Movies watched recently:

[boganlux]

You know, like "Current Listening" over in "In the Earbuds". VHS, DVD, in the theater.

Here's what I've watched lately:

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia , 1974, U.S.A., Sam Peckinpah
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, 2001, U.S.A., Larry Blamire
WR: Mysteries of the Organism, 1971, Yugoslavia/U.S.A., Dusan Makavejev
White Dog, 1982, U.S.A., Samuel Fuller
Sal/>=, o le  120 giornatde de Sodoma (Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom), 1975, Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sword of Doom, 1967, Japan, Kihachi Okamoto
Zerkalo (The Mirror), 1974, U.S.S.R., Andrei Tarkovsky
North by Northwest, 1959, U.S.A., Alfred Hitchcock
Suspcion, 1941, U.S.A., Alfred Hitchcock

Does anyone know any good Eastern European movies?

[moneyshot]

closely watched trains

[moneyshot]

also, i can't remember what country man bites dog is from but it rules.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I watched Rushmore last night

[elpollodiablo]

Man Bites Dog is French. Very, very French.

I recently saw Closer, which I loved, and Big Fish, which I also loved. The former more than the latter, prolly.

[JamesSchneider]

Lost Highway. Twice a monthish and today was the day. God damn I love that movie

[boganlux]

Man Bites Dog is French. Very, very French.

Belgian, actually.

[elpollodiablo]

Whatever.

[dieblucasdie]

Stage Door: funny and affecting, turns the starving-artist trope on its head.  Recommended to everyone, especially for the ultra-girly LPTJers.  Seriously though, dudes need to get over their issues regarding old screwball romantic comedies.

"Goodbye, Lenin," was very good, although funny<expectations<sad, so be warned.

"Gunga Din," anyone who thinks the awful, boring, action movie is a '90s invention would do well to remember this.  Racist to boot!  (Not that there weren't some great '90s action movies, but that shit got out of hand about '96).

[lucky strike]

songs from the second floor

[boganlux]

"Goodbye, Lenin," was very good, although funny<expectations<sad, so be warned.

We were supposed to watch that in my "History of Communism in Europe" class but, predictably, we got behind and didn't have the time.

[boganlux]

Also, I want to say it's totally crazy that White Dog still hasn't been released in the U.S. I watched a terrible pan 'n' scan of it with Swedish (or Norweigian?) subtitles. There's no way anyone in their right mind can think that movie is racist, and I don't think anyone who's, you know, actually seen it thinks that it is. It's forthrightly anti-racist, and really deserves a DVD release.

[crystalcakes]

talk about some artsy people!

i, embarrassingly, have seen raising helen, the movie with madonna and rupert everett where they raise a kid, and grey gardens recently.  i rented control room but never got to it.  i also watched a bunch of curb your enthusiams, which don't count, but WERE on dvd.

next up- palindromes.

[somersaulter]

just saw Nine Songs, which alternates a good-looking couple shagging and falling in love (though they never have even one proper conversation) with live footage of nine bands like, um... the von bondies.  There was no script to speak of, which i think discredited any chance of it being realistic (or very involving), but the sex was nicely filmed for sure, and it had the bizarre effect of making me feel simultaneously very bored and kind of horny    The full hour or so of for-real-this-is-how-we-do-it sex scenes mean don't take someone you gonna squirm with, like an ex or your mum.

I now have to write a review of it but think i might just cut and paste this, and mention the fact that one of the nine bands was black rebel motorcycle club TWICE - could they not think of any more bands, ay?  bit shoddy.

A much better tip, the Edukators - wicked German film featuring the same guy from Goodbye Lenin. It's wonderful. I mean, wunderbar! Young people giving a shit about politics, a kidnapping, a cabin on top of a hill, a love triangle, berlin in all its derelict glory...hopefully it'll get released in america too...

[elpollodiablo]

just saw Nine Songs, which alternates a good-looking couple shagging and falling in love (though they never have even one proper conversation) with live footage of nine bands like, um... the von bondies.  There was no script to speak of, which i think discredited any chance of it being realistic (or very involving), but the sex was nicely filmed for sure, and it had the bizarre effect of making me feel simultaneously very bored and kind of horny    The full hour or so of for-real-this-is-how-we-do-it sex scenes mean don't take someone you gonna squirm with, like an ex or your mum.

That is like... the worst thing I've ever had described to me. As if I needed another reason to dislike the Von Bondies.

[boganlux]

The full hour or so of for-real-this-is-how-we-do-it sex scenes mean don't take someone you gonna squirm with, like an ex or your mum.

Movie not to see with your mom: Sal/>=.

[boganlux]

In fact, I'm not sure I can recommend you see it period.

[dieblucasdie]

My girlfriend watched Secretary with her mom, stepdad, and little brother.

[somersaulter]

just saw Nine Songs, which alternates a good-looking couple shagging and falling in love (though they never have even one proper conversation) with live footage of nine bands like, um... the von bondies.  There was no script to speak of, which i think discredited any chance of it being realistic (or very involving), but the sex was nicely filmed for sure, and it had the bizarre effect of making me feel simultaneously very bored and kind of horny    The full hour or so of for-real-this-is-how-we-do-it sex scenes mean don't take someone you gonna squirm with, like an ex or your mum.

That is like... the worst thing I've ever had described to me. As if I needed another reason to dislike the Von Bondies.

It was SO indulgent...the lack of any discernable script just made it pants, like they had thought of such a great idea (what - sex, coke, and going to gigs? cor) that they didn't need to bother writing anything good. And the fact that the girl conformed to a facistically malnourished ideal. Boo! Even my beloved super furry animals and the marvellous Franz ferdinand couldn't save it. It's getting props for being cutting edge and risky, but for fuck's sake.

Right, there's my review!

[FreddyKnuckles]

My girlfriend watched Secretary with her mom, stepdad, and little brother.

The best is that dad only likes sex or nudity in movies if its for comedic value, but if anyone in a serious drama gets nakey he'll turn it off.

it's like, "what the hell? you turn off on screen boobies, but you forward me like 20 chauvenistic emails a day with giant ya ya's?"

[elpollodiablo]

Maggie Gyllenhaal should get tons more work than she does.

[silentsigh89]

Bananas. the little dance woody allen did when she first left his apartment made my heart hurt.

[milly balgeary]

recently i had the opportunity to watch

ass in the artifice.

eastern european sludge porn. featuring a memorable scene where the main character sticks a baseball bat up his ass backwards and uses his ass and bat to stop some muggers from an attempted mugging of a chunky girl.

cumslummin' in diggstown

an all time favorite! its a fast food restaurant, or, wait, a fast-sex restaurant. contains a pivitol scene in which the main character realizes that love is a joke best served in a low rent smoky comedy club on the east side of whatever city you currently live in.

[somersaulter]

Maggie Gyllenhaal should get tons more work than she does.

the girl in Nine Songs looks just like maggie gyllenhaal! maybe you should see it.

[somersaulter]

No, scratch that, save your -# for ass in the artifice. sounds way better.

ps. milly, you heard of tvgohome?