Volver

[Sarah]

I don't agree but must point out that dachshunds have very pretty little faces.

[Tim K in DC]

So, did you watch the movie?

Define "watch."

[Sarah]

Did you aim your eyes in its direction and actually pay attention to what they were seeing (I presume the thing was subtitled, so ears are less relevant here)?

[jane]

I saw Volver and liked it.  I liked the fact that this guy tries to rape his girlfriend's teenager daughter, then the teenage daughter kills him with a knife and her mom hides him in a freezer, tells everyone that he left her, and buries the freezer in a remote forest area, and that this is the subplot. 
The real plot of the movie is that this same woman, the one who buries the boyfriend in a freezer, who tries to rape her daughter, who kills him with a knife, is looking for her mother.  I love Almodovar, especially his early films, but Tim, I'm wondering why it took your gf 6 hours to "watch" this movie.  How long would it take her to watch Inland Empire?  It took me 5 hours to watch it at the movie theatre and the movie is only 3 hours long.  And why does she keep re-heating her food?  Who is she, Howard Hughes?

[Sarah]

. . . And why does she keep re-heating her food?  Who is she, Howard Hughes?

For some reason, this made me laugh and laugh.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

How long would it take her to watch Inland Empire?  It took me 5 hours to watch it at the movie theatre and the movie is only 3 hours long.

That would be a sort of fun nightmare - seeing Inland Empire stoned and not realizing it was ending, so you sit through it three or four times.

[jane]

. . . And why does she keep re-heating her food?  Who is she, Howard Hughes?

For some reason, this made me laugh and laugh.

Thanks Sarah.  Next she'll be demanding banana nut icecream, then "forgetting" to trim her toenails. 

[jane]

How long would it take her to watch Inland Empire?  It took me 5 hours to watch it at the movie theatre and the movie is only 3 hours long.

That would be a sort of fun nightmare - seeing Inland Empire stoned and not realizing it was ending, so you sit through it three or four times.

Yeah, Jason, like watching endless screenings of "The Last Clean Shirt"

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

How long would it take her to watch Inland Empire?  It took me 5 hours to watch it at the movie theatre and the movie is only 3 hours long.

That would be a sort of fun nightmare - seeing Inland Empire stoned and not realizing it was ending, so you sit through it three or four times.

Yeah, Jason, like watching endless screenings of "The Last Clean Shirt"

I had to Google that reference.  Looks like an interesting project - it also makes me think of all those Warhol movies.  Who would be able to tell whether you were watching them on a loop?

[jane]

Yeah, true.
Here's a link for the short film I mentioned. UBUWEB has a lot of experimental stuff on it. 
http://www.ubu.com/film/leslie.html
watching it on a computer doesn't have the same imprisoning effect as being stuck in a small screening room.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

UBUWEB has a lot of experimental stuff on it. 
http://www.ubu.com/film/leslie.html

Weird!  I found it on Ubuweb via Google and was reminded how much I liked Ubuweb (haven't been there in a while) so I posted a new thread about it.  We must have been there at the same time - possibly the first and oly time two people were viewing that clip at the same time.  Thankfully, we didn't crash the site.

[Tim K in DC]

Did you aim your eyes in its direction and actually pay attention to what they were seeing (I presume the thing was subtitled, so ears are less relevant here)?

Define "did you aim your eyes..." no, I won't push it.

No, I didn't watch it. I watched my girlfriend (who actually "watched" the thing and was pretty bored by it) put it in the Hollywood Express drop box before we rented a couple of other flicks.

I do likes me my subtitled flicks, so long as they are good. Like, say, Matando Cabos (aka Killing Cabos). Or Kieslowski's The Decalogue (or Dekalog). But between the good woman's judgement and the boredom vibes that were coming from the TV set whenever I glanced at it, I realized we just needed to move on in rental land.

[buffcoat]

Isn't that the plot of "I Spit on Your Grave?"

[Sarah]

I'll probably like it when I finally get a chance to see it.  Of course, I may enjoy I Spit on Your Grave, too.