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Rented an awful gay film called Circuit, about the homo party circuit. Why do I punish myself? I was hoping it'd be something akin to Swingers, a really entertaining, insightful movie about a group of people I hate. No such luck. The worst dialogue.

In the theaters, I saw Chicago. It was OK, a bit too impressed with it's cynicism, in a way that seemed dated. Also, how can Catherine Zeta-Jones be so good when she's such a hideous celebrity and advertising spokesperson? She just can, I guess. She was the best thing about High Fidelity, too. Richard Gere is not convincing as a musical comedy performer.

Also--Gangs of New York Loved the outfits! Those striped pants-yeah! And the sets-it was Pirates of the Caribbean meets Satyricon on the rough-and-tumble streets of Boss Tweed-era NYC! DD Lewis was no big deal, I prefer him when he's soft-spoken. Nobody else made much of an impression.

The Hours-Solid, moving. Made me feel old and melancholy. I didn't think Nicole Kidman's performance was so mind-blowing. Also, what's with the Raging Bull nose? Virginia Woolf's nose always seemed rather elegant and large to me, not broken. I loved the supporting cast--good roles for Toni Collette and Claire Danes and Miranda Richardson-finally!

Catch Me If You Can-his most human film since Sugarland Express. I started out hating it, it's like Speilberg does retro-sixties lounge crap and it's so bad. But once he gets into the fucked up family dynamic, it's really good. For what's supposed to be, on a the surface, such a freewheeling go-go film, it's actually very sad. Christopher Walken was incredible.

Saw Possession on the plane back to LA. Not so hot. God, Gwyneth Paltrow is the most irritating actress alive. I've never seen any of the other Neil Labute movies, but the dialogue in this one was surprisingly bad. "I just want to find out if there's an 'us' in 'you and me' ". Also, he was really heavy-handed with the constant American-bashing. Did he have a bad year abroad or something?

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

argt re strummer was concerning city of god (which is all abt gangs and gangsters) not faust

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

and the argt bit wz abt the film, strummer just kind of popped into it

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm watching Charade right now, with Grant and Hepburn. I've seen it twice before, so I probably won't watch it all the way through, but damn, what a great movie.

Before that, um...But I'm A Cheerleader. Which is now my kneejerk response to "xXx is the best movie ever."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah yes, Nordicskillz, I'd forgotten the surprise film. I was tempted but restrained myself because I was spending enough already. Actually, I'm not sure why I went to see the Anderson or Moodyson, given that they will get decent releases, and I have friends who I might have gone with. Then again, at the LFF both those directors and their female leads were present and answered questions afterwards, so there was a bonus there. I was within arm's reach of PTA, Emily Watson and Michael Moore during the festival.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Ice-T sitting down in the front row of the showing of R'Xmas at the Chicago IFF, and he was chortling his ass off at this stupid before-film commercial where I guy falls asleep while pumping gas. It really humanized him for me.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Ice-T sitting down in the front row of the showing of R'Xmas at the Chicago IFF, and he was chortling his ass off at this stupid before-film commercial where I guy falls asleep while pumping gas. It really humanized him for me.

I think his humanity, which isn't mine, is all over his music.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh I know, but when you see Coke spilling out of the nose of your average ex-jewel thief gangster rapper because he's laughing at some dumbass advert you've seen a dozen times, it allows a new perspective.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

i saw crackerjack in the lorne theatre last week - we paid the extra $1 and sat upstairs. it was quite good although almost every song was a james reyne song and the main character was WAY too much like the crackman o'toole.

― minna (minna), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

adaptation a couple of weeks ago.. and 24 hour party people before that. i think they're the only two times i've been to the cinema in the last six months

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

did you like 24hrpp jim?

