Daniel Craig was in Layer Cake and Munich. That's all I know.

it was good. very straight to the point kind of movie.
didn't like the acting though, especially the main actor. he looked like too much of an existential novel character, even though i suppose that was his deal. but, still, he was coming on too obvious.

I just saw it last night as well. I liked it well enough. Sofia paints pretty pictures, but I'd like to see her next direct a story with gusto...this seemed kind of lightweight. Her films seem to fall into place by accident and not by any real effort.

Daniel Craig was in Our Friends In The North with the ninth Dr.

this was all right. some sort of social realism-romanticism type of film, i guess.

can't remember if you are an altman fan (i am) or not agg, but could we not say the same thing about most, if not all of his films?

ps: the black guy bond was chasing at the beginning of casino royale did not deserve to die!

Watched about 3/4 of this last night:



It's pretty good, but I'm a little disappointed so far. Too much self-congratulatory footage of old punks talking about how they were outsiders rising up against the man. A lot of the music clips suck too. I love this music, and there's so many distinct sounds and bands; however, the film makers fell into the hardcore trap where everything starts sounding the same.

If this was available as a region 1 DVD and Netflix had it, I'd watch it in a heartbeat. You'd think given the increasing US awareness and popularity of Craig and Eccelston that BBC America, PBS, Bravo or someone would give this a go.

damn, i just remembered something that bothered me while watching this movie. you could see the fucking tan lines on kirsten dunst. wtf?

i rather liked this. it's a french noir flick from the 40s. pretty interesting.

Yeah, too many interviews, and not enough live footage.
Some glaring oversights as well - the Dead Kennedys!
According to the film the only band that mattered in Chicago was the Effigies.
They could have at least mentioned Naked Raygun.

I watched this for a French film class I took. Really good stuff. Culled from the pages of The Plague.

Man, that class was full of film majors spewing technical jargon and the teacher said "mise en scene" every other sentence. I had no idea what anybody said in that class. Good films, though.

I went into this expecting Thank You For Smoking and was suprised at how serious this film is. However, I did enjoy it just as much as Thank You. Excellent film.

i took 2 film courses at the university.
my soviet cinema course was a very small class. not more than 10 people in it. but the teacher was a huge fan of all things russian, so she made us do a lot of work for that class. instead of making it an easy intercultural class she totally turned it into a major cinema course. we were writing detailed reviews for each films: setting, montage, soundtrack, colour. all that kind of stuff.

my second film course was on italian cinema. there were over 40 people in it. 90% = sorority girls who probably found out that it was an easy A course. so i'm sitting there asking all these questions about archtypes in "8 1/2" and they're all going: "the main character wasn't a nice man", "why did he hurt the dog?" but i still enjoyed it.

That's funny...I still haven't finished it, but I just assumed the Dead Kennedy's would be the big payoff at the end. I'm guessing it's not an oversight, and has more to do with legal wrangling. I think Jello Biafra lost a lawsuit to take the DK name from the former members, so I'm guessing he just didn't want to talk about the good ol' days (and there's really no use talking about DK's without JB).

Actually, if the film makers were really honest, they would have talked about that suit, as well as all the Greg Ginn/SST lawsuits with former bands. Would have been a welcoming temper to all the glorified rebel/outsider rhetoric tossed around in the flick.

Klaus, DH & Ray already won the right to use the name & play the songs. The latest arguments are about the use of "Too Drunk to Fuck" during a rape scene in Grindhouse; Jello's saying it's reprehensible, the rest of the band's pointing out that he's cashed the checks.

That's funny. I have a feeling he's more pissed about the other guys making the decision than the decision itself. JB has appeared in a number of B movies. I know he was in Tapeheads...IMDB lists him as playing an "evil porn director" in Bikini Bandits.

just reading some of the comments from freddie's link:

Posted By: Gailen | March 23 2007 at 12:54 AM

Quentin Tarantino has some serious anti-woman issues if he's included a graphic rape scene in this movie...although that shouldn't surprise me. I'm sure he fancies himself to be a great director like Ingemar Bergman, who also famously put graphic rapes in his movies...to me, neither director is an artist.

zoinks!?!

damn

A Lion in the House

This was one of the most emotionally powerful documentaries i've ever seen. I cried buckets.

I saw it as part of the Chicago International Documentary Festival. Unfortunately, this afternoon's show will be its only showing here. I believe it is available on DVD at the PBS website.

this one wasn't as good as "le corbeau", cos it felt more like an ordinary detective story.

The final scene was a total shocker at the time. It was a big influence on Psycho. Wages of Fear, made right before this is still awesome. An influence on the sphagetti westerns, The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch...

i thought that was "le corbeau" that did all that

funny how in the end of the film, during the credits section they mention not to tell your friends about the movie, so as not to spoil it for them.

the libertine

the story of John Wilmot is pretty bonkers to begin with and Johnny Depp does a good job
of playing the prick. Not sure how this settles as a flick that could possibly be enjoyed by a
wider audience as it's pretty much a tale of living by nights of drunkeness and debauchery
and dying by syphilis. It's not a 'family' film that's for sure.

