MOVIES!

oh Lord: Chapter 27

re: The Good Shepherd - I spent the entire movie waiting for everyone to gay it up.

Conspirators of Pleasure......

flight of the red balloon pretty great.

bicycle thieves
shivers
the water horse

Margot at the Wedding - pretty awful
Mad Max - not great
Mad Max 2 - AWESOME. recommend me more movies about sieges!

ROLLERBALL
MAD MAX 2

its called the road warrior u guys

BEYOND THUNDERDOME EPISODE ZERO

not the road warrior where i'm from

Juno. Just as annoying as it looks.

almanac of fall
kaspar hauser

the omega man

zardoz!! <- awesome

parents

^^crepey

In The Heat of the Night (slap!SLAP!)
where eagles dare
sleuth

I saw those last two before. where eagles dare holds up to RESCREENING cause of all the explosions, but Sleuth is only really good the first time (but it's really good the first time)

The Business of Being Born -- pretty amazing documentary on just how fucked up & systematized hospital births have become, terrifying statistics like 1 out of 3 american women end up having C-sections, not because they need them, but for economic / scheduling reasons, hospitals = factories. Film is very pro midwife and at first cames off like propaganda but near the end when the filmmaker has her own child, you really get a very big picture. five onscreen births, one in hospital, four with a midwife (including Ricki Lake who I am now a 100% fan of)

also The 49th Parallel, crazy Powell / Pressburger film about 6 Germans who escape a bombed U-Boat in 1941 and trek across Canada, getting picked off one by one. WWII films actually shot during WWII = intense

also watched Possession again, my favorite divorce film

Possession the Andrzej Żuławski film, not Possession the Byatt adaptation, right? I've seen neither, but I like divorce films.

Mad Max 3: so awesome.

http://www.andrzej-zulawski.com/

Going back a few months:

Pash, you know all those songs in SitR are from the '20s or '30s (except one, maybe), right? It was a nostalgic piece in its time. Its Greatest Musical Ever partisans are totally daft, but a lot of the songs are funny and the numbers exuberant, especially when O'Connor is involved.

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:32 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

Well how about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94QR4v3zsnc&NR=1

The finale from "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" is a whole crowd of silent-era actors and actresses singing "Singin' in The Rain" itself! Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Buster Keaton and John Gilbert all there, plus a bunch of other people I don't recognise. There's a whole bunch of these 2-strip technicolor musical numbers on youtube, and I think I've seen like one bad one out of the lot of them. I thought all the musicals from this era were supposed to be really crappy & shit? they look great to me (OK maybe the rest of the films were bad, how would I ever find out though)

Solo performance of the song from earlier in the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZFVQd5t5k&NR=1

my netflix this weekend are MIRROR and THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE

terminator 3 w/rifftrax (easily the best one i've heard yet)
forgetting sarah marshall (pretty funny!)

the sentinel - wasn't too into this. scary christians will save us all.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall may be the best movie about a chubby guy dating way out of his league yet

Glass
Becoming Jane
Be Kind Rewind
The Puffy Chair
Baghead
The First Saturday in May
Alexandra
Night and the City (Dassin/Widmark)
TRIBECA:
My Winnipeg
Baghdad High
57000 Km Between Us
Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha (Melvin Van Peebles, fun)

"The Garden of Eden" (1928) romantic comedy/farce, very sub-Lubitsch (dir Lewis Milestone, who I think did "All quiet on the Western Front"?), very very good, one of the best silent films I've seen. The lead actress, Corrine (or maybe Corinne, I've seen it spelled both ways) Griffith, is unbelievably hott:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2054/2432691802_4df1f86db4.jpg?v=0

Forgetting Sarah Marshall may be the best movie about a chubby guy dating way out of his league yet

-- AJ Styles, Monday, April 21, 2008 8:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

dude was not chubby

cary ewes is pretty funny in liar liar

the MIST lol

lol... we watched river's edge last night... so bad/good. crispin glover was a freak. awesome metal mullets abound. ugh, total nonsense tho.

no, it's good. esp Glover & Hopper & blowup doll.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall may be the best movie about a chubby guy dating way out of his league yet

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Summertime
In the Valley of Elah
The Wire: Season One

28 weeks later - don't bother

I disagree!

Although the turning point of the film really defies logic on multiple levels.

it started out ok then got pretty bad in the 2nd half imo

well I suppose if I saw my wife in quarantine, under armed guard, and securely strapped to a gurney, I'd think nothing of it

errol morris: first person complete season
miller's crossing
before the devil knows you're dead

liar liar - Jim Carey's romantic leads got younger as he got older after this I think!
a bridge too far - too short!

the cable guy - i spotted all the cameos correctly! yay

I like to fall asleep while watching A Bridge Too Far after enormous meals on Sunday afternoon. I have a VHS copy labelled "A Bridge To Far".

Morbs: what are the buzz movies at Tribeca? What have you enjoyed so far?

It's all I can do to go to 9-10 screenings and write reviews quickly, I really don't hear 'buzz' much. I really like the Guy Maddin (out in June, and this mumblecorish comedy-horror Baghead (July) is pretty good. Also, Van Peebles' video picaresque has a limited audience but is very ballsy and playful for a 75-yo guy (he plays the lead from teenager on) to turn out.

First half of in the mood for love

mumblecorish

kill this adj, plz

suggest a synonym, Grouchy!

The Voice calls it "lo-fi," lol

that thing you do (on tv; had forgotten all about that one)
chinatown
the long goodbye (<3 elliot gould)

suggest a synonym, Grouchy!

Kettle! Baby!

Of course I have no other suggestion, but I read a post on the otherwise-enjoyable IFC Movie Blog that used that term about 60 times in the space of 300 words, and it was unnnnnnnnnnnngh

Baghead (July)

i thought this meant miranda july for a second