yeah i super enjoyed that. i also finally learned a lot of stuff about film and color correcting that i'd been wanting to learn about for a while!
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 25 February 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
Plus, funny to see Keanu interview so many great directors who will likely never hire him.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 22, 2013 1:26 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah he'll be stuck working with clowns like bernardo bertolucci and gus van sant for the rest of his career
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 25 February 2013 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
I heartily second anyone praising "The Long Goodbye." I only saw it once but it made a strong impact. There are remarkably many Altman movies on Netflix, thank heavens. I just saw "Thieves Like Us" and I was surprised at how sad it was when certain characters met misfortune, considering the fact that I forecast everything way, way early and they were kind of icky characters in any case. Altman is good at manipulating your emotions in a sneaky, underhanded way.
For the horror fans: I enjoyed watched "Phase 7," a fairly low-budget Argentinian plague-themed SF/Horror/Dark Comedy. The premise is kind of basic and unexciting: after an alarming epidemic breaks out, a middle-class schlub and his pregnant wife get quarantined in their nice, new apartment building. As the days go by, the couples' cooped-up neighbors start acting weirder and weirder, until.... Based on the hype, I was expecting a decent escapist flick but I wasn't expecting to come away with a new entry on my cinematic shortlist. Great, funny dialogue, utterly convincing performances and unforgettable pacing/editing to place the director with greats like Hitchcock, Truffaut and Peckinpah.
Don't watch it if you can't take graphic violence; the overall "kill count" for the movie is low but there are a few gut-wrenching shots. At the same time, there was nothing exploitative or cheap about the film. If any of that sounds interesting to you, watch the movie--don't read the reviews first, a lot of them tell way more about the story than I just did and FAR more than they should. it's one of those movies where the "shocks" really are shocking, so the less you know the better.
― Jak, Monday, 25 February 2013 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
xpost, um, bernardo bertolucci and gus van sant are not in the movie. But Lynch, Scorsese, Fincher, et al. are, and no, they will not be hiring Keanu any time soon.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 February 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
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― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 25 February 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
no way scorsese works w/ some middling pretty boy like keanu! can you imagine???
― balls, Monday, 25 February 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
I can, would be awesome!
Pretty boy or no, Leo can at least act, on occasion. Marty would have to build the film around Keanu's persona. I'd suggest something involving ... virtual reality.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 February 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
i have no idea what you are joking about at this point
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 25 February 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Untitled Martin Scorsese/Keanu Reeves project.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 February 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
sad keanu jokes.
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
watched 'the imposter' last night. p good. there was a nyer story abt this a few yrs ago but it's prob best if you go in cold. also, it's a lil too much of an errol morris imposter in style, too glossy, needs some rough edges imo
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
Reel Injun is a really interesting look at the portrayal of native americans throughout the history of cinema.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
snow on tha bluffup there w/ catfish in the v impressively staged/editing/managed verite thing that is prob more fun 2 deconstruct than engage w/― johnny crunch, Sunday, July 22, 2012 3:19 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
up there w/ catfish in the v impressively staged/editing/managed verite thing that is prob more fun 2 deconstruct than engage w/― johnny crunch, Sunday, July 22, 2012 3:19 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Kinda agree with this w/r/t the verite feel-- can't remember the last movie that did it better. Even though there's barely a narrative / has such a blah ending, I'm really surprised Snow on Tha Bluff doesn't get talked up more.
― Area 'Leg Man' (CompuPost), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
IN THE DARK HALF
ruled, so foreboding
...i still have no idea what it was about
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
this movie is pretty far out. good movie to watch on acid if you have any. people still do acid, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zf63U1Rk0w
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 February 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
I don't have any acid but that looks awesome
when you posted it on FB I was wondering why you were digging a doc about kiefer sutherland
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
Cool.
I watched "Reel Injun" last night, really interesting. I want to see some of the aboriginal films they showed at the end. And "The Silent Enemy".
