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.