I rather liked Suicide Club.
By the by, I'm nabbing The Black Cat based partially on your enthusiasm for it, Rowland. I've been meaning to check out some Ulmer, so this seems as good a start as any.
I rather liked Suicide Club.
By the by, I'm nabbing The Black Cat based partially on your enthusiasm for it, Rowland. I've been meaning to check out some Ulmer, so this seems as good a start as any.
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Excellent, though I should warn you in advance that its pleasures aren't as immediate as those in the other exceptional Universal horror films of the era; you have to work a bit more to pick them up, but it's worth it.Quoting Brightside (view post)
If you're renting the DVD, be sure to check out the other movies on the disk, which include the amusing, if overly schlocky, The Raven, and especially the underrated Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
I'm desperately lacking in the realm of classic horror earlier than, say, Psycho, so I've got Whale's Frankenstein and The Black Cat at the ready as a starting point.Quoting Rowland (view post)
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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I laughed more through this risible rocker costume party than The Wackness. Cherie's sister sounds exactly like Jan Brady.Quoting Boner M (view post)
"You promised I could go on tour! So what, I'm supposed to stay here? Again? Making tacos...!"
I'm writing for Slant Magazine now, so check out my list of reviews.
Hopefully I'll have the energy to update my signature soon.
Awesome. Getting paid to go to the Telluride Film Festival this year. Housing and food is paid for too!
Cool. Count me in with the "I thought this was pretty great" group.Quoting Boner M (view post)
Good Naruse film, but I liked Sound of the Mountain more. They were my 2nd and 3rd films by him, so it has been awhile since I've seen them. Do you have the MoC box? If so, Repast is really good too.Quoting Boner M (view post)
Oh yeah. I saw Suicide Club like a week ago. It was kind of messy in ways that I thought detracted from its potential for greatness, but there was, I think, a very good core, and several great scenes. Still eager to check out more Sion Sono films (just got Love Exposure!).
The Black Cat is awesome.
Giving up in 2020. Who cares.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima) *½
The Marksman (Robert Lorenz) **
Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
Quoting number8 (view post)
After Pink Flamingos (which I loved, don't get me wrong) and being flat-out disappointed by Cecil B. Demented and A Dirty Shame, I thought the only proper movie John Waters had done was Hairspray. But Pecker had me laughing for a long time. The story is simple and the filmmaking is basic, but Waters has done an inspired job of casting - Christina Ricci's character Shelley here is the best use of the actress I've seen in some time. It's a forgettable movie but filled with on-the-nose comedy that worked for me.
Weekend:
The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Makhmalbaf, 2000)
Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2006)
I'm also planning to take another look at Mysterious Object at Noon.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Weekend:
Comedy of Innocence (Ruiz, 2000)
Revanche (Spielmann, 2008)
The Moon in the Gutter (Beineix, 1983)
Great cover for The Magician. Been waiting for that to get a release.
Two very good movies. Two excellent covers.
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
Criterion, you know just how to woo me.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Dinner for Schmucks was disposable but pretty funny overall. Rudd is a bit bland here but Galifianakis, Jermaine Clement and Carrell carry the show. The central romance felt very forced but whatever.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Rewatching Shakespeare in Love last night made me think how bad a serious Shakespeare biopic would be. It would be the worst, right?
That movie is god-awful.Quoting Winston* (view post)
Nah, it's good.Quoting Clipper Ship Captain (view post)
Depends on who's directing, but most options, I'd agree with you.Quoting Winston* (view post)
A Peter Watkins Shakespeare biopic would be awesome. He's pretty old now though.
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
Yeah, it gets a bad rap from those miffed it won BP, but it's pretty darn solid. Better than the film everyone thought should win I would say.Quoting Winston* (view post)
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
Better than The Thin Red Line? Nah.Quoting Raiders (view post)
I was thinking of him or Maurice Pialat, though I'm sure there are others who could pull off an outside-the-box biopic.Quoting Spinal (view post)