MOVIES!

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

paranoid park

The Firm (Clarke)
Dangerous Liaisons
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Lost in America

Raging Bull

Bruce Willis with a mustache was best part of Death Becomes Her

oh u kid

A Woman's Vengeance
The Lion Has Wings
Indiana Jones and the Best Script They Could Manage in 19 Years?
Up the Yangtze (splendid doc)
Operation Filmmaker (almost as good)

Thirteen Days (plodding hagiography)
The Golden Coach
Love Affair (the Boyer-Dunne, not the Beatty-Bening one)

but it was a hagiography of Kenneth O'Donnell!

Murder, My Sweet -- Dick Powell = BEST Phillip Marlowe? Prob'ly.
La Chinoise
Testament of Dr. Cordelier
British Sounds

O Lucky Man! ruled so hard.

fast-food nation (linklater's john sayles movie. agenda-driven, preachy, intermittently effective.)

the river (renoir) - awesome

head-on -- kinda overheated. two leads are sexy though.

Ornette: Made in America
My Winnipeg (disappointing)

BE KIND REWIND - CUTE BUT WORST GONDRY
JUMPER - TERRIBLEARIOUS

Cassandra's Dream - terrible
Control - tedious
Next - worst shit ever; turned it off when nic cage tries to be smooth, tells zen/hot dog joke INCORRECTLY; then GETS LAID CUZ CHIK HTINKS HES SMOOTH

Next is maybe the worst thing I have seen in years

oasis (i really liked this. bummed that netflix doesn't have secret sunshine yet.)
hot fuzz

saw hulk... worthwhile summer popcorn flick but too much real actual violence (e.g. gunfire) compared to funny HULK SMASH car-throwing stuff.

Sweeney Todd - beginning and end were good, could have cut a couple songs outta the middle though imo