Although I'm not a fan of the trailer either as it attempts to play on the idea as some
confession that the guy admits to being a jerk. I think it would have been more fitting
to play on the opposite and introduce him as someone who was wholesome and then
find out that he's just asshole. It would have been a more interesting twist.



millions

another one of those flicks that's loomed over my head for a while now as I've wanted
to 'catch up' as it were.. it wasn't bad. a strange combination of things via it's plotpoints.
being young and having lost a parent, discovering a large sum of money and deciding what
is the right or just thing to do with it.

my only debunking of this are the following: a. how the father could afford to live in this
upscale development (as I don't recall it being discussed) b. how upscale is a neighborhood
when it has a rail line in the backyard and what appears to be a nuclear power plant
overshadowing the entire town? c. if this was such a huge heist, why is there only
one guy coming after the money? just a couple of thoughts that kinda struck me as odd
but it's enjoyable none the less.




splash

caught this again on AMC last night. Eugene Levy is a stitch and it was certainly a lot
funnier then I'd recalled before but then I don't think I've watched this in nearly a decade.

Finished Hard Candy over the weekend. It was pretty good, well written at least. A rare movie, in that I never once groaned and said "Oh Come ON!!" because it seemed unreal, despite the unusual subject matter.


Also saw The Rutles - All You Need is Cash.

WOW. That was funny. All the tiny touches of Beatlsisms were fantastic. Who knew Eric Idle could play Paul? This is suddenly near the top of my list for all time great rock and roll movies. It approaches the hilarity of stuff like Spinal Tap. I'm surprised it doesn't make so many lists of these types of things.

same thoughts crossed my mind the first time I saw the flick.
A- the dadd spent the life insurance $$ on the new house
B- every robber's cut was their own bag that got tossed off the train. only one guy came after the $$ because it was just that guy's cut that was missing.

So yeah, I finally saw 300 over the weekend. Visually stunning as expected, just a little clunky with regard to dialogue and jumping to & from battle/non-battle scenes. Still well worth the time and money, which says a lot coming from someone who almost never feels movies are worth either. Or maybe it says nothing, since I care so little about film. Either way, thumbs up.

whoa, that middle shot is gorgeous. makes me feel like the movie isnt a complete waste of time. almost.

i'm going home and watching this on repeat tonight:

that was hella funny
i liked it

understatement of the year

Fuck yeah.

Devil Wears Prada

Wasn't expecting anything. Didn't get much of anything. Read Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs while I watched.

Middle shot??

Pretty sure she was talking about this:

I liked this quite a bit. Many of the little details rang so true about art school, having attended myself.
Extra points for casting Steve Buscemi in a small role. He's always great.


Ahh yes. That makes much more sense.

Meh.

I finally got around to seeing these. Holy hell is 'The Departed' an excellent film!

Guess I'll be watching a lot of Scorsese flicks over the next few months.

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can't remember if you are an altman fan (i am) or not agg, but could we not say the same thing about most, if not all of his films?
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(Late reply here as I scan some old stuff. )

I disagree with you about Altman. Wherein he has tight construction out of loose improv, Coppola just seems to have ideas about what her movies should look like more than how the drama comes out of them. She's had to rely on Dunst (and Scarlett J. and Bill Murray in Lost In Translation) to give her movies any depth. Not to say that Coppola doesn't make interesting movies, but these 2 directors are apples and oranges.

Finally saw this over the weekend. It's flippin' amazing. It should easily make my top 10 for this year. Anyone else catch this yet?

Out here next week, can't wait. Well I've got to see Sunshine first but there we go.

I liked this, not my favourite Godard (For some reason, it's "Pierrot Le Fou"). What's funny is, as someone who took 13 years of French Immersion schooling (And still aren't very good at it), Jean Seberg's accent annoyed the hell out of me when I started watching it (Especially when she pronounces "Regardez" as "re-guard-eh") but by the end of it, it was the most endearing thing ever.

i rather liked it myself too
i'm getting conviced that i need to watch the early 60s godard as opposed to his later stuff. at least that's where i find him most appealing. although, i'm still not convinced why people like him that much. there're a lot of interesting things in his films, but, still, i don't know if i'd rate his that high.

today i watched this:


very nice film. i feel like i need to watch more modern chinese (or asian in general) films. seems like that's where all the good stuff is coming from these days.

really like the soundtrack for this film. for some reason it really stood out. very subtle and minimal.

Definitely one of Richard Linklater's more underrated movies (mostly due to the fact that it hasn't been released on DVD yet, although WB is supposedly releasing a special edition of it this fall). Anyway, I hadn't seen it for a few years and forgot how much I enjoyed it. It suffers a bit from still feeling a little too much like Eric Bogosian's play, but anyone who is a fan of Linklater should really check it out if they haven't seen it before.

nm

EDIT: I watched part of Dr. Strangelove today.

Annabelle Gurwitch's attempt to make something with the lemon of being dissed as an actress by Woody Allen. Sadly, in the this one hour doc they first decide to basically rip-off/mock/create an homage to him and follow that with some Sex & the City meets celebrity talking heads deal with a few choice readings from her stage play. As I see it this would be the last piece of the pie outside of spinning an actual TV series on the idea but it's so here nor there. They attempt to tread on Michael Moore's territory (even going to see auto workers in Michigan) but the bottom line is this isn't very original or good.

I think I was more inspired to see this because the NPR review was really lessay-fair about the whole thing. I couldn't help but want to track it down. Perhaps there's some chuckles but she wastes so much time attempting to entertain you with her hanging with bad luck celebrity stories that you get know real sense about what job loss means to americans anymore.



ripley's game

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while now and I was especially curious given Ebert's positive review of it. Malkovich is really good in the title role and he's perfect as the gentle one moment and psychopath the next. It's worth a look.

i keep seeing and passing these two at hollywood...anybody see either one?


the sutherland flick is a rock doc...movie star likes band/goes to show, brings camera. never heard the band, but jack prolly rocks out nicely...right?