MOVIES!

I was shocked it didn't just open in 2 NYC theaters as orig planned last summer; I think the Weinsteins did a 'last-minute' expansion that didn't give them much of a choice on where to book it.

A huge holiday "weekend" (from Tues - Sun) + my parents' house's 60-ish movie channels =

Night at the Museum - not bad, far better than I expected
Wild at Heart - remember when Nicolas Cage was awesome?
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The Princess and the Warrior) - mostly unsettling but ultimately pleasing; Franke Potante is the best

Also thanks to the internet =

Futurama: Bender's Big Score - hahahaha hooray!!!!
BBC special GALAPAGOS - cute little lizards + tectonic plates etc!

No Country For Old Men STILL not playing here.

BUT it starts this week.

(I haven't heard The Basement Tapes tho.)

and I havent seen Peckinpah's Billy the Kid movie so I don't know how much of that is in there .... but check out the album art

http://www.maggiesfarm.it/testivariquater.jpg

where's the giraffe?

hear the basement tapes ffs

the only one of those songs I know is "Wheel's on Fire" from the AbFab theme, haha

'70-76 is my least fave rock period. My slightly younger sister was a big Dylan fanatic -- when she was, like 13 -- so I would do braying impressions of "Hard Rain" and stuff to irk her.

byrds version of wheel's on fire is teh best of all versions.
dr. byrds & mr. hyde is so underrated.

last night some crappy harrison ford movie was on My9 instead of Star Trek and I was PISSED.

'70-76 is my least fave rock period.

just for the record, basement tapes is '67-'68. it just wasn't released til '75.

The Mist - I have never seen a movie fuck up the ending this badly. Jesus.

gonna watch Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman tonight

i keep hearing that about the mist ending ;_; i still want to see tho

seriously i was half expecting "that was a bit depressing, let's do the scooby-doo ending"

Robin and Marian
Casino Royale '06
The Holy Modal Rounders ... Bound to Lose
Pigpen
Letter from an Unknown Woman (great great great)

what think you neu Bond?

Daisies
American Grafitti
Bug

Hour of the Wolf.

boy, that's one of Bergman's clear failures in that period.

sD, I liked it fine -- it's probably the best one since at least, oh, Octopussy? (I skipped the entire Brosnan Era) -- and wouldn't even argue that Craig might be the best actor ever for the role, incl Connery. But "gritty," extending to a semi-realistic torture scene, is just not what I need from a 007 film. As stinko as the spoof version of Royale was, I'm glad we didn't see Orson Welles whacking on naked Peter Sellers' balls.

Also, I don't understand poker.

^wdn't even argue against Craig being etc^

yeah, Craig has the charisma and physicality for the role. And I agree the torture scene was out of place (PG-13??? Vat Hast Spielberg Wrot?)
if only that the "realism" detracted from the trademark Bond preposterousness (ridiculous climax sceme).

oh I also saw Bergman's Magic Flute, but feel alseep in the middle, waking up to find myself in stylized Swedish Hell.

I'm glad we didn't see Orson Welles whacking on naked Peter Sellers' balls

.............

daisies is great.

Golden Eye spawned a good video game.

naw dudes craig is all brutish and emo not suave and sociopathic - he totally had the dude who never wears a suit wearing a suit vibe going the whole time - dud!

license to kill, yo

The funny thing is, all these attempts to make a "feminist James Bond" are now out-of-date. I would think a more ruthless misogyny would be respected by the modern cineaste.

yah totes

well, given that he's only "Bond...James Bond" at the very end, doesn't that promise nothing but brutish misogyny to come in the next 4 films?

also, I couldn't believe all Jeffrey Wright's Felix Leiter got to do was lose at cards.

maybe they'll remake "Live at Let Die" next and Wright will get to tap dance around all sorts of racist bugaboos.

when is Judi Dench getting a lesbian love scene?

it depends on when they cast a Miss Moneypenny.

Toni Colette?

I liked that we saw Mr. M in bed next to her, but no glimpse of her bedside reading. The Sensuous Spook?

also, I couldn't believe all Jeffrey Wright's Felix Leiter got to do was lose at cards.

yes wtf

Cinema: Rescue Dawn, Rules of the Game

TV: Zaitoichi, North by Northwest

DVD: La Captive

what the hell does felix leiter ever do except give bond some intel or get eaten by sharks?

bottle rocket -- thumbs up!
live free or die hard -- solid, i s'pose, but this movie was really kind of weird and i wish hateable evil emo hacker had received a less throwaway death scene
perfume: the story of a murderer -- it started out gross, then got interesting (love the stuff with dustin hoffman and what's his face learning the trade), then it fell off the rails. too long, too 'who gives a shit?'

i rewatched bottle rocket the other day also - thumbs still up!

rescue dawn was yes!

cinema: I'm Not There, The Holy Mountain
DVD: Lacombe Lucien, Helvetica

drunken viewing of superbad

best way

Bottle Rocket is still the only Wes Anderson I really like

No Country For Old Men

^good movie 5/5

3:10 to Yuma: 3/5
30 Days of Night: 3/5
The Prestige: 3/5
Aftermath: 1/5
Rob Zombie Halloween remake: 1/5
Salo/120 Days of Sodom: 1/5
You're Gonna Miss Me: 4/5
Superstar, the Karen Carpenter Story: 4/5

come and see - first half brilliant, poetic and absurdly comic yet terrifying. the last sequence, while entirely necessary, didn't stand up execution-wise (no pun intended). also, film ends with ill-advised bush league montage of WWII footage run backwards wtf.

I don't remember that last; did you have a jokey projectionist?

Opinons are divided on the film's penultimate scene. Flyora comes upon a portrait of "Hitler the Liberator." He shoots it. After each shot, we see war footage run backwards: We see concentration camps liberated and Pearl Harbor bombed; we see Paris fall and Hitler's willful Triumph. Then we loose sight of WWII. Weimar is marred by riots. Those crowds scurry exactly like the men hurtling out of WWI trenches. Finally we are faced by a portrait of Adolf Hitler as a baby. Flyora stops shooting.

http://logomorphoses.blogspot.com/2007/03/come-and-see.html

just watched ecstasy of sculptor steiner/how much wood would a woodchuck chuck.../la soufriere - SO AWESOME.

HMWWAWC has this one segment where they go to PA, and theres this version of "take me home, country roads" that is just like THE most beautiful thing ever.

all three docs just great. the shit WH says in his narration in the beginning of la soufriere is ridiculous and great.