MOVIES!

"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?

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/188/985/01/o_SATURN_3.JPG.jpg

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)

Gypsy - (brought this to watch with family at thanksgiving to make up for what I brought the last three years: Cremaster 3, Star Wars Holiday Special & Eyes Without A Face -- I thought I'd bring a nice musical, but I guess I'd kind of forgotten what this one was about)
The Hellstrom Chronicle - this was FANTASTIC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle ("I have been called everything from a Fanatic to a Lunatic, but the insects will outlive us all")
The War Game - http://www.amazon.com/War-Game-Michael-Aspel/dp/B000007SYV - yeah there was just about no way this ever could have played on broadcast television in the 60's. even today many of the makeup effects, especially the charred flesh, are still almost too realistic to watch
The Weather Underground - good. it slants towards the WU, but after this election that even seems called for
Wall-E DVD

Hellstrom Chronicle Part 1

principal cinematographer Ken Middleham's next project was Phase IV

lol u brought cremaster 3 to watch @ thanksgiving

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"for incubating in the darkened womb of pre-history was a seed of grotesque variation, a fetus with the capability to DOMINATE ALL."

so good. watching this makes it clear that as much as I loved "In Search Of", it was basically fourth-generation repress of this

'phase IV' (excellent)
'À l'intérieur' aka 'inside' (holy shit)

Amadeus
Munich

No opinions on either

Milk (wow, good)
The Wrestler (good scary Rourke, otherwise meh -- Tomei breasts on standard display)
A Christmas Tale (looks great, ambitious, annoyed hell outta me)
Europa (von Trier)
Johnny Got his Gun ('71, Trumbo)
Good (Viggo as Nazi, yawn)

seriously, 'À l'intérieur'...pretty amazing movie. graphic, twisted, nightmarish horror film about a pregnant woman holed up in her house trying to fend off a psycho played by beatrice dalle, who wants to basically rip her child from her womb. pretty remarkable.

The Manchurian Candidate '62

― Dr Morbius, Monday, December 1, 2008 3:30 PM

caught that on cable over thanksgiving, thought it was great

sukiyaki western django (makes no sense, is bonkers, recommended)
fistful of dollars
two-lane blacktop
encounters at the end of the world

crank
no country
gone, baby, gone
maniac (1980)
frogs (1972)
melqiuades estrada
assassination of jesse james
the departed
casino royale
quantum of solace
hunger
let the right one come in
(rec)

some others

michael clayton

i saw blood of dracula/flesh of frankenstein and both were so fucking good

oh yea slumdog millionaire was real good

let the right one come in

oh how was this, almost saw it last week

Let the Right One In is great, thumbs up

just watched "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" last night, yowsa, so good- plus it has Judith Anderson in it (aka "Mrs. Danvers" from Hitchcock's "Rebecca")

DD, check out Judith A in The Furies, where she lives to regret meeting Barbara Stanwyck.

THE MACHINE GIRL - incredible.

transporter
transporter 2
hunger

Into the Wild was good

Welles' Macbeth
Side Street
Iron Mang

Still Life (still the best new film I've seen in '08)
In the City of Sylvia (super new-new wave)
Wendy and Lucy
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Che
Gran Torino
Revolutionary Road (not a disaster)
Slumdog Millionaire (pretty, appalling)

Seventh Heaven
Sunrise (unbelievable restoration)

The Lathe of Heaven (1979) - really enjoyed this. enjoyed everything about it.
The Lathe of Heaven (2001) - still fun: James Caan / Lukas Haas / Lisa Bonet = one crazy cast, but they sucked up all the budget -- all the time reality distortion is mainly done by changing the characters wardrobes every time he wakes up, and they omit the Space Turtles entirely. How could they do such a thing in good conscience?

2nd one makes you realize just how good a film The Butterfly Effect really is

No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
Encounters at the End of the World
The Times of Harvey Milk
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Last Detail

The World of Apu
Terror's Advocate (disappointing)

i watched http://i35.tinypic.com/2yvuwdv.gif

jumped at that for real!