― minna (minna), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

yes i did, but i would have preferred watching it at home (too many expat Brits sniggering all the way through it)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 20 January 2003 02:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Craft last night. Wz OK.
Coyote Ugly. Lovely, but took me to the end of the film to confirm the lead character wasn't being played by Leann Rimes.
Down to You. Completely not memorable, but very sweet.
She's All That. Lovely.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Last movies I saw... Hmmm... This weekend:
Arsenic and Old Lace - Perfect.
Amy's O - Hated it.
40 Days and 40 Nights - Entertaining and mindless.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rental:
The Slipper and The Rose
The Red Shoes
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Penny Serenade
An Affair To Remember
Dead of Night
War of the Worlds
The Haunting (original)
The Man who Wasn't there
Dude, Where's My Car

Cinema:
Star Trek Nemesis

Telly:
Conspiracy Theory
FORTRESS!
Terminal Error
~~Logopolis~~Goldeneye

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Last five or so:
The Transporter "I like it quiet, but this is too quiet:" BOOM! - Fun tat.
Gangs Of New York "I took der Faaader, now I'll tek the son" Mixed bag of tat.
The Good Girl "What's your name - Catcher?" Good, but dull
Take Care Of My Cat - Bit of dialogue in Korean. Excellent (if a touch melodramatic nr the end)
City Of God. Something in portuguese. Pretty impressive - though it innoculates itself from serious criticism by setting itself in the seventies.

I might bring back the City Of God thread so I can hear the Joe Strummer argument.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

the surprise film is never really a surprise, is it? same kinda type "big hollywood indie sleeper".. i remember when it was american beauty

now if they'd had dead or alive: final as the surprise then i'd tip my hat

― zemko (bob), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

the DVD:
the man who fell to earth
paris, texas

the VHS at a friend's flat while we had a few beers before we went out:
armageddon [from about half an hour in]

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did you speak to Ice-T, Amateurist? I'm just trying to decide if I would, if our paths crossed. I'm guessing that middle-aged white English people aren't his main target audience, so I don't know whether he'd be amused or contemptuous.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

middle-aged white English people
he loves phil collins

― , Monday, 20 January 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin, no, I didn't talk to him; your post made me think of you and Ice-T walking past each other, in slow-motion, on a rain-drenched cobblestone street . . . then you turn around, and notice Ice-T, smiling wistfully, as he turns out of sight.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or it could be like that one false-note moment in Ghost Dog, where Forest Whittaker meets the RZA.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

2nd LOTR movie. it was ok.

― duane, Monday, 20 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

We have paved the way for the American remake of In the Mood for Love starring Ice-T and Alan Cumming.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

"What's up Ghost Dog?"

Yeah, right.

I saw Jim (aka GOD) Jarmusch being interviewed at the LFF to promote Ghost Dog, and he said that the RZA would deliver his tapes for the soundtrack by pulling up on broadway in a van with tinted windows under cover of night.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or Ice-T and Forrest Whitaker, he's femme enough.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I mean, does anyone else see it?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Adaptation today, and I'm so sorry that I did.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 05:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

ooooh, i saw donnie darko last night.

twas very good. spent hours figuring out what the fuck happened though.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

just saw Removed, it was really funny & beautiful & sad & haunting

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't watch a lot of movies these days, but here's everything I've seen in the last month or so:

"Catch Me If You Can"
"Election"
"White Christmas" (starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye)
"Magnificent Obsession" (dir. by Douglas Sirk)

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Y Tu Mama Tambien" - shit, shit, shit.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Adaptation today, and I'm so sorry that I did.

This film is the current candidate for most divided opinions. I've heard dribbling praise and acidic excoriations in equal amounts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's because the second wave of DePalma hate/love is yet to come when Femme Fatale bursts upon European shores like unto a rotten ass.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh I'm gonna regret this - yesterday:

Signs
The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Barbershop

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Are there any good comedies out in the U.S. right now? Or failing that, what should I rent?

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I liked About a Boy, J LU. It's light-hearted.

