MOVIES!

seven dwarfs scene so classic

"seven coming at you like a GATLING GUN."

hahaha

I saw it for the first time right after Sideways and lolled @ payne's apparent shameless swiping of the nose bandage. altho I guess it's in Chinatown too.

http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/altman-californiasplit.jpg
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/041118/122812__sideways_l.jpg

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busted noses: a picture thread

you can't "swipe" a bandaged nose. ppl get their noses bandaged.

3:10 to yuma is a great character in search of a better movie.

Like the 1957 one?

i liked 3:10. it was just a good oater.

delirious

steve buscemi playing usual quasi-sympathetic loser character, michael pitt looking more like cobain than he did in that gus van sant movie. wan stabs at satire.

trouble in paradise
king of kong
knowing me knowing you (complete series; sort of like a movie)

just watched BRIDGE, the documentary about golden gate bridge suicides. basically dude filmed the bridge every day for a year from diff't angles and caught 23 suicides on camera. then he went back and interviewed the families and friends of the suicides, told their story, allowed people to meditate a bit on the process of grief and loss and living with people who have depression and bipolar disorder and scizophrenia

really recommend it to everyone, it was really amazing

sorry, i think that should be THE BRIDGE

Sounds cool! I'll look for it for sure.

Watched the 1st half of Into the Wild at some point last week, felt inspired to go on snow hike yesterday, which was fun, came home last night and watched the second half. ha. I liked it though.

that movie is good, vahid

chameleon street

wow so so good

also lol vantage point wow so so bad

the fountain - ugh
cocksucker's blues (bootleg stones movie) - pretty cool, could be tedious if you're not in the mood but I dug it

michael clayton -- the clooney was good & wilkinson's bipolar was on point, but <3 <3 tilda swinton the most

margot at the wedding -- why do i only like nicole kidman when she plays borderline psycho cunts from hell? pretty great movie

darleeing ltd. -- i despise that fucking luggage

becoming jane -- uh, this was pretty awful, no way around it

you really liked margot at the wedding?

for reals

On Dangerous Ground (whoah. Though I would've preferred borderline psycho cop Robt Ryan to stay in the city and wreak havoc on the "garbage" )
Port Of Shadows (wow. Gabin, Michele Morgan (<3!!), Michel Simon and a li'l dog)
One Wonderful Sunday (sweet)
The Racket (also really great)

The Bank Job - flashy and well-directed but too many loose ends and implausibilities in the plot. the sub-p about the real life radical/criminal "michael x" was strange because I just read a 30 year old book about this guy Guerillas by VS Naipaul. now that would make a great movie in the right hands

"Rope" is the kind of thing people would lose their fucking mind over if some 32-yo director made it any time within the last decade and a half

too bad hitchcock was around way back to pwn every dipshit since him

hahaha otm

chameleon street

wow so so good

YES

I like Rope well enough, but c'mon, Stewart is the least convincing Nietzschean evah, and Dall and Granger are kinda terrible.

the perfect crime!

resaw Zodiac last night. I liked it better this time around, but the ending still sucked buckets.

Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch)
It Always Rains on Sunday
The Boston Strangler (surprisingly creepy Tony Curtis)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Roman de Gare
Brokeback Mountain
Changing Times
War Made Easy
Under the Same Moon
The Other Boleyn Girl (ugh)
Frownland (even worse)
Never Back Down (the pits)

what were YOU doing watching Boleyn – was it for Eric Bana's sake?

and wtf Brokeback Mountain?

Yeah, Brokeback sucks.

Frownland is basically a no wave Adam Sandler movie.

I had to review Boleyn...

Frownland is sub-Woman Under the Influence trendy bullshit.

I had only seen MMtn once! and I recall Eric calling it "a harmless mediocrity." Which it is, but Ledger is good, esp in his last scene w/ Gyllenhaal. (Also I'd never seen the choice Jake-in-wifebeater making-of footage.)

^BMtn

I got "That Night in Rio" for a fiver, reduced from 14 quid or whatever. Way better than I thought it was going to be, w/funny script & appealing performers. The tunes were great, Alice Faye was very attractive, this not always obvious from stills of her, where she always looks kind of matronly. Her singing voice is gorgeous. Carmen Miranda is the most wired performer I think I've ever seen. Also the technicolor was nice and lurid. Was it some kind of rule that in any latin-american flavoured fox musical, they had to refer to the good neighbor policy in the first 5 minutes or something? Funny bit near the end where Don Ameche carts Alice Faye off upstairs to bed, which cuts to one of the performers from Carmen Miranda's band playing some kind of percussion instrument which seems to involve vigorously pumping yer forearm in and out of a wooden cylinder. Outrageous!

Eh, we watched "Dames" as well. The musical numbers apart, this film is so bad! EXCEPT when Joan Blondell shows up, then it gets good again. There's nowhere near enough of her in it though.

Before The Devil Knows Your Dead — made me sad
Terminator 3 - serious bullshit
The Graduate - I like this film

I wish Zodiac had been an adaptation of the Neal Stephenson book and not the movie it actually was.

Yeah, Brokeback is more mediocre. I wish it sucked a little more, harhar.

Most of the wives' scenes are among the weakest. Needed more classic-Disney-style misogyny. ;)

Nu-uh, Anne Hathaway was like the perfect person for a closeted but way gay guy to marry.

Sudden Impact

I read an excerpt of BBM slash fiction when the film was originally released in which Lureen helped Jack Twist in the bois department.

Trading Places
Lifeforce (aka Space Vampires)
Dogfight

I haven't seen Dogfight in years! Still my favorite Lili Taylor performance.

she even almost charmed Mrs. Dancer, who hates Lili Taylor.
Phoenix makes sure to have a different "funny walk" in every film he's in. My coup was to indentify an bit character in the penny arcade scene as one of the Hayward sisters from Twin Peaks. (The poet one, not the piano playing one)

TV: Repo Man (just awesome!). Love Alex Cox, wish I'd seen more than just Repo and 'Sid and Nancy'.

Cinema: cpl of Haneke's Austrian films at the recent retrospective at the Lumiere.

Bande a part. V funny, awesome use of music.

There will be Blood. Some good stuff in it, uses too much music.

The Edge of Heaven.

Gonna see a screening of this on thursday.

Bank Job - eh

dogfight is good, yeah. felt like a little undiscovered piece of something. a different angle on the '60s movie.

i like this scene. (it's true about river's funny walk.)

More River funny walks:
-in Running On Empty, during the nature walk with ol whats-her-name from Goonies
-in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, River pulls off a strange, pigeon-toed squat gallop descending a sand bank

maybe he was walking funny cuz he was sleeping w/Martha Plimpton at the time