I love Fulci. That one's alright. Just gore, not much more.

I don't love Fulci. But I love The Seven Doors Of Death.

i saw gates of hell/city of the living dead last week for the first time after buying it months ago. it had some great visual scenes, but some of it was a bit off.
the part were the girl pukes her internal organs was classic, and the bloody tears were great!

Watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Very stylistic, but too long and soppy for my liking.

Saw The Seventh Seal. Really, really loved it. First film of Ingmar Bergman that I've seen. My netflix list just got a lot larger with all the other films of his that I now want to see.

never go into anything with expectations.

Bird is a fucking AWESOME movie. I've seen it 4-5 times. great soundtrack, actual bird horn. love it.

I liked it, but something about the pacing of certain scenes didn't sit too well. And a lot of flashbacks that lasted forever, to the point where you forgot if you were in the past or the present. Of course, I was tired, and that may have attributed to me not fully keeping up with what was going on.

I agree man. the pacing is very deliberate. clint eastwood has that. he never speeds up a scene, but instead lets them play out. I have grown to really enjoy it, but it took time.

Something about the mood of it all I loved, though, and I'll give it that for sure. It almost had an old Jarmusch feel to it, something that I wouldn't expect from Eastwood.

I NEED to see that.

so beautiful...

saw notorious the other night. not big into biopics and this was no exception. i didnt like it at all.

Watched this with my 5yr old the other night. We had never seen it. He liked it.

Stalker.

damn

the tarkovsky movie?
if so i was thinking about watching it this weekend...

after staring at this for a good while....everything is moving left to right now.

yep.

i almost played it over when it ended. it felt short or like i had lost track of time because i was surprised when it ended

Dunno how to rate this, but it had a Giuseppe Andrews film I'd never seen on it... and at the end of the movie, there's a call from Werner Herzog telling Giuseppe to keep making movies because he loved his films! Blew my mind.

Cameron was young. He had just directed Terminator. Cameron had called a meeting to discuss his “next project.” Everyone knew Cameron had written a treatment for Alien 2 that nobody would touch because Alien was not a massive financial success. Alien 2 was not on the table. We expected a professional pitch from Cameron, an outline and a treatment of what he had in mind with a cursory budget; perhaps a couple assistants to run a slide show.
Instead Cameron walked in the room without so much as a piece of paper. He went to the chalk board in the room and simply wrote the word ALIEN. Then he added an ‘S’ to make ALIENS. Dramatically, he drew two vertical lines through the ‘S’, ALIEN$. He turned around and grinned. We greenlit the project that day for $18 million.

re: Fulci. One of the best directors ever. Has made so many awesome movies, with genuinely unsettling scenes. LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN, NEW YORK RIPPER, THE BEYOND, GATES OF HELL, ZOMBIE, DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING, NEW GLADIATORS, TOUCH OF DEATH, and THE PSYCHIC are all great films. He has his share of total crap, but for the most part he was a great director. Was capable of producing totally atmospheric, arty films that looked like nothing before and nothing since then. He is easy to make fun of, because of his constant useage of the zoom button, his total lack of clarity in his plots (or perhaps something was lost in translation...), and his overall sloppiness. But to me, he has made some of the most genuinely unsettling scenes ever in a film:

- The autopsy/chopping off limbs with a chainsaw scene in touch of death
- The spiders eating the face in The Beyond; also see the ending which just blows my mind
- The cat eating the brains in the film I just watched
- And almost the entire film, "The Gates of Hell"... what a masterpiece... the drill in the face, the odd soundtrack, the constant crackling and decaying film footage, the end where the entire film breaks like shards of glass, the weird and jarring edits (in the unedited version), the buried-underneath-the-ground scene, the organ vomitting scene, the constant visions of the priest's eyes, and the scene near the end where one of the main character's head.. the back of his head.. gets ripped off and his brains spill out. All very genuinely unsettling and difficult to watch, in a good way. OH, that's not even mentioning the storm of millions of maggots infesting an entire room... that movie is amazing, one of the best... it's a little off, but it's supposed to be.

He basically made art-horror films.. films more concerned with atmosphere and imagery than a conventional plot or story. It took me a while to truely appreciate what he was doing. When I was 14 and watched Zombie for the first time, I basically walked away with, "Oh, that was pretty cool but not really what I was looking for." Now I recognize it, and many of his other films, as the masterpieces they are. When you consider many of his films were unfinished and rushed, he never had any budget whatsoever for most of his films.. I mean, if you look at any of his films, they often were met with so much restraint from everyone all around him.. censors, actors, other directors... he had a very troubled life and made very troubled films, but it paid off. He has his share of crap.. MANHATTAN BABY is one of the worst films I've ever seen... but I don't think anyone will ever be able to make genuinely unsettling, upsetting, even DISTURBING horror films -- TRUE horror -- like him again.

I just watched this:



One film was a cool little doc (though not as good as "speak of the devil"), the other was a shitty but hallucinagenic film. I don't rate docs, but the film part was probably a 5/10...