LES BLANK - GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS (1980)



GLORIOUS!

feels like a 70s film with its roots in 60s culture, and you wouldn’t know you were at the outset of the yuppie era. these were the seeds of... the good food we eat today (in the usa anyway). holy fuck. chez panisse is now a venerable institution. back then it looked like a hippie eatery!

this shit gives me, as they say, “hope”.

highly highly watchable. wow.

why oh why is it pushed as an xmas fave????????

because as our dear kegmama used to often say, quoting L7, the masses are the asses

they fucking loooooooove their stupidity and brainwash and the reassurance that they are ok

now, bad santa—the unrated director’s cut—that’s a true christmas classic

at least bad santa had laughs. I did not enjoy it, but it had laughs.

How bad is it that I am legit considering trying to find the Sharknado movies?

i laugh my ass off every rewatch. it’s all kinds of wrong. the unrated version anyway—i think it’s the only one i’ve seen.

do it. do it and suffer the consequences :D

A near perfect film that feels like a culmination of Scorsese's look into the mafia lifestyle. Some incredible performances, Deniro is good but I think Pacino and yes Joe Pesci really makes this movie. At a 3 and a half hour running time I never felt any lull or feeling of lag. This also doesn't feel like Scorsese is just repeating himself. A fascinating snapshot of 1960's America.

carlos saura’s PEPPERMINT FRAPPÉ (1968)



part “persona,” part “pygmalion,” part... who the fuck knows what, crazy crazy movie, so good. saura dedicated it to buñuel, and it’s fitting. [eta: critics say VERTIGO. sure, but, same difference]

i had known of this movie for a long time but it was hard to find. re-spotted the title the other day in a list of almodovar’s favorite spanish movies. now criterion has it- hurrah.

Midsommar. FANTASTIC!! (remind me not to visit rural Sweden)

Goodbye to Anna Karina. What a beauty. I pretty much watched Godard movies just to see her in them.

o maaaaaaaaaaaan!


i feel like boohooing. i think i just might :(

Loved it. Powerhouse performances by Dafoe and Pattinson, great cinematography and damn, that sound design. The atmosphere is thick in this one, almost like german expressionism or a lynchian production. In fact, it somewhat reminded me of the feeling Eraserhead was going for at times. Its narrative is ominous and disorienting, perfectly underlining the fraught and psychologically taxing relationship of its two protagonists. Highly recommended.

i missed that at the movies (i think), now i’m having the urgency to see it somewhere. thanks for the heads up!

Oh well, so I just watched this movie again. I forgot that I had already watched it entirely last month when it was broadcast. It was still on the recorder.

Out of these three, difficult to pick the best one. But about Carlito's Way: i didn't realise Sean Penn played the lawyer until I copy/pasted the poster just now.

goodfellas takes the cake, by a mile, huh?

Is this a remake? I have a LIGHTHOUSE fr0m 2016 that is the same story.

I came across the imdb page of the 2016 movie a few days ago. However, I couldn't find anything indicating that the 2019 movie is a remake. And having had a look at the 2016 movie now on youtube, I can say I highly doubt it's an actual remake. The two movies are incredibly different stylistically and plot-point wise. My best guess is that the similarities arise because the 2016 one is based on an actual historical incident of 1801 called the Smalls Lighthouse incident. The 2016 one kept the actual names of the people involved, but applied a good dose of artistic license. I'm pretty sure the 2019 movie was inspired by the same incident. The characters have different names though and the setting has been changed from early 1800s Wales to the late 1800s New England. I guess a classic case of being inspired by the same source. That's pretty much where the similarities end though. I guess it's a remake in the same way John Carpenter's The Thing was a remake of The Thing From Another World - technically, they are both different interpretations of another source.

Thanks.

Wales rules though. full of gorgeous women

Sadly underwhelming; played more like it was just ninety minutes of "look at all the video I took!" Had potential, but probably not something I'd want to watch again.