MOVIES!

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

http://bp1.blogger.com/_xHRnVgc3-_k/R2Qcv9Po1bI/AAAAAAAAAFI/pmem4pm5Gx8/s1600-h/rudeboy2ux0.jpg

this

http://www.blackstarvideo.com/img/rude-boy2.jpg

last weekend:

the girl from monday ok. its hal lartley, what did i expect
the monkees head: was told to actually see it. saw it. whatever
a roxy music doc. some sort of critical look into 1st 4 records. critics were idiots. footage was sparse...basicly a waste

hospital, rififi, and something else coming today...mismanaged queue again

^^looks better than the clash film of the same name..though strummer hamfisting "let the goodtimes roll" is priceless..in the way that he can be

Uggggg I have tried to watch The Girl from Monday twice. Can't work up much enthusiasm...?

yeah, thats about it...started it on sat...watched the rest on tues due to lack of other options

hal hartley should team up with george lucas.

morbius, I guess I wasn't really thinking about the presidential character as much as I was thinking of all our latter-day lancasters and douglases (cf departed etc) in the other roles, and patented "which of these people who all look alike is double crossing me" moments. anyway obviously the answer is martin sheen.

JOHNNY GUITAR (a little too much kitsch-factor)
NEVER CRY WOLF (i love carroll ballard, even if he's an ass)
ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
MICHAEL CLAYTON
BREACH

IT"S NOT KITSCH, remy. Drink yr milkshake.

xp: I have the novel somewhere in my house... seemed like Freddy March was Adlai Stevenson (just like Sellers!), at least Serling's script made it so. Lancaster played another rebelling general (this time sympathetic?) in Twilight's Last Gleaming, which I've never seen.

no kitsch in johnny guitar

"The Gang's all Here" phantasmagorical alice faye/carmen miranda musical from 1943. Terrible, really but very enjoyable for all that. Always weird to see blatant political propaganda in Hollywood musicals "Here's your good neighbor" and all that.

HMV has "That Night in Rio" which appears to be the same cast, playing the same roles, only made 2yrs earlier, on sale. I might pick it up tonight.

Stalag 17
The Great Escape
Champion (Kirk Douglas) - on TCM now

Oscar month is awesome

i know the movie is not kitch, and i really liked it.

but i was watching it with two friends who just oozed over every goddamn thing joan crawford did, and every clowny melodramatic nick ray moment like it was the best goddamn piece they'd ever seen. sorta emphasized by counterpoint exactly what it is that irritates me about his movies. something about the theatricality and exaggeration that i think was handled much better by someone like vincinte minelli without verging so close to campiness.

honestly, i am not now (nor have i ever been) all that taken with any of ray -- but i love sterling hayden, so this was an enjoyable pic

I thought Blade II was supposed to be the best one. or at least "the one guillermo del toro did." I didn't like it enough to fuck with blade 3 at all

on dangerous ground
secretary
the king of kong

that is a hat-trick of awesome

Elena And Her Men
The Lower Depths (Renoir)
Prenom:Carmen
" The War " Episode 1 (still on the fence about Ken Burns. Is that Nora Jones singing over war footage somewhere on here? Sheeesh)

wow tekkon kinkreet rules good call mr tomboto

and every clowny melodramatic nick ray moment like it was the best goddamn piece they'd ever seen. sorta emphasized by counterpoint exactly what it is that irritates me about his movies. something about the theatricality and exaggeration that i think was handled much better by someone like vincinte minelli without verging so close to campiness.

Yup, although I've never minded In a Lonely Place.

a boy and his dog (crazzzzzzy)
superbad (though i missed the last 20 minutes)
and last night i watched the law & order CI marathon instead of the oscars, because the oscars are boring.

hmmmm, not as boring as cop shows