Tag: Movie

Lisa and I watched this last night after Disneyland.

The main song “hey, are you going to burning man?” will stay in my head forever.

The structure was rather boring and predictable for a film by Claypool + Lisa found the “shocking” sections gratuitous at best.

The film is fabulous besides those issues–Bob Weir and Mike Gordon are both in the film. The Glow Stick War is amazing–as is living in a tree in your parents backyard. There is some very funny stuff in this film–Lisa and I both laughed out loud several times.

This was a collection of Film Shorts.

I saw this with Chris, Sam, and Paul.

the three films we saw, in order, were “Making the Crooked Straight,” “Crayons and Paper” and “12 Stones.” All three were completely amazing. This was a very strong collection of films.

MTCS was about a Dr in Ethiopia. He was at the screening and took questions at the end. He swam to find his quite time. He administered medicine to strangers on his walk. He worked in a mother terresa clinic for some JDC organization. The man was a living saint–he had adopted like 18 kids–three were in boarding school in Ohio, one was staying with friends in MN, just an amazing man.

C+P was about a pediatrician who had been to Darfur with Dr’s Without Borders–he collected crayon drawings from the children. A lot of the images were hard to look at in this film. A womans smile was the only payment he appears to have ever received and it was worth the world to him.

12S was Heifer’s doc about the women of Nepal passing it on. A very strong doc and much more uplifting and promising then the other two.

All were great movies which left me feeling very very grateful.

I went to the Newport Beach Film Festival and saw this with Tyler, David, and Sam.

It was awesome.

There was so much incredible goodness in this film that I will likely need to post more later–a truly wake up type of movie.

At the Yosemite Visitors Center there is a movie theater that shows a movie which is really very nice–a good overview of the park’s history with some stunning images.

Movie is about 20 minutes long and gave the kids a fantastic rest.

I went and saw Watchmen at the Spectrum at 3:30 AM. I went alone. The theater was packed.

Here are my run time notes:

1. Photo had Nixon, not Ford.
2. Future looks Darker, and the Past–even the grimmy parts–looks brighter.
3. Stereo in bedroom with records & cd’s
4. “I just had the locks installed”
   “I did not know where else to go”
5. Birds, Airplanes, Mythology
6. You refuse to see life on lifes terms
7. Pioneer Publishing logo is a Rorschach.

And some observations

1. To the blond arty pixie chick sitting next to me with the geeky boyfriend–you give us all hope! I love the way you curl your feet up onto the chair. Your loud observation during the costumed love scene that “She is Horney” may have been the best part of the movie.
2. to the ticket booth guy–I know working the three am shift is a drag, but when you said “I Max?” and I responded “I Tarzan!” you could have at least smiled.
3. To the overweight, lesbian, festy crew sitting in front of me–way to stay focused.
4. To the ushers who were not handing out 3D glasses–what?
5. To the guy who missed the BF sub ploy–I am really impressed that you read the comic. Really.
6. To the guy who wanted to see Watchman made into a two part movie “or maybe three like Lord of the Rings”–your blind obedience to inner voices will one day pay off!
7. to the massive mexican skin heads–nice popcorn spill.
8. To the guy in black who felt like he was walking out of a Vegas Casino–you need to get out more.
9. To the girl in the plaid skirt–The answer to your question was as obvious as your delight at all the attention.

I watched this DVD this morning with Cody. It was mostly just images with naration providing the title of the work and the year painted. Occasionally, the narrator would appear to read from Bacon’s journals or something which was very very awkward. Other then that the narrator just stated the obvious–and with Bacon that can often be comical.

The complete lack of anaylsis was interesting. The sound track (during the menu and during the credits, as well) was awesome, but during the film there was no sound.

The early images were all black and white reproductions–some of which I had not seen before.

The paintings were presented in a somewhat chronological and somewhat thematic way–but not enough of either to indicate any curritorial intent. Really, the selection and presentation was so strange that it made the difficulty of Bacon’s images even stronger.

Byron K recommended this guy as the Tarentino of Japan. Luis was going to name his child after him. This is a fantastic film–lots of moody nothing happen brilliance followed (surrounded?) by extreme violence.

Lisa sat down with a bowl of cereal to watch with me just as some blood was spilt (literally), she left the room.

I really liked the end–you knew what was coming, but got bored waiting. Just amazing.

Another great Brakhage short–a little graphic at times.

The first time I watched this I thought that there were two seperate pregnant women. I really liked the flip flop slip slop cuts in the bathtub scenes leading up to the delivery.

A great movie.

This is a great movie. Ang Lee is the man.

Lisa and I watched this in the morning on the couch.

New Canaan indeed. Spiderman reading Fantastic Four on Franklin Richards–how good is that. Frodo making out with Christina Ricci in a Nixon mask? Just tons of fun all over the place.

This was a great film.

I really liked the Cousins scene with the 24 Hour Party People & the one with the Cate Blanchett–both deal with “family” in some way–very interesting.

There are a lot of interesting music people in this film who I really enjoyed–the White Stripes section was awesome.

Over all a great movie with a lot of hard fun moments.