A few films recently watched.

tyson (documentary) - woah! in his prime he was an unstoppable killing machine but boy has he struggled wih demons ever since the death of his mentor and that rape charge. scarily unpredictable, surprisingly eloquent and sometimes very likeable.

favourite quote - "at thith time i wath having an athtounding amount of thexual relationth".

fast five 5/fast

the rock vs vin diesel! it was fun. i refuse to think any more about it.

they even threw in a little avengersesque set up for the next movie after the credits

it annoys me that they did not stick with the 2fast 2furious naming convention. was looking forward to 7fast 7furious

  On 5/11/2011 at 1:36 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

I strongly recommend Even Dwarves Started Small

I'm guessing that by recommending this you're implying that if somebody can enjoy this then they will love Herzog on the whole? Because I certainly wouldn't recommend that particular movie to a Herzog newcomer! (Not that it's bad of course)

  On 5/11/2011 at 2:33 PM, keltoi said:

tyson (documentary) - woah! in his prime he was an unstoppable killing machine but boy has he struggled wih demons ever since the death of his mentor and that rape charge. scarily unpredictable, surprisingly eloquent and sometimes very likeable.

 

favourite quote - "at thith time i wath having an athtounding amount of thexual relationth".

It wasn't a rape charge, it was a rape conviction. Mike Tyson is a rapist.

been doing some comfortable rewatching lately

Gladiator, and Inception... Hans Zimmer's music in the final scenes of both of these is fucking brilliant, I want to kiss that man's arse.

300; after Gladiator it felt a lot shitter than I remember. Gladiator's fight scenes are much more manageable because of the format, you know roughly what you are getting into each time, where as in 300 the story requires that they are virtually endless and it gets dull. Something about it is still satisfying though, probably the exaggeration of it all, they almost manage to make it a film of a single plot-line myth which is a nice idea in a way. The queen/politics story is just piss weak nothingness though; I read the Ebert review and he mentioned shit scenes in new Star Wars in comparison, which is depressingly accurate.

  On 5/11/2011 at 5:45 PM, Obel said:

  On 5/11/2011 at 1:36 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

I strongly recommend Even Dwarves Started Small

 

I'm guessing that by recommending this you're implying that if somebody can enjoy this then they will love Herzog on the whole? Because I certainly wouldn't recommend that particular movie to a Herzog newcomer! (Not that it's bad of course)

I dunno, I think it's a fine place to start...guess it depends on the person. Not sure if vamos counts as a newcomer at this point...sometimes chronological is the best way to go, plus a lot of artist's early work is often their best, or at least freshest and most raw.

  On 5/11/2011 at 6:07 PM, Iain C said:

  On 5/11/2011 at 2:33 PM, keltoi said:

tyson (documentary) - woah! in his prime he was an unstoppable killing machine but boy has he struggled wih demons ever since the death of his mentor and that rape charge. scarily unpredictable, surprisingly eloquent and sometimes very likeable.

 

favourite quote - "at thith time i wath having an athtounding amount of thexual relationth".

 

It wasn't a rape charge, it was a rape conviction. Mike Tyson is a rapist.

Seriously though, who wouldn't want to get raped by Tyson? Plus Robin Givens seems like a total ice-queen bitch. Hopefully she got it in the keister.

  On 5/11/2011 at 1:36 PM, lumpenprol said:

I like Heart of Glass, especially the last shot. It is Hmmmm though.

 

Strozek will make you horribly depressed.

 

I strongly recommend Even Dwarves Started Small and Signs of Life, his first couple of films

well. Strozek was pretty depressing. I didn't feel quite as much a connection to it but it was still good. memorable, as always. interesting how he reused that weird ass harmonica music at the ending of Strozek in Bad Lieutenant.

Heart of Glass was almost completely incomprehensible to me. but still it was fantastic, through and through.

I've got Even Dwarves Started Small and Fata Morgana remaining out of the set I purchased.

Fast Five 8/10

Great action flick, the scenes were pretty crazy. The Rock was lame though.

  On 5/11/2011 at 10:12 PM, vamos scorcho said:

  On 5/11/2011 at 1:36 PM, lumpenprol said:

I like Heart of Glass, especially the last shot. It is Hmmmm though.

 

Strozek will make you horribly depressed.

 

I strongly recommend Even Dwarves Started Small and Signs of Life, his first couple of films

 

 

well. Strozek was pretty depressing. I didn't feel quite as much a connection to it but it was still good. memorable, as always. interesting how he reused that weird ass harmonica music at the ending of Strozek in Bad Lieutenant.

 

 

Heart of Glass was almost completely incomprehensible to me. but still it was fantastic, through and through.

