tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59318262011-04-21T12:20:25.075-07:00films galore: a plethora of films to list and little description to accompany them... reform school jillnoreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931826.post-32999073510985171642007-10-04T08:30:00.000-07:002007-10-04T08:39:46.190-07:00

"Ethan Hawke's earnest, talky film THE HOTTEST STATE, which he adapted from his own semi-autobiographical 1997 novel, doggedly peels away the gloss to dive into the emotional swamp where two young people get lost in each other."- Stephen Holden, New York Times"Hawke, who is the first cousin once removed of Tennesee Williams, proves himself to have a good eye for the small world of big love."-

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Fifteen geek movies to see before you die

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Eva (Moreau) is a notoriously expensive and sadistic prostitute, who makes powerful men beg for but an evening to sample her magic. Completely spoiled and yet totally fascinating, Eva charts her own course through a succession of older men who momentarily satisfy her needs in Europe's finest casinos and hot spots. Despite her clear warning, a hapless Welsh novelist (Baker) foolishly falls in love

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AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM"The Scariest Goddamn Film You'll See This Year"-CBS News

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Hello Austin! Your 2006 Summer Classic Film Series is now posted online.I will probably find myself in a dark theater quite a few times this summer. Join me?

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What a beautiful film. I finally saw it; checked it out from the library last week. I cried like a little baby along with the lead character. Chicks Rule!I remember quite a while ago Dano telling me how good it was - it played a film festival a few years ago and I didn't make it. Yes, it was good. So rent it, if you haven't watched it already.

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"All good things must come to an end."Whoever wrote that was sadly mistaken. Aren't there some great things in life that last forever? I don't know, because I personally haven't experienced any, but I'm sure that there's someone, at least one person out there, who is still enjoying something that has been lasting & lasting longer than his or her expectations. Regardless, this 2005 Austin Film

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Only One Day Left! Tomorrow's the Closing Film @ the Paramount. And tonight I will see:7:00 PM Transamerica w/ Writer/Director Duncan Tuckerand I haven't decided on my 9pm festivities yet. It's always a sad time when festivals come to an end, any sort of festival--if you have ever attended one, worked one, or volunteered for one. Sure, you're exhausted and ready to not step foot into a movie

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After tonight, only two nights of film left...7:00 PM Prime w/ Writer/Director Ben Younger9:00 PM Life on the Ledge w/ Writer/Director Lewis Helfer (?)I wish I had more time to better describe what I've seen the last couple of nights. My notes are all over the place, in emails and scribblings on my desktop. Check back in next week? I know, the moment will be lost...but maybe it will be sweet

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Monday night was a little sketchy at the Dobie. They were unfortunately experiencing some "technical difficulties," which was kinda disappointing because I had been wanting to see Runaway, as well as a couple of shorts. (My bad for not seeing Runaway on Saturday as I had intended though). Oh well, at least it allowed time for me to make it over to the IMAX for Three...Extremes! But seriously

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In case you're a little film'd out and want to enjoy the company of 3-dimensional people for a little while this evening over cocktails, there is a Film Mixer tonight:--Come out and join us for an Austin community-wide film mixer during the Austin Film Festival! NO BADGE REQUIRED!WHERE: SABA BLUE WATER CAFE208 W 4th StWHEN: MONDAY, OCTOBER 24th7:00PM — 9:00PMThis is a fundraising event

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Look, here's an absolutely frightening picture of me attending Bad Girls Behind Bars at the AGLIFF film fest last month. I should really always be ready for the cameras! Because I'm so famous, you know!! (p.s. i'm the one on the right in the huntin' cap. i look scared. and i was riding on no sleep from the night before, so be nice.)

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Well, now, today I'm faced with a dilemma...I no longer know what I want to see tonight. Abnormal Beauty is a new addition (since R-Point was lost in transit, which is a sad thing for Tartan films to have lost) and looks quite appealing. BUT I had also wanted to see that Oregon documentary, Clear Cut: The Stoy of Philomath, Oregon. Sisters also looks good. AND they just added the narrative

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Today, I was trying to go to:5:00 Going Through Splat7:00 Bloodrayne w/ Director Uwe Boll & Actor Will Sanderson9:15 Unknown White MaleUnfortunately, though, I can't turn off the television. Bravo is showing AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes. To name a few:They're here...I'll be back.Here's looking at you, kid. Show me the money!What we have here is a failure to communicate.I love the smell of napalm in

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So, last night I only made it to Backseat & the Backseat after-party, which was at the Sweet Leaf Tea headquarters, and it was a LOT of fun. Not only was it a serve-yourself bar with free Skyy vodka, Tequila, tea, juice & mixers, but we met a lot of great people there and had a silly time dancing. I really hope no pictures were taken of me on the dancefloor cuz I'm a total goof. We even rode the

