What movies are you watching?

[VinylGuy]

Two days.

Still. Have you seen the daylight dear?

[Jorge]

For a minute I thought "The Daylight Dear" was an independent movie.

I love the festival. I have an ambitious schedule-- 33 movies in 10 days. It's like vacations to me.

[VinylGuy]

For a minute I thought "The Daylight Dear" was an independent movie.

I love the festival. I have an ambitious schedule-- 33 movies in 10 days. It's like vacations to me.

you were already searching about it in the internet right?? kinda sad you were missing that one.


33 movies? fuck i only want to see one movie per day maaybe...i enjoy things more when i can take time to realize what i just saw.

[Jorge]

If this happened more often, I'd be dead. But for 10 days every year, it's like a "Tenedor Libre" of interesting movies. And parties. I enjoy the BAFICI parties.

[Orpheus]

Three Colors: Red

Fantastic.

[VinylGuy]

Three Colors: Red

Fantastic.

Great movie.

If this happened more often, I'd be dead. But for 10 days every year, it's like a "Tenedor Libre" of interesting movies. And parties. I enjoy the BAFICI parties.

Never been into one of those.

[Simple Torture]

I'm about to start 'A History of Violence.' I remember watching parts of this years ago, excited to watch the whole thing.

[Malloy]

In the Mood for Love

[nyquillyn]

Melancholia. Reaching obsession level with this movie. I normally hate Kirsten Dunst, but I find this movie fascinating. Not exactly sure why. Not even in the top half of von Trier movies. The movie is super disjointed with two halves. But I love the lack of dialogue, the overall feeling of gloom and general distaste for human relationships. I really like the meandering pace and the weird claustrophobic feel of the estate that contrasts nicely with what's happening in the outside world.
I would assume most people thought this movie was fairly terrible, but I enjoy the shit out of it. My third viewing.

[Simple Torture]

I'm about to start 'A History of Violence.' I remember watching parts of this years ago, excited to watch the whole thing.

Pretty good, 7.5/10

[Orpheus]

Melancholia. Reaching obsession level with this movie. I normally hate Kirsten Dunst, but I find this movie fascinating. Not exactly sure why. Not even in the top half of von Trier movies. The movie is super disjointed with two halves. But I love the lack of dialogue, the overall feeling of gloom and general distaste for human relationships. I really like the meandering pace and the weird claustrophobic feel of the estate that contrasts nicely with what's happening in the outside world.
I would assume most people thought this movie was fairly terrible, but I enjoy the shit out of it. My third viewing.

I enjoyed it. Loved the "life is evil" conversation. Also liked the way it was structured with the prelude.

[dkfan9]

my twitter is now lynch-ified

[dkfan9]

I like this short post on Lost Highway: http://filmicpulp.wordpress.com/2010/10 ... t-is-dead/

[broken iris]

"The Avengers".

Except for the effects (absolutely top notch) and Downey's continued awesomeness as Tony Stark, this movie kinda bored me. Chris Evan's emo portrayal of Captain America certainly didn't help.

[VinylGuy]

"The Avengers".

Except for the effects (absolutely top notch) and Downey's continued awesomeness as Tony Stark, this movie kinda bored me. Chris Evan's emo portrayal of Captain America certainly didn't help.

Im really looking forward to Iron Man 3.

[Jorge]

More festival flicks:


"Romance Joe". Outstanding.


"In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey". Interesting doc, well put together, but feels a little lightweight and short.


"Oh Yeah! She Performs". Wonderful doc, really good music.


"Exit Elena". Fantastic little comedy.


"Locaciones: Buscando a Rusty James". An unbearably boring and uninteresting documentary that purports to be about the influence of Coppola's "Rumblefish" but is actually just random audio interviews with a bunch of movie fans talking about their lives, set against black-and-white shots of Tulsa and the occasional clip from the movie. Not good.


"Soft in the Head". Another Nathan Silver movie. Really good.


"El Gran Simulador". Decent. It just kind of came and went.

[nyquillyn]

My sister kept going on and on about this movie Room 237, which details all the hidden messages Kubrick supposedly put in The Shining.

What did you think? I kind of want to see it too.

I heard about this movie late last summer, which was right after I watched The Shining for the first time; I hadn't thought about it in ages, but when I saw you guys mention it here, I downloaded it and watched it today. I thought it was really good overall, it had me going, "Huh...wow," many times throughout, and also, "Yeah....right!" It presents a bunch of different readings of the film, and chances are you'll buy into some of them and totally disagree with others, so it's fun to fight with the TV in that respect. Out of all of them, the reading of the film as being about past-ness and the sections that thought about the layout of the hotel were the most engaging for me. The moon landing stuff was the weirdest, for sure, but when you hear some of the coincidences, it does bend your mind a bit.

