If Sunset Blvd. was my last post then I'm waaay behind on this thread...

Omega Man - always good for a laugh, even though it's not a comedy, it's just very 'old'
On the Waterfront - Brilliant... I LOVED it!
Key Largo - Dare I say, YAWN
To Catch a Thief - Loved Grace and Cary
Benjamin Button - Enjoyed the storyline, very unique
Pillow Talk - saw this at the local historic theater, last in the fall classic film series

Up next = Roman Holiday

The Unborn
The American President (one of my faves!)
Summer Catch
Rosemary's Baby
Kate And Leopold (also ones of my faves)
The Breed

love, love this movie!!!~

Mary Tyler Moore is a ****ing psycho, surprisingly enough. :distress: :lol:

You did not watch that movie, you liar. Liar, liar.

I watched my two new Judge Judy DVDs, & then I watched "Kid Galahad" with Cagney & Davis. No, not Jim Davis -- Bette Davis.

:lol: I did, & read the book. ;)

I saw The Reader. Very good movie. I would say more
but I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone.

I re-watched three movies that are not available on dvd but are available on my dvr (I burned them for a friend for his birthday).

All 3 are by Frank Borzage, one of my ten favoritest filmmakers of all time. These *might* be my very favoritest of his movies and are among the very greatest of all time. I call them the "military" trilogy. *whistle* (they are not war movies, by the way) Definately worth checking out on TCM sometime!

No Greater Glory (1934)
Shipmates Forever (1935)
The Stage Door Canteen (1943)

i can't wait to see this, i loved the books & 'twilight'~

& titanic is my fav movie of all time:o~

Finally time to catch up on some movies.

Public Enemies. Thought it was good. Why do we always pull for the bad guys?

Star Trek. About as lame as the old TV show, but with awesome sound.

Passengers. Liked this one very much. First Anne Hathaway movie that I've liked.

Vicki Cristina Barcelona. Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson....eye candy.

Doubt. Hard to watch, but very good acting.

Frost/Nixon. Very interesting political movie.

The Taking of Pelham 123. If you like hearing the "F" word rent this.

Last Chance Harvey. I don't have children, but a few scenes will make you
hurt for Dustin Hoffman's charecter.

The Corpse Bride. I bought this on Blu ray disc and it looks and sounds awesome.

^^^ i love that movie very much and john travolta is crazy "you're my ****ing hero"

today in about 2 hrs i will be watching Inglorious Bastards with by friend alexa...getting ready to go to her house now we were supposed to be watching crows zero 2 but she doesnt have it..

Australia...i loved this movie and the little boy in it is really cute (creamy?? really can ppl be any more original? sucks that ppl were/still are soooooo ignorant that they could kill there own kid just because they are a different race..)

if only they still had the Japanese Horror section on FearNet but for some reason they took it off.. i recommend watching One Missed Call 1,2 &3 of course the american version of the movie is really stupid and the ringtone isnt even creepy.. (i have the japanese ringtone on my phone) but i will say that the american vers of the Eye wasnt really all that bad..but i wont say it was amazing either..it was just eh.

Had you not gone to college & studied Hollywood movies, post-colonialism, post-gender identity, post-modernism, post-marxism, post-Foucaultism, post-auteurism, post-Baudrillardism, post-Derridaism, & every other post-this-&-that theory, would you still consider "Stage Door Canteen" one of the "very greatest" movies of all time? Be honest!

Did you cry when De Caprio, frozen nearly stiff, slid beneath the surface of the black sea?

I've rewatched some of my all-time favorite movies in the last two or so weeks:

Stardust Memories: Probably my favorite film of all time, even if just for one scene of the entire movie.
8 1/2: I don't think a lot of people would argue that this is the best film to ever come out of Italy.
An Education: Awesome movie. It might still be in theaters, although you'd have to really look... only our local CineArts played it.
Dead Poet's Society: The writer in me dies a little bit every time I watch this movie. Why is this not my life? Why can't I walk around my school quoting Tennyson all the time? Oh wait, I do.... its just that I get laughed at.
Doubt: We actually watched this in my Christian Vocations class last week, even though I've seen in multiple times before that. My teacher's intention in showing the film was definitely not pro-Catholic, so a nice little classroom "debate" erupted afterward. :) Meryl Streep is perfect.
The English Patient: Not one of my favorites by a long shot, but I did watch this after reading the book.... in comparison to how unbelievably perfect the novel is, the movie was disappointing. So if you like the movie, READ THE BOOK.

