I’m watching Paul Morrissey’s Flesh for Frankenstein.
Just finished Jules Dassin’s “The Naked City” …brilliant. Manhattan seemed so much simpler back then :)
I’m thinking about Satantango next :)
Currently in the middle of Bela Tarr’s “Damnation”. Never watched any of his films. So far I love it. The slow camera movement is perfect.
I’m about to pop in Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix.(just wish Mifune had a better juicer role)
Finally going to watch Pasolini’s Porcile… just got done with Arnaud Desplechin’s Un conte de Noël.
A John Ford film I had never heard of: The Wings of Ealges (1957) but which turned out not only to be one of his best films but one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Despite being a biopic, it has no real plot or characters, and is instead just a series of barely linked sequences of goofballery and melancholy, all filmed in an almost three-dimensionally beautiful and sculptural Metrocolor photography.
At last…I’ll be tonight at a screening, “witnessing” Sergio Leone’s Once upon a time in the west…
Watched Marc Lawrence’s ‘Music and Lyrics’. It’s one of the better chick flick/romantic comedies out there, and talk about a catchy soundtrack!
POP! GOES MY HEART.
Jacques Tourneur’s Stars in My Crown (1950)
Wait, hold on, ur-poet of the irrational and the melancholy Jacques Tourneur directing an upbeat, mostly cheery, and eventually optimistic film about a friendly small town pastor for MGM? An odd beast, this, but also truly great. That nebulous atmosphere of Tourneur’s thrillers, horror, and war films—never sure what is outside the frame, outside the room, outside in the world—is here in spades, but with a different tone: it is a gaseous quality of warmth, neighborliness, and compassion that is out there, somewhere surrounding everything. At first. Then a rationalist doctor arrives in town, jump-starting the usual Tourneur theme of rational/irrational fights of fan(tasy)cy, typhoid strikes the town, and a lynch mob wants to hang an elderly black man to get his land. Oh, good Christian values and behavior triumph, but not before the usual Tourneur world is glimpsed fighting within the heart of every man, and within the world itself. Also: every single shot in this film is a model of cinematic beauty, pictorialism that transcends simply framing a pretty picture.
I took down recently The Dark Knight which is even more kick ass in Blu Ray.(i’m gonna pick a bone with Ledger’s performance which is good but in my opinion not better than nicholson’s or romero’s, fuck it i’ll start a topic.Peace! watch the movie in BLU RAY:)
I saw Hunger last night and the scene, shot in a single frame over seventeen and a half minutes, in which Sands talks Father Dominic about the morality of his intent to lead the second hunger strike was one of the most valuable on-screen conversations I have experienced since Liv Andersson and Ulmann’s in Persona.
The Maysles’ Salesman, an amazing (and heartbreakingly pathetic) time capsule, the real-life precursor to Glengarry Glen Ross’ Shelley “The Machine” Levine & Co.
Preston Sturges’ directorial debut, The Great McGinty, by far one of the strangest movies Hollywood has ever produced! Searing too, very socially and politically searing.
Last night V for Vendetta
Heat gets me everytime. A masterpiece, and i think the perfect cops & robbers film! Michael Mann can always go to bed knowing he made a perfect film with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro
I’m checking out Equinox Flower. Pretty good so far. Very simple and economic shot selection.
I just watched Thirst on this site. It was a disappointment in comparison to Bergman’s other films.
>Preston Sturges’ directorial debut, The Great McGinty, by far one of the strangest movies Hollywood has ever produced! Searing too, very >socially and politically searing.
Yep, that movie is one of his masterpieces! Brian Donlevy was God.
i’m gonna pop in united 93 soon. Hard thing to sit through, but a major accomplishment for Paul Greengrass!
Off to see Milk now!! (Finally)
saw “the class” and “waltz with bashir” last night and right i am half watching “zizek!”
over the couple of days, Inland Empire, Zack and Miri, The outlaw Josey Wales and Paris, Texas.
Paris, Texas has been long due, this ws definitely a surprise, turned out amazing.
I wonder why its not on theAuteurs
At this very moment I’m watching Usual Suspects, but very recently I watched Fallen with Denzel Washington for a film class — not half bad. Actually, I really enjoyed myself!
and…I slid the Seven Samurai disk in…no plans to watch till the end but atleast until I doze off….remaining tomorrow
Just discovered Wong Kar-Wai. I watched Chungking Express and Fallen Angels back to back a couple of days ago. In the Mood for Love and 2046 are on deck. I’m also working my way through The Decologue. Im on episode 4, watching one a night. I was a bit dissapointed with The Double Life of Veronique, not that I can put my finger on exactly why but I love the 3 colours trilogy. The Decologue is exceeding my high expectations for this series. I cant recommend it enough.
I just watched the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford for the second time. I think the cinematography in that film is amazing.
Ivan’s Childhood – Tarkovsky
The Beguiled, w/ Clint Eastwood and by Don Siegel, 1971.
It’s on TCM and I suffer from insomnia.
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I’m watching Le Bonheur and In The Mood For Love.
Huy Le
Watched ‘Inside’ (À l’intérieur)) last night, man talk about a disturbingly brutal horror film. It’s been awhile since I’ve been scared like hell from watching a horror film.
Besides that I watched Chungking Express and À bout de souffle (Breathless), needed some inspiration for the short film I’m planning to make sometime soon.