h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Cry Baby" (1990). A friend is a big Johnny Depp fan, she called this movie "awful". So of course I had to check it out. Besides Depp, its got Iggy Pop, Traci Lords , Polly Bergen, David Nelson (Ricky's older brother from "Ozzie & Harriet"), Willem Dafoe, ...

I giggled all the way through it. "Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s ...", its got some laugh inducing good (mostly rockabilly) music from the likes of Dave Alvin, Al Kooper, etc.

Not my favorite Waters film (that would be "Pink Flamingos"), but "Cry-Baby" makes me giggle non-stop, too. And didn't Traci look nice?

We recently got around to watching "Memento". I liked it, especially the interesting twist at the end. And I finally received my Criterion release of Alex Cox's "Walker". I hadn't seen it since 1989. It's still fan-TAS-tic!!

" ... didn't Traci look nice? "

I might pick a different word ...

I thought "Hatchet Face" (Kim McGuire) had the most ... memorable look:

The Judge: By the way, that's a shame about your face.
Hatchet-Face: There's nothing the matter with my face. I got character!

I got a laugh from the scene where she breaks thru the prison movie screen during the horror picture, terrifying the previously bored inmates.

Is definitely an appropriate smiley for Traci Lords I'd say

I shared a house with a guy once who had a penchant for her earlier film career.

Years ago my nephew enjoyed playing "Wing Commander" on the 3DO console. One of the characters in the cut scenes was played by Ginger Lynn Allen. I tried to explain her "earlier" career, but I don't think he believed me.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111727/

The absolutely the best film I saw on DVD was 'Crash' by Haggis. A film about racism in Los Angeles.
The next best film was 'Goal' about football and relationships and rich gits and pig headed gits and everything.
But a classic has got to be 'Goodfellas', and this is brutal in the extreme.

I saw The Other Boleyn Girl last week, and thought it was VERY good. Dark and intense, and fine acting; Especially Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn. I knew some of the history from classes, but some was a surprise.

Next up: Vantage Point

Crash is on Sunday terrestial TV, if anyone hasn't seen it.

I took the Gruesome Twosome to the pictures yesterday. We saw Die Wilden Kerle 5 (yep, there are 4 others that we haven't yet seen but I can see the DVDs will have to be purchased) and it was pretty good. It's about parcour-running, football playing mad-max-stylee kids up against similar kids who happen to be vampires. Yes. Quite. (some of those young lads are disturbingly good looking)

(sorry, it's in German - as is the film)
http://www.dwk5.de/

Last week we took them to see Die Rote Zora about a band of kids in Croatia (at some indetermined time in the past) who steal food and generally get up to pranks. Very good but it won't be seen outside of Germany, Sweden and Croatia.

I sometimes watch my DVDs in German with english subtitles, makes me feel international

I recently watched a Korean film dubbed into German which had Dutch subtitles which I couldn't get rid of. I had to watch it twice because I kept reading the subtitles, and while I understand a fair bit of Dutch, not enough to understand the film.

That's truly the definition of an international

"Ed Wood", 1994, starring Johnny Depp, Martin Landau. Funny stuff, winning two Oscars including Supporting Actor for Landau as Bela Lugosi. There is a contest here in Houston to make a short in the style of Ed Wood ("Worst Director Of All Time"). Feeling like a natural for this, I'm working on an animation. In true EW fashion, all I have so far is a poster:

https://artzone.daz3d.com/index.php?mode=photo_album&act=view&pho_id=133450&p_id=19919

We watched Casablanca!

Did I already mention that?

Mol

Oooooooo, I LOVE Casablanca!!!!

I watched '28 Weeks Later' again this morning. It really is frightfully good. The acting, soundtrack and, occasionally, cinematography are superb. Far better than your average zombie flick!

I then watched 'Barbarella'.

"Barbarella" is a hoot.

This afternoon, we watched "The Darjeeling Limited". I didn't dislike it, but I didn't find it particularly impressive, either. Wes Anderson is rather hit or miss, with me: I really liked "Bottle Rocket" and "The Life Aquatic"; I didn't care for "The Royal Tennenbaums" or "Rushmore". This one just gets a "meh", and doesn't live up to the hype.

Anyone seen 'After life'?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165078/

I saw it yesterday (in Japanese with English subtitles). Fascinating - the newly dead each choosing one memory to be preserved to take with them into the afterlife.

I watched 'The Last King Of Scotland' last night. Absolutely superb. James McEvoy (sp?), Forrest Whittaker and Gillian Anderson are all brilliant, the script is natural, there are a few cliches here and there but overall it's as good as everyone says it is.

I still haven't seen that.

I watched The Man With Two Brains


Pointy birds

Oh pointy birds
so pointy pointy
Anoint my head
anointy nointy.