K: I will have to look it up I have never heard of it.
I just watched It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World...it's good but dated and I found it a little annoying, just some of the dated attitudes to women and African Americans got pushed a little too much.
Young Frankenstein on the other hand still funny....Blazing Saddles and YF compete in my head as the American Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Holy grail is still the better movie but Blazing Saddles is close....
I am getting the urge to watch 24 Hour Party People again.... Love the music.
Recent films I've seen (apart from the obvious big ones like Avengers):
Age of Adaline - Eh, it was okay. The narration felt really over the top, and the attempt to pseudo-science explain her no longer aging irritated me, but amused one of my friends, so your mileage may vary.
Shaun the Sheep - Loved it. Big fan of Aardman, and this was great. Kind of scary for little kids though at times, there were quite a few toddlers crying in the audience. The blink and you'll miss it Silence of the Lambs reference was great as well. Bonus points for having a Shaun the Sheep rap playing over the credits, got a chuckle out my group.
The Book of Life - Words can't describe how much I loved this film. Beautifully animated, well cast, and just all round enjoyable.
Black Sea - Really tense Jude Law action thriller. Again, great cast (love Ben Mendelson and Jude Law, and Konstantin Khabensky is always good). Atmospheric and generally unwilling to pull punches.
It Follows - Terrifying. I slept with the hallway lights on afterwards. The music and atmosphere felt like an old school John Carpenter horror film, and the concept is interesting as when you think about it, it's basically a coming of age film from a different angle, in that it's looking at some of the potential horrors and dark sides of what we look forward to about growing up (the monster in this is basically a sexually transmitted ghost or demon or something).
I have to take my girls to see Shaun. Love Aardman as well.
I keep trying to watch Stalker but have fallen asleep at the same scene twice.
Damn, Tarkovsky films move slow.
Finish/Russian horror movie called Sauna freaked me out.
It's set in the1500's in Russia/what was Sweden at the time... Good to watch before. A certain AP.
I have to take my girls to see Shaun. Love Aardman as well.
It's a lot of fun. Forgot to mention it before, but I think there may be a Shawshank Redemption reference in there as well. Either it's a deliberate reference or just a coincidence, but either way it amused me.
Watched Ex Machina last night, and loved every minute of it.
Really good quality, relatively low budget sci-fi film about a man interacting with an AI to test if it's truly conscious. Also the directorial debut of Alex Garland (he wrote Dredd and Sunshine).
Iron Sky 2 has Hitler on a T-Rex....Link
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Super Battleship Yamoto
The Black Goblin made me watch this one, one afternoon. Later, he made me watch the cartoon. It was fun.
Watched Ex Machina last night,
Just saw it also. Wanted to like it...it brings up some interesting questions in a Philip K Dick style of what is humanity. But it was those same questions and nothing new. There are a LOT of places where it could've veered off and covered new ground. Loved the low-budget-ness of the film and it was beautifully shot, but the writing didnt go far enough for me to not be disappointed.
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Based on a true story movie about a police captain who gets fed up with serving the apartheid system of 1980:s South Africa and starts using his knowledge to rob banks instead.
Nothing innovative about it, but it makes excellent use of tried and trusted themes and ideas, has across-the-boards good acting, and has the advantage of being set in a milieu we don't see that often in my part of the world - and when we do see it, it's usually hagiographies like Invictus or Very Serious Films about the horrors of apartheid.
(Don't get me wrong, apartheid was horrible enough that I wish the boards didn't have a swear filter to keep me from giving it it's proper description - but you can show that without hitting us on the nose with it every time.)
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I love heist movies can I suggest
Two Hands
Idiot Box
Malcom
Chopper Based on a real criminal.
The Hard Word
Based on a true story movie about a police captain who gets fed up with serving the apartheid system of 1980:s South Africa and starts using his knowledge to rob banks instead.
Nothing innovative about it, but it makes excellent use of tried and trusted themes and ideas, has across-the-boards good acting, and has the advantage of being set in a milieu we don't see that often in my part of the world - and when we do see it, it's usually hagiographies like Invictus or Very Serious Films about the horrors of apartheid.
I enjoyed that one.
I have start forming my list of British heist movies.
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I'm going to throw a documentary into the lists:
One of the most interesting interview movies ever made, it presents insights into some of modern history's defining events by one of the men heavily involved in them: Robert S. McNamara.
