MOVIES!

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awes film

saw this lil jammy called Of Gods And Men - its about some cool french bros wearing comfy robes and hangin out in algeria - pretty good, would recommend

Nakh wtf is that?

joan rivers

lol

pretty much

limitless - lol at this movie

eraserhead baby ;_;

oh shit it HAS been a long time since I've seen that and now I know why!

Also that is the second time that's come up on ilx today. weird.

I watched MACHETE over the weekend and lol'd real hard when he grabbed that dude's small intestine then jumped out the window.
Would lol again.

Gonna watch In A Lonely Place tonight..

i watched CARNY recently- young Gary Busey and Jodie Foster love story set in a traveling carnival-- some pretty cool Busey freakouts

joan rivers doc bummed me out

really? I dunno. she's doin what she wants to do. grindin' hard. I got tired just watching it and I'm def. going to be kicking back at age 75 but to each her own I guess

giant file cabinet of jokes was pretty wild the way they were cataloged by topic

COMMUNISTS -
TONY DANZA

Rivette's last one "36 Vues du Pic Saint Loup" (sic?): OK Rivette I think. Jane Birkin's face now looks like she just woke up from a 48 hour bender.

"A Game Of Chess": 60s intvw w/ Marcel Duchamp. Badass 4evah.

La Chienne/The Two Of Us/ Boudu ... Had a Michel Simon fest the other night. Wish he was my granddad or something.

yeah it was interesting to see how Rivers lived and worked but the way the whole thing came with a "I'm Joan Rivers and I Approve This Docu-Comedy" feel that turned me off in the end

i guess i went in hoping for something more like Valentino: The Last Emperor and got let down

I just find Joan Rivers to be a tiresome, pathetic creature, at 45 or 75

Damn I still need to watch that Valentino one.

ERICA HE OWNS LIKE 13 PUGS AND THEY RIDE ON HIS PRIVATE JET AND HIS MANSERVANTS BRUSH THEIR TEETH HOW HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THIS FILM

I don't know! I have no excuse.

oh damn it's on instant view - c u in a couple of hours

dude knows how to live
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La Chienne/The Two Of Us/ Boudu ... Had a Michel Simon fest the other night. Wish he was my granddad or something.

My ideal fantasy grandfather is a toss-up between Simon and Chishu Ryu.

x-post - Yes, yes he does and omg at his pugs. I can't even. That was too much!

i dont know why but my favorite part in that whole film is when he's talking about how tacky a fucking HANDRAIL looks and he goes

"its is like... like when you are walking down the stairs... and there is a thing for your hand.. it is tacky... like a MACY's."

hahahaha oh no not a MACY's!

All good things has a commentary track w/ Andrew jarecki & the real Robert durst that I cannot recommend highly enough

Point Blank - couple great scenes but I was surprisingly a little bored by this movie
Jean Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child

love point blank. i watched it every day 5 days in a row the first time i saw it.

it is in my top 100

Escape from L.A. - quality entertainment
Imitation of Life - felt really guilty that I hadn't responded to my mom's email in a few days; called mom the next day

maybe just wasn't in the right mood for point blank

fight scene at the soul club was pretty great though

yeah i was gonna say thought that would be right up yr alley

my fave is Lee sighing after Angie punches at him

shooting the bed, soul club fight, Angie whaling on Lee were the best parts

it was more the frequent disjointed flashbacks and voiceovers and stuff that lost me. and the convoluted noir plot. but hey maybe I'll watch again sometime.

I think it's been posted on ILX somewhere, but it's worth checking this out, Point Blank used to perform Reich's clapping music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY4bL_bO8sA

"Most accidents happen within 3 miles of home"

haha dan that is awesome.

i love the scene where he sneaks into the apartment building too. legit suspense.

Valentino: The Last Emperor (thx for recommendation)
I Like Killing Flies - not sure why people try to make a hero out of this douche
Black Swan
Enter the Void - wanted to check out the "famous opening credits" and it's on Netflix Instant so I just flipped it on for a bit but didn't watch past the first 10 minutes. worth seeing?

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Watched Chinatown for the very first time. Terrific slow-burn neo-noir, obviously, and I would say career bests for both Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Also, does this contain the two best cameo appearances by film directors? John Huston is just chilling, and then there's Polanski himself, of course. "Hey kitty-cat, you know what happens to nosey fellows? They lose their noses".
Though maybe the real star of the movie is L.A. itself; sun-bleached and unforgiving.

well Huston's role is hardly a cameo. Also he was acting pretty regularly in other ppl's films by then.

i havent seen chinatown in a minute. i think i was too young to "get it" the first time i saw it

I took a class on Polanski and wrote a paper about Chinatown. Some interesting thoughts that came from that include the fact that although it's often discussed as an updated noir or an homage to noir, it is a decidedly contrary perversion of the cliches of noir. Major themes such as the classic idea of not trusting the femme fatale because in the end she's out to get you. In chinatown at every turn Jack doubts and doesn't trust Faye, and many of the events that take place in the movie are caused by this, by Jack not realizing that she is in fact the victim. And it's all about the consequences of actions, Jack later on visiting Burt Young and we see that he beat his wife because of Jack's information, all the way to the end where the first cop is actually firing a warning shot and Jack gets in his way, which causes the second cop to fire the fatal shot. So Jack is absolutely not the noir hero.

There was also a lot of fun stuff like all these things coming in pairs with one thing missing or flawed, like pulling the guy out of the water and he has one shoe, breaking one of the tailights of the car, letting the car break one of the two watches, all the way to the ridiculous foreshadowing of Faye lying in bed saying "There's a flaw in one of my eyes".

Anyway, great movie on many many levels.

>well Huston's role is hardly a cameo. Also he was acting pretty regularly in other ppl's films by then.

re: ridiculous over the top Huston roles, recently saw Myra Breckinridge. was expecting it to be 'bad' but actually really enjoyed it.

also saw Elizabeth Taylor in 'The Driver's Seat', on youtube. Yeesh. Not exactly good, but... Elizabeth Taylor. Incredibly stilted dialogue that's trying so hard to be non-sequituous that it ends up even more inexplicable than I think it was trying for.

and saw the Ballet Russes documentary. Mostly interviews, but the short 8mm/16mm film stock of the productions from the 30s/40s/50s is enough to make a Ballet fan out of anyone within seconds. Lots of Leonid Massine from the decades before The Red Shoes, and definitely a great next stop after Black Swan.

Myra Breckinridge is awesome! You only just saw it???

had been saving it. saw it with the Prelingers, we'd been meaning to watch it for a few years now but we're all ludicrously busy

yeah - I have movies that I have been "saving" - I know what you mean.

people keep telling me I'm an idiot for "saving" the Godfather movies.