MOVIES!

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?"

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

oh good. i haven't seen three times, but i love those other two.

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

Francis Coppola sings along with this line on his commentary track.

Brazil - do not get what is so interesting about this film. everything that happens is so completely arbitrary. i guess it looks good.
Persepolis - awful
Bonnie and Clyde - wow, people weren't kidding when they said this was good
Gerry - Quite liked it but skipped forward a lot. Could have had an awesome soundtrack, but they went for no music.
Crystal Skull - such a disappointment. fuck you, aliens. say what you like about hitler, but at least he makes a compelling character in a film. solid first 20 minutes, I guess.

my boyfriend wants to see the strangers tonight

i'll be listening to liv tyler scream for over an hour, hooray my luck

Sympathy for the Devil - much better than I had been led to expect
Real Life
Modern Romance
Elephant (Clarke)

do ppl in couples ever say re movie watching "Sorry hon, yer on yr own on this one?" I think so. (just for future ref, elmo)

My girlfriend is pretty good at that.

lol, i don't wonder!

i watch most movies by myself because my wife's not interested. we have a separate category of date-night movies we select to watch together. (next up, the original bedazzled.)

do ppl in couples ever say re movie watching "Sorry hon, yer on yr own on this one?" I think so. (just for future ref, elmo)

my guy volunteers to make certain films (usually comic-book adaptations) "stag night" for himself. he likes chick flicks when they're good, so we end up going to those together anyway.

tipsy: original bedazzled is brilliant!

twee as fuck double feature:

the darjeeling limited (very good)
juno (better than i expected, but certainly nothing mind-blowing)

schplitter schplatter:

saw doomsday yesterday (oh my fucking LORDIE lord. when sol was doing his punk stylee dance while fine young cannibals' good thing was playing i was about to run to the screen and rub my body against it. but my sweet cousin was with me and she need not be exposed to my freaky sides.)

saw cloverfield which was okay, i guess, but my husband had been raving so much, as has other ppl, so i was a bit underwhelmed. twas good but not like... ok ok i was scared.

Cinema: Persepolis - pretty good, for the most part.
A love in Germany - Wadja's film was fantastic.

DVD: Alphaville - probably one of my fave 30 sec beginnings of any movie ever. The rest of it matches that.
Damnation/Wreickmeister Harmonies 2-DVD set

VHS - Ugetsu Monogatari - late Mizoguchi flick

The Edukators ... amusing by the time it's over.
Sex Is Comedy ... film about film... fun to watch.
iron man ... good fun.
crystal skull ... okay i guess. i had really low expectations.

can't wait for hellboy 2.

ok i lied the next date movie turned out to be knocked up cuz it was on demand. i don't love or hate apatow, he's just very of-his-era. sort of a watery kevin smith.

300 (this wasn't a date movie. v. pretty. fascist. got boring.)

21 - don't remember anything about this except kevin spacey is good at being an asshole

oh except the initial demonstration of how brilliant the main character is that he is able to grasp the concept of probability.

happy together
once upon a time in china
death becomes her
the rocketeer