Interference Random Movie Talk X: Dogs and Cats Living Together... Mass Hysteria!

[OrARoundabout]

Watching "Indentity" in Psychology/Horror class...not so bad, I'd give it a 6.5/10.

Next week we are watching parts of "Hostel" and "Punishment Park".

 

[lazarus]

You and your classmates would probably get a real kick out of the film The Ninth Configuration, written and directed by the guy who wrote the original Exorcist (book and film). It's about a bunch of Vietnam vets in a secluded mental hospital, and is a real trip.

 

[Lancemc]

Split <em>Fox</em> Verdict :: Hollywood Elsewhere

I'm not sure how I'm possibly going to enjoy this film.

 

[lazarus]

It can't possibly be more indulgent than The Life Aquatic, right?

 

[Lancemc]

Probably not. But The Life Aquatic had The Blum!

God rest his soul.

 

[OrARoundabout]

You and your classmates would probably get a real kick out of the film The Ninth Configuration, written and directed by the guy who wrote the original Exorcist (book and film). It's about a bunch of Vietnam vets in a secluded mental hospital, and is a real trip.

I'll check it out! Seems really interesting. My teacher loves recommendations...

We have also watched, "Primal Fear", "Alien", "Let the Right One In" (My recommendation, and the class really liked it!) and "Rec" along with a lot of documentaries on Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder.

The entire class met up at the movie theatre to watch "Paranormal Activity"...that was pretty funny. We are planning on seeing "Shutter Island" together as well.

In the spring we'll have a whole lesson on the use of violence in movies (Not the gore kind). So we'll watch "Fight Club" and "Reservoir Dogs" and "Inglorious Basterds".

It's one of the best classes I've ever taken. We have to write alot of argumentative papers, but I actually enjoy writing them!

 

[Lancemc]

Have them watch Irreversible.

 

[lazarus]

...and then ask someone from your class out on a date.



I remember seeing that with my girlfriend and then getting into a huge argument on the way home. Not even about the film or the subject matter. It's something better seen alone, because it does not leave people in a good mood, their right mind, etc.

 

[OrARoundabout]

^That's that movie with that really brutal rape scene right? Probably won't fly in class LOL

We watched some pretty messed up stuff, but my teacher knows when to draw the line.

OH, AND WE WATCHED "MOMENTO"...almost forgot! I wrote my 1st semester thesis on Chistopher Nolan films (Dark Knight, Momento and Following)

I hope Inception is good.

 

[Lancemc]

...and then ask someone from your class out on a date.



I remember seeing that with my girlfriend and then getting into a huge argument on the way home. Not even about the film or the subject matter. It's something better seen alone, because it does not leave people in a good mood, their right mind, etc.

I'm not surprised. Irreversible is the single most physically-intense/stirring film I've ever watched. Eli Roth and his hack horror comrades aint got nothing on ol' Gaspar. It doesn't help that they're all idiots and make idiodic empty films, but yeah.

And yeah, Inception does look good. I really didn't care for Following much. Or the batman films... or Insomnia, but that's well worn forum ground by now.

 

[LMP]

And yeah, Inception does look good. I really didn't care for Following much. Or the batman films... or Insomnia, but that's well worn forum ground by now.

The Dark Knight is just a fad anyway.

/Axver'd

 

[Lancemc]

Yeah, well.. ehh

Spoiler

 

[Lancemc]

Looks like there's a 2.1 Gb rip of Sion Sono's Love Exposure online with english subs. I think it's out on DVD in Japan already so it's probably decent quality. I'd love to see this in a theater first, but since I missed it at NYAFF and it still has no signs of a North America distributor that chance is probably a lot way off if it ever is to come.

I think I might have to cave in and go for this one.

 

[lazarus]

I'm not surprised. Irreversible is the single most physically-intense/stirring film I've ever watched. Eli Roth and his hack horror comrades aint got nothing on ol' Gaspar. It doesn't help that they're all idiots and make idiodic empty films, but yeah.

I've got the biggest hard-on to see Enter the Void. Can. Not. Wait.

 

[Lancemc]

Void looks like it might not even get a release in France till Feb of March. We're going to have to wait a loooong time with that hard-on.

