both of those are about magicians correct? I think I have The Illusionist in my queue already... gonna hafta add The Prestige
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Mama
This was fine until the ending which brought a 3.5 star movie down to barely a 2. Ruined the whole experience of this otherwise chilling atmospheric ghost story...to bad...chalk it up to lost potential.
best
Michael
If it ain't acousmatique-It's crap
There's also an animated French movie called The Illusionist, which is pretty good, if you like that sort of thing.
I watched Europa Report. Sort of low key like the SF film Moon, but without the payoff. It was okay, but I can't recommend it very much.
Watched a great film last night at home on BD - "This Must Be The Place" Sean Penn as an Ozzy type ex-singer living in Dublin who has to go back to the states when his dad dies....black comedy ensues!
rented Cypher
interesting concept, however the ending sucked... is *that* what all the espionage and killing was all about?! ugh
They created some excellent environments/offices/installations and the FX were well done, but c'mon man... they could've been doing all this in a race to develop some 'super weapon' neutron bomb kind of thing instead of what they settled for story-wise
6 out of 10 fourty level underground facilities
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Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Quite a lot of buzz around the new film "Blue Is The Warmest Colour". I'm curious to see it, although I must say a twelve minute-long explicit lesbian sex scene might be best saved for home viewing.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller--western about a guy that owns & runs a town, the plot is rather loose, about some people that want to buy him out. Leonard Cohen sings for the soundtrack, and though I'm not a huge fan certainly set the tone for the film, sort of rustically shot, exotic like a big ball of opium.
12 minutes might be over doing it. I'd probably be done watching it at the six minute mark.
For those of you enthralled with the stylings of writer/director Wes Anderson, SNL ran this spot on parody. Those who dislike Wes Anderson will also find it entertaining.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...railer/n42349/
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
The Last Picture Show--small town (shot in Archer, Tx where McMurtry lives or did live). American classic.
Caught a couple of screenings this week:
"Dallas Buyers Club" with Matthew McConaughey & Jared Leto in early AIDS Texas. Prolly get them both Oscar nods, Leto in his first film in some 5 years might get the Best Supporting statue. MM will not get it vs. Forrest Whitaker (The Butler), my pick for Best Actor so far.
"About Time" - Quirky story of a family where the men (father/son) can go back in time. They can't use the power to get stuff like money or valuables, or can't go back and say, kill Hitler. Without thinking too much, an enjoyable comedy with just the right amount of romance that didn't make me nauseous. But with thinking in place, too many questions or faults with the premise arise.
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"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
I know someone warned us off Cloud Atlas, but I could not resist.
Tom Hanks! Halle Berry! Hugo Weaving! (A supposedly)great SF book turned into a movie! (I love great SF!)
(ohboy)
Absolute garbage. Despite the fancy editing and era jumping, filled with boring movie cliché after cliché. Tedious and pretentious, it just goes on and on blah blah blah...
“Where words fail, music speaks.” - Hans Christian Anderson
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
I'm feeling like a binge on 50s-early 60s movies, preferably on an epic scale. Anyone got a recommendations? I got all the big David Lean films on DVD but am looking for some other cinematic feasts where the colors just pop.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
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I saw Captain Phillips Friday night.
Fantastic movie, IMO. Very intense, dramatic, and gripping. Tom Hanks, as usual, put forth a tremendous performance, and even though I knew the eventual outcome of the film, I was on the edge of my seat for much of the film.
Highly recommended.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Just saw some horror films at a festival in Millville, NJ.
My favorites:
"The Box" was a German short that was really good. It was about a woman trapped in a box in a lab and watching horrors going on outside.
"Attack of the Brain People"-a deliberately low budget spoof on b movies of the 50's and early 60's, shot in black and white and complete with bad acting and strings pulling the monsters.
"The Meeting"-a short about a group therapy for serial killers along the lines of alcohol- or substabce-abuse.
Others I liked:
"Mischief Night"-a teen with psychosomatic blindness and her father move into a home that only a year earlier was the scene of a double homicide, only to become the targets of the murderer. The blindness added to the suspense because she is walking around the room doing stuff with the killer standing there watching her.
"Next Exit"-short-a couple who met at a wedding wind up going out after....but something is notright as they ride into the woods following his GPS (British film).
"Baggage"-short-an seemingly odd man who has a girlfriend gets attacked in a NJ train station. This one I found out you really have to look because the back story is revealed by things hidden in the scenes.
"stalled"-short-a yuppie going through a life crisis sees a large Chinese guy trying to break into his car.
"Sparks"-a full length movie featuring William Katt as the villain and about a super hero in the 1940's who is framed for murder and who has an infatuation with a female super hero as they pursue a serial killer, Matanza, who they believe is a copycat of a reverend who murdered years before. Combines superhero movies with film noir and is based on the Catastrophic Comics series Sparks, which William Katt was involved with as well.
"No Clowning Around"-short (by the same people who did "Baggage")-down and out Mumbles the Clown who has a puppet trying to talk him into suicide loses his girlfriend to drugs and seeks revenge.
Meh:
"Eaters"-full length film about five people on a road trip in 1974 arriving in a ghost town in New Mexico that is infested with masked Amish cannibals. Pretty run of the mill.
"Destruction Artist"-short-monologue starring Richard Haulbrook involving an artist who got tired of painting and has found his "creativity" in having victimized women take out their aggressions on him as a form of self expression and is discussing his inevitable move to a "final" upcoming piece.
Walked out:
"Day 9"-Zombies.
"One Last Kiss"-Zombies Everywhere.
WTF:
"Sein"-short-I have no clue what this was about. Girl in creepy place full of black and whire photos sees dancing ghosts, a mother made up as a doll inflicting injuries upon herself and a box with a head in it for no purpose whatsoever other than to look creepy. Horror is more than just creepy shit. What was disappointing was I fully expected this to be something really fucking cool and it would not have even made sense on LSD.
"Dystopia St."-short-This I guess makes sense if you are British.....or high....or both. Guy in dingy, futuristic tenement gets a key and proceeds to run around trying to find some destiny it implies with fat guy with man boobs in a wheelchair, lots of mealworm in a starring role as maggots (there are a few real maggots in it too) and weird TV images with lots of white noise.
"Abigail"-short-take on "Blair Witch Project" in Mullica Hill, NJ, with really amateur looking film footage that is supposedly "found". Sheer whatthefuckery ensues.
Did not see:
"House Near the End of the Street"-short-arrived after it was shown
"The Gospel According to Booze, Bullets and Hot Pink Jesus Act II"-45 minutes-I only caught a glimpse of one scene when I was looking to see what was on after I had lunch and it was what I expected: fucking fetish crap. You could hear the films over the PA in the bathroom-lots of southern people cursing and shooting. Had lunch instead and hung out in vendor area.
"Toy Apolcalypse"-short-Heard lots of shooting. Hung out in vendor area.
"Too Many Predators"-short-missed.
"Sheriff Tom vs. The Zombies"-full length-Take a guess (starts with a "Z" and ends with "ombies").
"Silent Agony"-short-did not see except very end.
Overall-had a lot of fun! First film festival of this sort and would like to go again next year...
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