Here's some junk I watched or re-watched recently followed by my one sentence review:
TIME OF THE WOLF - MICHAEL HANEKE - Terrifying.
THE PIANO TEACHER - MICHAEL HANEKE - I love your hair Isabelle Huppert.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL - AMY BERG - Manipulative and drawn-out documentary about a Catholic kiddy-diddler.
MYSTERIOUS SKIN - GREGG ARAKI - I rented this the same night I rented DELIVER US FROM EVIL and the lady at Film Buff said "these are pretty heavy duty movies" and I wondered if she was pressing the "Potential Fiddler" button underneath the counter to dispatch police to my home to scan my computer for evidence.
HOLY MOUNTAIN - ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKI - Suddenly Jaron makes sense.
TOTAL RECALL - PAUL VERHOEVEN - Blade Runner + Tank Girl + Sharon Stone = What's not to like?
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE - HAYAO MIYAZAKI - I always hope/expect these movies to turn into
YAOI.
SUICIDE CLUB - SION SONO - Japanese.
THIS IS ENGLAND - SHANE MEADOWS - British.
THE MIRROR - ANDREI TARKOVSKY - Russian.
WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE - TODD SOLONDZ - "Yo Weiner, you better get ready, 'cause at three o' clock today, I'm gonna RAPE you!" (Interesting trivia - Steve Rodgers, Dawn's crush, is now Daniel Meade on Ugly Betty and was also the football jock Joshua Jackson was having sex with in Cruel Intentions. Also, the working title for this movie was "Faggots and Retards")
SICKO - MICHAEL MOORE - Not my problem.
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, HOW TO PROCRASTINATE, THINGS I WISH I'D DONE
2 Comments:
thanks for reminding me to see Time of the Wolf. The remake of Funny Games is gonna blow hard I bet. Why would you remake something that is already perfect? OH BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARE TOO STUPID AND LAZY TO READ SUBTITLES.
Every time I mention my favorite film Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman) people always assume I'm talking about Hanekes' Time of the Wolf and it annoys me.
Santa Sangre is another good Jodorowsky, violent oedipus complex.
Have you seen any Jan Svankmajer films? If not I know you will love them.
6:32 PM
i haven't seen any svankmajer films...thanks for the hot tip...
everyone makes remake mistakes...van sant and psycho for example....oh well...i guess this might get more people to watch haneke's other work...
i haven't seen hour of the wolf...i was too wrecked after autumn sonata a while back to dive back into bergman but will check it out.
i bought the jodorowsky box set (after i heard about it from my idols claire and jaron)...haven't had time to watch it all but it doesn't have santa sangre...
6:51 PM
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