MOVIES!

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.

BOURNE ULTIMATUM

sherrybaby
no country for old men
the departed (which made me even more sad about the terrible, cheap, ugly renovation of the park luncheonette)

Liebelei
Charlie Wilson's War
Caught ('49 Ophuls)
Emitai

"The Phantom Carriage". Glooooomy.

Charlie Wilson's War <–- &?

the NY Post said it best: AFGHANISHTAR

(not as funny tho)

maggie cheung just hit jackie chan in the face withe a cake ^_^

SHE HIT HIM AGAIN

Suburbia
Margot at the wedding
George Washington
Wonderwall

wts There Will Be Blood v. badly

fell asleep halfway thru Hitchcock's "Lifeboat"

probably see Juno next ... and There Will Be Blood once it opens

The Yards
Into the Wild
In the Year of the Pig
Billy the Kid

Fitzcarraldo
Night at the Roxbury

Wait Until Dark - audrey is decent but alan arkin wtf

re-watching Barbarella lolz re: TEH MATMOS

how was billy the kid?

it's OK, but sorry, seemed kinda "set up" a lot of time (ie, camera can't be a fly-on-the-wall). Also, aspie kid likes too much bad '70s rock -- he'll be on ILX any day now.

while i'm at it, how was the yards? i liked little odessa well enough but we own the night was so bad that i deleted the yards from my netflix queue in a fit of pique.

Elevator To The Gallows
The War Game
Spirit Of The Beehive
Tristana

i'm not dr. morbs but i liked the yards, in a blue-collar-drama sort of way. (besides wahlberg doing his usual reglar-guy thing, it was the movie where i realized charlize theron could act.)

that's ok. your input is appreciated.

I'd seen The Yards when it came out and liked it w/ reservations, which are still there. The milieu is really spot-on, but it looks too much like The Godfather (even when J Caan is not on screen), and the contrived operatic seams show. Wahlberg is fine, but he's basically doing Brando in On the Waterfront. He and Joaquin Phoenix have one of the more convincing street brawls on film.

I also forgot that was Theron til it was over, and til midway that the scarily Faustian Queens frau was Faye Dunaway. (still amazing: Steve Lawrence chilling as corrupt Queens boro prez -- that's as in Steve & Eydie)