MOVIES!

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.)

vacancy

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 !!!

tonight saw No Country for Old Men (recommended!)

also saw the trailer for There Will Be Blood

-- dmr, Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

this happened to me too at the 520 show at union sq

i loved this movie. javier bardem is the best ever

http://nastynets.com/secretstash/iancurtisvrsherzog.png

please tell me he's talking about whitey herzog.

transformers (so much worse than i thought it was going to be)

Finally realized the TV was on ch. 103 instead of 03:

20 sec of some cheeseball "western" with Selma Hayek and P Cruz.
*Could have been written and filmed in the 1910s.

2nd half of When a Stranger Calls (remake)
*Bougie fear of the help realized, but needed L Lohan in the lead. Screaming, crying children always a plus in this type of thing.

Idiocracy
*Red State satire better than Huxley in many regards. Ingenious, uncanny matte paintings galore. Very close to my own personal nightmares. Kinda racist, though?

^classist, moreso I thought

Probably more grewupintexasist.

Have heard very good things abt Idiocracy. I would like to see it.

Tonight I watch "Revisiting Father & The Source Family"--has anyone seen this? SexyD? Milton? Tim Ellison?

not yet, but I will.
yeah, Idiocarcy was wall-to-wall laffs, but I hate "people."

idiocracy was kind of disappointing to me, not for any ethical/moral objections, just kinda unfunny for much of its running time.

cosign the greatness of no country for old men, tho

The best thing about having a dim view of humanity, is that you're never disappointed.

best thing about pessimism is, you're always either right or pleasantly surprised.

great minds, etc

Hope for the best, expect the worst
You could be Tolstoy or Fannie Hurst

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daisies

so great.

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cgkoebel/images/daisies2.jpg

"Sabrina" (1954 vers, obv) it's one of this dude's yuotueb uploads:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=atarumyth&page=18

Dude is 100% certain to get his/her profile pulled sooner or later, I'm enjoying it while I can though.

Casino Royale
Bond is good, but the problem with this trend in high-contrast processing is that it eliminates depth perception, leaving the action scenes flat and incomprehensible. Good poisoniong scene, though.

Weird -- I watched Casino Royale last night. I felt like M's role was a little bit contrived to use Dame Dench as much as possible.

it had some nice action but having bond catching feelings like that is just totally unconscionable

also dudes face looks like it got stepped on - no debonair!

pursed lips fu

yeah there were all sorts of bizarre concessions to fashion.
they should have chopped that chick's arm right off.

I'm not sure what stopped them from chopping her arm off!

bond didnt catch those feelings, he gets rid of them! "the bitch is dead" = classic line in the novel, which was the first of the bond series. (actually come to think of it theres a later book/film where he falls in love & is going to get married & the girl ends up getting shot in a failed assassination attempt but whatever)

anyway that was a great fucking movie

I'm thinking of that great scene in Diamonds are Forever in which Plenty O'Toole seduces Bond, and seconds after she takes her dress off, thugs burst into the room and throw her out the window without so much as a word. That's the kind of misogyny I expect.

And that collapsing building sequence? Half expected Dick Van Dyke to come flying in on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to save the day.

anyway that was a great fucking movie

-- deeznuts, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:18 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ttoally

still, I like this Bond. Are they going to start re-doing them all?

eh wouldnt end and all that poker why

THOUGHTS ON YAHOWA MOVIE:

- crappy narration
- skip the last ten minutes (kid who made the film crappily justifying it to some kind of college panel)
- sloooow opening
- all clearly acid casualties

+ food at their restaurant sounds awesome
+ intermittent animated .gif aesthetic catering to stoner crowd
+ Yod's peyote freak-out
+ (very) relative sanity of the one man interviewed who was born into the family
+ awesome soundtrack
+ i never knew Father Yod was an athletic CHAMPION (unclear on whether he was literally an olympic medalist) and a highly-decorated marine

- men only had about one orgasm per month

http://www.freefever.com/animatedgifs/animated/hippies.gif lollll

oh also a BIG plus: Yod's obsession with the masonic background of the founding fathers.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/The_Newest_Bond_Girl

hahaha if this movie's called Bond 22 that will be interesting

ian do you own that movie? I kinda want to borrow it if it's yours

I can offer Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda for a swap if you haven't seen that yet

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0611/hoberman2.jpg

yes, i do own it dave! we'll arrange a swap later in the week--i haven't seen thunderbolt pagoda, just heard the sdtrk.

southland tales -- at least as much fun as i expected from all the grumpy baffled reviews. (i also don't really understand the anti-hipster ire richard kelly seems to inspire. i guess it has something to do with too many hipsters geeking out over donnie darko. i missed all that. i like both his movies.)

ok so b/c i have way less work to do this wkend than i originally thought, what movie should i see this afternoon/evening?? i have been v busy and not paying attention :( need something to relax my mind a bit but not depress me with state-of-the-effed-up-world stuff (for instance, dl-ed idiocracy last week and found it pretty depressing tho i commend it for being able to do that i guess. anyway, don't want to feel like that today.)

no country for old men
american gangster
eastern promises
into the wild
across the universe (for some reason i feel like i should see this?)
beowolf (haha i have a friend who would prob be into this tho)

no country for old men & eastern promises are both great american gangster is awful havent seen the rest although i am planning a 3d imax beowolf screening

they are showing beowolf in 3d imax here too! i think it might be too much for me right now though unless it involves a beer or two prior to watching
no country for old men is probably the right level

haha i am watching sabrina now! thx for link above, pash