MOVIES!

babel is probably worse though, except for the chickens and some of the stuff w/ the japanese girl (nightclub scene etc)

The Ten -- basically the premise is a thin pretext for a bunch of skilly sketches but I lol'd hard.

silly sketches, lol

unknown pleasures: still good!
infernal affairs 3: WACK

ACE IN THE HOLE! ACE IN THE HOLE!

-- Tape Store, Sunday, 20 January 2008 18:15 (2 days ago) Link

so good

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SP-cMlpq-zM&feature=related

I have reserved "The Boxer's Omen" at the liberry.

No idea what remy means by the '57 original of 3:10 to Yuma being dated, but it's real good, esp Glenn Ford.

Fallen Angel
The Gospel Acc to St. Matthew
Army of Shadows (so overpraised)
These Earthly Days Go Rolling By
Apichatpong Weerasethakul shorts
Odds Against Tomorrow (good Robt Ryan-Belafonte perfs, disapp finish)
Woman on the Beach (yay)
Orthodox Stance
The Counterfeiters
Bug (3 acts: excellent, good, oh no)

Lacombe Lucien
Cat People (original)
The Lady In the Lake
Interstella 555
Toni

Cloverfield (didn't really catch any hype before seeing this, thought it was pretty effective & scared the shit out of me a few times)

Black Sheep (bad NZ creature feature, at least tried to be funny)

Octopus II (awful creature feature, foam tentacle wrestling & all, and apparent from the credits it was made ENTIRELY BY RUSSIANS)

Mosquito Coast (i love this movie)

The TV Set

first 5 minutes of Rush Hour 3

eastern promises
no country for old men
the warriors
first 20 minutes of labyrinth god wtf jennifer connelly is a bitch in this

YOU GUYS BULLITT WAS AWESOME.

I also added The Warriors to my queue today cos I've never seen it.

bullitt is SO fucking awesome

Bullitt rocks

Last few days:
The Blue Gardenia
Andrei Rublev
Veruschka (in Italian but visually awesoem)
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh. this was GOOD)

Also The Big Sleep (1946) where Dorothy Malone plays the world's sexiest bookstore employee. No, really. Also, the plot is friggin' exhausting and I love R. Chandler. And Lauren Bacall is scary looking in this

Exhausting is like a lot of the v best noir to me.

Taped and watched: 'The Lady of Deceit', which is decent enough late40s noir.

Zodiac was my recent library borrow. Mostly excellent, now I might have to read the ILE thread.

Bought an on sale copy of Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse (from '76). This was kinda noise, therefore good.

Away From Her - julie christie is "good" in this I guess but it plays out like a lifetime / we network disease-of-the-week movie, turned it off halfway

margot at the wedding*
the man who shot liberty valance
the apartment
the wind that shakes the barley*

*had not seen before; excellent.

just watched camille 2000..well, it was on i got bored..but let it run to break in bro's new tv for a bit...

silly italian erotica..i got it cause i like the soundtrack...i have learned a lesson.

Andrei Rublev
is awesome, is my favorite movie evevevev

the wind that shakes the barley
ive heard is rad, will have to investigate

Camille 2000 is totally charming.

thats true..but, its thin...the costumes and sets are fantastic!

Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse

I LOVE THAT FILM, Love is Alive

Valerie and her Week of Wonders (liked it! some people said they were thrown by budget production but psychedelic Czech 1971 children's fable = automatically engaging for me and I liked the dreamy weasel vampire legions. also seemed honestly from the girl's perspective, innocently wandering through forest orgies, just trying to get some sleep as the scary world of adults keeps beckoning her to grow up)

Seconds (hard to believe this film even exists)

RAMBO (CGI is now capable of depicting bodies crumbling into pulped bits under machine-gun fire with heretofore unknown degrees of realism)

julie christie is "good" in this I guess but it plays out like a lifetime / we network disease-of-the-week movie, turned it off halfway

This is so OPPOSITE of the case that I am dumbstruck. You missed when she went homicidal in a bowling alley at the end. Gordon Pinsent is just as GOOD tho not famous.

