MOVIES!

"encounters at the end of the world" was tremendous, though. i am buying this the day it comes out on DVD and watching again.

don't want to drop any spoilers but the thing w/ the penguins was the most amazing moment of classic herzog, up there w/ his "breakdown in the jungle" monologue during the doc about fitzcarraldo.

dario argento's "third mother" ... was awful

yeah, that seemed to be the consensus so we stayed in and watched this instead.

dmr why you no like 3-iron?

I dunno, repetitive, weird swings in tone & mood, got bored by the end and watched the last 20 mins or so in fast forward

Nathalie - eh. Emmanuelle Beart is a total babe.
Happy Go Lucky - I liked it! Chick is a total babe.

the bridge - good! also sad, shocker

sweeney todd. bunch of crap, but it made me shave

oh you kid

the tv set -- not bad. sigourney weaver as rampaging network chief was pretty funny. fat beardo david duchovny too.

via a friend:

fun fact: Sean Connery had no idea what League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was about
he read his lines in much the same way Bela Lugosi did: word by word, with no grasp of the context

Ghostbusters -- there's like 3 effect shots in this whole movie!

weird swings in tone & mood

welcome to korean cinema lol

I didn't dig kim ki-duk's early films, something too shrill and faux profound about them, but 3-iron I liked. it's got a unique premise but I guess you gotta be in the right mood for a movie where the two leads speak less then wall-e and eve.

Cross of Iron: seemed like Stransky changed half way through into a total unsympathetic bastard. enjoyed the russians' boobs

welcome to korean cinema lol

ha. yeah the tone/mood thing didn't bother me in, say, The Host but one particular incident in 3-Iron (don't wanna get spoilery) had me saying WTF.

enjoyed the russians' boobs

lol

La France (flummoxed)
The Man Who Lies (Robbe-Grillet; disappointing)
No Regret
Conflagration (Ichikawa)

steamboy

Def try and see Grillet's Trans-Europ-express, also eden and after I quite liked...

Also saw Conflagration last week. Ok but Actor's Revenge is something else.

Best of recent weeks = Oshima's Boy

batman begins
hellboy dc

(prepping for summer sequels obv)

didn't like batman begins much. not sure if this makes sense, but the combination of a heavy + bleak atmosphere with an almost campy attitude towards plausiblity rubbed me the wrong way.

still really like hellboy. it's not perfect but it doesn't overreach in any direction.

battle of the bulge
the dark knight

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.

oh yeah and the schnabel concert film of lou reed's berlin (a lot of the hauntingness of the album does get lost in live performance, but lou's delivery & facial expressions are A++++)

The Reckless Moment (Great Max Ophuls noir/woman-on-the-brink drama)
The Lineup (nasty and fun)
Desperate (pretty dope Anthony Mann noir)
La Chienne (Finally! One of my fave Renoirs now. DVD-r bootleg but there really needs to be a restored dvd of this baby.
It could be as awesome as...)
Nosferatu (new Kino restoration. wow. Looks amazing, score sounds incredible and add to that a bunch of scenes I had never, ever seen before that just really add to the classicness. Best dvd purchase this year.)

prepping for summer sequels obv

It's a full life!

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (pretty good until Friday shows up)
ANDRE TECHINE:
Hotel America
I Don't Kiss
Ma Saison Preferee
Wild Reeds

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.

-- get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:59 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

This? http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/322659/Made-in-Sheffield-The-Birth-of-Electronic-Pop/overview

In Search of a Midnight Kiss - good
The Man Who Fell To Earth - too long but good
Saving Private Ryan - it is a film
Papillon - waaay tooo long
Elephant - brilliant

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.

-- get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:59 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

This? http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/322659/Made-in-Sheffield-The-Birth-of-Electronic-Pop/overview

-- caek, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:43 PM (1 hour ago)

that's the one. it just focused on too many bands and was too short to deliver adequate insight on any one of them. peel's appearance was nice; he was talking about a band called artery.

IN HARM'S WAY - John Wayne Pacific theatre shit

^ basically I'd rip this off 100% if Theresa and my dreams of a live action Macross could ever be realized.

Wall-E (haven't seen a film in theatre this many times since Heavenly Creatures)
Demon Seed (only saw this on TV growing up, uncut version is much more sadistic & gratuitous & hilarious)
Films of Kenneth Anger Volume I (hadn't seen these early ones. watching 'Rabbit's Moon' feels like opiates in the bloodstream. shouldn't have rented this, should have just bought it)

Saving Private Ryan - it is a film

haha

In Harm's Way is not a pimple on Saving Private Ryan's ass

milton: yeah rabbit's moon is great!

xposts

K-PAX
Sunshine <-- suxxxxxxxxx
some shit i was too stoned to remember

lol k-pax

Sunshine had some potential before it turned from nu-Solaris into a slasher pic

Katzelmacher - I get something out of every Fassbinder I've seen, but this one took more than a little patience. maybe just self-conscious because I was seeing it with someone who'd only seen one of his other films
Elia Kazan's The Arrangement - kind of shocked how much I loved this, I was expecting something a little more haphazard, it may be self-indulgent but it also doesn't flinch. one of the better midlife crisis films & maybe my favorite Faye Dunaway character (really need to see Barbara Loden's Wanda, the film directed by the woman Dunaway's character was based on)

Cloverfield - pretty scary at the beginning! 9/11 type shit creeps me out. better than I expected overall
The Dark Knight - overhyped, overlong, still enjoyed it

other than that haven't seen much cuz we're catching up on Mad Men season 1 and watching some mega History of New York PBS series from 1999

Sunshine was fantastic right up until the slasher part, yeah. I wish directors would just let us get our claustrophobia/paranoia on without bogeymen. (see also: The Descent)

t/s: sunshine vs event horizon

Lots of bloody awful short films at Soho Shorts film festival - bloody awful
Dark Knight on IMAX - pass
In Bruges - couple of big laughs, fine

Cloverfield was totally scary at the beginning, and everyone OTM re the first 2/3 or so of Sunshine being great

One Take Only - Pang Bros imitating QT basically, not bad

Shutter - godawful even for a straight-to-video Asian horror remake

Swing Vote (flush)
The Horse Soldiers (Ford)
The Exiles

I have been watching Ronin in bits and pieces during dinner. It's pretty great. No clue why it went so far over my head when it first came out.

daer guyz,
i wanna take my girl to see wall-e because her dad recently died and maybe a heartwarming kids movie could cheer her up some, but i'm wary of any kind of bambi scenes. is this a good idea?
-f

it's not exactly the feel-good flick of the year .... nothing specifically related to the death of a parent but it's pretty dark for a kids' movie, esp. the first half

n/m,
apparently her dad dying caused her to fall out of love with me and in love with her ex-boyfriend.

:(((

no shit man. how does that shit happen?

so emo (/8-(