MOVIES!

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)

Paranoid Park - yawn
Man on Wire - I hate this kind of feature documentaries
Harold & Kumar (both) - few laughs
Heathers - predictable and never funny, but I sort of enjoyed it. Dated badly.
Wall-E - objectively brilliant but left me cold

Jodorowsky's film will be the metaphysical gangster movie King Shot. Already guaranteed to be NC-17 (no surprise given his earlier works), the film features Marilyn Manson as a 300-year old pope and will star Nick Nolte.

lolol

haha

night of the lepus - giant killer rabbits terrorize arizona after 2 scientists (stuart whitman and janet leigh) inject one with an experimental serum and it gets loose and within days passes whatever it's been injected with onto thousands of other rabbits. lots of "amazing" special effects ensue. a proto "food of the gods", pretty awful but nonetheless entertaining. the climactic scene was almost seizure inducing w/r/t the special effects and sound editing, imo.

Paranoid Park - yawn
Man on Wire - I hate this kind of feature documentaries
Harold & Kumar (both) - few laughs
Heathers - predictable and never funny, but I sort of enjoyed it. Dated badly.
Wall-E - objectively brilliant but left me cold

Good show. I only wish I could be this brutal sometimes.

A Girl Cut In Two (pretty good new Chabrol. Some really over-the-top acting from guy who plays the young boyfriend. Ludivine Sagnier is (CRUSH). Loved the name Chabrol gave his son's character)

http://www.technoccult.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/jodorowskymarilynmanson.jpg

http://www.endandend.com/pre.php?id=11

'33 "Invisible Man" w/Claude Rains. Amazingly, I've never seen this before. It was great! Way better than I expected it to be.

Coffee and Cigarettes. The weirder ones were what kept me watching (lee siblings + buscemi, renee french alone, benigni/wright, descas/benkole). OK.

star wars: clone wars - it's like watching someone play a video game for 1 hour and 45 minutes

The Pilgrim (Chaplin)
Her Brother (Oshima) - formidable but almost put me to sleep
M. Hulot's Holiday
Little Murders - I suppose some dingdong wd call this "dated"
Boy (Oshima) - one of his best that I've seen
The Island (Shindo, 1960) - took the first half to get with its rhythm, but pays off
The Small Back Room - scaled-down, intimate Archers
WALL-E - my vision of humanity's future brought to the screen

Swamp Thing - This wasn't good this time either.
The Scorpion King - I think I wrote a short story of this in 7th grade English.

battleship potemkin

dirty harry

I go to the Silent Movie Theatre too, Omar Little

five easy pieces
easy rider <-- the "tripping" scene v v nice

Getting Straight
The Touch
Macario
Trouble the Water
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Earthquake
Cool Hand Luke
The Ladykillers (Coen remake)
Burn After Reading

The Reckless Moment
Caught! - http://www.celtoslavica.de/chiaroscuro/films/caught/caught.html
Szamanka - Zulawski's THE BESTEST - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szamanka
California Split (not sure if this was 'Long Goodbye' great but pretty great)

oh whoops, that wikipedia link kinda gives away the last scene of Szamanka there. which in traditional Zulawski style comes as such a complete shock, when I saw it all five people in the room screamed at the top of their lungs at the exact same time, so don't read that, just look at the nice picture of Iwona

I saw:
Near Dark
The Boys From Brazil - "mild mannered international thrillers for old people" is a whole genre, isn't it? Stuff like this movie, and that Matthau movie Hopscotch (which I hated though)