes Herbert, whom I last saw in a movie being flogged with a horsewhip by Pola Negri in "A Woman of the World"

i want to see the baader-meinhof complex but i don't think it will be showing near me. even though reviews i read were mixed, i think i would like it.

The Fall -- wow pretty sweet. this was like princess bride meets el topo.

Just watched ROCKERS. REMOVE YA.

Slumdog Millionaire - silly-ass plot but pretty good, I dug it

anyone remember if this is good?

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i saw it a long time ago and remember being creeped out by "hector"

The screenplay was written by award-winning British novelist Martin Amis. O__o

Awards and nominations

* Golden Raspberry Awards

Nominated: Worst Picture
Nominated: Worst Actor (Kirk Douglas)
Nominated: Worst Actress (Farrah Fawcett) o__O

Pather Panchali
Aparajito
Ikiru
Voyage in Italy
Synecdoche, New York
None Reconciled (Straub)
Always for Pleasure (Les Blank)
Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29
The Way You Wanted Me
Sugar
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Baby Mama - like a shitty two hour episode of 30 Rock with only the gentle comedy retained. Perfect for a flight, which is where I watched it.

Blood Simple - Pretty good. I think I may have preferred this to No Country for Old Men, despite the premise (people go nuts in violent situations) being v. unconvincingly written and acted. Frances McDormand was way hot.

The Manchurian Candidate '62
Smiles of a Summer Night
Camp de Thiaroye (Sembene)
Compulsion (Welles as Darrow)
The Day the Earth Stood Still '51
The Times of Harvey Milk
Tomorrow, the World!
Man on Wire
Frost/Nixon (puke)

Frost/Nixon (puke)

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24 TV movie (meh)
The Player (meh)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (lol)
Half Nelson (this was not well-served by being watched immediately after COAHTR, but i'm convinced it objectively sucked because it goes fucking nowwere)

Pather Panchali

this has been on my Netflix "alert me when this comes out on dvd" limbo forever

watched Children of Men for a second time. it's still really good. long takes are long.

if it's OOP, you can reserve Pather Panchali (and the other Apu films) at the NY library. as long as we still have one.

caek, the Frost interview with Nixon was of no substantive importance whatsoever (aside from the "prez can't do anything illegal" punchline) and this movie just lies about it. Watch the interview DVDs instead if you must.

Frost's quasi-memoir published last year on the experience of interviewing Nixon and evaluating his evasions is pretty good though.

Still Life
Arthur Russell: Wild Combination
Only Angels Have Wings
The Russia House

deep cover (ultimate jeff goldblum and laurence fishburne performances)
in the dust of the stars (i think milton mentioned this on a '70s sci-fi thread. this is a weird, fun movie)
secrets and lies (excellent)