MOVIES!

the bad thing is they cause you to be awake watching said movies at 3am

the better thing is falling asleep wathcing The Rapture, missing the titular scene, and waking up to the sound of your son screaming bloody murder.... HOT TV!

Elephant (Alan Clarke version)

the better thing is falling asleep wathcing The Rapture, missing the titular scene, and waking up to the sound of your son screaming bloody murder.... HOT TV!

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:56 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that has got a be a disturbing movie to watch with kids in the house, considering what happens 2/3rds of the way through!

Choke (trivial)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
The Big Sky

burn after reading - meh, occasional lolz

on the plane: ironman, semi-pro, smart people

virgin america is a top notch airline btw and semi-pro was funnay - also you can order drinks from yr seatback tv and they bring them right to u!

elephant alan clarke version is a humdinger

saw that in a double bill with the g.v.sant "version", quite the difference

virgin america is awes. i took four flights from la to sf/jfk in the space of a couple of weeks last year. never more than half full. stewardess recognized me on all the flights, remembered my drink, and kept em coming all flight long.

xp, maybe I'm just too impatient, but the Alan Clarke film was kinda dull. my favourite revenge killing was the only one with any dialogue.

watched these, these past two weeks

love liza
dark city
the taking of pelham 1, 2, 3
ghostbusters 2
trafic
pan's labyrinth
unser täglich brot ("our daily bread")
l.a. confidential
the lady from shanghai
son of rambow
hellboy
la jetee/sans soleil

son of rambow = gash

yes

Hellboy2
Noise <--awesome
Be Kind Rewind <-- terrible
The Host
Nil By Mouth

The Night Porter (haven't watched this in 10 years. it's still incredible.)
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (Zulawski doing a sweet Felliniesque romantic comedy is still Zulawski, his version of an accessible film does mean there's not as much screaming)
Kin-Dza-Dza (first half is purposefully slow and torturous, but second half is great once you acclimate to the pace, took work but definitely worth seeing.)

that has got a be a disturbing movie to watch with kids in the house, considering what happens 2/3rds of the way through!

right after my son was born I made the mistake of watching the first episode of the decalogue while he slept on my chest == real tears

I saw salo, I wish it was funnier
Kind of just fast forwarded through it after a while
I haven't seen any of the Saw movies but I imagine they're kind of like it
I liked a lot of Mama Roma tho

Force 10 from Navarrone - kind of cool, but not very cohesive over the entire movie

Saints & Soldiers - I didn't know about the low budget for this film and it was a nice modern return to this genre. The fact that the Mormon's religion was implicit was a little o_O to me.

the foot fist way - r-rated napolean dynamite, but i liked it.

Sorcerer (a mess, but pretty fuckin' great nonetheless)
Dillinger {John Milius version} (not a mess and pretty fuckin' great)
Faust (Svankmajer. Niiice)
The Quiet Duel (super melodramatic Kurosawa. OK)
Return To Oz (always AMAZING)

The Sound Barrier
Tokyo Story
All My Good Countrymen

does a morbius want to see a boredoms movie?

http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=28450

There Will Be Blood
Hart's War

gattaca - ok

not even when the playoffs are over, no JW

Starstruck (Aussie new wave musical)
24 City
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Walker (Alex Cox, worse than I remembered)
Jeremiah Johnson
Humoresque (1920, Borzage)
Touchez pas au Grisbi

The Earrings of Madame De...
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
The Nikolhausen Journey
World on a Wire (I wish Fassbinder had done more Science Fiction)
The Third Part of the Night (Zulawski's first film, about a man whose wife & son are executed during the Nazi occupation of Poland. he stumbles into a random apartment to hide from the SS to encounter his wife's doppleganger giving birth, while the SS seize her husband outside. to support them in his absence, he takes a job as a test subject in a Nazi lab, getting injected with Typhus while lice feed on his legs, which he then takes to the lab to dissect. he spends the days trying to figure out the degree to which he is hallucinating. I had to pause this film about four times to go do anything else, almost too much, but would make an incredible double feature with Black Book.)

