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Last movies I saw... Hmmm... This weekend:
Arsenic and Old Lace - Perfect.
Amy's O - Hated it.
40 Days and 40 Nights - Entertaining and mindless.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rental:
The Slipper and The Rose
The Red Shoes
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Penny Serenade
An Affair To Remember
Dead of Night
War of the Worlds
The Haunting (original)
The Man who Wasn't there
Dude, Where's My Car

Cinema:
Star Trek Nemesis

Telly:
Conspiracy Theory
FORTRESS!
Terminal Error
~~Logopolis~~Goldeneye

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Last five or so:
The Transporter "I like it quiet, but this is too quiet:" BOOM! - Fun tat.
Gangs Of New York "I took der Faaader, now I'll tek the son" Mixed bag of tat.
The Good Girl "What's your name - Catcher?" Good, but dull
Take Care Of My Cat - Bit of dialogue in Korean. Excellent (if a touch melodramatic nr the end)
City Of God. Something in portuguese. Pretty impressive - though it innoculates itself from serious criticism by setting itself in the seventies.

I might bring back the City Of God thread so I can hear the Joe Strummer argument.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

the surprise film is never really a surprise, is it? same kinda type "big hollywood indie sleeper".. i remember when it was american beauty

now if they'd had dead or alive: final as the surprise then i'd tip my hat

― zemko (bob), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

the DVD:
the man who fell to earth
paris, texas

the VHS at a friend's flat while we had a few beers before we went out:
armageddon [from about half an hour in]

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did you speak to Ice-T, Amateurist? I'm just trying to decide if I would, if our paths crossed. I'm guessing that middle-aged white English people aren't his main target audience, so I don't know whether he'd be amused or contemptuous.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

middle-aged white English people
he loves phil collins

― , Monday, 20 January 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin, no, I didn't talk to him; your post made me think of you and Ice-T walking past each other, in slow-motion, on a rain-drenched cobblestone street . . . then you turn around, and notice Ice-T, smiling wistfully, as he turns out of sight.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or it could be like that one false-note moment in Ghost Dog, where Forest Whittaker meets the RZA.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

2nd LOTR movie. it was ok.

― duane, Monday, 20 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

We have paved the way for the American remake of In the Mood for Love starring Ice-T and Alan Cumming.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

"What's up Ghost Dog?"

Yeah, right.

I saw Jim (aka GOD) Jarmusch being interviewed at the LFF to promote Ghost Dog, and he said that the RZA would deliver his tapes for the soundtrack by pulling up on broadway in a van with tinted windows under cover of night.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or Ice-T and Forrest Whitaker, he's femme enough.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I mean, does anyone else see it?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Adaptation today, and I'm so sorry that I did.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 05:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

ooooh, i saw donnie darko last night.

twas very good. spent hours figuring out what the fuck happened though.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

just saw Removed, it was really funny & beautiful & sad & haunting

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't watch a lot of movies these days, but here's everything I've seen in the last month or so:

"Catch Me If You Can"
"Election"
"White Christmas" (starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye)
"Magnificent Obsession" (dir. by Douglas Sirk)

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Y Tu Mama Tambien" - shit, shit, shit.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Adaptation today, and I'm so sorry that I did.

This film is the current candidate for most divided opinions. I've heard dribbling praise and acidic excoriations in equal amounts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's because the second wave of DePalma hate/love is yet to come when Femme Fatale bursts upon European shores like unto a rotten ass.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh I'm gonna regret this - yesterday:

Signs
The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Barbershop

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Are there any good comedies out in the U.S. right now? Or failing that, what should I rent?

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I liked About a Boy, J LU. It's light-hearted.

Umm... Saw 24- Hour Party People last night and enjoyed it. Tonight will watch any special features.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Me and DV went to see Divine Intervention, the madcap palestinian comedy. It's really good minute to minute, but it's best when it doesn't have a plot.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

theatrer - Lord of Ring
DVD - Insomnia, Citizen Cane
VHS - Big City Bright Lights, Alphaville

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey london film fans if ur not busy on sunday u should go see the "hour of the furnaces" documentary on at the OTHER (yuk yuk yuk must i call it that) cinema on sunday afternoon, it looks a treat

i however will be at work booo

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

(it's all about 60s south america n' ting)

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

x=5, order = latest to far-est

I Just can't stop this uncontrollable dancing" [not quite finished edit, screening at the director's house! thatbeing Campbell Walker - it has orig Loren Connors music on it!]

Roger & Me by Michael Moore, it was on telly

Dogs in Space hmmgh

Sweet Home Alabama [!!??HgghgHjmm]

Buffalo 66

― spectra, Thursday, 23 January 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

okay so I haven't fully read this thread (only have net pay places access now) but I really would like to know if anyone else thought Donnie Darko is a mistakenly lauded, botched, stupid, trying too hard (and not hard enough) to be profound, crappy yuck boring film???? or at least just overrated? I cannot fathom why it wasn't marketed to it's appropriate audience, ie. 12 to 15 year olds? okay so it was aimed successfully at it's other appropriate audience (just about the equiv of the aforementioned group) - ie. "indie kids".

― spectra, Thursday, 23 January 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Problem with Hour Of The Furnaces is that its four'n'a half hours long. I'm toying with it but its four and a half hours long. VFM yes, but....

