last movie watched.

[Rainbow Battle Kid]

finally saw Edge of Tomorrow and uh this movie slaps

[it's the suspense that gets me]

watched hardcore (1979) and taxi driver (1975) tonight

i really didn't know anything about hardcore going in, outside of the fact that 8mm supposedly ripped it off. that's certainly true, but i don't think i was prepared for the whallop that it did on me. the constant dialogue the film is engaging with five point calvinism throughout was rly masterfully done. i like how it portrayed california as a whole. the ending is just the bleakest shit i've ever seen, with nobody learning anything. i certainly expected a better film than 8mm, but i didn't expect *that*. like, i really expected it to at least lean on cheap moralizing like a lot of films that deal with subject matter do but yeah no it avoids it at every turn. this is true of the other paul schrader directed films i've seen but again i loved the way it straddled the line btwn art film and b-movie. oh yeah both the licensed music (buck owens! neil young!) and jack nitzsche's minimal synthy score *chefs kiss*. it might be my favorite paul schrader dir credit i've seen so far. i put it up, as well as a bunch of other paul schrader films i had downloaded in the thing if anyone wants to grab it, certainly gets my recommendation.kinda want to hang up the poster in our apartment.



god i want to work as a clerk in a shitty porn store but also not have to wipe up cum.

taxi driver is wonderful beautifully elliptical captures the feel of insomnia better than any movie etc. it's taxi driver. i guess they're very thematically similar films, i liked the philosophical weightiness of hardcore, or at least i found it incredibly novel, whereas i more or less knew what to expect. i dunno i loved both of them. watch em.

[futurist]

WOW

[Mesh]

That thing is messed up. Wasn't for me. Would love to hear Hipinion thoughts on Reflections of Evil though.

[futurist]

i'm gonna have to chew on it for a bit. but it was definitely up my alley. whether or not i enjoyed it though i think it's a pretty special piece of work from a very weird time in american culture.

[NegativeCapability]

Y'all gotta check out Packard's latest movie Fatal Pulse/Night Pulse. It's a masterpiece. One of the best of the decade.

[bongo]

fatal pulse fucking rules. also ride hard for foxfur and reflections

[walt whitman]

cinephiles, all issues in Film Quarterly's archive now available ~free~ thru June 2020

https://fq.ucpress.edu/content/by/year

[walt whitman]

cinephiles, all issues in Film Quarterly's archive now available ~free~ thru June 2020

https://fq.ucpress.edu/content/by/year

the 2019 issue on Manifestos is super dope:

https://fq.ucpress.edu/content/72/3

[walt whitman]

Film Comment RIP

[hasel]

whoa that sux

[broodstar]

Film Comment RIP

yeah, crazy

[antoine]

from the netflix thread

my son watched it and afterward his mind was blown and he was all "...society?" and I was very proud

a combination of internet takes puts it at a cross between snowpiercer and the first raid with parasite undertones and that sounds about right

the premise of this was really interesting, even if it was full of holes and unexplained mysteries, which honestly adds to its charm. super gory and screamy though, so be warned

I should not have watched this after first day of wfh. It's pretty decent so far although I'm fairly disturbed.

[delgriffith]

Film Comment RIP

yeah, crazy

Really awful

[shacky]

from the netflix thread

my son watched it and afterward his mind was blown and he was all "...society?" and I was very proud

a combination of internet takes puts it at a cross between snowpiercer and the first raid with parasite undertones and that sounds about right

the premise of this was really interesting, even if it was full of holes and unexplained mysteries, which honestly adds to its charm. super gory and screamy though, so be warned

I should not have watched this after first day of wfh. It's pretty decent so far although I'm fairly disturbed.

what broken image link movie are you all talking about

[landspeedrecord]

x-post

this starts at 12pm EST!

this wonderful niche nyc film repertory meme instagram account is starting a streaming tv network! a mixture of classic hollywood, foreign, art, underground, cult... weirdo tcm

http://cinephobe.tv/

the initial sched...

