brought on by: No Paul Mazursky thread?
which i did rent & watch & like
http://www.bestvideo.com/
today i rented:
kafka (soderbergh) - when they went to scan this out it was in their system as being out and 500+ days overdueliquid skykika (almodovar)brewster mccloud
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
they dont really have super-rare stuff but id love input of hard-to-see stuff that is worthwhile to look out for
lol also that i saw that they have a sexploitation section that is right out in the open and have a gonzo porn section O_o
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the gonzo porn is not sub-divided by director tho
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
kafka was dooope
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/filmsgl/kafka_files/kafka1.jpg
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
huh def has me more encouraged for his new one w/ gina carrano cuz lem dobbs wrote that script too
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Kafka is a great little movie and its continuing unavailability on DVD makes no goddamn sense. Especially after The Limey, I'd love to hear Soderbergh and Dobbs on a commentary track for Kafka.
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Saturday, 17 July 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
^otm
brewster mccloud was cool, lightyears better imo than like healtH or buffalo bill or popeye. end is fabulous and reminded me of stroszek, weirdly (which i know came later). shelley duval is great and bud cort is srsly harry potters
― johnny crunch, Monday, 19 July 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
these are nice
http://citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/files/2009/12/brewster_mccloud.jpg
http://www.posteritati.com/jpg/B4/BREWSTER%20MCCLOUD%20JP.JPG
― johnny crunch, Monday, 19 July 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh wow, that bottom poster is amazing- what country is it from? And congrats on finding Brewster McCloud at all, that's not the easiest movie to track down.
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Monday, 19 July 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Never mind, didn't see the hiragana for the boobs. Anyway, to ebay with me, that design is all time classic.
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Monday, 19 July 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yea that bottom one on posterati is like $150 i think
also in searching around it appears warner bros will sell you what seems 2 be essentially a burned dvd of brewster mccloud now for $25 -- dont have the link handy
― johnny crunch, Monday, 19 July 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus liquid sky OWNS holy shit it is just relentless & hypnotic what a goddamn achievement brb gotta read abt how this got made
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
btw this is essentially where every fever ray/knife song derives from rite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv0PYG1g_iY
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I have Liquid Sky but haven't seen it yet
― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi i did not even smoke wed in connection w/ this
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
p. good interview + huh lady gaga was in this
http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=653
http://oc1.magiccdn.com/userfiles/image/news/march10/032310-liquid-sky/liquid-sky-05%281%29.jpeg
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
kika kept me interested but was mostly bad almodovar
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
watched the 4th man (verhoeven) - so incredibly hitchcock-ian it's unreal. really well done imo but i am not really a hitchcock fan fwiw
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 July 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I've wanted to see Brewster McCloud for 13 years now.
― mercy, sportsmanship, morality (Abbott), Thursday, 22 July 2010 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I've wanted to see liquid sky for about that same time
― Chips Moleman (los blue jeans), Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
abbott: http://www.wbshop.com/Brewster-McCloud/1000161855,default,pd.html
also it's gonna be on tcm in sept
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Move to Los Angeles! The Aero Theater had a screening of Brewster McCloud out here with Sally Kellerman hosting
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
anno domini 1723https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnjrsS3fOk
― meisenfek, Friday, 23 July 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
watched pepi, luci y bom -- p typical almodovar but v. fun y funny as contrasted w/ kika, which really wasnt
― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 July 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
no idea where 2 put this so it's just goin here so i dont forget abt it:
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/07/kenneth-lonergans-margaret-is-finally.html
i loved you can count on me & even really liked ken lonergans commentary on it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 July 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i rented:
ken parkchimes at midnightthe devilslabyrinth of passion
teh girl working there was pretty cute, though looked like she listens to best coast
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 24 July 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
ken park is turrible fyi
― johnny crunch, Monday, 26 July 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
<3'd the devils ~ maybe it's just the lead looks a lot al swearengen but i sorta suspect david milch watched this w/r/t deadwood; anyway it is hella tense & the pacing was fab [goes 2 read wiki] jesus @ censorship section
― johnny crunch, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
dude that's OLIVER REED
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
so I guess I don't understand thread title? this is not a brix&mortatr outlet?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
is he a big deal? honestly, never heard of him or seen him before
whut. no it physically exists but also has a website i guess
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
where is it?
O.R. made a ton of Brit & US films in the '60s and '70s -- besides some Ken Russell films he was Bill Sikes in the Oscar-sweeping musical Oliver! -- but eventually became more famous for his legendary drunken behavior.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
also one of R.Lester's Three Musketeers
hamden, ct
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ok watched oliver reed on letterman on youtube -- dave def thought he was gonna get punched @ the end of that
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
chimes at midnight was, uh, challenging due to the sound & my dearth of shakespeare knowledge. the battle scene was pretty impressive but a lot of the rest of the style kinda annoyed me
labyrinth of passion wasnt too good, although the song almodovar performs could probably get released by dfa
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Bought pola x for $10 from a going out of business video store in Seattle
I've never seen it and lol'd @ this Roger ebert quote on the box:
"feverish! Passionate! Dreamy! I would rather see one movie like this than a thousand Bring It Ons"
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 28 August 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
great dialogue on the near-extinction of the video store:
http://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/be-kind-remember-alex-ross-perry-and-joe-martin-discuss-the-closing-of-reel-life-south/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 June 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
but Aaron Hillis reopens one today in Brooklyn:
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2012/05/film-programmer-aaron-hillis-buys-brooklyn-video-store/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 June 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
xp <3 that convo, many otms therein
― johnny crunch, Friday, 1 June 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
so Blockbuster, who cares never hadda use one, but some related histories/anecdotes:
http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/an-ode-to-brick-and-mortar-blockbuster-video
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131104/east-village/video-rental-stores-get-creative-stay-afloat-age-of-netflix
I need to go back to Aaron's store, it's been almost a year.(And shit, they have F Wisemans?)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
Alan's Alley, the last Manhattan video rental store I am aware of, on the verge on being leased. I only ventured in once; looked like it was run by the Collyer brothers.
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2014/03/alans-alley-video.html
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
Kim's Video to close, maybe move
As great as #RSD2014 was (thank you all!), sadly we will be closing our store on 1st Ave. No closing date yet but 30% off ALL VIDEO and MUSIC. (all formats and NRs as well).
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
i need to go back to VFB, the main store profiled here.
http://www.newschoolfreepress.com/2015/12/22/still-standing/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link
another NYC store update:
http://gothamist.com/2016/03/04/nyc_video_stores.php#photo-1
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
I was looking for something else today and I stumbled across this. Check out this amazing list of NYC-area video stores (from a September 1984 newspaper ad). pic.twitter.com/CCn5mqUlnm— Stephen Bowie (@smilingcobra) April 26, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link