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i thought it was pretty sub-memento, sub-simple-plan, sub-fargo. third rock kid channeling keanu.

s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't care for it.

s1ocki, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

None of my friends saw the Keanu in Mr. Third Rock (like the way his accent changed when upset), glad I wasn't crazy.

It wasn't very Memento-like, but it may well have been sub-the other two (I've seen neither, but read A Simple Plan).

milo z, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dubsession.com/images/rockersdvd.jpg
last night
+ band practice
+ cafe mexicana ii
yesssssssss

bell_labs, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'm definitely seeing killer of sheep soon

dmr, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

tonight at Film Forum:

ANN MILLER TRIPLE FEATURE



(I'll only stay for 2. I think.)

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

the puppetmaster good. profound!
clerks 2 funny, also profound.

tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

BLACKFACE ON TCM RIGHT NOW
"it's only 12:30, can they do this?"

sexyDancer, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

Cinema: Inland Empire

TV: Performance (taped it a long while ago - just got round to it), Memories of Murder (great film about South Korea's first serial killer with a v moving ending).

DVD library rental: A cock and Bull Story, The consequences of Love, Marie Antoinette.

On sunday I will probably catch an afternoon screening of Erice's Quince Tree Sun.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 April 2007 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

I took kids to Meet the Robinsons Monday. It was pretty good, but because we live at the edge of the world we couldn't see it in 3D. Bastards.

Noodle Vague, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Hamiltons: indie flick about a bunch of awful actors fronting as mass murderers when they're just boring-ass vampires (IT'S A TWEEST) w/out any of the cool shit; features retarded incest, retarded lipstick lesbianism, retarded logic, and Brittany Daniel getting mauled to death by a 5-year-old.

High Tension: thanks to The Tweest, this atmospheric slasher flick (love the non-Muse soundtrack!) can take its nods to Last House and Argento and eat them with a bag of French dicks.

David R., Friday, 6 April 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

anyway, my dazed blackface alert above was due to a chance TCM viewing of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" starring James Cagney, ended up watching a bit of it, pretty cool, like Mark E. Smith doing Stephen Foster or sumshit

sexyDancer, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

killer of sheep

dmr, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

i should have rivettes wuthering heights waiting when i get home...should be a fine night...

bb, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

3 burials of melquiadas estrada
joe
grindhouse

johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

i can't decide if i should watch vanishing point or strange brew tonight. i like them both. but haven't seen either in years. i would watch them both, but i'd probably just fall asleep.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/StrangeBrew.png/180px-StrangeBrew.png


http://www.impawards.com/1971/posters/vanishing_point.jpg

scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Reveille with Beverly
Priorities on Parade
Killer of Sheep
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Reds

Dr Morbius, Saturday, 7 April 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

casino royale - pretty cool! I was totally wrong

dmr, Saturday, 7 April 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

i.e. wrong in thinking it would suck

dmr, Saturday, 7 April 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

the new world what a load of moon-eyed pap. badlands aside, what do malick cultists get out of all his leaden poesy?

tipsy mothra, Sunday, 8 April 2007 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

haha i've been watching the new world for like four days now

river wolf, Sunday, 8 April 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

took me 3.

tipsy mothra, Sunday, 8 April 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

i really liked casino royale too (but knew i would)

also watched the lives of others
intense, good, more worried about democracy/art now

rrrobyn, Sunday, 8 April 2007 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

and i watched half of manhattan when i got home late last night - fell asleep, woke up at the end, felt really really weird.

rrrobyn, Sunday, 8 April 2007 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

slither
boys town
planet earth (3 - 5)
brother from another planet
coffy

remy bean, Monday, 9 April 2007 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

i know where i'm going
satyricon
djangomania

remy bean, Monday, 9 April 2007 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

If it takes you 3 days to see TNW, you haven't seen it.

The Slaughter Rule
24 Hour Party People

Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I woke up after a turkey-induced nap on Easter to the fam watching Star Wars ep III and Anakin said something and Obi Wan goes "only the Sith deal in absolutes" and I was all "wtf dude THAT's an absolute", then I went and peed for like ten minutes.

nickalicious, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

The Good Shepherd
Pandora's Box
The Aviator's Wife


how was Reds, Morbs?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

teh NEVERENDING STORY
heartbreak ridge

JW, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I like Reds a lot except for cutesy Reed-Bryant as sub-Tracy-Hepburn in the first hour. The things that really lifts it are the Witnesses, Keaton, and Beatty pulls off a lot of the epic stuff, especially the Internationale montage and the attack on the train. What's yr beef w/ Jack as O'Neill?

Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

curse of the golden flower. kinda crap story, but insane lsd visuals were ok

elmo argonaut, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

What's yr beef w/ Jack as O'Neill?

A poorly written (and conceived) part. The average listener expecting Dr Zhivago is primed to greet Eugene O'Neil as Someone Important, and he remains so; then he becomes Someone Important As Scorned Lover, so I wondered why the hell he needed to be there in the first place. Jack's (predictably) good at hurling invective at Keaton, though.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

bah, no. It's one of the best post-prime Jack perfs. He's also the finest scold in the movie: "Jack dreams that he can hustle the American working man -- whose one dream is to be rich enough not to have to work -- into a revolution led by his party. You dream that if you discuss the revolution with a man before you go to bed with him, it'll be missionary work rather than sex. I'm sorry to see you and Jack so serious about your sports..." also, "When an American intellectual's eyes shine and they start to talk to me about the Russian people, something in me says, watch it. A new version of Irish Catholicism is being offered for your faith."

also, Julie Christie turned down playing Louise, preventing more Zhivago expectations.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Maureen Stapleton: one of the few deserving Oscar winners of the last 30 years. Her last scene with Bryant (ir Reed? I don't remember), analyzing the failure of the Revolution, is a gem.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Feet
Grindhouse
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Eric H., Monday, 9 April 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Opening Night
Grindhouse
Cujo (last half)
The Mighty Celt
Colors (first half)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

^ i've been waiting for that to become available on netflix. where'd you see it?

sleep, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

^That's one of the Cassavetes I actually like

Alfred, it's with Reed, who comes back to her fairly with "What did you think it was gonna be like?"
Emma Goldman also has a great throwaway line when Reed offers to walk her home late at night -- "What, I won't hurt anybody."

Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I got the box set cheep offa amazon.
Love Streams is my favorite, though.

sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Morbius, you don't like Cassavetes? You're like the Geir of film opinion these days.

sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Woman Under the Influence and dislike opening Night. Thje others I've seen are Ok to very good.

(I don't get ILM refs)

Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Cassavetes films fail to entertain at the most basic level.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

fail to entertain?

sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Reviewing Husbands Pauline Kael wrote this great passage in which she analyzes the diminshing effect of Cassavetes' improvisatory exercises. For the first two minutes the actors come up with marvelous bits that you couldn't provoke in a normal setting; then the actors' mannerisms begin asserting themselves, and you're stuck watching the likes of Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk acting like the drunken boors they probably were in real life.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

real life, exactly

sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

yes, art SHOULDN'T be real life.

I've been hit on the street by unmedicated folks, I don't need to see Gena Rowlands babble like one for 2-1/2 hours.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see how entertainment should be a requirement

sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps it's not a distinction btwn art & entertainment, but both and Method wanking.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see how entertainment should be a requirement

Movies should be EDUCATIONAL.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)


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