Cahiers du Cinema de Noize

This week I was presently surprised to see her in 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle, which I had forgotten/never realized she was I in.

I also like her in Weekend.

I'm not behind it or anything, but I feel sort of incapable of disliking anything by Linklater (note: have not seen Waking Life). I was hoping he could do the whole movie without getting to the kill floor, though. I mean, it's all fun and games in Cannibal Holocaust when it's endangered turtles and stuff, but these are cows here.

I spent the entire movie trying to figure out who that sullenly pretty, surprisingly good actress was. I was all "she should get more parts," and then I realized it was Avril Lavigne.

This is a good reason. But..

"I also like her in Weekend."

I hadn't realized that she ws in it when I got the DVD a cpl of weeks ago.

"That said, it is remarkably well paced and nowhere near as tedious as it really should be."

Yes, obv with a broken-down viewing I don't know how boring it would be, and I have lots of patience but once you get hold of the pace in which his movies move at..

Some other things I watched this week:

"Fear Eats the Soul" (really good bunch of extras (2 hrs worth of) on this - Todd Haynes on Fassbinder ws pretty engaging, there is an old interview with the man himself, an ok-ish documentary and a 10-min short).

DVDs from library:

Mean Girls - well watching this alongside "fear eats the soul" I couldn't help comparing the four girls in this and the four cleaning ladies in "fear.."

"Elephant", "Last Days".

Godard's "Slow Motion" - The extra is a short film by JLG explaining some of the ideas behind the film (there is a really funny point he makes toward the end as to how he probably bored the viewer a bit but that's ok bcz its part of the act of creation..or something like that). Didn't know quite what to make of it except I wonder what went on between JLG and Isabelle Huppert..

TV:

"The Infernal Affairs" trilogy ws broadcast over here last week. Taped the last two as I'd watched the first one a few months ago. Big mistake as I couldn't remember the finer details on the first, so the 2nd and 3rd passed over my head. ah well..

-- blastocsyt (lo...), December 2nd, 2006.

YES

Morbs, I thought you'd appreciate pink cookies and other proto-consumerist fetishes.

Oh crap, did I miss that?!

* The character Stiles wears a number of colorful shirts in this movie. They appear in the following order: 1) Yellow shirt that says "Life sucks then you die", 2) Blue "Obnoxious: the movie", 3) Black "What are you looking at Dicknose", 4) Gray "Drunken State Florida", 5) Pink - no text, 6) Gray - unreadable, 7) Black - unreadable, 8) Hawaiian shirt, 9) White - "Wolf Buddy" and finally a white Teen Wolf shirt. Of the nine shirts he wears, only one appears to have no text on it.

* Stiles is looking for some marijuana in his garage and Scott confide in him he is a werewolf.

^^^^my friend Tom and I used to say this shit all the time

* Stiles is looking for some marijuana in his garage and Scott confide in him he is a werewolf.

I weep for what might have been.

ITEM: lots of Takashi Miike DVDs available at Tower still.

From Saturday to Sunday (Gustav Machaty)
Scanners (1st time!)

Broad comedy? Really? It's not like an Adam Sandler film. It starts out darkly comic, but by the midpoint the laughs get drained away by the vengeance/redemption themes. And a great, great performance by Lee Young-ae.

The Koreans have a word "yupgi" - it means something that's simultaneously unsettling and funny, it's an attitude that a lot of recent Korean films trade in. The Korean title of My Sassy Girl was actually My Yupgi Girl - that's a rom-com where the meet-cute entails a guy taking home a belligerant drunk girl after she vomits all over riders on a subway car. Odds are this will not be remade starring Sandra Bullock.

well, I'd say some of the earlier Cronenbergs, given this was his largest budget to date (ie, not much). and it doesn't bother me a whit.

art school confidential put me in a bad fucking mood it is so bad
should i watch thank you for smoking ? will it put me in a bad mood too? i have this fear now

james bond movies always seem a bit too long; it's weird

mee too - and i don't own or care abt stocks. i told him as much and he was all thanks, thanks, that's great.