MOVIES!

Grey Gardens
Fury
Sisters Of the Gion
I Am Legend
Hellboy II

Oh - and Christmas In July yesterday : so great. <3 <3 Sturges

Hunger (WOW)
Bigger Than Life
Waltz with Bashir
Cargo 200
Theodora Goes Wild
Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters
Remember the Night
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Gomorra
The Order of Myths
Detour
The Visitor
Summer Palace
The Gang's All Here
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (Ken Jacobs)
Iron Man
The Left Handed Gun
Dong
Doubt
Mock Up on Mu
Boarding Gate

Doug Fairbanks silents: When the Clouds Roll By, A Modern Musketeer, Down to Earth

waltz w/ bashir is next on my list to see ... any good?

yes, only ppl need to stop calling it an animated documentary.

Classic morbs. The movie you recommend. It's the audience you have reservations about.

Ganja and Hess (saw this twice this weekend - I can see why some people might not have the patience for this, but all the confusing edits I took for continuity errors on the first viewing all came across as brilliantly surreal or hyper-real on the second viewing -- the film does account for everything, it's just hard to catch the entire narrative in a film this surreal. this film captures things about black america I've never seen anywhere else, and I think I'm on the side of all the people who call it a masterpiece)

hunger was ridiculously good. i was worried it was gonna be a terry george kinda thing but lol was i wrong!

waiting at home right now:

the corporation
le deuxieme souffle
the clockmaker

Eric, not rlly the audience doing it, but CRITICS

le deuxieme souffle (GREAT)

Yes. It rocks. Criterion (or somebody) needs to get Melville's "Magnet Of Doom" on DVD.

watched Ganja and Hess a third time w/ another friend, things she caught: music is by Nina Simone's brother, who plays the minister in the film, and the Queen of Myrthia is played by Mabel King aka Rog's Mom from

also:
Spermula (softcore french 70's sci-fi film w/ Udo Kier, sort of funny, not really though)
The Children - kind of incredible to rediscover a torrent of this online after seeing it on late night TV many many years ago. also, anyone who knows Negativland's 'A Big 10-8 Place' will now know what really happened to Tommy - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080527/
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

oops aka Rog's Mom from What's Happening

the children is a movie with great remake potential, it has a super creepy premise it couldn't deliver on. talk about an enemy you're defenseless against, what parent is gonna kill their kid even if it is some moptopped zombie?

there is another film called 'the children' with the same concept due soon, substituting an insanity virus for the radioactive cloud

but I think the original does deliver: http://www.flixya.com/video/1623524/The_Children_1980

I should probably watch it again, I'm going with my opinion of seeing it once in the 80s

have you been here?
http://www.cultrararevideos.com/

lotsa old culty stuff, kinda low res but where else are you going to find a copy of when you comin' back, red ryder?

yeah, that's where I got 'the children' and 'spermula'. as well as the terrible english dub of 'stay as you are' (which I still watched) and 'tunnel vision' (not that funny, but way ahead of its time / proto-SCTV)

any other recommendations from that site?

ha, weird!

the classic tv horror flicks:
bad ronald
crowhaven farm
dark night of the scarecrow
don't be afraid of the dark

vengeance is mine (*not* the immamura flick) is worth checking out if you've ever wondered, "what if they made straw dogs with ernest borgnine instead of dustin hoffman?"

and black devil doll from hell is.... well, it's unspeakable

stay as you are: the most twisted midlife crisis sex fantasy ever filmed?

you see there's this really hot young chick who wants to jump your oldass bones - but there's a catch - she might be your daughter! what do you do? if you are marcello mastroianni you furrow your brow for half the movie and then spend the other half frolicking naked in soft focus w/ her.

NETFLIX POLL: what should i watch tonight

assassination of jesse james
foreign correspondent (hitchcock)
OR who's afraid of virginia woolf

never seen any of em

assassination looks very boring
i finally watched apocalypto despite jewhater mel. Decent but steals from so many other movies, no idea why it got "praise".

Va Woolf is a great play on film, ForeignC excellent lightweight Hitchcock.

yay drunken method acting

"Sunset Boulevard", so good, twisted, sad & funny at the same time. Hard to see how they could have made it any better, really.

watched Foreign Correspondent

(***** mild spoilerz ****** )

that plane crash scene was harrowing!! really changed the tone at the end (on some hey America better get in the war sloganeering)

********

Assassination is pretty great. Long, though.

Just watched:

Street Of Shame
The Fall
Blaise Pascal
Age Of The Medici Part 1

quite a few 1940-41 films feature hey America better get in the war sloganeering

the namesake
little deiter needs to fly
after life (koreeda) - didn't finish
wall-e
still life
boogie nights

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Waltz With Bashir was good ... true that it's more of a memoir than a documentary, and I liked that the animation downplayed the solipsism / narcissism that can dominate that kind of a "personal journey" movie ... the little surreal dream parts were great

pineapple express - not good
above the rim - chee-zee

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
Timecrimes
Fanboys
Inkheart

So you finally watched the Akermann Dr Morbius, did you like it?

As for me I watched 'The Reader'. Kill me now, etc. But I saved myself when I caught a screening of Wavelength, both on 16mm and the DVD 17 min 'cut' of it. The panel discussion in between was mixed: real neglect of what Snow's relationship w/sound brings to that film but a member of the audience asked about it...

after life (koreeda) - didn't finish: Oh didn't you like it? One of last year's underrated DVD releases...

morbz that is a truly weird playlist

god how bad was inkheart tho rite

after life (koreeda) - didn't finish: Oh didn't you like it? One of last year's underrated DVD releases...

i wasn't in the right mood for such a slow pace i guess, i kept getting distracted. i really liked nobody knows and maborosi though so i'll give this another shot sometime.

The Reader
Che (part 1)
Parenthood

Harlan County USA

yeah, on a Lang kick at the moment
Man Hunt (awesome)
Secret Beyond The Door (not so awesome)
You Only Live Once (wow. and young Sylvia Sidney = What a cutie.)
Ganja And Hess (unable to finish. Is this a mess or is it brilliant and I'm just an idiot?)

The Thin Man (awesome)
Save the Green Planet! (also awesome xcept 4 the ~hr of torture porn in the middle...<3 what was supposedly writer/director's inspiration = partially inspired by an anti-Leonardo DiCaprio Web site that claims the "Titanic" star is an alien who is seducing all of Earth's women in a bid for global conquest. Equally inspired by the popular movie version of Stephen King's "Misery,")

All or Nothing
Appaloosa
Zorro: The Gay Blade

was I missing something or was appaloosa really awful? I feel like it is the worst film I have seen in a long time.

I'll let you know: it's sitting on my DVD player.

yes mark, it was Stinkheart.

"finally," xyzz? I think you're confusing me with Casuistry -- this is at least my 2nd viewing of Jeanne Dielman.

saw the louise bourgeois movie last night it was good

Free screening of "Hail the Conquering Hero" (1944) tonight. Do I bother y/n?

Free Sturges? Yeah, go see it. And it's a fun one.

will do