movies

[Vidor]

Watched "Gimme Shelter". Dark and disturbing. Very much a 'Lord of the Flies' vibe at that Altamont concert.

I love that documentary. I need to watch it again.

I like how it's peace-and-love for a while, and then you start seeing the Hell's Angels floating around, and then there are some more hippies and naked people, and then the clubs come out. Creepy.

[jim]

We saw The Good Lie - neat story but I thought it was kind of corny and the acting by Witherspoon was pretty so-so. I saw a documentary on this once, and that was actually funnier (in the spots that were supposed to be funny) than the movie. For example when they passed the ice around - that was in the documentary and it was hilarious how they reacted. The start of the movie I thought was much better than when they arrived in the U.S. They really sugar coated some of the problems those guys had.

[Vidor]

A reminder that we can excoriate Peter Jackson all we like for expanding a kid's book that would have made a nice tight 2-hour movie into nine hours of bloat, but that bloat made an ungodly amount of money at the box office.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospect ... old-hoard/

[The Third Man]

If anybody has any hard-to-find stuff they want to see, now is the time to ask, because Karagarga (a private torrent tracker with an awesome library of rarities) has a sitewide freeleech for the next 4 days. Let me know.

I would like to see 1909 D.W. Griffith short "Lady Helen's Escapade". Make it snappy.

Checked for this one, but no luck.

[cardinalkarp]

American Sniper is only playing in Hollywood, Dallas and on Broadway.

??? Meaning on January 17th it's not opening across the country? I'll be pissed as I was looking forward to seeing that. I read the book, which was very good (even though the guy was a dick). I want to see how well it's translated to film.

[slide_into_first]

American Sniper is only playing in Hollywood, Dallas and on Broadway.

??? Meaning on January 17th it's not opening across the country? I'll be pissed as I was looking forward to seeing that. I read the book, which was very good (even though the guy was a dick). I want to see how well it's translated to film.

You are right it opens in about 10 days. I was trying to "contribute" to the discussion.

[The Third Man]

I'm off from about 9 pm tonight until 10 am Friday. I plan to watch Ken Burns' Civil War, Peter Watkins' La Commune (Paris 1871), and Chris Marker's A Grin Without a Cat.

[Michael]

I watched Ken Burns' Civil War a few months ago and I was disappointed. There's a lot of anecdotes but very little analysis. After watching it I can't say I learned much about the Civil War. It wasn't terrible, but perhaps my expectations were too high.

[thrill]

I watched Ken Burns' Civil War a few months ago and I was disappointed. There's a lot of anecdotes but very little analysis. After watching it I can't say I learned much about the Civil War. It wasn't terrible, but perhaps my expectations were too high.

Try doing it while drinking bourbon. I was INTO it. I couldn't finish the last ep tho.


MAAH DEAREST CLARA
THEM YANKEES ARE ON THE RUN
THIS WARUH WILL BE OVER BY CHRISTMAS
YOUR BELOVED,
PRIVATE SAMUEL B HILLJACKCRACKERFACE

Love those dramatic letter readings.

[slide_into_first]

I'm telling about a good scene in Foxcatcher.

[SHOW]

In the only light hearted scene in Foxcatcher, creepy John Dupont (Steve Carrell) leads a wrestling practice to impress his mother, looking on from her wheelchair. He demonstrates two elementary moves, arm drags and gut wrenches, and does it badly, with poor technique. His mother (Vanessa Redgrave) leaves before he finishes. Afterwards, Dave Schultz (Mark Rufalo) says to the group, "Well, let's practice arm drags and gut wrenches."