[link] ⇐ Thunderbirds is being previewed in the UK. Sounds as though Jonathan Frakes should stick to directing Star Trek movies.
[link] ⇐ George Romero talks about his new Dead movie.
Love makes you do the wacky.
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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evil jimi - Jul 21, 2004 3:00:20 am PDT #1079 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Nutty - Jul 21, 2004 4:05:02 am PDT #1080 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
There was also a black female director--err, also an actor-turned-director, whose name I'm blanking on right now--who made Eve's Bayou, which I liked quite a bit
This would be Kasi Lemmons, right? Also, her husband Vondie Curtis-Hall directed Glitter, although I am not sure that is a compliment.
Polter-Cow - Jul 21, 2004 4:48:33 am PDT #1081 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ye gads, you people. Magnolia was so frigging ponderous I had to take a nap in the middle of it.
Not for me, that's what was so brilliant about it. There were no car chases, explosions, disasters; it was just...people. And it was never boring, for three whole hours. And I was totally sober. And I wasn't thinking of it as a comedy. I loved it on its own merits.
It remains the only one of the guy's films I can stand.
The only other one I've seen is Punch-Drunk Love, and I liked it all right but didn't really see what the big deal was. I think I like it a little bit more now by default.
sumi - Jul 21, 2004 4:51:27 am PDT #1082 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Vondie Curtis-Hall directed an excellent episode of Firefly -- which one was it?
It was "Our Mrs. Reynolds"!
Lyra Jane - Jul 21, 2004 4:53:45 am PDT #1083 of 10001
Up with the sun
Hasn't F. Gary Gray directed some movies?
Jim - Jul 21, 2004 4:58:37 am PDT #1084 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Boogie Nights is utter genius. Punch-Drunk Love is insanely brilliant in terms of expressing the sheer mental panic of the character but I'm not sure I could watch it again.
Vonnie K - Jul 21, 2004 5:02:25 am PDT #1085 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
This would be Kasi Lemmons, right?
Yeah! That was her name. IMDb says she played Jodie Foster's friend in Quantico in The Silence of the Lambs. Nothing recent I've heard of, however.
I have mixed reactions to Magnolia. I found sections of it terribly sad/wonderful (bits to do with Phillip Seymour Hoffman's and William H. Macy's characters; the story of the cop and the junkie-woman), but was irritated witless by the Tom Cruise and Julianne Moore characters (and unlike Plei, I usually like Julianne Moore), despite their emotional breakthroughs at the end.
The WTF-ness of the last few minutes was almost worth sitting through the whole thing though. Personally, my favorite part of the movie was the prologue with the freak deaths narration.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2004 5:03:09 am PDT #1086 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
it was just...people.
Yup. Boring, loathesome, hateful, pathetic people. The only character I could tolerate was Philip Seymour Hoffman's character.
And the Aimee Mann sing-a-long? No. Just....no.
Vonnie K - Jul 21, 2004 5:16:07 am PDT #1087 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
And the Aimee Mann sing-a-long? No. Just....no.
Heh. I dug the sing-a-long. I adore the Magnolia soundtrack and have been known to do sing along to "Wise Up" whenever it comes on.
Scrappy - Jul 21, 2004 5:16:53 am PDT #1088 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I thougth Julianne Moore and Tom Cruise were hateful--but Bill Macy and the little Quiz boy and John C. Reilly and Hoffman's character all broke my heart. In a good way.