MOVIES!

Frost's quasi-memoir published last year on the experience of interviewing Nixon and evaluating his evasions is pretty good though.

Still Life
Arthur Russell: Wild Combination
Only Angels Have Wings
The Russia House

deep cover (ultimate jeff goldblum and laurence fishburne performances)
in the dust of the stars (i think milton mentioned this on a '70s sci-fi thread. this is a weird, fun movie)
secrets and lies (excellent)

Gypsy - (brought this to watch with family at thanksgiving to make up for what I brought the last three years: Cremaster 3, Star Wars Holiday Special & Eyes Without A Face -- I thought I'd bring a nice musical, but I guess I'd kind of forgotten what this one was about)
The Hellstrom Chronicle - this was FANTASTIC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle ("I have been called everything from a Fanatic to a Lunatic, but the insects will outlive us all")
The War Game - http://www.amazon.com/War-Game-Michael-Aspel/dp/B000007SYV - yeah there was just about no way this ever could have played on broadcast television in the 60's. even today many of the makeup effects, especially the charred flesh, are still almost too realistic to watch
The Weather Underground - good. it slants towards the WU, but after this election that even seems called for
Wall-E DVD

Hellstrom Chronicle Part 1

principal cinematographer Ken Middleham's next project was Phase IV

lol u brought cremaster 3 to watch @ thanksgiving

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"for incubating in the darkened womb of pre-history was a seed of grotesque variation, a fetus with the capability to DOMINATE ALL."

so good. watching this makes it clear that as much as I loved "In Search Of", it was basically fourth-generation repress of this

'phase IV' (excellent)
'À l'intérieur' aka 'inside' (holy shit)

Amadeus
Munich

No opinions on either

Milk (wow, good)
The Wrestler (good scary Rourke, otherwise meh -- Tomei breasts on standard display)
A Christmas Tale (looks great, ambitious, annoyed hell outta me)
Europa (von Trier)
Johnny Got his Gun ('71, Trumbo)
Good (Viggo as Nazi, yawn)

seriously, 'À l'intérieur'...pretty amazing movie. graphic, twisted, nightmarish horror film about a pregnant woman holed up in her house trying to fend off a psycho played by beatrice dalle, who wants to basically rip her child from her womb. pretty remarkable.

The Manchurian Candidate '62

― Dr Morbius, Monday, December 1, 2008 3:30 PM

caught that on cable over thanksgiving, thought it was great

sukiyaki western django (makes no sense, is bonkers, recommended)
fistful of dollars
two-lane blacktop
encounters at the end of the world

crank
no country
gone, baby, gone
maniac (1980)
frogs (1972)
melqiuades estrada
assassination of jesse james
the departed
casino royale
quantum of solace
hunger
let the right one come in
(rec)

some others

michael clayton

i saw blood of dracula/flesh of frankenstein and both were so fucking good

oh yea slumdog millionaire was real good

let the right one come in

oh how was this, almost saw it last week

Let the Right One In is great, thumbs up

just watched "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" last night, yowsa, so good- plus it has Judith Anderson in it (aka "Mrs. Danvers" from Hitchcock's "Rebecca")

DD, check out Judith A in The Furies, where she lives to regret meeting Barbara Stanwyck.

THE MACHINE GIRL - incredible.

transporter
transporter 2
hunger

Into the Wild was good

Welles' Macbeth
Side Street
Iron Mang

Still Life (still the best new film I've seen in '08)
In the City of Sylvia (super new-new wave)
Wendy and Lucy
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Che
Gran Torino
Revolutionary Road (not a disaster)
Slumdog Millionaire (pretty, appalling)

Seventh Heaven
Sunrise (unbelievable restoration)

The Lathe of Heaven (1979) - really enjoyed this. enjoyed everything about it.
The Lathe of Heaven (2001) - still fun: James Caan / Lukas Haas / Lisa Bonet = one crazy cast, but they sucked up all the budget -- all the time reality distortion is mainly done by changing the characters wardrobes every time he wakes up, and they omit the Space Turtles entirely. How could they do such a thing in good conscience?

2nd one makes you realize just how good a film The Butterfly Effect really is

No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
Encounters at the End of the World
The Times of Harvey Milk
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Last Detail

The World of Apu
Terror's Advocate (disappointing)

i watched http://i35.tinypic.com/2yvuwdv.gif

jumped at that for real!

in the city of sylvia
mishima: a life in four chapters
sweetie
milk (totally ;_;) (no homo)

an american crime - I am not even sure if this was "good" or that i'd recommend it. so fucking depressing I had to mute parts of it.

Phase IV - as awesome as everybody said it was, thx for recommendation

Blue Velvet
Sex, Lies and Videotape
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hard 8

Pretty good couple of days!

Milk

phase iv is made of people! nah it was pretty good

Phase IV is pretty great, it's true.

Over Xmas/Newyear:

Baby Face
Three on a Match
Night Nurse (all excellent aaaa+)
Female (dated/hokey but v v entertaining. Also Ruth Chatterton is really cute)
Red-Headed Woman (terrible - Jean Harlow unbelievably irritating)
I'm no Angel (got 6DVD Mae West set for 8 quid. I'll take this one a little bit at a time I think)
Double Indemnity
Golden Boy
The Lady Eve (last three are 1/2 of 6DVD Barbara Stanwyck box set I got for a tenner, all great, esp "The Lady Eve")
Diary of a Lost Girl (this is really outstanding. Film obv cobbled together from abt 6 different prints. thank fuck it exists at all I guess)

Have "Der Letzte Mann" still to watch. Still saving for Murnau/Borzage box. (I pipedream that this will sell well enough to get "Man's Castle", "Flirtation Walk", "Shipmates Forever", "Secrets" and "the Lady" out on DVD. This is very unlikely though I guess?)

MArgot at the Wedding
Belly of an Architect
Man on WIre

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Grey Gardens
Fury
Sisters Of the Gion
I Am Legend
Hellboy II

Oh - and Christmas In July yesterday : so great. <3 <3 Sturges

Hunger (WOW)
Bigger Than Life
Waltz with Bashir
Cargo 200
Theodora Goes Wild
Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters
Remember the Night
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Gomorra
The Order of Myths
Detour
The Visitor
Summer Palace
The Gang's All Here
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (Ken Jacobs)
Iron Man
The Left Handed Gun
Dong
Doubt
Mock Up on Mu
Boarding Gate

Doug Fairbanks silents: When the Clouds Roll By, A Modern Musketeer, Down to Earth

waltz w/ bashir is next on my list to see ... any good?

yes, only ppl need to stop calling it an animated documentary.

Classic morbs. The movie you recommend. It's the audience you have reservations about.

Ganja and Hess (saw this twice this weekend - I can see why some people might not have the patience for this, but all the confusing edits I took for continuity errors on the first viewing all came across as brilliantly surreal or hyper-real on the second viewing -- the film does account for everything, it's just hard to catch the entire narrative in a film this surreal. this film captures things about black america I've never seen anywhere else, and I think I'm on the side of all the people who call it a masterpiece)

hunger was ridiculously good. i was worried it was gonna be a terry george kinda thing but lol was i wrong!

waiting at home right now:

the corporation
le deuxieme souffle
the clockmaker

Eric, not rlly the audience doing it, but CRITICS

le deuxieme souffle (GREAT)