The cinema thread

[Diego]

Lol, yeah... who knows what Roman had in mind. Nekromantik's fx are actually good, low budget but they do the job, aftermath's are much better.

I'll let you know what I think of taxidermia, right now I'm just waiting for Jackson's braindead release (October 6th).

[maldoror]

no shit! I haven't seen dead alive (what braindead goes by here in the states) in years, but I probably watched it 40 times over the course of high school, so I've still got the film practically memorized. even so, it might be about time for the revisitation . . . thanks for the reminder.

[mass]

salo is definitely worth watching... but i guess if you aren't a fan of pasolini then it shouldn't be at the top of your list. i recommend teorema, or accattone, although i think all of his films are great.

i had the salo criterion once.

[maldoror]

^I'm guessing P got the reissue. much nicer edition this time around (despite high collector's price, image quality was pretty abysmal on the old one, noticeably worse than the criterion laserdisc that preceded it)

[mass]

oh right, i had forgotten they reissued it.

[AKA*NYC]

no shit! I haven't seen dead alive (what braindead goes by here in the states) in years, but I probably watched it 40 times over the course of high school, so I've still got the film practically memorized. even so, it might be about time for the revisitation . . . thanks for the reminder.

Too bad the director sold out hard.

[Diego]

Bad taste, meet the feebles, braindead (dead alive), and forgotten silver... he can retire now.

edit- one day I'll find this fucker, live in the office

[philip nod]

this should be good

Serbis
Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008]
Director: Brillante Mendoza, Country: Philippines/France, Release: 2008, Runtime: 90

Raw and uncompromising, the seventh feature by Brillante Mendoza (Foster Child, ND/NF 2008), channeling both Fassbinder and John Waters, follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles.

Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real star of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. Clearly at one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion.

Mendoza brilliantly captures here the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.

A bold, challenging work from one of the recently energized Filipino cinema’s most interesting talents.

and i heard brangelina will be attending:


Changeling
Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008]
Director: Clint Eastwood, Country: USA, Release: 2008, Runtime: 140

Clint Eastwood’s 28th film proves to be one of his best and most ambitious, weaving the tangled threads of an extraordinary true-crime tale. The year is 1928, the place Los Angeles, where single mother Christine Collins returns home from work to discover that her 10-year-old son Walter has disappeared. A nationwide manhunt follows, but when the police find Walter several months later and reunite him with a grateful Christine, it’s not the end but merely the beginning of this stranger-than-fiction mystery.

Featuring Angelina Jolie in a stunning performance that evokes the great star turns of 1930s melodramas, Changeling is at once the harrowing story of a woman wronged and a serpentine portrait of city corruption reminiscent of Chinatown and Touch of Evil. It is also Eastwood’s most provocative inquiry yet into the grey areas between good and evil – and the moral ambiguity of what we call justice.

A Universal Pictures release.

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Last Tango In Paris dir. Bernardo Bertolucci(1973)

[electric_alyce]

currently watching:



so disturbing

[airboyair]

wtf!

edit: glad the obscene spammer is gone.

[kira]

Whoa!!! That's not cool

[Servo2000]

At the very least, he put it in the right section.

[kira]

At the very least, he put it in the right section.

[a cretin hopped]

wait... is "george carlin" in the middle of all that just so anyone looking up the seven dirty words skit will hit the spam?

cause... that's sort of genius.