 

I've got Even Dwarves Started Small and Fata Morgana remaining out of the set I purchased.

even dwarfs is an incredible adventure. I was lucky enough to catch it on a reasonably good film print last october. twisted as it is charming. and i didn't know that was possible.

vamos, seems like you're making your way through the new german cinema? How much fassbinder have you seen?

never heard of Fassbinder. I'll look into him though, for sure. I've only recently realized how little I actually know about film

I actually used to think I'd 'seen it all.' Haneke, Fellini, the usual shite. then something cracks open and I see that there is a whole world I was almost completely unaware of.

for instance, how could there be a so called 'top 200 directors.' for me there are 10, maybe 20 that I can name.

fassbinder is great, i just got LOADS of his stuff, looking forward to a nice binge. maybe i'll take a whole day and watch berlin alexanderplatz in one go :D

yeah that's my summer plan! Fassbinder took me a while to get used to but my god does he have chops.

Well pretty much everything in the new german cinema is incredible. Herzog (my hero) is a great place to start, but fassbinder is the undoubted champ of the movement. 40 films plus a 15 hour television series in 13 years or something like that? fuck me.

Taxi Driver - 9/10

Holy shit, even though it was a slow movie it was an intense one. I have never seen DeNiro act so well.. you could feel the desperation, the anger, the awkwardness and shyness of Travis Bickle throughout the film. He was clearly deranged but it wasn't overplayed. I'll probably watch this film again sometime.

Pretty intense.

i am number 4 - 3,5/10

a serbian film - 4/10

ok all taboos have been broken. too bad it was done in such a mindless fashion. a film like 'salo' shows far less but is infinitely more disturbing.

atop, you've got some splaining to do!

  On 5/12/2011 at 2:39 AM, dr lopez said:

yeah that's my summer plan! Fassbinder took me a while to get used to but my god does he have chops.

 

Well pretty much everything in the new german cinema is incredible. Herzog (my hero) is a great place to start, but fassbinder is the undoubted champ of the movement. 40 films plus a 15 hour television series in 13 years or something like that? fuck me.

Fassbinder is cool, he seems like quite the character, I've only seen three of his films I think..."Marriage of Maria Braun", "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul", and one other I forget the name of...I think I "like what he stands for" more than I like his films - in the sense that he seems to go for a very down to earth, realistic vibe with an edge of social critique, but I never really fell in love with him as a filmmaker. I admire him, I guess...From what I recall (last time I saw one of his flicks was years ago), he also struck me as "very German" - not sure how well his concerns cross over to an internat'l audience...

  On 5/12/2011 at 6:44 AM, Atop said:

GUESS SHE DON'T LIKE THE CORNBREAD EITHER

  On 5/11/2011 at 6:07 PM, Iain C said:

  On 5/11/2011 at 2:33 PM, keltoi said:

tyson (documentary) - woah! in his prime he was an unstoppable killing machine but boy has he struggled wih demons ever since the death of his mentor and that rape charge. scarily unpredictable, surprisingly eloquent and sometimes very likeable.

 

favourite quote - "at thith time i wath having an athtounding amount of thexual relationth".

 

It wasn't a rape charge, it was a rape conviction. Mike Tyson is a rapist.

semantics.

  On 5/12/2011 at 7:21 AM, yek said:

atop, you've got some splaining to do!

It's the Alien Queen from 'Aliens' yo mister man!

  On 5/12/2011 at 8:00 AM, baph said:

  On 5/12/2011 at 6:44 AM, Atop said:

GUESS SHE DON'T LIKE THE CORNBREAD EITHER

flol!

  On 5/12/2011 at 7:53 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 5/12/2011 at 2:39 AM, dr lopez said:

yeah that's my summer plan! Fassbinder took me a while to get used to but my god does he have chops.

 

Well pretty much everything in the new german cinema is incredible. Herzog (my hero) is a great place to start, but fassbinder is the undoubted champ of the movement. 40 films plus a 15 hour television series in 13 years or something like that? fuck me.

 

Fassbinder is cool, he seems like quite the character, I've only seen three of his films I think..."Marriage of Maria Braun", "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul", and one other I forget the name of...I think I "like what he stands for" more than I like his films - in the sense that he seems to go for a very down to earth, realistic vibe with an edge of social critique, but I never really fell in love with him as a filmmaker. I admire him, I guess...From what I recall (last time I saw one of his flicks was years ago), he also struck me as "very German" - not sure how well his concerns cross over to an internat'l audience...

yes he deals only with german issues, in a very "classic narrative" way, stories that have a beginning middle and end, even while the end results end up pretty idiosyncratic. But knowing a lot about german history and literature is almost essential, the level of references and homages are sometimes overwhelming. And he loves 50s american melodrama. he was a weird dude.

It might get loud - 6/10

13 Assassins - 8/10

  On 5/12/2011 at 9:43 AM, ieafs said:

  On 5/11/2011 at 1:36 PM, lumpenprol said:

I like Heart of Glass, especially the last shot. It is Hmmmm though.

 

Strozek will make you horribly depressed.

 

I strongly recommend Even Dwarves Started Small and Signs of Life, his first couple of films

lol thanks for posting

not a great vocal impression but they got the mood