MOVIES!

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

Intimate Lighting (1965, Passer, excellent)
35 Rhums (Claire Denis, pretty super)
The Girl on the Train (Techine, disappointing)
Kuchar Bros films (1959-86; national treasures)
I Love You, Man (ugh)

you saw i love you, man on opening day?

before.

P2 - tit fetish "torture" flick (watched with the sound off cuz too much screaming/shouting)

from you or the movie

encounters at the end of the world - basically a Planet Earth episode with herzog narrating ... good formula imo

wayne's world w/my kid. no OVERT bonging scenes (implied's ok) so uh "excellent."

altered states - http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/goat2.gif = A+ // script & story (esp. the end) = F

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Lang, 1924)
Adventureland
The Class
Master of the House (Dreyer silent...comedy!)

25th hour - wtf this rules
airheads - mildly amusing
bangkok dangerous - pretty worthless
sweet sweetback's baadasssss song - weird sex scenes, harsh cop vs black violence, the editing and audio technique makes a lot of scenes pretty incomprehensible but its fun to watch imo, reminds me of brakhage at times

love the nightclub scene in 25th Hour, that part where he's cutting up Cymande. DJ Dust is the TRUTH

Apocalypto - silly and brutal but I thought it got better toward the end. great shot when he pulls himself outta the quicksand
Zak and Miri Make a Porno - ugh Kevin Smith. still had some lols
I Love You Man - funny at first, overall pretty lame

Indiana Jones Crystal Skull
Southland Tales

both awful. I'm really on a roll lately, serves me right for not paying attention to my Netflix queue

Iron Man
Apocalypse Now Redux
Full Metal Jacket

I've been watching a lot of Mystery Science Theater lately.
Also, Hot Fuzz.

dave, taking shelter in a fridge and teen horniness are NOT crimes. (i basically agree on ST tho)

havent watched MST in eons! can it be worked into Passover?

Night and Fog in Japan (Oshima)
Slacker
Unmade Beds
Blessed Event (Lee Tracy, a force of sass)

had you seen Slacker before? love that movie

Southland Tales, I just had to see it for myself. wtf was up with The Rock twiddling his fingers for a solid hour and a half. yeesh.

I didn't think the Rock and Buffy sounded like they'd ever acted before. loooved S Wm Scott tho (both of em)

I probably hadnt seen Slacker since '91; I rewatched before going to Austin (but most of the locations are gone, tho KJB showed me a couple).

"GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen"

was this from the season at the NFT? how was it?

Let the Right One In - really good!