MOVIES!

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

i've always hears Stains is bad; Lou Adler was a music guy who only directed one other movie (Cheech & Chong)

I thought it was pretty solid for a late night b-movie. teenage diane lane is grate (laura dern only has like two lines)

The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh/John Wayne)

Guy Debord:
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
The Society of the Spectacle

Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
Everlasting Moments (you said it)

The Hobbit
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Pineapple Express

double feature last night with crumb & space is the place. sara had somehow never seen space is the place despite us owning it for several years.

recently watched "the last wave"--maybe would benefit from a re-watching.

watched "exposed" by james toback and except for the very end it was pretty fuckin great. cool to see a young ian mcshane and also toback himself playing a cliched english prof that gets punched out by rudolf nureyev. also nastasja kinski was terrific in it.

Bought 14 Marilyn Monroe films for UK30£. Also a bunch of Garbo films for similarly el cheapo cheapo. £Camille" has the silent Alla Nazimova version as a bonus. Which to watch first...

"i've always hears Stains is bad"

It's not.

Fabulous Stains is great.

Southland Tales (never have I looked forward less to watching a film for the second time. first half-hour is really something, or however long it takes you to figure out the whole thing is a bluff)
The Brood (hadn't seen this for years, but this time I nearly had to eject the disc. most horrifying film about the effects of divorce on children possible, a snuff film would be easier to watch)
Kiss Me Deadly
Night of the Hunter
Blind Beast (highest possible recommendation -- do not read spoilers, but Blind Beast >>>>>>>> Woman in the Dunes > In the Realm of the Senses. I was expecting another campy execution of Rampo like Black Lizard, but 40 years later and it's all tame compared to this ending)

lakeview terrace

^^ wtf was this garbage

wow i saw blind beast last week and while it did remind me of a woman in the dunes i didnt think it was better. woman in the dunes is operating on a whole nother level imo

admittedly it is bad of me to recommend this film in the abstract. the friends I watched it with had seen it before at Pacific Film Archive and said it was the only time they'd seen a third of the audience leave during the last 10 minutes of a film. I can't say I was ready for the final stretch, and I can just imagine a wider audience weighing the decision to stay -- 'almost done, but... oh god I know where this is going and I just don't want to see it, get me out of here'

actually I can't imagine seeing this film in public at all! I like all the films I compared it to, 'Woman in the Dunes' is restrained, 'Blind Beast' is far more psychedelic and gaudy. Dunes is more social allegory than a stripped-down relentlessly dark romantic fable, your call

yea idk i still dug it and would recommend it be seen (tho it is hard to imagine seeing it in a packed theater, but many things are...)

Mary Poppins
The Hurt Locker (K Bigelow Iraq psych thriller, coming in June)
Female (1933, Curtiz)
Law and Disorder
American Violet
Easy Virtue (crap new Noel Coward adap)

Little Children - wtf this actually won writing and acting awards wtf

gonna watch Woman in the Dunes tomorrow. I actually had Blind Beast on my queue for a minute but Milton's second post scared me off, lol. maybe later

saw hunger just now. i liked it, save a few things. however probably will not watch again anytime soon :( was kinda painful imo

also steve mcqueen was there 4 q&a and he seemed really nice

GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen

Boiling Point
The Fountain (eeeh)
Sex & Fury
Gran Torino
Sword Of The Beast

The Devil's Rain