MOVIES!

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.

I watched "Joe" last night for the first time. Maybe it was partly my frame of mind at the time, but shit, that was a seriously fucking grim movie.

but I highly recommend it to anyone who's not seen it...

Elizabethtown - surprisingly not the worst movie I've ever seen

The Brood

day after tomorrow ok this was horrible but where did the wolves come from? the zoo? the 8 wolves or whatever in ny zoos somehow escaped and broke into the exact same cvs as jake gyllenhaal?

stranger things have happened

I saw "Dig!" for the first time recently, as well. Shockingly entertaining, all things considered.

"I WRITE ALL THE SONGS."

"ALL THE SONGS!"

really? as Cosloy wrote, behind the music with 2 crappy bands?

Lola Montes

really? as Cosloy wrote, behind the music with 2 crappy bands?

Yeah, that's not a completely off-the-mark comparison. I don't know, maybe it helps if you have a fascination with psychopathology, nineties west coast indie rock culture, and have known people in your personal life who remind you of some of the people in the film.

I watched it and "Joe" on the same night, and it's kinda funny-- in the same way that one ends up sympathizing with Joe at times even though he is a pretty jerky guy, at certain points in "Dig!" I was astonished to find myself sympathizing with Anton, who otherwise came across as being quite repellent. I think that's in large part due to the fact that Courtney Taylor and some of the other Dandy guys are so incredibly annoying in the film.

I'm Not There
Don't Look Back
Through a Glass Darkly

Severance - kinda dumb

man, through a glass darkly is INSANE. i was watching that this summer when i was real tired, and i drifted to sleep, then woke up when the daughter is SCREAMING about god as a spider. v v harrowing

yeah what was really funny is i watched all those movies yesterday, in the order i placed them. so they're all black and white and the first two have a lot of dylan with those ray bans on. and then in one of the last scenes of through a glass darkly the daughter puts on ray bans just like dylan's. spooky.

how was im not there?

Disappointing. I liked the first hour or so okay. The kid was great, Cate Blanchette was great, but the Heather Ledger/Charlotte Gainsbourg and Christian Bale stuff was too confusing. And then parts of it were almost Mighty Wind-ish? I didn't like any of the Richard Gere stuff except for the version of Going To Acapulco, which was lovely.

yeah christian said the gere part was sorta shitty

Heath Ledger/Charlotte Gainsbourg and Christian Bale stuff was too confusing, how?

i thought it was weird that Bale played two personas--the NYC singer and the reformed Xtian singer. Wasn't the whole idea that if there was a change in Dylan=new actor/actress?? maybe i missed something. i thought the whole Xtian persona should have been cut, it didn't work for me at all. Also, the whole time during the drunken award ceremony with Bale I kept trying to figure out if it had a parallel to dylan's real life.

the timing and stuff with the heath/charlotte scenes confused me. like the first time we see her, she's got the two kids who are like 8 and 10 years old maybe, and then one of the last scenes--the one where they're outside in the cafe and he yells at the photog--she has a baby in her arms. so it was going back in time, right? confusing.

also, ha ha "Heather" Ledger, i am an idiot.

i thought it was weird that Bale played two personas--the NYC singer and the reformed Xtian singer

He played the same character in two phases of his career.

yeah, i got that. i just thought it disrupted the flow of the movie.

WILD ZERO!!!!

ROCK N ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wasn't the whole idea that if there was a change in Dylan=new actor/actress??

I'm glad he disrupted that. Besides, hardcore folk is another variation of evangelizing.

La Ronde
El Violin
Le Plaisir
Guelwaar

Flight Plan <--- lolol has anyone seen this? it was on cable last night. so ridiculously bad it was kind of riveting.

it was like Die Hard meets 6th Sense / fake script from Adaptation in an elaborate post-9/11 allegory

on a plane

i loved how the scheme's success or failure hung upon 99% of the plane's passengers not noticing that jodie foster had her daughter with her.

hahaha

Flight plan Budget: $ 55,000,000
Flightplan grossed $89,602,378 at the box office and over $223,000,000 worldwide. It also grossed $49,270,000 on DVD rentals.
they laughin it up now

i watched caligula last night. i knew it would be bad, but i had no idea how bad it would be. it was one of the least erotic, ugliest, most gratuitious and inept things i have ever seen. guccione failed me.

also: malcolm mcdowell's taint

I would describe 75% of Italian cinema I've seen just as you have described Caligula.

i want to see the spanish horror movie slocki wrote abt in wkly paper this wk - looks good/scary!

called the orphanage

i am already scared by its italicized name!

i want to see that, too.

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