Movie talk

This can't be right, the TV guide is insisting that Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Return is on film four today at 11 AM.

I'm wondering why I never watched The Wrestler...

Mickey Rourke may look like a walking pile of shit, but he's a damn fine actor.

i have nearly bought that at least a dozen times. i thin it's his face that turns me off it. i don't particularly like wrestling, but something about it turn me on.

The Wrestler was far and away the best movie from last year. damn thing made me cry.

Really?! I have problems detaching Mickey Rourke from his character in that movie. Absolutely loved the movie by the way.

imma have to pick it up now!

I saw The Invention of Lying over the weekend. Good, not great. Has lots of morals.

It was kind of funny. Near the beginning it almost lost its PG rating with a conversation about Jennifer Garner masturbating.

In this universe there are no movies like we watch. All their movies are just some old guy reading history screenplays.

This is now a must-see movie.

Oh man, I watched that Year One the other day. What an awful movie. The only thing I could think was it was so ham-fisted in it's moral that Ramis musta been wearing boxing gloves when he wrote it.

Did you watch it? That movie has my all time favorite moment in movie history in the history of forever and ever and ever that ever did happen in all the history of the world since the very beginning way back forever and ever.

I've seen it before! I really liked it. When it was on recently I recorded onto my DVD hard-drive thingy, but I've yet to watch it.

Have you seen his second movie, The Banishment, yet?

No, good?

I really enjoyed it. It's heavy and long with a lot of silence. Great cinematography. He's one of my favorite filmmakers around.

I'll try to find that, I like those long, quiet films. Russian films are often like that.

I saw a film a while back, I think it was called In The City of Silvia, have you seen that? It was a French film about a young man in a city where he'd once met a woman he'd fallen in love with and he was trying to find her again.

With very quiet foreign films a lot of people say that they could understand it without subtitles, but this was the first time I actually believed that. It's beautiful.

Thank you guys for all the new Netflix fodder.

I've not seen that, but i'll have to look into it.
Kim Ki-duk makes films like that. Heavy in silence. There's just this boundless beauty in them, in their stillness and quiet nature.
I can't think of the names of anything right now. But asian, like Russian films, use that silence so perfectly.

Year one is easily the worst movie of the year. I don't think I laughed once through out the entire thing.

Watched Brazil with Barbara last sunday. She didn't like it.

Hey check it out-

http://www.avclub.com/articles/team-up-gus-van-sant-and-bret-easton-elli...

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are teaming up to make a movie.

Holy shit, I just watched Uno and that was heavy stuff. Didn't expect that it would make me cry, eh. Screw you, IMDB, it was much more than average for me. Aksel Hennie's a great actor.

So they're making a film about the life of Muhammad-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/02/matrix-producer-plans-muhamma...

but apparently they'll never actually show him onscreen. It's aimed at 'bridging cultures' and 'dispelling myths about islam', which seems odd because I always thought that Muhammad was pretty warlike for a lot of his life, so now sure how the film could really do both.

I wonder if they'll so him have sex with his 9 year old wife?

Well apparently not because they can't show him onscreen, but maybe they'll have reactions shots of her face.

Maybe they could superimpose shadows over him or something so he's never seen.
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I just watched a film directed by Michael Haneke called Das Schloß (The Castle). It's about a man referred to only as 'K' who arrives in a town to survey a local castle, but finds himself wrapped up in local politics. It's very surreal and definitely the funniest film Haneke has ever made. Sort of Kafkaesque!

The Castle is a story by Kafka.

Cassun mentioned that movie somewhere a while ago. Once i get netflix, it'll be pretty high on my list.

Yeah, I was joking. I knew it was an adaptation of the unfinished story by Kafka.

Last night I watched Three Monkeys, which was fairly good. There were some things about it that I didn't quite see the significance of, so perhaps I'll watch it again soon. Great cinematography though, that final scene!

those spambots seem to have some elaborate taste in movies.

jackie chain does all of his own stunts in new movie "Baby Phone!"

SEE IT!

One of the film channels over here is doing a New Asian Cinema series. Last night I saw Ashes of Time. It was pretty confusing, on the website there's a press kit containing character descriptions and a detailed synposis, so I might read that and try to figure out what actually happened. Overall it was interesting and dreamlike, but I'm not a huge fan of Wong Kar Wai's style. Tonight there's a film on called 'Kamikazi Girls', which might be interesting.

After I went to bed last night I watched my DVD of Double Life of Veronique, I love that film so much! I don't watch it very often, but when I do it never fails to remind me why it's one of my favourite films of all time.

I just downloaded Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and can't wait to watch it sometime during the weekend.

keep some kleenex close while you watch it.

Ah fantastic film, I love it. If you like it you should check out Science Of Sleep as well.

Haha, yeah, I'll probably need that.

Michael, I'll keep that in mind.

Obtained a copy of this and will watch it later.

brosupre you lucky basterd, i wanted to see that so bad

I saw Away We Go last week which was awesome. I loved it so much. And then yesterday on my way to work I saw some plastic oranges draped in a random leafless tree by the side of the road in Camden...some funny coincidence.

I just went to see Fantastic Mr Fox which was great. Really cute.

I watched Nights & Weekends last night, which is another low budget mumblecore film. It was really good, more sophisticated than the others by the director, but I still like LOL and Hannah Takes the Stairs better.

Oh is that the one about the long-distance relationship? I've been meaning to see that, sounds interesting.

Yeah, that's the one. I'm a big fan of this guy's movies, and most of the stuff I see in the genre has been really good or great. Check out Quiet City if you get a chance, that might be my favorite of them.

I'm gonna download Nights And Weekends, 'cause I'm curious what the LDR stuff is like in the movie.

I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on sunday, and it was a nice movie. I wasn't as.. touched as I thought I'd be though. Maybe I hyped it up a bit too much for myself.

I've seen Hannah Goes Up The Stairs, I quite enjoyed that. Like Imke says, I'm interested in seeing Nights and Weekends to see how they show LDRs, I've been in a few myself.

It's kind of funny, I was writing notes for a low-budget screenplay about long distance relationships titled "4,813 Miles", with the structure kind of a mix of 9 Songs and Hannah Takes the Stairs, so when I heard the director of HTtS did a movie about long distance relationships, I was worried that my idea would be shit. Turns out, it's a completely different feel and structure than what I was aiming for in my story, so I feel ok to keep working on it.

Hm, was Mr. fox really that fantastic? its not coming to columbus for a while but im looking forward to seeing it

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I really enjoyed it. I loved the sense of humour, it very typical of Anderson but the fact that it was being said by puppet animals somehow made it hilarious.

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Last night I saw Up. I thought it was pretty good, but not one of Pixars best. I'd heard that the start of the film was really tragic and had loads of grown men in tears, but I didn't find it that moving.

Hm, the LDR movie isn't downloading very fast for me, but I ain't giving up!

Also downloading Burn After Reading now. Haven't watched it yet and I'm curious about Brad Pitt's role.