MOVIES!

TV: Red River, Elf, Inspector Gadget

DVD: Watching Ritwik Ghatak's "A River Called Titas". Nice change of pace to say the least.

i wish my marxist parents would send me to a lycée français in vienna to escape the perils of my war-torn homeland!

-- get bent, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:16 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

haha!

i interviewed her in toronto. she was an awesome lady. she was basically sitting on a hotel patio humiliating one clueless interviewer after another.

the savages was great. bonus: chris from the wire as a supporting character. i've entered a new phase in which i cry at EVERYTHING, though, so i spent much of the last 20 minutes snuffling into scratchy napkins from the concession counter.

Over the Xmas and today:

Boudou Saved From Drowning (my hero, that Boudou)
El Bruto (ok Mexican Bunuel)
Rob Zombie "Halloween" (garbage. Such shit. Out of the DVD player after 45 mins.
Poor Malcolm McDowell. Is he that hard up for $$?)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (3 Stars)
Les Carabiniers (Go Go Godard. "Venus" was hot)

The Fury
Juno
Spider-Man 3

I watched two movie about hbigh school

Klass: good
Elephant: bad

Darjeeling Ltd. (better than Hotel Chevalier, at any rate)

diving bell & the butterfly - brilliant imo but maybe not for everybody

schnabel as film director >>>>> schnabel as painter but I havent seen his art since the 80s.

white christmas

rosemary clooney singing 'i want to wash my hands, my face, and hair with snooooooow' inexplicably hilarious

also, eastern promises

black mama, white mama
the stepford wives (1975)

there will be blood - pretty awesome. preacher kid was great, and daniel day lewis of course ... very different from anything else pt anderson has done .... can't think of another movie like it, really.

the diving bell and the butterfly
the landlord
im not there
i am legend

liked them all (in that order)

didn't make it through Sweet Sweetback's Bad Asssssssss Song with Mrs. Dancer...
Strike one: extralong underage sex scene
Strike two: extralong stabbing sequence
Strike out: taking a shit on camera

my modernism-is-not-pornography argument did not hold!

id guess that argument gets threatened rather constantly...

it does complement my "i am very very bored by other people's sex" perspective

i may watch zodiac today...as my head doesnt seem to be working right so far

its good for napping! (zodiac)

wake up after a bit, it gets better in the 2nd half

The Savages
The Last Winter
Charlie Wilson's War

The Savages was so sad and bleak it took me a few days to get over it. Really affecting.

See CWW for the sheer pleasure of hearing Philip Seymour Hoffman say "Excuse me, what the fuck?"

im thinkin this might be a watch someting silly on netflix insta-view, then read for a bit day..might save very ehh killer thriller for tonight, as plans have gone very nowhere-fast.

mr herzog, here i come

booya!

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Don't bother with The Orphanage unless you've decided that replacing Roman Catholicism with Psychology is a major step forward.

ill take virgins, whores, and redemption over lacan anyday

what's Lacan's big deal again? The Mirror Phase? I know what. In my film I'll represent this by showing my character looking at herself in the mirror.

fitzcarraldo

Cinema: I'm not There

DVD: South Park Bigger, Louder, Uncut

TV: The Harder They Come, Claire's Knee (Rohmer early 70s flick), Stranger on the Third Floor (ho-hum noir).

Should be going to see Kings of the Road, part of the Wenders season going on over here.

9th configuration

Barton Fink

SUPERVOLCANO: BBC's idea of a disaster movie. Yellowstone blows the fuck up and... there's a lot of ash. And dead people that you never see.

painted veil
little children

i vegged on the couch watching terminator 3. it sucked of course.

AH YOO KAATE BROOSTAHHH

Bad New Bears - I noticed the only other film the screenwriter did besides the Bears sequels was John Carpenter's The Thing.

sD, when I saw Melvin vPeeb introduce a Sweetback screening once, he yelled from the back of the auditorium during opening underage sex scene, "THAT'S MARIO!" (ie, son -- you shoulda told the wife)

jesus camp - major lols at ted haggard pre-disgrace cameo

Blonde Crazy
Blondie Johnson (two Joan Blondell films - Tarantino was at the second)
Punch-Drunk Love (aieeee)
Knocked Up (you know)
The Last King of Scotland (blah)
Give a Girl a Break
Starter for 10
The Pajama Game (fun)
City Lights
That's Entertainment! III
Sinner's Holiday (Cagney's debut)
Daisy Kenyon

morbs u finally saw knocked up! wahd u think? next u have to see superbad - rules

oh boy

i imagine "you know" was typed with an aw shucks grin as he finally gave in to the film's charms

sweeney todd

better than i was expecting.

the KU banter can be found on ILE, if yr not taking th' piss

i was only kinda takin the piss - i am actually curious what you thought

and superbad is way better - next level shit that

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I got "The Busby Berkeley Collection" 6xDVD for Christmas! Yeah, fuckers...

is Footlight Parade in that?

Yes! It's got "42nd Street", "Gold Diggers of 1933", "Footlight Parade", which are all A+, "Dames", which is B, "Gold Diggers of 1935", which is C, except for the "Lullaby of Broadway" bit, which is about as good as it gets. (the numbers in "Dames" - the title piece and "I only have eyes for you" are 2 of the best as well, the film is a bit hokey though), there's also a disc with just the routines, as well as a few from other films. The extra features are all very good as well - contemporary WB cartoons and shorts, a set of great little documentaries spread across each disc. It's the best xmas present I've ever had.

I have teh hotts for both Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell.

The Lives of Others - pretty good, I woulda lopped off the last 20 or 25 minutes after the fall of the wall tho. it felt long

I would have lopped off the parts where what's-his-name reads Rilke and is moved.

there will be blood is my new favorite movie ever

no country for old men -- kinda flat. story seems just as silly as it did in the book. (well made etc i know i know)