So, what movie did you just watch? (Vol. 8)

I really, really dug it. I don't know if it's cause I watched so much damn noir in the past month, but it definitely had some noirish overtones in my mind.

Delon was fantastic. The scene where he first goes to get the money at the overpass [result] and there is the quick jump cut to the guns and shots[/result] had me jump up out of my seat with a smile on my face thinking, "damn that was cool". And that ending, wow. That was perfect. I loved it.

I want a raincoat and a hat.

 

Chalk this one up to being a willing parent more than anything else:



I admit, I laughed a few times. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt sung in isolation chambers will do it every time!

 

I love this movie. Even though I won the movie draft I'm still mad at myself that I didn't pick it.

 

They still haven't released an region 1 English version and that makes me angry. This movie is such a guilty pleasure.

 

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Really, Le Samourai, which was Melville's first film in color, was the beginning of an experiment of transforming color film that continued until the end (Un Flic). His idea was to create the aesthetic of a black-and-white film using the color medium. If you want to see this taken to its total extreme, see Le Cercle Rouge and Un Flic. However, I personally find that the most successful film of this period is Army of Shadows, where the black-and-white/color look actually serves a thematic as well as visual function (unlike the other films, where really Melville is merely honoring the noir tradition).

As far as I'm concerned Le Samourai is Melville's third best film (behind Le Silence de la Mer and Army of Shadows). It's unfortunate that the only film of his that really rivals Le Samourai for that third slot is Les Enfants Terrible (his collaboration with Cocteau), which is not available on DVD in R1 (but is available from BFI in R2).

Oh, and if you buy a hat, make sure it's a stetson.

 

I always try to create the aesthetic of a hot house cucumberish john thomas using my sweet gerken medium.

 

I have a weakness for William Castle.

 

Great Sting's Lute, that's hilarious.

 

I'll join in the chorus of praise for this film.

 

Inseresting conceit and style, but the undergraduate philosophizing ultimately made it a failure. (Albeit an ambitious failure, like All That Jazz.)

Later that night, my shortie woke up and wouldn't fall back asleep, so I sat with him in the living room and watched 2/3 of The Newton Boys. Several years from now, when I think about my child's first few months of life, I will also think of Richard Linklater. (I watched Suburbia under similar circumstances.)

 

I can't believe he's done with martial arts films.

 

About as done as Jay-Z was with rap.

 

I thought a "shortie" was a man pickle.

 

Loved it. I'm going to go ahead and say it was better than Children of Men and miles ahead of Babel.

 

The movie, "Brick". Although I would have cast these guys in the main rolls. Or anybody, really..

If this story were given to 10 different directors, eight would screw it up, and two would have made it lots better than what it was.

The transition from the first meeting in the basement to upstairs, with mom pouring the cornflakes, was definately a smile.

I think its a nice story with the creator trying to get the thing made at all, but at the end of the day, it's got to be interesting. This wasn't.

 

just saw, " A Scanner Darkly" adapted from the Phillip K. Dick sci-fi novel. It was confusing and odd like a Hunter S. Thompson novel. Linklater revised the "live animation" style from Slacker where live action is shot and then layered over by computer animation. I liked it.

 

The Prestige.

Which was enjoyable if not for a few late plot developments I didn't much care for. The guy playing Tesla was pretty good, though.

 

Joyeux Noël



just so and so.... slightly disappointed!!!

 

You just call him "the guy"?

 

Loved it.