saw a talkie at the picture show: new film thread

[Babar]

I've been meaning to see Deep End for a while because of Can's involvement in it. Can's 15 minute kraut rock opus "Mother Sky" originally appeared in the film and was later released on their compilation of songs written for soundtracks, Soundtracks.

[edison]

It is, indeed, out on DVD, btw: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-End-Blu-ray-Jane-Asher/dp/B0051FBKWG

[G.C.R]

Nice! I'm gonna try get to see that, then.

[edison]

I had no idea about the Akerman though. from the trailer it looks very watery. Let us know how it is!

It (La folie Almayer) was utterly amazing. Twenty or thirty minutes of it were a bit less good, perhaps, but the remaining hour and a half or so was just astounding in every way, I thought. I kind of want to go and see it again tomorrow now.

(Disclaimer: I have never seen Jeanne Dielman or any of those other infamous Akerman movies)

[Trousers and Pat]

Nice. I'll have to try to put some time aside to go see it. From the trailer it looked really... watery? and heavy.

[Greg Nog]

I'm curious about it, too!  I was hoping it would be on Netflix Instant, but it was not.  Netflix was kind enough to suggest, from my search for Folie, that I might be looking for films about Dave Foley.

[coldforge]

I liked Beginners a lot, especialy the gay dad part

[G.C.R]

I finally got around to seeing Tree of Life, and while I didn't love it, I felt suddenly very defensive about all the hate from all the haters, which seemed so often to amount to "this film is a boring garbage pointless waste of your time" and I felt like I got a lot from it. maybe not the mindblowing profundity it felt occasionally like it was aiming for, but I like the pace it made me watch at, I liked the things it drew my attention to, I liked the way the camera never stops moving. More than anything it actually reminded me of Fantasia, in that both were fairly highly anticipated, hugely ambitious, massively flawed intensely personal-seeming projects that have bits with dinosaurs in (though while i think the dinosaurs were one of the best bits in Fastasia, they're one of the worst in Tree of Life). I'm not in love with Fantasia either, but both films I think are doing something interesting.

[Ah_Pook]

im watching this movie In Time and let me tell you something. this movie is fucking terrible. sadly, its mostly not terrible in the amusingly dumb way i was hoping for. it definitely has flashes of hilariously retarded shit, but its buried under way too many scenes of painfully inane philosophizing about class economics.

[peacocks]

Tim and Eric movie. No sir, I don't like it. I did laugh though.

[peacocks]

I laughed at the Johnny depp part, the remake-over, and the part with the bread, taquito, some other small parts. There were several scenes where I had to turn my body around so I couldn't see the awful things happening on screen, mostly violence and bleeding from the mouth. It was disappointing that he things I like most about Tim and Eric weren't in the movie much at all. I actually felt anxious after watching it.

[peacocks]

oh, I also saw Breathless the other night. I liked it! It was fun. Everything is so effortless, even killing. And the way the girl seemed not to know herself at all. "I did this thing, so I must feel this way" instead of "I feel this way, so I will do this thing," was great.

I wanna see Don't Shoot The Piano Player next because I hear it has some similarly ferris bueller-y type moments.

[milly balgeary]

twilight breaking dawn. very good film. plot was very intricate. scenes flowed naturally, providing a tension reminscent of many great films of past. i lasted 30 minutes.

[Babar]

im watching this movie In Time and let me tell you something. this movie is fucking terrible. sadly, its mostly not terrible in the amusingly dumb way i was hoping for. it definitely has flashes of hilariously retarded shit, but its buried under way too many scenes of painfully inane philosophizing about class economics.

haha, you're right. it is terrible. I would go crazy in that world because me wrist is always beeping.

[peacocks]

Cooley High! So good!

[fishjim]

Just started Billy Liar (1963) by John Schlesinger, and am enjoying it quite a bit. But I'm weirded out by all these undertakers named Fisher who keep following me around.

[Anne the Man]

I watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High last night. I wasn't expecting it to be so sweet. It was good fun.

[auto-da-fey]

I've been having a rough time lately, kinda cracking under the various pressures of my life. I'll live, but at the moment I'm just sort of exhausted and emotionally dislocated, basically trudging through each day as remotely as possible to best avoid descending into maudlin breakdowns and self-pity.

All of which I mention only to contextualize the morbid lulz with which I received Aurora in the mail from netflix; truly a timely film, though to be sure I don't at all relate to the way the protagonist responds to his afflictions (fear not!).

There's a temptation, I think, of assigning greater heft to a film simply on account of its 183-minute length; it's hard to read as anything but a statement of self-importance, really. But Cristi Puiu resists that here--there's no way to avoid thinking of Jeanne Dielman, but it's a different sort of project . . . which is hard to discuss, because I'm not sure what constitutes a spoiler here (I went in knowing literally nothing about this film, not even its length--must've seen it on a top-ten list and just thrown it on the queue). In any case, I admired Aurora; didn't love it (not sure it even solicits love), would not call it great, but found a lot to value in its drab depiction of mundane Bucharest life. It's got a baroque banality that really works.

I'm out of steam writing here, but definitely curious whether other people saw this and what they thought.

[hannah]

I've had it out for a couple weeks but haven't carved out three hours to watch it. Tonight, maybe. Can't say I'll have anything profound to say...

[cold before sunrise]

disappointed that netflix doesn't have 'the heathers.'

[milly balgeary]

anybody seen this?
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1204340/

[G.C.R]

I ain't, but if you are not averse to a)violence and b)Paddy Considine then I've heard it's pretty good. I am not averse to either of those things in a film, so I'll probably watch it at some point.

Without organising total compatibility of presents in any way, my father gave me Chris Fujiwara's excellent book Cinema of Nightfall: Jacques Tourneur for Christmas, and I gave him a copy of Tourneur's western Canyon Passage. I just watched the film the other night, and, not particularly surprisingly, its terrific. It's almost - I was going to say plotless, but it's not, it's just often about small plot points rather than big moments. Fujiwara says it's "about the themes that underlie the whole western genre and are usually taken for granted...:the cohesion of the community; the conflict between its values and those of the individual; the defects of frontier justice; and the psychological and social meaning of the westward trajectory". I also really liked that it had really only one villain in the film - everyone else has that Jean Renoir thing of doing things because of clearly articulated motivations - even the attacking bands of Indians aren't just big bad others - they have reasons for doing so that are clear to everyone. What an elegant film.
I think I'm feeling a binge on Tourneur films coming on.

[Antero]

anybody seen this?
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1204340/

Nay, but that movie poster is awesome.

[Ignatius]

Speaking of awesome movie posters, The Bride Wore Black.. Jeanne Moreau retrospective coming through in a few weeks and it is yielding cool stuff.

[milly balgeary]

tyrannosaur is FOR real. wow