Also, it's on youtube.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
Ha! about 10 seconds into that trailer I started thinking this is looking like some heavy Anselm Keifer vibes...looks good.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
it's intense. i was kinda stoned when i watched it. but not on acid. it moves slowly and malevolently in a weird way. horror movie strings at the beginning make you think you are gonna see crazy murders or something. its worth it just to watch his process if you are a fan of his work. and they let him build his own crazy underground city in france!
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
These things really come and go:About to expire unwatched from my list tonight:BedazzledThe Woman in the WindowThe Black PirateQue Viva Mexico
Expiring in two days:Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 March 2013 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
you have watchlists? they tell you when movies are gonna expire?
netflixUS is so much better a service than netflix UK...
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Friday, 1 March 2013 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
Their explanation of why watchlists don't work liked to upthread neglects this watch-it-before-it-expires motivation.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 March 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://instantwatcher.com/titles/expiring
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yea, I use that too. Does that apply to the UK, are the rights the same?
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 March 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
I doubt it. The rights seemed to be completely different between the US and Canada, even.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 1 March 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
they show expiring canuck stuff too though.
i should really watch that bernie worrell doc that is going away...
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
Yup. You should also watch the Robert Moog doc that he is in.
― Johnny Too Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 March 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Refn film "Bronson" is apparently expiring, go watch that
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 1 March 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
Popeye! Anaconda! Pretty In Pink! Manhunter!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
i do not recommend popeye! assuming it's the altman popeye!
― abanana, Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
fyi the octopus scene gave me nighmares when I was a kid
consider yrself warned :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
The Howling 3: The Marsupial
(No, not kidding)
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
That movie is bad even by bad movie standards.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
No way you are all crazy. Harry Nilsson soundtrack.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl come on.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Talking about Howling 3, not Popeye, which has its charms (the latter).
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
cmon, i love popeye!
also recently added (to netflix and queue): THE SINFUL NUNS OF ST VALENTINE.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 3 March 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
popeye is altman's best movie
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Sunday, 3 March 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
i'm really hip so my faves are the late 70's weird string of 3 women/a wedding/quintet/a perfect couple. if i were younger and hipper it would be o.c. and stiggs. i like popeye though. its fun.
― scott seward, Sunday, 3 March 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
Aleksandr Medvedkin's Happiness!
― "Rob is startled, this is straight up gangster" (R Baez), Saturday, 16 March 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost
I can't in good consciousness rank Popeye above, say, 3 Women or Nashville, but I find it heartwarming how this film has been reclaimed from the heap of "Notorious Flops that Killed The Last Golden Age of American Movies" in the years since its release.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 16 March 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
Fwiw, both my wife and I enjoyed it as kids when it came out. I'm pretty sure I owned the soundtrack.
― Moodles, Saturday, 16 March 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
one of my favorite pictures http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7239/7367592488_45e8c510f0_n.jpgi lovepopeye
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
that's awesome. I can totally picture you wandering around the house singing "He Needs Me".
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
hahait's a great soundtrack and i liked the movie tooshelley duvall rules forever and ever
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
ive ignored that story of the odyssey of film semicolon the miniseries thing but thats prob good rite
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
Finally watching Archer, season three. Awwww yeah.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
i watched the entirety of story of film (did they ever fix that one broken hour?) and it was very very very good; talked me into getting a hulu sub for criterion films and i've not regretted itfor a long time after though, you'll hear that guy's ulster accent going up at the end of each sentence in your mind when you watch anything."two people. sitting alone on a bench. he leans in. whispers. she reacts. what's been said? we cannot know? is it art? is it film? is it a moment of truth? the questions are more fitful than the answers. she walks away. close focus. sharp light. we're in an office. the sound of copiers. a man at work."
― the craziest half-court shots and wildest WAGs (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
oh yay, they fixed that. Gotta watch ep 13 now!
― the craziest half-court shots and wildest WAGs (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
I watched the Ozu segment of that on youtube and immediately put it on my Amazon wishlist. I may not wait for gift giving opportunities to go ahead and get it.
Speaking of Ozu, a bunch of stuff was added to the Hulu Criterion list in the last few weeks -- early Ozu, several by Fassbinder, some Soderbergh, Nagisa Oshima, DeMille's King of Kings. Looks like 75-80 films total.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link