bride of best movie thread ever

[morgan]

So here's the lineup for the upcoming New York Korean Film Festival.
Any recommendations? I remember some talk about the King and the Clown on here a while back...

200-Pound Beauty was pretty famous over here when it came out, but I can't say if it's any good.  Family Ties is supposed to be like Meet the Fockers or something.  King and the Clown is EXCELLENT, please see it.  I don't know anything about the other ones, sorry.  I'd recommend going to see at least one romantic comedy, just 'cause Korean romantic comedies are GREAT.

[hannah]

simpsons movie spoiler?:

why the fuck wasn't wolfcastle prez of the us of a???

[old kentucky shark]

i watched the beatles' movie HELP! this evening. it's certainly no hard day's night for damn sure. however, i had a lot of fun with it. it's kind of like watching a beatles-penned episode of the prisoner (a notion reinforced by (at least) two number twos having leading roles (leo mckern as the main villain, patrick cargill as the policeman))

some amazing lines in it, though:

John: Stop dragging things down to your own level, it's immature son.
Ringo: Well I... Well I thought she was a sandwich, 'til she went spare on me finger.

and the way john refers to the jeweller as "jeweller" and keeps telling him he's failed

[Ah_Pook]

simpsons movie spoiler?:

why the fuck wasn't wolfcastle prez of the us of a???

truth. if youve got a long running character who is so obviously a parody of a well known celebrity then why wouldnt you use him at this point. kinda made me angry.

still though, i really enjoyed this movie.

[Ah_Pook]

oh my god, monster squad came out on dvd last week, hot fuzz is out tuesday, and flash gordon comes out the week after that.

fucking great lineup of dvds to buy all of the sudden

[difficult]

On a rather different note, I saw Wanda yesterday. It's a 1970 film written & directed by, and starring, Barbara Loden, who loses real-world points for marrying HUAC collaborator Elia Kazan but wins major cinema points for this. It's a largely plotless, verite-style examination of a woman who abandons her husband and children and just sets herself aimlessly adrift. The first half hour very closely approaches perfection--it's just Wanda, moving through coal fields and the outskirts of small towns in Pennsylvania, her alienation manifested as apathy. After that it sort of settles in a plot of sorts, as she meets a man and they go on a very pathetic crime spree, and while it loses something there, it's still a great film.

Wanda is a great film, I've always loved it. Barbara Loden was an actress too - she's got a role in Splendour in the Grass, I think that's where she and Kazan met, but he always hated Wanda, thought it was a terrible film. It's so lost and drifting in tone, but so controlled at the same time, a hard job to carry out, and the way she drifts through the world in a mysterious and tragic way is completely unlike American films usually tend to  - makes interesting tonal comparison to Jon Jost's Last Chants for a Slow Dance, which's a way more underground contemporary 60s/70s indie.

In fact Wanda and the character in the Jost film would make a really amazingly great movie couple. And i mean really horrible, but riveting. Not that the romantic themes in Wanda aren't pretty compelling as well...

It's got tones in common with things like Vagabonde, from the time, but also feels kinda like a 90s taiwanese film to me too. Glad to be thinking about it again, it's been a while since I watched it. One of my favourite American films, and something that helped crystallise a lot of attitudes about films when i started making them.

[another max]

I hope I'm not repeating anyone too much, but I saw Sunshine last night and it was incredible.  I am not a horror movie aficionado, in fact I really hate most horror movies, but this one touched me in all the right places.  The set pieces and cinematography were beyond superb, and the soundtrack might have actually been a transcendent experience.  Anyway, you should all go see it.

[das kranke Tier]

Saw The Good German this weekend and found it rather adept at blowing my balls...

[das kranke Tier]

I'll be hitting Lawrence of Arabia in the next couple of days here.  I'll report back.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

Full Metal Alchemist

Wussed out in the end. I thought it was going to be quite good for a while, but then it let me down.

Goddamn right.  Dashed almost all of its potential in the last twenty minutes.

[Lindsay With An A]

wow, i haven't seen that movie. i just looked it up on wikipedia and it sounds awesome.

And for whatever my opinion is worth, also stay away from Silent Night, Deadly Night. Sleepaway Camp is okay, and The Burning is actually one of the better slasher films, IMO. I've been thinking about seeing that documentary, I probably will in a little while.

Man, I love Sleepaway Camp. Though I haven't seen it since I was 16 and I doubt that it will hold up quite as well as I remember. But really, it's impossible to go wrong with a film that contains the greatest exchange in the history of cinema:

Ricky: Eat shit and die, Billy.

Billy: Eat shit and LIVE, Ricky!

For what it's worth, I love Silent Night Deadly Night as well (and have rewatched it within the past year) but the number of cheesy slasher movies that I outright hate is pretty small.

