this might be more helpful, if you ever want make a list :

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&sub=All&id=nitin

That ones without ratings I havent got around to seeing yet. 

The eminently quotable film that probably has more than a few parallels with the amateur game development scene, and failed to grab my interest or evoke more than a couple of grins. Good movie, I just didn't like it. 

hm, 25th hour is one of my personal favorites, does anyone know of any other movies of the same brilliance by spike lee ? movies listed at imdb dont ring a bell. 

is supposed to be his best, havent seen it though. 

Do the Right Thing -- it is quite good...the one thing about it though is that it leaves a lot of unanswered questions in terms of what it brings up during the course of it. Great performances all around.

Bamboozled -- OK. The first half was really promising, but it starts to get a bit dilluted. The whole movie is like that "Black People Love Us" webpage. You'll see what I mean :D It's along the same lines as Do The Right Thing in that it brings up alot of tough questions, and doesn't resolve them in any definite way. 

I have seen a fair number of Spike Lee movies. Here are my general assessments. If I get any titles screwed up, it is because I haven't seen these flicks in a long time.

School Daze -- I don't like musicals nor marching bands but some of the numbers were pretty catchy. Probably some of his smartest dialog on matters of inter-racial conflict.

She's Gotta Have It -- where as marching bands and musicals don't do it for me, sexually aggressive black women -- I like. The male characters were a bit iritating, either too whiny or too control freakish.

Do The Right Thing -- Over rated. The conflict was completely manufactured and the dialog of whiteys was not realistic. Burn a place down because the owner had pictures of Italians and not blacks? Get the fuck out of here, that is just stupid.

Jungle Fever -- Kind'a boring, except for the sex scenes and even there it ain't Cinemax or Showtime.

Crooklyn -- He filmed his sister nekad. How twisted! I don't remember much about the movie, however, except his sister's titties.

He Got Game -- A movie I liked better than most critics did. Paints a pretty corrupt portrait of Collegiate Athletic programs, and Denzel is excellent in this one. His first anti-hero role, I believe.

Get On The Bus -- my personal favorite. It reads like a swan song for the Civil Rights movement; it's sentimentalist vision is quite moving here and the late Ossie Davis was memorable.

Summer of Sam -- great idea (and title) for a movie, just not well executed. 

a VCD version of Ed Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 From Outer Space from alt.binaries.monter-movies.

(And no, I have not misspelled the group name.)

Yea verily, I am fucked in the head. 

Plan 9 is a true classic of American Film. I admire your taste. 

I was watching Re-Animator yesterday when a friend pointed this out to me...

http://www.re-penetrator.com/

I doubt HPL would approve of this. 

Someone underground comic label is coming out with a series "Army of Darkness vs The Reanimator." Just thought you'd like to know they're finally combining to of the most class artworks cinema has to offer into one glorious amalgam of orgasm and chainsaws. 

A new film genre is born: it can be called X-Gore... it's like Hell's blood Demons having a sex party... bbrrrrr.... 

for the spike lee info! 

http://previews.diamondcomics.com/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=23&s=130&ai=18385

START COLLECTING NOW KIDS!

ps I'll trade you 4 scientists for 1 sarge 

Throw in a Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 foil card and you got a deal. 

I'm looking for a film (French?) that consists of long still frames shot from a train. I believe the camera never moves (in itself) but the train does, when the train moves the doors to the carriage (boxcar?) are closed and when the train stops the doors open.

Ring any bells? 

...was fucking awesome :)

Didn't go in expecting it to be perfect, holy, and true to the books, just that it'd be funny and has stunning visuals and I wasn't disappointed at all. 

http://www.animationshow.com/

It's a little festival of animations making a tour of arthouses. Check the trailer and act quick if you want to see it. 

...was fucking awesome :)

I hope I feel the same. I've read some pretty horrible reviews for it (it's not doing too well on Rottentomatoes atm :( ), and I really wanted this film to kick arse. 

Fallen Angel - Caught up on a few Otto Preminger films and this was the first one. It started off well but lost its way afte about halfway not really knowing how norish it wanted to be.

Whirlpool - A total misfire from Preminger, the plot is very hard to take seriously. If it werent for the hot Gene Tierney, I wouldnt have botheed sitting all the way through.

Un Coeur En Hiver - Took a break from Preminger to see this French film and it's very good. Another combination from Emanuelle Beart and Claude Sautet, I preferred this a bit more to Nelly and Mr Arnaud, which was a good film to start off with.

Where the Sidewalk Ends - This is more like it from Preminger, apart from a bit of corniness at the end its pretty good. A worthy entry into the noir genre.


Also saw National Treasure, which IMHO was a pile of wank. I'd heard that it was a fun film along the lines of Indy and Sky Captain but it took itself a lot more seriously than either of those. But hey, if you're into Bruckheimer's stuff, it's more of the same I guess. 

I just finished watching the last 6 episodes today. I was highly amazed by the ending, the entire show in fact was not at all what I thought it would be like. Total class.

26 episodes of psychological anime sci-fi robot battle goodness I must say. Althought I think FLCL is a better Gainax production, (only because it's more humorous) Evangelion is a great watch. I got the Perfect Edition for about $75, which I think was highly worth it.
To compare, I got all 3 DVDs of FLCL for about $55.

7 thumbs up. Gainax r0x hardcore. 

Koyaanisqatsi

Best watched in an atmospheric setting on a big screen...

It's just a silent artfilm-documentary consisting of slow-motion pictures of landscapes and technological stuff and then fast-motion (or what's it called, where people move like ants) pictures of people working etc., all with accompanying music. It's a bit hard to describe.

It just depicts the total craziness of modern society without actually saying a word, just being this patient onlooker.

It was photographed between 1975 and 1982, direction is by Godfrey Reggio and music is by Philip Glass.

http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/koyaanisqatsi.php

(had to google with: french movie rocket people slow-motion still music... :) )
I haven't seen the other parts of the trilogy. 

that sounds a lot like Baraka. Have you seen that? How do they compare? 

xact same idea as baraka.

however the qatsi films are actually a trio of 3. each with a theme, I've only seen the war themed one so far.

comparatively if you liked one, you'll like the other. amazing visuals of our planet & it's people, i'd say the qatsi films music is better suited for it's presentation... of course they were assembled post baraka success. 

Hmm, gotta watch that.
http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/
Says it's almost ten years younger than Koyaanisqatsi (the first, original) though, and the shots show it's a bit human-centered, which I'm not that interested of. I liked Koyaanisqatsi's "cold pondering observer"-style a lot. Raising a silent question.


Btw I also watched Winged Migration - I liked it too, maybe it was a tad long - there were so many perfect end-scenes where the birds vanish into the distance.

I think these kinds of films have to be looked with the right kind of friends for the feeling and on a big screen for the photography to really have effect. If you have friends who are patient enough for something with no miniguns, muscles, tits or teenagers.


In winged migration, that iceberg breaking up was quite majestic, and the gooses in the desert were funny. :) When you look at birds you never kind of think of what they have experienced in their life already.


btw you know the Koyaanisqatsi movie is quite old the moment you see assembly line work at an electronics factory and the workers are white. 

baraka has tits.