Do it. I need it on Blu-ray. Now.

Why Korine? In love with Chole from her Gummo and KIDS days?

All valid points. I just need to rewatch it and revaluate after the bar has been raised with Buffalo '66 . Last time I saw it was 300 years ago on Netflix, up here in Canada.

I think for me, it was the emotional state of Gallo, after the emotion and infamous non-simulated sex scene that really put the bow on the whole film.

i don't know if it's true, it's just a fantastic scenario in my mind--but chloe used to be harkor's girlfriend. then they broke up. later gallo publicly said that harkor was a piece of shit human being (likely true).
http://www.vincentgallo.com/writing/kingcrimson.html
then years later harkor's ex sucks gallo's dick on film. it just connected the dots ha ha-- completely arbitrary (i'm not paranoid but my imagination is).

i don't know. according to ebert the scene works and "is not gratuitous"

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-brown-bunny-2004

but maybe a "revenge suck" ha ha

I didn't know Korine dated Chole! Yes indeed, likely true, but the same can be said for Gallo. No, I think you're on to something.

I love directors that give the middle finger to conformity, much like the opening scene in von Trier's 'Anti-Christ'.

On penis related news,

Was Norton's erection real in Birdman?

haaah

my fave movie is Les Enfants du Paradis

Khan is my favorite movie with Rocardo Montalban.

el poeta roque roca
echa sapos por la boca

well at least there's hope for you that some day something, etc.

im not a penis connoisseur so i couldn't tell/don't remember that in birdman. i do, vaguely, but didn't pause to observe. that movie was so frantic, what comes back the most to me is the pace of the camera and the music and corridors.

but as for blowjobs, yes-- there's a power/dominance thing in the classic american blowjob posture-- man stands, woman kneels in front of his altar, services him & receives communion/flushes. the woman is subservient and gets no love, only protein as coin. i much prefer the egalitarian 69--there's true joy.

but anyway, gallo got korine's "boring connecticut girlfriend" to worship his pecker live on film. coincidence? i don't think so. it's more like "i win, fucker". which is hilarious.

von trier's antichrist was great. hard to watch, but great. i am not sure what the point of it was, but while i'm not a fan of horror movies this one i liked. reminded me a little of the documentary about fitzcarraldo where werner herzog is talking about the pain & the suffering he sees in the jungle (herzog is hilarious here-- hilariously whiny-- i've been to that jungle & it's awesome).

anyway, this other one i saw the other day:



WHIPLASH (some dude, 2013/14) - a wish fulfillment fable for asocial/narcissistic overachievers obsessed with performance=love, which is the main psychiatric disorder of our civilization. but forget the story which is as intense and straightforward as it is unlikely. i mean the story works, for the duration-- it's intense from beginning to end. then you think it ends and it doesn't and it hits you harder-- but the story is a sort of temporary pleasure of the film fantasy. it doesn't stick with you forever. the spectacle of the film however is highly polished. j.k. simmons as a sadistic mindfucker is great here. and the fucking EDITING is the real thing of beauty in this film. it's really the main character-- it drives everything. well worth watching for this reason.

Brown Bunny is the only film I remember walking out of. At the time, I didn't know there was a bj scene at the end, but I don't think I would've stayed for that even if I had known.

it mostly shows gallo's cock so i took no pleasure. chloe didn't seem to be having fun either.

i walked out of pasolini's gospel according to st. matthew many years ago. it was just like the movies they used to show on good friday when i was a kid. i didn't last more than 5 minutes there.

mind you, i probably would have walked out of salò as well if i had caught it in a "theatre". i had to watch that at home and in episodes. worth it in the end and with the help of good commentary & sufficient context, but nearly impossible on its own-- a long display of torture and degradation.

btw i'm not saying gallo is anything like pasolini ha ha ha... except maybe in the ultraslow pace.

that's a pearl of a sentence there, tee hee.

i watched sunset boulevard last night because it was the first rec netflix spit out. i was reading a book about the great gatsby the other day and couldn't help but think of gatsby's ending/sunset's beginning and end. and oh norma desmond. i think ive seen sunset 100 times and it doesn't get old.

Just stumbled across the best thing Vincent Gallo ever did: Howard Stern, w/ a call in from Roger Ebert. Brown Bunny era. At first I thought it was performance art, but he's just him. I'm glad he's around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eekDYWVyjhc

that's not mere rhetoric, it's a whole way of life, ha ha ha.


damn, i haven't watched that in so long i have mostly forgotten it.

i spent a chunk of the morning looking at the trivia page for that movie on imdb-- it was great

i should re-watch it. billy wilder has been hovering around my space lately (started w/ his almodóvar connection)

also realized the butler guy plays a german in "la grande illusion"-- a beautiful movie, that one.

Tusk. I didn't watch it all. not because I was bored but because I was tired. extremely tired. like ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

i'll rent it again when im not ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZing.

oh yeah, I did watch the Muppets: Most Wanted. I laughed, was truly entertained. Muppets kick CGI ass motherfucker!!!!!

enjoyed it like hell!!!!

2 hours is this film's run time, and in the amount of this time George Miller, original director and screenwriter for the Mad Max franchise, lays downs the most balls-to-the-wall action film in recent history. In a world loaded with lacklustre retreads, reboots, trilogies, paired with Hollywood's insatiable lust for profits over quality control is completely steamrolled and destroyed with George Miller's massive story, and character known as Max.