The Witnesses (splendid French AIDS drama)
Year of the Dog (woefully misjudged, but Peter Sarsgaard is creepily spot-on as gay vegan animal-shelter guy)

thanks for the spoiler warning, morbsius

elmo punk'd!

Seconds is awesome.

dumbstruck! what can I say, I was bored by it. too many touching, wry meaning-of-life chats with the nurse.

ok, those were the most routine, purely expository scenes, but there were some great Alzheimers jokes, and I found Christie and Pinsent totally made for a lifelong couple.

Pinsent should have gotten an Oscar nod.

Bug (christ, this set a new standard for awfulness)
Fort Apache, The Bronx
Southern Comfort

laurel is renting my netflix queue from last spring. i predict you will segue into peter fonda/warren oates/adam roarke films next.

FOR INSTANCE

^I would only watch that at a drive-in^

QQQQQQQQQ the winged serpent
(awesome)
(please recommend me more movies about dragons and/or aztecs thx)

Some fucker is holding onto Disc 1, Seas 1 of The Wire -- every other disk is available except the first one.

Actually, Kevin, I'm thinking of going on a Robert Mitchum bender next.

i think i gave tehresa a copy of season 1 xpost

Actually, Kevin, I'm thinking of going on a Robert Mitchum bender next.

i don't think he was in either race with the devil or 92 in the shade so you're losing out.

mitchum is dreamy. not nec. one of his best, but 'his kind of woman' is a must-rent for scene-stealing vincent price scenery-chewing.

Cloverfield. Cloverfield is BAD ASS.

Sunshine.

it was...ok i guess

prince of the city (good shit)
searching for the wrong-eyed jesus (weirdly hypnotic, strangely moving)
+ a failed attempt at seeing rambo

a bill of divorcement melodrama and all, but hepburn + barrymore = great

planet earth....and more planet earth...(though i did watch primal fear the other night ..dvd collection here is v.v. all over)

but once new tv is warmed up there will be hours of brackage!

"Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse

I LOVE THAT FILM, Love is Alive"

Was the last scene a nod to Ballard. I assumed so..

Lately: 'Lust, Caution' at the cinema; 'All about Eve' on TV; 'Superbad' and 'Obsessione' on DVD.

director larry cohen is total noise, guys. (his screenwriting credits are even longer, lotsa 60s tv episodes)

"Masters of Horror" (1 episode, 2006)
- Pick Me Up (2006) TV episode
Air Force One: The Final Mission (2004)

Original Gangstas (1996)
... aka Hot City
As Good as Dead (1995) (TV)
The Ambulance (1990)

Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Deadly Illusion (1987)
... aka I Love You to Death
... aka Love You to Death (USA)
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
... aka Island of the Alive (USA)
The Stuff (1985)
Perfect Strangers (1984)
... aka Blind Alley
Special Effects (1984)
Q (1982)
... aka Q: The Winged Serpent
... aka Serpent
... aka The Winged Serpent
See China and Die (1981) (TV)
... aka Momma the Detective (USA)
Full Moon High (1981)
... aka Moon High (Australia: TV title)

It Lives Again (1978)
... aka It's Alive II
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
God Told Me To (1976)
... aka Demon
It's Alive (1974/I)
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Black Caesar (1973)
... aka The Godfather of Harlem (UK)
Bone (1972)
... aka Beverly Hills Nightmare (USA)
... aka Dial Rat (UK)
... aka Dial Rat for Terror
... aka Housewife

the witnesses
still life

^ best jia zhangke

Still Life (after Platform, yes!)
Strayed
Shorts starring Bert Williams (1916)

why does Strand Releasing send out DVD screeners of The Witnesses where a 2.35:1 film is squeezed into a 1.85:1 frame, is what I'd like to know.