polish brothers

these guys are cool.

movie-list

trailer for the next movie written/directed by rian johnson of brick.

true friendships last a lifetime

even if your friend is a lion: check it

7 year old white kid beatboxing

is this good culture? I love that his mom is smiling in the background.

batman (spoilers)

Evan's new status message - tape 9:02 PM

9:04 PM me: well I saw it

it was just like reading the comic book, it was really COOL

9:05 PM simultaneously mediocre in every way

acting

shooting

action

9:07 PM heath ledger was great but it was no brokeback, he didnt go deep, he was all leering, makeup smeared, surface with all the good lines

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10:09 PM Evan: i mean, i wholeheartedly disagree in just about every way possible. but that's life.,

Evan's new status message - under the volcano 10:39 PM

10:44 PM me: im not saying i didnt think it was great

i thoroughly enjoyed it

went over it in my head all night

been thinking about whatll happen next

all day

10:45 PM but

the film making was not good

the acting was another story

the story was great

10:46 PM if not the writing (too many loose ends, and questions answered by dialogue)

8 minutes

10:54 PM me: I love the epic moral battle, all of michael caine's lines were amazing

18 minutes

11:12 PM Evan: the filmmaking was action movie filmmaking, no worse no better. the acting depended on actors, heath and michael caine being a step above and christian bale doing his best to deal with the problem of not being able to have emotions, and i had no problem with the writing really. i don't know what loose ends there were.

11:13 PM me: joker throws rachel out the window the party

batman catches her

jokers in the party with all the guests and dent somewhere

what happens

who knows, cut to something else

11:14 PM Evan: dent's in a closet and he's just gotten rid of the one person who could actually tell him where dent went

sure he could've shot someone for the fun of it, but that's boring

me: oh come on, he just walks out

no, they just dont care

11:15 PM Evan: so what's supposed to happen?

me: and the action filmmaking was not as good as could be

the fighting was messy

couldnt see what was happening

too cutty

the interrogation fight scene batman v joker

silly

Evan: silly how?

me: im just saying the movie was great

but not immortal

Evan: i don't think it's immortal

11:16 PM me: thats not the word i mean

i dont know where that came from

i mean not..

11:17 PM groundbreaking, in the sense of do new things

the acting was better than most action movies

Evan: i mean i agree

but i didn't really expect it to do new things...

11:18 PM me: the tim burton movies did

chris nolan and heath ledger

have the potential to do it too

had

Evan: i don't think the tim burton movies did anything new at all

11:19 PM i think what came out of heath ledger was much greater than anything i would've ever thought, and i quite frankly think a big part of the impact is lost because he's dead.

the threat of batman and joker doing the same thing forever is broken by real life facts

11:20 PM me: thats interesting

thats good observation

how are they going to make the next movie

who will be the bad guy

11:21 PM Evan: yeah, it's a major problem. i think nolan had it, joker vs. batman unending. just totally fucked. and now that can't happen and i don't think he has a bad guy he can introduce...

[I'll spare you the rest, from here on out we get really nerdy, speculating plots, etc.]

mad detective

saw it. you should see it. midnight show? yes.
it's amoral, confusing, digresses, does not resolve, everything an american detective movie isn't.

the exiles

see it while it's playing near you: screening schedule.

just checking in

fine low budget music video. I love the digital zoom on the first shot.
I came across it on sasha frere-jones's blog.