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Fancy French Shit

Cannes Film Festival just wrapped up and there are many filmz that interest me. The thing about small (well, perhaps less mainstream) movies that premiere at cannes is their shroud of mysterious goodness. Yesterday i mistakenly thought that i had already seen the movie "Thor" and thought it was OK. all the publicity around big summer blockbusters leaves little to be desired. Even if Thor turns out to be a better movie than The Tree Of Life, The Palme D'or winner is 10000x more intriguing. so, a few films that i hope to see sometime in the future for one reason or another:

maybe some of these movies will be on my TOP TEN for 2011

CARLOS

Sometime in March I watched the French Miniseries Carlos. It's about this sexy Venezuelan terrorist guy. Carlos is pretty much a 5 1/2 hour film. A cool thing about it is it's in like a bunch of different languages. French, German, English, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish and maybe some others i don't know. Carlos is a guy who likes to drink and to party and to bone women and to assassinate people. recommended!!

You Don't Have a Lucky Crack Pipe?

Tonight i watched Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. Boy, I'm not really sure how to feel about this movie and I'm not gonna read any reviews or anything of it before i write this. it's just like wow. this is not really a review, more of a reflection.


This movie is like if every paper thin stock-character from every other movie came together for this one film. The acting as well as the storyline is wooden. The script could have easily been a parody movie titled "Cop Film." But it's not really goofy mockery and even though Jennifer Coolidge is in it you can't really help but take it seriously. If it wasn't so dark it wouldn't be nearly as funny as it is. This is probably too in depth of a review than this movie needs. Or maybe it should be thoroughly discussed in a film theory course, or sociology, or a philosophy class. i dont really know. but this is what i do know:
In short i am pretty glad i watched this. thanks for the recommendation SHANE

Oscar Wrap-Up: How'd We Do?

January 26^th 2010

amy (9:38:24 PM): melissa leo [CORRECT]

amy (9:38:30 PM): christain bale [CORRECT]

amy (9:38:33 PM): natalie portman [CORRECT]

amy (9:38:38 PM): colin firth [CORRECT]

amy (9:38:39 PM): callin it

shane (9:38:44 PM): yeah thats what i'd say [CORRECT]

amy (9:38:53 PM): which is boring [CORRECT]

amy (9:38:56 PM): but oh well

shane (9:39:27 PM): hahah

shane (9:39:40 PM): best adapted screenplay will go to social network [CORRECT]

shane (9:39:44 PM): which will win best picture [INCORRECT]

amy (9:39:46 PM): sorKING

shane (9:39:50 PM): yeah social network is gonna clean up [INCORRECT]

shane (9:39:54 PM): callin it

amy (9:40:01 PM): yeah

shane (9:40:07 PM): the end of the night awards [INCORRECT]

shane (9:40:10 PM): and score [CORRECT]

shane (9:40:18 PM): and editing [CORRECT]

amy (9:40:23 PM): except nothing for jessenberg [CORRECT]

shane (9:40:28 PM): haha yeah probably not

shane (9:40:31 PM): that would be really surprisng

shane (9:40:43 PM): that'd be the one social network thing i'd be surprised and psyched about

amy (9:40:59 PM): who will be best director finchemiester? [INCORRECT]

shane (9:41:04 PM): yeah [INCORRECT]

shane (9:40:54 PM): cinematography

amy (9:41:07 PM): should go to BlackSwan

amy (9:41:11 PM): it will go to inception i bet [CORRECT]

shane (9:41:16 PM): i dont think so

shane (9:41:20 PM): i think it'll just go to whatever wins best picture

shane (9:41:24 PM): i mean it could

shane (9:41:31 PM): but its gone to best picture every year for the last few years im pretty sure

shane (9:42:19 PM): i guess it hasnt always gone to best picture

\shane (9:42:26 PM): i bet it will go to inception then

shane (9:42:38 PM): or true grit

shane (9:42:48 PM): i bet true grit [INCORRECT]

shane (9:42:49 PM): but i want black swan

amy (9:42:58 PM): toy story three will win best animated pic [CORRECT]

shane (9:43:00 PM): if kings speech gets best picture i think it might get cinematography too [INCORRECT]

shane (9:43:06 PM): yeah it will [INCORRECT]

shane (9:43:10 PM): it would be great if it didnt

amy (9:43:38 PM): black swan wasnt nominated for art direction

shane (9:44:01 PM): lol

shane (9:44:08 PM): alice in wonderland will win it [CORRECT]

shane (9:44:08 PM): hahaha

shane (9:44:18 PM): wolfman should get makeup [CORRECT]

shane (9:44:44 PM): visual effects better fucking go to inception [CORRECT]

amy (9:45:23 PM): what if darren aronofskys scarf won best direction?