Love Exposure successfully downloaded over night. Oh man. This is going to be glorious.

 

[UberBeaver]

You and your classmates would probably get a real kick out of the film The Ninth Configuration, written and directed by the guy who wrote the original Exorcist (book and film). It's about a bunch of Vietnam vets in a secluded mental hospital, and is a real trip.

Netflix'd. Is this Altered States territority I'm heading into?

 

[LMP]

Netflix'd. Is this Altered States territority I'm heading into?

Not even close to that level of insanity, but there's some stirring imagery in the dream sequences. I'm glad I checked it out.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

plus it has THE KEACH! in it!

 

[Lancemc]

*sigh*

VLC is having trouble playing the subtitle files for Love Exposure. I also tried mplayer and Cellulo to no avail. Any ideas?

 

[UberBeaver]

plus it has THE KEACH! in it!

Wasn't he Mike Hammer?

 

[Lancemc]

Actually, I found something now called NicePlayer. It's pretty slick. Doesn't seem quite as full-featured as VLC, so I'm not sure it will replace it any time soon, but it presents the subtitle files and video really well, so I'll give it a shot for a while. In case anyone is interested.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Wasn't he Mike Hammer?

he was indeed

 

[OrARoundabout]

Netflix'd. Is this Altered States territority I'm heading into?

Isn't the translator fro Close Encounters in that?

 

[lazarus]

*sigh*

VLC is having trouble playing the subtitle files for Love Exposure. I also tried mplayer and Cellulo to no avail. Any ideas?

Don't you have Perian for Quicktime? You install that and it automatically loads any .srt files when you play an file, assuming they have same file name before the extension.

Other than that, I would try Visual Hub. If you go to advanced and check Force Quicktime Encoding, it should fuse the and the corresponding .srt, again if they have the same name.

 

[lazarus]

Hey folks, big news here:

Barnes & Noble is having a 50% off sale on ALL Criterion for the next two weeks. In addition, there's a coupon that will give you an additional 25% off one item if you buy it at an actual store.

I just picked up the 9 hour Japanese WW2 epic The Human Condition for $30 + tax. Retail is $80.

I highly recommend these collections:

Carl Th. Dreyer set (Ordet, Day of Wrath, Gertrud)
Late Ozu
Raymond Bernard collection (incudes the 4.5-hour Les Miserables adaptation and an amazingly ahead of its time war film called Wooden Crosses)

Here's the link for the printable coupon:

bn.com - Barnes?&?Noble

 

[LMP]

Wow, thanks for the heads up.

 

[Lancemc]

Don't you have Perian for Quicktime? You install that and it automatically loads any .srt files when you play an file, assuming they have same file name before the extension.

Other than that, I would try Visual Hub. If you go to advanced and check Force Quicktime Encoding, it should fuse the and the corresponding .srt, again if they have the same name.

I do. Though this little exercise reminded me to update it for the first time in a while. I'm really digging NicePlayer though, I have to say. Really slick playlist management and interface.

Hey folks, big news here:

Barnes & Noble is having a 50% off sale on ALL Criterion for the next two weeks. In addition, there's a coupon that will give you an additional 25% off one item if you buy it at an actual store.

I just picked up the 9 hour Japanese WW2 epic The Human Condition for $30 + tax. Retail is $80.

I highly recommend these collections:

Carl Th. Dreyer set (Ordet, Day of Wrath, Gertrud)
Late Ozu
Raymond Bernard collection (incudes the 4.5-hour Les Miserables adaptation and an amazingly ahead of its time war film called Wooden Crosses)

Here's the link for the printable coupon:

bn.com - Barnes�&�Noble

Holy shit. Looks like I'm spending some money this week.

 

[Lancemc]

Grab your Crack Pipe & Iguana - AICN is hosting Herzog's BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS at Drafthouse!!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Imps. Get on this.

 

[If you shout...]

BTW, I found the entire Until the End of the World director's cut (even against the warning of someone here).

How could you? It's one of the worst films ever made, didn't you hear?

Listen to Lance, even if he doesn't want you to.

 

[Imperor]

So what the hell? Observe and Report had the most misleading ad campaign ever. I liked it more than I thought I would for that reason. Haven't seen a dark comedy like that in a while.