Tuesday
May142013
What's on your (cinematic) mind?
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 2:00PM Mine is all over the place today. Can't focus on any one movie... which might mean a movie marathon is in store. When's the last time you had one?
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 2:00PM
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I am doing 70's spy thrillers,three days of the condor was 1st,the parallax view is next.
After seeing 30 movies this January, I've seen a mere two since then, including none in theaters since the Oscars. This equates to cinephile anorexia!
Planning a binge for later this week after some personal business is taken care of. Cannot wait!
I have a stack of DVDs to get through and have started sorting them each night into piles of now or later so its all over the place from day to day. Nothing much in the local theaters to excite me however.
I recently had a two-day Margaret Rutherford marathon, with Blithe Spirit and two of her Miss Marple movies the first day and The Importance of Being Earnest and the other two Miss Marple movies the next.
I've seen the Miss Marple movies at least twice a year for more than a dozen years, and I still can't get enough of them. Somehow this woman made everything she was in eminently re-watchable...
Frances McDormand's candor. She refuses to soften blows and I love her natural go-for-broke honesty.
I just got Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown (which I have never seen), and Inglourious Basterds. Gonna have a Tarantino kind of night.
Nathaniel gave me the idea of a 1963 retrospective. Will start with Hud, then move on to a trio of Parisian misadventures with Charade, The Pink Panther, and Irma La Douce. Then I may add a dash of Steve McQueen in Love with the Proper Stranger or James Garner in Move Over Darling, followed by a crazy early cable TV favorite, The List of Adrian Messenger.
1963 wasn't a great year in cinema but there's nothing on TV this week, nor in the theaters.
I had a TV/movie marathon this Sunday. Here was my schedule:
-I watched parts of King Kong, the original and Jackson's version, for a term paper.
-Then went to the theater to watch Oblivion. I was liking it at first but by the end it had played out the same old tricks that sci-fi apocalyptic movies tend play (disappointing).
-Came back home and finally finished the Friday Night Light series on Netflix after three months (What a show!!! And Kyle Chandler needs a movie-vehicle because he's awesome)
-And then finally watched the two-hour season finale of Revenge, which I thought ended strongly for a season that, although had many strengths, also didn't hold up as well as the first (not enough of Victoria this time around!)
I just went through the entire histories of Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supprting Actress to highlight and keep track of nominees I've seen. Surprisingly, I did best with Best Actor and worst (by far) with Supporting Actor.
Also, I haven't seen a single acting nominee from the 40's. It's a major, major blindspot, obviously. I organized my Netflix chronologically and I'm currently in the late 30's so hopefully I can remedy this soon.
Will do "Trek"; tempted to see the 243 minute cut of "Cleopatra" @ Landmark on the 22nd. Thought "Gats" would stink but I liked it. Really liked "Mud". I don't understand why I'm not @ Cannes - like a dog left home alone and hating it.
Angelina.
Deanna Durbin
Looking forward to Frances Ha after listening to a very charming interview Baumbach and Gerwig gave to Terry Gross on npr. Before this interview, the trailer completely turned me against the movie. And Gerwig hasn't really impressed in what I saw of her despite the massive online adoration. Granted I only saw her in Greenberg.
Evaluating a plausible future for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Power Pack film for the summer of 2020!
Speaking of 1963, I need to watch Tom Jones again. It's been way too long.
Had a friend staying from out of the town a couple weeks ago who had never seen a Marilyn Monroe film! Insanity I know! So we corrected that with a marathon comprised of: Don't Bother to Knock, Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, There's No Business Like Show Business, Bus Stop, Some Like It Hot and The Misfits. We watched in order of their release except I switched Misfits and Some Like It Hot feeling that Misfits may be a very good film but far too much of a downer to wrap up with.
P.S. He loved them all and is now on a quest to see the rest of her filmography.
Finally saw Dolan's "Heartbeats", and was struck, among other things, but the cinematography. Cant' wait for "Lawrence Anyways".
I'm doing a Cannes marathon all month. I pick directors who have something playing at Cannes and I watch movies that I haven't seen that they've directed. I tried it last year and at least thinking about it got me somewhere although I didn't make it that far. This year I'm determined to make it through my whole list of 20. Last night I watched The Grifters. All hail the Bening.
I see Oprah on your BSA chart. Please anybody but fuckin Oprah
for the BSA win...
I want to hear more about your interview with Gena's daughter (Alexandra? Zoe?).
I got two passes for today's advance screening for that Fast and Furious movie, but then remembered I still had to write school papers so I'll be staying at the library tonight.
And I also really want to see Gatsby again.
Catching up on Thelma Ritter's complete filmography. Finally saw "City Across the River."
