The cinema thread

[endtroducing]

I imagine someone has already touched on this, but I just saw RACHEL GETTING MARRIED and thought it was fantastic. Extremely well written, well shot character piece. Demme can be fantastic when he wants to. And given the story, it would have been so easy to slip into a pretentious judgement piece or let the characters off with some kind of "feel-good" ending. I recommend it. And everyone should see The Spirit of the Beehive too. Just throwing that out there. Cheers!
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[sam_tem]

bird people in china - decent, but can't say i enjoyed it that much

burn after reading - had a few laughs once it all came together, but unfortunately i had already lost interest after the first 10 minutes. i've never been a coen brothers fan though. (edit: and i couldn't help but think that Brad Pitt was just trying to do an impression of the bike messenger off Spaced)

the cure - watched it last night and really enjoyed this. perfect for late nights and oncoming cold fronts.

the hustler - sort of a classic so not much to say. paul newman was great in it.

hopefully i'll have time to watch the wwe royal rumble and treasure in sierra madre tonight.

[Diego]

bird people in china - decent, but can't say i enjoyed it that much

Same here, actually I can say that for all of Miike's work.

[Jorge Hache]

Agree with Miike's comments, when i first read about him i though it would be the kind of movies that i really enjoy (bold, experimental, weird/quirky), but so far i've seen like ten movies (visitor q, suriyaki western django, izo, gozu, dead or alive, happiness of the katakuris, audition, ichi the killer, bird people in china, fudoh) and even like almost all of them not love anyone, in fact i didn't own any on my personal collection.

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

recently:

Lang's Die Nibelungen
Pasolini's Arabian nights
Song's spider forest
Palfi's Taxidermia (amazing!!... Thanks Maldoror)

I don't know if you already have heard, but BFI is releasing at
the end of April, a Pasolini volume titled "Trilogy Of Life", which
includes "Decameron", "Canterbury Tales" and "Arabian Nights".
The newly Released "Salo" was great, so I'm very much looking
forward to this!

[Huxley]

Recently watched...

Hunger-Amazing, gritty, visceral, blew my mind.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist- Boring.
Dirty Pretty Things-It was alright, but forgettable.

[Faust]

Saw Vicky Christina Barcelona on a plane. Daft.

[Diego]

I don't know if you already have heard, but BFI is releasing at
the end of April, a Pasolini volume titled "Trilogy Of Life", which
includes "Decameron", "Canterbury Tales" and "Arabian Nights".
The newly Released "Salo" was great, so I'm very much looking
forward to this!

Thanks for the info BI!!, didn't know. I just preordered the blu-ray through amazon.uk... stoked

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

^That was fast, I must admit I preordered it to,
even though I'm not keen on waiting this long
And you're welcome!

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Rosas danst Rosas dir. Thierry De Mey(1997)
Based on the Choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Music by Peter Vermeersch and Thierry De Mey






Smoke dir. Mats Ek(1995)
Based on the Choreography by Mats Ek
Music by Arvo Pärt

[doldrums]

I just saw Flight of the Red Balloon by Hou Hsiao Hsien upon a friend's recommendation. So so good.

It reminded me of the late 90s when the Iranian new wave guys (kiarostami, panahi, makhmalbad(sp?) ) were blowing up in the states and you couldnt get away from it. Which reminded me of how in the late 90s, little kids were so "cool" - from those child centered movies to Nobukazu Takemura, Aki Tsuyuko, Boards of canada and of course the best of all - nuno canavarro, and all those guys injecting a childlike feeling into all their music.

10 years ago was a good time.

Also, on subject of kids - feel the need to repost this short adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWmahMdeGU

If you havent seen it, I highly recommend it (its divided into 3 parts). Will break your heart.

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Are you afraid of women, Doctor?
Of course.



The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Philip Kaufman(1988)

[sam_tem]

casablanca - been on a bogart kick recently so i figured i'd plunge into it. never saw it before and i always figured it would be some long winding epic or something being how widely esteemed it is popular culture so i was quite surprised that it came off as neither an epic or what one would consider one of the most classic movies of all time. it was certainly a good film so i won't deny it it's praise but i imagine it must hve benefited from being the right film at the right time.

[Diego]

This weekend I stayed home with my wife and watched:

Zhang Yimou's Raise the red lantern
Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a marriage
Peter Greenaway's Pillow book
Roman Polanski's Bitter moon (Vangelis main theme still in my head)

[Faust]

Are you afraid of women, Doctor?
Of course.



The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Philip Kaufman(1988)

So good. But can't hold a candle to the book. Pure sex.