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thehefnerI got a bunch new DVDs for my collection, some bought by my father, the rest by me (I love scouring Best Buy's cheap DVD section). Here's the rundown of new additions:
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID- A must for any collection. I must begin speading the word.
FRAILTY- a wonderful little indie thriller/horror story from Bill Paxton, his first and so far only directoral effort. Fucked-up and unsettling story about a loving father of two sons who wakes up one night, convinced that God is speaking to him and commanding him to slaughter demons who are disguised as normal people. Great film that got props from Raimi and Stephen King, and deserved more attention.
GRAND CANYON- I actually have not yet seen this one, but if was five bucks, had a great cast, is a Lawrence ("Silverado," "Body Heat") film, and so I figured why not?
SPRING FORWARD- Another lovely indie film no one's ever seen; a story of friendship between two governmental sanitation workers played by Ned "squeal like a pig" Beatty and Liev "I should have played Hamlet, damn it" Schriber.
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME- a movie that makes less sense than the usual David Lynch movie, and absolutely NO sense at all if you'd never seen the TV series. So you're just going to have to sit down and watch both. Which you all should.
NARC- Saw this on TV the other day, and holy shit, I had forgotten just how absolutely brilliant this movie is. A cop story with a definite feel of the brutal harshness of '70s cinema, Jason Patric is your typical cop-on-the-edge paired up against a fat, ugly Ray Liotta, who plays one of the single most complex, compelling characters I've seen in recent film (note: this would make a great double-feature with COP LAND, which I simply must be adding to my collection one of these days).
REVENGERS TRAGEDY- This is it,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID- A must for any collection. I must begin speading the word.
FRAILTY- a wonderful little indie thriller/horror story from Bill Paxton, his first and so far only directoral effort. Fucked-up and unsettling story about a loving father of two sons who wakes up one night, convinced that God is speaking to him and commanding him to slaughter demons who are disguised as normal people. Great film that got props from Raimi and Stephen King, and deserved more attention.
GRAND CANYON- I actually have not yet seen this one, but if was five bucks, had a great cast, is a Lawrence ("Silverado," "Body Heat") film, and so I figured why not?
SPRING FORWARD- Another lovely indie film no one's ever seen; a story of friendship between two governmental sanitation workers played by Ned "squeal like a pig" Beatty and Liev "I should have played Hamlet, damn it" Schriber.
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME- a movie that makes less sense than the usual David Lynch movie, and absolutely NO sense at all if you'd never seen the TV series. So you're just going to have to sit down and watch both. Which you all should.
NARC- Saw this on TV the other day, and holy shit, I had forgotten just how absolutely brilliant this movie is. A cop story with a definite feel of the brutal harshness of '70s cinema, Jason Patric is your typical cop-on-the-edge paired up against a fat, ugly Ray Liotta, who plays one of the single most complex, compelling characters I've seen in recent film (note: this would make a great double-feature with COP LAND, which I simply must be adding to my collection one of these days).
REVENGERS TRAGEDY- This is it,
chickenhat: You, me, and a bunch of Rudes to watch Eddie Izzard and Derek Jacobi in Alex Cox futuristic take on 17th Century drama.
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Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head...
Date: 2004-12-26 10:41 pm (UTC)Re: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head...
Date: 2004-12-26 11:12 pm (UTC)And you can take some consolation in the fact that Redford looks like Leatherface right now. That said, Newman is still kinda hot, sorta like Connery is still kinda hot.
Merry Christmas, Kevin, and hey, if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out one of these movies for yourself sometime! I think you'd be pleased.
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Date: 2004-12-27 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-27 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-27 02:37 am (UTC)I was about to say that I saw it again more recently and didn't like it as much, but ya know what? I'm not sure about that. I can't remember whether I saw it the second time or what. Brain is playing tricks on me.
I saw two obscure flicks of my own over the weekend (rented not bought): The Price of Milk (weirdo Kiwi indie movie, that wants to be fairy-tale but just doesn't work) and Storytelling (a Todd Solondz movie that you might like, or maybe you'd just find it pretentious; Solondz walks that line very carefully.)
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Date: 2004-12-27 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 03:33 am (UTC)fucked up, and that's how i like it. it's currently sitting on my shelf in the serial killer section.
that's quality.