Les Seigneurs: The local football team on a tiny island off the Breton coast has to reach the 9th round of the French Cup in order to save the cannery everyone on the island works at - hires an extremely down on his luck old star as manager and feel-good hilarity ensues as he gets some other old players to come join him in a place that has neither WiFi nor PlayStations.
Local Hero meets Slapshot and there's way more than six laughs to be had. In addition, there's a nice one-scene cameo by Jean Reno, and we find out what you have to be called to make you decide that shortening it to Le Pen is an improvement.
American Hustle (which I thought was pretty overrated, though the chicks were hawt)
Let the Fire Burn (again)
and
Django Unchained again.
Latter, I had the pleasure to introduce to the Nigerian Princess who had written a paper on black masculinity in the film even though, she sheepishly admitted, she hadn't seen the movie.
I watched the original Robocop last night. I thought it would be dated but I liked it, it was rated R for the violence. I still think it's hilarious that the bad guy is the dad from That 70's Show.
I only got to watch the first half; pretty intense shiznit.
After four attempts, finally made it through the whole thing. Worth it, I thought.
In addition to the movies above, I watched way too much television on my vacation.
Saw more Supernatural then I would have liked, an episode of Game of Thrones which, comparing to the parts I've read, bores me, Buffy up to the introduction of Faith and Season 4 of 30 Rock which, with its episodes about striking pages, unionized South Asian janitors and its depiction of Boston as populated by nothing but drunken, violent hockey fans all named Sean, was a real hoot.
Started watching John Huston's adaptation of Joyce's "The Dead," but didn't get very far.
Finished watching The Dead but there doesn't seem to be a trailer on youtube. :(
Also watched
Dead Man which I didn't enjoy as much as I did when I was 18;
Dillinger which is awesome and features Warren Oates running around screaming "I'm John Dillinger!" and sexually assaulting Michelle Phillipps of The Mamas and Papas fame;
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which makes this post actually international; and
Tonight my leftie coalition group is holding a screening of Pride so I can finally cross that off my to-see list.
Finished watching The Dead but there doesn't seem to be a trailer on youtube. :(
Also watched
Dead Man which I didn't enjoy as much as I did when I was 18;
Dillinger which is awesome and features Warren Oates running around screaming "I'm John Dillinger!" and sexually assaulting Michelle Phillipps of The Mamas and Papas fame;
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which makes this post actually international; and
Tonight my leftie coalition group is holding a screening of Pride so I can finally cross that off my to-see list.
Huh. Jeff Goldblum lends a surprising amount of interest to that last one... Well, I'll put it on the list.
If you're a Jarsmusch fan Doodlebug, have you seen Only Lovers Left Alive? It's how a vampire romance should be done.
I haven't seen that, no. And, to be honest, Earth Girls... should have been three to four times better.
Also, I never realized it was a Julien Temple film before.
A Michael Caine triptych:
Zulu
Alfie
and
Dressed to Kill
Also,
It Happened One Night
and
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
again.
Last night's CAJE film showing for the tenth anniversary of Katrina:
While in Brooklyn this weekend, watched 12 Years a Slave while La Principessa was at school.
Just came back from a CAJE fundraiser at an actual movie theater where we watched The Central Park Five. With a projectionist and everything! Sure beats the mostly illegal streaming-off-a-laptop-through-a-projector-onto-a-white-wall that is most CAJE film showings.
[Bumps for Comrade Dwarf]
I haven't seen many movies since October, alas.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
Stalker
Five Broken Cameras
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story
I think that's it.
Wow, I haven't watched a movie since April?!?
I think what did it for me was all the Fats Waller.
Ted 2 which I liked more than I thought I would, and I never even saw Ted 1.
Free State of Jones which was pretty badass and features the only cinematic scenes of Reconstruction ("Union League! Union League!"), minus Birth of a Nation of course.
District 9 which I had never seen before and liked quite a bit. Watched it along with some Vice News pieces on The Jungle in Calais, which was quite a mind blower.
And, this evening, went over a friend's and watched Crimson Peak which I had a hard time taking seriously because [bubble bubble bubble] but it was fun to call out other films it reminded me of--"Notorious!" "The Shining!" "Jane Eyre!"
Over the holidays I went to the flicks twice, once to see the Star Wars movie, which was enjoyable, and once to see the Harry Potter flick, which made me fall asleep (I wanted to see Moana but was outvoted).
