LOL

Man, we have the same taste. Just watched that before Vibrator! Then again we probably get the same movies recommended to us on Netflix.

Same director eh? I Missed that.

Nah man I'm not on netflix. I think my reviews are still on there (I have 900 afterall; my reviewer rank was 10), but I haven't gotten on there in well over a year, maybe 2 years. I'm not really sure how and where I find movies. Mostly imdb threads, or random. Lots of reccomendations by people on soulseek or noisefanatics.com... I dunno. I just find a director I like and get everything by them. You know a film you'd probably like? BITTERSWEET LIFE:




You may have seen it, but I think you'd dig PEPPERMINT CANDY, too, judging from your tastes





The whole movie is backwards, a la Memento and other films that aren't as good as Peppermint Candy and Memento.

anyway just watched


DREAM HOME - 7/10

cool director, just got LOVE IN A PUFF by the same guy and gonna watch that before I go to bed

COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE charles manson documentary that is edited like a fucking brakhage movie... but imagine the brakhae film had a soundtrack for once and the soundtrack was even more wild and cut-up and insanely edited than the imnages... but imagine all the images were manson.. and imaginate all the sounds were manson speaking and manson playing guitar and shit.. and there you go. insane ifilm. it's on youtube. i have a really really rare dvd of it (it's limited to 50 copies! since it's so damn ... unauthorized... all these samples and stolen video works and shit..) basiucally it's a "Best of charles manson", if that makes sense. still, it's not as good as the documentary from.. 1972?... i believe.. called simply MANSON.. if you want to se ean INSANE manson doc, that's the onew.

5/10

I loved the collection of stories when i was a kid, but this film couldnt decide on how seriously it wanted to take the ideas in the source material and tried to make up for it with wise-cracks and explosions.

@atsonic, Troll 2 is a fantastic movie. We've watched it many times over the years. ALWAYS entertaining. Far from "bad."

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge - 8/10



diary of a shinjuku thief - 9/10



BLAST OF SILENCE - 10/10 .. feels like if scorsese made a film in 1960.





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FROM THERE, SIMPLY CHECK YOUR EMAIL, IT MIGHT SEND IT TO YOUR JUNK MAIL.

Cinemageddon is fucking amazing. If you're interested at all in Japanese films, undergroundf ilms, experimental films, weird films, films only available on VHS, indie films, concert films, biographic films, horror films (especially giallos!), Troma films... basically, any films that aren't mainstream.. or if they ARE mainstream, they're fucked up or foreign (FReddy Got Fingered, all Argento/Bava/Cronenberg/Fulci) or not available on DVD (Suburbia, Natural Enemies)... just to be able to get a shit ton of Fassbinder,Godard, Jost, Kitano, etc. is worth it. If you're more into mainstream stuff, demonoid is free to sign up for, and like I posted elsewhere, some guy is uploading all of his "Director filmography" stuff... so far he's uploaded every Lynch, Jodorowsky, Cronenberg, Allen, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, and Kubrick films. And he's going to be uploading ALL Greenaway (gotta get that!), Fassbinder, Mike Leigh (Naked -= one of the best films ever), Antonioni, Brothers Quay, Ki Duk Kim (another one everyone should get, if only for Real Fictyion and the Isle!), and about 100 other amazing directors.

MY TOP 50 FAVORITE DIRECTORS
1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Takeshi Kitano
3. Jon Jost
4. Shuji Terayama
5. Sidney Lumet
6. Fassbinder
7. Aki Kaurismaki
8. Andrzej Zulawski
9. Philippe Garrel
10. Brian DePalma
11. Krzysztof Kieslowski
12. Martin Scorsese
13. David Mamet (who is my favorite writer of all time)
14. Seijun Suzuki
15. Antonioni
16. Atom Egoyan
17. John Cassavettes
18. Abbas Kiarostami
19. Bela Tarr
20. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
21. Sogo Ishii
22. Shinya Tsukamoto
23. Ki-Duk Kim
24. Alejandro Jodorowsky
25. Toshio Matsumoto
26. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
27. Todd Solondz
28. James Benning
29. Bergman
30. Shunji Iwai
31. Giuseppe Andrews
32. Kubrick
33. Jeff Keen
34. Wong-Kar Wai
35. Damon Packard
36. Shinji Aoyanama
37. Stan Brakhage
38. Sion Sono
39. Kiyoshi Kaursawa
40. Sergio Martino
41. William Lustig
42. Gregg Araki
43. Dario Argento
44. Robert Altman
45. Mike Leigh
46. Andrei Tarkovsky
47. Sergio Leone
48. Shinji Aoyanam
49. Ryan Trecartin
50. Lukas Moodyson
runner ups: Agnes Varda, Ryuichi Hiroki, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Lech Majewski, Chantal Akerman (who will definitely be higher on my list in the future), Dennis Hopper (Last Movie and out of the Blue are two of the greatest films ever), Phillipe Grandreiux, Herzog, Satoshi Kon, Masaaki Yuasa, Bava, Lucio Fulci, Wim Wenders, Hartley.. fucking ETC. There are just too many to name. If anyone is curious about individual films I like by each director, feel free to ask away.

