movies

[sighyoung]

Warren Beatty was announcing the winner of Best Picture and looked super confused. He was even looking for another card. Faye Dunaway then takes it from him and announces La La Land. It sounds like Beatty says something like "it says Emma Stone."

La La Land entourage goes on stage to start accepting award, then the accountants who certify the results run up on stage and say "No, Moonlight is the winner."

I just wanted to say that the man to the right of Warren Beatty in the photograph, way in the back, is Mike Beugg, the producer of La La Land, and a native St. Louisan. He graduated from SLUH in my year ('81), and I had the pleasure of speaking with him during my 35th reunion last September. A really nice guy, too.

[Famous Mortimer]

Anyone about in a few hours and fancies seeing "Night Of The Comet" at Schlafly Bottleworks, $5, 8pm.

[ghostrunner]

Anyone about in a few hours and fancies seeing "Night Of The Comet" at Schlafly Bottleworks, $5, 8pm.

I saw that movie at least 20 times. An 80's HBO daytime staple. Early PG-13 movie IIRC.

EDIT - Occurs to me now that it's also kind of unique for having 2 female leads back in the 80s, especially in that genre. Hector is more like a typical girlfriend character in terms of where he ranks in the story.

[The Third Man]

I'm not saying you're a terrible person if you haven't seen my namesake, but I am saying that it's on Netflix and you have no excuse at all.

[JoeMcKim]

I'll see Logan on either Monday or Tuesday this week, it looks really good and has been getting great reviews.

[Schlich]

I'm not saying you're a terrible person if you haven't seen my namesake, but I am saying that it's on Netflix and you have no excuse at all.

Thanks for the tip. That was enjoyable!

[Tim]

Don't go to the theater

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/thea ... 76f02.html

[JoeMcKim]

What kind of a sicko is checking out 65 year old women in the bathroom? Being a peeping tom is very unacceptable on many many levels but checking out older women like that is kind of boggling. That's some nudity you might want to unsee.

[vinsanity]

I'll see Logan on either Monday or Tuesday this week, it looks really good and has been getting great reviews.

Saw it; it is really good.

[The Third Man]

JL will be very happy to know that, after, like, a decade of saying I'd get around to it:

I finally watched The Exterminating Angel.

I was kinda respecting it more than loving it for most of its runtime - thinking "Oh, that's clever," more than actually being engaged by how clever it is - but the last five or ten minutes of that film totally knock it out of the park with a double-whammy ending. The "first" ending, in which they all realize they can only leave the party by rigidly adhering to the strictures of high society, was pretty great by itself, especially given that I had no idea how Bunuel was going to work his way out of the corner he seemed to have backed himself into. But the "second" ending immediately afterwards, in which they find themselves (and countless others) stuck in the exact same scenario, this time in a church, was brilliant. It's not just a hilariously mean thing to put the characters through for a second time - it's a razor-sharp takedown of religion, in a matter of minutes, in which Bunuel suggests that church is nothing more than another costume party for rich jerks.

That was [expletive] great. I really need to see more. I'm gonna check out Simon of the Desert and Viridiana soon.