Another boring slasher afaic

First time on the big screen.

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Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits on the big screen. My first time seeing it. The first hour kinda bored me but then there were some truly stunning scenes that draw you in.


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Not one of Nino Rota's greatest efforts either but a few real gems from him too.


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This big screen you are frequenting sounds awesome

…Sgt. Peppers with Frampton and Bee Gees. Rotten Tomato’s gives it a 4.5/10.

There is something fun about rock movies from this era. Rock n Roll High School, Roadie, Heavy Metal, American Pop and I’m sure there are others. We would see these as part of a double feature at the drive-ins with Cheech and Chong movies.

We used to have three drive-ins within a 10 minute drive and amazingly two have survived.

I'm incredibly lucky. Today I'm going to see The Hour of the Wolf (second time on the big screen), tomorrow Last Year at Marienbad (also second time OTBS), on Wednesday they show Spellbound and I'm debating whether I want to see that too. Maybe I'll take a day off from cinema because on Thursday they show Guy Maddin's Forbidden Room and I know I want to see that. There are months where there are at most a couple of films a month I want to see and then there are weeks like this... For example in September they have a retrospective on Italian Neorealism and a tribute to some Israeli filmmaker and I'm not particularly interested in either. But the good news is I'll finally get to see Come and See on the big screen.

You do seem like a real student of cinema, which I can appreciate.

Fantastic. Not into Italian Neorealism? It’s one of my favorites

It never sounded tempting to me, they should've called it Italian Neosurrealism! Don't think I saw a single film from this genre. This is the program, tell me what you think I should watch and we'll see if I'm in the mood.

Unfortunately I won't be able to see Rome, Open City which sounds like something I might enjoy, I have other plans on both days it's on.

Thanks man. I'm certainly a big film buff, though I wouldn't call myself a serious student or "cinephile"... My taste and knowledge are really narrow compared to the actual cinephiles I know.

Just go with what interests you and if none do then skip it. Go with your moods.

You’re being far too humble! !

I'm completely the opposite. A lot of people I see on a regular basis see "nudity" or "sex jokes" and claim those as the height of film.

My movie habit is in part down to growing up in Montreal, which has a brilliant cinematheque. I glanced at what they're showing right now, and the program for August/September features Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, The Hourglass Sanatorium, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Orphée, all of Terry Gilliam, Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes, Chris Marker's Sans Soleil, Guy Maddin's Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Matthew Rankin's The Twentieth Century, Jan Švankmajer's Alice, Larissa Shepitko's The Ascent and PLENTY of other classics...

It's true that with the internet you can access everything but it's a special privilege to have a cinema like that as part of your social life more or less.

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While there some genially funny and fun parts to this. They do not make up for the horrible script, sub plots that go nowhere and horrible ending. The cast is great it's just to bad the script did not allow them to shine

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The Toxic Avenger

I can't lie....Troma flicks are a huge part of my adolescents so it was a pleasure to see this in the theater.....plus how often do you get to see an "unrated" film in the theater?

It's incredibly stupid and it is really fun. Lots of little shout outs to earlier Toxie flicks and the Troma universe as a whole.

Toxie sings a cover of Overkill by Motorhead!

And David Yow of The Jesus Lizard steals the movie as a hobbo weirdo doctor.

I remember seeing Tromeo and Juliet on TV in the middle of the night in the very early 2000s. Loved every moment, all the gags and the gore and the naked ladies.

One scene that stuck in my mind is when Juliet waits for Tromeo to call, gets bored and horny and calls a phone sex hotline instead. A culturally important representation of the goonette, or the femgooner. Huge for teenage me.

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I don't think I have watched this movie in this century :rofl:

I'm gonna try to revisit it sometime this week....it really is a classic for what it is

Easily one of the greatest films I've ever seen. When the lights went back on in the theater a few people were too traumatized to move.



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As J.G. Ballard has it,

If only I could see Open City on the big screen but unfortunately we have other plans for Saturday.

It falls on many "most disturbing film" lists for a reason.

I really don't think I care for your choice in films at all.

Were people not fundamentally different one from another life would be so boring! What does your choice in films tend toward?

Got covid so rewatched an old comfort movie


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Yes, you are definitely right about that. Just a shame we could probably never watch films together.

I tend to go for more kid/young adult films. To me, films outside of those usually add a lot of unnecessary stuff and/or stuff that just isn't interesting at all.

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AS IT IS

I have waited 10 years to finally see this.

And I can't lie.....disappointed.

It's not that it's not good....seriously if you know nothing or very little about The Process Church....watch this....it will be very eye opening

And it is a well made documentary.

My issues is that I have been obsessed with the Process for over 20 years and this gave little insight.

My main issue is the very little coverage of Robert and Mary Ann de Grimston....the creators of The Process

I think this subject would much better suit a docuseries just because of the history....this 1:41 minute doc just barely toughed on aspects. Just enough to make me wanting more.

This is an amazing into to the Process and at that I highly suggest it.

SO BE IT

I was convinced it's a poster for a Dennis Hopper film...

Never heard of this cult, despite its apparent intersections with some people I've always been fascinated by. Gen appears several seconds into the documentary. Gonna watch it today


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Again, I think you will find this fascinating and very in depth. And it really is overall a well made documentary.

But I have been seriously obsessing this cult since the release of Skinny Puppy's The Process back in the mid 90s.

I own pretty much every book about them, and some of the original writings/magazines.

I have three Process church tattoos :D

Let me know what you think....I'd be very curious considering you don't know much about them

Also there is a band that does modern versions of their songs that they would sing during their Sabbath Assemblies (masses). They wrote hundreds of songs.

When this album came out they went on tour with Adam Parfey (Feral House books) Lydia Lunch, Genesis P-Orridge and Tim Wyllie (founding member of the Process) and did mock Sabbath with the band acting as the church band. I caught the Seattle show and it was un fucking believable.

Last film I viewed was 'There Will Be Blood. Phenomenal. Daniel Day Lewis' performance blew me away.

Pretty good. I think I enjoy his sense of humor without being a huge fan.

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What is your favorite PTA film?

PTA + Jonny Greenwood = Masterpieces

What's yours?

I haven't seen all of them, but Punch Drunk Love is very special. You?

Haven't had a good introduction to him so far. I saw Boogie Nights when I was too young to get it and then I started watching The Master and thought "well this is very unpleasant and depressing, I'm not watching it any longer."

There's his new film, which is why he's getting a retrospective at my favorite cinematheque, except I'm not sure I'll have the time to go this month.

Maybe I need to see Inherent Vice, I quite like Pynchon. Or maybe the new one, because it's also based on Pynchon and reportedly pokes fun at the idiocy of left wing extremists.