Also in the cast: Tony Curtis and Richard Jaeckel (!).
Still haven't seen "What's So Bad About Feeling Good," her last film. She only made 31 movies! That's 6 for 31. Can anyone else come close to that record? I doubt it (of course I'm excluding those nominees who made few films (Hello Haing S. Ngor and Jocelyne Legarde).
Ava Gardner is never far from my mind, but definitely her today. And James McAvoy!
1. Angelina Jolie
2. The all-black version of "Steel Magnolias," which I finally saw last night. Jill Scott as Truvy was my best in show.
I want movies I like to be as long as Mad Men (just re-watched whole series)
I wanted Iron Man 3 to be better - RDJ wasn't even as good, and this isn't Lethal Weapon wtf!
Oblivion was better than I anticipated - SFX should be this good in every blockbuster movie
Loved Side Effects' psychedelically jarring structure
Channing Tatum is over-rated, not that great to be obliquitous, can we agree please
When is Gosling's acting chops, which are there, going to seem limited
Can we take back Meryl's Iron Lady Oscar yet - stomach still churns over the crappiness of that movie. Oscar's shouldn't be given to any poor film.. I mean Transformers never won SFX
I want to see Gravity and The Counselor now
I want the most perfect film noirish movie in my mind right now
I want actor-sexual infatuation to infect this site
I want I want I want... I need to take a break from movies and media
The Iron Lady may be a crappy movie, but the Meryl performance was an acting
clinic.
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Speaking of crappy movies winning oscars--
Bullock in the Blind Side
Winslet in the Reader
Taylor in Butterfield 8
Zellweger in anything
@murtada: I saw a prescreening of 'Frances Ha' last week at MOMA...and it was wonderful. Very New York and I would argue a cross between Manhattan and GIRLS. Being the age of Frances and living in New York, it hit close to home, but luckily, it's not too cynical. Anyway, I can't wait for everyone else to see it because it is a pleasure to watch Greta Gerwig and see New York in all its cinematic majesty.
After Tony Scott's suicide, I watched a Tony Scott and Denzel Washington marathon. From Crimson Tide to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 to Man on Fire to Deja Vu to Unstoppable. Say what you want about his earlier career but Tony Scott matured and Denzel was the perfect leading man to follow in his movies. I threw in watching Domino too because that was the first Tony Scott movie that I unabashedly loved (Manohla Dargis' review of the movie helped really shape my viewing of the movie and I believe that is why she is my favorite critic).
Future marathon that I am planning is a geo-political dramas with Zero Dark Thirty, The Day of the Jackal, Army of Shadows, and The Battle of Algiers. Know the endings and results of all of those movies, but I gets thrills and tension each revisit separately but ZDT is clearly calling back to both in interesting ways that I like to examine. I did my college senior thesis on The Battle of Algiers in its style of realism and portrayals of its subject (oddly a movie loved by leftists that oddly in a deus ex machina kind of way shows the efficacy of torture working) and despite doing an academic work on it, still one of my favorite movies of all-time. Only issue is those movies are procedurals that take their TIME.
I really want to do one on Joseph H. Lewis and Samuel Fuller because what I have seen from both I have LOVED but in Lewis' case not exactly the easiest work to find.
After Tony Scott's suicide, I watched a Tony Scott and Denzel Washington marathon. From Crimson Tide to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 to Man on Fire to Deja Vu to Unstoppable. Say what you want about his earlier career but Tony Scott matured and Denzel was the perfect leading man to follow in his movies. I threw in watching Domino too because that was the first Tony Scott movie that I unabashedly loved (Manohla Dargis' review of the movie helped really shape my viewing of the movie and I believe that is why she is my favorite critic).
Future marathon that I am planning is a geo-political dramas with Zero Dark Thirty, The Day of the Jackal, Army of Shadows, and The Battle of Algiers. Know the endings and results of all of those movies, but I gets thrills and tension each revisit separately but ZDT is clearly calling back to both in interesting ways that I like to examine. I did my college senior thesis on The Battle of Algiers in its style of realism and portrayals of its subject (oddly a movie loved by leftists that oddly in a deus ex machina kind of way shows the efficacy of torture working) and despite doing an academic work on it, still one of my favorite movies of all-time. Only issue is those movies are procedurals that take their TIME.
I really want to do one on Joseph H. Lewis and Samuel Fuller because what I have seen from both I have LOVED but in Lewis' case not exactly the easiest work to find.
