Movies I've been watching

[Signed, Eric Cecil]

Watched "Manhattan" last night.  Dug it, but it seemed a helluva lot longer than 90 minutes. 

[Mattfactor]

I finally saw The Proposition yesterday and it was good.

[Dulcinea]

I finally saw The Proposition yesterday and it was good.

Yeah, I remember I went to the premiere with a few folks and we all ended up having to drink whiskey afterwards. That dinner scene toward the end was pretty intense!

[Swampy]

Tonight, I'm watching "This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse", which I feel is the best film of director/star Jose Mojica Marins a.ka. "Coffin Joe."  It's predessor, "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" is great, of course, but this one takes it all a step further.  I haven't watched these films in awhile (I've had the coffin-shaped box-set of the "Coffin Joe Trilogy" for a few years now), because I only like to watch them when I don't have any distractions.  Some of the best weird horror films ever made.  Made in Brazil.  Surreal.  Shocking! I'm a fan of Coffin Joe's eyebrow movements and top hat.

http://www.horror-wood.com/possess_corpse.htm

The hell scene at the end of "This Night..." is a piece of cinematic beauty/terror.


Coffin Joe is badass.  Nuff' said.

[three chord youth]

The Big Sleep
Key Largo
Nightmare alley
Forbidden Zone
The Lost Weekend
the Killers -1946 version-
Born to Kill
.          .             .           .           .
Busty Cops 2
Sexual Surrender
do those count?

I saw a PBS show on tv talking about movies. There was one with a man an a woman, an old film from the 30's or 40's. They were dressed up as cowboy/cowgirl and robbing a bank. I didn't see what the film was called but I'd really like to see it. It said it was the first time they had ever put sound recording equipment in/on a car. It's also all one shot from when they pull up ro rob a bank until the guy comes out with the money. After that they drive 2 miles with no cuts to make their getaway. Needless to say, it was really shot like that and not on some studio lot. The credits at the end of the tv special went by so very fast I was not able to catch the name of the 6 or 7 film that were used in the show to look them up. I'd love to see that film and see if it's at neat as it looked.

[Richie]

Tonight, I'm watching "This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse", which I feel is the best film of director/star Jose Mojica Marins a.ka. "Coffin Joe."  It's predessor, "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" is great, of course, but this one takes it all a step further.  I haven't watched these films in awhile (I've had the coffin-shaped box-set of the "Coffin Joe Trilogy" for a few years now), because I only like to watch them when I don't have any distractions.  Some of the best weird horror films ever made.  Made in Brazil.  Surreal.  Shocking! I'm a fan of Coffin Joe's eyebrow movements and top hat.

http://www.horror-wood.com/possess_corpse.htm

The hell scene at the end of "This Night..." is a piece of cinematic beauty/terror.


Coffin Joe is badass.  Nuff' said.

I just watched "At Midnight.." on IFC. So great. Seeing shit like this unexpectedly makes cable worth having.

[Jared]

I like "Ghost World" a lot, but I'm a big Clowes fan. 

I could pretty much say the exact same thing.  Haven't seen Art School Confedential yet, heard mixed things.  How the fuck did they turn a four-page comic into a full-length film?

Recently saw Happy Feet and was pleasantly surprised.  Aside from a few corny song & dance moments (which were to be expected) I thought this was a really good movie.  Not only that but the animation was the best I'd ever seen of its kind.  I normally hate computer animation feeling that it's cheepened things for today's youth and I'd rather have the "real thing."  Not the case here.

[jeff g]

Just watched "C.R.A.Z.Y." last night, a 2005 film from Quebec that was critically well received up here, and for good reason. It's a pretty standard story (fucked up family) but every aspect of the film was incredibly well pulled off making it one of the better Canadian movies I've seen.

[three chord youth]

They just released Border Radio on dvd. Criterion did the job.

I've been watching some James Cagney cinema; White Heat, Roaring Twenties, The Public Enemy. I can't find a good list or website w/ information on good old gangster flicks. Ain't never really seen any.

The Seven-Ups
gwendoline
Night and the City
Cutey Honey
Talk Radio
Black Angel
Nightmare city
Panic in the Streets

[scott b]

i've been hitting the music box's 50 years of Janus films and the film center's retrospective of kieslowski films.

400 blows
antoine and colette - i wonder if truffaut really worked at phillips and stuffed records?
beauty and the beast - cocteaus finest
rules of the game - best movie of all time?  its up there
double life of veronique - wow!

as three cord youth stated above border radio comes out tomorrow, which is amazing.  chris d is great. 

also mouchette comes out tomrrow on criterion, and is probably one of my favorites and most depressing movies ever made.  if you have never seen a bresson movie do not start with this one!!!!

tonight cleo 5 to 7 plays at the music box, and i just might go

[Dulcinea]

Le Samourai

[SteveBeat]

My lil sis just got a French movie from Netflix called "Fat Girl".  I guess it is really sad, really fucked up, and really scary.  I didn't watch it because I didn't feel like being depressed.  She loves movies and recommends it highly, though.  Warning: extreme sexual content.

[Signed, Eric Cecil]

Demons

[erickelric]

Herzog's Wild Blue Yonder was pretty dumb. Thought/hoped it was gonna be end of 2001 jams for an hour plus. Instead it was badly-written "narrative" with scenes from NASA and undersea adventures. Maybe 10 good minutes of superAwesome scenes, part. underwater/end, but, well, dumb. If you randomly turned on PBS one night and this was on, you'd be stoked. Theatre/renting, snoooooze.

Jackass2, now that was good.

[Christina]

Just saw Mouth To Mouth. It was interesting, girl hates everything, joins cult, cult ends up being too creepy... Max from the Deadly Snakes has a pretty big part in it as a spazzy, ex-junkie.