saw a talkie at the picture show: new film thread

[Greg Nog]

I saw Winter's Bone the other night, and liked it a great deal.  I also saw Pusher, which I thought was fairly unimpressive.

[Babar]

I saw Winter's Bone the other night, and liked it a great deal.  I also saw Pusher, which I thought was fairly unimpressive.

Switch the film titles and you have my opinion on the matter.

[Chet]

[Babar]

ok, spill it. what film and why did you want to spoil this particular scene?

[Chet]

it's aliens vs avatars

[Babar]

ok, nice

[Chet]

in the end the alien was killed by a man in a robot costume

[JamesSchneider]

I watched Beginners with my lady and we both lost our minds out of love and happiness.

[elpollodiablo]

Other things I watched this holiday weekend:

Meek's Cutoff -- This actually, surprisingly, might be my least-favorite Kelly Reichardt film.

Contagion -- This would have been a solid download but was totally worth the $1.75 we paid to see it at this second-run theater on the north side of Columbus. I forgot how much I like Larry Fishburne. He's gotten kinda fat.

Hanna -- Extremely uneven and labored at points, I did kind of dig the direction and really liked the young female lead with the unpronounceable name. This was also the most attracted I've ever been to Cate Blanchett, which, who knows.

[Bernard]

Saw Su Friedrich's "Sink or Swim" -- sheer poetry. Incredibly beautiful and painful.

Just read up on this - looks mesmerizing. The review I read from '91 made it seem, in some ways, like the identity poetry of Bergman's Persona, which he always called a poem in film.

The central metaphor of "sink or swim" is also chiming nicely with the Leonard Cohen kick I'm on, and that astonishing middle stanza of "Suzanne" that begins, "Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water" and ends, "Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone."

Got to love Leonard Cohen. You into John Cale at all? I wouldn't say he's been lightening my heavy heart, but somehow he makes the weight easier to bear.

[fishjim]

I know nothing of John Cale after the Velvet Underground. In fact, I just now realized I've been confusing him with John Cage my whole life. Tell me where to start, and I'll start.

[elpollodiablo]

You can listen to the Island Years double album on Spotify and it's all awesome pretty much

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poetkcNjWnc

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

I know nothing of John Cale after the Velvet Underground. In fact, I just now realized I've been confusing him with John Cage my whole life. Tell me where to start, and I'll start.

paris 1919

i know it's just a little record with no great meaning but i believe when you listen to it you'll come away different

[Bernard]

you could start with leonard cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNdncBTc-Q

[Good Intentions]

On an entirely different pace than that, 'Gun' off of that Island double-album pollo mentioned is perhaps the finest post-punk song ever written, despite the fact that it pre-dates that movement by five or six years.

[Chet]

man, batman kills so many people in the 1989 movie. that isn't supposed to happen.

[YojimboMonkey]

I was playing Arkham Asylum the other night and there's a part where Batman is above a room full of poisoned gas and you have to drop this guy through a ceiling into a room so you can turn on the extractors that clear the room and I was freaked out about that but my son played the same part and said he double-checked the guy and his status said unconscious not deceased. So I fully get where you're coming from on that. And I'm also proud of my son for thinking to check, even though it's just a silly videogame about a comic book character

[Trousers and Pat]

Batman vs Avatars?

[Chet]

I was playing Arkham Asylum the other night and there's a part where Batman is above a room full of poisoned gas and you have to drop this guy through a ceiling into a room so you can turn on the extractors that clear the room and I was freaked out about that but my son played the same part and said he double-checked the guy and his status said unconscious not deceased. So I fully get where you're coming from on that. And I'm also proud of my son for thinking to check, even though it's just a silly videogame about a comic book character

Tim Burton is a dick. Batman killed a few people in the first few comics, he even carried a gun, but that has since been retcon'd. He has a strict moral code, man. Batman (1989) has a body count worthy of rambo.

Apparently Burton never read a single comic before making Batman.

[Chet]

Batman vs Avatars?

there is actually a Batman and Superman vs Aliens and Predator comic.

[Chet]

oh and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDmrEw7__k

[fishjim]

Thanks all for the John Cale rec's. All the links were awesome - definitely my thing. Only bummer was the ad I had to watch for "Hallelujah": Susan Boyle murdering "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell. Fuck you, Boyle.

OT: Anyone seen The Big Year with Jack Black, Steve Martin, & Owen Wilson? The book was rad and I've been looking forward to the movie, but the reviews I've seen are kinda grim.

[G.C.R]

my film viewing has just gone down the frickin toilet lately. The only thing I've watched all the way through in the past ten days or so was Step Brothers, while drinking a fair few trashy but delicious vodka lemonade premixers. Stayin' classy.

[elpollodiablo]

Grace, The Mill & the Cross was fucking brilliant I thought. Hypnotic and beautiful.

[G.C.R]

Oh I'm glad you liked it! I would like to see it again at some point, I think. The orchestration of those freezing scenes is just beautiful - I love how you can see how fragile it is too (the man in the deep background who cant keep his horse still, and a chubby child in the foreground trying to balance on one leg I especially remember.)