Raq, I can't help you much but I loved Ghost Dog.
Chiming in on the Ghost Dog love, but I'm also a big samurai fan.
Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up, and he's bloody stupid!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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Kalshane - Sep 08, 2005 7:37:41 am PDT #7189 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Vonnie K - Sep 08, 2005 7:41:59 am PDT #7190 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Huh. I've never seen a Jarmush movie. I think I was led to believe his style was aggressively quirky (which doesn't sound like it's true from the above posts), and I hate aggressive quirky. I'm gonna see Broken Flowers and see if I like that enough to check out his other work.
I watched Peter Weir's The Last Wave last night, a fantastic, creepy-as-hell movie about a rational Western man encountering an Otherness
Oh yeah. I have to rewatch this film some time; I recall being mesmerized and creeped out, but I can't even tell you what it was about beyond that. Something apocalyptic. I did like that last shot though.
Weir made this one back to back with Picnic at Hanging Rock, right? They'd make a good double feature. Or throw in Roeg's Walkabout and make it a triple-feature.
IMDb tells me Weir's adopting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. No casting yet, but I'm stoked.
juliana - Sep 08, 2005 7:45:13 am PDT #7191 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I think I was led to believe his style was aggressively quirky
Huh. I'd say more langorously quirky. My first Jarmusch film was Dead Man, and I immediately fell in love. It's just so... odd. And unexplained. And beautiful.
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2005 7:51:38 am PDT #7192 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I loved Ghost Dog, and would swear it had a point, but I couldn't tell you what it was. Perhaps the samurai quotations. However, the descriptions of his style make me want to run away.
tommyrot - Sep 08, 2005 7:54:31 am PDT #7193 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I loved Ghost Dog, and would swear it had a point, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
Well, there was all that Zen stuff about always being ready for your own death. That stuck in my mind the most. Also, pigeons.
Volans - Sep 08, 2005 7:59:10 am PDT #7194 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Weir's adopting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. No casting yet, but I'm stoked.
This is awesome!
Night on Earth was my first Jarmusch, and I recently watched Ghost Dog. My husband just bought Dead Man because he'd seen it a few years ago and it had really stuck with him, and yet he's been unable to explain it.
To me, Jarmusch seems like an auteur rather than a straightforward director, but his movies seem...uneven. But they have memorable tones.
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2005 8:06:31 am PDT #7195 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Weir's adopting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. No casting yet, but I'm stoked.
Weir gives me hope that someone can actually make a William Gibson story into a good film.
And bleach my brain forever of Johnny Mnemonic.
tommyrot - Sep 08, 2005 8:10:28 am PDT #7196 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I posted something about this the other day:
September 7, 2005 - It was recently announced that Marvel Entertainment has secured a $525 million loan package that will allow it to produce 10 films based on its comic book characters, specifically Captain America, the Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, Shang-Chi and Ant-Man. Paramount will distribute the films, which will carry a price tag somewhere between $50 million-$165 million each.
Well....
IGN FilmForce has learned that British filmmaker Edgar Wright is poised to direct Ant-Man. Wright apparently plans on making Ant-Man a comedy.
Neither Wright's reps nor Marvel responded to our inquiries for comment.
Wright is most famous for doing Spaced and Shaun of the Dead.
Link has a picture of Ant-Man.
Ant man sez: "Stop him, my pets! Obey your leader! The Ant Man commands you!
DebetEsse - Sep 08, 2005 8:28:51 am PDT #7197 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
IMDb tells me Weir's adopting William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. No casting yet, but I'm stoked.
Oooooh. I'm 1/3 of the way through, and I kept thinking how lovely a movie it would be.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 08, 2005 8:32:04 am PDT #7198 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The last scene should have been cut, but everything that led up to it was brilliant.
Huh. I always thought the last scene was ambiguous enough that it fit the rest of the movie (ie it could be really happening, or it could Chamberlain imaging, Chamberlain having a vision, or Chamberlain hallucinating because he's gone insane )
Re Jarmusch, I love DOWN BY LAW and DEAD MAN. The only other one of his I've seen is MYSTERY TRAIN, which I also remember liking, but it was too long ago. I need to get caught up on the rest of his stuff.
To me, Jarmusch seems like an auteur rather than a straightforward director, but his movies seem...uneven. But they have memorable tones.
He may literally be the definitive auteur, becuase he works financing out so that he owns his movies after they are released.