Twelfth Five Films, 2007
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Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo) at BAM. I'd planned to see two more of Hong's films in this series, but missed out for whatever reason. Woman on the Beach was a total crowdpleaser, full of unfortunate characters at once both sympathetic and slightly too selfish not to laugh at when they screwed up. A great date movie for the mildly misogynistic couple!
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The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman) at Film Forum. Still one of my favorites, though I didn't think it looked especially great on the big screen.
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Babyface (Alfred E. Green) at BAM as the first half of a Barbara Stanwyck "pre-Code" double feature. Yes, this is from 1933 before the moral censorship of the Production Code kicked, meaning there's a lot of very direct sexual innuendo, something at which Stanwyck excels. She sleeps her way to up the corporate ladder at a big New York City company, leaving destruction in her wake, before meeting her match at the top.
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Ladies They Talk About (Howard Bretherton/William Keighley) at BAM as the second half of that double feature. Stanwyck goes to jail for assisting in a bank heist, which makes a ton of hilarious women's prison scenes. A politician/evangelist bigwig who knew her as a kid falls for her even though she's on the wrong side of the law, and eventually wins her back.
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Wild at Heart (David Lynch) at MoMA. This is probably my least favorite David Lynch movie. I don't find his fantasies or the mise-en-scene delicious enough to offset the bizarre and unpleasant elements, a trade-off I think he makes well in Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, or Mulholland Drive.
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo) at BAM. I'd planned to see two more of Hong's films in this series, but missed out for whatever reason. Woman on the Beach was a total crowdpleaser, full of unfortunate characters at once both sympathetic and slightly too selfish not to laugh at when they screwed up. A great date movie for the mildly misogynistic couple!
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The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman) at Film Forum. Still one of my favorites, though I didn't think it looked especially great on the big screen.
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Babyface (Alfred E. Green) at BAM as the first half of a Barbara Stanwyck "pre-Code" double feature. Yes, this is from 1933 before the moral censorship of the Production Code kicked, meaning there's a lot of very direct sexual innuendo, something at which Stanwyck excels. She sleeps her way to up the corporate ladder at a big New York City company, leaving destruction in her wake, before meeting her match at the top.
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Ladies They Talk About (Howard Bretherton/William Keighley) at BAM as the second half of that double feature. Stanwyck goes to jail for assisting in a bank heist, which makes a ton of hilarious women's prison scenes. A politician/evangelist bigwig who knew her as a kid falls for her even though she's on the wrong side of the law, and eventually wins her back.
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Wild at Heart (David Lynch) at MoMA. This is probably my least favorite David Lynch movie. I don't find his fantasies or the mise-en-scene delicious enough to offset the bizarre and unpleasant elements, a trade-off I think he makes well in Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, or Mulholland Drive.
Posted on Monday, April 30, 2007
2 Comment(s):
I've not seen any of these movies. But I wanted to note that your current blog "description" line -- beards/Germans/synthesizers -- is the best incarnation yet.
It's from a blurb for a piece by Simon Reynolds in the Guardian on "the history of electronica's Seventies pioneers."
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