I think the film suffers from the way it's marketed as revealing all of the hidden stuff Kubrick snuck into the film. Within the first five minutes I felt myself muttering, "Intentional fallacy...intentional fallacy." However, this faded away after a while and I was able to appreciate (most of) the perspectives on the film as well supported readings of the film as a complex and multi-layered text. Then, right at the end, someone mentions, "Oh, you know, authorial intent so we can't be sure." Well, duh (that kind of brought me back to the same stance I had at the beginning of the film); it's only one of the critics who says this, of course, and it's one of the more level-headed ones (if I was recognizing the voice correctly), so I'm sure many of the others don't share that view.

I'd say 8/10.

I didn't really enjoy this movie. I really wanted to, but even just from a shear "film buff" level, I just couldn't stop shaking my head at all the ridiculousness that people were reading into the film. I really didn't like the way they used other film clips (like Tom Cruise in EWS) while people were talking. I can understand that they didn't want an hour and half of talking heads, but I thought it was poorly done. I did enjoy the music.
Again, I just could never shake the feeling that these were all crazy people reading far too much into this movie and that kinda turned the movie into a chore.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Melancholia. Reaching obsession level with this movie. I normally hate Kirsten Dunst, but I find this movie fascinating. Not exactly sure why. Not even in the top half of von Trier movies. The movie is super disjointed with two halves. But I love the lack of dialogue, the overall feeling of gloom and general distaste for human relationships. I really like the meandering pace and the weird claustrophobic feel of the estate that contrasts nicely with what's happening in the outside world.
I would assume most people thought this movie was fairly terrible, but I enjoy the shit out of it. My third viewing.

it was one of those movies that we watched and kinda felt uncomfortable the whole way through it, but i really loved it, though im always into some of the crazy kinda things like another planet crashing into the earth ( even though that was kind of in the back ground for most of the movie)

[Harry Lime]

though im always into some of the crazy kinda things like another planet crashing into the earth

Spielberg was ready to helm a remake of the 1933 science fiction novel "When Worlds Collide" but it's shelved for now.

[Farmer John]

My sister kept going on and on about this movie Room 237, which details all the hidden messages Kubrick supposedly put in The Shining.

What did you think? I kind of want to see it too.

I heard about this movie late last summer, which was right after I watched The Shining for the first time; I hadn't thought about it in ages, but when I saw you guys mention it here, I downloaded it and watched it today. I thought it was really good overall, it had me going, "Huh...wow," many times throughout, and also, "Yeah....right!" It presents a bunch of different readings of the film, and chances are you'll buy into some of them and totally disagree with others, so it's fun to fight with the TV in that respect. Out of all of them, the reading of the film as being about past-ness and the sections that thought about the layout of the hotel were the most engaging for me. The moon landing stuff was the weirdest, for sure, but when you hear some of the coincidences, it does bend your mind a bit.

I think the film suffers from the way it's marketed as revealing all of the hidden stuff Kubrick snuck into the film. Within the first five minutes I felt myself muttering, "Intentional fallacy...intentional fallacy." However, this faded away after a while and I was able to appreciate (most of) the perspectives on the film as well supported readings of the film as a complex and multi-layered text. Then, right at the end, someone mentions, "Oh, you know, authorial intent so we can't be sure." Well, duh (that kind of brought me back to the same stance I had at the beginning of the film); it's only one of the critics who says this, of course, and it's one of the more level-headed ones (if I was recognizing the voice correctly), so I'm sure many of the others don't share that view.

I'd say 8/10.

I didn't really enjoy this movie. I really wanted to, but even just from a shear "film buff" level, I just couldn't stop shaking my head at all the ridiculousness that people were reading into the film. I really didn't like the way they used other film clips (like Tom Cruise in EWS) while people were talking. I can understand that they didn't want an hour and half of talking heads, but I thought it was poorly done. I did enjoy the music.
Again, I just could never shake the feeling that these were all crazy people reading far too much into this movie and that kinda turned the movie into a chore.

Yeah, I don't really understand all the praise this movie is getting. The only thing I found kind of interesting was the stuff about the layout of the hotel. The rest was only slightly interesting in a psychological, "look at all the different ways people read into the film" kind of way.