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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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.


megan walker - Feb 23, 2009 8:39:34 am PST #89 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I was really disappointed by The Dark Knight, mostly because it could have been so much better than it was.

Frozen River is about a women raising two kids in a trailer home on the border of both the Mohawk nation and Canada, who gets involved in smuggling people across the border. It is both really touching and very suspenseful. The performances are incredible--Melissa Leo, but also the woman who plays Lila, and especially her older son.


Hayden - Feb 23, 2009 9:15:05 am PST #90 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Encounters At The End of the World is also a wonderful movie. Although I'm happy that Man On Wire won, I'd be even happier if Herzog had gotten the award.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 23, 2009 9:52:58 am PST #91 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Although I'm happy that Man On Wire won, I'd be even happier if Herzog had gotten the award.

I'd have loved to see his acceptance speech, that's for sure.


Volans - Feb 23, 2009 11:10:27 am PST #92 of 30000
move out and draw fire

Hey, I just saw last year's winner this weekend. I am appalled that Tommy Lee Jones didn't get anything for his performance in No Country for Old Men, but he's more of a blue-collar actor than Daniel Day Lewis, I guess.

NC4OM mostly made me the opposite of homesick. They absolutely nailed the environment I grew up in, and it made me really happy to be a fat soft middle-class suburbanite now.


dcp - Feb 23, 2009 11:28:49 am PST #93 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Raq, have you seen The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada? Also very good.


Volans - Feb 23, 2009 5:30:50 pm PST #94 of 30000
move out and draw fire

Thanks for the rec! Just added to my q.

R and I are doing the modern-day equivalent of couples' therapy: We are simultaneously going thru Netflix rating movies, each on our own account.

"Ooo! Five stars!"
"No way. I'm not even going to RATE that thing."

"Huh. This one was okay."
"Yeah. Another three star."

"Oh god I hated that piece of crap."
"Really? I gave it four."


Sue - Feb 24, 2009 3:43:13 am PST #95 of 30000
hip deep in pie

New Yorker Films is shut down and its films are being sold off: [link]


Hayden - Feb 24, 2009 5:43:20 am PST #96 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I wasn't crazy about The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. It had a few things going for it (Levon Helm's character, for instance), but the story seemed unnecessarily convoluted (and that means a lot coming from me) and I never believed for a second in either Tommy Lee Jones's character or what's-his-face, the twitchy guy who played the border patrol agent. I know Jones was wanting to make a Peckinpah movie - I'm pretty sure I read that Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia was one of his primary influences - but he did the movie wrong by hiring Guillermo Arriaga to write it. That guy overwrites everything he's done: Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel. The location shots at Big Bend were awful purty, though.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 24, 2009 7:11:07 am PST #97 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Ooh. Criterion is putting out WISE BLOOD in May. Can't wait.


Hayden - Feb 24, 2009 8:13:47 am PST #98 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Excellent! One of Brad Dourif's finest moments. Maybe they'll get around to putting out The Dead soon, too.