Lately, my Netflix flow has been at a shameful standstill. Hopefully in the next week I'll get around to watching at least one of the following:
High and Low - I'm hoping this is a Kurosawa film that I'll really like.
Early Spring - Continuing my quest through Ozu's ouevre. Does anyone else feel curiously "organized" after watching an Ozu movie?
The Thief of Bagdad - If Michael Powell had a hand in it, I've gotta see it. Really looking forward to this one.
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Patrick went to NYU film school and knows all the secrets of the Dharma. More of Pat's film writing can be found here and here.
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Andrew and Ligature are a glamorous couple straight out of a Woody Allen flick.
Joaquin is a filmmaker, 9 to 5 cubicle fodder and a licensed joyologist.
Aaron is a media connoisseur, pop culture aficionado, and with his friend, "Madame," entertains children of all ages throughout Capitol Hill.
Chad works in film, and really likes 'Super Troopers.'
Dex broods day after day on his cunning plan to get a date with Natalie Portman. His past writing on politics, the environment, and life during the Age of Dubya may be found here.
Pike Bishop can milk a cow, dress a gunshot wound, and saddle a horse. He once punched a bear for sassin' him.
Amber will blind you with science and hit you with technology.
reviews and essays: year of the ox
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: black belly of the tarantula (1971)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: blood beast terror (1968)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: earth vs. the spider (1958)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: empire of the ants (1977)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: green porno (2008-09)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: kiss of the tarantula (1976)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: mesa of lost women (1953)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: phase iv (1974)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: sick girl (2006)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: slither (2006)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: tarantula (1955)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: tarantula - the deadly cargo (1977)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the beginning of the end (1957)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the black scorpion (1957)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the camerman's revenge (1912)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the deadly bees (1967)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the deadly mantis (1957)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the naked jungle (1954)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: the swarm (1978)
- amber's field guide to invertebrates in film: them! (1954)
- dex has the girlfriend experience
- dex on three monkeys, the limits of control, my winnipeg/j.j. abrams' star trek
- dex on woody allen's whatever works, revanche, and moon
- dex's translated accounts: bruno, los bastardos, and atom egoyan's adoration
- dex: how the dead live: savage grace
- dex: live it out: rachel getting married
- dex: puts you there where things are hollow: anvil! the story of anvil and jcvd
- dex: two girls, one suck: martyrs
- patrick: 3 by mizoguchi
- pike and patrick: what?! you haven't seen...alfred hitchcock's marnie?
- pike bishop rounds up the best dvd releases of 2008
- the denver projection booth's fave films of 2008
- the patrick ten: ichii the killer, city lights, judgment at nuremberg, and others
- the patrick ten: motel hell, longtime companion, diabolique, and others
- the patrick ten: slumdog millionaire, the cars that ate paris, orphans of the storm, and more
- the patrick ten: wild in the streets, the last wave, kung fu panda, and others
the denver projection booth's best of 2008
reviews and such: year of the rat
- aaron - jack white and alicia keys drink my bondshake!
- aaron - my blueberry blah
- aaron - take five (08.14.08)
- aaron on cruising (1980)
- aaron on fitzcarraldo
- aaron versus juno
- andrew on long weekend (1978)
- andrew on on the dark knight
- chad versus wes anderson
- dex - are you there, god? it's me, timothy carey: the world's greatest sinner
- dex - blog under punches: day night day night, redbelt, iron man/the incredible hulk
- dex - blogger of tears: stuck, standard operating procedure, machine gun mccain, the apple, mother of tears
- dex - blogging to go: diary of the dead, drawing restraint #9, goya's ghosts
- dex - chick habit: diva, sorry haters, the other boleyn girl, wicked wicked
- dex - he's busy revvin' up the powerful blog 5: speed racer, lynch, mister foe
- dex - i'd say you were in your rights to bite: let the right one in
- dex - my blueberry blogging: my blueberry nights, youth without youth, lust caution
- dex - no one's gonna blog you, not while i'm around: sweeney todd, southland tales, wristcutters
- dex - punk is dead: what we do is secret
- dex - the blog knight: war inc, poultrygeist, encounters at the end of the world
- dex - we can't stop here - this is blog country! : bruiser, inside, gonzo: the life and work of hunter s. thompson
- dex: blogscales: the last winter, hellboy 2: the golden army, zebraman, star wars: the clone wars
- joaquin - Woody Allen goes on vacation to see a famous opera singer, who's contemplating an abortion, in a French Mediterranean village
- joaquin on the flowers of st. francis
- joaquin versus the 2008 academy awards
- patrick - ten (or so) recent reviews (10.06.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (2.27.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (3.28.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (5.5.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (6.20.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (7.30.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (8.16.08)
- patrick - ten recent reviews (9.12.08)
- patrick on les enfants terribles
- patrick reviews three flicks via aaron.
- pike bishop on the criterion edition of sam fuller's white dog
- pike bishop previews 2008 denver film festival
aaron is the blog whisperer
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3 comments:
ahh...i got john demme's jimmy carter doc, 'man from plains' (NEVER rented at the store, can't figure out why); 'day night day night,' about a suicide bomber, in new york, i think; 'crimson gold,' what's being sold as an iranian noir. and i just finished watching 'the 11th hour,' which totally surprised me - i didn't think that leo dicaprio would lend his face, name, and voice to film that so forcefully condemns the destructive condition of our economic and environmental madness.
I really like Day Night Day Night. Especially the 'outcome' of it all. Hopefully you will too.
1. Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control - I think I still have this from last time you asked. The shame stings my eyes.
2. Once - One makes compromises and sees films one would not normally have any interest in when in a relationship. I hope someone understands.
3. Sorcerer - William Friedkin takes on Henri-Georges Clouzout. Roy Scheider is a plus, rickety bridge is a plus. The fact that it's remake of a classic is a minus. And no matter how pessimistic Friedkin is, he'll never be as bitter about it as Clouzout. But I'm still expecting to enjoy this film.
4. Memories of Murder - The guy who did The Host first did this supposedly upsetting film about South Korea's first serial killer. I've heard great things about it.
As for Joaquin's stuff:
High & Low is not a period piece and has a modern feel (circa 1960, of course). I suspect you'll like it better than other Kurosawa you've seen.
Early Spring - Great, but not quite as great as Late Spring or Tokyo Story. Setsuko hara though? Amazing in all 3 of them. Her character is (just coincidentally, I'm sure) named Noriko in all three.
Thief of Bagdad - Just got my own copy. I'll watch soon and we can compare notes.
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