Come anticipate David Fincher's "Zodiac"

jiggle jiggle

with his junk tucked away?

because if so I want my money back.

aha! 29 09 08 uk release for the 2 disc cut. no reason given as to why we get it a full year after everyone else but there we are.

watching this again right now. so good! the vertigo echoes strike me more this time through, including in the score (david shire being very herrmannesque). not that the story matches up, except in the setting and the obesessiveness. and the lighting -- lots of disconcerting west coast daylight.

Zodiac Killer's Identity Could be Revealed
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August 29, 2008 - 11:41AM

He terrorized the San Francisco bay area and taunted police in the 60's and 70's.

The FBI has now confirmed to CBS13 in Sacramento they are running laboratory tests on some items that may link a suspect to the Zodiac Killer.

The evidence was given to the FBI by a Sacramento area man who also claims he recently found a disguise worn by the Zodiac Killer.

This is a man who believes he has a very personal connection to the zodiac...as

"The identity of the zodiac killer is Jack Torrance. He's my step father" said Dennis Kaufman. "Am I obsessed? No obligated."

Kaufman spent eight years attempting to prove the only father he's known since he was five years old is the Zodiac Killer.

His Handwriting samples are similar.

The composite sketch of the killer shares similarities with his step father's photo.

Kaufman believes the similarities are to strong to be coincidence.

Dennis also claims his step-father, in a taped phone conversation indirectly admitted being the Zodiac Killer.

"If I wrote a book and said I think my step father is the Zodiac Killer they wouldn't (expletive deleted) believe me," said Kaufman.

Tarrance died in 2006.

Kaufman claims going through his dead step fathers belonging that there were disturbing finds including a knife still covered with what could possibly be dried blood.

"It could be a knife he BBQ'd with or a knife he murdered someone with," said Kaufman.

Tarrance also left behind rolls of undeveloped film, Kaufman plans to hand over to the FBI.

The roll Kaufman did develop on his own appeared to show the images of people who were murdered.

Recently Kaufman remembered his step father asked him several times about an old P.A. system, which led him to take it apart.

"When I first opened it up that did affect me. My heart skipped a couple of beats when I saw it," said Kaufman.

The material folded and tucked inside he believes may unmask the Zodiac Killer. It was a black hood with a zodiac symbol on it.

In Lake Berryessa, 1968, a couple, Cecelia Shepard and Bryan Hartnell were stabbed.

Hartnell survived and said his attacker was wearing a black hood that fell to his waist and had the symbol of the zodiac on it.

"I was definitely in shock when i saw this," said Kaufman.

Dennis claims this is the hood worn during the vicious attack, a possible key piece of evidence connecting his step father to the killings.

He also believes there are dozens more victims, never linked to the Zodiac Killer.

Including Kaufman's own mother who he claims was suffocated.

"She sat there and told me Jack was trying to kill her and I didn't listen. I can only imagine how she felt. Imagine how scary that would be. That is what kept me going this whole time," Kaufman said.

There's a small voice in the back of my mind that always screams 'Nutjob!' whenever Kaufman shows up. Maybe it's totally valid...guy just sounds like he's Graysmith all over again.

http://www.zodiackiller.com/discus/messages/27/786.html

yeah i don't really think he knows shit but i'm curious to see what the fbi makes of the "evidence"

video interview here http://cbs13.com/crime/zodiac.killer.kaufman.2.805799.html

btw ive read the zodiac killer msg board in the wake of the flick & every single person who posts there is as nuts as this kaufmann guy, just posting that link as fyi

http://bizot.ch/photos/Image/jack-ths-shining.jpg

at first I thought this movie was okay but too long and probably not worth watching again but i've seen it again three times now in the past month and there's something new to look at each time. Visuals are great of course, but there's also how so subtly good Ruffalo is - I didn't notice the first time how much thought he put into his movement and mannerisms etc. it just sucks me in whenever it comes on, the whole tension and pace of it.

finally saw this, really good film and i hate fincher usually. seems like that is a common reaction upthread. one annoyance in this and other movies set in the 60s/70s is how inconsistent the actors look. jake did not for one second look "period" and downey's look was at least trying but pretty unconvincing. minor flaw tho as acting was good to great.

just got the 2 disc directors cut. omg moving the trees!!!

