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− | |Very well directed film. Franz Oz takes you on a journey. He does things visually and musically that are really cool and set the tone and makes you feel like you're on a holiday. He makes interesting cuts over extended dialogue and takes you to different locations through these cuts and edits. He frames shots interestingly. There is one shot where Michael Caine and Steve Martin are talking in the lobby of the hotel Janet Colgate( aka Glenne Headly) checks in. Steve Martin and Michael Caine are in what appears to be at first an uneven frame on the right side of the screen in front of a wall, but then you notice how | + | |Very well directed film. Franz Oz takes you on a journey. He does things visually and musically that are really cool and set the tone and makes you feel like you're on a holiday. He makes interesting cuts over extended dialogue and takes you to different locations through these cuts and edits. He frames shots interestingly. There is one shot where Michael Caine and Steve Martin are talking in the lobby of the hotel Janet Colgate( aka Glenne Headly) checks in. Steve Martin and Michael Caine are in what appears to be at first an uneven frame on the right side of the screen in front of a wall, but then you notice how it's intentionally framed so that it puts Caine and Martin on the right because Glenne Headly is behind them out of focus. It's this weird shot that puts all the characters together (this is probably not that interesting). There is another scene where Ruprecht is told he is moving to Oklahoma and he is not happy about it and he knocks one breakable antique off the mantelpiece and he walks a little bit and knocks off another one and walks a little bit and knocks off another one where Julie thought and hoped Jimmy wasn't watching this scene because that is what he likes to do. FUN FACT! Did you know Frances Conroy was in the movie? She played the woman from Palm Beach who dines with Lawrence Jamieson and Ruprecht Jamieson. She is wearing a beehive. She looks matronly and tall. Ruprecht is fucking around with his cork on a fork and making circular motions on a plate of apple sauce. That whole "may I go to the bathroom thank you" exchange was done in front of fucking Frances Conroy. Julie's Bitch, Member of the Red Head Hall of Fame, and Cool Ass Bitch. Frances "Motherfucking" Conroy was in that movie. |
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Revision as of 18:19, 1 February 2015
Title | Directed by | Episode | Genre | Julie's Verdict |
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The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, and Anonymous | Episode 153 | Documentary | |
After Porn Ends | Bryce Wagoner | Episode 150 | Oh Boy | Yeeeeeesh |
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer | Nick Broomfield | Documentary | ||
All that Jazz | Bob Fosse | Episode 152 | Musical | Great. Julie relates Bob Fosse to Stanley Kubrick. Geniuses who used actors and performers like art supplies. Fosse specifically using actors and dancers as an extension of his own wants and needs as an artist and choreographer and creating movements and performances never seen before. Nobody moves like Ann Reinking. |
Alien | Ridley Scott | Episode 148 | Horror/Science Fiction | A Good Movie. Julie was glad that the cat survived and was inspired by H.R. Giger's creep art.(The latter not true) |
Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | Episode 165 | Music-oriented | Not very good,guys. Cameron Crowe might not be very good. |
American Swing | Jon Hart & Matthew Kaufman | Documentary | ||
Annie | Will Gluck | Episode 157 | Musical | We are not emotionally prepared for this movie or Cameron Diaz's role in it. |
Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Episode 2 | Comedy | |
The Bad Seed | Mervyn LeRoy | Episode 139 | Horror/Thriller | |
A Band Called Death | Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett | Documentary | ||
Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan | Episode 135 | Action | |
Beauty is Embarrassing | Neil Berkeley | Documentary | ||
Beetlejuice | Tim Burton | Episode 130 | Comedy | |
Behind The Candelabra | Steven Soderbergh | Episode 117 | Biopic | |
The Birdcage | Mike Nichols | Comedy | ||
Big Business | Jim Abrahams | Episode 2 | Comedy | |
