MOVIES!

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

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

We actually had a "John Titor" register last year sometime. He never posted though that I saw, which was dissapointing. Probably just some IRE dude anyway, but still, I wanted to believe and all that.

the prestige yeesh

(bowie as tesla was funny though)

both of those magician movies blew (prestige and illusionist)

born yesterday again. judy holliday in this is really one of my favorite performances ever.

First chunk of astonishingly good KG haul that's been watched:

Big Man Japan
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe (s.3)
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges gem!)
Mind Game
Nekojiru-So (Cat Soup)
Three short films by Osamu Tezuka

also, the stunningly boring bad Tales from Earthsea, the first Ghibli I ever walked away from.

In the wings:
Ben X
Black Limelight
K Terror
Kakurenbo
Sang Sattawat (yay new Weeraseethakul!)
The Dragon Painter (silent 1919 Japanese neatness)
Before the Nickelodeon (documentary on Edwin S. Porter)
Cowboy and the Lady
Nel Nome Del Padre
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Noiseman Sound Insect
Glassy Ocean
She and Her Cat
Bagi the Monster of Mighty Nature

had a rad movie weekend!

mirror - amazing, cant wait to watch it again and again. started a whole nother thread about tarkovsky so...

the swimmer - maybe a lil too ham-handed w the high-society satirrre, but wvs. really good-looking, and burt lancaster rules, and the existenti-o element is awes

cockfighter - TOTAL GAG MOVIE. amazing how many times the can say cock, and the fighting footage is pretty wild and brutal, but sort of totally falls short of two-lane blacktop for desolation/oblivion (LOL movie tag: he came to town with his cock in his hand, and what he did was illegal in 49 states)

the grateful dead movie - watching now, deadhead footage is awesome. donna/keith being in the band makes me a lil less psyched abt the concert recording though

mister lonely
the counterfeiters
6ixtynin9

the swimmer is classic - used to be on TV all the time pre-cable - so weird.

"swimming across connecticut"

Live Free or Die Hard

Talladega Nights is not as awful as I had expected

the mist - blah, watch the host instead.

the ending was interesting tho. it was problematic in that the director didn't earn the moment (probably why people react so negatively to it). on paper the ending's in line with the rest of the movie's concerns; faith, tenacity, how people act under pressure. but this is stephen king here, not arthur miller. if the rest of the movie didn't burn so many cycles on its facile social commentary I might actually watch the black & white version - maybe the cgi doesn't look so crap in that one.

Yoshiwara: The Pleasure Quarter
The Naked Jungle (Heston vs army of soldier ants)
Sitcom
Paranoid Park
The Secret of the Grain

bourne ultimatum -- snappy. the less realistic matt damon cia movies are, the better they get.
inland empire -- liked it even better the second time.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/One_Hour_With_You.jpg

in 1932 the singer directly addressing the audience was normal on Broadway, but in an early talky Chevalier directly addressing the audience is so hyper-modern it is bizarre. pre-code, every line pretty scandalous, he ends up spending more than an hour with her

That looks totally awesome; I need more more more lubitsch in my life.

Planet of the Apes '68
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Pickup on South Street
Trumbo