MOVIES!

gotta squeeze that revenue out somehow in the 2009

the wrestler was decent but totally overrated

Earth - is the BBC series' footage completely reedited by Disney. I went thinking it'd be just good to see the images on a big screen, and it would have been if the narration / new disney music weren't so boneheaded & condescending as to make me want to start yelling back at the screen

Star Trek - i.e. mother's day

Aliens vs. Monsters IMAX 3D - really enjoyed this, it's all about insectasaurous. not sure if I'd recommend this for home viewing, but the uncanny valley is spookier than ever in 3D

Fear of Fear - good Fassbinder. is this the only one where he let Margit Carstensen look beautiful instead of like a cancer patient? great film about how people easily mistake the mentally ill for being selfish / lazy

Nightwatching - Peter Greenaway 2007 is a little on the normal side, I guess that's why I never even heard of this, Martin Freeman (Tim from the Office) as Rembrandt seems like it'd be too tame but he's actually an incredible actor

milton you should check out battle for terra

my impressions may have been gilded from watching it w/ the kids but subversive peacenik themes and some weirdly poetic moments (giant meowling sky whale) stuck w/ me

Julia - Tilda Swinton going fucking nuts for 144 mins

I.O.U.S.A. - debt armageddon meets infographic porn

Chocolate - Action film about an ass kicking autistic girl from Thailand

Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
Viridiana
The Connection (Shirley Clarke)
American Casino (doc about subprime ripoff)
Wise Blood (Brad Dourif really sells it)
In the Loop (opens in July, generally hilarious)
The Red and the White
Vegas: Based on a True Story
Star Trek
Moon (not-bad existential sci-fi suspenser w/ Sam Rockwell, directed by Zowie Bowie)
Revue (USSR '50s archival footage)
DUVIVIER: Poil de Carotte, La Belle Equipe
Treeless Mountain
Smorgasbord (Jerry Lewis' last self-directed film, 1983)
Management (horrible Zahn-Aniston stalker comedy)

any scene in wise blood w/ dourif + harry dean stanton is A+++++

wish they did more movies together, they could've been the 70s antihero version of martin + lewis

i dunno, i prefer BD's scenes w/ Amy Wright -- she's so determined to mount him

but he wasn't beholden to none uh her fast eye!

oh look, the criterion wise blood is out today and I'm having a hard time coming up with reasons not to drop $30 on it

i'm reviewing it. I don't love the film (Huston apparently realized at end O'Connor's Christian vision had won over his), but if you do, it's worth it i should think.

Yeah, you'd think Huston's rancidness and the cynicism creeping around the edges of O'Connor's work would be natural partners, but she shows him up at the end. The movie's still as good as end-time Huston got.

nah that would be Prizzi's Honor

the friends of eddie coyle
the hit
burn after reading
hiroshima mon amour
sunshine

what did you make of The Hit?

i liked it a lot. totally unusual, bizarre but vv good twists at the end w/r/t characterization imo. stamp and glover were excellent.

They Were Expendable
Sgt. Rutledge
Juan Moreira
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Space Is The Place

i watched Foxes and Righteous Kill. 1 was a lot better than the other o_O

Lady In The Lake
Adam's Rib
The Ghost Ship
Attack The Gas Station
Hard Times

There Goes the Bride
Evergreen

Both pure fluff, but v v entertaining.

Got Pabst's Beggar's Opera on DVD, going to watch it over the w/e

I love love love the Pabst Beggar's Opera.

Notorious - holy cow. so much worse than I expected (and I wasn't expecting that much). basically a Hallmark movie of the week starring Biggie. apparently in the last minutes before his death he had touching cell phone conversations with everyone from his past ... lots of closure! also whoever cast Puffy and 2Pac, wtf

Zabriskie Point (still laughable, but seen with friends it's a fun time, the music is good and in spite of everything the ending actually not only hilarious but beautiful)

Jubilee (what Derek Jarman do you see after this one if you mostly liked this one?)

Specter of the Rose - Morbius, have you seen this? I thought it was wonderful. Amazon reviewers write it off for bad acting, but it's more like a screenwriter getting to direct one of his own scripts and telling a strange mix of actors & non-actors to read his lines as self-consciously campy and removed as possible, so it ends up coming off as weirdly modern for 1946, and the ending is psychotic

La Fidelite - Zulawski's last film to date. I loved it, though I can understand why all the reviews didn't take it seriously, when he holds off on the histrionics, they can seem random to a viewer who isn't expecting them

also going through this 12 hour long compilation of Black Panther newsreels & home movies
http://www.amazon.com/What-We-Want-Believe-Panther/dp/B000ILYYPS

"what Derek Jarman do you see after this one if you mostly liked this one?"