After Tony Scott's suicide, I watched a Tony Scott and Denzel Washington marathon. From Crimson Tide to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 to Man on Fire to Deja Vu to Unstoppable. Say what you want about his earlier career but Tony Scott matured and Denzel was the perfect leading man to follow in his movies. I threw in watching Domino too because that was the first Tony Scott movie that I unabashedly loved (Manohla Dargis' review of the movie helped really shape my viewing of the movie and I believe that is why she is my favorite critic).
Future marathon that I am planning is a geo-political dramas with Zero Dark Thirty, The Day of the Jackal, Army of Shadows, and The Battle of Algiers. Know the endings and results of all of those movies, but I gets thrills and tension each revisit separately but ZDT is clearly calling back to both in interesting ways that I like to examine. I did my college senior thesis on The Battle of Algiers in its style of realism and portrayals of its subject (oddly a movie loved by leftists that oddly in a deus ex machina kind of way shows torture working) and despite doing an academic work on it, still one of my favorite movies of all-time. Only issue is those movies are procedurals that take their TIME.
I really want to do one on Joseph H. Lewis and Samuel Fuller because what I have seen from both I have LOVED but in Lewis' case not exactly the easiest work to find.
After Tony Scott's suicide, I watched a Tony Scott and Denzel Washington marathon. From Crimson Tide to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 to Man on Fire to Deja Vu to Unstoppable. Say what you want about his earlier career but Tony Scott matured and Denzel was the perfect leading man to follow in his movies. I threw in watching Domino too because that was the first Tony Scott movie that I unabashedly loved (Manohla Dargis' review of the movie helped really shape my viewing of the movie and I believe that is why she is my favorite critic).
Future marathon that I am planning is a geo-political dramas with Zero Dark Thirty, The Day of the Jackal, Army of Shadows, and The Battle of Algiers. Know the endings and results of all of those movies, but I gets thrills and tension each revisit separately but ZDT is clearly calling back to both in interesting ways that I like to examine. I did my college senior thesis on The Battle of Algiers in its style of realism and portrayals of its subject (oddly a movie loved by leftists that oddly in a deus ex machina kind of way shows the efficacy of torture working) and despite doing an academic work on it, still one of my favorite movies of all-time. Only issue is those movies are procedurals that take their TIME.
I really want to do one on Joseph H. Lewis and Samuel Fuller because what I have seen from both I have LOVED but in Lewis' case not exactly the easiest work to find.
After Tony Scott's suicide, I watched a Tony Scott and Denzel Washington marathon. From Crimson Tide to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 to Man on Fire to Deja Vu to Unstoppable. Say what you want about his earlier career but Tony Scott matured and Denzel was the perfect leading man to follow in his movies. I threw in watching Domino too because that was the first Tony Scott movie that I unabashedly loved (Manohla Dargis' review of the movie helped really shape my viewing of the movie and I believe that is why she is my favorite critic).
Future marathon that I am planning is a geo-political dramas with Zero Dark Thirty, The Day of the Jackal, Army of Shadows, and The Battle of Algiers. Know the endings and results of all of those movies, but I gets thrills and tension each revisit separately but ZDT is clearly calling back to both in interesting ways that I like to examine. I did my college senior thesis on The Battle of Algiers in its style of realism and portrayals of its subject (oddly a movie loved by leftists that oddly in a deus ex machina kind of way shows the efficacy of torture working) and despite doing an academic work on it, still one of my favorite movies of all-time. Only issue is those movies are procedurals that take their TIME.
I really want to do one on Joseph H. Lewis and Samuel Fuller because what I have seen from both I have LOVED but in Lewis' case not exactly the easiest work to find.
Tony Scott tribute marathon- Everything he has done with Denzel plus Domino.
Ambitions:
Geo-Political Procedurals/Thrillers- The Battle of Algiers, Army of Shadows, Zero Dark Thirty, and The Day of the Jackal
Joseph H. Lewis oeuvre
Samuel Fuller oeuvre
Joel V.- Laurence Anyways is beautiful and so remarkable in what it is expressing. But it is a barn-burner.
murtada- I like Gerwig in Damsels in Distress. She's sort of the Queen of Mumblecore which is not my favorite film 'movement' to have happened but she gave one of my favorite performances by an actress last year in a very mannered, slapstick performance in Damsels in Distress. That could be Whit Stillman rubbing off though. But I'm looking forward to Frances Ha too.
Just got back from a trip to Cambodia and Vietnam. First thing I did when I got home was watch The Killing Fields. Will probably have a Vietnam War marathon on the weekend. Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Deer Hunter.
Star Trek Into Darkness!!!!!!!
Last movie marathon I can remember having was for my Dad/Cousin's double birthday party. Everyone at the party watched "Hotel Transylvania" "Men in Black 3" "American Reunion" followed by a trip to see "Spring Breakers" in theaters!