Kevin's Watch

lucimay wrote:Emily. i love love love her!! (i haven't seen the new mary poppins yet but there's no doubt in my mind she's the best actress to have taken up the mary mantle!!)

Funny you mentioning Mary Poppins, as I hadn't heard about the film until this morning while reading a magazine in the laundrette.
She was also top notch in Girl on a Train - a film which also had that excruciation nails-down-a-chalkboard feel to it that Blue Jasmine had.

Cagliostro wrote:

Lazy Luke wrote:Hedwig and the angry inch

Then you missed out.

Thank goodnees

Exorcist III (from The Complete Anthology)
Been wanting to see this film for weeks. Can only watch these sorts of films in daylight.
Dead scary, because it's so bloody clever.

I have been in love with Exorcist III since I saw it in the theater. I was especially surprised that it scared me as much as the original, although in different ways. There are some especially well conceived scenes. The long cut in the hallway where you KNOW something is about to happen, and it doesn't, and it doesn't, and it DOESN'T!!! And then it does. The tension in that scene is so thick despite it being just someone going about her rounds.
I also like how it starts off feeling like a comedy at the beginning between the cop and the priest, and then gets extra serious and scary by the end. This is the movie that made me fall for Brad Douriff. And then he almost reprised the character in an X-Files rip-off episode.
There are a few dippy moments, but overall it feels like a master class in how to scare. Relax people, build the tension, throw in a bunch of things that don't make a lot of sense but are unnerving as hell, and keep up the scary.

I remember loving Exorcist III too. And that scene! I was so impressed and freaked out by it, I decided to show a friend the movie, and she laughed at that scene saying it was just funny and ridiculous. I've never understood that reaction to this day!

Cagliostro wrote:There are a few dippy moments, but overall it feels like a master class in how to scare.

Maybe if William Batty were a more experienced film director it would've had less dippy moments. Like the statue of the Joker in the second dream sequence.
All the actors were exelllent. Its what made it a really scary demonic/psychokiller movie like Angel Heart, Silence of the Lambs, and Se7en.

Cagliostro wrote:The long cut in the hallway where you KNOW something is about to happen, and it doesn't, and it doesn't, and it DOESN'T!!! And then it does.

The use of the bedsheet in that scene has something to with the headless statue next to the elevator. Odd how our ace dectective fails to notice it.
Unless - the fact that this takes place on the [4] fourth floor - a tribute to the original Tubular Bells soundtrack?

Ring of Bright Water, is a good ol' fashion Scottish location movie with a
soundtrack featuring some unique (Frank Cordell) cinematic strings.
No better way to spend your Saturday

Watched the Nun last night ... was good .. enjoyed it a lot

Watched Nightcrawler last weekend. This one is definitely my favourite James Newton Howard film.
A clever merging of both character, music, and story.

Baby Snakes with a running time of 2hrs 44mins is quite a Zappa marathon, so, viewing this one in instalments.
Not being much of an FZ fan, finding his guitaring too cynical at times can however, when the mood strikes, hear him as
the genuine all American musical genius that he is.

This DVD has some rare Bruce Bickford interviews and animations.
And concert footage of Adrian Belew (one of my fav guitar players), Tommy Mars mad keyboards,
and Terry Bozzio playing drums in his underpants,



with a top secret folder containing cut-out no-D glasses and nose ... what's not to like!

Mary Queen of Scots is a haunting film. Not because the ending
is pretty much known but in the way this art film has been slowly pieced together.
Only half way through but thouroughly enjoying every frame.

Purchased Barry Lyndon online. Looking forward to this one arriving.
Been interested for a long time in seeing the exterior scenes that
were filmed at Huntington Castle, in Clonegal, Ireland.
I sometimes buy spiritual art books from there.

Never seen it before? (Barry Lyndon I mean.) Not my favourite Kubrick, but not my least favourite either so...it's very long and there is much flickering candle light. And...some duelling.

--A

I saw Barry Lyndon because Robert Anton Wilson said it was a bit of an inspiration for The Historical Illuminatus series. Gawd, it was long. There were some good scenes, but mostly it was overlong and tedious. Sometimes accurately portraying a time period isn't much fun.

Avatar wrote:Never seen it before?

--A

30 or so years ago.

Barry Lyndon was in the mail when I got home from work. Had to see the scene with Clonegal Castle ... all of 10 seconds!
I work a 10hr shift so was fast asleep by the intermission.
Mary Queen of Scots (2013) also has lots of candle lit scenes.Will watch again at a later date.

Cagliostro wrote:I saw Barry Lyndon because Robert Anton Wilson said it was a bit of an inspiration for The Historical Illuminatus series. Gawd, it was long. There were some good scenes, but mostly it was overlong and tedious. Sometimes accurately portraying a time period isn't much fun.

I think its a comedy, really, and only Kubrick is laughing.

--A

Lazy Luke wrote:I think its a comedy, really, and only Kubrick is laughing.

Apparently Wilson got the joke, but I was too bored to get it. Although I think I did wake up for the sexy food scene.

Watched TAG last night .. what a fun romp that was moreso that it was based on a group of guys that actually played tag every year in May or some such.

Watched Immortal Engines meh .. I am sure teens love it

The tedious film youre all talking about would not be my cuppa char ... Im really not a fan of artsy fartsy type movies Im old Skool .. is it funny? Great Is there action? Great Is it sci fi or fantasy? Super awesome

Is it a drama ... Meh ..

Case in point... a director actor friend said Babbettes Feast was the bomb and to watch it ... oh my god 130 minutes of my life Ill never get back

Skyweir wrote:Im really not a fan of artsy fartsy type movies.

To be fair, movies are an American invention. Movies sell popcorn and fizzy drinks. Films, however, are invariably artsy.
With that said, artsy farty films can be good or lumpy.
For example I'm fond of Sophia Coppola films. Lost in Translation, and Somewhere I think are terrific, while The Beguiled (a remake of the Clint Eastwood civil war drama) was a bit too lumpy for me.

Time Shifters by Cathy Scorsese (daughter of Martin Scorsese).
I can't find any info on it, nowhere. Which is great cos I'm a sucker for time shift movies.
Whiplash is a film about a young and ambitious jazz drummer. It picked up 3 Oscars in 2013.
Should be a couple of good flicks for the weekend.