amy (9:45:57 PM): haha who will win best documentary

amy (9:46:08 PM): it wont be exist through the gift shoppe [CORRECT]

amy (9:46:28 PM): itll be something about a war [INCORRECT]

shane (9:46:33 PM): lol

amy (9:47:06 PM): ok ill keep doing my Pre-Dicks

amy (9:47:14 PM): best foreign film will be

amy (9:47:19 PM): in a better world [CORRECT]

amy (9:47:47 PM): ttrent reznor will get score [CORRECT]

amy (9:49:02 PM): adapted will be sorkin like u sayd [CORRECT]

shane (9:49:19 PM): hahahah

amy (9:49:36 PM): original screenplay?

amy (9:49:48 PM): weird nominees kinda

shane (9:50:00 PM): kings speech [CORRECT]

amy (9:50:01 PM): i htnk maybe chris Nolan [INCORRECT]

shane (9:50:07 PM): nooo way [CORRECT]

shane (9:50:12 PM): kings speech [CORRECT]

amy (9:50:25 PM): because maybe theyll be like aww im sorry you didnt get nominated for being a director

shane (9:50:27 PM): if we're saying best picture is between kings speech and social network [CORRECT]

shane (9:50:33 PM): its definitely gonna get screenplay

shane (9:50:42 PM): i mean

shane (9:50:44 PM): thats my prediction

amy (9:50:44 PM): hey man im making my predickshuns

shane (9:50:47 PM): you can have yours

shane (9:50:47 PM): yeah sorry

amy (9:51:01 PM): i bet thatll be the only one i get wrong [INCORRECT]

shane (9:51:12 PM): hahah

amy (9:51:12 PM): but i hope its not

shane (9:51:20 PM): yeah hopefully you’ll get a lot wrong

Dogtooth

The Ten Best Movies I Saw In 2010

10- Inception
Inception is a movie that I watched. I enjoyed this movie, I thought that it was cool. It's got a lot of cool guys in it like Leo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon Levitt. There was this one cool part where a city just fucking folds in half kinda (because its in a dream, but they know it's a dream.)

9- Never Let Me Go
Beautiful and haunting film about some kids. these kids are born or something to be used as donors. I'm not really sure how that works. but the movie worked pretty good. I've heard it's not as good as the novel but that seems weird since books suck and movies rule.

8- The Social Network
Blah, Blah, Blah. that's what this movie is like. but, when you start to listen to what they ar saying sometimes it is cool to hear. Justin Timberlake is in it. I was like hahah! i still think this movie is weird for being based on a living person who didn't offer any consent really but, ignoring that, it's an interesting tale of blah blah blah.

7- Get Low
I saw this movie with my mom andi had never heard of it before. i thought it was gonna be like a documentary about hip-hop dancing. i was pleasantly surprised. This is a good movie that will make you think about death. Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek are good in it.

6- Winter's Bone
I like a movie about the boonies. And this one is of quality. The guy, John Hawkes, who plays Uncle Teardrop is great. all the other crazy folk are good too. The creepy ozark backdrop is creepy and i like it.

5- Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Michael Cera, i like him. Jason Schwartzman, i like him. Video games and bands? nah, not so much. However, i still really liked this movie which included all of the above. it was funny and soo cool to just watch and hear. the editing was the first time I've ever thought to myself "hey the editing in this movie is impressive."

4- Black Swan
This movie was good but its wasn't that good okay? Alright, seriously, this was great film. It was very beautiful and very scary. IT TAKES YOU ON A RIDE. Rodarte designed all of the ballet costumes so they were so pretty. It was a perfect mix of theatrics and cinamatrics.

3- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
hahahaha! oh sorry, didn't see you there, i was too busy thinking about this movie. I decided to see a midnight showing of this after the trailers kept making me laugh and boy howdy did it deliver. it was a kids movie about kids that didn't look down on them or pander to them. it just make you laugh. Steve Zahn is in it. love that guy.

2- I Am Love
this movie is as rich in story and beauty as it's characters are in Italian moneys. Tilda Swinton is all cool in it dressed in Jil Sander and doing the cook, who is a hottie. Her family is around doing their thing too, it's not boring! it is brings the sexy and the heartbreak in a balanced manner.
1- 127 Hours
So somehow 127 Hours is my favorite film this year. Definitely the one i have been most excited about. James Franco! He cuts off his arm! It wasn't anywhere near as graphic as i had thought it might be, which was only a little disappointing. There was SO MUCH FRANCO in this movie. that's all i'm gonna say about it.

Some movies that i haven't seen that i will mention could affect this list are : True Grit, Machete, Biutiful, Four Lions, The Kids Are Alright, and many more probably