MOVIES!

Le Samourai is about as awesome as it gets.

Watched Hitcher on sunday.
Widescreen vhs.
Fucking awesome.

new laptop + new wifi connection at home = went on a downloading spree recently:

-haunting of

-his name was holy ghost
-herbie goes to monte carlo
-smithereens
-antichrist
-visitor q
-femme fatales aka calmos
-comme la lune aka as the moon (cant find subtitles for this)
-BIG MAN JAPAN
-the dancing outlaw
-in the electric mist
-kynodontas aka dogtooth
-picnic at hanging rock
-red hill
-smithereens
-the body (1970 doc)
-the dunwich horror (1970)
-seven secrets of sumuru aka the girl from rio
-the square (2008)
-the wayward cloud
-valhalla rising

fuck where do i start guys

>-femme fatales aka calmos

hey gr8080

I downloaded this too recently. I'm a big fan of Blier's Buffet Froid and watched the first 40 minutes of Calmos last night, but the english subtitles only seem to cover about 50% of the dialogue, and I'm just missing too many of the lines -- did you have this problem with your subtitle track or is it just me?

visitor Q a++ film btw

Hey Milton-

no i dont think i had a problem. cant remember where i got the subtitles now but they worked out OK.

NSFW + SPOILERS: http://threeframes.net/tagged/calmos

hey milton- webmail me again w/ your email address so i can reply. webmails just get sent from ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧

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Le Samourai is about as awesome as it gets.

It was pretty awesome.

Also watched recently --

House (aka Hausu, the Japanese one, got this because of the clips I saw on 3Frames. it's wacky)
The Kids Are All Right
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Objectified (movie abt industrial design by the guys who made Helvetica. it was aiight)

recently have watched

trouble every day - liked a lot even tho im not a horror/new french extremism guy in the least
days of being wild - not my fave wkw
blue sunshine
cop out - ugh
some like it hot
who's afraid of virginia woolf? - this just exhausted me
duck season

i went on a jeff bridges kick for a bit

True Grit (2010, Coens)
Crazy Heart (2009)
Starman (1984, Carpenter) -- cheese
Fat City (1972, Huston) -- wise blood did this better imo

also
King's Speech, the (2010, Hooper) -- mon!tage!

haha blue sunshine

Winter's Bone was awesome.

lol whoops

you mean you didnt watch this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC23RzhrH5Q

i have seen that actually. now im imagining a blue valentine/sunshine mashup

hahaha

overlord
the keep

didn't consciously realize this was a weird WWII dbl feature until just now

I got the SHOGUN miniseries from the public library out of boredom. I've only watched the first part so far but it is pretty awesome.
Was totally stoked when Rhys-Davies showed up. Whatta bro!
Also checked out The Young Ones complete series 3 dvd set.

Winter's Bone was awesome.

yep I liked that one too. thought I had mentioned it on the thread before but I hadn't so

winter's bone

yall seen devils on the doorstep? its really good

"New York Nights", 1929 gangster movie, seemed to be not quite complete, but story was intact. Archetypal early talkie, somewhat stagy & stilted. Jean Harlow briefly visible as an extra in a party scene. Gilbert Roland ridiculously handsome. Couple of scenes where the silent movie style acting & talking actually works surprisingly well. Probably of limited interest TBH. I kind of enjoyed it though.

"Her Sister from Paris", 1925 romantic farce w Ronald Colman & Constance Talmadge. Viennese couple are always arguing, Helen, the somewhat frumpy wife leaves her argumentative husband then pretends to be her twin sister, a parisian dancer called "La Perry" to win him back. Both roles played by Talmadge w clever trick photography. Colman is all bluster but Talmadge runs rings around him. Very very funny. The ending, where the fake "La Perry" reveals to Colman that she is actually Helen, is brilliant. Strongly recommended, a treat!

Repulsion
A Single Man
Get Him to the Greek

i watched repulsion last nite!

Visages d'enfants (1922) dir. Jacques Feyder

gorgeous silent family drama set in the swiss alps — amazing scenery and a beautifully emotional ending — the only silent other than Sunrise to make me tear up.

