MOVIES!

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

Death Proof

next up: Tell No One, The Class, L'Avventura

Tonight:

Nosferatu (Herzog, German version)
maybe Excalibur

watched platoon last night.
watched iron man tonight for the third time. turns out, it does not get better with repeated viewings.

my favorite part of Iron Man was Downey's last line (tho I sorta liked it).

cure (pretty good)

tonight: watchmen (this movie is 162 min, i hope it's good)

I think i'd rather hang with the captain then the rest of yous.

Just saw Tropic Thunder. It wasn't funny.

yeah I got a couple chuckles out of it. not so great.

Watchmen was mad boring.

Burn Before Reading: meta-awesome
The Happening: not

Killing of a Chinese Bookie directors cut
Detroit 9000
at home, on deck.

ha: which one is the "director's cut?" long or short one?

I think it's the long one.

short one's better imo; jc shot new footage for it and it's a better edit. actually, they're both good. long one's a bit repetitive, tho.

I've seen one of them before. It won't be hard to watch, anyway.
I believe in what Scott S said, more Ben Gazzara can't be a bad thing.

agreed. "The Paris Number?!"

"Fido" was a fucking ridiculous Canadian movie that is basically a genre-exercise Lassie-parody in which the family dog is replaced by "the family zombie".

Totally awesome art-film bizness: "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" is a note-perfect Eric Rohmer time machine of a movie in which you are transported to the highly stylized and artificial world of a 17th century French pastoral romance. Queers of all genders take note that Andy Gillet is super-scrumptious in and out of drag as Celadon. This is a fussy rendition of an already *highly* artificial genre (early modern pastoral) and it is the kind of artsy fartsy celebration of Renaissance classicism that probably acts like Kryptonite to Michael Bay. In short, I loved it.

I think Rohmer announced that as his last, I still haven't seen it.

Partial recent list (since, um, May):

Lorna's Silence (good not great Dardenne)
Yasukuni
The Seventh Veil
You, the Living
Milestones
Party Girl
In a Lonely Place
On Dangerous Ground
Hamlet Goes Business
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Bruno
The Beaches of Agnes
Devi
Bullitt
Sex Positive
Rashomon
Army of Lovers, or Revolt of the Perverts
The Middleman (S. Ray)
Magnificent Obsession (both versions)
Summer Hours
The Friends of Eddie Coyle

InglorioUS BasterdSS
The Reckless Moment
L'Argent
La Horse

We finally hooked up our VCR so that we could watch "Hell Comes to Frogtown"! Roddy Piper as the last fertile male human in a post-apocalyptic batrachian nightmare world of 80s Nagle-girl bimbos. Like "A Boy and His Dog" with brain damage ("A Boy and His Frog?"). Fun n trashy.

Apparently there is a sequel, which I've been unable to find. On the trashy post-apocalyptic fun tip -- World Gone Wild with Bruce Dern and Adam Ant, and Warriors of the Wasteland which is pretty much a seriously homoerotic low-budget Italian re-imagining of Road Warrior

Not by design, 3 by women directors:

The Headless Woman (one of year's best thus far)
Born in Flames
Near Dark