You all are making me want to see 300. Which I didn't. But now you've gone and mentioned nudity and sex.
Cacophony. That's pretty. What's it mean?
Harmony ,'Underneath'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Zenkitty - Mar 20, 2007 1:59:22 pm PDT #7952 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 20, 2007 3:53:35 pm PDT #7953 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sean, you'll be happy (for your own sake) to know that the opening was MILD compared to where ICHI went from there.
No, seriously. I still haven't watched the whole thing, but I figure the hot-oil/man-called-horse torture scene (against a male, but still yeeeeeech) would be enough to put most people off.
Sadly, the only reason I have to have not finished the movie was exhaustion, not disgust. But there are some meta reasons I needed to own and (some day) watch that movie.
Glamcookie - Mar 21, 2007 9:30:58 pm PDT #7954 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
silent Lon Chaney movie
The Unknown! I love that movie! So twisted and it features young, HOTT Joan Crawford.
I think GF and I are going to see 300 in IMAX this weekend. I've never done the IMAX thing...
DavidS - Mar 22, 2007 7:16:03 pm PDT #7955 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You know who's cool? Jean Gabin.
Kind of like the French Bogart.
And you're thinking, "No! That would be Yves Montand. Or even Belmondo."
But I'm saying Jean Gabin.
Go watch Algiers.
Polter-Cow - Mar 22, 2007 7:29:23 pm PDT #7956 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Sometimes, David, you are incomprehensible.
I would say 25% of the time.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2007 7:42:50 pm PDT #7957 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That is totally comprehensible!
Jean Gabin! Dude, IMDB is but a fingertap away.
It's not my fault you're a French film ignoramous.
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2007 2:33:31 am PDT #7958 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
David O. Russell is not an easy person to work for: [link]
Hayden - Mar 23, 2007 10:11:09 am PDT #7959 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Friday quiz from Prof. Irwin Corey:
1) What movie did you have to see multiple times before deciding whether you liked or disliked it?
2) Inaugural entry into the Academy of the Overrated
3) Favorite sly or not-so-sly reference to another film or bit of pop culture within another film.
4) Favorite Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger movie
5) Your favorite Oscar moment
6) Hugo Weaving or Guy Pearce?
7) Movie that you feel gave you the greatest insight into a world/culture/person/place/event that you had no understanding of before seeing it
8) Favorite Samuel Fuller movie
9) Monica Bellucci or Maria Grazia Cucinotta?
10) What movie can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
11) Conversely, what movie can destroy a day’s worth of good humor just by catching a glimpse of it while channel surfing?
12) Favorite John Boorman movie
13) Warren Oates or Bruce Dern?
14) Your favorite aspect ratio
15) Before he died in 1984, Francois Truffaut once said: “The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it.” Is there any evidence that Truffaut was right? Is it Truffaut’s tomorrow yet?
16) Favorite Werner Herzog movie
17) Favorite movie featuring a rampaging, oversized or otherwise mutated beast, or beasts
18) Sandra Bernhard or Sarah Silverman?
19) Your favorite, or most despised, movie cliché
20) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom-- yes or no?
21) Favorite Nicholas Ray movie
22) Inaugural entry into the Academy of the Underrated
23) Your favorite movie dealing with the subject of television
24) Bruno Ganz or Patrick Bauchau?
25) Your favorite documentary, or non-fiction, film
26) According to Orson Welles, the director’s job is to “preside over accidents.” Name a favorite moment from a movie that seems like an accident, or a unintended, privileged moment. How did it enhance or distract from the total experience of the movie?
27) Favorite Wim Wenders movie
28) Elizabeth Pena or Penelope Cruz?
29) Your favorite movie tag line (Thanks, Jim!)
30) As a reader, filmgoer, or film critic, what do you want from a film critic, or from film criticism? And where do you see film criticism in general headed?
EXTRA CREDIT: Do movies still matter?
erikaj - Mar 23, 2007 10:37:58 am PDT #7960 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow... Thought about this a bit, haven't you? Oh, I'm afraid my answers will come off stupidly...while I'm quite a fim fan, I'm not really a cineaste like y'all. Movie that I watched multiple times to decide whether I liked it: L.A. Confidential. On first viewing was still a college feminist and in really wrong headspace for whore-slapping violence. Which I still don't love. But I have come to appreciate the noir sensibility over time, so now I would say I like it. 7. Alison Anders' Mi Vida Loca: I felt like I really got to see a little of what gang-chick life is like, once I let go of my "After-School Special" type programming that waited to see Sad Girl(?) go legit and meet a nice fella or something.ETA2:Least favoirite movie cliche: quite obviously when an impaired person is so simple and genuine that he is instructive to everyone around him, but at the same time, I love the "Barefoot in The Park" cliche where Stuffed Shirt Guy loves Zany Chick, so I guess I'm not completely corn-immune. Movie that brightens my day: It's not great art, but "Clueless" does. Or if I'm in a different mood, "Fargo" movie that kills my good humor: Pretty Woman...Hate the concept, hate the message, hate JR and RG too. Haven't even seen it in fifteen years; that's how much it irks me.
Vonnie K - Mar 23, 2007 11:04:17 am PDT #7961 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Wow, that's a lot of questions. Let me see...
1) The Searchers. (On the first viewing, I couldn't get over my dislike of Ethan; on subsequent viewings, it's grown into one of the handful of westerns I love)
2) Braveheart
3) The reference to "Seventh Seal" in Woody Allen's "Love and Death"
4) A Matter of Life and Death (which is yet to come out on region 1 DVD. WHHHYYYYY??)
6) Guy Pearce
10) Groundhog Day. (What? It's like comfort food to me.)
12) Excalibur
13) Bruce Dern, mostly because I can't remember who Warren Oates is.
14) *eyeroll*
15) It's Friday 5 PM and I do not have enough brain cells left over to answer this question.
16) Aguirre: The Wrath of God.
17) Aliens
20) YES! Gratuitous heart removal! Monkey brain! What's not to love?
21) Who?
22) CHILDREN OF MEN. (Yes, I'm still bitter it didn't win any Oscar.)
24) Bruno Ganz
25) Touching the Void
26) ....
27) Wings of Desire
28) Elizabeth Pena