MOVIES!

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.

fully flared

^^^ oh SHIT

i'm really looking forward to 4 months.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (yes)
War (had potential but only fair)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (v. good)
Katelmacher (my guess is that all early fassbinder is like this?..meaning no real pt in seeing them??)

meaning no real pt in seeing them??

no. Different early Fassbinders are different.

i watched the perfect storm and i think it is actually the worst movie ever

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/chicago10/trailer/

discuususs

i bet dragon wars is worse than perfect storm

there will be blood - DARK and gr8

looks great am0n

yes ive heard bad things abt this dragon wars

terrible movies with dragons vs. terrible movies with no dragons

1. is the movie terrible? if yes, continue
2. does the movie have dragons? if yes, continue
3. the movie is better than terrible movies with no dragons

on a Preminger binge:

Bonjour Tristesse
Where the Sidewalk Sleeps
Exodus

Also:

3:10 to Yuma

I kind of liked 3:10 to Yuma.

I watched it right after Eastern Promises though which was very gnarly so I might have been hardcore-violenced out already.

Superbad (better 2nd time around cuz the fat kid becomes less obnoxious)
La Commune
Crime Wave
Decoy (a total "wtf?!?" noir)
Murnau's "Nosferatu"

mission impossible 3
babel
the cell (lol)

http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/08/18/donofrio/story.jpg

planet of the apes (1968) - seen before, watched as a prelude cause i downloaded THE WHOLE PENTALOGY!

PLANET OF THE APES
BENEATH THE PLANTET OF THE APES
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

!!!

russell crowe's great in 3:10 to yuma. the story's just so stupid.

Crowe's sidekick (aka wispy Billy the Kid) is horrible. That guy is terrible in every single role.

rush hour 3

the cell (lol)

tarsem singh! i kind of love that movie. it's terrible but i saw it twice on the big screen anyway.

imdb says tarsem singh has an "uplifting epic fantasy" coming out soon.

there will be blood is my new favorite movie ever

-- jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 01:36 (4 days ago) Link

yes. that shit blew my mind, no questions asked.

also can't wait to see apichatpong weerasethakul thingies (Syndromes and A Century (2006) (Jan. 13), Tropical Malady (2004) (Jan. 20) and Blissfully Yours (2002)). i finally saw 'tropical malady' on my tv and omg. big screen will be omgOMGomg

Atonement
Seduced and Abandoned (I'm not much for Germi comedies, it seems)
Beaufort (astoundingly dull Israeli combat film)
The Lookout
Loggerheads
The Clock (V. Minnelli/Garland)

tried & failed watching 3:10 to Yuma, awful awful

I watched that Bros Grimm movie, it sucked.

the Terry Gilliam one? quel surprise!

I don't know these filmy knowledge things, I just thought "Hell, it's about fairy tales, it can't be worse than a superhero movie (clearly I was repressing Elektra at the time), how bad can it be??"

You're right, they should have "Disowned by the Director" on the DVD box. (Gilliam is a stoner favorite, ie, hasn't made a good film in 20 years.)

12 monkeys is great, you grumpus

time bandits is classicest

fisher king

i like him. i skipped bros grimm though.

pretty bad. i recall heath ledger being passable, matt damon was really awful in it though.

it was all downhill after Brazil (Fisher King is treacle); Time Bandits and the Python movies were his least pretentious, and the first half-hour of the Hunter Thompson movie.

12 Monkeys worked way better as a half-hour of still photos.

oh thx morbs you just reminded me to add some chris marker to netflix queue1

For some reason I feel The Bros Grimm is redeemed by the Gingerbread Man sequence. Gilliam flicks are best when you're home, sick.

The Ten - terrible, just god awful
Sweeney Todd - good times, would rather have re-watched Little Shop of Horrors though

Bros Grimm movie was not bad, Peter Stormare was hilarious, scene when Heath Ledger bro was on top of the tower looked nice.

the cell (lol)

tarsem singh! i kind of love that movie. it's terrible but i saw it twice on the big screen anyway.

yeah we had seen it before too. added it to netflix thinking "was this as weird as we remembered it?" (yes.) actually held up better than I thought, pretty good for post-"lambs" / pre-"saw" sick serial killer shit. love that scene with the timer and the horse (damien hirst amirite)

also toward the beginning j-lo burns one down and watches "la planete sauvage"

12 Monkeys worked way better as a half-hour of still photos.

you'd think I didn't bring this parallel to its own thread

mobs otm abt gilliam goin waaaay downhill (except 12 monkeys is awz) time bandits was my fav childhood movie

when i saw 12 monkeys in the theater my friend pete kept kicking the guy in front of hims chair cause hes a spaz when the movie ended the guy stood up and punched him in the face

it was pretty tremendous

General Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait
There Will Be Milkshake

310 to yuma is so much better than eastern promises

nuh uh

xpost: I was looking forward to a boilerplate western, but Mangold can't shoot an action sequence worth a damn, and the last 15 minutes are almost as shameful as Eastern Promises'.

diving bell and the butterfly

just started to watch MI3 and stopped

The Dead Pool