Last night watched a free, butchered version of All About Eve on youtube at Mr. Comrade's, where half of the time the actors' heads were off the screen, and it was still awesome. Mr. Comrade got sucked in, despite the lack of heads, and I was kinda blown away even though I'd seen it before, with heads. A couple of the Margo Channing scenes reminded me of La Principessa and some of the Eve Harrington scenes reminded me of, well, two to three of Mr. Comrade's exes, including Ex-Mrs. Comrade. I know how big this film was for the gay community over the years, but I should look into feminist readings of it one day. Kinda struck me as halfway between complete realism and misogyny, but I'm a white dude so what do I know.
Anyway, great flick.
As part of my newly started campaign to show Mr. Comrade a bunch of classics he hasn't seen, I watched
and
We also tried to watch The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen cuz he wanted to watch something stupid, but he made me turn it off.
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I recently watched Let’s Eat! and Heartfall Arises.
Unfortunately both were in Cantonese without subtitles, and my Cantonese is a bit rusty (ok, almost non-existent). Let’s Eat was easy enough to follow even with the language barrier (and there are some parts in English which helped), but frankly was somewhat boring and predictable. I would have preferred more focus on the food and less on the tension and later romance between the chef and the restaurant manager, neither of whom came across as particularly charismatic characters, though maybe that was lost in translation.
I had fun with Heartfall Arises, though possibly half the fun was trying to figure out what the hell was going on. There is a murderer who dies (almost certainly) and then (possibly, maybe?) comes back to life, a cop who gets the murderer’s heart transplanted into him and then seems to be able to view the murderer’s memories and/or POV, and a cop and/or psychiatrist who’s motives are suspect. Having said that, it was also somewhat predictable, as I picked the real bad guy on about his second appearance despite not understanding any of the dialogue and the fact that I think that was supposed to be the film’s big twist. Not bad, but not near as good as the Infernal Affairs series.
A couple of the Margo Channing scenes reminded me of La Principessa...
Talked to her on the phone the other night; asked her if she ever saw it and she told me how, once upon a time, she had to perform one of the scenes in front of a high school drama class with a dreamy soccer player and it made her really uncomfortable.
It was, of course, the same scene.
(IIRC, Bette and Gary got married after that flick.)
Latest three:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
and
Eurotrip which was terrible and from which I learned that Americans are ignorant and homophobic.
Classics Department
Foreign Fantasy Film Department
The latter had flashback scenes to when two of the tomb raiders were Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution. Flashback scenes include a bunch of ardent Maoists waving their Little Red Books at ghosts and chanting "We are materialists and materialists are fearless" before they get ripped to shreds. Also, the way to propose marriage in this movie is to ask "Would you like to sublimate our innocent comradeship in revolution?"
Had a child not too long ago:
Kiddies Department
Fantasy Film Department
Foreign Fantasy Department
Vendor - Fantasiapelit Tampere
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Hmm, I did not see someone mentioning Flukt (Escape), 2012 movie from Roar Uthaug of Cold Prey fame. Definitely worth seeing. Set in 1300's Norway, Flukt is dark, intense and beautiful movie. If you are a fan of more realistic movies set in the middle ages and in a setting without knights or stuff like that. And also it has Ingrid Bolso-Berdal, one of my favorite actresses.
Had a snow day yesterday and binged on our new Netflix streaming account.
Pretty unhappy with it, so far. Looked up, like 100 old movies I wanted to watch and they had only three of them. On the other hand, they've got a lot of tv shows I've never watched.
Spent yesterday binging on Archer and for breaks,
Mr. Comrade referred to it halfway through as a "gay movie" and I was like, huh?, and he was like, "Everytime I mention an old movie that you've shown me on Facebook, my Gay Fan Club (he has two: one on the East Coast and one on the West) are all over it." (So far, only the East Coast contingent have commented on his Facebook post). Later, Mr. Cormade complained that I keep showing him movies that ruin him for less awesome fair. "How am I supposed to go back to watching crappy horror flicks after I've seen Sunset Boulevard? Good question, I thought.
When I typed "John Carpenter" into the Netflix search engine, all that I got was Big Trouble in Little China which we watched, even though we've both seen it a dozen times.
Had a child VISITING not too long ago:
I have not reproduced.
[Collective sigh of relief]
What can I say, I like Westerns that are, allegedly, metaphors about McCarthyism. Particularly when they star Grace Kelly and Katy Jurado.
More Chow Yun Fat! I saw that this was available for streaming and thought, "You know, I can't remember ever actually watching this." Five minutes later, I was like, "Oh yeah, I remember this."
I watched this documentary this morning, then went on Facebook and discovered that they are showing it tomorrow on campus. Oh well.