Umm... Saw 24- Hour Party People last night and enjoyed it. Tonight will watch any special features.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Me and DV went to see Divine Intervention, the madcap palestinian comedy. It's really good minute to minute, but it's best when it doesn't have a plot.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

theatrer - Lord of Ring
DVD - Insomnia, Citizen Cane
VHS - Big City Bright Lights, Alphaville

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey london film fans if ur not busy on sunday u should go see the "hour of the furnaces" documentary on at the OTHER (yuk yuk yuk must i call it that) cinema on sunday afternoon, it looks a treat

i however will be at work booo

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

(it's all about 60s south america n' ting)

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

x=5, order = latest to far-est

I Just can't stop this uncontrollable dancing" [not quite finished edit, screening at the director's house! thatbeing Campbell Walker - it has orig Loren Connors music on it!]

Roger & Me by Michael Moore, it was on telly

Dogs in Space hmmgh

Sweet Home Alabama [!!??HgghgHjmm]

Buffalo 66

― spectra, Thursday, 23 January 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

okay so I haven't fully read this thread (only have net pay places access now) but I really would like to know if anyone else thought Donnie Darko is a mistakenly lauded, botched, stupid, trying too hard (and not hard enough) to be profound, crappy yuck boring film???? or at least just overrated? I cannot fathom why it wasn't marketed to it's appropriate audience, ie. 12 to 15 year olds? okay so it was aimed successfully at it's other appropriate audience (just about the equiv of the aforementioned group) - ie. "indie kids".

― spectra, Thursday, 23 January 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Problem with Hour Of The Furnaces is that its four'n'a half hours long. I'm toying with it but its four and a half hours long. VFM yes, but....

Much of ILE liked Donnie Darko. I thought it was grebt fun if you don't take it too seriously.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

quite, spectra, but "ease up"! it is annoying in the way you say, but Pete is right in that it is enjoyable fluff. It is not a profound film. i also found it a little boring and aimless in patches. i went to see a great film, and was disappointed, but i had to say i didn't feel i'd wasted my ticket money.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

And I think Alan doesn't like DD enough! DO I think it is a great film? No -buit I do think it is easily one of the most enjoyable and interesting US films of the last year or so and is a much more innovative look at teen alienation.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

last film i saw was bergman's 'wild strwberries'. I'll try and make it for the 'seventh seal' tonight.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

went to Gangs of New York last week. ehhh.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julio what time is Seal No. Seven on tonight. Might be worth me shimmying down for.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

How could I forget I watched the Flinstones on Sunday. Alright, so it's rubbish, but it still has the B52s in it.

Dick - Good characters, scenario etc but enough jokes. Though the central one more than makes up for that. And it's got Kirsten Dunst and Jen Dawson's in.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Skipping 5883 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I've made this request before: can I, or someone else, start a new last-x-movies thread? This one is now almost 6,000 posts long. I know it's nice to have everything in one spot, but I use this thread regularly to check back on what I thought of stuff I saw years ago, and it takes forever and a day for the thread to load (if it does--sometimes I have to log off and try again). The new thread could start with a link to this one at the top.
If you have major objections to this, please speak up.
― clemenza, Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:25 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Why not yearly rolling threads, a la the Obituary thread, or the various genre-centric ones on ILM?
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:41 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yearly sounds good. Politics gets one every month, but obviously you don't need that here--those threads generate a few thousand posts monthly. This one's had 6,000 in 15 years, 400 a year (probably more now). That sounds manageable. (I realize this thread is basically my movie cloud. I just don't use Letterboxd.)
― clemenza, Sunday, August 5, 2018 8:51 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link

some ppl not encyclopedic enough

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link

i'm into it if only for the awesome title "Last (x) movies you saw (II)"

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link

I've heard Pavarotti sits on a pie.

yuuup

the version on youtube with a lot of the singing removed was a real lifesaver

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link

i'm into it if only for the awesome title "Last (x) movies you saw (II)"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:39 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Needs more "Electric Boogaloo" Y/N?

― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link

i only lurk this thread for movie recs so discount my opinion to zero i just have an aesthetic bias in favour of super old unwieldy threads

― flopson, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (4/5)- Gorgeous and warm and a real privilege to have a relatively unobtrusive front-row look at Sakamoto living and working.

*Hardware (3.5/5)- much nastier than I remembered; I wish it leaned a little more heavily into the opening/closing psychedelic imagery- that is, the Ominous Whooshing and quick flashes of a black sun in the sky, which is a remarkable image to go with the movie becoming a Soylent Green (in)voluntary human extinction story (and immediately deflating it with Iggy Pop's aggressively jokey narration). Also can't think of another film (or cult film, anyway) that's become so totally identified with a single soundtrack choice.

Picnic at Hanging Rock (5/5)- I somehow had never seen this (made time for The Cars That Ate Paris, though) but my partner, decidedly not a film person, was down for a rare shared movie night after reading (and, I must confess, hating) the novel. She wasn't a fan of the film, either, and fair enough, but I was fucking dazzled- I'll be checking out The Last Wave as soon as I can as well.

Cry-Baby (4/5)- It's hard to enjoy Depp now, but he was cute and dumb and the movie is like the other half of Hairspray I never knew I needed. The audience (at Philly's International House/Lightbox) absolutely lost their shit at multiple points in the film, but this might have been the standout gag in a movie filled with some of Waters' funniest material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTDhNLLglf8&t=96s

Neighbors (4/5)- the Norman McLaren short. It's a little on the nose but it's equal parts Svankmajer and The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film and those are things I deeply love & treasure

― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link

_i'm into it if only for the awesome title "Last (x) movies you saw (II)"

― flappy bird, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:39 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink_

Needs more "Electric Boogaloo" Y/N?

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link

until everyone weighs in

Klown (Mikkel Nørgaard, 2010) - 6/10
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) - 8/10
Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980) - 9/10
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013) - 10/10
Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder, 1964) - 8/10
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970) - 10/10
And We Were Young (Andy Smetanka, 2015) - 8/10

― flappy bird, Friday, 10 August 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link

Good reminder. Let's start a new one. (And When We Were Young is a good title to end on.) Go ahead--use the thread title you like. (I was thinking of including the date in the title, but save that for the 2019 thread.) Include a link to this thread in the first post.

― clemenza, Friday, 10 August 2018 04:14 (five years ago) link

NEW THREAD: 2 Film 2 Furious.

― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 10 August 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link

Thanks! Maybe a moderator can close this one down.

― clemenza, Friday, 10 August 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) - 10/10
A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967) - 5/10
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) - 10/10
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) - 10/10
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, 2002) - 7/10
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) - 10/10
Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) - 6/10
Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch, 1930) - 7/10

― flappy bird, Friday, 31 August 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link

wwooooops sorry

― flappy bird, Friday, 31 August 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I've no idea where else to put this but I watched Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool and was surprisingly moved and impressed by it. That is one ridiculously charismatic performance by Annette Benning. I actually cried at the end.

― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Friday, 28 September 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Small Foot.
musical animation about the tribe of the yeti's encounter with a Western film maker.
Quite fun. NOticed it had a G certificate which I don't remember having seen on a cinema screen before.
& for the lowest certificate there seemed to be a lot of violence or is the idea that what would be physically or life threatening behaviour actually needing to be shown to have consequences before it makes the certificate go up.
Also questions of blasphemy and challeninging received religious wisdom being a central theme of a lot of the film.

JUst hope 5 year old kids don't start dropping off the side of Himalayan mountains cos they've seen it's quite fun.
& there's easier ways of waking villages than displayed here.

I think i was just assuming that a worthwhile film couldn't be rated as low as G but may have been watching things rated as that without seeing the certificate.

― Stevolende, Friday, 26 October 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link

FYI there is a new movies thread here: Last (x) movies you saw (II)

― flappy bird, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link

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