the naked fight scene in eastern promises was intense

Dead Man

Great film. Johnny Depp is brilliant but Gary Farmer steals it for me as the Indian character 'Nobody'.

i looked it up and the aspect ratio is indeed 1.66. so in a typical wide screen tv (16:9 = 1.78) it should have black bars on the sides. in the old-tv screen it should have bars on top and bottom.

and it was shot on 35 mm, not 16mm (the usual 1.66 aspect ratio is for super-16) so it definitely warrants a blu-ray reissue.

plus the subtitles provided are burned on the video image not built into the dvd and they look terrible.

i was re-watching the first 45 minutes last night and counting the shots. i think it was 9 or 10 by the time we stopped (it was late). amazing movie, it's like nothing else i've seen. deliciously slow. and in spite of the bad transfer and image problems-- gorgeous.

That's maybe my favourite film ever.

finished watching werckmeister harmonies

it wasn't easy because it's possible to doze off during the very long takes.

but just because it wasn't easy it doesn't mean it wasn't great.

i agree. i had the best orgasm i had in ages :p

a movie I caught on netflix, indy movie
antiviral - celebrity obsessed fans get injections from a Clinic
which purchases viruses and other pathogens from celebrities who fall ill so the fans can feel a bond of their fav celeb odd but good flick

I love when a movie surprises me, recently I mentioned "Bullhead", and yesterday I saw "Headhunters". This movie is just a lot of fun. They really put the protagonist of the film through some shit. For "Game of Thrones" fans Nikolaj Coster-Waldau who plays Jamie Lannister on "Game of Thrones" is in it.

watched FEMALE TROUBLE, which led to PECKER, which who knows which one of his i will put on after.

Hayao Miyazaki to retire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23931145

that's terrible! sad news. of course he's an artist so he's not going to stop working, probably just retire from massive projects like this. i just hope his health is good and this is just a step back into a more personal phase and not something else.

The Tree of Life

You sat through the whole thing? I somehow watched part of it, but only by fastforwarding through most of it ;)

I felt the same way for the first half hour but then it started to grow on me. I'm still not sure if I really liked it though.

Also last night watched



Fistful of Dollars

Awaiting Suchfriends' reminder that Clint wasn't 'Clint' till the 80s.

here's a good coincidence-- i watched fistful of dollars 2 nights ago.

i liked it of course, but i would have like it more with the title they gave it in japan-- "the return of yojimbo".


haaa haaa haaaa

it only becomes annoying if you try to convince him otherwise

Haha, yeah. I'd actually forgotten how good it is. And they definitely don't make baddies as bad as Gian Mario Volonte anymore.

The first 45 minutes is most of what I skipped over, and then like you, felt conflicted about the remaining 30 minutes or so I watched that was condensed from the remaining hour and half ;)

Like you, I'm not sure I really liked it, in fact I didn't particularly like it at all, yet, I still watched at least a good portion of it, so I'm not sure exactly if I didn't like it.
As to Clint, he ain't jacko, Clint had some epic films in the 1970s. I'm sorry that y'all like the campy, soft-spoken, almost Jerry Lewis version of Jack Nicholson pre-1980 (China Town aside), Me, I prefer the curmudgeon billy bad a$$ version of later years.

It definitely looked beautiful and some of the acting was excellent but its message, or what I could make of it, didn't seem particularly original or interesting in the end.