All good things has a commentary track w/ Andrew jarecki & the real Robert durst that I cannot recommend highly enough
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Point Blank - couple great scenes but I was surprisingly a little bored by this movieJean Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child
― dmr, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
love point blank. i watched it every day 5 days in a row the first time i saw it.
― a slippery shit (gr8080), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it is in my top 100
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Escape from L.A. - quality entertainmentImitation of Life - felt really guilty that I hadn't responded to my mom's email in a few days; called mom the next day
― sarahel, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe just wasn't in the right mood for point blank
― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
fight scene at the soul club was pretty great though
― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say thought that would be right up yr alley
― a slippery shit (gr8080), Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
my fave is Lee sighing after Angie punches at him
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dmr, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"Most accidents happen within 3 miles of home"
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
haha dan that is awesome.
i love the scene where he sneaks into the apartment building too. legit suspense.
― gr8080, Thursday, 14 April 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Valentino: The Last Emperor (thx for recommendation)I Like Killing Flies - not sure why people try to make a hero out of this doucheBlack SwanEnter 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?
― dmr, Monday, 18 April 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www2.bc.edu/~yanno/Chinatown.jpg
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.
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Monday, 18 April 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
well Huston's role is hardly a cameo. Also he was acting pretty regularly in other ppl's films by then.
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i havent seen chinatown in a minute. i think i was too young to "get it" the first time i saw it
― 2㋡㋡9 style (gr8080), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
>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.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Myra Breckinridge is awesome! You only just saw it???
― sarahel, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah - I have movies that I have been "saving" - I know what you mean.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
people keep telling me I'm an idiot for "saving" the Godfather movies.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw them for the first time last year. they are good!
― caek, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
weird choice since so many movies and tv shows reference them
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Borzage's "Street Angel", excellent, Janet Gaynor especially good.
― Letzte Tage - Letzte Pächmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 April 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw some ~thillers~
The Woman
- this felt like a decent film ruined in the cutting room; soundtrack possibly worse than the crow ost.
A Lonely Place to DieKill ListThe VeteranThe Dead
- really enjoying these new uk genre movie vibes. none of these made any sense, but they made up for in viciousness, or nightmarish atmosphere, or both (kill list).
The Yellow Sea
- hong-jin na quickly approaching all-time status imo.
― ☆, Saturday, 3 September 2011 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
watched: robert siodmaks' menschen am sontag (1930) — his first film, with a script written by a very young billy wilder. naturalistic acting by non-professional actors, gentle humor and beautiful sunlit scenery. 4/5
― tanuki, Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
working my way through this:
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story
cant believe i hadn't ever watched easy rider or head before-- so great
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Head is just a good movie full stop
This is not as much a 'good' movie but I'm definitely glad I saw it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Freedom
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
& it can't be overstated how much fun this one is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_Living_(film)
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
need to see more lubitsch
just watched: loulou (maurice pialat, 1980) — isabelle huppert and a hunky gerard d. seems to be about unconventional relationships, one's expectations clashing with another's. realistic acting, frank eroticism. very nice.
― tanuki, Friday, 6 January 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
just heard: lulu — metallica and a hunky lou r. seems to be about unconventional relationships, one's expectations clashing with another's. realistic acting, frank eroticism. very nice.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Friday, 6 January 2012 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
ew
― tanuki, Friday, 6 January 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
satantangovideodrome
― tanuki, Sunday, 8 January 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
chantal akerman: the new york films (early experimental shorts) — studies of space and movement that seem like studies for "jeanne dielman"birth (glazer) - expected to hate this after reading about the premise but found it pretty affectingplaytime - 2nd viewing, looked amazing on a decent hdtv. noticed lot of hidden gags i hadn't noticed before.
― tanuki, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
some movies i got queued up
* On the silver globe
* schizopolis
* clean shaven
* she monkeys
* conspirators of pleasure
saw finisterrae while nodding off: i was dreaming up bits that could have been in, like at one point the 2 characters come across a white electric oven in the middle of the forest, one said "well go on, then" the other stuck his head in and looked around. then i woke up .
― Sébastien, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
lol that would work perfectly in finisterrae
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
HOLY MOTORS
― caek, Friday, 6 July 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
barmy
― caek, Friday, 6 July 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
also at munich ff this year
it looks pretty from a distance - dreadful, ugly, but short polish feature about awful peopleshut up and play the hits - looked + sounded greatrobot and frank - twee indie scifi. ok i guess.
― caek, Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
shut up and play the hits
oh shit that's next week right?
there's prob a thread where people are talking about it
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 12 July 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I posted about it a bit on the main LCD sound system thread
― caek, Friday, 13 July 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://annyas.com/screenshots/images/1972/dont-torture-a-duckling-title-still.jpg
― fuck google analytics (am0n), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tE5OEjF-hGs/TW8x6Tm0B6I/AAAAAAAAAnQ/yzsV1JLT_mE/s1600/pdvd979.png
― fuck google analytics (am0n), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
don't torture a duckling
― fuck google analytics (am0n), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
anyone recommend a good movie recommendations book? kinda like the 1001 movies you must see (is that one any good?)
― niels, Monday, 7 August 2017 10:11 (six years ago) link
i have this and its good
https://i.imgur.com/eQIGUP8.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link