The Big Chill | Lawrence Kasdan | Episode 183 | Baby Boomer Entitlement Incarnate | The Robert Frost ode to White People. A garbage movie. Glenn Close bakes and cries in the shower and her hair is nice. Jeff Goldblum is gross. William Hurt is impotent(Vietnam?) and he does cocaine and has an earring. The Motown soundtrack is patronizing because it becomes background noise to the white experience or is appropriated into this bland lifestyle of people whose coolness peaked when The Beatles and Bob Dylan peaked in the culture. The movie kills itself for a state of authenticity that was never authentic. Burn this movie/this baby boomer entitlement to the ground, start over, or give the millennials the keys. |
Bill Cunningham: New York | Richard Press | Episode 21 | Documentary | |
Blow Out | Brian De Palma | Suspense!!! | John Travolta is a fabulous actor and Julie credits it to Scientology. Nancy Allen on the other hand is not. If Julie never saw her again she would be ok. | |
Blue Jasmine | Woody Allen | Episode 135 | Comedy | |
Body Double | A Weirdo | Suspense/trash | Julie would say she likes the movie, but the torture scene with the powerdrill is too upsetting. Not a fan of torture or women in pain. Julie thinks De Palma is a sick man, but she has a morbid but distant curiosity towards his films. The "citrus fruits" on him(two grapefruits) to cast Tippi Hedren's daughter, Melanie Griffith, to make a sleazy version of Vertigo and Rear Window and also put a Frankie Goes to Hollywood music video in the middle of a film is fascinating, but the urge to depict that level of violence and the desire to depict acts of cruelty towards women specifically and sentient creatures more broadly alludes Julie and she judges it as something deeply problematic and it hurts her heart. She likes her sadism in cringe humour. | |
The Bride of Frankenstein | James Whale | Episode 139 | Horror | |
Broadway Danny Rose | Woody Allen | Comedy I guess? | You know whose fabulous in that? Mia Farrow. She plays a better trashy character in that than Nancy Allen in Blow Out. And she looks fabulous! FABULOUS! | |
Cabaret | Bob Fosse | Episode 146/Ongoing | Musical | |
Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki | Ongoing | Documentary | Inconclusive |
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life | Dori Berinstein | Episode 8 | Documentary | |
Carrie | Brian De Palma | Horror | ||
ChickenHawk | Adi Sideman | Episode 133 | Documentary | |
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Cody Cameron & Kris Pearn | Episode 133 | Animation | Julie hasn't seen it(Uh she read the book), but finds it delightful that a concept artist somewhere made animals out of hamburgairs. |
The Cooler | Wayne Kramer | Episode 74 | Drama | |
Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | Biopic | ||
Despicable Me 2 | Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud | Episode 133 | Animation | |
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Frank Oz | Comedy | Very well directed film. Franz Oz takes you on a journey. He does things visually and musically that are really cool and set the tone and makes you feel like you're on a holiday. He makes interesting cuts over extended dialogue and takes you to different locations through these cuts and edits. He frames shots interestingly. There is one shot where Michael Caine and Steve Martin are talking in the lobby of the hotel Janet Colgate( aka Glenne Headly) checks in. Steve Martin and Michael Caine are in what appears to be at first an uneven frame on the right side of the screen in front of a wall, but then you notice how it's intentionally framed so that it puts Caine and Martin on the right because Glenne Headly is behind them out of focus. It's this weird shot that puts all the characters together (this is probably not that interesting). There is another scene where Ruprecht is told he is moving to Oklahoma and he is not happy about it and he knocks one breakable antique off the mantelpiece and he walks a little bit and knocks off another one and walks a little bit and knocks off another one where Julie thought and hoped Jimmy wasn't watching this scene because that is what he likes to do. FUN FACT! Did you know Frances Conroy was in the movie? She played the woman from Palm Beach who dines with Lawrence Jamieson and Ruprecht Jamieson. She is wearing a beehive. She looks matronly and tall. Ruprecht is fucking around with his cork on a fork and making circular motions on a plate of apple sauce. That whole "may I go to the bathroom thank you" exchange was done in front of fucking Frances Conroy. Julie's Bitch, Member of the Red Head Hall of Fame, and Cool Ass Bitch. Frances "Motherfucking" Conroy was in that movie. | |
Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel | Episode 96 | Comedy | It's a romp. Swingers are like zombies in this movie.
