A few films recently watched.

juliette binoche - bang her

irene jacob - be her

from red, probably my favorite of the trilogy, though it's hard to pick between blue and red.

  On 12/3/2010 at 2:08 AM, Adjective said:

Enter The Void was one of the most powerful experiences i've ever had with a movie, i completely surrendered to it, and forgot about my self and company. the acting never entered my mind because i was able to get so immersed. sorry to hear you guys didn't have a similar worthwhile experience

I loved it. I was on my knees for that movie.

  On 12/2/2010 at 3:45 PM, Al Hounos said:

yeah, enter the void... how do you take all these fun and exciting ingredients - Tokyo, drugs, drug dealing, strippers - put them together with some really fantastic and original camera-work and visual effects, and end up with an incredibly dull movie?

 

...by having zero interesting characters and virtually no storyline, apparently.

I believe that those who didn't enjoy Enter the Void didn't watch it in theaters. I agree with the uninteresting story criticism, I noticed it while watching but the fact of seeing it on a big screen with full surround sound made me unable not to surrender to the audiovisual experience that transcends the failures of the movie.

  On 12/3/2010 at 2:31 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

I believe that those who didn't enjoy Enter the Void didn't watch it in theaters. I agree with the uninteresting story criticism, I noticed it while watching but the fact of seeing it on a big screen with full surround sound made me unable not to surrender to the audiovisual experience that transcends the failures of the movie.

i feel ya

severance lol\gore

  On 12/2/2010 at 1:55 PM, disparaissant said:

picked up roeg's the man who fell to earth. one of my favorite films, even though david bowie playing an androgynous alien really isn't a stretch at all. as for roeg, i've only seen man who fell to earth, walkabout, and don't look now, but i like all three of em a lot. i guess most of the other stuff he's done is garbage, though.

 

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yes. david bowie was hooked on "water."

roegs a brilliant director. 'performance' (directed with donald cammell) and 'bad timing' are essential. ive read that 'eureka' and 'insignificance' are also quite good but havent seen them. i watched a recent one of his called 'puffball' that wasnt very good but it had some interesting moments..

Splice.loved the cgi. 5/10

Jacob's Ladder 7/10 gets a bit sappy and sentimental at the end. But there was parts where I was truely scared.

A Million in the Morning: 8.5/10 In some parts its very fucking funny. It could have used more footage of him drunk, because he was fucking funny then. Looses points for being sort of boring in parts. Still worth watch because its quite short(58mins)

  On 12/3/2010 at 1:16 PM, Squee said:

  On 12/3/2010 at 2:08 AM, Adjective said:

Enter The Void was one of the most powerful experiences i've ever had with a movie, i completely surrendered to it, and forgot about my self and company. the acting never entered my mind because i was able to get so immersed. sorry to hear you guys didn't have a similar worthwhile experience

 

I loved it. I was on my knees for that movie.

Towards the end I was starting to leave my own body.

Any film that evokes this feeling in me is a great one.

Gaspar is the man.

  On 12/3/2010 at 11:25 PM, Atop said:

  On 12/3/2010 at 1:16 PM, Squee said:

  On 12/3/2010 at 2:08 AM, Adjective said:

Enter The Void was one of the most powerful experiences i've ever had with a movie, i completely surrendered to it, and forgot about my self and company. the acting never entered my mind because i was able to get so immersed. sorry to hear you guys didn't have a similar worthwhile experience

 

I loved it. I was on my knees for that movie.

 

Towards the end I was starting to leave my own body.

 

Any film that evokes this feeling in me is a great one.

 

Gaspar is the man.

yes, i felt like i had experienced death by the end, brilliant film

  On 12/3/2010 at 11:25 PM, Atop said:

  On 12/3/2010 at 1:16 PM, Squee said:

  On 12/3/2010 at 2:08 AM, Adjective said:

Enter The Void was one of the most powerful experiences i've ever had with a movie, i completely surrendered to it, and forgot about my self and company. the acting never entered my mind because i was able to get so immersed. sorry to hear you guys didn't have a similar worthwhile experience

 

I loved it. I was on my knees for that movie.