[girl]

I'll be hitting Lawrence of Arabia in the next couple of days here.  I'll report back.

  This is an all-time favorite of mine.  It's one of those movies that I've seen so often that I can recite most of it. 

[girl]

I had no intention of buying the Film Noir Collection Volume 4, but jeepers, look how much Dave Kehr likes it!  I've only seen They Live by Night and The Big Steal, and honestly, neither of them are favorites, so I figured I could just ignore this collection like I did the third one, but now I'm tempted. 

[girl]

I was going to watch Repo Man since it's being discussed elsewhere, but my dvd is out on loan and I can't be bothered to connect the vcr, so I'm watching Valley Girl instead.

[milesofsparks]

I'll be hitting Lawrence of Arabia in the next couple of days here.  I'll report back.

  This is an all-time favorite of mine.  It's one of those movies that I've seen so often that I can recite most of it. 

[cool banana]

simpsons movie spoiler?:

why the fuck wasn't wolfcastle prez of the us of a???

I FUCKING KNOW! That was just idiocy.

edit: I'm sure people wouldn't be that dense to get the reference.

[das kranke Tier]

I'll be hitting Lawrence of Arabia in the next couple of days here.  I'll report back.

  This is an all-time favorite of mine.  It's one of those movies that I've seen so often that I can recite most of it. 

I had a plan to watch it last night, but once I go home from work I laid down and didn't wake up until 11:00.  After I ate dinner and whatnot it was 11:45, so I opted to watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest instead...man, I forgot what a great movie that is.

[YojimboMonkey]

Mindy and I watched The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother last night, which was directed by and starred Gene Wilder, and had all the elements in place of a great old Mel Brooks movie but didn't quite have whatever it was that made the old Mel Brooks movies great.  (Mel Brooks I guess?)  Anyway, it did have its moments, and also Madeleine Kahn (rawr) and Marty Feldman (so bizarre looking, he almost didn't have to do anything to be funny) and Dom Deluise (eh) and Leo McKern (who is a favorite character actor of mine, loved his turns as Number 2 in the Prisoner, he looks just like my buddy Mike's dad) and really bad song and dance numbers but a fun sword fight in the end, with the two characters wearing garish opera costumes and trashing the props department of a theater.  It was fun if you're into that sort of thing, and also has anyone's eyes ever twinkled the way Gene Wilder's eyes twinkle?  I mean, that dude can seriously twinkle his eyes at you.

[das kranke Tier]

Madeleine Kahn (rawr)

YES....oh, yes yes yes.

[girl]

so I opted to watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest instead...man, I forgot what a great movie that is.

Also a good choice!

and also has anyone's eyes ever twinkled the way Gene Wilder's eyes twinkle?  I mean, that dude can seriously twinkle his eyes at you.

Yes! 

[das kranke Tier]

Jim, you obviously didn't pay enough attention to my eyes while I was in town

[another max]

and also has anyone's eyes ever twinkled the way Gene Wilder's eyes twinkle?  I mean, that dude can seriously twinkle his eyes at you.

Yes! 

To the extent that when I was a kid and I saw him in Charlie and the Chocolate factory I thought he was like a sorcerer or something.  I think they must put eyedrops in his eyes right before each shoot.

[Ah_Pook]

my lust for this goes beyond the normal spheres inhabited by humankind

[das kranke Tier]

WHOA!

[guanajuato]

emanuelle in america. while not a big exploitation hound, i do have some enthusiasm when it comes to certain films. one i've never seen (until now) is emanuelle in america and as a fan during boyhood of the director's ator the barbarian films, how could watching an infamous exploitation film featuring scenes i'm very familiar with, possibly, go wrong.

first of all: the actual viewing of woman jacking off a pony is one of those things that's worse than it sounds. second the snuff film looks decidedly real and i wasn't completely ready to watch someone get their nipples cut off.

the story (yes -- it actually has a story) has emanuelle wandering around the world investigating underground sexual practices. did you hear that?

around the world.

yes, emanuelle in america takes place in america for about 1 minute.

there is some hard core sex in the movie that was added in addition to the regular soft core to get the french ticket buying public to go see the movie. note: on the hardcore additions there are closeups of genital pimples galore.

there is an enjoyable interview with the director joe d'amato. in fact, the movie's worth renting for the 13 minute interview with d'amato, who proves to be an ecstatic personality.

favorite part of the movie is during the interview with the director, when the interviewer asks with apparent confusion why d'amato would direct an erotic movie in a cannibal filled jungle and d'amato's face is suffused with the joy of his sleazy craft. it's very redemptive.

oh, and the fake snuff film scenes? heinous.

all in all, an amazing chemical reaction of mixed genre, with lots of hot 70's euro trash chicks hanging out in pools, with some real suspense as emanuelle investigates ever deeper (or whatever the hell she's supposed to be doing).