MOVIES!

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

they cut one outta the beginning!

around the time of h b-c's "I'd like to live by the seashore" tune it was losing me a little bit

That was a wonderfully funny scene (and a badly needed 'break' from all the misery).

WR: Mysteries of the Organism
American Outrage
The Dictator Hunter
USA vs Al-Arian
My Blueberry Nights
Scene of the Crime
Encounters at the End of the World (wanted to use nailgun on Film Forum audience)
Redacted (blah)

--yeah we were ready to kill the dumb bitches behind us at FF.

Encounters at the End of the World
Apocalypto

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

what did you think of it? i watched it last week when it first aired. fascinating, but i thought there way too much to cram into 90ish minutes.

er, there was.

epic stoned victory at sea marathon

Has anyone seen /White Sun of the Desert/?

xp: The Sharon Tate stuff was so heartbreaking, the rest of it seemed like a nightmare ... great edits with footage from his films.

Wild Things (lol)
Wild At Heart
Daredevil (rifftrax)

yeah, i was quite impressed with that editing. it surprised me how little samantha geimer appeared in the film, but then she was pretty much an afterthought throughout the entire disgusting circus.

a little goes a long way with her.

what was the deal w/ the film forum audience?

usually the people in line there remind me of the marshall mcluhan scene in annie hall.

My guess is that Morbs is complaining about young people laughing at everything. In my experience, Film Forum is usually crowded with old people complaining loudly. Also mice.

there's plenty to complain about (what my 30-YEAR-OLD friend calls "the smug Sorkin audience").

yeah, it's the laugh-at-every-edit crowd. Same clowns that clog up every Lynch screening.

Ah yes, the unavoidable swarms 20-something Aaron Sorkin fanboys. But yeah, those people are obnoxious and Film Forum is pretty bad. Luckily, there's rarely a reason to see anything new there.

it's always fair weather
the thief of bagdad (well, this is the template for fantasy action films all right)
incident at loch ness (like watching herzog in an episode of The Real World, a little uncomfortable & obvious, they get off some good laughs but ffwd'd through a lot of it)

tonight, DVDR of titicut follies - http://www.zipporah.com/films/22