MOVIES!

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

that's some snooty b.s.

The first one is most artfully done but it's all outer space make believe with monsters

*it's still all

Sorry to offend. PS I knew Morbs would pop his pointy littl head in and diss

primer
running scared (80s)
timecrimes
rope

Light Rhythms - Music and Abstraction 1923-1947 - http://www.unseen-cinema.com/disc3.html
A Grin Without A Cat - http://icarusfilms.com/new2001/grin2.html
Sans Soleil (the music is the perfect marriage between Jarré / Tomita / Mother Mallard and the hardcore abstract Parmegiani & Bayle. The music in Grin Without A Cat is absolutely my speed too. How could there not be Chris Marker LPs out there somewhere?)

midnight run
find me guilty
the hurt locker

wanna apologize to Capitaine Jay Vee for being kind of a dick upthread.

"The Divine Lady" (1928) late silent w/music & fx soundtrack detailing the affair between Horatio Nelson & Lady Emma Hamilton, bit of a bloater TBH. Most of the characters in the film act in a a shitty manner towards Lady Emma, fuck them all b/c they're a bunch od stuffed shirts and she's cute & funny. The film seems to be mainly a vehicle for the costume dept @ 1st national to play dressy-up with Corinne Griffith, which is cool, seeing as she spends 1/2 the film looking like a William Holman Hunt painting brought to life, the other 1/2 looking like someone did a computer morph between Kate Bush and Pola Negri, so obviously I kind of had the major hots for her, like. Print looked in places like it had been gently rubbed over with wire wool. Also a bit mouldy here & there. (I got a friend in Calif to forward me the WB archive silent collection (of which this film is a part) & the Dick Powell/Ruby Keeler set so I have a shitload to watch over the next week or so.)

so last night I see a listing who's title sounds cool and I see it's one of two movies with the same basic name so I set them to record and watch the first one and holy crap it was insane. It was called Hanzo the Razor, The Snare and is an early 70s Japanese movie set during samurai times about a lawman who beats his giant penis then fucks a giant barrel of rice before rudely going after people for corruption in the government and he tortures women to find answers but also shows them "heaven" by rotating them on his giant penis as they're tied up in a net from the ceiling and oh yeah, his entire house is rigged with booby traps to kill his attackers and so on. It's seriously crazy. I have another of the trilogy saved to watch.

Reminds me of some of the Suzuki films I've seen like Branded to Kill. Another film with rough sex and a bizarre sexual obsession with rice.

The Hanzo movies rule! Too bad that describing them to friends made me look like a psychotic misogynist for enjoying them :(

watched Fantastic Planet again for the first time in like a decade the other night, and last night we watched The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

no hurt locker thread? it was pretty solid. thought it could have done with a little less action/incident though.

The Orphan was pretty awesome. Too many people brought 3-10 year old kids when I saw it tonight.

Totally put the Hanzo movies on my queue.
I watched Mr. Freedom last night and found it enjoyable, but its pretty bad.

man, duel to the death is so good

^ really cool ninjas in this film

no hurt locker thread?

there's a kathryn bigelow thread with some discussion

I saw it Saturday, liked it a lot. that first explosion scene with the rust shaking off the abandoned car was crazy

i saw revanche & in the loop.

both are good movies, as u may have heard

finally watched Wild Combination. so good