new 35mm print of Rashomon being screened for a week starting Feb 12 at a Landmark theater.

Godard tribute at the Trylon.

I want to see Crazyhorse.

Watched Gone Baby Gone last night. Really good.

shane,
is that the one that an Affleck directed? or am i thinking of something else?

glengarry glen ross.
could not hang.
hate Lemmon

yeah, you're right pitpat
it's a good flick. casey a. is a great actor and handsome to bout
i like glengary glen ross
jack lemmon is a fine man, and he is also good in the 12 angry men remake

i recently discovered COLUMBO. That show is so amazing.

Boooooooo!!!

I just finished my feature film screenplay and submitted it to IFP/N for the McKnight Foundation Screenwriting Grant. WOOHOOOOO! That's MY February Film and I am sticking to it.

oooo, good luck!

wow, good luck, man!

so far in Feb i've watched:

almost heroes
ghostbusters 2
iron man

i fell asleep to dogville last night.

Thanks! I am super excited and feel the hugest sense of accomplishment (been working on it for years)!

Columbo yes! My best friend from college used to make me cards with Peter Falk on them to cheer me up.

can you give us the gist of it, jaw?

A few years ago I told mythical_beast it was "The Seventh Seal" meets "Easy Rider". That still holds, I guess. hahaha

Are you writing a new Ghost Rider movie? The last one sucked.

hahaha. no, but you gave me a great idea for my sequel.

Cradle Will Rock was on tv yesterday, which I haven't seen in a long time. Very entertaining little bit of lefty history with a fun cast.

Sada - the director of Hausu retells the same (true) story that In The Realm Of The Senses was based on. It's not as bonkers as Hausu, but it does have its share of cartoonish touches and stylistic flair. Also, it's a much better movie than the more celebrated In The Realm Of The Senses.

deep red is coming to a turf club near you

I finally saw the Fantastic Foxy movie and I enjoyed it. The end.

I want to see Hausu ~ hopefully it'll get a domestic dvd release some time?

Finally purchased one of my all-time favorite films on DVD, Les Yeux Sans Visage, or Eyes Without A Face.
One of the first real "horror" movies. The director, Georges Franju, was a documentarian who made a film about slaughterhouses called "The Blood of the Beasts." You can definitely feel that in his approach.

Criterion artwork by our very own Aesthetic Apparatus!

Eyes Without a Face is pretty good. :)

anybody wanna go see new moon @ 11 @ the riverview 2nite? pm me. i might've lost my phone.
i think i'm in the mode for some mexican food, beer and a cheesey movie.

Crazyheart was pretty good

just watched a documentary called 'manufactured landscapes' about a canadian photographer who takes pretty amazing pictures of the effects of industrialism. really well done, recommended

Up In The Air - good not great. if you travel a lot you might find some parts mildly amusing

rocket science: cute, but not very well executed; the story seemed to have a very strange, awkward form that didn't do go things for this movie

donnyyy posted this on Feb 06th, 2010 at 10:16:05 pm
just watched a documentary called 'manufactured landscapes' about a canadian photographer who takes pretty amazing pictures of the effects of industrialism. really well done, recommended

They have a c-print of his in the Tweed Museum in Duluth. Too bad I find his work, and statements, pretty boooo-ring.

crazy heart was super formulaic but somehow still effective. prolly the acting. loved colin farrell, who i used to hate until i saw in bruges.

I love "Manufactured Landscapes"
the photography and pacing is pitch-perfect

Vertigo - Haven't seen this is ten forevers, and it could probably have withstood at least a half an hour excised from the movie. Too long, but good. And Kim Novak is HOTCHA.

Hellraiser V - Not as bad as i thought it would be. Decent.

Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Pretty good.

Idiocracy - AWESOME

Terminator: Salvation - Kinda stupid, but kinda what I had expected. I guess I'd give this a sideways thumb +.

Royal Tenenbaums - The gf hadn't seen this, so we grabbed it off the Netflix Instant dealio. Still enjoy it.

Class of Nuke'em High - YES

Following - Short and creepy. Nolan takes a lot from this and puts it into Memento, but this was entertaining on its own.

i like Following quite a bit
Hellraiser (the first one and second one) are the only ones i saw, but i liked them both a lot

If you dug the first couple Hellraisers you might like the third and fourth. I like the third and fourth quite a bit. After four it drops off a bit. The third one is cool, but the compact disc shooting Cenobite is a bit too much for me.

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Just watched two movies yesterday.

"Ink," which we watched based on Roar's recommendation from a different thread.

and "The Brother From Another planet," which I though was amazing. It certainly wasn't flawless, but I was really impressed.

what'd you think of 'Ink'? Worth a look, at least?

Absolutely. I really enjoyed that movie. I read some criticism after watching it that hit it pretty spot on; It was something like "the storytellers looked like actors who had just stepped out of their headshot photo sessions," among other potshots taken at the movie's shortcomings (which could nearly all be explained by the absolute lack of budget), but I think it was a great little, imagination-filled film with a really good heart. I just look at it as a beautiful metaphor for the way we go through life, not really realizing, because of our pride, how we are plagued by these nagging doubts about our actions, and how we convince ourselves that there is never a way to get to where we want to be, once we see it as lost. It's a very powerful sentiment, and I think that was more powerful than all the bad acting and washed-out Digicam cinematography.

