amateurist, i have a question,

...is it?

and cries and whispers also, its abt a family, coming apart, maybe cancer im imagining?

gear i forget if you like bb2, from probably a scarjo thread, or that it ws like miccio. i havent seen it. i like maybe only the rock, im going to check, but ill take any mbay love. i think accusing him of eg music video editing is totally misplaced, other shit cld be more valid yeah

Bad Boys II is shit but better than the first one.

i dont even know if stupid is a pejorative at this pt

stupid v thoughtless, maybe?

-- A Trip to the Moon
-- Les Vampires
-- Pandora's Box
-- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
-- Laura
-- Eyes Without a Face
-- Yojimbo
-- Cabaret
-- My 20th Century
-- Cyclo
-- Dogville

(tip of the hat to those who flagged The Thin Man, Bringing Up Baby, Mildred Pierce, Late Spring, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and Over the Edge before me)

I can't do most hated of the top of my head, and devoting time to trying to think of things I hate seems like a waste. But Natural Born Killers would be on the list, I'm pretty sure.

i mean, i dunno if its straight dismissable, like that. but i like dogville and les vampires. and reluctantly eyes wo a face if its not like i have to agree its the best 50s movie. also um, im pretty indifferent to 7 sam and ran. am i being a dick, is there meat, a moist like well wetness, to kurosawa, to yojimbo, or is he for ppl whod rather see movies as photography and remember the title vs the pose

jd i hope that isnt a quip abt how im misspelling everything, im trying, and, whats more, like ernst so much!

Some people in these parts will realise how badly I react to the critical move from 'this film is shit/I hate it because' to 'this is the kind of film wrongly liked by people who,' and we see big steps towards the latter above.

(Mumbles some stuff about Zen and empty beauty which is urgent and key but not easy to convey on a Sunday morning.)

that's three gay directors--minnelli, eisenstein, davies--if you're keeping count, anthony.

i kid, i kid.

and minelli liked pussy to much to be totally a cocksucker. (though really judy garlands pussy was the dmz of that war wasnt it?

Kurosawa's def. a humanist, but usually in a completely unsentimental way. I love how his movies are full of schemers and backstabbers(like the whole village in Yojimbo, or the two schleps in Fortress, the 3PO/R2 characters), and all the Mifune characters who are mostly in it for the money (although not in Fortress). I like the humor in his movies, although it's not there in all of them (his two Shakespeare adaptations are pretty grim straight through). And his movies move, there's an aliveness that I always forget until I sit down to watch them again.

Just wanted to say that.

As you were.