MOVIES!

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.

don't forget that a face in the crowd is goddamned genius like i did ('till last night)

oh, platform is amazing. i've got the world coming up at some point in the nflix queue.

should i watch:
sweeny todd
the hunting party
across the universe
saw 4
or the golden compass

im gonna take a shower then go buy some ice cream - id like a decision by the time i return

i have from netflix:

times square (which i've seen a few times but robin johnson has been on my mind lately)
cruising (william friedkin, never seen it)

and finally saw there will be blood last wknd. thought it was very good! i'm very happy to see this resurgence of westerns.

except it's not a western.

Probably too soon, ben:

http://www.filmforum.org/films/face.html

Carnival Night
The Cranes are Flying
Persepolis
Les Enfants Terribles
Black Book
La Vie de Marianne
The Lives of Others
The Mirror

it fits in the genre

http://www.deadofthelivingnight.com/

Phantom India Episode 3
"The Idiot" (Kurosawa)
Passion (Godard)
De Eso No Se Habla
Scorsese "My Voyage To Italy" (even Marty can't convince me about Antonioni)
Les Aventuriers (again. guilty pleasure)

since no one gave me guidance i watched the hunting party - booooooo

TWBB is set in the West, and fits no other classical requirement of the genre very well

The King of Kong

election - mildly funny

I tried to watch Beautiful Swordswoman but it had 1970s subtitles: very small and ball-serifed and all in white. Even when the background was white. I gave up.

DVD borrows: 'Taste of Cherry' (didn't partic care for this), 'Trans America', 'Vertigo'.

TV: 'I Vitelloni' (early 50s Fellini), 'Sleep, my Love' (ho-hum noir from Sirk)

'The Marriage of Maria Braun', good-to-excellent, though really you can really easily hate on the extra DVD materials that are tacked on these.

suspiria

Buster Keaton "The General" 1927 silent (freaky Confederate Buster hijinks)
"Alien Contamination" 1980 (low budget "Alien" ripoff, major lolz)

that Union train falling into the river was the most expensive shot ever to that time

You're Gonna Miss Me
La Dolcha Vita

that Union train falling into the river was the most expensive shot ever to that time

-- Dr Morbius, Sunday, February 17, 2008 2:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I said don't do it that way, you'll never make a dime

remaining fragment from "Gold Diggers of Broadway", 1929, bizarrely turns into a jazz-era high-energy breakdancing movie about 3/4 of the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfomcfVGqCQ

;_; for real @ when the surviving film fragment runs out, but they still have the audio.

Like, from about 5.00 on HOLY SHIT!!

margot at the wedding - just kill them aaaaaallllllll

elizabeth: golden age -- gorgeous, bromidic, boring, fell asleep

klute: meh, also fell asleep

eyes of laura mars: just so fabulously retarded

aw, i love klute.

elmo must've fallen asleep before the disco scene! rewind for sodom 'n gommorah early 70s style

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Joy Division
Ex Drummer
Before I Forget Taxi to the Dark Side

Memories of Murder - ok serial killer movie by the guy who made The Host

GUNHED

t/s long, detailed mech-building montage vs long, detailed mech-repairing montage vs apprx 80 mecha smashing thru walls scenes

TEKKON KINKREET IS PRETTY GOOD GUYS

White is 69 and Black is pretzel walrus + I claim my $5

donald sutherland is KLUTE
jane fonda is SEX ON FILM
her wardrobe/hair is HIPSTERIFFIC A++
the score is SPOOKY AS SHIT
the line deliveries are READY AIM SAMPLER
ROY SCHEIDER IS A PIMP NAMED FRANK

seven days in may was pretty good too. could use a remake?

bought science of sleep, i heart huckabees (lol indie) and jarhead on special.

currently up to III in my rewatching of the star trek movies. III sucked, II was awesome and I was fine.

elizabeth golden age is EXTREMELY boring. battle scenes are pathetic.

what kind of prez would the crazed militarists want to take out in the Seven Days in May remake, Tom? Chiwetel Ejiofor as Obama?

part of the dirty dozen

about to watch The Conversation once the ramen is done

Last week: Blade II. Hhhooo boy was it bad. I can't say I wasn't warned...but I want to see the third one, so I slogged through.

This weekend:

The Island: starring ScarJo and Scottish Bloke McGregor
Evil: Swedish movie about boys' school bullying

i just downloaded this

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