Goupi Mains Rouges
Montparnasse 1919 (both of these Jacques Becker. One of my fave directors. "Goupi..." Really shows the influence of his mentor Renoir but still v. weird n'fun. "Montparnasse 1919" kind of yr typical melodramatic 50's artist biopic and also a tremendously moving and handsomely produced piece of work. And Anouk Aimee is bee-yoo-t in this.)
Golgotha - Jesus flick from "Pepe Le Moko" director with Jean Gabin as Pontius Pilate (!). Pretty great.

i watched repulsion last nite!

ha I figured, I saw it start showing up on 3frames, that's partly what reminded me to bump this thread

I watched it last Thursday

<3 young catherine deneuve

watched this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzBTsWE0LQ

its pretty noize!!

Deneuve intro'd Repulsion last night at BAM, I didnt go

the killer inside me - enjoyable, until bill pullman showed up; not his fault though. i wish i had seen this with an enraged berlinale crowd, as caek did.

The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974) dir. Tavernier

Some nice fluid camerawork and the lead (Philippe Noiret) is great — the politics of the film seemed confused however

The Damned (1969) dir. Visconti

baroque, hysterical — great mise en scène and Helmut Berger is gorgeous

Recently watched a 4 episode French miniseries of "Fantomas" from the 80s - based on Feuillade's serials and directed by Chabrol and Bunuel's son Juan Luis. Berger played a great Fantomas. Straight up evil.

Ha, I have one of the Feuillade Fantômas on hold at the library!

watched Les Bonnes Femmes (Chabrol) — beautiful photography by Henri Decae; plot seemed kind of aimless

The End of Summer (Ozu) — the best-looking Ozu in color I've seen — the shots last few minutes are incredibly composed.

Fassbinder's Martha — the most disturbing Fassbinder I've seen. It's basically a horror movie.

the lincoln lawyer - the dad from malcolm in the middle was in this

two:

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir) — the cheeky editing and dark humor (one joke based on a baby being stillborn!) make this seem like a film from the 60s rather than the 30s, and the character of Batala oozes sleaze.

Europa (von Trier) — the B&W photography is gorgeous and the exaggerated breaks from realism add coherence and come off as genuinely surreal rather than pretentiously polystylistic as other attempts to do the same can be. Max Von Sydov's narration is great.

pretty much exclusively awesome classic stuff the past week or so:
come and see (klimov)
"life" (peleshian)
in a lonely place (ray)
taste of cherry (kiarostami)
god's country (malle)

and, uh, not at all awesome (but somehow sticking w/ me): road to nowhere (hellman)

i watched Il Sorpasso last year and fuckin loved it and was just thinking i hadn't seen any good italian 60's stuff since

what's good?

accattone and mamma roma

l'avventura and l'eclisse

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/479372/Young-Eglantine-in-Legend-of-the-Guardians-The-Owls-of-GaHoole_gallery_primary.jpg

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS THE OWLS OF GAHOOLE

I liked it

xp to gr80 Antonioni's La Notte

Nostalgia de la luz at the IFC Center

Really really good. I was worried that the astronomy = archaeology = investigation of Chile's recent troubled past metaphor was going to be a bit laboured/on the nose (whatever that means), but I was totally sold. Unusually for this sort of thing (i.e. pop astronomy) the main astronomer was capable of speaking articulately and ~poetically~ about what he does. Guzman's v/o almost Mallickian at times. Personally I totally agree with the astronomy = very important and very trivial at the same time thesis, especially compared to disappeared political prisoners, etc. Also of note: I enjoyed it despite serious pizza indigestion, which is impressive. See this movie.

Cedar Rapids at BAM

this was rubbish

new yorkers you have until tuesday to see nostalgia

i remember thinking of you when i was reading abt nostalgia de la luz last year, glad to hear it has your seal of approval

i have not watched any movies lately :/

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - first 2 opening scenes were the best part. Melissa joke o_0 ... I lolled
Kings of Pastry - pretty good DA Pennebaker doc about impossibly tough French pastry competition the MOF
The New World - started out slow but ok, got worse after Christian Bale came in