ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK = 8/10

I love giallos.

No movies lately. Just lots of Twin Peaks, and Dead Like Me whenever I get the chance to sit and watch something.



Looks engaging.

DEATH LAID AN EGG - 8/10

Yeah it was my girlfriend who showed it to me! It was good, but maybe need to watch it again.

8/10, maybe 9/10 considering it's improvised

other films i've watched in the last week



8/10



9/10


6/10

7/10



9/10

6/10

cabin fever 2 - 4/10

(for those wondering, I'd give the first one a 6/10)

Pretty fucking boring, even at barely over 80 minutes. Ti West is a pretty shitty director. Giuseppe didn't look like he wanted to be here. Stupid, boring animated sequences and "heart wipes" try to make this one in tune with the first one's "twisted" horror-comedy vision, but it just comes off as shallow, silly, and pointless. Boring blood and gore, uninspired direction, and seriously -- the whole thing just doesn't know what it wanted to be.

Apparently Ti West hates the final, studio-raped cut as well. I'm still willing to give it a shot though.

Have you seen House of the Devil? Your opinion on Ti may change.

Not yet, I'm going to download it right now.

Wait... There's a Cabin Fever 2 ? Ahah, I gotta see this (I think the first one is pretty good). Today, I watched:



7/10. I don't remember having watched this as a kid but I remember the pretty cool video game on NES. So yeah, it's just a good and entertaining adventure movie but I guess you have to watch it as a kid to really love it.

wathed this last night for the firsttime in years.
still supa great

10/10

Yes, still awesome and totally badass, it remains one of my favorite movies of all time.

manhattan - 8/10

Saw Performance for the first time last night. It was between bouts of sex in a hotel room, and I was sleep-nodding in and out of it a little bit, but that seemed to work perfectly. I definitely would like to watch it again. Very trippy. Roeg is a great director when he isn't doing hack work like Don't Look Now.

Roeg was involved a bit, but that film is mainly the child of Donald Camel, who also made the masterpiece WHITES OF THE EYE, then a few alright films, and then he killed himself.

Performance is a really good film, though... the only Roeg film I really like is Bad Timing.

Thanks for the info. Man Who Fell to Earth is actually one of my very favorite, if not very favorite period, movies. But then I'm an acid casualty, old school science fiction geek who walked into a redneck salon in 1986 in Bellingham, WA with a copy of Space Oddity and told them I wanted my hair that color, at heart...

I generally love Roeg's stuff, although I believe you're right about Performance being primarily a Cammell film. I watched Walkabout again recently and was reminded just what a great film it is. The fact that he's had any kind of Hollywood career at all is sort of amazing - although I think he sort of destroyed his industry rep in the 80s, with rubbish flops like Castaway (if Roeg produced one piece of 'hack work' it's surely that, not Don't Look Now) and the just too odd for its own good, Track 29.

I Watched Cammell's Whites of the Eye a few years ago and wasn't that into it, but I keep hearing and reading things about it so I really should give it another go.

Ah, I forgot Walkbout. I actually do like that film, too. Don't Look Now is alright.

WHITES OF THE EYE is really fucking amazing, probably the best, um, "American giallo" (with Body Double being close). It degenerates into a cliched mess at the end but the first 90 minutes is amazing, especially that opening murder! Oh, and the music is perfect..

Haha, yeah, Body Double. I have a weird soft spot for that movie. I don't really like it but whenever it comes on TV I'll always watch it regardless. I have a very similar relationship with The Howling, for some reason.

I'll stick White of the Eye on my Lovefilm list.

All 5 hours. In one sitting. For the second time in a two month period. On Valentine's Day. Single. With my mother. I could not possibly be a cooler dude.

EDIT: Oh, and yeah, it's a masterpiece. You should watch it.

I love Body Double. It straddles the line between supercheesy and superbrilliant, like a huge amalgam of Hitchcock references, especially the more sleazy stuff. I mean, it's obviously, and knowingly, ridiculous, but it's actually really really beautiful at times, especially the music, and that scene where he's following the girl and they're at the beach... OH MAN, when he goes into that tunnel! So cool. And the drill through the floor sequence with the blood is mindblowing. I love the ending, too, how it just kinda.. ends... with the dog and the river... hahha. It's great. I love DePalma, in general, Blow Out is one of my favorite films of all time.

Scenes from a Marriage is a masterpiece, though I haven't seen long version. I've seen lots of Bergman and like it all, with Persona being one of my favorite films of all time.

bad timing is amazing.
i need to see scenes from a marraige

Yeah, while I'm not as big a DePalma fan as yourself I do think in individual scenes he can be brilliant. And you're so right about the way Body Double looks. It's impossible to describe but it has to be one of the 'sunniest' films I've ever seen. Also, I love the main guy in it. I don't even know who he is or seen him in anything else, but he's absolutely perfect in that role.

I think he's soap opera actor, and I'm pretty sure he was never in another "Big" film again!

HEAT is a masterpiece! One of the best mainstream films of all time. Ah, man, thinking of this.. when did it come out? 1995? 1997? Back then, there were still great films coming out IN THEATERS at a regular rate.. what the fuck happened? Nostalgia kills me.

That whole bank scene is just so brilliant.

Am I the only person who thinks Soderbegh blows? The only film I even half way like by him is the overlong Schizopolis. Even the much-ballyhooed Bubble was tedious.

"See it with someone you ***".. terrible.

I read that Soderbegh was influenced by Cries and Whispers and the Red Desert (one of my all time favs) while making Girlfriend Experience. THat makes me hate it even more!

A few effective scenes here and there, I spent most of my time drooling over Sasha.

5/10

SURE FIRE - 9/10

Wow, there are people out there that actually liked Bad Timing? Objectively, I guess it was OK, but I don't I've ever seen a movie with a more unlikeable main character. That was probably the point, but still...

8/10



7/10


8/10

Fuck yeah! Aki Kaurismaski and Lucio Fulci, two master directors! GReat choices Derek. (middle image didn't show up)

There's the middle image haha.

Wolfman - it sucked.

Former S.A.S soldier Andy McNab was technical weapons training adviser for Heat. :)