May 2013
5 posts
Watchmattym:
R.I.3P.
no words
The grunt just a little over 3 minutes into this...
jonathanbogart:
Pistol Annies, “Blues, You’re a...
I had a delicious dinner of braised lamb neck and dumplings at Dear Bushwick last night, and while I was deciding whether or not to order a second cocktail or not, I noticed a bottle of white rum that said “New York City” on it. Of course I ordered a daiquiri made with it, and it was delicious.
It turns out there’s rum being distilled a few blocks from my house! The distillery...
April 2013
3 posts
jonathanbogart:
Miami Sound Machine, “I Need a...
Movie Log 2013
28. Spring Breakers (dir. Harmony Korine, 2013) (Regal City North 14, Chicago)
- I dunno how much of Spring Breakers works on a “real” emotional level other than giddy, but Faith’s pre-exit call to grandma genuinely works for me on some on a trip with your friends feeling like things are really different out here bliss shit.
- obviously, the “Everytime” scene,...
March 2013
9 posts
Movie Log 2013
27. L’amore (dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1948) (DVR’d from TCM)
Friday night TCM aired 4 Rossellini movies, 3 of which aren’t available on Region 1 DVD as far as I can tell, so I taped them before leaving the house. L’amore is actually two short films: “Una voce umana”, based on a play by Jean Cocteau and “Il miracolo”, written by Fellini. Importantly,...
Movie Log 2013
Catching up from like the last month:
21. The Invisible War (dir. Kirby Dick, 2012) (Netflix Instant)
Kirby Dick’s movie about the shocking prevalence of rape in the US Armed Forces is an emotional battering ram, but then again it is a movie about the shocking prevalence of rape in the US Armed Forces; the tears are not undeserved. I’ve recommended this movie unreservedly to people...
February 2013
10 posts
Movie Log 2013
18. How to Survive a Plague (dir. David France, 2012) (Netflix Instant)
There’s certainly a lot of sadness here but, as far as a chronicle of how shit gets done in America, this doc about ACT UP, the group of activists who focused their anger about the lack of support for AIDS victims in America into a thorough, enormously effective movement, is much more inspiring than Lincoln and,...
Time For a Heel Turn →
Leitch’s very detailed Darren Rovell takedown is maybe gonna be a bit inside if you don’t follow the sports internets, but it is kind of a great article about how money is the worst anyways.
Movie Log 2013
17. Searching For Sugar Man (dir. Malik Bendjelloul, 2012) (Blu-Ray)
For a while there are some interesting threads here in this doc how fandom could, at one point, exist in a place and be completely cordoned off from the rest of the world in a way that it probably can’t anymore. And that’s somewhat interesting but, despite some animation, it really doesn’t rise above what could...
The Daughter of TIme by Josephine Tey →
I know we’re all making fun of the Richard III news being “news”, but let’s also take a second to remind everyone how absolutely fantastic of a novel Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time is. Historical mystery y’all!
Movie Log 2013
16. Academy Award-Nominated Live Action Shorts (IFC Center)
16a. Death of a Shadow (dir. Tom Van Avermaet)
Matthias Schoenarts plays a dead soldier who photographs people dying (he only sees them as shadows unless he’s using his magic camera) and then delivering them to a dude who evaluates the deaths aesthetically and posts them on a wall. Yeah. They don’t quite do enough with the...
January 2013
19 posts
Movie Log 2013
15. The Paperboy (Lee Daniels, 2012) (BluRay rip)
On Sunday we washed away the boring sea of Life of Pi with the sweat, blood, swamp water, and, of course, urine of the Paperboy. It pretty much lives up to being The Movie in Which Nicole Kidman Urinates on Zac Efron or, maybe more to the point The Kind of Movie in Which It Would Make Sense for Nicole Kidman to Urinate on Zac Efron. That’s a...
Movie Log 2013
14. Life of Pi 3D (Ang Lee, 2012) (Regal Union Square 14)
There’s a shot towards the beginning in a French pool that uses 3D in a way that’s clever and surprising and isn’t a hatchet or axe flying at your face. The rest of this movie is just awful though. The thesis is something about how you should believe in God because this movie/novel/story is awesome and fun and...