I'll echo your statement from the other thread: somebody give this guy a budget.

gertrude! posted this on Feb 02nd, 2010 at 10:24:21 pm
Finally purchased one of my all-time favorite films on DVD, Les Yeux Sans Visage, or Eyes Without A Face.
One of the first real "horror" movies. The director, Georges Franju, was a documentarian who made a film about slaughterhouses called "The Blood of the Beasts." You can definitely feel that in his approach.

Criterion artwork by our very own Aesthetic Apparatus!

That's awesome!! I never knew that. I have been thinking about grabbing it for some time, I'll have to watch it first.

Recently for me:
Down By Law
Equinox
Solaris
The Vanishing (original)
Repulsion

I'm getting ready to watch "Putney Swope" in the next couple of days. Can anyone tell me whether this is a good idea?

Yes.

Wait, it depends on what you mean by "good idea," and whether or not you trust my judgement.

Well, more like, is it a good movie? The synopsis over at Netflix makes it sound amazing and hilarious. I'm hoping it lives up to the hype.

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slmwn

The opening scene of Putney Swope is one of the funniest goddamned things I've ever seen. The rest of the movie doesn't hit the same heights, but yeah, it's worth watching.

vanishing point

I love Putney Swope.

"How many syllables, Mario? How many syllables, Mario? How many syllables, Mario? How many syllables, Mario?"

Hausu (thx roar) rendered me speechless, whoa
Julie & Julia, er, was, er...it was fine. I guess. I don't fit the middle aged female stereotype the way I'm supposed to.
9 was good. what's with the cute robots surviving the apocalypse thing? this and wall-e and tevs. It's fine, but I'm tiring of this trope already

'parting glances'--weird mid 1980s movie co-starring steve buscemi who plays a guy dying of AIDS. at first it seemed really cheesy and cheap, but turned out pretty strange in a good way with mostly decent dialogue.

'frozen river'--gets lots of hype, have seen the trailer a million times. it was pretty decent; reminded me of int'l falls/northern mn a lot.

The Fallen Idol : awesome -- check it out before the Criterion edition disappears at the end of March.

swimming to cambodia. the best of WASPism
the bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans! best nicolas cage since raising arizona.

"The Mirror" (Tarkovsky) - a profoundly unique and beautiful movie experience - 5 stars

The Mirror = my favorite Tarkovsky

I'm still working my way through Tarkovsky's oeuvre so I haven't seen enough to make a similar declaration. I can certainly see it possibly being my fav though.

I have no intention of watching it, but I read the NYT review of Valentine's Day today.

At the end, there is always an italicized line that reads something like, "The Blind Side” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has some on- and off-field violence, and some drug and sexual references.

For "Valentine's Day," it reads:
“Valentine’s Day” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Everyone is strongly cautioned.

With a review this abysmal I can only guess that "Valentine's Day" will be m(r)iss piggy's favorite movie of 2010.

Ha! I am totally going to have to read that VD review now.

Bad (professional) movie reviews are more entertaining to read than positive ones, seemingly. I think Ebert has two or three successful books to this effect.

I have (or had, I might have had to get rid of it) one of those. I believe it is called Your Movie Sucks. I don't agree with all of them, but he Brings Up Some Good Points.

Pauline Kael was fun for that as well. Very up front about her subjective preferences. For instance, in her eyes, Nicholas Cage could do no wrong. If only she had lived to see The Wicker Man....

Roaratorio posted this on Feb 11th, 2010 at 06:58:09 am
The Mirror = my favorite Tarkovsky

Which version of this did you guys watch? I have heard that the translation is horrible on some, leaving out critical dialogue or sounding like it was translated by a Kindergartner.

Any recommendations?

I watched the Kino version. This would be the one (presumably) with the subpar translation. I'm inclined to disagree that the missing dialog is critical to understanding the film, however. A better translation would be nice, but I would not discourage anyone from seeing it on account of it. The film speaks visually as much or more than it does verbally.

I've got the Kino version - only one I've seen. I guess it's not the best, but it was enough to make me fall in love with it.

Yeah, that's the only version I can really find. Pretty much all of the reviews about that version are "Amazing film, terrible DVD.."

Cool. I'll just get that one then and just try and be naive about it.

I can't believe the Artificial Eye release did that to the sepia tone. :/

O Captain Criterion, hear our call of distress.

No kidding, huh? Would be nice to see a Criterion release of this one.

WOW. Those frame comparisons just blew my head off. Looks like they are all region 0 though, so the French one should also work.

saw THE WOLFMAN. appropriately cheesy/ridiculous/stupid. enjoyed it very much!

god, i love Columbo
season 1 and 2 are on watch-instantly

Think I'm gonna check out some Rockford Files on Hulu

Last night I watched Gumshoe w/Albert Finney directed by Stephen Frears. Finney is bored with his hum-drum life in Liverpool and wants to become a private eye. He soon gets over his head. Pretty good, not great. Plenty of hard boiled dialogue but the pacing is a little on the slow side. Liverpool accents are tough to understand. Seemed like the recording levels were either low or loud.

