MOVIES!

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-(

venom - klaus kinski in a loltastic english dub of a german predecessor to home alone that verges on black comedy.

the frisco kid - morbius is going to make a gene wilder joke that I won't get next time I see him. the math teacher from better off dead is rly creepy in a cameo role.

I've never seen tHE fRISCO kID

in bruges - well i thought this was okay up to a point and i liked the characters up to a point but it would have been nice for the movie to not end in a completely moronic and unbelievable way

night moves - nice gloomy dark hopeless '70s noir, totally awesome ending

escape from la - missed the charlton heston omega man homage the first time I saw this (lol 1997! gravity kills) -- any other bits like this in it?

morbs the frisco kid is pretty fun; a good bromance

The Clash: Westway to the World

caché

venom - klaus kinski in a loltastic english dub of a german predecessor to home alone that verges on black comedy.

This is the one where som,e blonde girl wearing too much eyeliner gets killed by a black mamba or something? And Kinski jumps out of a window at the end with the deadly snake biting him all over? It was pretty terrible if so, & Kinski waaaay overdoes it.

This is the one where som,e blonde girl wearing too much eyeliner gets killed by a black mamba or something? And Kinski jumps out of a window at the end with the deadly snake biting him all over? It was pretty terrible if so, & Kinski waaaay overdoes it.

Yea, it was lolz

night moves - nice gloomy dark hopeless '70s noir, totally awesome ending

^^What I was gonna say re: the above post is that I was contemplating starting a HACKMAN IN THE 70'S POLL on ILE and it would've come down to Night Moves Vs The Conversation for me.

in bruges - well i thought this was okay up to a point and i liked the characters up to a point but it would have been nice for the movie to not end in a completely moronic and unbelievable way

this didn't bother me so much. seemed to tie in with the fairy tale thing they kept going on about.

I saw Sweet Movie, liked it a lot. That scene where the old lady and that dude were pushing that chick into the swimming pool over and over was wonderfully shot.

also the set design in the candy ship was almost more disturbing than the NAZI EXPERIMENT FOOTAGE that the criterion people use as their sales pitch for the movie. The movie was definetly funnier than the holy mountain, and yeah yeah both of their aims are for different purposes, but both have a lot of shit in them worth remembering and visually accomplish that feat in the same way.

brimstone & treacle - one of my favorite opening credit sequences.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7XSa__5I54

THE WACKNESS
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

it is a pretty good summer for stoner movies i guess? enjoyed them both

xpost 'Holy Mountain' is brilliant and fun but in the end it's all about ego, 'Sweet Movie' actually leaves you with something at the end, I trust that film

'Funky Forest: The First Contact' - didn't realize this was the same director as 'The Taste of Tea' until I looked it up, he's come a long way, this makes 'Tea' look completely traditional. Like 'Tea' I wasn't sure I actually liked it until the halfway point, when things go from merely non-sequitous to completely Cronenberg surreal, the difference being that the Japanese really have a way of making the most terrifying things seem totally adorable

'Colossus: The Forbin Project' - first time seen since high school, still great

'The Devil' - Zulawski! new favorite director. when characters begin acting this hysterically insane within the first five minutes of a film, pacing is usually a problem, how can you sustain interest when you start by flooring it. but somehow the plot is well constructed enough, the film just keeps getting heavier. and even though many of the details are specific to Polish national history, the basic story of a soldier who's become an unflinching murderer, and sent home to witness how he's been betrayed by his decadent family... when he starts taking his revenge, you're left without any moral center whatsoever, the film does not flinch. and the ending is _masterful_

Funky Forest:

http://twitchfilm.net/pics/funky5.html

first five minutes of 'The Devil' without subtitles -- just the sound of the asylum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxQmJHglMbU

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/05/david-lynch-making-new-films-with-herzog-jodorowsk.html

waht

Frans Zwartjes - Living (1971)

http://esotika.blogspot.com/2007/10/living-frans-zwartjes-1971.html
http://www.filminnederland.nl/index.php?id=8&show=film&oid=38993

the food of the gods (terrible but fun, ably assisted by free tecate at the theater)