Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

parson · Post by **parson** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:43 pm

i was just gonna bring up petra von kant. not one of my favorites personally. seeing her be such a whiny bitch the whole movie kinda gets on my nerves. visually stunning though. like klimt
and i can imagine the turmoil. the precision his people work with to get things done so well with one take is incredible. you'd have to be a drill sergeant to get people to become personal robots for you.

edit: 13 moons, and fox and his friends were more soul-crushing to me
seeing that cow flit around, dangling from its hindlegs, gushing crimson, and screaming bloody murder had a lot to do with why i do not eat cows anymore

actually, the most heartbreaking one is ali. brigitte mira is too amazing.

DJ Cal Cutta wrote:What did you think of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant? I actually picked that up for my gf on a whim(she's a fashion designer), wow...that film was soul-shattering for me. It's one of his films that shows, with no small amount of clarity, how much turmoil there must have been actually working with Fassbinder. There was a story about how Chinese Roulette was filmed by Fassbinder making all cast and crew live in some very remote chateau, and then proceeded to go into some serious psychoanalysis of these people, just for added intensity on film.

It's hard not to reconcile imagining Fassbinder the person, with any of his films, and for that, I love him.

edit:

sirk wasn't half as flamboyant, which is how fassbinder could make such blatant swagger-jacking work so well
That's a good way to put it

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:20 pm

Parson wrote:i'm not trying to be grossed out right now

i've got extreme empathy and movies like this fuck with me

I don't need to be force feed either..I was actually annoyed with the vulgar parts..

but I think the strength of the movie was in the extreme charicature of all the events and personalities..like turning up the volume on behaviors..and the poetry in the selective macro vision - simultaneously.

parson · Post by **parson** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:22 pm

yeah thats the only level i can handle this kinda stuff on

same issues with visitor q

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:58 pm

parson · Post by **parson** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:04 pm

thats the way of the Tao

to be supple and not rigid and let things happen

dj cal cutta · Post by **dj cal cutta** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:21 pm

Barbet Schroeder's "La Vallee", which was pretty forgettable...save Nestor Almendros's camerawork.

dj cal cutta · Post by **dj cal cutta** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:49 pm

Revisited one of my favorites yesterday: "La Promesse" by the Dardenne bros.

parson · Post by **parson** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:01 am

watched woman in the dunes which is one of the best films i've seen

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:30 am

Watched ''Paths of Glory'' on More4 last night. Very powerful, quietly virtuoso.

dj cal cutta · Post by **dj cal cutta** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:25 pm

Parson wrote:watched woman in the dunes which is one of the best films i've seen

Teshigahara is my favorite filmmaker from Japan, and Woman of the Dunes is probably my favorite film of his. The score/sound design on this film is stunning. Have you seen either Pitfall(if you like Kafka, this will floor you), or The Face of Another?

I'm quite eager to read all the books of Kobo Abe that Teshigahara adapted for film(and see "The Man Without a Map", which I have yet to see).

edit: Also, Teshigahara's documentary on Gaudi is wonderful. I really loved Toru Takemitsu's score(and noticed many others feel quite the opposite about it).

parson · Post by **parson** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:46 pm

this was my intro to teshigahara. i think somebody from this forum recommended it.

will definitely be looking into more

unlikely · Post by **unlikely** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:50 pm

just saw 4 months, 3 weeks and 3 days (is that right?)

ridiculously intense film, deeply unsettling and amazingly shot,

thoroughly recomended

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:58 pm

Trainspotting

fookin' ace, man.

datura · Post by **datura** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:14 pm

Corpsey wrote:Watched ''Paths of Glory'' on More4 last night. Very powerful, quietly virtuoso.

Look forward to watching it off the Sky+, on Barry Lyndon at the moment, good on More4 for the Kubrick season.

Watched 12 Angry Men yesterday and Sunshine..

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:16 pm

datura wrote:
Corpsey wrote:Watched ''Paths of Glory'' on More4 last night. Very powerful, quietly virtuoso.
Look forward to watching it off the Sky+, on Barry Lyndon at the moment, good on More4 for the Kubrick season.

Watched 12 Angry Men yesterday and Sunshine..

shit, its kubrick season? awww man. they played the shining or 2001 yet?

christophera · Post by **christophera** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:17 pm

sunshine is great and sorely overlooked

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:11 am

ChristopherA wrote:sunshine is great and sorely overlooked

So true, i have it on DVD!
never watched it

christophera · Post by **christophera** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:25 am

i'm a sucker for space movies like 2001 and solaris (both)

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:45 am

2001 was epic!!!!
Solaris...you mean the one from 2002? or the super old one?
Havent seen the new one though! =(

christophera · Post by **christophera** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:51 am

(both)

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