Today's featured review at one of my favorite b-movie blogs, Die Danger Die Die Kill is the Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) 1968 spy flick The Brain Stealers!
Essential reading for such evil overlord types as MM, Gud and Clovis.
Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.
'The Killer In Me'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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DavidS - Nov 05, 2009 8:05:50 am PST #4837 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sue - Nov 05, 2009 4:30:23 pm PST #4838 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I just came back from watching Au Hasard Balthazar at a screening room at the art college with a film professor, a couple of film students and a handful of philosophers. A logn discussion about Bresson and grace followed, which was almost over my head.
I don't know if I liked the film so much--The passivity of the actors was making me craaaaaazy, and I think I empathized far too much with the donkey. But I do love watching films with people who know the history and background a film. The best thing is that this may be an in more to these informal screenings. I so miss having a rep cinema in town.
Daisy Jane - Nov 06, 2009 5:30:41 am PST #4839 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Has anyone seen Waltz with Bashir? Usually not my kind of movie, but the animation made it watchable for me.
Hayden - Nov 06, 2009 6:15:36 am PST #4840 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
think I empathized far too much with the donkey
That wasn't a donkey! That was Jesus!
I love that movie for being so batshit crazy, but I think Megan might have a few choice words about it.
Sue - Nov 06, 2009 6:39:07 am PST #4841 of 30000
hip deep in pie
That wasn't a donkey! That was Jesus!
Oh, we discussed the blatant Jesus imagery. The film guy seems to be in love with Bresson. I think he called this movie "the epitome of cinema."
Ultimately, I think I found it too bleak that the animal was the only one capable of grace.
Hayden - Nov 06, 2009 7:12:46 am PST #4842 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I thought that was pretty funny, actually. I mean, misanthropic, yes, but funny.
DavidS - Nov 06, 2009 7:20:14 am PST #4843 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm not always in agreement with Pauline Kael, but ultimately we both like a fair bit of razzle dazzle sensation in our movies so quiet, slow, deliberate directors like Bresson or Ozu can be a trial.
Sue - Nov 06, 2009 7:33:25 am PST #4844 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I'm not always in agreement with Pauline Kael, but ultimately we both like a fair bit of razzle dazzle sensation in our movies so quiet, slow, deliberate directors like Bresson or Ozu can be a trial.
This is me w/r/t Antonioni, with the exception of Blow Up.
Kate P. - Nov 06, 2009 8:22:05 am PST #4845 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Has anyone seen Waltz with Bashir? Usually not my kind of movie, but the animation made it watchable for me.
I saw it, DJ. I don't know if I could say I liked it, but I thought it was very powerful, and the animation was fascinating -- it helped to make the whole subject of the movie feel more distant, so that I didn't even realize it was a documentary until halfway through.
Just saw A Serious Man a few nights ago, and LOVED it. I can't stop thinking about it.
Kathy A - Nov 06, 2009 8:38:01 am PST #4846 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Don't know if I should put this here or in Natter, but the brother of director Christopher Nolan is currently incarcerated in downtown Chicago awaiting extradition to Costa Rica on a murder charge, and he was caught planning an escape.