12:00pm L'ORDRE - Jean-Daniel Pollet, France, 1973
1:00pm THE NICKEL RIDE - Robert Mulligan, USA, 1974
3:00pm NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER - Robert Butler, USA, 1980
5:00pm "Dawn Of The West" Double Feature
5:01pm CALIFORNIA - John Farrow, USA, 1947
6:38pm CANYON PASSAGE - Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1946
8:15pm CASTRO STREET - Bruce Baillie, USA, 1966
8:30pm ODE - Kelly Reichardt, USA, 1999
9:30pm JUMP - Tadeusz Konwicki, Poland, 1965
11:16pm THE VIRGIN SACRIFICE - "J.X. Williams", USA, "1974"
11:30pm O.C. AND STIGGS - Robert Altman, USA, 1985
1:30am SERIAL - Bill Persky, USA, 1980
2:59am Michael Powell x 2
3:00am THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - Michael Powell, UK, 1937
4:20am ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT - Michael Powell, Emric Pressburger, UK, 1957
6:00am CHILDREN OF THE STONES - Peter Graham Scott, UK, 1977
8:59am Cowboy Rashomon Double Feature
9:30am VALERIE - Gerd Oswald, USA, 1957
10:54am THE OUTRAGE - Martin Ritt, USA, 1964
12:29pm Rare Fassbinder x 2
12:30pm LIKE A BIRD ON A WIRE - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1975
1:15pm JAIL BAIT - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1973
3:00pm MIKE'S MURDER - James Bridges, USA, 1984

you can send requests to... AltmansHashPipe@gmail.comToggle Spoiler

[bongo]

glad to see mikes murder on that last. one of my favorite slept on 80s slow burn thrillers and a huge mood in its own right

[bongo]

mikes murder is to crime drama as two lane blacktop is to road movie

[landspeedrecord]

sounds dope! never seen it

I’m stoked to catch that, the nickel ride, & night of the juggler

[Kevin McCallister]

MMIIILLLLLDRIDDDD PIIEEEEEERRRRCCCEEE WHAAAAAAAAAAA (haynes, 2011)

[walt whitman]

today's the final day of ann arbor film fest. they are live-streaming the festival winners at 3pm and 5pm EST:

https://vimeo.com/showcase/6900338

my fave of the fest so far is probably the giverny document by ja'tovia gary.

THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (2019) Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet's historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women.

my guess is they will show her piece sometime during today's presentations. it really is spectacular.

some trailers:

https://vimeo.com/367817467
https://vimeo.com/355198684

[Down n dirty rufus]

reflections of evil looks like a real fuccin movie

[Kevin McCallister]

E-Ticket (Liu, 2019)
link: https://vimeo.com/339355898
best short on day 1 of the ann arbor ff. liu calls this a “retelling of dante’s inferno” which isn’t immediately apparent but on a rewatch it does look like different parts are supposed to represent the different circles of the inferno. crosses appear in the composition of certain frames throughout and the colors evoke the stained glass windows of a cathedral. very cool. can’t imagine how long it took him to make this. i only saw one other short of his before this which i thought was meh but i'm sold on this guy now

Loved this. I dunno if you tuned in for most of the Ann Arbor Film Festival but I'd appreciate any more reccs! Hopefully someone on Karagarga has been capturing.

[velvet anus]

The platform was dumb as shit

[Kevin McCallister]

Walt give me your reccs too!

[walt whitman]

Walt give me your reccs too!

will do. i'd also recommend tuning into the audience fave presentations, today, if u can, as those tend to be the best of the bunch!

[gauchebag]

cinephobe stream unfortunately too choppy but maybe that means they are getting good traffic?

edit: i stuck with it it got better. night of the juggler is some real antiquated shit but it's kept me paying attention

[broodstar]

e-ticket is the most relaxing thing

[paused anime for this]

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[broodstar]

vertigo ai is a thing that struck me as one of those things that's interesting conceptually and boring as an experience

gonna go check out the giverny document