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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)

hmm

― sleep, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

how does Casino Royale (remake) end?

i fell asleep last night at my friends house.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

why did you bother to see any of his pictures if you don't like Method? Are you fishing for "stunt opinion"

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sotosyn fails to troll at the most basic level.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm fine w/ Method as a tool, I suppose, not when it's all that's on display.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

heterophobe

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

shasta there is a world series of poker, some torture, then M makes an appearance, and some other stuff I forgot, the end

― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'd appreciate Cassavetes if he'd given his scripts to Elia Kazan.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

gtfo husbands is gr8

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

Maude: Season One ... since everyone else also lists TV shows.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

Alfred, Li'l Morbius Jr.

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

yes, art SHOULDN'T be real life.

that's it? so "art" can be anything but "real life"?

I've been hit on the street by unmedicated folks, blah blah...'

not hard enough obv.

lol, trollbait

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

am so affected by blood diamond
so intense. and then it got into my dreams.

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=739770838666197366

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

thanks dmr,

i fell asleep when Bond was getting his balls busted. not sure what happened after that.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/the7thart/pictures/7thseal2.jpg

― ian, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

You're like the Geir of film opinion these days.

"these days"

― chaki, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Wind That Shakes The Barley - mixed feelings. Well-done, but not particularly effective as a piece of storytelling (the train driver was the only character with any dimension really, the brothers/civil war plot is as old as time itself, the love plot was whatever). It's nice that Loach wants to lecture us on Irish socialism (bravo) but there was no real heart to the movie.

― milo z, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

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

i would've watched it all at once but it kept exceeding my daily recommended dosage of poncy nature-poet balderdash. (i did make it through thin red line in one go, but w/gritted teeth. malick's an airhead.)

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

anyway last night i watched sonatine, which was great.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

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