Mad Max: Fury Road is action, and it will leave you in fog on how condensed an action film can bundle so much tightly packed power in 2 hours. There is no easy to decipher and shit plot that is trying to be delivered to you in a hour and a half, with a few breaks for dumbass comedy. George Miller takes you to his cut throat dystopian future and puts the pedal to the metal and doesn't look back. I thought that the end would be fast approaching during a point, and I thought it have to be left open ended because time would soon be running out, nope there was still like 3/4 of film still left. Long live Max, long live George Miller.

^^ i've read great reviews of the new mad max. not sure how true they are till i see it myself but yours is encouraging. won't bother going to the shitty movie theatres around which means i'll have to wait for the blu-ray. looking forward to that.

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yesterday:



TROIS COULEURS: ROUGE (kieslowski 1994) . this rounds up the trilogy and ended the director's career (he died a couple of years later, he looked fucking ancient but was only in his 50s). while this was a lot less spectacular than the first two films, irène jacob's face sort of makes up for that with the brute force of her beautiful profile in almost every scene-- lips & more lips. it gets annoying, but it still works-- her face is too beautiful to fail, and she plays this sort of innocent otherwordly angelic presence, so it works.

while i originally found this one disappointing vs. the others because of its narrower confines, simpler narrative, and the lesser performance of its protagonist, it now it strikes me as possibly the best of the three films, because of the way it addresses the implicit theme of "fraternity"-- plus, it adds an interesting variation to the double life of véronique through the judge character-- jean louis trintignant is great here, he deserved more screen time. 5/5, really a masterpiece on its own, but as the last of the three films it just creates an amazing moral/metaphysical universe that's like nothing else in film.

Red is a film I often overlook when thinking of all time fave lists but it's denitely one of my favourites from recent(ish) years.

I need to watch that trilogy.

make sure you get teh criterion editions with all the awesome extras

the interview w/ kieslowslki's writer partner is pure gold

The Criterion Collection is the only brand I concern myself with when comes to films of this nature.

She's The Man, and I don't care what anyone says about it :D

The Grand Budapest Hotel, and I don't care what anyone says about it.

What do you say about it?

I say it is absolutely great. Loved every minute of it, still thinking about it.

wes anderson is a very imaginative boy

estás loco ueón

Saw Ex Machina twice this week and loved it.

Huh? People have negative things to say about it? One of the most enjoyable slices of warm and hilarity; a feel good narrative. The worlds Anderson creates have some much depth to them, that no one else can even being to compete.

Soundtrack by Geoff Barrow of Portishead! That's all I know, so I need to watch.

Yeah, the Norwegian scenery in Ex Mach was fantastic, the cgi for the girls is very well done & some really good acting.

Yep. I actually did not realize that while watching, and stuck around during the credits to see who did the music. I thought it might have been another Reznor/Ross collab thing or something. Very much in that vein, and very, very important to setting the perfect tone for the movie.

Sticking around during credits did supply another nice surprise with a Savages tune being blasted.



Yes, the scenery was amazing. I also spent a good bit of time on this hotel's website, where it was shot. Some nice pics of the place. Pretty interesting architecture.

http://www.juvet.com/the-juvet-hotel/the-hotel

I concur.

As Above So Below..

It was one of those absolute train wrecks of a movie that you keep watching even though really, it sucks.

Ex Machina was brilliant, so was the music score to it.

my favourite part is when the tyke is about to jump into the hot spring and pierce brosnan saves him so linda hamilton cooks him an eggplant parmagiana and he performs magic tricks. then when he races the pyroclastic flow in the car which didn't melt when they drove over lava. or when the grandmother did melt after wading through the lake.


hadn't seen this film in a long time but was really struck by its condoning of cultural imperialism. was frankly disturbed by it. but willem dafoe is a god so idc lol

oh fuck I watched the bodyguard too

and body double

and sliver

and body chemistry iii



my watching of which doesn't really make much sense cos there's no cocks but I loved it

the "brown people are evil" show. you're right. it's digusting. the writer was this fascistoid paranoiac who is now dead.

 

Very rarely can a movie be carried by its grandeur and creative visuals alone, but Fury Road is one of these instances. It's essentially an exploitation flick with a big budget. Had a lot of fun watching it. Right from the beginning it's almost non-stop action. It's actually all the more incredible that it managed to establish some very likeable characters amidst all the batshit insane stuff going on. I have no huge gripes with this one. Brilliantly shot, tongue in cheek and creatively executed. A fun thrillride.

Switchblade Romance

As seems to be the case for lots of people who've see it: I loved the first 3/4s but thought the ending, the 'twist', was stupid. Up till then though, brilliant.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, nice photography and atmospherics.

MR TURNER.
Goddamn Mike Leigh, he's done an amazing job, I haven't seen *everything* he's done but I strongly suspect he's surpassed himself-- this is better than anything I've seen by him. Beautifully shot, with a painter's eye, best cinematography I've seen in any of his films. The story is quiet, it's not like some narrative of great suspense or something, and it evolves in episodic manner, but the characters are strong and compellign and it all works very well. The performances are quite brilliant. When it ended it was like "ahhhh! that was good"



gorgeous