MOVIES!

the expendables - everything i was anticipating and more (and less)
excalibur - insane and dope
a prophet - pretty grim in the best possible sense. could have cut a few bits and not missed them, though
the crazies - pretty good, and timothy olyphant is pretty great when he's playing these small-town law enforcement types

Death of a Scoundrel - very impressive 1956 potboiler film about a Czech immigrant who lands in the states and games his way through iffy stock market deals to the top of the heap while moving through women at a surreal rate, as played by George Sanders aka Addison DeWitt from All About Eve -- the characterizations of the women are actually pretty fantastic and the American Dream gone wrong (he finally flies his mom over, she gets into his limo, she says 'Is this yours? Who paid for this?' -- he answers, 'The People!')

Death Watch - it's got a slow ending, but that doesn't explain why no one ever talks about this 1980 SF film about a future in which almost every disease has been eliminated, making any terminal patient an instant celebrity hounded by the media for interviews & coverage -- Romy Schneider says no to the money and heads out of town but has no idea that the charming stranger Harvey Keitel is actually a cameraman who has had his eyes surgically removed and replaced by cameras, making her the unwitting nightly star of a reality TV show filming her decline. Harry Dean Stanton is Harvey's boss, and Max Van Sydow makes it clear the director was aiming for Bergman by the end, I didn't like the ending when I saw it 10 years ago but this time I loved it all the way through

Things to Come - Kind of clunky, silly effects, sure did get it wrong. But inherently amazing to see a film from 1935 showing you the dystopian future WWII (1940-1970), and the unimaginable utopia of 2035

Three Penny Opera - They really tampered & tamed the message of the original opera, but it looks great, it's fast paced, and Lotte Lenya

oh yeah I also saw Inception and liked it

man death watch sounds rad

Mother (Bong Joon-ho) - thumbs up

really want to see that.

MACHETE

I screamed/went 'aaaagh!' at the serious gore more than a few times. It was pretty awesome this movie.

Damned United - really A+ swearing
Ghost Writer - good
The Apartment - good
The Maltese Falcon - good
Kick Ass - dreadful
The Messenger - eli from freaks and geeks was good
Assassination of Jesse James - pretty i guess. casey affleck good.

'good'?

!

'GOOD'!???!

sentence fragments are reserved for not good films

The Apartment is more than good.

yes, i loved it. maybe the best film i have seen this year (incl. maltese falcon, sorry dmac)

two lane blacktop
le samourai
phantasm
life with the dice bag (cheaply made doc about ppl who play d&d, go to gencon etc.)
escape from alcatraz

'vengeance' - johnnie to film w/johnny hallyday, anthony wong, simon yam, lam suet, and some of to's other regulars. not bad i guess but it was a lot like his film 'exiled': a crew of hitman protecting/helping a man out, facing off against a crazed mob boss played by simon yam. it looks amazing, it's not boring, but it feels a little samey.

lol phantasm

i watched 'eat pray love' on the wkend and thought some of it was good/interesting tbh but much of it was hollywood-annoying obv

le samourai is next up on my netflix list! synergy

le samourai been sitting on my hard drive too long

hmm the hallyday character in 'vengeance' was originally supposed to be played by alain delon and the character's name is costello. o_O

Le Samourai is about as awesome as it gets.

Watched Hitcher on sunday.
Widescreen vhs.
Fucking awesome.

new laptop + new wifi connection at home = went on a downloading spree recently:

-haunting of

-his name was holy ghost
-herbie goes to monte carlo
-smithereens
-antichrist
-visitor q
-femme fatales aka calmos
-comme la lune aka as the moon (cant find subtitles for this)
-BIG MAN JAPAN
-the dancing outlaw
-in the electric mist
-kynodontas aka dogtooth
-picnic at hanging rock
-red hill
-smithereens
-the body (1970 doc)
-the dunwich horror (1970)
-seven secrets of sumuru aka the girl from rio
-the square (2008)
-the wayward cloud
-valhalla rising

fuck where do i start guys

>-femme fatales aka calmos

hey gr8080

I downloaded this too recently. I'm a big fan of Blier's Buffet Froid and watched the first 40 minutes of Calmos last night, but the english subtitles only seem to cover about 50% of the dialogue, and I'm just missing too many of the lines -- did you have this problem with your subtitle track or is it just me?

visitor Q a++ film btw

Hey Milton-

no i dont think i had a problem. cant remember where i got the subtitles now but they worked out OK.

