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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

DD again. it WAS aimless and boring in quite lengthy patches, and though i haven't seen that many films, if it's one of the most enjoyable films of late, then that's bad news for cinema. Also, it was a self-contained fantasy with no hope of providing an interesting view of anything other than itself.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

6:20 pm NFT1

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Self contained fantasy = good thing (though how insular a film with that many popular culture references which illuminate the plot can be I'm not so sure). I must admit I did not find it the least bit boring, yes there was a bit of weirdness for weirdness sake going on but I think the director did a better job that David Lynch usually does in justifying most of that. I think this may be a horse for course thing.

Dick rocks. ALl The Presidents Men is on next week sometime for decent comparison Graham. Dick tells the story a lot better.

Knackers, in seminar at 6:20.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm still counting down the days til Darkness Falls comes out. It's finally out tomorrow, hooray!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

8 mile
Birthday Girl - How can Nick be infatuated with someone with such an improbably large forehead? Also the first half of the movie is incredibly boring.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chicago - great if you're into that sort of thing - singing & dancing, I mean
Lost Highway - very entertaining, I like movies that promote discussion
The Man with Two Brains - HA!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Truth About Charlie - the last thing anyone needs is a remake of 'Charade'* (I thought) but Thandie Newton is gorgeous and is in virtually every scene. And it's J. Demme so it couldn't be too crap (I thought); it'll be nice, light brain-disengaging fare for a Sunday afternoon (I thought).

Goodness, what a mess! It's sooo French too - I don't just mean the Paris setting and the Aznavour/Karina cameos, but the plotting is typical 'policier' à la Diva what with all these sinister types menacing our heroine (when they're not chasing or squabbling with eachother, that is). Also, all the cast must have had ESP since they all managed to be in exactly in the right place at the right time. Nice sapphic undertones tho', and surprisingly light on violence, which made a nice change.

*as namechecked by Justin upthread

― Jeff W, Monday, 27 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Birthday Girl is a mess isn't it.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mostly DVDs:

Imitation of Life
Chicago
Dogfight
Barbershop
Krush Groove
The Bourne Identity
24 Hour Party People (listened to commentaries while assembling CD rack)

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Finally saw Catch Me If You Can tonight! I loved it, which surprised me because I was fully expecting to hate it. Even Leo was quite good in it. If Minority Report hadn't cocked up the ending, I would have two Spielberg films in my top ten for 2002.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 2 February 2003 05:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

i saw 'about schmidt' the other night, it was really hard to watch. kathy bates and the set design in her house was great, but jack nicholson shouldn't have been in it at all. overall i didn't like it.

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Hours was disappointing. Its tone seemed vague/ambiguous/not-fleshed-out, in a bad way. Had a completely false character in the overprecocious melancholic child, something I had come to associate only with the Great Satan M Night Shyalaman. And John C. Reilly should have passed on this one.

Worth it to watch Meryl Streep, and Claire Danes is good but it's a small part.

― Aaron A., Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Signs (again) - I have a man crush on M. Night Shyamalan.
The Bank - neat Aussie flick. Pi meets Glengarry Glen Ross. Er, I wish.
The Bourne Identity - Better then my low expectations. Go big head go.
Adaptation - about 3/4's grebt.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Bourne Identity - I liked it alot; Clive Owens - the sexy Boris Karloff - was great - he barely talked!

Adaptation - s'okay; Nic Cage and Chris Cooper were great.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Alot of fun. Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, plus Julia Roberts licking Sam Rockwell, plus Drew Barrymore looking fuckme adorable, plus RUTGER HAUER. The best Charlie Kaufman flick with Maggie Gyllenhaal to come out in the past year.

City of Gods - pretty damn good; a few shots were a little too flashy, and I can never judge a script well off of subtitles but it had an impact. I didn't think it was as relentlessly dark as some made it out to be, but I never thought gangsta rap was supposed to be dark or serious either.

25th Hour - I've mentioned this elsewhere; I cried my eyes out.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Plan Nine from Outaspace. Fell asleep the last five min. Apparently it was just as bad as the proceeding uh... 90 minutes. We wanted to see City of Gods but it's already out of circulation. Spider is up next as well as Mystery Train (for the 2nd time)

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Last film that I saw at the cinema: ST: Nemesis

Last film that I walked out of halfway through: LOTR: The Two Towers

Last film that I got a nice big poster of: Vivre Sa Vie

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Catch Me If You Can" last night - very much enjoyed it, and yes, Christopher Walken was superb.

"Dirty Pretty Things" last week - even better, a beautifully satirsfying and moving British film. Recommend hugely.

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 2 February 2003 10:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

8 mile = good

Chicago = great

I spy = okay

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

bergman's 'The virgin spring' on friday.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 February 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

(some of)Strangers on a train, 8 Mile, Schindler's List.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

*thinks* Nothing in theaters since you know what, for obvious reasons (ie, no other current films are Return of the King). But I did pick up Branded in Flesh, a mid-sixties Japanese Yakuza film on the heavy duty art tip, on Critierion at Spencer's suggestion last week and Sean and I watched it a week ago -- a very 1967 film in ways and quite good at same. You can definitely see how the style was picking up all over the place from French cinema while the plot and how it was handled made me so not surprised that Tarantino is credited as an associate producer of the DVD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

ok last week i saw crimes of the future, man without a past, hamlet goes business and drifting clouds (kaurismaaki week) manhunter last night, er that vincent gallo vampire thing, about schmidt, poison (todd haynes)

i wanted to see bergman's hour of the wolf today but was at work

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

hehehe...I was going to go to hour of the wolf but work put me off too.

should be watching 'persona' sometime this week.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm watching Sixth Sense on TV at the moment. I hope the allegedly astonishing twist doesn't turn out to be as blindingly obvious as I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

It will Martin, it will

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

the kid's a vampire

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm watching Austin Powers.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

wasn't the sixth sense the one where it was all a dream, and then they all went back to Kansas or something?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am expecting him to wake up in the shower at the end.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

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