|
|
Post by grubl on Oct 13, 2010 11:01:49 GMT -5
So here are a list of films that I think you should consider for the losers to review in their podcast:
CALIGULA
SALO, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM
HENRY, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
2GIRLS, 1 CUP
On the other hand, you could just go for drudgery:
WAR AND PEACE
DEKALOG (a good film, but it's ten hour length will definitely not be welcome).
|
|
|
|
Post by tombitd on Oct 13, 2010 14:13:54 GMT -5
The wager is actually for the October 31st game against the Green Bay Packers, but I will file away your suggestions along with Derrick's...  |
|
|
|
Post by grubl on Oct 13, 2010 14:44:52 GMT -5
Sorry, I should have gone back and listened more intently before posting.
|
|
|
|
Post by Derrick on Oct 13, 2010 16:51:59 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind reviewing CALIGULA or HENRY, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER myself. I like those movies.
I have very vivid memories of seeing CALIGULA during it's original theatrical run. It played on Manhattan's 42end St. and the line went around the block. I think it might have been the very first movie on 42end Street that you had to pay $5 admission for. This was back in 1979 and paying $5 for a single movie was something to make you stop and think.
|
|
|
|
Post by grubl on Oct 13, 2010 18:11:09 GMT -5
Yeah, HENRY is a masterpiece. CALIGULA, while not great, contains the best lesbian scene in my memory. Beautiful filmmaking. I saw it a couple of years after you did in college.
|
|
|
|
Post by Eddie Love on Oct 13, 2010 18:24:24 GMT -5
CALIGULA, while not great, contains the best lesbian scene in my memory. Beautiful filmmaking. I saw it a couple of years after you did in college. It played in one theater in DC for over 10 years where I saw it a couple times. I actually picked up the special edition DVD to hear the commentaries from McDowell and Mirren, and I gotta say when seen today the whole thing is kinda depressing to look at. Um...I'd rank THE HUNGER higher on the sapphic scale. And best of all on that front, some movie they used to show on cable all the time with Anne Heche and Joan Chen.  |
|
|
|
Post by Eddie Love on Oct 13, 2010 18:57:24 GMT -5
Also, re: this last show. Sorry, haters: on the Audible.com jingle, T&D were in the same key in perfect harmony.
|
|
|
|
Post by tombitd on Oct 13, 2010 19:42:04 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind reviewing CALIGULA or HENRY, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER myself. I like those movies. The only thing that worries me about reviewing Henry is that, when I saw it during its initial run at the Angelika way back when I liked it a lot--but was so emotionally drained afterwards that I didn't want to take that journey again...it's the same feeling I had after The Bad Lieutenant. Which makes me wonder if FILMS WE LOVE..AND NEVER WANT TO SEE AGAIN isn't a great idea for an episode... |
|
|
|
Post by tombitd on Oct 13, 2010 19:47:03 GMT -5
Yeah, HENRY is a masterpiece. CALIGULA, while not great, contains the best lesbian scene in my memory. Beautiful filmmaking. I saw it a couple of years after you did in college. is one of those movies I find fascinating more for how it got made rather than the movie itself...the fact that all these great actors were busy working hard not knowing there was a second unit doing all these porn insets makes me laugh.. |
|
|
|
Post by grubl on Oct 13, 2010 20:22:46 GMT -5
I agree about the sick, dirty feeling after HENRY. I know that there were some other films that did that to me, but I'm having trouble recalling them now (LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, definitely).
More recently: 2 GIRLS, 1 CUP.
|
|
|
|
Post by Eddie Love on Oct 13, 2010 21:17:17 GMT -5
... FILMS WE LOVE..AND NEVER WANT TO SEE AGAIN... Titles I'd throw out: BREAKING THE WAVES
LITTLE CHILDREN
PRECIOUS
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE |
|
|
|
Post by tombitd on Oct 13, 2010 21:32:05 GMT -5
I agree about the sick, dirty feeling after HENRY. I know that there were some other films that did that to me, but I'm having trouble recalling them now ( LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, definitely). I think the reason Last House works so well--because, let's be honest, on the surface it's a badly acted, clumsily written film--is because it looks so grimy and primitive. It's got that 'found footage' look to it that makes you wonder on some level if this is really happening.... A similar film is Last House On A Dead End Street, a horror film about snuff filmmakers that actually gives you the uneasy feeling of near-reality that other films dealing with snuff films don't have... |
|
|
|
Post by grubl on Oct 13, 2010 21:35:21 GMT -5
LITTLE CHILDREN was wonderful, couldn't bring myself to see PRECIOUS with all of the soppy ads and such (I shouldn't let that effect me, but it did). BREAKING THE WAVES bored the fuck out of me.
I had that feeling after I first saw DAWN OF THE DEAD. I was in high school and I can't think of any movie prior to then that contained as much gore in done so realistically. I definitely felt tainted after that.
|
|
|
|
Post by grubl on Oct 13, 2010 21:38:40 GMT -5
Tom, I agree completely about LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. That along with CHAINSAW, really benefits from the quick, cheap and no frills filmmaking. My friends and I seriously questioned whether some guys went out with a camera and killed some people.
|
|
|
|
Post by james on Oct 14, 2010 8:59:19 GMT -5
Tom, I agree completely about LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. That along with CHAINSAW, really benefits from the quick, cheap and no frills filmmaking. My friends and I seriously questioned whether some guys went out with a camera and killed some people. There's one element of Chainsaw that always "takes me out" of the film, so I know it is just a movie. It's the final chase scene. It's pretty obvious that Gunnar Hansen is running at a slower pace than he can, to deliberately not catch up with Marilyn Burns. In a movie that otherwise never drops its style, that scene looks jarringly artificial. James |
|
