MOVIES!

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

Picnic At Hanging Rock is so good. It's "generally considered the best Australian movie ever made" or something like that.

take care of my cat -- sort of a korean ghost world. charming but eventually tedious.

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

doh! did you miss Ondine slapping Pepper? they started a half-hour late, at 5:30.

no i think i missed that part. i think the best part was mary fighting the girl with the huge eyelashes, or the latter throwing her makeup at the really fucked up girl under the desk. i wonder if there was only supposed to be one audio track at times or if there was some technical difficulty?

also brigid was terrible/great

bully
shadows

Darjeeling Ltd.

sanskrit has seen the projectionist tipsheet on Chelsea Girls! There was def a problem with that 4 boys hanging out reel, but I think the first time I saw it they also stuck w/ 1 audiotrack at a time. The reel where Ondine goes nuts is one of the last two, along with Nico crying amid numerous color light gels (incl the photo on the back of the 1st VU album?).

The Darjeeling Limited (it's OK)
The Way of Hope (very moving & rarely screened)

Ratatouille (tonight)
No End in Sight (unsurprising, but one of the year's best)
Viridiana (Criterion's new print)