Atsonicpark: Are You Ignoring Me Or What? I've Said Things To You In Several Threads And Gotten No Response.

Fire: Walk With Me....rounding out my Twin Peaks experience

Fire Walk With Me is great. And really scary.

i'd say Twin Peaks, man. i love watching that show. i especially like re-watching the whole series since the pilot itself is pure genius.

the Pilot could have been a movie.

I found Fire: Walk With Me a let down in comparison.

The Harder They Come: 8/10

Wow. The opening scene alone was jaw-dropping, true art house mastery. In 1969 this beauty was made, and no wonder Kubrick loved this, its probably one of the most fresh and inventive movies made in the late 60's. Shinnosuke "Peter" Ikehata is the hottest Japanese male to exist on this Earth.

11/10
Jim O'Rourke's(!) essay on the film

atsonicpark, I thank you for the recommendation

no problem. Like I said, man, it's a HUGE inspiration on my films (just watch currently untitled and me, myself, and my third eye, it influenced those big time). THANK YOU for the o'rourke essay -- I had NO IDEA he was into that film! He likes good stuff; Eureka (2000, not the Roeg one, even though he named his album after the Roeg one.. weird), Blow Out (another top 10 film of mine; he sampled it for an experimental film he did. Yeah he sampled the movie Blow out)... he loves Antonioni too... but yeah, back to FUNERAL PARADE/PROCESSION/whatever... it, along with PIERROT LE FOU, is why I made movies. I would have never even thought of making films until I saw it. DAISIES is probably up there too (and LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH... and Evangelion/Paranoia Agent) as the films that made me go, "Holy shit. I want to do this."

Anyway, to see another film that influenced me greatly, one that's even better, see PASTORAL TO DIE IN THE COUNTRY, and see THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS AND RALLY IN THE STREETS, both by Shuji Terayama who I know I just go on and on about. He's a contemporary to Toshio Matsumoto. The Japanese new wave was AMAZING, definitely my favorite films ever.

You might have seen some of these but here are my 3 favorite Japanese new wave shorts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNshDaTJ2BI = toshio matsumoto's "Phantom", my favorite short ever and was a huge infleunce on my film NOTHING IS MOREW BEAUTIFUL THAN NOTHING.

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFIPKV__LMw = twilight by tengei amano. SO beautiful... okay, just clicked and it looks like it got deleted for copyright infringement (in some countries; it's viewable elsewhere still,t hough. Okay?!).. Okay, I'm sure it's on surrealmoviez.. it's def. on karagarga... I will up it to CINEMAGEDDON soon definitely.

3. http://www.viddler.com/explore/ManooN/videos/1/ = Nobukiko Oboyashi's "Emotion". .. director of HAUSU

here's a few more fun vids for y'all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ8Zh6AHNVg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWvOVnCoz48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y5AxLiUqC8

Haha, that's exactly what I thought after watching Dead Alive for the first time!




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But no, Ghostchase, you absolutely need to see Daisies next (or soon...whatever) if you haven't already watched it. I haven't watched Funeral Processions of Roses (or whatever :o ) yet, but Daisies (aka Sedmikrasky) will blow your mind. That's a fact.

yeah, DAISIES is unbelievable, obviously the colors and editing are a huge influence on me.

and like I've said before, DEAD ALIVE is (next to evil dead 2 and maniac) my favorite horror film of all time. I can't imagine horror films getting any better. I like how they don't really make many gore films anymore. THey've given up. How could they ever top DEAD ALIVE?

Ditto me after watching Return of the Living Dead.

