Films

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Breathless. What's in the envelope? Hollywood jumps on a fad.

See you in the queue.

Hanna was... enjoyable, just couldn't quite work out why it's not that endearing to me, well shot thought.

This week:

American: The Bill Hicks Story - very interesting, well put together, and I liked the use of animation (there are a lot of shots from Bill Hicks' past, which are then animated, if that makes any sense) but I think a few more talking heads (i.e. getting to see the people behind the voice-over) would have been appreciated. Content-wise, superb. "The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."

Thor - occasionally entertaining. Pretty dumb though.

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex - excellent film about the key figures behind the Red Army Faction.

Will have to check out the Bill Hick story, never seen his video in my life, which is a shame.

here's hoping it got subtitle.

Almodovars, The skin i live in.. Good film. beautifully shot as ever. Great script and a fine, understated performance from Banderas.. A touch too long IMHO. Especially once the "twist" in the plot is revealed. Nonetheless one of his best films I feel.

Going to see Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy this weekend and looking forward to it

I saw this last weekend - completely agree about Banderas and the quality of the cinematography.There were some great darkly comic moments.

I thought the pacing was a bit off too, but to me it felt like it wrapped up a bit too quickly after the twist. Also, it lacked a bit of tension in the next "key moment" it felt like it was always going to happen.

Really interested in what people think about Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

I'll just leave this here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn6ie1zCkZU

pea.

ah come onnn, I thought this was a new trailer? (not an excuse to post anything with JGL in it)

^^^^^^^^^ and ^

facepalm Clearly too lazy to click on links...

hahaha that opening bit of dialogue had me in stitches.

At least he didn't say "I like to cruise on mah fixie..."

There was hopping and jumping going on in the trailer! Do you think JGL did his own stunts/tricks?

there's also a Geekhouse....

He did some of his own and Austin Horse, NYC bike courier (former NA cycle courier champ) did the rest. Both had some epic crashes.

EDIT: looks like Danny MacAskill was asked to do the jumps etc a while ago but don't think it's him...

There was hopping and jumping going on in the trailer! Do you think JGL did his own stunts/tricks?

yes he did

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDpbgIR300g

31 stitches apparently

Looks like "Streetwise" off CITV.

qwe

Watching Dog Day Afternoon (again)

He gets away

i just watched wall street. you know the new(ish) one.
shit.

Friends with Benefits was terrible. Tectonic plates move quicker than the pace of this film. It was merely a demonstration of two rather lovely bodies - about 40 minutes of JT humping (the rather lovely) Mila Kunis and a script that I could've done a better job on means that I won't be rushing out for the DVD.

Mind you, what did I expect? In all honesty, the only decent performance in the whole sorry affair was that of Woody Harrelson.

^voice of reason

i just watched wall street. you know the new(ish) one.
shit.

First one is one of my very favourite films. Stone has also got excellent taste in music; he uses some Talking Heads and Byrne/Eno stuff to very good effect.