MOVIES!

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!

wtf was up with The Rock twiddling his fingers for a solid hour and a half.

haha i forgot how annoying this was! actually i forgot most of that movie, thankfully

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

― ian, Monday, April 6, 2009 5:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

<3

mst3k is all i feel like watching these days tbh

Loved the dudes who listened to the seal noises through the ice in Encounters at the End of the World.

Favorite movie I've watched in the past month or so was probably OFFSIDE.

The Daytrippers
A Canterbury Tale

both good!

Loved the dudes who listened to the seal noises through the ice

yeah that was great! I pasted that youtube in some other thread

met a load of guys who'd spent time at mcmurdo at a conference. there's a lot of cosmology/astroparticle stuff going on down there these days. they all loved the herzog film (and big dead place)

GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen

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

From the DVD set. I've only watched the Video Works disc so far but the amount of creativity crammed into every minute is just staggering.

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Black_Rain/Black_Rain.htm

^ dope

super dope

wolverine workprint a.k.a. xavier renegade angel the movie

that sounds kind of amazing

"Love Nest", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Black_Rain/Black_Rain.htm

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 2:41 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

O_O bad ass

for people who liked Black Rain here's a hi-res .mov of 'Brilliant Noise', their video edited from direct captures of solar flares. you really don't want to waste your time watching it on youtube:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xc93gc

Ruth & Joe made it on residency at Lawrence Berkeley Labs and at first the guys running the archives of sun footage said 'you don't want the raw video, this server has the same data with all the static and noise cleaned out of it' and they had to yell about five times 'no, we -want- that interference'

absolutely no post-production or CGI, just the Sun

The Big Bad Swim - had never heard of it but it was really good!

so many movies this weekend

the fog
the transporter
the dead zone
heckler
tyson
jumper
shoot em up
ski school
the informers

Vampire's Kiss (I needed to see a good Nic Cage film again, and this one really holds up, it is the real American Psycho)
The Most Important Thing... Love (expectations were high, as so many people rank this as the best Zulawaski... it is certainly the most restrained & sedate Zulawski... Klaus Kinski as independently wealthy actor ripping up Macbeth was amazing, and I never understood Romy Schneider adoration before but she's pretty remarkable in this one... need to see this again I think)
Please Vote For Me - http://pleasevoteforme.org/about.html
Encounters at the End of the World
Hands on a Hard Body (as existential as it gets, this one)