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Got a couple of classic buster keaton movies for £2 each in the bargain CD shop - "steamboat bill jr" and "the general" - print quality OK in the former, though it ends rather abruptly, a bit soft/blurry in the latter. Showed them to the kid, who fucking loved them. I put Steamboad Bill jr on, and b/c he's into thunderbirds & dr who he asks "are there any disasters in this?" Oh yeah, I said, just wait and see. The bit where keaton inspects the boat for the first time, throws the lifebelt into the water and it sinks = just about the funniest thing ever. I'll have to see if I can get a better print of "The General"

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

no horror can compete w/ Dunaway, I guess (she hates the movie btw)

Living It Up (Martin & Lewis)
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk)
Intentions of Murder (brutally bleak Imamura)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

watched first half of hoop dreams until netflix screwed me w/ skippy disc

bastards

― dmr, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

ah that sucks, dave
i loved that doc

― sleep, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

pashmina:

friend of mine does booklets and stuff for...grrrr, cant think of the name...the UK Criterion and just finished a huge book to accompany the definitve Keaton Box due soon. sounds awesome...just save yr pence for that

― bb, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

oh I've seen it like 3 times but wife has never seen it
good one to watch during march madness

xpost

― dmr, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

the UK Criterion

bfi? artificial eye?

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

i cant think of the name right now....i think its with a "c"....no, lies! its masters of cinema http://www.mastersofcinema.org/

his blog is here: http://cinemasparagus.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html

xpost

― bb, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

wow "the prestige" is terrible

― dmr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

THE KILLING was on tcm thursday night so I watched it for like the fifth time

― dmr, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

grrr..netflixed copy of jlg keep yr right up goes all glitchy after 33:20

― bb, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

don't worry, I bet they have a million copies of that...

― Edward III, Saturday, 24 March 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

THE HOST!

― am0n, Sunday, 25 March 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.popmatters.com/images/film_art/h/host-2007-2.jpg

― am0n, Sunday, 25 March 2007 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

ROCKERS

― river wolf, Sunday, 25 March 2007 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

theatre: THE LIVES OF OTHERS does a noize d00d dig last days of communism surveillence thriller? *****
dvd: BLOOD DIAMONDS old-fashion moralistic foreign intrigue ala Graham Green w/good actin'. ***

― m coleman, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

not worried, just annoyed...xpost

― bb, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

BATTLE ROYALE

― dmr, Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man I love Battle Royale!

Big movie weekend for me!:

THE HOST! - so great, all of my favorite things about movies in one movie, how the fuck
TMNT! - so totally badass, cowabungna bitches
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP! - even though something about it made me feel like a douchebag I loved it

― nickalicious, Monday, 26 March 2007 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

Brighton Rock
Glue
The Ballad of Narayama
Black Rain
The Earrings of Madame de...
Offside

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bill Plympton's Mutant Aliens - incredible, hilarious.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Who do I recommend Mutant Aliens to?

http://gallery.awn.com/data/524/mutantAliens-06.jpg
YOU.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I've been sick so it's shitty cable flicks time:
16 Blocks - decent acting/stache from B Willis, but cop flick's script was showing
Pretty Persuasion - ridiculous lesbianish "Cruel Intentions" rip-off with great James Woods getting caught masturbating scene, fell alseep before ending
Batman Begins - Only caught bits, good "Elektra Assassin" rips, LSD sub plot, Millerish yuppie satire

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

crimes and misdemeanors

― sleep, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

last night watched most of Bob le Flambeur but netflix fucked me again. maybe I need a better dvd player with more skip resisting powarz.

― dmr, Saturday, 31 March 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Atlantic City

― dan selzer, Saturday, 31 March 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Burmese Harp
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Happy Feet
The Beales of Grey Gardens
later tonight, Muriel

― Eric H., Sunday, 1 April 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

high noon at AFI silver. first time seeing it on a big screen!

i've thought, both times i've seen it, that the wife shouldn't [spoiler alerrrrt] get off the train.

