Recently watched Eraserhead for the first time. Very cool use of sound and the visuals are insane, but I wouldn't recommend it to most. Very odd stuff. Interesting though. Lynch is a madman.

heads-up...

Le Samourai is getting a limited release on the Big Screen in some areas because Criterion is releasing a NEW 4k uhd master and disc.

Look for it later this week or sometime next week (las vegas) in your area.

I'll be there... fo sho.

I got to see the most watched movie of 2024 made in South Korea, Exhuma(2024). Anytime Korea puts out thriller/horror/mystery you got to be ready for a wild ride. A young female shaman is asked to perform a standard body-moving ceremony for an ultra-wealthy family that wants to move the casket of a long departed grandfather . She learns that there is a mysterious powerful, murderous supernatural force attached to the gravesite. She enlists an old experienced veteran geomancer played by Choi Min-sik (Oldboy, I Saw the Devil) to investigate and to battle the evil spirit for the rest of the movie. There are lots of incantations, rituals, animals, tattoos, and blood in the movie. It turns out that the source of the evil has to do with the centuries old war of Japan with Korea. It touches some of the same ground as great The Wailing but not quite to that level of success. It was a fun watch.

There's Still Tomorrow - A black and white Italian neorealist film set in 1946 about a battered wife. Delia is regularly beaten up by her husband but her tie to her daughter, and possibly some lack of courage, prevent her from leaving. It's nowhere near as dour as it sounds, actually being quite funny at times.

There's an excellent, uncomfortable scene where her husband beating her is intermingled with them dancing. I think it shows how normalised these beatings have become. Delia is able to find strength from a friendly American solider and her desire to protect her daughter, even if she is trapped in a horrible marriage. The constant humour stops the film from ever being depressing.

Snack Shack Two teens in 1991 scheme around for money and get into typical teen shenanigans. They end up buying a snack shack at the local pool for the Summer. Up and down movie but it had some funny parts and it got better the second half. I'd give it a watchable rating.

Requiem for a Dream... very disturbing to my psyche.

In that vein of movies, Spun was more disturbing to me... And I went ahead and watched it again, which is simply not a good idea for the good health of one's tummy

Requiem for a Dream is wonderful, one of my favorite movies. It vividly captures how visceral Hubert Shelby Jr’s writing is.

Just finished Apocalypse Now - Redux

I remember watching this right after it came out, and not really caring one way or the other about it. I've caught bits and pieces since but never sat down and watched it from beginning to end. I really enjoyed it this time around.

Has one of my favorite movie scenes.

Fall Guy - good fun. Appropriately great stunts. Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt make the romance work.

Wow. I've never heard of this one. I was thinking it was made in 1946. Didn't realize it's new..


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Saw this yesterday and enjoyed it. It wasn't amazing or anything but I was entertained throughout even though it felt 30 minutes too long.

Yeah, the plot was like 80% successful in being a credible excuse for the stunts.

This is a wonderful movie, but I never recommend it to people because they always patiently explain to me that it isn't.

It was amazing to see this when it first came out and hear the helicopters moving around you. We weren't used to that surround sound.

Marlon Brando reading "The Hollow Men"!

That opening credit sequence!

The cast!

(I'm glad the film did not include the plantation scene in the Redux version.)

And just read about how Sheen went about that opening scene!

Maybe it's a "men's" film, but even if that's true, and it probably is, it's one of the great films of all time.

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if someone tried to explain to me why apocalypse now wasn't an amazing film I would be very grateful to them for letting me know I never had to take their opinion seriously.

always nice when ppl like that identify themselves.

The Fall Guy was just ok...charming leads, of course, but the script was a bit of a mess.

I don't get all the hate for Lamb... I saw it for the first time last night and I thought it was beautifully shot from a technical perspective, I love the pacing and I really started to get that birth of Christ feeling for the first 45 minutes or so, even if the ending left me going... huh.

I think Noomi Rapace is an amazing actor.

I also watched Raoul Walsh's 1930 The Big Trail with John Wayne and Tyrone Power (as an antagonist).

the scale and visual appeal of this film is amazing. The film is filled with beautiful short depth of field shots, wonderful camera movement and a cast of literally THOUSANDS.



the ^ composition is beautiful.

Redux has some flaws. I haven't seen the original cut, but read that nearly every scene which I felt was out of place in Redux wasn't in the original.

A'redux is horribly Bloated... HOWEVER, I am supremely thankful that we have it to view.

Rewatched The Martian for the first time since seeing it in theatres. I didn’t like it as much as I thought I did.

It’s solid technically, but pretty mid overall.

i thought the martian was stupid and patronizing

great, i get to hear a monologue about matt damon telling me he's a pirate because he farms, this is the life i always wanted