movies...

[Andy]

recommend some.  I am trying to restock my blockbuster queueueue.  I'm tiring of documentaries for the minute.  I 'm not that into love stories.

[Martin]

Too bad about documentaries, I've just seen a couple of pretty good ones...

L'avocat de la terreur / Terror's Advocate (Barbet Schroeder, 2007) (fascinating about the bewilderingly complex and contradictory Jacques Vergès, defender of dictators and terrorists)
My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev, 2007)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007) (the one that won the Oscar)
The Camden 28 (Anthony Giacchino, 2007)
Street Fight (Marshall Curry, 2005) (an election year must-see)
Slasher (John Landis, 2004) (after Patton's The Famous Flamer; meat-and-potatoes doc but what a goddamn character)

[TL]

Across 110th Street

[masterofsparks]

Point Blank
Let's Do It Again

[Martin]

I'll see your Across 110th Street, which is great, and add the completely underrated and totally awesome...

Detroit 9000

[Stupornaut]

Two-Lane Blacktop. You may want to turn it off after that scene where James Taylor tries to have this awkward conversation with some girl about cicadas, but keep going. Warren Oates = the man.

[TL]

I'll see your Across 110th Street, which is great, and add the completely underrated and totally awesome...

Detroit 9000

Wow - I gotta check that out - the tagline is amazing: "Visit the murder capital of the world--where the honkies are the minority!"

[Martin]

It's pretty amazing. Good in a real, gritty way, not in a typical blaxploitation way, even though it's obviously promoted as such (this was a little bit before the genre went completely bonkers too). Shot in Detroit, they make great use of the locations. I did a write-up a couple of years ago, but I can't find it now.

Great call on Two-Lane Blacktop, Stupornaut. One of my all-time favs.

[Matt]

The Man Who Fell to Earth. I need someone to tell me what happened.

If any movie is calling out for a remake, it's this one. Actually, I heard one is in the works, and Andy Milonakis and Jandek are duking it out for the Thomas Jerome Newton role.

[Beth]

The Man Who Fell to Earth. I need someone to tell me what happened.

If any movie is calling out for a remake, it's this one. Actually, I heard one is in the works, and Andy Milonakis and Jandek are duking it out for the Thomas Jerome Newton role.

I love that movie! I think it's mostly my David Bowie obsession, but who cares?

[bruce]

Lets see TL, Crimestick, Stupornaut, and Masterofsparks have all beaten me to the punch with some of their recommendations.

I'll thrown in Prime cut watch it with a Vegan you love. Make it a double feature with Point Blank because you can never have enough Lee Marvin in your life.

Also don't forget for you Two Lane Blacktop fans, Monte Hellman also made a great version of Cockfighter with Warren Oates.

[Martin]

I'll thrown in Prime cut watch it with a Vegan you love. Make it a double feature with Point Blank because you can never have enough Lee Marvin in your life.

I love that movie.

Michael Ritchie is an underappreciated director (or just unknown to most). He's hit-and-miss, but check out this awesome 1-2-3 punch he made in the early seventies:

Prime Cut (1972)
The Candidate (1972)
Smile (1975)

To make those three amazing, wildly different films back-to-back-to-back is quite a feat. (Consider them all recommended.)

[dave from knoxville]

I just saw Rocket Science and loved it. I am toughing my way through Lake of Fire, and recommend it, but it's a documentary (150 minutes on the abortion debate.)

[bruce]

Michael Ritchie is an underappreciated director (or just unknown to most). He's hit-and-miss, but check out this awesome 1-2-3 punch he made in the early seventies:

Prime Cut (1972)
The Candidate (1972)
Smile (1975)

To make those three amazing, wildly different films back-to-back-to-back is quite a feat. (Consider them all recommended.)

You totally left out probably one of the best sports movies ever the original The Bad News Bears

[Martin]

For a good reason - haven't seen it!