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I think her pot belly had a heartbeat.

― milo (milo), Sunday, 10 December 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Profondo Rosso. It was okay, but it has stuff like literally 20 minute long scenes of some guy wandering around a mansion doing absolutely nothing. Walking up some steps, then down again; brushing some cobwebs out of his way, then staring absently out a window. I can't take interminable shit like that!

― Dan I. (w1nt3rmut3), Sunday, 10 December 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

may i recommend last days, dan i

― v (sleep), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Coincidentally enough I'm halfway through Profondo Rosso, having only watched suspiria before and I'm finding that its prob half hour too long -- the score keeps me going.

Other ones:

Viridiana. Library borrowings: Moolade (not seen any of Semebene's work before, or any African films i think), The Edukators (great!). TV: The Barbarian Invasions, Uzak (very Tarkovsky-paced Turkish film), Velvet Goldmine (yes I know I've only managed to finally watch this the other day *sigh*).

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I just saw The Shout, too! So much better than I expected.

― Dan I. (w1nt3rmut3), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

all I remember of profondo rosso is the set pieces, esp.. there's one with a child's toy sort of skittering across the floor, right? creepy as hell.

sembene hasn't made too many films.. not surprising for african filmmaker b/c so hard to get funding & lack of infrastructure etc. I recommend xala, though. it's pretty good. funny.

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

been a while, but i really loved most everything about prof rosso when i saw it - great atmosphere, david hemmings is like weird/awkward in this awesome way

― 69 (pete), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i just saw downfall - best hitler ever.

― j.d. (j.d.), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

downfall is so good. i gotta see it again.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Downfall and Sophie Scholl are next up in my Netflix queue.

First 20 minutes of Candy before I started feeling sick. Junkies are boring anyway.
Since then: hours of tivoed Mythbusters

― milo (milo), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

How was Heath Ledger?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Greasy.

― milo (milo), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Not much of an impression beyond that. 20 minutes didn't put much of a dent into it - loooong credit sequence, drug setup, intro Geoffrey Rush, me suddenly feel ill.

Geoffrey Rush is chemistry professor/junkie enabler/ecstasy maker who keeps a Spanish-speaking houseboy with "a large penis." Pretty blonde girl is an 'artist' led astray by Leder.

― milo (milo), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

downfall is awesome.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the best is when they open the ark of the convenant at the end and bruno ganz's face melts off

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait a second!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://titulky.icr.cz/mini/LockUp.jpg

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Kontroll totally awesome! Why is it that leather jackets only a mobster/douchebag would wear in US are automatically dirtbag standard awesome issue on Bulcsu & Co? Also, I am glad Bela was not last gasp of subway pusher, he was such a thoroughly good figure I was afraid he was being set up for sacrifice.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Ozon's Time to Leave was awful, except for one endearingly awkward threesome scene.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Noize Bored, what should I watch first (after I watch recent episodes of The Wire)?

- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
- Rashomon
- Death & The Maiden

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

RASHOMON

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

it would be cool if everybody had a different answer

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Tried to watch a bootleg of Narnia but got quickly bored/frustrated. Maybe just due to bad sound? Should I bother to Netflix?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't ask me (yet)!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I really didn't like Narnia. It loses it's charm when you are old enough to realize giving small children weapons isn't really a great idea, even in bizarre Furry/Christian hybrid fantasy worlds.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jessie, did you read/like the books? I cut childhood reading teeth on 'em and have big soft spot despite the flaws...but might not extend to Hollywood depiction.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, man, I grew up on those books! It was one of those cases of having my childhood love ruined.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't find the film annoying. The girl who plays Lucy is great; so is Tilda Swinton, in what looked like a wtf casting decision.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Tilda Swinton as White Witch was the least wtf casting ever.

I'm not sure what it was about that movie, it looked good and was well acted and stayed true to the story, but it was just so BORING.

Finally saw Brokeback Mountain, it is well made but I wasn't in the mood or something. Ang Lee, are you trying to drive people to suicide with your dour movies? Even Hulk was over-the-top heart-breaking.

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i keep meaning to rent Narnia, but I can't help but think it'll just be really boring, especially on my small-ass TV.

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Tilda Swinton as White Witch was the least wtf casting ever

In the book she's a drag queen! Swinton plays it like Grace Kelly.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah nickalicious is OTM on the boring

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Tilda already played a drag queen in Constantine, tho!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

not to mention Orlando

― dmr (dmr), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

not to mention orlando!!!! (xp)!!!

i got the 6-disc or whatever narnia at work and i guess i gotta watch it eventually... stoned sunday afternoon?

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa, mindmeld

― dmr (dmr), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah wtf 6 discs? Is it the old PBS version or something?

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"or whatever"

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Watched The Fountain, so-so.

Is it just me or did that Narnia movie have a really bad score? I remember thinking that it sucked when I saw it in the theater and some girl I met was saying how she really liked it.

― mh (mike h.), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

if you are watching the Wire watch the Western first, and then, Rashomon, I'd say.
the DVD commentary on the second-to-last episode of wire season 3 opens with talk about how much they love westerns (I think it was pelecanos that was talking) & the face off between omar and brother mouzone was directly inspired by this.

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Swinton plays it like Grace Kelly.

WTF?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"sembene hasn't made too many films.. not surprising for african filmmaker b/c so hard to get funding & lack of infrastructure etc. I recommend xala, though. it's pretty good. funny."

Yeah, part of the extra ws an interview w/Sembene and at one point he talked about all this..I'll search Xala.

More films: Metropolis and Don't come knocking

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The Grace Kelly of Mogambo and of Gore Vidal's later recollections, Eric.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

INLAND EMPIRE.

TONIGHT.

YESSS.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

sweeet. I think I'm seeing it Thursday.

last night - Days of Heaven

― dmr (dmr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

roommate: i should really have boondock saints
me: i haven't seen it
rm: oh man? it's AWESOME

somehow i doubt this

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

You are right to doubt that.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

tell him to watch that shitty documentary about the making of

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh, awful

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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