MOVIES!

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)

i'm going to see american gangster tomorrow night at a $3 theater. their projections are often out of focus and the sound tends to pop and occasionally ppl get shot near there but i'm not paying full price for this movie based on the ilx reviews.

often out of focus and occasionally ppl get shot

american gangster synopsis

Rear Window (Grace Kelly...<3 wow?)
Lancelot Of The Lake
The Crime Of Monsieur Lange
Diary Of A Chambermaid (Renoir. Weird Burgess Meredith action going on here.)

The Grifters -- fantastic.

The Man Who Knew Too Little - not Murray's best.

Dr. Mabuse The Gambler
A Man For All Seasons

shooter -- rubbish morelike
domino -- rubbish morelike
be kind rewind -- braggin 2007

how was be kind

Burgess M ruuuules in Diary Of A Chambermaid (altho it's not as great as Bunuel version)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Mandabi

more like 'block party' than any of his other stuff -- but also more like 'le crime de monsieur lange'. it's very, very sweet, very idealistic, JB is just reined in enough, and the first sequence of them remaking a film -- 'ghostbusters' -- is probably the most joyous thing i've seen in years. it wasn't as funny as i expected, and as usual gondry is funny about gurls, but it was very smart and i kind of welled up at the end so kudos to him.

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what'd you think of Black Lizard, dleone?

also: rescreening of Teorema:

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yes well "?" about sums it up

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anyone see that joe strummer movie?

yeah.

i didn't think it was worthy of a cinema release.

you probably need to be invested in joe strummer and the clash to enjoy it. otherwise it's fucking bono and johnny depp telling what the true meaning of punk is. it is that anyway really.

blecch

Play Time - wow
watching the first half I thought the reputation was a little overblown but the second half was crazy

huh, I've never made it to the second half

love that movie

first half is him doing a chaplin impression and sitting on poofy chairs

second half mostly takes place in a "snooty" restaurant / nightclub and is a farcical set piece with a million moving parts

have no idea how they shot that scene in the traffic circle

yes that scene is amazing

Hardly a Chaplin impression, he'd been playing Hulot for 15 years... The pre-restaurant half is like a spatial theory about modern urban dehumanization.

You have to look for the next NY theater showing, it's in the Top 5 of Only Fully Works on the Big SCreen.

any interest in seeing: http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/movies/17love.html

The Driver

street fighter

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a 'casablanka' for our times

RIP http://www.psmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/raul.jpg

first half is him doing a chaplin impression and sitting on poofy chairs

So RONG. The dinner is obv. far more impressive than what comes before it, but wouldn't be nearly as much so if the first half of the film didn't take it slowly and teach you how to watch it.

I didn't mean the Chaplin comparison as an insult

Tati fans be sensitive

tonight saw No Country for Old Men (recommended!)

also saw the trailer for There Will Be Blood

saw No Country For Old Men last nite and dug it too. ending was controversial w/my friends but it worked.

I probably dislike Tati for the same reason I dislike Chaplin. Anti-human snobbery?

Playtime is sort of insistently humanist, I think.

I saw I'm Not There. I liked most of it, but not as much as I expected to. Some of the segments are v. dull.

clowns are not humanist. every child knows this.

i started to watch the damned but turned it off after about an hour. part of the problem was the english dubbing (is there a non-dubbed version on dvd) but it was also just so overbearing. like, compared to the conformist, e.g., which occupies some of the same moral turf but so much more intelligently.

I just watched the Lost World (1925) with David Shepard. AWESOME...deserves lots of praise (great score, great animation, etc.)

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I think Tati is humanist while detesting most of civilization. (I didn't think it was nec an insult, Dave, but CC is much more proletarian and knockabout than Tati, if anything JT is closer to Keaton)

Stan Brakhage's Pittsburgh trilogy
Lonesome Jim
Undertow

The Player

holy mountain !!!