It isn't even the best film to ever come out of Fellini, let alone Italy!

Think of all the great work from De Sica, Rossellini, Antonioni, Visconti, the Taviani brothers, & my favorite Bellocchio!

I can't think of anything else to say that would be appropriate for using yet another exclamation point!

How are you today, Dani?!!!!!!

I was about to say the same thing!

Though you forgot Bertolucci!

What would be my pick for greatest movie to come out of Italy? L'Avventura! (Though when I was her age, my favorite was Shoeshine.)

As for appropriate hyperbole, I think one could argue this: 8-1/2 is the most beautiful black-and-white movie of the 60s!!!!

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Well, I don't know. I wouldn't be me. That said: Borzage was not one of the filmmakers we studied at my film school.

I watched Paranormal Activity with my 13 year old.... :eek:

What'd you think?

I thought it was actually pretty humorous and it wasn't all that scary, until the last two minutes. :eek:
That very last scene was creeeeeepy!

And apparently it affected me somehow because I couldn't sleep the night that I watched it. :(

Well I made sure I watched it in the morning..haha. I thought it was ok. A couple of bits made me jump. The copy I 'obtained' had the original ending which was as scary as the new ending..lol (watch it on youtube if you haven't seen it).

christmas w/ the kranks
a christmas story~

I watched The Way We Were the other day. I shouldn't like that movie, but I do.

To clarify: You definately DON'T need such academic background to appreciate and respond to the movies of Frank Borzage.

South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut

(again)

(love that "Kyle's Mom" song that Cartman performs!)

You've Got Mail

Public Enemies

haha yes, what a classic. :laugh:

i like the quote: "haven't you ever heard of the emancipation proclamation?"
"i don't listen to rap music" hahaha

A few more movies........

Inglourious Basterds. I thought I would like this Quentin Tarantino
movie because I'd liked the Kill Bill series, and Death Proof. But
I was wrong. What a waist of time. I did like some of the music, like Bowie's
"Cat People" (Putting Out The Fire). Tarantino's strength seems to be bloody
death scenes and music.

Inkheart. Didn't really expect to like this fantasy movie (kind of begs
the question, why would I rent movie(s) that I don't think I'll like). But it turned
out to be very entertaining. The movie made me want to read a book, and I guess
that's a good thing.

I'm still waiting on my copies of the new Terminator movie, and The Legend of
Boggy Creek to show up.

I wish we had a vomit smiley

Roman Holiday = Love to watch Audrey.... she's just so entertaining.

I'm currently trying to work my way through Grapes of Wrath, but the disk skips in several places, so have to send it back for a new one and try again. I've enjoyed what I've seen so far. Couldn't help but think of The Beverly Hillbillies as they drove that loaded down pick up truck across the country to Calif. on Route 66. All the actors who play the "hicks" (the Joad family) are just FABULOUS! Henry Fonda is always a joy to watch.

Senses of Cinema invited me to participate in their annual poll again this year. Thought my "ballot" might interest The Ledge:

By far the best new movie I saw in '09, Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo (Raging Sun, Raging Sky, Julian Hernandez, 2009) also rightfully owns the number 3 spot on the Best of ‘00s list. However, the film distribution-and-critical hegemony keeps the movie from reaching the audience it deserves. Hernandez seemingly recognizes his circumstance in the film-cult machine: the era's best new filmmaker relegated to the cinema's gay ghetto (currently his RSRS is available only for festival rentals). Yet, his work does not fit any "gay movie" conventions (lazy critics compare him to the early 1990s New Queer Cinema when Antonioni and Ophuls would be more apt). So in a subversive modernist twist--a relatively minor detail in the film's teeming nexus--Hernandez decorates a porn theater box office with promo stills from his own short Bramadero (an erotic meditation on death). Significantly: "bramadero" means "tethering post." Although restricted by film-cult hegemony (effectively: censorship), Hernandez's unabashed gay erotic content ties him to a deeper (resistance) gay/art legacy.

