MOVIES!

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

Enjoy the forced feeding scene!

Anyway, I saw S*P*Y*S*. SO shit

Rosemary's Baby (homemaking lolz)

Get Smart (get stuffed)
Three Days of the Condor

As I've said on some other thread: I can't fucking stand sitting in the audience at Film Forum. I skipped the recent Godard retrospective just because I didn't want some mummy seated behind me cawing " What's happening here?! What is this ABOUT?!" every ten seconds. Or Mr. Laugh-Out-Loud_Because_I-"Get It" just chortling throughout.

omg i hate the people who have to chuckle because they're "in the know"!!

^^^ otm! ^^^

career opportunities

flight of the navigator

Mr. Laugh-Out-Loud_Because_I-"Get It" has sat all around me; the other, not so much.

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/uglypan.jpg
Mr. David Lo Pan wishes these fools to be dropped into The Hell of Being Skinned Alive

but dudes sometimes movies are funny!

It's the laughing-at/laughing-with distinction

does it count if i laughed when julianne moore popped up as joan baez? cuz that was funny, but it was totally in an i-get-it way (if you didn't get it, it wasn't funny).

anyway all i really require of other people in the theater is for me not to notice them too much for any reason. anything that makes me notice them is bad.

reprise -- norwegian cinema eh? though this would be boring -- too "literary" -- but I liked.

really? I thought it was pretty crap

well I could certainly see people thinking it was too sentimental or self-conscious about the crazy guy

but I liked the way the guys partied & hung out w/their friends, that seemed credible. norwegian bros.

anyway all i really require of other people in the theater is for me not to notice them too much for any reason. anything that makes me notice them is bad.

qft

King of Kong was freaking touching! I want to buy Wiebe a beer so bad.