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Check out the Austin Film Festival Blog for their daily coverage. It's time to head downtown now so I'll make the 6:30 movie. Today I'm gonna double feature it at the Stephen F. Austin.6:30 Runaway w/ Writer Bill True8:30 Backseat w/ Writer Josh Alexander and Director Bruce Van Dusen(There's a Backseat after-party following the screening. If you're nice to me, I'll let you know where it is. Think

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7:45 The Ice Harvest w/ director Harold RamisWell, the movie was sort of exactly what I expected. However, Oliver Platt stole the movie for me. Perhaps it was his jovial drunken state (which I like to think of myself as a happy drunk) or perhaps it was merely the way he delivered the monologue to the Christian bartender on Christmas Eve. Director Harold Ramis was quite a delight. He was humorous

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Oh, we also met Will Janowitz last night at The Ice Harvest screening. He was nice. Go see their movie Backseat - Saturday 8:30pm @ Stephen F. Austin.

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10:20 pm Kiss Kiss Bang Bang7:50 pm Shopgirl w/ Claire Danes & Jason Schwartzman in attendance, and director Anand Tucker (Photo credit: Jack Plunkett)check out other pictures on Austin Film Festival's Flickr photo blog-->Austin Film Festival, Oct 20-27

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okay now, there will be a ton of ramblings and in no particular order, because it will follow the path that my brain will follow, which is no particular path at all. so...starting with, i have to finish that fantastic fest entry. i did make it to sin city (extended) and it was great! also, i still need to update boocoo (which is really beaucoup) information regarding the QT fest. but, since i'm

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i've gotten cable. and it's great. and it's awful. i watch a ton of great stuff now. but i also can't turn off the TV. ever.a great series on AMC right now is Movies that Shook the World. Friday night I watched it about 2001: A Space Odyssey."Kubrick's vision resonated with more than just drug-addled hippies. It predated NASA's Apollo projects by years and offered a captivated public the earliest

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also on AMC this month, they're showing 200 Nightmarish hours of House of Horrors / MonsterFest movies 24 hours a day!! from Sun Oct 23 to Mon Oct 31. WHAT A GREAT SCHEDULE! (I'm never going to be able to turn off the television this month!and then on Turner Classic Movies this month, they're playing 36 Hitchcock films, from Oct 24 to Oct 30! as well as five scary movies on Halloween night. (p.s.

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Well, unfortunately, I cannot afford a movie pass to Fantastic Fest! this weekend at Alamo South Lamar (4-day badges are $125! damn you!)But...I figured I'd transcribe here all the movies they're screening, and that way, we can have a Fantastic Fest of our own some weekend. I still might wanna go see the Sin City extended trilogy Saturday or Sunday at noon (individual screenings are only $8-$12).

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File Under:FantasyStrings, 2004, 88min. Strings is a dramatic tale of adventure, bondage, and liberation; of love and war, destiny and vitality, identity and common humanity.HorrorThe Big White, 2005.Pulse, 2001. Often referred to as one of the scariest films ever made...Sci-FiPost-ApocalypticThe Last Wave, 1997, 106min, Dir Peter Weir.

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seen a slew of sneak preview movies these past couple of weeks, and going to one more tonight...hustle & flowthe wedding crashersme and you and everyone we knowmurderballthe island

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what the HELL was i talking about?!? *spoilers* punch-drunk love was sooo not based on a novel. i was loving the entire thing and then when i got to the end & was watching for who wrote the novel, then damn, it hits me like a stupid ton of idiot bricks -paul thomas anderson- well shit yeah, i was wondering about luis guzman and philip seymour hoffman all hangin out & looking cool. the lights &

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my NetFlix came in! my NetFlix came in! damn, that was quick! one-day turnaround. had i known that, i would have ditched you guys and left early...just kidding! happy birthday to ennea! lookin' great for any age! and she gave me a damn good spanking...hey, how did that happen?! well Punch-Drunk Love is for wed night, unless i go see Dig at the alamo at 9:45, but i haven't decided yet. i'll

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tonight at the alamo drafthouse downtown as part of the AFS Essential Cinema Series on African directors, i watched Faat Kine. i loved it, wanted to hang out with this strong independent woman, and chat about safe sex. i could not imagine being someone's THIRD wife...much less a wife at all. more about the director Ousmane Sembene. and i get 6 more African director films! (alas, i may have to

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okay. i just watched the insider, and yeah i know i'm a half-decade late, but still, people, i do *not* see why it was nominated for 7 academy awards! (and won none.) it's sort of like, you throw al pacino in a movie and somehow it's a given that it's gonna be up for multiple award nominations. whatever, no thanks. but still i don't see how i could have missed at least hearing about this movie.