Let's break down the multivalent significance of the self-referential use of Bramadero stills in Raging Sun, Raging Sky:

1. Hernandez's frank treatment of sexuality addresses the Desire (sexual/spiritual) exploited by grindhouse cinema, while also recognizing that it provides a space for the social expression of Desire by members of a marginalized group
2. Hernandez does not see his films as "above" grindhouse movies, but as part of a particular, sub-cultural history of art-cinema distribution and exhibition
3. Hernandez highlights and subverts the ghetto-ized nature of his own films (relegated to specialty audiences, yet actually expansive in their treatment of the human condition)

It begs the question: To what tethering post is NYC's gaggle of gay film critics chained? (Raise your hand if you were at the lone NYC festival screening of Raging Sun, Raging Sky.)

The following lists one person's genuine appraisal of time spent at the movies. In the spirit of Hernandez's audacious proposition of the movie theater as the site where love is found (and compassion developed)--I give Raging Sun, Raging Sky its place on the decade list. Should the U.S. be blessed by its official release in 2010, it will rule that year and set the standard for the next decade as well.


10 Best Movies of 2009 (U.S. Releases Only)

1. This Is It (Kenny Ortega, 2009)
2. Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell, 2008)
3. Brothers (Jim Sheridan, 2009)
4. You, The Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
5. Next Day Air (Benny Boom, 2009)
6. Bandslam (Todd Graff, 2009)
7. Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008)
8. Gentlemen Broncos (Jared Hess, 2009)
9. The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock, 2009)
10. Revanche (Gotz Spielmann, 2008)


10 Best Movies of the 2000s (one film per director)

1. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
2. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002)
3. Raging Sun, Raging Sky (Julian Hernandez, 2009)
4. Together (Chen Kaige, 2003)
5. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2004)
6. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
7. The Witnesses (Andre Techine, 2008)
8. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004)
9. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004)
10. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 2004)
(tie)
10. Son frere (Patrice Chereau, 2003)



John Demetry is a film and music critic. A selection of his reviews (2000-2007) will be published by Resistance Works, WDC in the upcoming book: Revolution to Revelation.

Wait Until Dark.

I hadn't seen it in about ten years and forgot how good it is.
It's a fantastic, classic suspense story and Audrey Hepburn is amazing as usual.

Apparently when this sucker was shown on the big screen back in the late '60s, the theatre management would close all doors and even turn off the aisle lights in the final twenty minutes for the full effect.

Today...
 

I'm watching the following:

Amon Amarth - "Wrath of the Norsemen"
Metallica - "Orgullo, Pasión Y Gloria - Tres Noches En La Ciudad De México" (Deluxe edition)

It Might Get Loud. Absolutely the best documentary/movie I've seen
this year. If you're the slightest bit interested in guitar, rent or even better
buy this movie. With Jimmy Page, U2's The Edge and Jack White you can't
go wrong. It's one of those movies I wished would never end.

Now I'm fired up to play, and I might just turn it to 11.

Jimmy Page and The Edge, eh? Better add that to my queue. Who is Jack White? :woohoo: ................ just joking!

Shout out for SPINAL TAP!!!!! :wavey:

The English Patient: I've heard alot about this movie and so i decided to watch it and im happy i did..(bonus: Naveen Andrews is in it :nod:)..i hear theres a book..when i am no longer broke i will run to borders or books a million to get it.

Keith: never expected to see a movie with Jesse McCartney in it actually be good. now if only i had a friend i could drive around with putting bowling balls on ppl's lawns =\

From Dusk 'til Dawn: Quentin is my kind of dude..lol i wonder what his dreams are like

Garden State: two people with issues always make for a perfect story.. Natalie Portman is truly amazing and Zach Braff is a great writer i think he could probably do no wrong.. (maybe...)

Good Will Hunting: so according to other ben affleck slapped his name on this movie even tho matt wrote it..but whatever i don't really care...there's seriously nothing wrong with this movie and i love what its about..now all i need is a shrink like robin williams..i dont think that would help me at all (robin williams be crazy yo :laugh:)

500 Days Of Summer

A pretty good movie.

How come you women are so hard to read???

Now I'm off to wrap the last few Christmas presents.

The Hangover-the first twenty minutes or so were horrible to me, since gay has seriously become a synonym for stupid :mad: and they said faggot thirty times or so :mad:, but after that i couldn't stop laughing. Definitely one of the funniest movies I've ever seen :D

The Grapes of Wrath &
It's a Wonderful Life (every year... still love it)



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