MOVIES!

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)

Yeah, it was pretty solid but not mindblowing. Not even as good as The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

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

that whole movie felt that way to me. mystical-power-of-art stuff. i mean i guess the point of something like that domestically is to redeem old national sins and whatever, so it has a context where it makes sense. but outside that context it just seems to be trying awfully hard.

xpost: so many people i know like three burials. i guess i should see it. i like tommy lee jones.

Simpsons Movie <--- awful

Mean Streets
Blow Out

that whole movie felt that way to me. mystical-power-of-art stuff. i mean i guess the point of something like that domestically is to redeem old national sins and whatever, so it has a context where it makes sense. but outside that context it just seems to be trying awfully hard.

It stretches credulity to imagine a guy created by the Stasi would suddenly feel his soul expand.

oh that wasn't his soul expanding. (rimshot)

yeah, lots of things about the movie strain credulity.

I've stayed away from it cuz it looks like the German Mississippi Burning

I liked it in general, I just had some people tell me it was their favorite movie in a long time so my expectations were too high

I didn't think he was converted only by art .... more like if you monitor someone's daily life for a long time you might come to sympathize with them (kind of a reverse stockholm syndrome)

infernal affairs 2 - badass

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TV:

The Red Shoes: Ballerina Drama, with a mad enough ending

A ton of noir thrillers and melodramas taped over Xmas week. 'The Narrow Margin' (mob informant escorted on train journey), plenty of double-crossing on 'Build my Gallows High', Humphrey's awesome monologue on 'Dead Reckoning', then playing the psycho writer on 'In a Lonely Pace'; an unlikey, unspoken, doomed-before-it-starts love affair in 'The Reckless Moment'. Plus 'The Third Man'

Cinema: '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'. My one Romanian movie hoho, but it ws something. Might see Rivette's new one next weekend.