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Enough Said | Nicole Holofcener | Episode 133 | Comedy | |
The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato | Documentary | ||
The Exorcist | William Friedkin | Episode 103 | Horror | |
Faithful | Paul Mazursky | Episode 2 | Comedy | |
Fargo | Joel and Ethan Coen | Comedy | ||
Feet Feet Feet | Quentin Tarantino | Episode 151 | Feet | Feet Feet |
Foxcatcher | Bennett Miller | Episode 195: "She's a Hurricane" | Drama | Not enough women. (There are only two women who speak in the film.) |
Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach | Episode 117: HWYW Gems 4 | Comedy? | Frances Ha-ted it. Who dreams of going back to college? |
Funny Girl | William Wyler | Episode 146: "The Opposite of Rock & Roll" | Musical romantic comedy | The opposite of Rock & Roll. Julie remembers "Don't Rain on My Parade" being much more radical when she heard the song and saw this movie as a child but watching it as an adult, she has more reservations on this movie, the song, and Barbara Streisand as a feminine figure. |
George Harrison: Living in the Material World | Martin Scorsese | Episode 135 | Documentary | |
Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | Episode 2 | Comedy | |
Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | Episode 136 | Drama | |
The Graduate | Mike Nichols | Drama | ||
The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | Comedy | The shots were symmetrical and centred and there weren't a lot of women in it. | |
Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | Episode 134 | Drama | Stunk. Sandra Bullock's haircut stunk too. |
Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde & Muffy Meyer | Documentary | ||
Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen | Episode 136 | Comedy | A masterpiece despite Woody Allen and his attitude towards women. |
A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | Episode 135 | Comedy | |
Head | Bob Rafelson | Episode 53 | Musical | |
Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola & Fax Bahr | Documentary | ||
Heathers | Michael Lehmann | Episode 20 | Comedy | |
Her | Spike Jonze | Episode 147 | Romantic | Loved it. Julie has never seen a more artful and accurate movie about life after your heart is broken.[From Twittair] |
The Hollywood Complex | Dylan Nelson & Dan Sturman | Documentary | ||
Hoop Dreams | Steve James | Episode 73: "The Sneaker Nap" | Documentary | Could have been better if it had followed the cheerleaders. |
Hugo | Martin Scorsese | Steampunk/Family | Liked it. Probably will never see it again. | |
The Imposter | Bart Layton | Documentary | ||
Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | Episode 136 | Thriller | |
The Interrupters | Steve James | Documentary | ||
Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | Episode 135 | Drama | Love it. It gets better everytime you see it. One of the movies Julie can watch whenever. |
Jaws | Steven Spielberg | Horror | Is this-Is this a B-Movie? | |
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work | Ricki Stern | Documentary | ||
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night | Mark A. Catalena & Peter Jones | Episode 130 | Documentary | |
Jumping Jack Flash | Penny Marshall | Episode 2 | Comedy | |
The Kid Stays in the Picture | Brett Morgen | Documentary | ||
The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | Episode 1 | Over-dramatization of not-the-most irrelevant thing that happened at that time (WWII) | Hated it |
The Last House on the Left | Wes Craven | Episode 136 | Horror | |
Life with Alex | Emily Wick | Episode 134 | Documentary | |
Logan's Run | Michael Anderson | Episode 188 | Science Fiction | Julie fell asleep near the end, but this is one of the better movies that take place in a mall. Peter Ustinov recites lines from T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats(which is also the basis for Cats the Musical) and Julie didn't know what the fuck was going on but she liked those parts and felt the rest of the movie was garbage and silly. Farrah Fawcett was in it. A little bit of Michael York goes a long way but a lot of Michael York...no thank you. |
Loopair | Rian Johnson | Episode 159 | Science Fiction/Crime | LOOPAIR!!! THAT WAS A GOOD MOVIE!! |
Make Believe | J. Clay Tweel | Episode 11 | Documentary | |
