two:
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir) — the cheeky editing and dark humor (one joke based on a baby being stillborn!) make this seem like a film from the 60s rather than the 30s, and the character of Batala oozes sleaze.
Europa (von Trier) — the B&W photography is gorgeous and the exaggerated breaks from realism add coherence and come off as genuinely surreal rather than pretentiously polystylistic as other attempts to do the same can be. Max Von Sydov's narration is great.
― corey, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty much exclusively awesome classic stuff the past week or so:come and see (klimov)"life" (peleshian)in a lonely place (ray)taste of cherry (kiarostami)god's country (malle)
and, uh, not at all awesome (but somehow sticking w/ me): road to nowhere (hellman)
― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched Il Sorpasso last year and fuckin loved it and was just thinking i hadn't seen any good italian 60's stuff since
what's good?
― gr8080, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
accattone and mamma roma
― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
l'avventura and l'eclisse
― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.hitfix.com/photos/479372/Young-Eglantine-in-Legend-of-the-Guardians-The-Owls-of-GaHoole_gallery_primary.jpg
LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS THE OWLS OF GAHOOLE
― dmr, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked it
xp to gr80 Antonioni's La Notte
― corey, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Nostalgia de la luz at the IFC Center
Really really good. I was worried that the astronomy = archaeology = investigation of Chile's recent troubled past metaphor was going to be a bit laboured/on the nose (whatever that means), but I was totally sold. Unusually for this sort of thing (i.e. pop astronomy) the main astronomer was capable of speaking articulately and ~poetically~ about what he does. Guzman's v/o almost Mallickian at times. Personally I totally agree with the astronomy = very important and very trivial at the same time thesis, especially compared to disappeared political prisoners, etc. Also of note: I enjoyed it despite serious pizza indigestion, which is impressive. See this movie.
Cedar Rapids at BAM
this was rubbish
― caek, Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
new yorkers you have until tuesday to see nostalgia
― caek, Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i remember thinking of you when i was reading abt nostalgia de la luz last year, glad to hear it has your seal of approval
i have not watched any movies lately :/
― Lamp, Thursday, 31 March 2011 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - first 2 opening scenes were the best part. Melissa joke o_0 ... I lolledKings of Pastry - pretty good DA Pennebaker doc about impossibly tough French pastry competition the MOFThe New World - started out slow but ok, got worse after Christian Bale came in
― dmr, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
joan rivers doc bummed me out
― gr8080, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1mv22s5qE1qbvx0xo1_500.gif
― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
awes film
― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
saw this lil jammy called Of Gods And Men - its about some cool french bros wearing comfy robes and hangin out in algeria - pretty good, would recommend
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Nakh wtf is that?
― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
joan rivers
― caek, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty much
― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
limitless - lol at this movie
― bantonio banderas (history mayne), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
eraserhead baby ;_;
― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit it HAS been a long time since I've seen that and now I know why!
― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Also that is the second time that's come up on ilx today. weird.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched MACHETE over the weekend and lol'd real hard when he grabbed that dude's small intestine then jumped out the window.Would lol again.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Gonna watch In A Lonely Place tonight..
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched CARNY recently- young Gary Busey and Jodie Foster love story set in a traveling carnival-- some pretty cool Busey freakouts
― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
really? I dunno. she's doin what she wants to do. grindin' hard. I got tired just watching it and I'm def. going to be kicking back at age 75 but to each her own I guess
giant file cabinet of jokes was pretty wild the way they were cataloged by topic
COMMUNISTS -TONY DANZA
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Rivette's last one "36 Vues du Pic Saint Loup" (sic?): OK Rivette I think. Jane Birkin's face now looks like she just woke up from a 48 hour bender.
"A Game Of Chess": 60s intvw w/ Marcel Duchamp. Badass 4evah.
La Chienne/The Two Of Us/ Boudu ... Had a Michel Simon fest the other night. Wish he was my granddad or something.
― Winky Dinky Dawgz (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it was interesting to see how Rivers lived and worked but the way the whole thing came with a "I'm Joan Rivers and I Approve This Docu-Comedy" feel that turned me off in the end
i guess i went in hoping for something more like Valentino: The Last Emperor and got let down
― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I just find Joan Rivers to be a tiresome, pathetic creature, at 45 or 75
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Damn I still need to watch that Valentino one.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ERICA HE OWNS LIKE 13 PUGS AND THEY RIDE ON HIS PRIVATE JET AND HIS MANSERVANTS BRUSH THEIR TEETH HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THIS FILM
― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know! I have no excuse.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
oh damn it's on instant view - c u in a couple of hours
― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
dude knows how to livehttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7b-UuYDjTeg/SfVIIwL1mAI/AAAAAAAAAEw/iwvh_Denpq0/s400/valentino+pugs.JPG
― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
My ideal fantasy grandfather is a toss-up between Simon and Chishu Ryu.
― corey, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post - Yes, yes he does and omg at his pugs. I can't even. That was too much!
― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont know why but my favorite part in that whole film is when he's talking about how tacky a fucking HANDRAIL looks and he goes
"its is like... like when you are walking down the stairs... and there is a thing for your hand.. it is tacky... like a MACY's."
― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha oh no not a MACY's!
― ENBB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
All good things has a commentary track w/ Andrew jarecki & the real Robert durst that I cannot recommend highly enough
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Point Blank - couple great scenes but I was surprisingly a little bored by this movieJean Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child
― dmr, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
love point blank. i watched it every day 5 days in a row the first time i saw it.
― a slippery shit (gr8080), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it is in my top 100
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Escape from L.A. - quality entertainmentImitation of Life - felt really guilty that I hadn't responded to my mom's email in a few days; called mom the next day
― sarahel, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe just wasn't in the right mood for point blank
― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
fight scene at the soul club was pretty great though
― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say thought that would be right up yr alley
― a slippery shit (gr8080), Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
my fave is Lee sighing after Angie punches at him
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
shooting the bed, soul club fight, Angie whaling on Lee were the best parts
it was more the frequent disjointed flashbacks and voiceovers and stuff that lost me. and the convoluted noir plot. but hey maybe I'll watch again sometime.
― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link