Maybe the Last of England? But you are bound to be disappointed. Or you could seek out the Super-8 stuff.

Joseph Losey's Accident: the liner notes compare it to Muriel. I can see that to a certain extent, but right now all I'm thinking about is how great and hilarious Pinter's script for this was, considering that I had no expectations due to not being exposed to his theatre work, only his angry old man politics and people saying how BAD his poems were.

MP, I'd never even heard of that Ben Hecht film.

I wonder what the Brooklyn crowd for The Wiz will be like tom'w night given yesterday's news:

http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1302

distant - reminded me a lot of antonioni. film nerd lolz at stalker scene
chop shop - good. queens scrapyard flavor

shaun of the dead - pretty funny, I was down

"The Bridge" = ultra-depressing documentary about suicides on Golden Gate Bridge; sad and intense
"Maniac" = loved the slow motion shotgun blast to the head and the synth score throughout
"Mongol" = some gappy plot problems but very beautiful-to-look-at life story of Genghis Khan

V - never saw the whole thing, now I have! Pretty entertaining.
V: The Final Battle - Pretty ok for the first two parts then goes to complete shit in the last one. Michael Ironside and lizard baby birth obvious higlights.
The Blob ('88 version) - Solid B-Movie fun.
The Room - no explanation necessary

Westworld - sort of boring even for a 70's science fiction movie
Buckaroo Banzai - still wonderful
Putney Swope - I'd always heard about this without hearing what it was about, black radicals taking over an ad agency in 1969 to make unairable commercials, total fun
Santiago Alvarez / He Who Hits First Hits Twice - http://www.othercinemadvd.com/al.html

Westworld - sort of boring even for a 70's science fiction movie

recently made the mistake of watching the sequel Futureworld thinking it was Westworld under a diff. title

dim memories of seeing bits of that when I was maybe twelve. The dream sequences with Yul as dream-robot-lover have kept me away from it. There's nothing to recommend it at all, right?

just looked up the poster's tag line: Futureworld - Where the only way to survive is to kill yourself

dream sequence with Yul is on youtube

even worse than 'Capricorn One'

Tried to watch Idaho Transfer (Peter Fonda's early seventies time traveling hippie utopia movie) but holy crap it was boring and the acting was just terrible. I liked Ridley Scott's "The Duellists" a lot, though. Described it to my girlfriend and she said "sounds like a dude movie." She's right!

I saw Putney Swope in '78 when it was re-released on a double bill w/ Animal House!

The dream sequences with Yul as dream-robot-lover have kept me away from it.
thats his only scene in it, lol

There's nothing to recommend it at all, right?
nah its shit

just looked up the poster's tag line: Futureworld - Where the only way to survive is to kill yourself
nice. that gives away the pisspoor twist ending

Powder Blue-horrible flick with some j biel nudity

Santiago Alvarez / He Who Hits First Hits Twice

This is good!

Vicky Cristina Barcelona - uggghhh. I am off any new Woody Allen for life. terrible dialogue, terrible voiceover, Scarlett and the other chick totally annoying. Penelope Cruz was the only thing decent in this imo

not that I was in any danger of seeing Whatever Works, but this clinches it

Caprica - all the brooding seriousness of Galactica and none of the action, but still some interesting moments. better than the ending of season 4, still slightly better than most TV series, who knows
Grey Gardens - this took me about twenty minutes to enter into it, but then...

Arthur Lipsett - Very Nice Very Nice, 21-87

http://www.nysun.com/arts/remembering-arthur-lipsett-the-collage-makes/83924/

"Camille" w/Nazimova. Interesting but not awesome. Nazimova somewhat annoying I thought. Valentino pretty great tho.

the hurt locker - fantastic

Scott Walker: 30th Century Man - Fascinating doc and - for once - some talking heads (his musical arranger on Scott 1-4, Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker) who generally know who they're talking about.

The Masseurs And A Woman - short and sweet

Alien (Director's Cut) - Gets better with age. Probably my fave of the bunch. Used to be Aliens but
I've since grown up.

grownups like haunted-house movies set in spaceships?

I agree that the first Alien is superior but:

but I've since grown up. = gag me w/a spoon