MOVIES!

the chanting/ritual scene was cool. also t & a.

it's better than anything that came out of Hollywood the last 3 years (except the first 25 mins of WALL-E)

I liked it when I saw it in the theater and was like hey this is suspenseful & compelling. tried to watch again one night on cable and it just seemed ridic.

Kubrick is better if you realize all his movies are comedies.

well i did want to lol every time someone said "bill" to tom cruise

Let the Right One In, liked it a lot

wicker man - og 70s version, great!

Poto and Cabengo

http://www.nova-cinema.org/archives/2001/44/cabengo.jpg

http://www.esotericrabbit.com/blog/?p=375

also going through the Unseen Cinema box set. so far the one that took me by the biggest surprise is Henwar Rodakiewicz's "Portrait of a Young Man" from 1925-31. I've just left it looping on my laptop for hours this week.

http://theartofmemory.blogspot.com/2007/03/henwar-rodakiewicz-water-light-and.html

someone told me to see poto and cabengo and i promptly forgot about it. thx 4 reminder

kurosawa's "high and low" ... so fucking good. maybe top 10 material.

The NFT are running a Kubrick season *sigh*

Watched a screening of Renoir's 'La Marsellaise' and caught bits of 'Robocop' last night.

am working on frederick wiseman's public housing. good but i wish i could see it on big screen, i get bored otherwise.

Seven Men From Now
Return Of Frank James
House Of Bamboo

Taxi to the Dark Side

Seven Days to Noon
Variety (1925, EA Dupont)
Brother (very fine, dark Russian crime comedy, 1997)
Battleground
No More Excuses (Robt Downey Sr, 1968)

Miami Vice - for some reason I thought this wasn't gonna suck, but I was wrong

<3 miami vice ;_;

o rly

I dunno, I wanted to like it .... none of the characters had personality tho ... tubbs was barely in the movie and crockett was mainly a haircut

I thought Mann would do it proper but I think even Collateral was a lot better than this

i kinda luv miami vice

alien
invasion of the body snatchers (1978)
four friends

Miami Vice is fantastic, even though they cut the "taking it to the limit, one more time" plane line that was in the trailer. Avoid the director's cut, though. Theatrical is tighter.

recently:
Wendy and Lucy - usually love MW as an actress, but this entire thing was a bit too blank even for neo-neo-realism
Taken - not as good as Bourne I/II/III or Ronin, but a pretty solid adult action movie
The Uninvited - actual surprising ending, Elizabeth Banks, David Straithern and older sis are all very good for a horror movie
Disaster Movie - um, not my choice

im a fiend for mojitos

Serbis (a fetid sensory experience, good one)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Murder in Harlem
The Exile

The Uninvited - actual surprising ending, Elizabeth Banks, David Straithern and older sis are all very good for a horror movie

if you liked it you should check out the korean film it's based on, a tale of two sisters. it's like a david lynch directed ringu.

Changeling (not looking forward to this)
The Horse's Mouth (maybe my favorite Guinness performance)

Man on Wire
Call of Cthulu
Paranoid Park

i liked changeling. and i dont like fatlips jolie in anything, usually.

beast with a gun (courtesy of ^that guy)

the korean film it's based on, a tale of two sisters

oh wild. I saw that at Tribeca fest a couple years ago, didn't know there was a remake

Fixed Bayonets
The Lost Patrol

eyes of laura mars -- soooo '70s, in so many ways. kinda loved it. (good lord @ tommy lee jones' hair.)
coraline -- yeah, pretty cool.

goodfellerz
baghead
sunday the 15th

they show clips of Laura Mars at the W'burg gay bar's nu-wave night, I've seen that chick fry in the tanning bed at least 8 times.

bought tickets for Fabulous Stains next week at lincoln center
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/fcs09/ladiesandgentlementhefabulousstains.html

manhunter

simpsons movie - fuckin awful

pineapple express - lol

taken (the best)

Birdsong
Border Incident
Within Our Gates (1920, Micheaux)
Superbad (good til cops derail it)
An American Affair (as bad as it gets)

Daft Punk's Electroma
The Holy Mountain
The Year of Living Dangerously

it occurred to me while watching The Simpsons Movie in the theater that it was designed to be seen there -- otherwise you're just watching the Simpsons on TV.

pretty much. glad I didn't pay money to see that in a theater tho.

glad i didn't pay to see friday the 13th. started off great but the rest was shitty.

also i thought it was a screener rip i dl'ed until i saw two giant shadow people mst3k-style walk to the middle of the screen and sit down lol.

Fabulous Stains was fun

"If you work hard, maybe, in a couple of years time, you might be something different. At the moment, you’re just two white stripes."

is this line where the White Stripes got their name? kinda makes sense, the Stains rocked all red white and black and didn't have a drummer

White Stripes have a dru--oh i c what u did there

xpost -- oh wait white stripes have a drummer but no bass. lol

anyway this wuz cool

haha yeah I actually wasn't going for a gag there I just repeated some dumbass imdb comments without thinking