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*found in a draft dated 12/23/04* i've caught quite a few flicks this past month: The Green Mile Hearts in Atlantis i had a garage sale or two at this rental house my mom owns in Round Rock, but i kept all the old videos rather than selling them. cuz i'm a pack rat like that. the two above were from the donated collection, and oddly enough, both are based on stephen king stories. i loved green

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House of Flying Daggers Tonight! Special advance screening for AFS members (Free!) I have a +1, if you call me before 6pm. @ the Dobie.

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so let's see...i'll now be updating this movie blog more and adding less movie entries to my zenbetty blog to make everyone happy, or at least less bogged down (or "blogged" down ~ ha!) with my infatuation with films... this week, i watched: Love Story (waaah!) What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the

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Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

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movies to rent: Les Rivières Pourpres (Crimson Rivers) The Professional (2003) i've watched so many movies recently, i don't even remember which ones or how to begin listing them. my friends shauna, tami & i are about to submit our entry for butt-numb-a-thon tickets. wish me luck!

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Last night, I watched Kill Bill, Vol. 2 & Wonderland. How hot is Val Kilmer? Not to mention Uma Thurman as well. I highly recommend both. Also, I think I'm sort of in love with Josh Lucas. Anyway, Wonderland should have gotten a better rap. The direction was great (James Cox), at least I thought so. Rather innovative. It seems as if his only other real movie so far is Highway, starring three of

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okay, so it seriously has been a while. i have a heck of a lot of new movies to post. last night i watched LOTR III, Morvern Callar, and 21 Grams. Unfortunately, all three were somewhat of a disappointment to me. Please feel free to disagree and convince me that they were the much better films I had heard about than the ones I watched last night. At my mom's this weekend, (cable of course),

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for one week only, and i want to go see it: A deranged plastic surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) obsessively removes the faces of kidnapped women, grafting their flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter (Edith Scob), who had been disfigured in an automobile accident. Director Georges Franju's terrifying, gothic horror film is invested with a weird poetry, elevating his

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 Neo-Realism: a movement especially in Italian filmmaking characterized by the simple direct depiction of lower-class life Il Grido (The Outcry) Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957, 35mm, B&W, 115 min Cast: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Gabriella Pallotta, Dorian Gray Overjoyed that Irma's husband has died in a distant land, Aldo assumes that now they will marry

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"Your sadness is lovely." Adaptation is genius. library excursion. round 4: Hedwig and the Angry Inch Adaptation Chicago Quitting Narc The Never-Ending Story

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unemployment sets in at my mom's house sunday night, poor selections on my part. i just couldn't turn off hbo, even though there wasn't anything worth watching... life or something like it the sweetest thing wisegirls gia breaking up beautiful girls white oleander i'm going out there again this weekend. will me the strength to just turn the television off! library excursion. round 3: run

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library excursion. round 2. so upon leaving all my halloween rentals at my friend's house, i had to find other ways to amuse myself. solution: another trip to the library. well seeing how i took monday off work, a long stay at the library (and use of the internet) is just what the day-off-doctor ordered (that would be 'me' by the way). self-subscribed medication. the fake form of splurge

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halloween horror well...i didn't make it to the midnight movie wednesday night. so i will be trying to rent All the Colors of Darkness somehow soon. ended up staying at my friends' house after we all had been carving pumpkins (well, they carved. i watched.), eating toasted pumpkin seeds, drinking wine, and sitting 'round the campfire. (we would have been telling ghost stories, but none of us

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free midnight movie Anyone up for the free midnight movie at the alamo drafthouse downtown tonight? ...Edwige Fenech graces the screen as a woman who is having uncontrollable nightmares, fits of paranoia, and all-out depression. Her neighbour has great advice - join a Satanic cult! Of course, as her new hobby begins to spiral downward into a world of murder, conspiracy, and inexplicable

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so i actually did it. i pretty much saw all of the films i set out to see in the 8 days of the austin film festival last week. grand total: 15 films. there were a few that i wanted to see, but i wasn't able to because of location or schedule. or because i was just too damn tired. so if you see any of these films listed at dobie or somewhere, let me know and i'll go with ya: (or if you see

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7:00 Off the Map w/ actor: Sam Elliott 9:45 Sunset Story Wednesday, October 15 7:00 Particles of Truth

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7:00 Ash Tuesday 9:30 Love Object

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Monday, October 13, 2003 7:15 Happy Hour with writer/director: Mike Bencivenga 9:45 Shattered Glass

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4:30 Elf 7:00 Girl with a Pearl Earring 9:30 Klepto Saturday, October 11, 2003 6:30 Mystic River 9:30 Bukowski: Born Into This Friday, October 10, 2003 7:15 Pieces of April with writer/director: Peter Hedges 9:45 Swing Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:15 Prey for Rock and Roll w/ director: Alex Steyermark --> austin film festival: oct 9-16 Wednesday, October 8, 2003 Kill Bill Thursday,

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