Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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I am looking forward to seeing the new Coen brothers film (Burn This After Reading is the title, right?), because it looks like goofy fun with lots of big names.
Burn After Reading got a rave from the Guardian at the Venice Film Festival.
Also, everything's better in a British accent.
Well, that goes without saying....
Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man
That's awesome. JZ's gonna love that.
Here's an interview with the guy who put it together.
His next project?
There's a ridiculous Super-8 feature length semi-surrealist ode to bad 80s kung fu being wrapped up in the editing department entitled A Belly Full of Anger that is just...beyond words. I know what you're probably thinking, but the truth is: even stranger. With voiceover cameos by Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theatre and Trace Beaulieu of Cinematic Titanic/Mystery Science Theater 3000.
He must do a remixed Santo movie!
Speaking of remaking the silent era, Franju's 1963 remake of Judex is supposed to be coming out soon.
Super elegant and dreamy (and influential on certain Siouxsie videos).
The SF Symphony is showing The Phantom of Opera (Lon Chaney?) with live orchestra on Halloween. I'm tempted, but given that I live next to the incredibly decorated Harry Potter Halloween street, I was thinking of having a party.
I'm watching Big Trouble in Little China for the first time. I came to it from "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny". Lo Pan was the only guy I'd never heard of. I think I came to it a bit late. It's silly fun but so dated. I find it interesting that skeletal corpses are the one effect that stands the test of time. It makes me want to rewatch other 80s flicks like Desperately Seeking Susan, Ghostbusters and Risky Business.
I'm watching Big Trouble in Little China for the first time.
The shame of it all! You've never seen this classic of American cinema? And I'm only being half hyperbole-ish. I adore that movie with a passion only challenged by Buckaroo Banzai.
I came to Buckaroo Banzai too late too. I slept through a lot of it and didn't bother to rewatch it. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for either of them.
"Why is that watermelon in . . ."
"Don't ask."
I weep for my Buffistas. Time to dig out the DVDs and rewatch.
I vastly prefer Big Trouble -- what cracks me up time after time is how incompetent the hero actually is.
Also, it wasn't until I'd seen a bunch of Chinese kung fu movies, that I realized what an accurate homage this was.