watched the bluray last night. GOD this is the best-looking movie of the last i dont know how many years. i wanted to eat it

downey's look was at least trying but pretty unconvincing

Downey at Riverside in the denim bellbottoms and floppy hat = teh awesome

also this movie made me really appreciate Mark Ruffalo - he's been in a bunch of crap but he's one of my favorite younger-ish actors

the vest!!

that rdj wore

i love the bullitt stuff... the dirty harry premiere

"yeah no need for due process eh guys?"

i voted for this in the ruffapoll - i thought he was perfect, just hit all the right notes imo~

ruff ryder

i didnt think it was that great lookin btw... i mean, maybe it is, i guess i'm not a big DV fan idk

it gave me an eye boner

Can't argue with bonarz.

can patricia and i come watch this at yr place some time, s1ocki?

It was imperfect, but in a good way. I thought the period detail was GREAT.

can patricia and i come watch this at yr place some time, s1ocki?

― sean gramophone, Monday, March 9, 2009 5:57 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

for reals.... i would watch it again anytime

saw it for the first time today <3<3<3<3

:D

Woman: Dad was the Zodiac, and I can prove it

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/29/BAFA17BE9N.DTL&tsp=1

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/01/BAP217CT9B.DTL&tsp=1

lol excerpts"

"My father was real bullheaded, and he did have a temper, and he did hit me, but did he kill people? I don't believe he did," she said today. "I just don't think he was a murderer or the Zodiac.

"I have fond memories of him, even though he went off on me now and then," she said.

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Hendrickson said she didn't think much of Perez's side of the family.

"My father found Deborah and her mother, a dime-a-dance girl, in Tijuana, Mexico, and brought them up here to live," Hendrickson said. "They lived in a place with dirt floors. That woman had seven kids. She used my father. How can you believe Deborah?"

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What's more, she said, "my dad read the Bible every night of the week, and he was always preaching that every man should support every kid he fathers," she said.

Not that he didn't hang out with some shady characters, Hendrickson conceded. "If anything, it would have been his best friend ... who carried a sawed-off shotgun, who might have done something like the Zodiac," she said. "But not my dad."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/zodiac-killers-unmasking-lacks-cryptographic-proof/
“He didn’t give her the key but she knows how it works,” added McLean.

Uh huh. FAIL.

Reminded me a bit of of "The Day of the Jackal." They both have to build suspense by letting you in on logic and technicalities of the cat and mouse game more than the average thriller; in both cases because a historically-aware audience member already knows, to a certain extent, how the climax (or lack thereof) will go.

http://www.emotty.com/images/emoticons/932.png

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/revelations-zodiac-killer-134802483.html

Haha, yes, I'm sure SFPD, investigating the Paul Stine murder, gave one (1) shit about the Solano County Sheriff's Office.

Lyndon Lafferty is a great real name, though.

just reviving this because of all the talk on the Comfort Movies thread but also to let folk know the Director's Cut Blu Ray is now *$7.99* on Amaz0n.

worth every penny. the extras are great, as I recall.

yeah, some great documentary stuff on there.

ty for the revive, i just ordered it. Can't wait to dig in.

Hard to believe a dude skilled enough to pull of Zodiac and Social Network - tough stories to tell - could falter so hard with down the middle commercial dreck like Benjamin Button and Dragon Tattoo.

I will defend BB (which has a melancholy way about it which strikes me as more distant from middle-of-the-road sentimental Hollywood fare than it looks) but GWDT was pretty lame and rote.

There's an episode in an early season of The League where a dude hides the sex tape he made with his wife in the Benjamin Button sleeve because he knows no one will ever want to watch it. And then of course the biggest loser of his friends finds it, because he wants to watch Benjamin Button.

Hard to believe a dude skilled enough to pull of Zodiac and Social Network - tough stories to tell - could falter so hard with down the middle commercial dreck like Benjamin Button and Dragon Tattoo.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, July 13, 2013 4:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

it seems like there's no longer any stories that he's driven to tell. something comes across his desk and hes like 'well i guess i can make this'

Yeah he's clearly contemptuous towards the film system these days. I hope he doesn't start doing shitty middlebrow cable series..

i liked this a lot more 2nd time around. great soundtrack and rdj & ruffalo did a fine job

this is prob my fav scene

http://jmount43.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/capture3.jpg?w=1024&h=424