― ghost rider, Sunday, 1 April 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

oh fuck that button

― ghost rider, Sunday, 1 April 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

i am watching half nelson and i want ryan gosling to stop touching his fucking face

― cutty, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

miller's crossing, bitches.

― ian, Monday, 2 April 2007 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

REVISED SUNDAY NIGHT PLANS:

bourbon
miller's crossing

-- ghost rider, Sunday, April 1, 2007 11:02 PM (Yesterday)

― ghost rider, Monday, 2 April 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

dr morbius did you like offside? i thought it was really good.

― s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

I did... a little off-the-cuff and light (stylewise), but very touching.

Euphoria
Sacco and Vanzetti (a new doc)
Double or Nothing (Bing Crosby-Martha Raye - print broke 3 times)
Sweater Girl
Reprise
The Mirror (Panahi)

James Cagney, John Garfield and about 500 gangster films from the '30s could certainly use Miller's Crossing as their prison bitch.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

btw, the aforementioned Muriel by Resnais is not only new to disc but begins a week's run at MoMA on Friday. And tonight begins a cross-section of Fassbinder.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

haha ok i'm not going to rise to the bait and defend miller's crossing, but it's a hammett homage, not just a gangster picture.

― ghost rider, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry, it's Ian I'm going to lecture on this!

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

{i]Wild Reeds
The Last Emperor[/i] (zzzzz....)

Got [i]Love Me Or Leave Me[/i} waiting at home, whose title describes my usual reaction to Doris Day.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I did... a little off-the-cuff and light (stylewise), but very touching.

yeah, but what i really liked about it was how it's got this light touch all the way through until that scene at the end where the central character's motivations suddenly become clear and it kind of changes everything. such a perfectly-struck chord.

― s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone seen this "Air Guitar Nation" documentary? i kind of want to

i saw the zidane film on thursday (for freee yaay at a really nice theatre!) - http://www.zidane-themovie.com/index2.htm - it was totally great, but that site makes it look like it'll be something else. it's 90 min of a soccer game but with cameras and sound focused on zidane, plus some subtitles from an interview with him and a short montage of news footage. in a way it reminded me of that michael snow film "wavelength," which i love, but with more going on.

― rrrobyn, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

LOVE AND DEATH
JOE (1970'S HIPPIE KILLING THING)
MACROSS

― JW, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

s1ocki, that was one thing that didn't work for me at all. Too much too late.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

i tried to watch the chumscrubber last nite. pretty bad. ralph fiennes is so weird in it. it's probably worth seeing if you are a carrie-ann moss ogler. best and scariest scene is glenn close screaming silently behind her front door. freaky! i still have to watch the end though. maybe.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh also tried to watch paul mazursky's showtime movie *Coast To Coast*, but didn't make it to the end of that either. also pretty bad. though probably worthwhile for selma blair oglers.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

more cable sewer plunge:
"Havoc" - Anne Hathaway / Bijou Phillips teenage gang bang rape movie, oddly not brutal enough for how far it goes
"Alexander" - Flashbacks, flashforwards, all sort of funny accent freestyle, thankfully void of action, good dopey nap flick

― sexyDancer, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

- 16 blocks, courtesy of hbo. man, did that suck.
- morvern callar
- the awful truth

killer of sheep is currently top of my must-see list.

― lauren, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

i really liked that new jap samurai flick "Azumi"

― Fetchboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

i won't be seeing killer of sheep in whatever movie theatres it's gonna play in, but i will be first in line for the dvd when it comes out. although, i don't know, i guess someone could show it here. stranger things have happened.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

i might end up joining you in that dvd line. i am notoriously lazy when it comes to actually leaving the house.

― lauren, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

i never go to the movies anymore. so sad. i am waaaaaaay lazy. we always say we are gonna get a baby-sitter...

the only time i ever go to the movies is with Beth Parker. i saw kill bill, kill bill 2, sin city, constantine, and 300 with her.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

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