MOVIES!

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.

Delicatessen

Amateur
Trust

The Vanishing (the inferior US version, according to my gf anyway)

Polanski's Macbeth
L'Enfer

street kings - man wakes up cocks his gun looks in the mirror and pukes - a genuinely awful movie

manufactured landscapes - gorgeous and disturbing as billed - artist statement style narration is a huge mistake

flight of the navigator
the proposition
may

flight of the navigator

:D :D :D

EIV spent the first 15 minutes saying I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared and the last hour jumping up and down yelling THIS IS AWESOME THIS IS AWESOME THIS IS AWESOME

oh sure time travel is pretty terrifying before you learn it is impossible

it's possible we just haven't worked out the details yet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole

yeah I mean why you think the swiss got such a leg up on shit man it's cause they all from the future

though I like the notion that time travel is proven impossible by the simple fact we have not been overrun by tourists from the future

it is possible the swiss have cleverly disguised their time tourist status

the time travel in flight of the navigator IS pretty scary ... in the 4th dimension there's scary purple clouds, and loud bass rumbles, and lightning strikes that go upside down!

I think he was more scared of the scene where the boy went to his house and his family didn't live there anymore, and the trip to the hospital. he was cool with the purple clouds and upside down lightning strikes.

i was always unsettled by the creepy NASA technocracy / STAR MAPS in your BRANE parts

but oh, that movie is so full of wonders

"Flight of the Navigator" v v entertaining.

I like to contemplate the possibility that time-travellers from the future, the most secretive motherfukers that ever lived, actually walk among us, and we are unaware of this.

Young Sarah Jessica Parker == way hot

^^^ truth-bomb bait.

was always unsettled by the creepy NASA technocracy / STAR MAPS in your BRANE parts

o yea that was another I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared moment

which was soon offset by his realization that the kid was the smartest person in a room full of grownups and we were back to THIS IS AWESOME

also young sjp dying her hair purple for twisted sister concert roffles