amazing
it got me way too depressed though. and i still like badlands the best out of his films that i have seen.

on a recent kung-fu kick. my eyes say china is kicking hollywood's ass.

I watch 2001 a space odyssey. What the fuck happened in thelast 40 mionutes of that flick???


anyways...I really enjoyed it, I'm no movie buff, but I enjoy slow movies...

Watched the anime "Redline" last night and liked it. I enjoy a good racing movie, in anime form, even better.

he went thru the portal and became a space baby. really.

in the original novel i think he detonates a nuke. cant remember if he does in the movie.

Kubrick ran out of money and created the world's first screensaver, instead

I'm pretty sure no explosive goes off at teh end of the movie, so I think it's only in teh novel.




lulz.

My Little Chickadee

I'm a big fan of Mae West and WC Fields. This isn't the greatest film of either but the only one they appeared together in. Anyway, there's a bit in it where Fields describes beating up/being beating up by 'Chicago Molly' that's honestly one of the most laugh out loud things I've ever heard/seen. I was thinking about it on the train home from work today and kept giggling to myself.

Not sure if anyone else will find it anywhere near as funny but anyway, here's the clip.

I've never been much of a Mae West fan but I love WC Fields. I agree this isn't a great film but anything with Fields in is worth a watch.

I use to love watching 2001: A Space Odyssey whilst on mushrooms/tripping. absolutely amazing.

I'm not a prolific movie watcher anymore, although I still love movies. My most recent was Tinker Tailor Solider Spy. Sure, mainstream and all that. But I love it. Great movie! \\ GF and I have been glued to Netflix of late running through all the seasons of Mad Men. I can't get enough of that show.

I've been watching a lot of Howard Hawks films recently



Only Angels Have Wings

One of those quietly brilliant films that does nothing to advertise its greatness but it just dawns on you, about two thirds in that it's a real masterpiece. Cary Grant and Howard Hawks has to be one of the great Hollywood star-director match ups, easily up there with John Ford and John Wayne and Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart.



Bringing Up Baby

Another Howard Hawks-Cary Grant team up (with a never better Katharine Herpburn) and one of my fave comedies ever. Anyone who's alsdo seen it would surely agree that it's one of those films that's so confident in itself. Just 90 minutes of really talented people enjoying themselves.



Another Hawks but without Cary Grant. I flip flop over whether I prefer this or John Carpenter's remake. My head says Carpenter but my heart says Hawks. Scientists and aliens were just better in the 50s.

If you like Billy Wilder's style of dialogue, you should definitely like Bringing Up Baby or another screwball comedy he made, His Girl Friday (both of which have some of the fastest talking you'll ever hear). The problem some people have with his films is that, unlike say Hitchcock or Ford, they tend to be very different from one another, spanning across almost every genre imaginable. You can't go wrong with his comedies, though. Saying that, everyone should watch Only Angels Have Wings. The perfect Sunday afternoon film.

The Godard thing is weird in that none of his films are (from what I can see) even remotely similar to Hawks - maybe Pierrot Le Fou. But two filmmakers who I know are massive fans, and for whom the Hawks influence is far more evident in their actual work, are John Carpenter (Assault on Precinct 13 (a 're-imagining' of Rio Bravo)) and The Thing, obviously) and Steven Spielberg (Jaws). A lot of the fast talking female-centric comedies of the 80s (Working Girls, etc) also have a definite Hawks feel to them. If Reese Witherspoon was around in the 30s and 40s, she'd have definitely been a Hawks fave.

If I was gonna start exploring his work, I'd start with Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Rio Bravo and Only Angels Have Wings.

Bad Timing is such a weird and wonderful film. In general Nicholas Roeg is a strange director.

Shot in black and white, a story of a group of homeless living in the dark recesses of the New York subway. Add music by DJ Shadow and UNKLE, I was loving it before I even pressed play.



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Maybe I'm a sucker for soothing and "boring" films that don't really go anywhere, but I loved both of these Kelly Reichardt films, I guess as more and more people become accustomed to meaningless tripe that Hollywood markets to them, there lies the lost art of making a film about nothing particular, just chemistry between actors and meaningful dialogue exchanges.

if you get into hawks make sure to check out rio lobo, everybody seems to think that movie sucks but i really liked it

Rio Lobo is one I've not seen. I've tended to put Hawks' Westerns to one side (despite really liking Rio Bravo) because I tend to think his style never really fit with the genre. It has a quite jazzy snap to it (especially his comedies) that seems to work better in more urbane, sophisticated settings, rather than the more romantic, rough and ready rural setting of the Western - although that can't be said of a film like Only Angels Have Wings (a sort of Western with airplanes) which may well be my favourite Hawks film of them all. I'll definitely put Rio Lobo on my 'to see' list.

