Wonder Boys proving very popular on this thread as the years have rolled by. wonder if it's just 'an ILX thing' or if this is evidence of a worldwide cult?
― piscesx, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Beautiful Girls
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 12 September 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
i pull out my Zodiac blu ray quite a lot.
also the commentary track on the Criterion L'avventura, for some reason i can't figure out.
― ryan, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Showgirls-movie-04.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
rebecca
laura
wild reeds
warhol screen tests (no, really, best "ambient cinema" ever)
― the tune is space, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
My wife went through a phase in early summer where she put on The Men Who Stare At Goats every night to go to sleep.
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Big Trouble in Little China
― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Monday, 12 September 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
"warhol screen tests (no, really, best "ambient cinema" ever)"
and some of the best stuff he did
― nostormo, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
The Fabulous Baker Boys
― piscesx, Sunday, 7 July 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
Rushmore's the king of this isn't it really
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 7 July 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
What About Bob?Mulholland Dr.Manhattan Murder Mystery--Woody and Diane Keaton re-united...surprised how little love this little jewel gets!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
Ed WoodFellowship of the RingBig Lebowski
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Truth About Cats And DogsBeetlejuiceFlashdance
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
LOTR trilogy def comfort movies
I've had so many over the years--I tend to comfort-watch them right off the list every couple of years. Right now, Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, Nixon, Fargo.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
I don't do this.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Pauline Kael has rained on our Andrew Sarris parade.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
The Paper Chase
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, January 17, 2010 4:02 AM (3 years ago)
A few from earlier in the thread that I would have once listed; this one's the most surprising/gratifying.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Zodiac is a great one. i think i once watched it four times over two days when stuck at home with the flu.
i think a lot of these for me tend to overlap with movies that TNT or Comedy Central tend to show over and over--but just the ones i like.
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
can totally relate to Zodiac.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
yep good call on Zodiac, totally agree
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Any woody allen movie, even the awful ones, and the royal tenenbaums
― Treeship, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Zodiac really does impart a sense of a lot of time passing in a way that's accomplished by more than just sheer length. there's something really satisfying about that.
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
also it's a movie that's content to meet you at just about any level of engagement you want.
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Yes--there's something about the way it unfolds that make it fit the definition perfectly. For a movie so dense with procedural stuff, there's also something very contemplative about it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
Zodiac has the best opening (the original 70s logos, the fireworks, the car, the Three Dog Night song.. ) i can remember from recent years.not to derail the thread but AV Club did a good piece in their New Cult Canon section http://www.avclub.com/articles/zodiac,59576/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
i also love the atmosphere of unique intimacy between men working together for long periods of time.
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
secret heartbreak of the film is when anthony edwards retires
― ryan, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
That's such a good scene. The parts of the film where Zodiac ceases to be a story for anyone except Graysmith (overtly; obviously he remains at the forefront of Toschi's thoughts too, even though he won't admit as much to Graysmith) are beautifully done; like with the Edwards scene ("I haven't left you holding the bag on anything, have I?"), everything's unspoken.
(Same--don't mean to derail the thread...)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
i only just started rewatching stuff, absentmindedly while i scan photographs, but i used to watch basquiat a lot. i am dying to rewatch 35 rhums.
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
these movies kind of fall under 'comfort' for me:
light sleeper (i think the rhythms and mood are good for late night viewing)beau travaila christmas carol (1951 version)sonatine
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
blade runnerthree colors whitelate springsans soleilakira
re: woody allen i was watching vicky cristina barcelona earlier today and thinking that it wasn't very good but it was very comforting to watch, weird that this thread got bumped
― clouds, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
Pretty much any Miyazaki
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
can think of a bunch of allen movies that fit the bill (& kinda with the caveat that they don't have to just be the best); deconstructing harry & bullets over broadway would be really enjoyable to dip back into.
thought i was being p high brow throwing a denis flick into the mix but i am outclassed & undone by a pleasure viewing of beau trevail
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/12600000/Milla-in-Dazed-and-Confused-milla-jovovich-12603300-853-480.jpg
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
ilx comfort special:
http://ruthlessculture.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mrx.jpg
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
for hangovers:
http://www.furiouscinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/rio-bravo.jpg
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
talking to Alfred:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3eyISCTG5Y
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
The Wicker Man is my go-to hangover film
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
(like a thousand people already said dazed because it's the perfect this, but none of them posted milla pics so i fixed the thread)
xxp lol. more like part 2 of 4000.
― """""""""""""stalin""""""""""" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
p hilar how this thread started as YAY MARTY MCFLY and now is about kieslowski
― bando brothers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 04:19 (ten years ago) link
I've been thinking about how to answer this one. I've known smart people who claim that like watching dumb movies (or television) because they've worked hard all day and by the time they get home they don't want to think. I get it, but I just can't function that way. If I'm watching something dumb, I'm going to be constantly thinking about how dumb it is, and that's just not relaxing. I guess I kind of agree with Roger Ebert: "no good movie is depressing, but all bad movies are depressing."
A comfort movie, for me, isn't one that doesn't demand thought, exactly, but rather something that is so purely entertaining that I'm not compelled to think about anything else while watching it. Things like Raiders of the Lost Ark, North by Northwest, Casablanca, Back to the Future and, yes, Die Hard with a Vengeance--these aren't necessarily unsophisticated films (though "sophistication" is not a word generally associated with the latter) rather ones that I've seen enough times to know that they're never getting old for me.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
Sigh of relief--I thought your first paragraph was setting up Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles or something. (Which I like fine!)
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
first three BournesDazed & ConfusedWonder Boys
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
xpost
Heh. Still never seen that one, though I have watched La Chambre, which I assume is something like Jeanne Dielman at like 1/20 the length. One day...
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Don't really have many of these, but La Dolce Vita is sort of endlessly warm and inviting. Seem to return to Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Chocolat (the Claire Denis one) and Kusturica's Underground a lot too.
― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
denis's chocolat otm
― clouds, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
The Station Agent, because it was shot just down the street from my childhood home, which is a place that I am extremely attached to.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
that is a lovely movie, I like the Station Agent a lot
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
collateraldead manblade runnerl'avventuracasinorussian arkfear and loathing in las vegaseureka (aoyama)heatandrei rublevchinatown
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link