Dr. Eugene... I love Pieces. Have you seen Slugs? Same director. Equally awesome.

what a great fucking movie! loved the shit out of it. very french. 9/10 maybe.

Sedmikrasky eh? Whoa.. looks right up my alley. Will watch it asap!

A Single Man

Oh god, I havent bawled my eyes out like that in a while. Mostly because I cant. So this was good !

Yeah Pieces is great! Haha I've seen it like 4 times now. I haven't watched Slugs yet... I'm assuming I'd love it.

atsonicpark, how Beat's film "Brother" saw that up on Netflix? Gonna watch it

I'm not atsonicpark but it's as good as an Americanised Kitano movie can get.

Meh, Brother and Zatoichi are my least favorites, by far.

I actually love PIECES. I sampled it for MAN OF THE GRAVEYARD MAN, the same shot that used to be my avatar, kinda looks like a silhouette of Jandek.

I can understand 'Zatoichi'... but you'd take 'Getting Any?' over Brother? I mean, 'Brother' isn't too great but I found it a lot more engrossing than 'Getting Any?'.

Yeah, Getting Any? is hilarious and brilliant. Probably one of the ultimate Kitano films. Love the pacing and style. Watch it again. I used to think Boiling Point was his worse but it's now one of my favorites.

Brother is one I just hated, despite it having some of the best music in any movie, ever. Besides that, the scene with the paper airplane was my favorite scene in any Kitano film, besides the scene where the girl walks by the masks and those multi-colored paper fans that were all spinning in DOLLS (which I contend is one of the most beautiful films ever).

However, 2 things:THere's apparently a DRASTICALLY different Japanese version I haven't seen, that's supposedly a billion times better, according to the few people who have seen both. I have never found a .torrent of it, so I'm thinking of buying it.

Second, it works really well if you realize that art was imitating reality. I didn't realize it at first, until after seeing TAKESHIS' and GLORY.. that whole meta/self-referential/self-reflective REFLEXIVE style and all is not uncommon to Kitano, who not only references his old films, he even puts clips from his old films in his new films (see that short he made with the guy watching KIDS RETURN, which was recently voted in some Japanese magazine as the 12th greatest film in the history of Japan -- weird, considering I would consider that at the lower end of Kitano's filmography). He certainly puts scenes from old films in new films; Takeshis' is almost a greatest his of his scenes (gotta love the scene on the beach where he shoots everyone in the world with a machine gun for 10 minutes... the references to past works is numerous.. okay, it's on a BEACH.. the machine gun shooting is exactly like BOILING POINT, BROTHER, and SONATINE.. he shoots SAMURAIS -- Zatoichi -- and YAKUZA men -- most of his films .. and cops... plus, obviously, it's on the BEACH. I already said that. But... isn't it funny that the only movie without "a scene at a sea" is Achilles an the Tortoise? Yet, if you look REALLY close, in ONE scene, you can see a sea in a painting.. brilliant).

Anyway, it acts as 1) a parody of his previous work, 2) a remake of his previous work (mainly Sonatine), and 3) Kitano trying to understand America. In real life and in film. This goes with the parody thing (it isn't a coincedence that it's his most violent film -- also, who can forget that hilariously WRONG ending, easily the worst/stupidest/most hilariously bad thing Kitano has ever filmed). I think it was Kitano saying, "I don't get America. I'm gong to start filming the film my way." and then halfway through, plagued with production fuck-ups (keep in mind, Kitano never films with a completed script), he said, "Okay, America, here, I'm going to make an 'American film' and just get it over with." I could be completely wrong, but ... a Japanese dude who can't speak English, leading a bunch of basketball playing black dudes who he meets in a ghetto? And then, there's the scenes ripped straght out of Sonatine which are just bizarre, and you know that dude who's in EVERY Kitano film (aside from OUTRAGE...)? Ken whatever.. or Ren... Ren Oyishi or some shit? You know the guy. Anyway, he's in this for a few minutes, and he kills himself almost immediately. He says some nonsense about honor and death and strangely/gruesomely blows his brains out in front of everyone and gets blood and brain matter on the rival mafia boss.

...So, if viewing BROTHER as some kind of weird experiment, it's kinda cool, and is the only way I can appreciate what amounts to 2 hours of tedium.

As for ZATOICHI, it isn't a Kitano film, imo, it is nothing like one for starters, and it's just.. boring.

saw black swan which was very good, really enjoyed it then recently watched amadeus. again very good.