Also caught Willie Dynamite which is a trojan horse blaxploitation movie. Meaning that it was produced by Richard Zanuck & David Brown, too whitey you've seen on Turner Classic Movies or in documentaries a lot. It actually has some production values, which just ain't blaxploitation. Half the power of "Superfly" is that it's shot so semi-pro that it feels real. The posters didn't lie when they said "Ron O'Neal IS Superfly".

So if you ever wanted to see Gordon from Sesame Street play a cold blooded pimp, than this is the movie for you. But more than being a movie about a bad ass pimp (every Rudy Ray Moore movie ever) this one offers up a counter-point with a social worker lady who is trying to get one of Willie's girls to leave "the life". There's a committee of pimps led by over-the-top Bell (you've seen footage of this dude in American Pimp when they talk about Hollywood NOT getting pimps) out to get Willie too by getting him in trouble with the cops at every turn.

So yeah...they want to glorify pimping and denounce it too. But exploitation films just aren't made for that. At least to me. I know I'd rather see Dolemite tell every rat soup eating honkey motherfucker to go to hell than Willie D try to keep his bitches in line. Or just watch "The Mack" instead.

dawgmask posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 11:45:42 am
Recently for me:
Down By Law

got this on my roommate netflix, havent watched it yet, was it good?

srobot posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 04:18:28 pm
Hausu (thx roar) rendered me speechless, whoa

replace roar with doug and ur me a month ago

over the weekend i watched <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324197/">Time of the Wolf</a>, a french movie set during the week after some unnamed apocalyptic event
instead of some ridiculous action movie its like a character study of people dealing with the total fuckedness of the situation
definitely worth seeing once

teddyruxpin posted this on Feb 01st, 2010 at 03:19:38 pm
glengarry glen ross.
could not hang.
hate Lemmon

You are nuts.

I'm really on the fence still with Haneke. I couldn't decide if I cared for Time of the Wolf or not. I suppose there's something to be said for that though.

Saw "The White Ribbon" last week with my Brit friend Ben, who summed it all up saying "All those kids in the film grow up to be The Nazis". It was a good film. Brutal for sure, but certainly unique and unlike anything else.

Yeah, I saw "The White Ribbon" a week or two ago too. I liked it a lot. According to my German GF, it was pretty accurate as far as how the feudal system was still around in rural pre-WW2 Germany. It makes perfect sense how everyone became Nazis given how corrupt each social institution was portrayed in that town... but that wasn't really the case for every little town in pre-WW2 Germany.

neight posted this on Feb 15th, 2010 at 11:45:08 am
dawgmask posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 11:45:42 am
Recently for me:
Down By Law

got this on my roommate netflix, havent watched it yet, was it good?

Yeah, without a doubt my favorite Jarmusch film. Probably the funniest I have seen, and the whole storyline is gold.


srobot posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 04:18:28 pm
Hausu (thx roar) rendered me speechless, whoa

Wait... how are you all watching this? Crappy copies from Japan or something? Region 0? I still haven't seen it, but have a region 2 DVD sitting on my shelf, unable to play.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

This was RottenTomatoes.com worst ranked movie of the 2000's. I was pretty excited to watch it for bad movie hilariousness. But its one of those actually bad movies, where there is zero redeming qualities - even things to make fun of. Its just a bland wannabe euro-cool espionage film. Every shot is taken on an overcast day, and everyone is wearing black trench coats and sunglasses. Really really weak fight scenes, slowmo shootouts, and wooden performances by all.

It was directed by someone named "Kaos"

i watched conte d´´eté, by eric rohmer this morning. i guess i was feeling indulgent and sentimental, but i really liked it, despite, and because of - the flaky would-be protagonist´s insufferable failure to take any romantic risks. three pretty french girls, one pretty french boy. the coast of brittanny in the summer, elaborate plotting, and pretty downbeat and melancholy story about the confusion and heat of summer puppy love. also good for the inclusion of FRENCH SEA SHANTIES. B+.

anyone seen any other rohmer movies? he just died, so i figure he´s being reevaluated by someone somewhere.

Just watched C.R.A.Z.Y.. Nice to see a gay-themed movie that was neither noble hetero-targeted tragedy/horrorshow nor amateurish Logo-network Pollyannaism.

Wall O Beef posted this on Feb 16th, 2010 at 01:00:27 pm
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

I saw this is the theatre as a joke and it seriously was one of the worst movies ever... painful.

Battle of Chile - Parts 1 and 2 (mid 70s film banned in Chile during Pinochet and just released to DVD...one of the best political documentaries Ive seen-- there is some incredible footage of the '73 coup...)

Alice Doesnt LIve Here Anymore - eh, its ok
Shutter Island

Seven Samurai - totally lived up to its reputation
Yojimbo - not that great
Ikiru - very good

Just got Ran on Blueray