Much of ILE liked Donnie Darko. I thought it was grebt fun if you don't take it too seriously.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

quite, spectra, but "ease up"! it is annoying in the way you say, but Pete is right in that it is enjoyable fluff. It is not a profound film. i also found it a little boring and aimless in patches. i went to see a great film, and was disappointed, but i had to say i didn't feel i'd wasted my ticket money.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

And I think Alan doesn't like DD enough! DO I think it is a great film? No -buit I do think it is easily one of the most enjoyable and interesting US films of the last year or so and is a much more innovative look at teen alienation.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

last film i saw was bergman's 'wild strwberries'. I'll try and make it for the 'seventh seal' tonight.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

went to Gangs of New York last week. ehhh.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julio what time is Seal No. Seven on tonight. Might be worth me shimmying down for.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

How could I forget I watched the Flinstones on Sunday. Alright, so it's rubbish, but it still has the B52s in it.

Dick - Good characters, scenario etc but enough jokes. Though the central one more than makes up for that. And it's got Kirsten Dunst and Jen Dawson's in.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

DD again. it WAS aimless and boring in quite lengthy patches, and though i haven't seen that many films, if it's one of the most enjoyable films of late, then that's bad news for cinema. Also, it was a self-contained fantasy with no hope of providing an interesting view of anything other than itself.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

''Julio what time is Seal No. Seven on tonight. Might be worth me shimmying down for.''

6:20 pm NFT1

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Self contained fantasy = good thing (though how insular a film with that many popular culture references which illuminate the plot can be I'm not so sure). I must admit I did not find it the least bit boring, yes there was a bit of weirdness for weirdness sake going on but I think the director did a better job that David Lynch usually does in justifying most of that. I think this may be a horse for course thing.

Dick rocks. ALl The Presidents Men is on next week sometime for decent comparison Graham. Dick tells the story a lot better.

Knackers, in seminar at 6:20.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm still counting down the days til Darkness Falls comes out. It's finally out tomorrow, hooray!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

8 mile
Birthday Girl - How can Nick be infatuated with someone with such an improbably large forehead? Also the first half of the movie is incredibly boring.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chicago - great if you're into that sort of thing - singing & dancing, I mean
Lost Highway - very entertaining, I like movies that promote discussion
The Man with Two Brains - HA!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Truth About Charlie - the last thing anyone needs is a remake of 'Charade'* (I thought) but Thandie Newton is gorgeous and is in virtually every scene. And it's J. Demme so it couldn't be too crap (I thought); it'll be nice, light brain-disengaging fare for a Sunday afternoon (I thought).

Goodness, what a mess! It's sooo French too - I don't just mean the Paris setting and the Aznavour/Karina cameos, but the plotting is typical 'policier' à la Diva what with all these sinister types menacing our heroine (when they're not chasing or squabbling with eachother, that is). Also, all the cast must have had ESP since they all managed to be in exactly in the right place at the right time. Nice sapphic undertones tho', and surprisingly light on violence, which made a nice change.

*as namechecked by Justin upthread

― Jeff W, Monday, 27 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Birthday Girl is a mess isn't it.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mostly DVDs:

Imitation of Life
Chicago
Dogfight
Barbershop
Krush Groove
The Bourne Identity
24 Hour Party People (listened to commentaries while assembling CD rack)

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Finally saw Catch Me If You Can tonight! I loved it, which surprised me because I was fully expecting to hate it. Even Leo was quite good in it. If Minority Report hadn't cocked up the ending, I would have two Spielberg films in my top ten for 2002.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 2 February 2003 05:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

i saw 'about schmidt' the other night, it was really hard to watch. kathy bates and the set design in her house was great, but jack nicholson shouldn't have been in it at all. overall i didn't like it.

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Hours was disappointing. Its tone seemed vague/ambiguous/not-fleshed-out, in a bad way. Had a completely false character in the overprecocious melancholic child, something I had come to associate only with the Great Satan M Night Shyalaman. And John C. Reilly should have passed on this one.

Worth it to watch Meryl Streep, and Claire Danes is good but it's a small part.

― Aaron A., Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Signs (again) - I have a man crush on M. Night Shyamalan.
The Bank - neat Aussie flick. Pi meets Glengarry Glen Ross. Er, I wish.
The Bourne Identity - Better then my low expectations. Go big head go.
Adaptation - about 3/4's grebt.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

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― flappy bird, Friday, 31 August 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I've no idea where else to put this but I watched Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool and was surprisingly moved and impressed by it. That is one ridiculously charismatic performance by Annette Benning. I actually cried at the end.

― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Friday, 28 September 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Small Foot.
musical animation about the tribe of the yeti's encounter with a Western film maker.
Quite fun. NOticed it had a G certificate which I don't remember having seen on a cinema screen before.
& for the lowest certificate there seemed to be a lot of violence or is the idea that what would be physically or life threatening behaviour actually needing to be shown to have consequences before it makes the certificate go up.
Also questions of blasphemy and challeninging received religious wisdom being a central theme of a lot of the film.

JUst hope 5 year old kids don't start dropping off the side of Himalayan mountains cos they've seen it's quite fun.
& there's easier ways of waking villages than displayed here.

I think i was just assuming that a worthwhile film couldn't be rated as low as G but may have been watching things rated as that without seeing the certificate.

― Stevolende, Friday, 26 October 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link

FYI there is a new movies thread here: Last (x) movies you saw (II)

― flappy bird, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link

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