plus it was definitely affected by the "we have to be SERIOUS about this" mentality after homie slammed back too many of the Olsen twins prescriptions.




The actress was very beautiful although I found it a bit odd that the film seems to aim to make us wanna fuck the shit out of this 15-16 year old character or maybe Lily Cole's just too damn hot!

She looks half human, half grey alien.

HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS - 6/10
PUFFY CHAIR - 6/10
BAGHEAD - 6/10
MUTUAL APPRECIATION - 4/10

Mumblecore.. meh.

Raigyo


It's a pinky film if that means anything to anyone, and very good. 8/10.

cool, gonna get it.

PINKY rules

the first Nuke Em High is amazing.

I remember being ill as a kid and having to stay home from school for a couple of weeks and watching Nuke 'Em High and Return of the Living Dead on a virtual loop the entire time. Happy days.

Yeah, the FIRST (first only) Nuke'Em High is probably the only Kaufman film I really love, with Citizen Toxie coming close, too. As much as I love Troma, I'm more into the non-directed-by-Lloyd films, and I actually straight-up dislike a few of his films..

the first Nuke Em, the first Toxic, Citizen Toxie and Terror Firmer are his best.

Terror Firmer is soooooooooooooooooooooooo long. Over 2 hours. UGH.

Also, I felt like Terror Firmer was just a bloodier Cecil B. Demented. Didn't see the appeal at all, a brilliant scene or two here or there. Really, his pre-Toxic Avenger movies, like Stuck on You! and the First Turn-On, are actually his most unique and interesting films.

I liked this movie just fine, mainly the crazy set design, but didn't it just feel like a Mighty Boosh episode, with a tacked-on "twist"? It should have just been a Mighty boosh episode, would've been way better that way, since Noel and Julian's cameos are actually quite distracting and don't fit the film. Also, the girl was annoying. I sound like I'm complaining a lot, but I liked the film.

Terror Firmer is super long yes. It's incredibly self-indulgent. I think that is the appeal. It's basically SCREAM 3. Starring Troma dudes. I don't know. I thought it was a lot of fun.

yeah, like I've said I've seen a LOT of Troma stuff. I actually own a ton of the old VHS. I can't remember, was that early one with Kevin Costner directed by Lloyd or not? Um. What was it called? Squeeze Play? I have that somewhere for instance.

Sizzle Beach USA? No.

ah yeah Sizzle Beach. I get confused becuz there's a ton of Troma shiz that I watched becuz Lloyd directed or mentioned in one of his two books. And then there's a pile of them that I watched becuz they were on the giant wiki list of USA UP ALL NIGHT flicks. So i can't keep track.

shirin - 6/10

This whole film is like the screenshots above. It's 118 different women staring at a theater screen. The only "Action" is the dialogue/sound effects from the movie they're watching on the screen (which is never shown), and their faces.

Yet it was quite compelling and brilliant, if "difficult" hah.

Also, I've decided to make a my-favorite-movies-from-each-country list:

Korea: Ki-Duk Kim
France: Jean-Luc Godard
U.S.: Jon Jost
England: Alfred Hitchcock
Japan: Takeshi Kitano
Italy: Roberto Rossellini
Sweden: Ingmar Bergman
Germany: R.W. Fassbinder
Vietnam: Tran Anh Hung
India: Satyajit Ray
Finland: Aki Kaurismaki
Egypt: Youssef Chahine
Czech Republic: Milos Forman
Cuba: Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Brazil: Glauber Rocha
Canada: Atom Egoyan
Iran: Abbas Kiarostami
Taiwan: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Russia: Andrei Tarkovsky
Yugoslavia: Dusan Makavejev
India: Satyajit Ray
Thailand: Weerasethakul Apichatpong
Hong Kong: Wong Kar-Wai (also Johnnie To)
Denmark: Lars Von Trier
Poland: Roman Polanski
Spain: Pedro Almodóvar
Turkey: Yilmaz Guney
Greece: Theo Angelopoulos
Italy: Michelangelo Antonioni
Mexico: Alendjro Jodorwsky
Belgium: Chantal Akerman
Australia: Fred Schepisi
Senegal: Ousmane Sembene
Austria: Fritz Lang
Switzerland: Alain Tanner
Denmark: Carl Dreyer
Portugal: Manoel de Oliveira
China: Chen Kaige
Philippines: Lino Brocka
South Korea: Im Kwon-taek
Israel: Amos Gitai


I know I'm forgetting some countries.

still a masterpiece

Looking forward to seeing this, have you seen Five?

never heard of it!

Er, unless you mean 5 Dedicated to Ozu..

You said Italy twice and Hong Kong isn't a country! haha!

Oh and I watched Bad Timing and was really bored by it. I'm aware that it's character-driven but Art Garfunkel is such a wooden actor.

I was conflicted on Italy.

Yes, that. I've been wanting to buy it but I haven't seen it on sale for a good price anywhere, reading the back of the box the descriptions make it sound like five static shots with little to no narrative what so ever, so I'm quite intrigued to see it as I love Ozu and Kiarostami.

Yeah, I d/led it, it's very good; since you love Ozu, you HAVE TO Hou Hsiao-Hsien; specifically, Cafe Lumiere. Definitely the best Ozu-ish stuff I've seen that isn't the master himself. (also, I always got a very distinct Ozu vibe from some of the later period Kitano things, like Achilles and the Tortoise)

Yami utsu shinzô - 7/10


Interesting little film that is a remake of the same film from 20 years earlier, by the same director, with the same actors, with behind the scenes footage and all sorts of other nonsense, used to deconstruct the idea of remaking a film, and whatever. Interesting. I'd never watch it again though.

Suicide Club.

Thought it was fucking great.

Yeah, Sono's a really interesting director, isn't he? Really like Noriko's Dining Table and LOVE LOVE LOVE Love Exposure, probably one of the top 10 best films of the '00's. Wasn't too big on Hazard, but Strange Circus sure is completely fucking insane. I hated Exte. And I got Be Sure to Share d/l'ed.

because dead.
because dead.
because dead shine all night long.

that's the only film I can think of that made me physically queezy.

Yeah it was gross.

ok i just watched suicide club.

absolute fucking brilliance.

theres no chance the director was reading tiqqun since it was all written before 2002 and hasn't been translated into japanese even now but the whole I AM I stuff and everything... it really reminded me of tiqqun/tci.

its totally on the same wavelength and you can read it as a critique in a similar way.

actually now that i look into it apparently there is some sort of buddhist thing going on that would only be apparent to japanese people.

seriously wow. i don't think his point was some sort of suicide glorification. i think his point was that the compromises the self has to make in the modern world require a degree of suicidalness. i don't know really. that scene on top of the school, i was thinking "is this some kind of play on taking irony too far".

I'M THE CHARLES MANSON OF THE INFORMATION AGE!

whoa.

his point was to make me queezy.

just a director masturbating on celluloid

...

Daybreakers was one of the worst films I've ever seen. I couldn't tell if Willem Dafoe was being serious, he was that goddamned bad.