[HenryHill51]

Some interesting Halloween choices out there:

Inside (Bustillo and Maury)
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter)
Pulse (Kurosawa)
Demons (Bava)
Trick R Treat (Daughtery)
House of the Devil (West)
The Changeling (Medak)

[keep poppin pimples]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I agree with a lot of the rest of your post but I'm possibly the only person alive who really really likes Conquest. It has it's boring bits (like every Fulci movie) but, I dunno, I just love it.

i will probably get around to seeing a second time eventually, i've gotten a little bit into sword and sandal pictures more recently so i might end up liking it now, although i remember struggling to make it to the end before

[to.w]

I watched Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, liked it, but not Burton's best.

[demonrail666]

 

Election

I never know what to make of this movie. I like it but not as much as I want to.

 

Leaving Las Vegas

I never really liked this when it first came out and this is only the second time I've watched it. Can't understand how I was so unimpressed the first time around. Brilliant film.

[Torn Curtain]

 

7/10

[Savage Clone]

Re-watching Seijun Suzuki's "Branded To Kill."

Damn, I love this movie.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Ghostchase

 

Jim Jarmusch has never made a film haven't absolutely adored, he probably never will.

that's cuz you've probably never watched the insufferable "permanent vacation." ha ha, okay, maybe you have.

still, i just watched THE LIMITS OF CONTROL thanks you your post (so thanks for it). FUCKING BRILLIANT. i loved it. it's like a thing between EL TOPO and melville's LE SAMOURAI. I notice it's got a lot of bad reviews on IMDB but those people are FUCKING DOLTS> damn, i'm doing the ALL CAPS thing a lot today. don't know why. every day is different. christopher doyle's cinematography is something out of this fucking planet. anyway, i also saw this strange lovely thing this past weekend:

 

SUMMER HOURS.

i love how it seems to go nowhere and in the end you realize it's gone everywhere. fucking brilliant, and beautiful. a delicious movie.

[demonrail666]

 

Ocean's Twelve

I liked the first remake a lot but this is terrible. Although getting Julia Roberts to play a character pretending to be Julia Roberts was a fairly neat idea.

[Torn Curtain]

 

6.5/10

[evollove]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

that's cuz you've probably never watched the insufferable "permanent vacation." ha ha, okay, maybe you have.

Geez. I think you, me and Jim are the only people who have ever seen that. I'm sure he wishes he never made it.


IF A TREE FALLS, a documentary about the "eco-terrorist" group Earth Liberation Front.

Highly recommended.

[demonrail666]

 

The Royal Tenenbaums

This left me cold. Maybe I just didn't get it.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

Blood and Black Lace - Quite similar regarding my feelings towards this one. A stylish/colorful film directed by Mario Bava which may have a few moments here and there that are interesting, but ultimately it leaves me for much of its duration bored and not very intrigued by what's going on. Again, I really did like the music in this and the opening credits scene evokes a very hypnotizing mood. Decent film overall I suppose. I'd be interested in reading what anyone here thinks of it, if they've seen it.

I find it quite boring, to be honest. It has all the classic Bava ingredients but doesn't really hold together as a complete movie - which is itself arguably a key ingredient in a lot of Bava's Gialli. So while he's become largely synonymous with that genre and has mainly built his reputation on them, it's the stuff in other genres that I tend to be more into: stuff like Black Sunday, Lisa and the Devil, Danger: Diabolik, Rabid Dogs and the Doctor Goldfoot movies. I suppose that's about as perverse as someone saying they're a big Woody Allen fan but tend not to like his comedies.

[demonrail666]

 

Oceans 13

It took me less than 30 minutes to realise I didn't have a clue what was going on, but strangely watchable.

[keep poppin pimples]

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain

 

6.5/10

i watched it now too, pretty good movie, sad though

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

 

Just finished watching this and it's really my favorite thing I've seen by Anderson. All four of the main roles delivered and it tells an excellent little crime story. I love how it's neither too long or too short, it feels just right. I say this because I often find that his films sort of drag. Not sure why I neglected this for so long but thanks to demonrail for encouraging me to check this out. The father/son thing he seems to play around with in his work is most powerful in Hard Eight I think.

YES!!!!! Brilliant film! I've a feeling PTA himself isn't that big a fan, that it wasn't quite the film he wanted to make, but it's close to perfect for me. Philip Baker Hall and John Reilly are fantastic together. And I love Gwyneth Paltrow in it, too - although I'm becoming a bigger fan of her the more films I see her in (being largely put off in the beginning by stuff like Shakespeare in Love). I also just love the whole dead-end Vegas feel to it all. I've still yet to see The Master (not released here until next month) and would probably count Magnolia as his great artistic achievement but Hard Eight is the one I could watch over and over again just for the sheer pleasure of it. A mini masterpiece that, if I were to redo my all-time top ten, I'd be hard pressed not to include it. And while we all know how great an actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is, John Reilly is maybe my favourite working acting at the moment. He has a face I could watch forever. Either way, both of them are making a mockery of all those claims that 'they don't make 'em like that anymore'. Both of them would've been incredible in any era.

What a face

 

[_slavo_]

 

Buddha Mountain
a very emotional Chinese movie
7/10

[evollove]

Does everyone know Anderson wanted HARD EIGHT to be a three hour epic?

Studio execs intervened. It's a chamber piece after all.

Anderson was pissed, but he had no clout, so the little gem is what we got. The execs were right, I suspect.

What a fucking ego on that guy.

[demonrail666]

Yeah, I heard it was a massive compromise. Proof that you might not get what you want but you might just get what you need. God bless the suits.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

 

okay, so, funny story, i tried watching this again, this time we weren't sleepy, but about an hour into the movie and with 20-some minutes to go i went "oh, im tired," and turned off the thing and went to sleep. yes i will finish watching it another time i'm sure, i am a curious person after all, and there were scenes and moments that were great here ( like that weird-ass boy in the beach) but in general the movie doesn't do it for me the way that i couldn't turn off "scenes from a marriage," for example (this movie reminded me of that tv series with the weird interaction of the couple).

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Murmer99

Oh well. It's one of my favorites of all time. I guess Bergman has that effect on viewers. Some people find Cries and Whispers a hypnotizing masterpiece and others think it's the most exhausting and torturous thing to sit through. Hour of the Wolf to me is his most dreamlike film. He creates an unsettling mood and does a fine job of placing the hallucinatory scenes so that they almost correlate with reality. I find something agitating about Bergman's use of the camera during the dinner scene... where it's constantly jumping around from face to face and Max Von Sydow's brilliant performance adds to that tension.

So last night I watched:

 

Beautiful colorful film by the master himself. The scenes at the park are just gorgeous. I loved the sounds of leaves moving around in the wind and how there's a long period in that scene without any dialogue. The set designs that Antonioni constructed for the photo shoots were astonishing. The mimed tennis game at the end is perhaps the most powerful ending I've seen and nearly made me want to cry... despite not even knowing what the scene meant.

Bloody girl. It's a good film but not that good.