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sometimes "just pretty pictures" is all u need?

not impressed.

sorry siskel

also my brain confuses richard gere and tom cruise, which lowers my impression of richard gere

how i met your mother is a pretty great sitcom

have been watching the national geogrpahic channel too much

watched stevie 2night & maborosi last night -- both are beautiful & sad in wildly different ways

guess the verhoeven movie:

http://i41.tinypic.com/2j5knz7.jpg

the hands are someone doing the A from YMCA so it must be waynes world 2

schwing

The Fourth Man

no im sorry, robocop

saw tinker tailor soldier spy yesterday and it was p fn rad, felt like a 70s style low key thriller except updated w/contemporary moves to tighten the whole thing up, acting was great and gary oldman was off the fn chain, srsly a great performance, luv that guy

it occurred to me that theres maybe more movies out in the theater now that i wouldnt mind seeing than i can ever recall

a dangerous method
we need to talk abt kevin
knuckle
shame
in time
the descendants
melancholia
margin call
ttss (successfully screened)

aaannd theres abt an equal number i could watch when theyre available in my home

if you are feeling the pressure & wanna trim yr list then step into the detrius thread & half of the list will get trashed. i couldn't get so excited about TTSS?, idk, it was sorta deft & quick & smooth more than dramatic or thrilling to me

yeah only one besides ttss im truly stoked on is a dangerous method, i was just impressed w/the numer of films id be willing to at least check out in the theater

it was sorta deft & quick & smooth more than dramatic or thrilling to me

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yah thats p otm, i feel like its big flaw was that it was all abt revealing infos, like v little actual intrigue occurred in the present day of the film, but it was so deft and quick and smooth and so much fun trying to keep track of what was going on that i was just like fuck it let it be itself it is beautiful in its own way

My classy "cocoon with arty Xmas movies" night with whiskey playlist:

first episode of TV version of Fanny and Alexander
A Christmas Tale
The Red Shoes

Rewatched Becket, which is better but longer than I remembered. Unexpectedly superb O'Toole commentary track too; he speaks knowledgeably about Plantagenets and the state of the Church in twelfth century England.

I saw Nicholas Ray's Party Girl on a big screen a couple of weeks ago--think I liked it more than any Ray film I've ever seen (about six or seven, probably). I showed this to my students the next day in class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EL05alymtI

ISSP teacher: "You do realize she's stripping, right?"

"cocoon with arty Xmas movies": no Eyes Wide Shut?

EH, is Santa bringing you the BluRay of Meet Me in St Louis?

I've never seen Becket, but there was a lol pan of it in Slant a couple years ago.

actually it was in the VV, but I see why I made the error.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-01-16/film/becket/

i really liked TTSS but feel like i can't really recommend it to anyone i know (except maybe ilxors and even then...)
morbs declared it "dull" and the friend i saw it with agreed. i declared that i must like that kind of dull then.

what the hell is the movie where the impossibly white-toothed hunk is telling his daughter about all his ex-girlfriends

cause i hate that guy

haha the one with ryan reynolds?

RYAN REYNOLDS

that's him!! GOD

i thiiiiiiink theres an old i love cricket thread where the schef and i talk abt that movie and i semi-live blog watching it, but really all i can remember is how sad everyone's apartments made me

lmao

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412BWS8S72L._SS500_.jpg

martha marcie may marlene is p rad imho

ive watched all these in abt the last wk:

alice doesnt live here anymore
stolen kisses
the night of the hunted (am kinda gettin in 2 rollin, this was good)
5X2
the exterminating angel
afterschool (hadnt realized the marcy martha may marlene guy produced this)
fear and desire
rabid
man on a swing
the wayward cloud o_O

o i also watched tiny furniture - fuck that shit, tho it looked great for a $50k budget or w/e

On Thursday I got together with some old friends and watched:

Another Earth
I'm Still Here

One of them was better than the other.

epic fail w/ 5-yo niece trying to watch BluRay of Meet Me in St Louis; she stomped around room doing her own compositions before we yanked it

Watching Mikio Naruse's Ukigumo on a crappy laptop

mi5 ghost protocol yall

i was thinking abt going to see that out of boredom today but its just too gd cold. myself:

my week with marilyn (blah)
margin call (thought this was really really good)
four feathers (got kinda bored tbh)
gone with the wind (old movie actors are p ugly tbh)
rules of the game (p sweet new blu ray, still best movie)
black moon (kinda want to talk/think abt this more)

man i started a margin call thread on the other ilx but not a single person watched it

i am prepared to talk trash re: that film on real ilx when it's back, if you wanna give it another try

i didnt really have any original opinions about it tbh

well-made, wonderfully acted, kind of a muddle politically

also i was weirded out by how the one dude who was like irredeemably bad had a really obvious jewish name and no one else did

haha now im thinking of all the names to put in ALL CAPS...

did you like it max? it had a lot of personal resonance having worked in risk mgmt but i thought it was a really good depiction of like, organizational structure and relationships which is s.thing movies/tv rarely do well? idk i liked it a lot

I read something about how the finance didn't make sense cause they didn't put the situation in context or something? I forget. I haven't seen it but I guess I should if it's good.

screener season has begun hint hint

i don't really get 'wonderfully acted', though i guess it's good to see wall st guys as vapid & out of touch. there was this weird hyperbolic signage throughout the film that sorta undermined the believability of anyone involved; like jeremy irons gets introed as this total sharp badass that he doesn't especially turn out to be; & everyone has to go through the montage of like squinting at screens & appearing to process things w/furrowed brows. maybe some of this is just because i'd heard people talk about how demi moore was so transcendent & she wasn't like ... even in it that much

both the mentalist and dan from gossip girl had jewish surnames iirc? i was p ok w/ how muddy its politics are because i think the feeling of contempt/frustration w/'the real world' is p impt in finance and kinda worth foregrounding, and i dont think 'the audience' doesnt deserve implicating?

its sorta garbled on the technical side i think partly on purpose and partly to make it seem more 'timeless', maybe? the thing that it does really well is show the divisions and failures of the 'system' itself, and it has a good grasp on stuff like the division btw middle and front office depts. for e.g. its really more abt organizational failure than 'finance' i think?

i did like it lamp, on a movie level i though it was pretty great, and managed to make a complicated boring thing pretty gripping and comprehensible without really eliding too much

like jeremy irons gets introed as this total sharp badass that he doesn't especially turn out to be

heh i felt like this was crazy believable

i read a review that said this was about how bankers are like real people too which made it sound totally awful