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  1. recently watched Jodorowsky's Dune.

    great doco talking about Alejandro Jodorowsky's efforts in recruiting staff/talent and finances to make big epic psychedelic sci-fi romper adaptation loosely based on Dune.

    pretty great watching if you have any fascination in 70's/sci fi films. recommended!

     

    *** on a similar note ***

    can anyone recommend El Topo / The Holy Mountain?

    nearby cinema is playing a double of the two films back to back next week and i'm considering going. I've read the incal and enjoyed most of it (the visuals) but found the plot to be pretty meandering and borderline incoherent psychedelic ramblings. are these films worth checking out?? any thoughts appreciated :)

    Of course it's borderline incoherent psychedelic rambling, but it's amazing. Totally go see it on big screen. Haven't seen El Topo yet though, but I can't really imagine watching anything immediately after Holy Mountain...

  2. Jodorowsky's Dune - Jodorowsky/10

     

    Only bummer is that this made me think about all the great art that--for one reason or another--was never made.

     

    (Michel Gondry just gave up on making Ubik...maybe in 40 years I'll get to see what that would've looked like)

    Goddamn, didn't even know Ubik was in the making... Too bad!

  3. The Grand Budapest Hotel, this is coming from a big Wes Anderson fan, but I really didn't enjoy this movie at all. With Moonrise Kingdom (and Fantastic mr. Fox, but "that one was for the kids", as I used to think) it went off the cliff.

     

    I had very low expectations and was still disappointed.

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    The Hunt

     

    Full marks from me. Mads Mikkelsen is brilliant at conveying emotion through his eyes. Found it gripping throughout and quite heartbreaking. At so many points I thought it was going to go down more cliched roads but it stayed beautiful and subdued. Highly highly recommended, possibly film of the year for me. Just been added to Netflix so you have no excuse.

    wow, the reviews on rottentomatoes look good, 93% recommended but 94% "liked it", those are unusually high audience marks. Hmm, subject matter looks depressing though...

     

    Yes, it's a depressing movie, but it's really so well executed and gripping. It's one of my faves as well.

  5. Ok so you have beef with mining and speculative trading. But do you really fail to see anything positive about bitcoin? Are you even interested in a discussion?

     

    So far you've just proved that you're not that well informed about the subject and you seem very bitter about what you think bitcoin is.

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