Movie Log 2013
13. The Birdcage (Mike Nichols, 1996) (DVDrip projected on a sheet)
Still really funny and more moving than I remembered, at least in the first half when Val is asking the folks to hide their identity for the sake of satisfying influential bigots. I still can’t shake some discomfort at the fact that the kids and the conservative senator both get off pretty easy, but I suppose that’s...
Movie Log 2013
12. Chronicle (Josh Trank, 2012) (Blu-ray)
A+ (ok, B+) showing from first-time director Josh Trank, and hopefully the inventiveness and cleverness he shows here (and there’s quite a bit of it) will still come through when he gets when to working with astronomical Marvel budgets in the future. The bullied and abused villain/main-character played by Dane DeHaan gives ultra-nervous realness...
Movie Log 2013
11. Prosecuting Casey Anthony (Peter Werner, 2013) (DVR’d from Lifetime)
In this Lifetime docudrama, Rob Lowe plays Chris Traeger, a former Indiana city manager who ends up prosecuting Casey Anthony without using any physical evidence and failing. There was more Nancy Grace and Jane Velez-Mitchell in this movie than I have seen in the last 2 years or so. I guess maybe the amount of...
Movie Log 2013
8. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012) (AMC Loews 34th Street 14)
About 15 minutes in, I thought I might hate this, but, though I have my reservations, I think I kind of love it, though I think Bigelow and Boal are bluffing a bit in suggesting any real journalistic approach. ZDT works for me on very similar levels to The Hurt Locker: the first is the examination of a Type of American action...
Movie Log 2013
7. Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012) (screener)
Maybe it drags a bit in the middle, and maybe Aaron Taylor-Johnson is really, really bad, and maybe it doesn’t quite carry the moral and psychological weight of Tolstoy all the way, but I had about a billion times more watching Anna Karenina than I expected to. And, frankly, I’m not sure Wright’s explicit artifice adds anything...
Movie Log 2013
6. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012) (Film Forum)
Well, of the five Haneke movies I’ve seen, this is the one I disliked the least. Still, it’s as emotionally subtle as an Eli Roth movie (oldture porn) (can we?) and I think the Naked Pain Shower scene is just about when I had had enough (because I was emotionally drained by the realness) (NO, JUST KIDDING, OBVI, rather cuz I really do think...
Movie Log 2013
4. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012) (Ellen Bunin Monroe Film Center at Lincoln Center)
It’ll be hard to imagine I’ll see a more dreamlike movie in the next 11.5 months, though if I’m being honest (I usually am, mostly) the deep-voiced narration in the second half was “dreamlike” almost to the point of my eyes being lulled into closing once or twice. It is wryly funny and...
Movie Log 2013
2. Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris, 1992) (Amazon streaming)
Mike Myers isn’t bad in this, but Dana Carvey is just so amazingly good. He turns a few tics into a character that not only manages to be hilarious for the length of the movie, but hints at some depths here and there. Rob Lowe isn’t quite the comic genius here that he has become on Parks & Rec, but he is really...
2013 Movie Log (let's see how long this goes)
1. Back Door to Hell (Monte Hellman, 1964) (DVD)
First movie of the year was this Monte Hellman joint, which I assume I added to my queue around the time I watched Two-Lane Blacktop and Road to Nowhere. Back Door to Hell is a World War 2 movie set and filmed in the Philippines; it’s not as formally ambitious as 2LB or his (awesome, btw) 2010 return, but there are a few good long shots and...
Hey workflow fans! →
“I guess man is a fool and he thinks he’ll be OK / Dragging on, feet of clay,...”
– ABBA (via tomewing)
Seriously, the lyrics to this song.
December 2012
8 posts
And the official Spotify 2012 Real Shit playlist →
No-blurb 2012 Top 20 Albums/Tapes of the Year List...
1. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
2. Carly Rae Jeppsen - Kiss
3. Miguel - Kaleidescope Dream
4. Jessie Ware - Devotion
5. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
6. Taylor Swift - Red
7. R. Kelly - Write Me Back
8. Young Smoke - Space Zone
9. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
10. Chief Keef - Finally...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5CE1yPDxAs →
So, the ILX Year-end Poll Tracks Nominations Spotify is well-worth your time if you want to catch up on amazing things you’ve missed this year. This song by Brodka (who is a Polish pop star) (I guess that’s something I need to start catching up on) has been my major discovery so far. I love this so, so much, and the change in the last minute is the most delicious cherry on top.
