SloopJohn

happiness is being able to tell truth without hurting anyone

Ivanovo Detstvo - Ivan's Childhood [Andrei Tarkovsky - 1962] 8/10 so far with tarkovsky; Ivan's Childhood - 8/10 Andrei Rublev - 10/10 Solaris - 9/10 Mirror - 10/10 Stalker - 9/10 Nostalgia - not seen (yet!) The Sacrifice - not seen (yet!) i cannot wait to see the last two. the man is a total genius.

terry riley - in c

Temps Retrouvé, Le [Time Regained] - Rauol Ruiz 6/10

À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust

the studio is in the ground. well it looks like it.

big sam in the sky studio. cunt.

lad.

good magazine.

Any time is the right time for recommending the Bolt. Messy noise for hipsters, tbh. and messy noise is a bad thing?

make sure you know your demographic. i.e don't open a noise / avant-jazz only shop in chelsea.

it's true. but still....

happy face i can't believe you're recommending lightning bolt in a coldplay recommendation topic. epic lulz.

parky what are your top 10 films. roughly i don't need deadly accurate. just interested to see what you like.

fair enough.

but these locations aren't not framed within the story in a manner which alludes to this, in my opinion, they are merely mechanisms to identify locations which one associates with the 'South' (Motels / Trailer Parks) and to foster the various scenes which happen within them. beyond this I didn't feel any significance attatched to them even if there was intellectually. in terms of the cattle gun, that's an interesting point but by saying it's perhaps symbolic of the slaughter of men like animals, again we are talking about a symbol that operates on a basic intellectual level beyond which there is no substance. anyway man. you clearly love the movie. i don't. that's cool. but personal slander is a little much.

i didn't understand why you said 'we leave behind'.

Vozvrashcheniye "The Return" [Andrei Zvyagintsev] 8/10

come again?

but the serial killer killed the people who were paying him! you can't have a characters in a classically narrated film, or a film that portains to classical narration, that are purely allegorical. those aren't characters. and it sucks the soul out of the movie. and in terms of the cinematography reflecting moral and spiritual 'emptiness' - that's an incredibly superficial and basic level for the film to be working on aesthetically. also did anyone here actually understand the Tommy Lee Jones voice overs? anyway enough. the film had some brilliant moments but it'll be years before the saliva that has been lathered all over this film has dried up. and that saddens me.

who ever said cinema is meant to be exclusively entertaining? my problem with this film is how shallow it is. there are no characters, only concepts that exist to propel the flimsy and trite narrative along a path that neither evokes or suggets. so this serial killer guy? why is he doing this. what are his motivations. i didn't believe in him neither did i feel that his role had any nuances or meaning that could allow such a stylistic choice - auteurs the Coen Brothers are certainly not. i also don't believe in the moral code of the film either, i.e llyelwn gets whats coming to him because he doesn't give the Mexican guy water. the pacing was horrible. there were these wide, open shots of the desert that served no purpose to constructing the film's themes. i have no problem with beautiful, lingering cinematography but if you choose to use this cinematic style it must under pin the thematic and / or philisophical structure of the film. which beyond obvious scene setting. it didn't. guh! i just don't like it at all.

andrei rublev [andrei tarkovsky] 10/10

raul has twenty goals this season and at least 7-8 or assists. and is captain of the team that is 13 points clear at the top of La Liga. he's also won every trophy imaginable. overrated? give me a break.

i really didn't enjoy this movie. at all.