that film was really great. i thoroughly enjoyed it and thought that it was really well done.

followed by



needless to say, both were amazing.

Blank City

I'm sure plenty here have already seen it. Great documentary. Even if you're not into the films, the archive footage of the No Wave scene and general 70s NY nastiness is priceless.

Inspired me to stick this on again ...



Fingered

Easily my favourite Richard Kern movie. I just love everything about this film.

Followed by ...



The Right Side of My Brain

Easily my second favourite Richard Kern movie. I just love everything about this film.

I want to like Altman more than I do. I love Nashville but I think that has more to do with me liking the subject matter than anything to do with the film itself. I've not seen 4 Women, though, so can't comment on that. I do like Short Cuts, though.

High Art

Last night on netflix.

First time for the gf, my 2nd time.

Meh, it's all right. A little pretentious, but kind of fascinating nonetheless.

Better than Faraway, So Close, anyway. We needed something to recover from that bummer.

Next up in my Netflix DVD queue are #2 and #3 in the Bourne series. We actually like these movies, we do.

Ha ha. Very funny.

I watched the first Bourne and was so confused by the plot that I never bothered with the rest. I just remember Matt Damon running around a lot, looking really bewildered.

That's what I remember feeling as I watch Cialis or whatever the angel's name is running around Berlin all befuddled.

That's genuinely what I liked about the film.

I'm just about to watch Laurel & Hardy's Be Big. That charity shop has come up trumps again.

They may be a lot alike, that's true. I don't think that's necesarily a bad thing.

And stop being such a film snob.

i've been working on a list of "250 best movies of the XXI century" i posted here before. this one: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/21s..._films1-50.htm

so this past week i watched





and





--

the incredibles: i expected utter shit and it was actually pretty fucking cool! this blew my mind a little. totally fucking unexpected. please understand-- it wasn't the movie that blew my mind, it was the fact that the movie was actually good and not some painful homework in my 250-movie list. anyway, nice movie.

mystic river: again, netflix predicted 3/5, but fuckit,i gave it 5/5. beautifully made movie, great actors, complex and perfectly packaged plot. fucking shit, it suprised me, crap title and all, oscar winning and all, and then i realized it was a clint eastwood movie-- duh! i should have trusted him more. anyway, fucking brilliant, such quality work! if you can't see the greatness of that man's craft you're a braindead hippie. ha!

 

Terrific performance from the guy on the left, but I couldnt bring myself to care about the family, and so alot of the distress and disgust that was intended was kinda lost on me.

both good

have you watched all 250 of them though?

i disagree with the relative rankings, but it's a good list to work through and catch up with what you've missed. i was really surprised that i expected some movies in it to be utter shit and they proved me HRONGG. im okay with in the mood for love being #1 though.

Have you seen Paprika? I think that Satoshi guy had something to do with it, I don't remember too well.....the cover reminded me of it.

For the record, I'm somewhat of a movie snob too. I just like junk in my diet as well as the good stuff. But in all seriousness, the angels movie just did not move me at all. Maybe you have to be religious or spiritual-minded to get that one.

satoshi kon, yeah, that's his movie too. a pity he died. fuck.

I've not seen anything like everything on that list but it seems reasonable. I'd personally rank Sideways and The Incredibles a little higher but In the Mood for Love and Mullholland Dr at numbers 1 and 2 seems spot on.

Watched a whole slew of amazing movies...

Chris Marker's
La Jetée (Iconic! ah! and ISIS used images from this for some of their artwork)
&
Sans Soleil (Relaxing and zen)

Chan-Wook Park's
Oldboy (I finally saw it! Worth its weight in gold! I think Mr. Vengeance is even better, but its a trilogy, so its one entity in my books)

Yasujirô Ozu's Tokyo Story

John Cassavetes's A Woman Under The Influence
Gena Rowlands with the performance of a lifetime, this even interested my braindead MTV loving sister

Goodbye Lenin!
Been meaning to watch this for ages since its soundtrack by Yann Tiersen. My University had it for rent so finally sat down and watched it! A real keeper this one. Germany indie film gold.

Carlos Saura's Cría cuervos
Ana Torrent rules. I prefer this over Beehive, I felt more captivated to the story and characters.

Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angle
Spanish, from the 1960's, and awesome.

i hadn't seen paprika, i don't watch all that much anime and just found out about perfect blue and checked it out right away,reminds me a lot of dario argento's the stendahl syndrome.

i'll try see that paprika sometime

i downloaded movie #150 of that list thing so that's my next watch, also i got this john wayne collection thing and still need to watch one more, the sons of katie elder

Coming from someone who has barely any interest in anime, Paprika is a great watch.

Funhouse is such a massively underrated horror movie, IMO. I think people felt let down because it felt a bit lightweight after Texas Chainsaw Massacre . It isn't as intense but that's not to say it doesn't have a unique force of its own. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a big influence on Rob Zombie's House of a Thousand Corpses.

Love Satoshi Kon's work. Both "Perfect Blue" and "Paprika" are fantastic. I already own "Paprika", but do need to get "Perfect Blue" at some point.

I couldn't agree more. They're technically inept but they have what I can only describe as a spirit to them which transcends all of that. They're like a force of nature. Have you read Rudolph Grey's book about him? Amazing stuff.

I have to admit that I think TCM is a real masterpiece, but it does seem to divide a lot of people. I love how Funhouse starts out almost as a kind of comedy before descending into something that's almost as disturbing as TCM. The bit where the girl is pleading with the monster really reminds me of the bit you describe around the dinner table in TCM.

If you're a Wood fan, you really must try and track down the Rudolph Grey book. It goes way beyond the usual stuff about his angora sweaters to go into loads about his whole circle, much of which was even more interesting and eccentric than Wood himself. The bits on Criswell are particularly amazing and, in their way, quite inspiring.

Thanks for the compliment. Needless to say I enjoy your posts here, too.

I only really like a handfull of Woody Allen films, roughly those from Annie Hall through to Hannah and Her Sisters. For me, though, even that period is a bit inconsistent, and I'd definitely put Stardust Memories as one of his lesser ones. It's a while since I last saw it, but it does seem more like a tribute to loads of other films, rather than a substantial one in its own right. The intro is definitely a homage to 8 1/2 and there are other references to Bergman and some others in it.

Regarding Ed Wood, I think there are far worse filmmakers than him, they just have better technical staff. Wood was working with fellow amateurs on a shoestring. But that's not so different from a lot of punk bands, and you'd rarely hear people dismissing punk as being simply 'so bad it's good', at least not nowadays. It's a shame that while fans of almost every other art form have embraced a quite open attitude to ideas of quality, film fans on the whole still seem hung up on a really quite rigid idea of it. Ed Wood never made a film as 'bad' as say Transformers 2 but Michael Bay will never be written off or ghettoised in the way that Ed Wood has simply because on the surface Bay's films look expensive and polished. Imagine where we'd be if that were applied to music: wall to wall Meat Loaf.

6/10

8/10

hungarian dvd release of the film.

I don't think I've ever actually seen 12 Angry Men, even though I've somehow managed to convince myself that I have.

Just watched ...



Bicycle Thieves

The real joy of watching this again was seeing it with someone who'd not seen it before and loved it every bit as much as I'd hoped. It's as much the cliched 'great' film as Citizen Kane, I suppose, but where I appreciate and respect Kane I've never been able to love it in the way that I do Bicycle Thieves. I put it up there with My Darling Clementine as not just 'great' cinema, but the kind I seem able to watch at any time, regardless of mood and just wallow in it. One of the few what I'd describe as truly beautiful films.

^ ??

nutty

see it in a town near you http://www.everythingisterrible.com/...ewoochiez.html

Return of the Living Dead

It may not be the best horror film, or even the best zombie movie, but it's probably the most fun. Zombies that actually look disgusting, some real laugh out loud moments, an almost constantly nude Linnea Quigley, and The Cramps, TSOL and 45 Grave on the soundtrack. Stupid in the best possible way. I know Noisereductions is a massive fan.

GG Ross is a great movie

Hosoda Mamoru's "Summer Wars". Excellent anime film, but maybe only for anime fans, I wouldn't say it has much crossover to non-anime fans. But then again Hosoda-san's "Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is a quite popular and mainstream anime film. Anyways, I love both.


Just found that J.Spaceman and the Sun City Girl soundtracked Korine's "Mister Lonely"?!!?!!?!!! Damn I have to hear AND see this film!

after i seen this movie i wanted a leathersnake jacket
wanted to flow the cool niclas cage way


euuhhh
the movie i have seen today was soo shit that i watched it half