Black Swan. It was kind of whatever. Much preferred The Wrestler.

One of the best foreign films of the early 2000's. Chan-Wook Park delivers a flawless, bloody, and deranged piece of Asian cinema.

all three of those look really interesting. i will check them out.

You won't be let down. All three on Netflix too.

That traumatised the fuck out of me when I saw it as a kid.

Super grim stuff.

I'm watching this right now, and I am enjoying it so far.

Bringing AND His Girl is redundant. Either one will do. Add BIG SLEEP. Chandler source, Bogie and Becal, script by Faulkner and Lynn Bracket, and an important noir film in general.

a truly horrendous film!

There seems to be a real cult surrounding that film in here. Atsonicpark is a big fan, I think, and quite a few others have said they like it, too. I have to admit to being in the dislike camp, though. I just can't get beyond all the dull stretches. And while I have to assume a large factor behind its following is due to its supposed notoriety, I can't remember anything in it that was especially controversial - at least compared with a lot of other horror movies at that time. My overall memory was just of being really underwhelmed and quite bored by the whole thing.

Unlike ...



King Kong

A thousand million times better than Peter Jackson's version and about a thousand billion times better than the 70s one. There's a whole angle about how the remakes are better because they placed a far greater emphasis on the underlying love story. They did but it's still in the original, it just accepts the audience can see it unfolding without the need to wack them over the head with constant reminders.

okay, before i'm booed out of here lemmi say that i was expecting this mooby to be *utter shit*, but i ordered it cuz it was in a list and i had a plan to watch this whole list of movies, so here it comes and *it was a lot better than i expected*.

i mean, spielberg's productions are always fucking impeccable, sure, but his take on science fiction isn't always great and he can go for the money too quickly-- minority report for example was mediocre and ham-handed and i can't even remember it in spite of the great effects.

but this shit was something else, it was pretty good actually, and the creepy child actor who sees dead people played a good robot, really good-- kubrick was supposed to make that movie and he didn't because he didn't think there was a kid actor who could play this part. but the creepy kid somehow makes it work.

i was suprised. i'll give it 4/5 though netflix predicted i'd give it only 3. the thing is, the story was good, it wasn't "easy", and i think i'm gonna look for the original brian aldiss story and check it out.

"A.I" is probably my favorite Spielberg movie. I'm not sure if that's because of the Kubrick connection or not. I think its a really good movie. A lot of people who bash "A.I." say Spielberg ruined a Kubrick movie. I don't agree with that. "A.I." for me is near flawless.

Haha, there's always a back and forth of replies whenever LHoDES gets mentioned here. I definitely don't hate it and I always end up saying I should watch it again - it's been ages since I last saw it on an nth generation pirate VHS copy, so I hardly gave it the best of chances.

Noisereductions, Atsonic and Dr Felix are more able to recommend Horror movies from that era than I am but I doubt you'll find that many quite like LHoDEs.

I appreciate this movie for what it was- basically an independent 'horror' film that gained true cult status due to its behind the scenes rumblings. It's a perfect example of 70' grindhouse cinema, as well. The book "Sleazoid Express" (which is a must have for any exploitation/grindhouse fan) spends quite a few pages on "Last House On Dead End Street" debunking alot of the myths about its director and detailing the various trials and tribulations of the film receiving home video distribution. Watch it along with Gaspar Noe's "I Stand Alone" for true nihilisic cinema!

Yeah, I Stand Alone would make for a very dark companion piece. My problem is that I increasingly don't like that really uber nihilistic style of cinema. It's not a judgement on the films themselves (especially I Stand Alone, which I think is very good) just that I can't really enjoy them anymore. I increasingly need a bit of uplift in the movies I watch.

Alongside the article in Sleazoid Express there's a nice article about LHoDES in an early edition of Flesh and Blood, which I think has been reissued in a Flesh and Blood compendium. Although I think it trades largely on the very myths debunked in the Sleazoid piece.

I saw Sudden Impact for the first time, last night. The gang-rape of Sondra Locke's character, Jennifer, and her sister, was deeply disturbing, and has haunted me ever since. Rape scenes in movies have always deeply disturbed me, and I'd rather not watch them.

Ya! Beat Kitano's Outrage is on Netflix! Been meaning to download that.



Last "mobster" film I watched was Gomorrah and didn't like that much, and frankly I've grown really tried of the whole Italian mafia film, I'd much rather watch Yakuza film anyway of the week and if its a Beat film, its no contest. The man is a genius. Outrage is a great film, it consists of Beat's small clan being in between two disgruntled larger clans and he has to play the middleman trying smooth things over, usually being on the short end of the stick. Beat knows what he wants and shoots his films in a no bullshit manner. Precise. Although not much is groundbreaking about this film, but it is Beat making a Yakuza film, and that's all I need.