 

Towards the end I was starting to leave my own body.

 

Any film that evokes this feeling in me is a great one.

 

Gaspar is the man.

I did everything I could to stare at the epilepsy-inducing scenes and it was amazing. After a while I completely forgot what I was looking at because weird pictures were forming in front of my eyes.

It was like a 3 hour drug trip.

  On 12/3/2010 at 9:19 PM, chassis said:

Jacob's Ladder 7/10 gets a bit sappy and sentimental at the end. But there was parts where I was truely scared.

 

A Million in the Morning: 8.5/10 In some parts its very fucking funny. It could have used more footage of him drunk, because he was fucking funny then. Looses points for being sort of boring in parts. Still worth watch because its quite short(58mins)

jacob's ladder scarred me.

Un Prophete - 8/10

Haven't delved too much into french filmographers, but really enjoyed Audiard's style in this one. Very departure-esque but with more background in the racial aspect (i.e. rascism). Also the subtitles were a hindrance so I watched it without the subs-imo it was 10x better. Further perusing will be in the future, but for now finals!

Jacob's Ladder is the best movie ever made about the military high grade weaponized psychedelic drug BZ

  On 12/4/2010 at 2:27 AM, tontonz said:

Un Prophete - 8/10

 

Haven't delved too much into french filmographers, but really enjoyed Audiard's style in this one. Very departure-esque but with more background in the racial aspect (i.e. rascism). Also the subtitles were a hindrance so I watched it without the subs-imo it was 10x better. Further perusing will be in the future, but for now finals!

Tell me about it.

I watched a French zombie movie called "La Horde" and not only was it one of the worst zombie movies I've ever watched but the subtitles were out of this world. At one point a guy gets shot and his friend (or maybe it's the guy that got shot, I can't remember) screams out something in French which according to the subtitles meant: "It's unfortunate". Now, I would think that there are better and more expressive things to say in a situation like that - but of course I've never been shot myself and I've never been near a guy who got shot... oh wait, back when I was in primary school a guy busted into our school with a gun. He was later shot in the leg by a cop outside the school. I watched it all from our music class room. Best fucking school day ever. Yeah well, anyway. Awful subtitles suck but can sometimes turn semi-good movies into fucking awesome movies.

Waiiiit for it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJrB74h-9g

Also, then there's this classic:

i donwloaded a dvd rip of the "backstroke of the west" version of episode 3 because it was the only way i could stomach it. better than rifftrax, i tell ya.

over the last few days i picked up the trois coleurs trilogy, the first season of community, and troll 2. really weird trifecta of things to get but i love them all.

find the Decalogue (Dekalog?) if you enjoy Kieslowski

yeah ive been meaning to, cant find it for a reasonable price (or a "reasonable price" nudge nudge) anywhere, though.

isohunt may have dekalog for a decent price

i actually made a pact with a demon who is sending it to my computer right now

why i never think to check with demons is beyond me.

Best pig scene in any film ever. With the wee boy from "Gentle Ben". Not new to me, just watched it again the other night

that's all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxfKQLDonIw

Best teeth in any film ever.

The trailer does this no justice, the Synapse R1 DVD is a stunning print.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agtrqXBfiE4

  On 12/3/2010 at 5:04 AM, Tapeghoul said:

 

Just worked my way through this tasty lot

hell yeah. haneke is a great director. the piano teacher may be my favorite of his, but the nihilist stuff is fun too.

enter the void - this felt life changing. i don't know why, but it was incredibly effective.

  On 12/4/2010 at 2:28 AM, Awepittance said:

Jacob's Ladder is the best movie ever made about the military high grade weaponized psychedelic drug BZ

Yeah and there has been like one made.. lol

black swan very good/10

very effective and very creepy

  On 12/4/2010 at 4:41 AM, remy marathe said:

enter the void - this felt life changing. i don't know why, but it was incredibly effective.

Was for me as well, but I think I know why....

primordial and archetypal are two words that come to mind,

other than that my interpretation shall remain mine for awhile,

a very personal experience...

need to see it a few more times...