MOVIES!

haven't read it but I do like terry southern, him + sellers is pretty much why I rented it

huh, magic xian convinced me I don't like southern or sellers

omg fite

same reason I don't like zappa

so i dont like zappa either - you cant not love peter sellers tho - its against the law

well, Sellers' films are all over the quality map. I never cared for Clouseau (aside from A Shot in the Dark), but in I'm All Right Jack, Kubricks, omg.

(not to mention his record parody of Olivier declaiming "A Hard Day's Night")

also the party i love you alex b toklas and being there!

antonio gaudi
in the name of the king ;_;

didn't like "being there" ... haven't seen those other two

so yeah I guess sellers is hit or miss and magic xian is somewhere in the middle for me

i read magic christian in hs and thought it was funny. i'm not sure if that's a recommendation. (i also read candy and liked it, but that was mostly because it was dirty. i don't imagine that book has aged very well.)

first movie i've seen in awhile: katyn (really weirdly paced/plotted, friend says it's "very spielberg" and i think he's right tho i'd be at a loss to explain that more fully)

Death Bed - The Bed That Eats
Chinese Roulette (saw this with friend. I think out of all Fassbinder, this might be the best one to start with, non-stop action)
My Winnipeg (GREAT)

seriously you guys, Death Bed

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2088630670_284262d981_o.jpg

Chinese Roulette (saw this with friend. I think out of all Fassbinder, this might be the best one to start with, non-stop action)

and bonus anna karina. it's too bad a lot of the fassbinder dvds seem to be going out of print.

on a California streak:

Night of the Comet
The Long Goodbye
Chinatown
Suburbia
Some Kind of Monster

up next:
Miracle Mile

repo man after that?

or maybe safe

I watched the director's cut of rob zombie's halloween. michael meyers emo!

xp: probably both!
...so far Some Kind Of Monster has the bleakest vision.

Robinson in Space
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Gone to Earth (a wack Archers film)
The Edge of Heaven

this is the story of how the little people answer the big questions

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UT4uVAjaq7U

^ nsfw

ok was that trailer custom made for me? YES

metallica: bleaker than polanski

watching the therapist contribute lyrics to st anger is a pretty fucking bleak experience

a hilarious experience, as well

sure sounds like polanski

Robinson in Space

I love this movie. Was it screening somewhere or did you just watch it on DVD?

DVD. I thought you hadda be British to really get into it. I know what they were going for but it just didn't grab me.

Le gai savoir
California Split
New York Portraits 1-3
Looking at the Sea
Skagafjördur
Young Mr. Lincoln

heathers
river's edge
ed wood
road house
indy 4
walk hard: the dewy cox story

street kings - not completely awful, watchable pulp
the orphanage - decent but not really that scary

George Landow program (Super-8 fragments/Fleming Faloon/Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, etc/Diploteratology/The Film that Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter/Institutional Quality/Remedial Reading Comprehension/What's Wrong With this Picture/Thank You Jesus for the Eternal Present)

At Sea

The Namesake - a snooze, hated it

haha someone was trying really hard to get me to watch that and warned me that i would cry a lot?? *SKEPTICAL*

breathless - i now love this movie

xp: Kal Penn is a crykiller.

My Father My Lord
Sex in Chains
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou's worst in awhile)
War, Inc. (yikes)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940; if you know any 10-year-old Star Wars fans, BUY THIS FOR THEM)

(altho the Coppola/Scorsese commentary track may be lost on them)

I thought Flight was about 10x better than Three Times.

I liked the Second Time of 3x better than anything he's done lately.

Agreed, but there are still those pesky other 2/3rds.

i rly like flight. of course i also have childhood fondness for the red balloon. but i think j.binoche is pretty great in that. i forgot she could act.

(morbz what is/are your favorite hou(s)?)

xp: Kal Penn is a crykiller.

he was pretty bad

tipz: Flowers of Shanghai (his masterpiece I think), Puppetmaster, second "silent" segment of Three Times

I kinda wanted Binoche to shut up after awhile, and also to GET OUT OF THAT APARTMENT!

My Dad took me to see Thief of Bagdad when I was eight. all time fave.

I took my friend's kid when he was nine! Perfect stuff, looking better than ever on this disc.

"i want to be a bandit, can't you understand it?"