NSFW + SPOILERS: http://threeframes.net/tagged/calmos

hey milton- webmail me again w/ your email address so i can reply. webmails just get sent from ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧

robot @ ilxor . com

Le Samourai is about as awesome as it gets.

It was pretty awesome.

Also watched recently --

House (aka Hausu, the Japanese one, got this because of the clips I saw on 3Frames. it's wacky)
The Kids Are All Right
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Objectified (movie abt industrial design by the guys who made Helvetica. it was aiight)

recently have watched

trouble every day - liked a lot even tho im not a horror/new french extremism guy in the least
days of being wild - not my fave wkw
blue sunshine
cop out - ugh
some like it hot
who's afraid of virginia woolf? - this just exhausted me
duck season

i went on a jeff bridges kick for a bit

True Grit (2010, Coens)
Crazy Heart (2009)
Starman (1984, Carpenter) -- cheese
Fat City (1972, Huston) -- wise blood did this better imo

also
King's Speech, the (2010, Hooper) -- mon!tage!

haha blue sunshine

Winter's Bone was awesome.

lol whoops

you mean you didnt watch this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC23RzhrH5Q

i have seen that actually. now im imagining a blue valentine/sunshine mashup

hahaha

overlord
the keep

didn't consciously realize this was a weird WWII dbl feature until just now

I got the SHOGUN miniseries from the public library out of boredom. I've only watched the first part so far but it is pretty awesome.
Was totally stoked when Rhys-Davies showed up. Whatta bro!
Also checked out The Young Ones complete series 3 dvd set.

Winter's Bone was awesome.

yep I liked that one too. thought I had mentioned it on the thread before but I hadn't so

winter's bone

yall seen devils on the doorstep? its really good

"New York Nights", 1929 gangster movie, seemed to be not quite complete, but story was intact. Archetypal early talkie, somewhat stagy & stilted. Jean Harlow briefly visible as an extra in a party scene. Gilbert Roland ridiculously handsome. Couple of scenes where the silent movie style acting & talking actually works surprisingly well. Probably of limited interest TBH. I kind of enjoyed it though.

"Her Sister from Paris", 1925 romantic farce w Ronald Colman & Constance Talmadge. Viennese couple are always arguing, Helen, the somewhat frumpy wife leaves her argumentative husband then pretends to be her twin sister, a parisian dancer called "La Perry" to win him back. Both roles played by Talmadge w clever trick photography. Colman is all bluster but Talmadge runs rings around him. Very very funny. The ending, where the fake "La Perry" reveals to Colman that she is actually Helen, is brilliant. Strongly recommended, a treat!

Repulsion
A Single Man
Get Him to the Greek

i watched repulsion last nite!

Visages d'enfants (1922) dir. Jacques Feyder

gorgeous silent family drama set in the swiss alps — amazing scenery and a beautifully emotional ending — the only silent other than Sunrise to make me tear up.

Goupi Mains Rouges
Montparnasse 1919 (both of these Jacques Becker. One of my fave directors. "Goupi..." Really shows the influence of his mentor Renoir but still v. weird n'fun. "Montparnasse 1919" kind of yr typical melodramatic 50's artist biopic and also a tremendously moving and handsomely produced piece of work. And Anouk Aimee is bee-yoo-t in this.)
Golgotha - Jesus flick from "Pepe Le Moko" director with Jean Gabin as Pontius Pilate (!). Pretty great.

i watched repulsion last nite!

ha I figured, I saw it start showing up on 3frames, that's partly what reminded me to bump this thread

I watched it last Thursday

<3 young catherine deneuve

watched this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzBTsWE0LQ

its pretty noize!!

Deneuve intro'd Repulsion last night at BAM, I didnt go

the killer inside me - enjoyable, until bill pullman showed up; not his fault though. i wish i had seen this with an enraged berlinale crowd, as caek did.