Good Friday (for watching movies)

[Mofo Rising]

So I spent all day today watching movies.  Here's what we've got.

ALPHAVILLE (1965)
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
GANTZ: DISC 5 (2004)
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (2005)
THE FILTH AND THE FURY: A SEX PISTOLS FILM (2000)

ALPHAVILLE and PICNIC are part of my Criterion regimen.  ALPHAVILLE was an interesting mix of French new wave and surrealist science fiction that I rather enjoyed, and I normally hate French new wave.  (THE 400 BLOWS is good, though.)  PICNIC was a fantastic movie where almost nothing happens.

GANTZ is a so-so anime, with two episodes per disc for some retarded reason.  THE AMITYVILLE HORROR was not good.  It's better than the original, but that is saying almost nothing.  I mean, dude, just kill your family already.

THE FILTH AND THE FURY was actually a pretty good look at the Sex Pistols.  I enjoyed it and I care about the Sex Pistols not so much.  Was that really what England was like during the seventies?

So... what did you watch today?

[dean]

Didn't watch anything today due to work [though as I type this Harry Potter 2 is playing on tv, so I guess that counts.

But yesterday I watched the MST3K version of the Raul Julia 'classic' Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, and recieved a copy of Forbidden Zone in the mail from eBay which I watched a few clips of [to which my sister tells me 'this is the wierdest movie I've ever seen' as she was hanging about at the time]  I plan to watch the rest soon.

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a pretty good film, and you're right, nothing really happens.  We have some close family friends in the area near Hanging Rock so everynow and then we drop in and have a picnic or something.

I liked Alphaville [you really can't go wrong with Surrealist film, whether or not it's French New Wave]

As for the rest, I haven't seen 'em, but that Sex Pistols film would be good to watch.

[Shadowphile]

Mothra, Them! and Stairway to Heaven (aka A Matter of Life and Death) were on my 'watch list' this week.