Mannequin | Michael Gottlieb | Episode 159 | Comedy | Julie really skewers this movie. Hollywood is wonderful though. Andrew McCarthy's character is a little dumb. |
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present | Matthew Akers & Jeff Dupre | Documentary | ||
Married to the Eiffel Tower | Agnieszka Piotrowska | Episode 20 | Documentary | |
Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | Episode 2 | Drama | |
Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen | Comedy(I'm guessing) | Sure, Woody Allen. Living in Paris twenty years before the Holocaust/World War 2 was great. | |
Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | Episode 2 | Comedy | |
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | Errol Morris | Documentary | ||
Nashville | Robert Altman | Drama | ||
Never Sleep Again:The Elm Street Legacy | Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch | Episode 165 | DVD extra | Julie doesn't care about the Nightmare on Elm Street series, but she watched this documentary from start to finish and now knows everything about it. Robert Englund is probably terrible in bed. These aren't feminists movies if Freddy Krueger is the one you're rooting for. Freddy Krueger represents the horrible 1980's where the bad guys won. Also The Fresh Prince was a loser. Nightmare on My Street is not a pun, you idiot. |
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film | Andrew Monument | Horror Documentary | Don't bother but there are good clips. Julie doesn't care about 30's Horror movies because she is not Robert Osborne and doesn't care about the Wolf Man or The Mummy (start with Rosemary's Baby). But she did learn about a movie called The Stuff which is about junk food that turns people crazy. Julie likes it when people talk about Horror movies and say "sounds like real life today, right?" and, regarding the more violent torture-based horror films, things like "look at what's on the news! That's worse!". No it isn't because our version of the news is Kathie Lee and Hoda. | |
The Nomi Song | Andrew Horn | Documentary | ||
Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | Episode 148 | Crime | Does not hold up. |
Paris is Burning | Jennie Livingston | Episode 26 | Documentary | |
The Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma | Episode 130 | Horror/Musical | |
Popeye | Robert Altman | Musical | Julie coke-splained what brought about this film and how weird this film is even though she remembers her family thinking it was a standard family film when in reality it is pretty weird. Everyone making it(Robert Evans, Jules Feiffer, Robert Altman) was like "Toot toot up the patoot" with dunes of white stuff they had just lying around. This is what coke could accomplish. The residents of Sweet Haven are weird. "He Needs Me" is beautiful. "He's Large" is one of the best musical comedy moment songs. Linda Hunt is in it but not in it enough, but there is an Octopus. | |
Public Speaking | Martin Scorsese | Episode 26 | Documentary | |
Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | Episode 132 | Drama | |
The Queen of Versailles | Lauren Greenfield | Episode 74 | Documentary | Julie loved it. |
Red Dragon | Brett Ratner | Episode 164 | Serial Killer stuff | Julie went in and out of this movie as it was on tv, but Ralph Fiennes eats a William Blake painting and there could've been more "serial killer dating a blind girl" jokes. A good movie. |
Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | Episode 132 | Drama | |
Riding the Bus with My Sister | Anjelica Huston | Drama | ||
Room 237 | Rodney Ascher | Documentary | ||
Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | Ongoing | Horror | |
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags | Marc Levin | Episode 6 | Documentary | |
Scream | Wes Craven | Episode 139 | Horror | |
Sex Crimes Unit | Lisa P. Jackson | Documentary | ||
The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | Ongoing | Horror | |
Shivairs(Shivers) | David Cronenberg | Horror | Just gross. A very silly and gross movie that looked like Nick Zedd tried to make a porno in Canada and then he got bored so he just started playing with doodee. The gross out sub-genre of horror is like kids playing with poop. It doesn't tickle the mind! Not like The Stuff! | |
