Movies watched recently:

[boganlux]

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.

My roommate has Sweet Movie (same director as W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism) checked out from the library, which basically sounds like it's going to be a lot like that!

[milly balgeary]

tvgohome, no, i'm afraid not. sweet movie, huh. what kind of library is that? is that where my tax dollars go? eastern european sludge porn. better that than new cop suvs.

[boganlux]

tvgohome, no, i'm afraid not. sweet movie, huh. what kind of library is that? is that where my tax dollars go? eastern european sludge porn. better that than new cop suvs.

It's a college library at a state school, so your taxes dollars only go there if you live in Florida. I bet Ohio state colleges have some dirty, arty Eastern European movies in their libraries too! Write an outraged letter to your local congressman. Culture war stuff is always good fun.

[somersaulter]

Cos your ass in the artifice etc sounds like it's right out of there, so either you write for it or you should check it out...  It used to be a website and there's a book too which is a bit of a cult here - it's spoof tv listings, which is a format for venomous, potent, spot-on satirical bitchery at the vacuity of mass culture. Tis the best. Though the website seems to have shut down of late. If i could be arsed, i'd go and retrieve the book from downstairs, and give you a taster...but i can't, so you'll just have to trust in its perfect funniness.

The guy who wrote it, charlie brooker, is now working with Chris Morris, who is the evil genius of British comedy, the only guy who can match and possibly better Peter Cook - he did The Day Today and Brass Eye, which, along with tvgohome, make me vaguely proud to have come from such a cynical, smart-arse culture.

just think it might be something to appreciate, tis all  :wink:

[bYul]

Has anyone seen Casshern?

It hasn't been released domestically yet but it came out in Japan in 2003.
The trailer is AMAZING... like a Sky Captain and Hero mashup, except it's way better than that sounds.

http://casshern.com/

enjoy...

[heather marie]

Recently:

My Brilliant Career
Hotel Rwanda
8 1/2 (for the 4th time)
4 Little Girls
Bound for Glory
Vertical Ray of the Sun



Now that classes are almost over (and I'm fucking sick, so I foresee some calling in to work), I'll have more time to do nothing but loaf, watch movies and read. Ah, if only I could get paid to do that.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I liked hotel rwanda.

I know, I never see any movies anymore either.

After escuela gets out I need to see me some sin city

[milly balgeary]

i recommend the reflecting skin, which i rewatched recently. its the only movie like it is, completely unique, in the same way Tarkovsky's solyaris is, using the environment to create a sullen atmospere of space and time.

it'll fuck you up too. it deals with some heavy issues writ in surreal fashion across a blue mid west sky. from blowing up frogs, to a black car, to vampires. it will make you want to climb out of your skin.

[SPACERACE]

KUNG FU HUSTLE!!1

[justinh]

i just saw sideways at the dollar theater.  other than that, a bunch of da ali g show, kids in the hall, and the oc dvds.  I really need to get some actual films up in here.  

I was gonna snag some tarkovsky and godard at first and then drag it down with conan the barbarian, point break, and red dawn.

[Michael]

The only movie I've seen in recent memory was Palindromes, which was pretty good. Interesting, anyway. I can never quite figure Solondz out. Sometimes it seems like he trying to hold up a mirror in the same way Arbus did, sometimes it seems like he just wants to fuck with you.

A good Eastern Europe movie is Daisies. Czech psychedelic slapstick, very funny and bizarre, from '69, I think.

[Bernard]

I was gonna snag some tarkovsky and godard at first and then drag it down with conan the barbarian, point break, and red dawn.

I can highly recommend both Tarkovsky and Godard. It don't think it much matters which Tarkosvky you see first -- The Sacrifice and The Mirror are perhaps marginally more difficult than the others. Nostalghia and Ivan's Childhood are perhaps the easiest. None of them are fast-paced films.

[steph]

just today i watched Motorcycle diaries
and later i'll be watching Grey gardens;
which i'm VERY excited about

[Bernard]

There's a list of reviews done in a more conversational manner which may appeal to you. Also serves as a good checklist to take to the video shop.

http://www.coldbacon.com/movies/movies-list.html

[elpollodiablo]

My best friends and I just recently finished our yearly viewing of every single Sopranos episode, in sequence, over the course of two or three weeks. This is the best drama on television. Ever. Nothing on network compares to it. There have been a few HBO series that approach its level, but none are as funny or as epic or as well-written as this show.

[Trousers and Pat]

White Dog, 1982, U.S.A., Samuel Fuller

Ah! that's been on my list for a while. Will never find a copy.

Seen recently:
La Petite Lili
Hyenas

[boganlux]

Zero Day, 2003, U.S.A., Benjamin Coccio
Sweet Movie, 1974, France/Canada, Dusan Makavejev

About Sweet Movie, my roommate said "It's like the director made half a movie, then watcded Sal/>= and decided to make a comedy version of that." Of course, that's impossible because Sal/>= came out a year later than Sweet Movie.

[Andrew_TSKS]

lately i've been watching downloads of the wire, season three. i haven't seen a movie since i saw sin city in the theater. i don't watch many movies.

[davy]

just rented the woodsman, hotel rwanda, and sideways. i am excited. furthermore, this place i rented them from charges just $1.99 for 5 nights for NEW RELEASES!

wow is right.

[lezzlemynezzle]

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy *nerd*

[JamesSchneider]

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy *nerd*

Me too.

[El_Josharino]

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy *nerd*

Me too.

Likewise.

[old kentucky shark]

in reverse chronological order

Youth of the Beast
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Citizen Kane
The Spanish Apartment
Mysterious Object at Noon
Goodbye Lenin!
In July (god this was terrible)
Twelfth Night (Kenneth Branagh)
The Thin Blue Line
Delicatessen
Blowup
8 1/2
Ghost World

[FreddyKnuckles]

yesterday:  scarface
today: Reservoir Dogs, Garden State

[Nicholson]

I just watched That Obscure Object Of Desire. Tomorrow/near future will be The Wild Bunch, Aragami, 2046, and Orson Welles' adaptation of The Trial.

I am in a film class, (in-class screenings have mostly sucked- thursday we watched Desperately Seeking Susan- but we're required to have small viewing groups that watch related films, which has worked out nicely- I saw John Cassavetes' Shadows, which was rather good) have a Netflix account, and have a roommate who also has a Netflix account, along with a DVD burner.

So there's a lot of movies that I'm seeing, is what I'm saying.