have never seen Maddin
same goes for tree of life apparently
Q: should i watch the crappy version of a brighter summer day that i just torrented or wait a billion years for it to somehow become attainable to me otherwise
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:40 (twelve years ago) link
the 2011 version, that is, which i assume is of better quality
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
it's on Google video too.... I would wait, it's gotta be coming out on DVD in the next year.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
schlump, Tabloid is not a mess or anything--quite amusing, actually--but it's very much television. Like an extended episode of First Person, nothing ambitious about it.
― VHS duct, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
If he's a Great Filmmaker, it's because he freed someone from death row, an impact I don't immediately recall any other film matching.
lol, NOT taking this bait
― VHS duct, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 08:16 (twelve years ago) link
Nat'l Film Registry list gets downright schizo.
● “Allures” (1961)● “Bambi” (1942)● “The Big Heat” (1953)● “A Computer Animated Hand” (1972)● “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment” (1963)● “The Cry of the Children” (1912)● “A Cure for Pokeritis” (1912)● “El Mariachi” (1992)● “Faces” (1968)● “Fake Fruit Factory” (1986)● “Forrest Gump” (1994)● “Growing Up Female” (1971)● “Hester Street” (1975)● “I, an Actress” (1977)● “The Iron Horse” (1924)● “The Kid” (1921)● “The Lost Weekend” (1945)● “The Negro Soldier” (1944)● Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-’40s)● “Norma Rae” (1979)● “Porgy and Bess” (1959)● “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)● “Stand and Deliver” (1988)● “Twentieth Century” (1934)● “War of the Worlds” (1953)
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
● “Stand and Deliver” (1988)
haha waht
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get the doc love for the late-opening El Sicario, Room 164.
also not sure it's a documentary.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
saw Tuesday, After Christmas today. I can't think of any significant flaws except the fuzziness of the husband's relations with his in-laws.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
heads up non-critics like myself can stream Tuesday, Poetry, Certified Copy and uh Cold Weather on netflix right now
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
ty, cosmo
i watched poetry just the other day - is v good
― j crunchwrap supreme, Thursday, 29 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
Poetry is marvelous.
Will watch CC tomorrow now that I see it's available.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
uncle boonmee also streamable
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Thursday, 29 December 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lchb2pe8RW1qa0jlno1_500.jpg
^^ would stream
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 29 December 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
you trout!
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
(oh, catfish I guess)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
someone commented in the VV film poll that the "verdant night-scapes and gently materializing apparitions of uncle boonmee" were the best movie moments of the year. agreed!
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
and finally saw Meek's Cutoff last night. Kinda thrilling to watch Kelly Reichard handle the sex/race relations. Also a plus to see something where Paul Dano is tolerable.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
got my hands on UK horror-thriller Kill List; a little too familiar in some ways (the climax splits the difference between a couple of genre touchstones), but damn if that last 20 minutes didn't give me heart palpitations.
― Simon H., Thursday, 29 December 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
Tinker Tailor was pretty great. Bellflower was interesting.
― gukbe, Thursday, 29 December 2011 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
finally saw the stylish indie rapefest Martha Marcy Carsey Marilyn Manson. Damn, Brady Corbet is growin' up real nice.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
I forget: did you like Certified Copy?
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah: your #2
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno, Corbet seems a little like the guy you'd cast as the real-life version of Chucky in A Child's Play Pinocchio Christmas Special.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
after flirting with American movies Juliette Binoche has become an actress whose performances I look forward to watching.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
can't imagine anything topping certified copy this year except for maybe margaret?
― VHS duct, Thursday, 29 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I had about a dozen films btwn those two. Didn't give much of a damn about the mom in Margaret (u know, actress).
I'm sure the kids appreciated all the Chinatown, Leone and Hunter Thompson refs in Rango.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
out of the 160+ films in the VV poll why don't I see any repping for Wuthering Heights, Pariah, or Oslo, 31 August? Thought these all got some screenings this year.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
Pariah just opened in NYC yesterday. Hear much praise for lead performance.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
Finally saw Cerified Copy, which I liked a great deal in spite of its Marienbad-La Notte flimflammery. I realized that I wish Juliette Binoche would film a Before Sunrise-esque walking-and-talking film every year. Like I said upthread, this actress is getting more and more fascinating to watch.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
wd slap you for invoking Bored Sunrise!
the 'flimflammery' makes the movie, if it doesn't let it touch A Voyage in Italy.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I think the flimflammery works but the kind of leap of faith of which second viewings are made.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
*it's the kind of
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
'certified copy' is p corny looking but its also really rad
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
13 assassins was a pointless testosterone blahblahblah, i might actually prefer miike when he's doing torture porn rather than war porn. i don't have a history with samurai movies though.
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
and to completely kill my credibility, the more i think about war horse the more i realize it's quite a good WW1 movie, conceptually at least.
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
I want to watch it but I'm not sure I can endure two-hours-plus of equine porn.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
i actually really like the idea of War Horse, though i know nothing of the source material. i am kinda afraid to see it. stuff like Au Hasard Balthazar or Umberto D can make me emotional just thinking about them. it's pathetic.
― ryan, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't much like the idea or scenario for War Horse at all, really. It's 100 percent execution.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 30 December 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
Really enjoyed Tuesday, After Christmas. The trick to making an asshole interesting is make him seem calm and rational.
― gukbe, Friday, 30 December 2011 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
alfred and ryan: it is really a lot better when you look at the horse as nothing more than a tool. spielberg actually makes very few attempts to make you care about it as a 'character'; it really just serves as an unwitting tour guide through devastation-of-war vignettes. dissimilar to au hasard balthazar in that way imo.
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Friday, 30 December 2011 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm irritated when ppl get weepy about a fucking horse when there are scores of human corpses onscreen. PETA sucks too.
The trick to making an asshole interesting is make him seem calm and rational
Didn't see any assholes in this film.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
we saw it for jew christmas, and my mom who is a decades-long veg/animal rights freak (who would possibly disown me if she ever learned i eat meat) was seriously traumatized for at least an hour afterward. she said "i didn't care about the fucking horse, it was everything else." a movie about WW1 shouldn't seek to inspire anything less than that sentiment.
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Friday, 30 December 2011 07:46 (twelve years ago) link
I'm irritated when ppl get weepy about a fucking horse when there are scores of human corpses onscreen
YES, this. I keep saying this to people and they think it's strange.
― Simon H., Friday, 30 December 2011 08:35 (twelve years ago) link
im not sure they're mutually exclusive. besides, though i haven't seen this, the whole point of an animal protagonist is to basically elicit the pathetic fallacy. it's like a stand in human, who can feel pain and fear and not have any larger understanding as to why. it's certainly a perfect representation of what happened to people in world war 1.
― ryan, Friday, 30 December 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
Excepting that I bet most people knew "why."
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 30 December 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
sure, though there are varying levels of "why" i guess. anyway, i'll shut up until i see it.
― ryan, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
the whole point of an animal protagonist is to basically elicit the pathetic fallacy. it's like a stand in human
yes -- but it didn't work here.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Still better than pretty much everything else that's gonna get a BP nod.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
not convinced that it will or that The Tree of Life won't.
just watched My Snooze with Marilyn. Estimated % of its viewers who will ever see The Prince and the Showgirl?
hey Branagh, yer way more lumpyfaced than Olivier.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link