MOVIES!

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

baghead: the movie
mumblecore

Just saw Starting Out in the Evening. I don't remember if it was discussed in the 2007 film detrius thread; maybe it should have been. Occasionally too precious about lit-era-chur, but Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor, and Adrian Lester are all excellent. Langella should have gotten the Oscar nod that was (briefly) discussed.

First half of in the mood for love

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

is exactly my experience w that movie

what is this "first half" shit

(I do prefer 2046)

this is on right now

http://www.joblo.com/dvdclinic/dvd_review.php?id=1355

Howl's Moving Castle

oh, thank you Tribeca, for scheduling a 2-hour program of political experimental films that I have to review for 10:30 pm, on a work night.

DEAD RINGER

http://www.rbebout.com/getfree/pix/bdgun.jpg

LOL

antonia's line

I saw about 3/4 of howl's moving castle but then my kids got freaked out so we had to turn it off

Babel: not great
Wayne's World: great

reno 911: miami -- kinda funny. exactly like watching the tv show.
topsy-turvy -- watching this yet again (it's on tv all the time, somehow). love it.

forbidden_planet_1956.avi

gg allin doc from pitchfork

Watched "Night And The City" earlier today and realized the fat club owner had to much screen time compared to the awesome Widmark/Lom... and Gene Tierney should have had more screen time, too. If only for that overbite (K-Rowr).

TV: 'The Name of the Rose', 'The Deer Hunter'

Cinema: 'Funny Games U.S.', a couple of weeks ago now

JV you are bananas, Francis L Sullivan & Googie Withers are both great in N&TC.

They're great!! I just wish there was less of them, more of the others.

smart people: nice pittsburgh exteriors, and the a/c in the theater was good

i wanted to sneak into baby mama which was playing next door

saw harold and kumar last night too. it was funny but "trying to stop your ex-gf's wedding" isn't the instant comedy gold motivating force "trying to get to white castle" is.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Pretty funny until lame ending
Knocked Up - to see if the FSM dude was funny in it
Sky Fighters - fucking terrible