bullets over summer - 7/10



my own private idaho - 7/10



running on karma - 6/10

Now this is one is just ridiculous. An ex Buddhist monk wears a muscle suit and has psychic powers. He tracks down a killer that can hide himself in small tin boxes. The muscle man uses his psychic powers on a dead dog. And the fun begins.

Also, watched this shitty short...


coward bends the knee - 3/10

There's been times in the past when I thought guy maddin was awesome. This film is terrible though. Hot asian chicks, old men in corsettes, an ice skating rink that houses an underground abortion clinic, and it STILL sucks. I started watching a few other guy maddin discs that came in through netflix and they were all terrible as well. Fuck it.

battlefield baseball - 7/10

This is a good one.

The Professor and his Beloved Equation.

remember on The Simpsons when Bart was on the sidewalk and his friends ask him to come with them to sneak into an R rated movie, and they were all excited and Bart coudl not go and the kids drive away chanting "Barton Fink! Barton Fink!" ????
that shit makes me LAUGH.

imagine a 10 year old watching that fucking movie! they'd hate it! ha ha!

I'll show you the life of the mind!I'll show you the life of the mind!I'll show you the life of the mind!I'll show you the life of the mind!

Ha, I do remember that, that was hilarious. :)

I watched gran torino which I'd probably give a low 7/10. It's a bit dull and cliché from a storyline standpoint and nothing you all haven't seen before, but Eastwood's 78-year-old-man-and-he-likes-it/78-year-old-man-what-you-gonna-do-about-it? performance is really awesome.

2nded

The Man Who Knew Too Much


Ignorant Americans go to Marakesh see a murder, talk too much, their son gets kidnapped then they fly to London to try and save their son and avert an assassination.

Oi vey - enough with Doris Day singing. Jimmy Stewart's fish out of water schtick wears thin. The kid was annoying. I felt like they were stupid people who deserved what happened to them.

I had a crappy day.
I am going to watch "irreversible" now.
two chances for me:
1. it will work as a ventile for me, I feel better.
2. it will let me hate this day even more, I feel maybe worse.

lets see

First time I saw irreversible, I was drinking gin. I was drunk by the time the strobe light came on. Good film.

I highly reccomend I STAND ALONE, another Gasper Noe film. One of my all time favs.

ok, I am paat the fire exstinguisher scene.
movie works like the first case Ive described. hell yeah.

I got irreversible here and I stand alone.
I think I will both like them, but somehow they are movies ive missed so far.

okay I am through it.
makes me wanna see " I stand alone" riht after it, but I need ome sleep.

very intense scenes, well known nothing new. the rape scene I thought was way more "cruel"...or to say it better exploitative?! I dunno, it wasnt comforting at all but not as shocking as I thought it would be after Ive seen the extinguisher scene.

all in all I like the kinda primitive theme, here and there some interesting ideas thrown in. pretty good if not one of the best "reverse" movies Ive seen

I love the way "Irreversible" ends, with the scene w/Monica Belluci in the park, whilst Beethoven's 6th Symphony blares out.

"Seul Contre Tous" is good fun, but a tad schlocky - it borrows a few riffs from William Castle too, in a slighty cheesy way.

I've been watching season one of home movies in my movie watching time at night.
Fucking love that show.

I used to love it too, but I haven't seen it in forever. Good pick. I might have to pick that up if I ever have money.

My girlfriend thinks Brendon Small and me are the exact same person...

Ohh that looks sexy.

I just watched Rope and Rear Window. Both solid 7's.

I have Rope, but never watched it. Rear Window is great. Vertigo is my fav Hitch film.

FRENZY's mine, but vertigo rules as well.

Even Dwarfs Started Small.

"While filming the scene where a van drove in circles with no one at the wheel, one of the actors was run over, but immediately stood up uninjured. During the flower burning scene, the same actor caught fire and Werner Herzog raced over and beat the fire out. The actor only had minor injuries from the fire. After these two accidents, Werner Herzog promised the actors that if they made it through the rest of filming without any more injuries he would jump into a cactus patch and allow the actors to film him doing so. The film was finished without any further injuries and the director made good his promise and dove into the cacti. Herzog has said, "Getting out was a lot more difficult than jumping in." (wiki)

That film's pretty good. I'm a Herzog virgin, only having seen 3 of his films.

that film is amazing. such an original film, and really beautiful

i just saw vera cruz

I've only seen Grizzly Man.

ive seen a good amount of his features and one documentary (GM), he is defiantly in my top five directors.

these:



and


the films of kenneth anger vol. 1 and 2

Don't know how to rate these since there's a bunch of films on each other, but probably between an 8 and 10 for all of 'em overall. Check em out...

'Invocation of my Demon Brother' is one of my favourite things, never mind films, ever. Up there with Songs the Lord Taught Us and olives.

!!!!!!!!

I have to admit that I fell asleep through a screening of "Lucifer Rising" at the Hoxton Lux cinema - oops. Must try to watch that again at some point.

Lucifer Rising is a bit clunky compared to most of his other stuff but you should give it another go. It's the hardest one to enjoy though, definitely.

For people who don't know what we're talking about...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...02155224808588 = INVOCATION


http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...83728662460695 = LUCIFER RISING

Good stuff!!

Do you remember if that's version you saw? The music is different. The original Jagger score is more like a repeating electronic pulse. Really becomes intense in relation to the footage. I know Anger is infamous for replacing scores but it'd be a shame if he's taken the original Jagger one off. This is the Jagger version, just out of interest. Sorry it's in two parts:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fZs4cIqfyWU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mwKNqvCnT4w

thanks for reminding me, i've been meaning to get anger vol 2...1 was so good...for whatever reason, puce moment may be my favorite on the disc...good late night viewing.

the jagger score was one thing keeping me from getting vol 2. is it really good? i can only think of jagger as some cheesy rock and roll business man, not some dude who makes noise soundtracks to art films.

Yeah, it really works. Adds a sort of edge to the whole thing.

You know, I think the soundtrack is the one on the vids you posted, not the one I posted.

Well, I was going to go to sleep 1/2 hour ago, but decided to watch "Lucifer Rising" instead. Visually, a very striking and appealing film, with some great use of edits, and many good juxtapositions. The usage of Egyptian, Luciferian and English Pagan iconography makes this to me actually quite a religious film, in the respect of it being a dedication from Anger to his inspirations..."An offering in pursuance of a vow"...The music works well within the film too.

Having said that, I would still go for "Inaugeration Of The Pleasure Dome" and "Invocation of my Demon Brother" as being my fave Anger films, but "Lucifer Rising" definitely is a memorable and striking piece of film-making.

WALL-E

Loved it. If I was 11 with my sci fi lovin nerd ass I would have creamedgasmed over this flick