Walkabout - loved it

repulsion

i feel like i never go to the movies even tho i love the movies
and so last night a friend and i decided we needed to go, but i don't know, so much just seemed not worth it, or boring/depressing. (and lol i forgot to check festival listing b/c there is a good festival in town right now. ah well.)

anyway, we saw City of Ember - and it's really good! kind of a kids/family movie but also kind of freaky and cool and exciting, reminded me of feeling of city of lost children but not as dark obv, nor as french, and with more linear plot and action. and bill murray is great :)

afterwards we went and had martinis

Rachel Getting Married - oscillates btw Rachel's borderline overly precious twee wedding and the intense self-absorbed druggie narcissism of her sister Anne Hathaway .... but I still ended up kinda liking it. pretty big part for the tv on the radio dude, he's like third billing (plays the groom)

wall-e last nite - pretty great - wish i had seen it in the theater

Le Ronde
Lola Montez
Le Plaisir
Z.P.G. - Zero Population Growth (hadn't seen this for a while, unbelievably low budget but as far as over-population dystopia it did come before 'Soylent Green' and 'Logan's Run' -- 30 year moratorium on reproduction, punishable by death, leads to hysterical crowds chanting 'BABY! BABY! BABY!' whenever an unauthorized baby is found on the streets. hideous robot baby surrogates, killer smog, abortion machines in every bathroom & bad electronic muzak for everyone)

(& kind of amazing considering it was released two years before roe vs. wade)

i've never even heard of it! will have to watch

double indemnity - never seen it, was great

state and main - good times, but it's like mamet's never seen a film or real life before

Oshima:

Violence at Noon
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Death by Hanging
The Ceremony
Taboo (Gohatto)

other:

Tokyo Sonata
Ashes and Diamonds (w/ Wajda q&a)
Rachel Getting Married
Frontrunners (I bet gabbneb went to Stuyvesant HS)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
One Day You'll Understand
Saving Marriage
Zidane
Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (the book as a one-man play as a film starring the blond boy from The OC)

I really liked death by hanging. how were the other oshimas?

not as funny!

My favorites are Boy, The Ceremony and Violence at Noon (it's been too long since I've seen Cruel Story of Youth).

i would like to see zero population growth!

no one should see a movie called "profit motive and the whispering wind" because i just did and it was BAD

the last mimzy

omg this has to be the best kids movie to watch tripping since willy wonka

just don't watch it with your kids while you're tripping

that would be irresponsible

I'm looking @ you sexyDancer

is it bad for baby to see you tripping

no one should see a movie called "profit motive and the whispering wind" because i just did and it was BAD

only the last 5 mins were bad

you are right! i liked it until then but i felt like it was completely ruined by the ending. i don't feel that strongly about it anymore. i wouldn't say it was bad now i would say it's "not for everyone"

forgetting some:

speed racer - ok
tropic thunder - not bad but merely "enjoyable"
the postman - lol why did i watch this

"Red Dragon" (nowhere near as bad as I was expecting, but I was expecting it to be atrocious, so....)

"Hostel" (did not watch all of this, was disgusted by its grossness)

first 10m of some Shannon Tweed vehicle lololololololo IT WAS "BETTER" THAN "HOSTEL"

I was at relatives in W Yorkshire, they have a TV set, probably would not have watched any of these otherwise.

I saw Red Dragon too. It was on TV at the weekend, right?

It was funny when he ate the picture but the rest of it was pretty yawn.

Yeah it was on ITV I think? I can't remember I'd drunk some beer.

The funniest thing was how blatantly they'd bulked up Hannibal Lector's part in the story compared w/the original book or "Manhunter". Also, A Hopkins' performance was ridiculous. Some of the other actors were good though, which saved it from being total rubbish I thought.