I liked it a LOT.

please say it was the original swedish version!

(i actually haven't seen the american one-- i'm just highly prejudiced)


me too! it was awesome!

wes anderson is a very imaginative child.

no I loved the American version - but I'm a big David Fincher fan, so maybe I'm biased.

this film was pretty much perfect.

everyone worries about nuclear weapons but it is the thermonuclear weapons that are the real shit-storm.

Inland Empire or Snowpiercer, I can't remember in which order

Welcome to New York, liked it which surprised me because I've never liked any Abel Ferrara movies before

Snowpiercer (2014)- Bong Joon Ho does it again, adding wit and verve to a well worn genre.

Man Without A Map (1968)- been watching alot of Hiroshi Teshigahara, and this one is his most difficult to find.. and just a plain difficult film.
Calling it a detective mystery (like on IMDB) is very misleading. If anything, “Man Without A Map” is an anti-mystery. Like the great neo noirs of the 70’s (“The Big Fix” and especially “The Long Goodbye”), Teshigahara’s film raises more questions than it answers…. never really solves anything… and devours the lead detective in a world of loose ends, digressive leads, and his own doubt about the missing person case. The unnamed Detective (played by Shintaro Katsu, who would go onto later prominence in the “Hanzo” series) is recruited by a woman to find her missing husband. Along the way, the detective is continually thwarted by the brother of the missing man who has his own agenda to follow (namely a violent workers clash), the unclear motives of a taxi driver service the missing man may have worked for, and the inability of the wife to recall any key details about the last days of her husband. Instead, the detective is haplessly relegated to mute witness as he scowers the depths of Japan’s brothels and low level businessmen. Going into “Man Without A Map” with a sense of narrative is probably not the best way to approach it. This is a film that deserves multiple viewings as you realize it’s an atmospheric psychological study of a nation rather than a thriller.

A Serbian Film (2009)- Another film about a nation (and the screw you or get screwed nihilism of it all), I'd been hearing about this one for years. Finally tracked down a copy and while its disturbing, its also pretty pointless.

The Vampire of Dusseldorf (1959)- Actor turned director Robert Hossein may be one of the best kept secrets of French cinema. His directorial efforts have been outstanding, if only they were more readily available. I've only seen this one and "Death of a Killer", but Hossein's pace, camera placement and visual style are intriguing. This one also stars himself as a murderer loose during Germany's WW2 years. Frank and at times shocking in the way he blandly presents the murders of various women, it also features a scene that predates the vulgar confrontation between Keitel and Christ in "Bad Lieutenant", albeit in a much more quiet and effecting manner. Find his films if you can!
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This. Really liked it.

Anyone seen Guardians of the Galaxy yet?

i watched what i think are 2 important movies in the past few days but i only have the mental clarity to write about the first one.

buñuel's THE MILKY WAY






it's been a long time that i have laughed so hard about anything that wasn't idiotic dumbfuckery and turd jokes, so let me say, loudly, this was the funniest thing i have watched in a long time, and i say this having binged on "archer" this morning (archer is also great but not as smart).

the fantastic absurdity of having modern characters engaged in medieval theological disputes is just-- it's too much to explain, do you understand? because i am familiar with these disputes. they're a part of history and all that and although i do not know them deeply (because really i do not care because really they are all bullshit and not worth wasting time unless you're a believer) i do get them and i get their consequences and i get why it was that people had to be burned at the stake (it was because of power, but regardless-- it was still serious business).

two people who MUST WATCH this fucking thing are SUCHFRIENDS and poor GLICE. suchfriends because he is the only one here who has actually read that shit, glice because he is being eaten alive by theory.

anyway if anybody else dares watch this shit please consider the lillies. no, that is the life of brian. but along the same vein one could say, only lots more obscure, considering.

PLEASE ENJOY. MASTERPIECE-LEVEL COMEDY.

ps for those familiar with buñuel this somehow brought back memories of L'AGE D'OR. here's the surrealist writing an actual novel.

pps it also blows simon of the desert out of the water because that was basically one big joke and these are LEGION.

seriously, a riot.

Yes, and I really enjoyed it. Its been getting "Star Wars" comparisons, for me it reminded me of a toned down live-action version of Heavy Metal. That's a compliment.

i haven't dared go watch that because it's "from the writer that brought you scooby doo and its yet-more-dreadful sequel"

but who knows-- he is troma-related and maybe he was betrayed by the director (ask faulkner about all that)

lol all I can say in response to that is, hell, we all got to eat. Writing those movies probably gave him a good paycheck.

I was expecting the worst when I first saw that but I really ended up liking it. For more John Watersy than I'd expected.

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