MOVIES!

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

hannah takes the stairs
M
42 Up
hubert selby jr. doc
my blueberry nights

Oxford Murders: so bad I walked out after 30 minutes (haven't done this since My Summer of Love)
GG Allin thing on Pitchfork: meh
All Summer in a Day (1982, short): weirdly atmospheric despite terrible child actors and limiting production (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWmahMdeGU)
Cable Guy: This is a good film? Seriously? Very boring, never laughed.
Schindler's List: not lols

Innocents With Dirty Hands: Romy Schnieder (sic?) I <3 U but LOL Rod Steiger. Not my fave Chabrol.
Darjeeling Limited: Liked this way more than I expected to.
That Obscure Object Of Desire: So much in this I didn't pick up the last time I watched it - 5/ 6 years ago. But NOW... hell, probably one of my Top 5 Buñuels. And Angela Molina vs. Carol Bouquet: POLL?

CASSHERN is almost completely incomprehensible

irma la douce -- shirley maclaine's good, the rest of the movie not so much

The Darjeeling Limited - Don't get the Adrien Brody hate.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
In the Heat of the Night

yesterday i watched 2 (1.5) movies!

gone baby gone - omg v frustrating! awzom twisty plotting and sweet boston gangsta action interspersed w/corny narration and sentimental bullshit W T F

spider - one of the last cronenbergs i hadnt seen - i was enjoying its trippy observations until they lulled me to sleep - maybe watch the rest today

The Outsiders (Uchida, 1958)
The Band's Visit (one of the best comedies of last year)
Profit motive and the whispering wind
Hidden in Plain Sight
Is It Really So Strange? (doc of LA Latino youths idolizing Morrissey)
Panic in the Streets (Kazan, v good)
This Is England
Somers Town

how was the morrissey doc?

The Darjeeling Limited - Don't get the Adrien Brody hate.

Certainly not in this movie. He's great here.

best aquatic vertebrate actor since that kid who played nemo!

the morrissey doc is OK, esp for fans or queer theorists, but phaps overlong at 80 mins, esp as he couldn't get any rights to Moz/Smiths tunes, save "This Charming Man" over the end credits.

http://www.williamejones.com/collections/about/16

lets say yr not so into morrissey or queer theory but are interested in weirdo fandom - would this movies amuse you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_%28film%29

did anyone see this he he

panic in the streets o_O
rapid fire
bloodsport

xp: probably, jhoshea.

(also it's a video, not film, but no one seems to care anymore judging by the Tribeca Film Fest)

omar, are you now trailing my viewings? isn't it great to see Jack Palance and Zero Mostel run from the cops through a warehouse together?

some interesting dynamics going on in blackie's little trio there imo. richard widmark is awesome!~

lol imdb

William E. Jones, a Smiths fan, made a documentary about some kind of a phenomenon that occurred in LA, or somewhere in southern California (I'm not sure about the exact location): it seems that twenty years after The Smiths broke up, there's this huge fan community there, and they're mostly Hispanic. I went to see this one at a festival, 'cause I thought it would be really interesting... Like, sociologically or so. Why would this people relate to Morrissey, an Irish man, living in England, and to his lyrics about teenage angst, despair and frustration, lyrics full of sexual ambiguity and so on. What could this man and this band mean to them? Well, at first, everything was great... There's this tribute band there, The Sweet and Tender Hooligans, and loads of people go to see their shows, as if they really were in a Smiths gig; a bunch of Hispanic people who are really enthusiastic about The Smiths, and that's okay, I'm a fan myself. Then it just got silly. The director started interviewing some of these fans, and it suddenly became all about their sick obsession. The way they asked Morrissey for autographs and tattooed them afterwards; the way they fought for Morrissey's shirt during his gigs; their opinion on Morrissey's sexuality or political views; how Morrissey helped them coming out to their moms... I can't really explain what happened there. "Sick people" is the most I can say without being offensive (and I sure did get offensive in the theater). Well, they made me laugh, that much is true... But I don't think that the director's goal was to make a comedy or fun of those people. So, if you want to see a bunch of sick Morrissey fans, go for it; but you won't get anything from this experience, besides, perhaps, a higher self-esteem.