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New Yorkers, I must see White Dog this Tuesday, alas no time will work cept 10:20pm! Dig:

(1982, SAMUEL FULLER) Kristy McNichol adopts an injured German Shepherd — then finds it compulsively attacks African- Americans, including Paul Winfield. Based on a true story, Fuller’s film was shelved for a decade amid charges of racism.
1:00, 5:10, 10:20

THE HOST - ABOUT TO START WATCHING THIS EXCITEDDDD

Also, the roadcrew theme became the music for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News!

harisson ford also a total babe in that movie, but less total babe than paul newman in chl

my roommate called it one of the best movies ever

now i am watching the Butcher Boy

i just watched "stranger than fiction" - was in the mood for that kind of movie though didn't know what to expect (had read no reviews, only seen previews), and i liked it, though it's kind of overwritten at times. generally though, good writing, interesting direction and cinematography (some cool pull-back long takes, or whatever they're called), and weird but decent acting - the whole thing sort of flips btwn emotion and not-emotion constantly, i guess b/c the main characters' emotions are sort of intellectualized or analyzed - or they're sort of on the brink of feeling them? or they are feeling them, yet in a more detached way? which is weird and should make those characters hard to relate to, yet i did, and you'd think this would make for a boring film, but i wasn't bored. it kept things intriguing. it's not really a full-on comedy.

and it makes chicago totally look like somewhere i could live?

The VHS version they released in the US was inexplicably canary yellow.

Cool Hand LUke is one of the movies that turned me into rebellious little hippie shit.

It was weird how they scrubbed away anything that identified it as Chicago, though, like the CTA logos on the buses.

I was kind of meh about it.

* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - cute (MM & the flick); wish they could've balanced the meta-goofs w/ the Cosby Mysteries plot better; more old Corbin Bernsen please; SS should really stop getting killed

* Ghost Rider - it was either this, or spend all day cleaning my apartment; I probably made the wrong decision (tho seeing the FF2 trailer all big, plus the new Spidey 3 trailer, & another 300 trailer, and the SHUT THE FUCK UP Disney Frog promo backwards and upside down - yes, backwards and upside down - was kinda worth it)

waht

Also this weekend - after Breach was finished, & the credits were rolling, the elderly female folk a row behind me told me to SIDDOWN as I was waiting to leave. Not sure if I was impressed they cared enough to watch the credits, or annoyed because IT WAS THE CREDITS LADY.

* Saw 2 - "smart" "thriller" I enjoyed immensely because I like seeing people getting brained w/ nail-covered baseball bat and/or taken out by flesh-eating disease, especially if they're from 7th Heaven.

the descent first half: good, scary. second half: bad, silly. O NO BATBOYS!

-- a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (slytus...), February 20th, 2007 2:59 AM. (hanks1ockli) (later) (link) (admin)

because it was so SCARY??

Wanted to see this so bad when I was a kid. Dreadful stuff. Contains absolutely 0% peril. There's a hilarious overlong scene that makes a point about showing Achilles parking his hover car, obviously intended solely for the purpose of revealing his rather nifty and futuristic automatic central-locking key, except its the size of a portable radio, complete with a two foot antenna. And the main chick's stunts weres so plainly performed by a muscley dude without the slightest attempt to conceal it. Another Charles Band winner! CRASH AND BURN!!!

Wha bout To Live and Die In L.A.? William Petersen? Willem Dafoe? L.A.? Living AND dying? Come on!

(I haven't seen it, tho.)

The Butcher Boy is prolly Neil Jordan's best movie.

I'm gonna skip insanely late White Dog in fave of Peter Whitehead's The Fall.

anyway:

The Decomposition of the Soul
Tristram Shandy: AC&BS
All the Real Girls
Play It As It Lays
Tout va Bien (awesome supermarket scene)
Letter to Jane
Colossal Youth
An Affair of Love
The Painted Veil (first half OK, second crap despite Diana Rigg as old nun)