MOVIES!

is eva mendes purely decorative? she was so incredibly bad in wotn, but the script was so rotten that even robert duvall was awful. i haven't seen her in anything else that i can recall.

balthazar didn't do a lot for me outside of the closing shot, but i want to give it another chance sometime

-- sleep, Monday, October 29, 2007 3:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

yeah whole closing seq was awes

shes really funny and charming in that shitty movie where matt damon is stuck to greg kinnear. also: wicked hawt. xp

pulp fiction
the fat camp documentary on mtv

Control (makes Ian Curtis boring)
who in NY want to see Night of the Living Dead @MoMA on Halloween night?

American Gangster was so freaking boring, I fell asleep like 10 minutes after the opening round of spot-the-rapper-in-a-bit-part. This was the first movie I'd watched in nearly a month.

e.m. is so hot that it verges on being a distraction. sadly, nothing could distract from movie's awfulness.

oh, right - control. saw that last week and loved it, for the most part. fwiw, i suspect that ian curtis WAS boring.

morbs how come biopics always suck and make their subjects just seem boring and miserable huh? you got a theory?

ROCKERS

zigeunerwisen seijun suzuki he crazy. liked!

hose, because condensing the events of someone's whole life into 2 hours doesn't work if they're worth thinking about? btw, I'm Not There is a (frequently) successful antidote to this.

There isn't much in Control about why IC's fans were drawn to him, how JD's music evolved, or even an acknowledgment that their name was controversial! The last half is all about the downward spiral of the last weeks of his life, and his (not at all interesting) wife and mistress.

im fuckin glad they didnt do the cliff notes version of IC's life

how does Control stack up against 24 Hour Party People? or is that apples & oranges

as & os

they did the cliff notes version of IC's DEATH

24HPP had the media circus aspect (actual entertainment) and gave Curtis a third of a movie, which is about right.

aren't you guys a little too old to care about Ian Curtis?

haha!

i'm not that invested in ian curtis. i am finding that morbius aside, teh split seems to be: film ppl like the movie, music bloggers dont.

yeah i am more just trying to figure out if I should see the movie or not, I'm not that worried abt whether they are DISRESPECTING TEH CRUTIS LEGEND

I am no believer in his legend, but I certainly liked JD plenty when I came to their stuff 2-3 years after his death. The film just does its own version of the "tortured artist" cliche and dotes morbidly on why Curtis was suicidal (torn btwn two women, dissatisfaction of fame, epilepsy) and doesn't even provide a coherent answer or non-answer to that. I'd rather watch Kirk Douglas as van Gogh roaring through his madness in Arles again.

ALL OUR MOTHERS MADE US FEEL IRRECONCILABLE GUILT
TRANSFERENCE IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE TO SCREAMSCREEN THIS FILTH

-- El Tomboto, Monday, October 29, 2007 4:46 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

(ian, I am just old enough to have been young enough to have cared somewhat about Ian Curtis when it was a timely thing to do.)

im glad the movie doesnt come up with some stupid "answer" to his suicide!

it was that damn chicken

its my feeling that biopics suck because conventional freudian bullshit is easier to portray than brilliance.

i am forever confusing eva mendes with rosario dawson for some reason, even though rosario >>>> eva imo.

i can't remember seeing anything w/ e.m. that was worth a shit, though. i saw "hitch" on tv for like five minutes and wanted to headbutt everyone in it.

is anyone else stoked for the haneke "funny games" remake? i'm excited, but also dubious. :/

rosario's not that great

it's not much of a comparison.

its my feeling that biopics suck because conventional freudian bullshit is easier to portray than brilliance.

alternately: practically everybody worth biographying has the same life-shape: early indicators of success, long hard struggle, fame but with personal bullshit intruding, some morbid death/unfamous shit at the end, redemption

p.s. i don't believe this

last night was the monkees' head, previously tivo'ed from tcm

over the weekend was lars and the real girl

on dvd: the after-school special dvd with the 18th emergency and summer of the swans

Notre Musique
Mouchette
The Big Heat

all great. But I <3 ...Balthazar much more than Mouchette.

28 Weeks Later - not bad, could have been better. why did they give the zombie the ability to think and use key-cards and follow them around :/ stadium night scope scene was pretty scary tho

Spiderman 3
Onibaba
V miniseries -- anyone watch the full series?

I haven't seen this Ian Curtis movie, but I think the reason biopics of artists/musicians/writers tend to suck is because the moment of creative inspiration is really hard to represent. so mostly you get really cheesy one-to-one art-directly-imitates-life scenes.

The Lookout <--- crappy

American Gangster - so pointless

horseshoe, yes

The Chelsea Girls
Duck Season

saturday was two more '70s after-school specials on dvd. sunday was american gangster, which i kind of enjoyed -- it was no better or worse than a semi-decent law and order episode.

THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN STARRING WALTER MATTHAU

the lookout (okay when it was avoiding heist bullshit b/c the crooks were pretty lame)
30 days of night (not bad, but too long)
dirty harry (classic, but it was on a shitty dvd from '99 or something so it looked like crap)

Five Easy Pieces
Picnic on Hanging Rock
Night of the Hunter

Picnic on Hanging Rock

this movie!!! so amazing and terrifying.

the sound

the kinckers!

but seriously, EVERY FRAME of Night of the Hunter terrified Mrs. Dancer

the lookout is bullshit

Picnic on Hanging Rock

this movie!!! so amazing and terrifying.

-- horseshoe, Monday, November 5, 2007 7:27 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

otfm, it's almost my favorite movie!

The Chelsea Girls

I got there an hour late and left about 30 min early ;_;

Overlord. Also: just saw Control.

In Like Flint <--shouldnt every movie end w/ the lead dude gettin 2 chicks in SPACE?

Kontroll
Tony Takitani
American Cannibal

when a woman ascends the stairs
vanishing point
the kids are alright