Sisters | Brian de Palma | Episode 186 | Suspense | Julie enjoyed it but doesn't know if it was good. It could be terrible. It's probably terrible. Margot Kidder and William Finley(Winslow Leach from The Phantom of the Paradise) play French Canadians. |
Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton | http://howwasyourweek.libsyn.com/merrill-markoe-brian-stack-andy-kindler-hwyw-gem-vol-6- Gems Vol. 6] | Southern Gothic/90's movie/Yup | The film Billy Bob Thornton wanted to make in the 90's. He wrote it. He wanted to direct it. He wanted to star in it. And then some years later he had the filthiest and most macabre sex with Angelina Jolie imaginable where they drank each other's pee probably. |
Sleeper | Woody Allen | Episode 136 | Comedy | |
The Source Family | Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos | Documentary | ||
Splash | Ron Howard | Comedy | ||
The Staircase | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade | Episode 187 | Documentary Mini series | Julie mainly talked about the anal sex portion of the mini-series but she recommends it. It's a good documentary especially if you love to fuck but have never been fucked and not sure you are interested. |
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes | Jon Ronson | Documentary | ||
The Stuff | Larry Cohen | Horror | Danny Aiello and his dog try to eat each other. | |
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | Mike Myers | Episode 172: "Pellet of Pleasure" | Documentary | Myers' directorial choices were occasionally baffling. He does a lot of things that Soderbergh would not have done. |
Synecdoche, New York | Charlie Kaufman | ? | Julie doesn't care much for it but it is Jason Woliner's favorite movie. | |
Tabloid | Errol Morris | Episode 21 | Documentary | |
Three Amigos | John Landis | Episode 140 | Comedy | |
Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | Episode 7 | Comedy | |
Twilight Zone: The Movie | John Landis, Steve Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller | Anthology film | FINALLY! Julie really took the Twilight Zone movie down a notch. Not a good movie, especially when you consider that people died making it(Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen) and John Landis had enough footage to work around it for his dumb vignette. Also Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks sing Creedence in the beginning? Scatman Crothers can read the phonebook to Julie but she had to skip through that "Kick The Can" segment. | |
The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Charles Walters | Episode 133 | Musical | |
Vernon Florida | Errol Morris | Documentary | ||
Vice Versa | Brian Gilbert | Episode 47 | Comedy | |
Walking and Talking | Nicole Holofcener | Episode 136 | Drama | |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Woody Allen | Episode 136 | Comedy | |
We're the Millers | Rawson Marshall Thurber | Episode 133 | Comedy | |
The Wiz | Sidney Lumet | Musical | A bad idea. The Wiz IS an icky experience or could be an icky experience if you haven't had nostalgia or affection for it. There is a 70's darkness to it that is quite scary in places and in others there is a saccharin brightness that people at the time thought would be delightful to children and maybe was to some but that mold and dust aged it so quickly that it became grotesque seemingly overnight. The Wiz is like a Birthday clown. A sad, crying clown that came to a child's birthday party and doesn't know why everyone is upset. It is like a dried macaroni collage that you made for your mom in the 70's and stayed up in the fridge since then and the pasta yellowed as the construction paper fades on the avocado coloured fridge door. That's what watching The Wiz is to Julie visually. Emotionally it is a whole bunch of other unpleasant things. Everytime Julie watches it she stops at a certain point. This time it was when Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow asks the crows passively and submissively to stop eating his body. Human beings dressed as crows eating him while he warmly says "Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are enjoying your breakfast!" Julie could not handle it. She stopped watching and then started watching August: Osage County and shut that off when Julia Roberts started talking. They're called Boobs, Ed. | |
The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | Episode 137 | Musical | |
Working Girl | Mike Nichols | Episode 2 | Comedy |