Are You Talking To Me?

[shemthepenman]

theoretically, yes, this is a false dichotomy. but practically, not. i am going to the cinema and i will be watching one of these two films. 'neither' really isn't an option for my own selfish purposes. [also, talking about films that have been seen to death, you mentioned blow-up and bullitt, and i was at two film festivals in poland about a month apart and they both showed those films, and i don't watch films at the cinema twice, so i feel like i have seen those to death--oh i did watch the history boys about three times at the cinema but that was by accident.]
but having said that, i'll take all the suggestions for films to watch. i'm always interesd in new films. but just note that my cinema isn't going to be playing anything obscure anytime soon. i mean, also on the bill this week is the exorcist [which i have seen at the cinema], casablanca [again, seen it at the cinema], and labyrinth [which i haven't seen at the cinema, but, well it's on a different day so maybe i will]. it's a big mutiplex, and in fact, you give a nod to meanstreets [again, another festival favourite] but i reckon even that would not be mainstream enough for my cinema. shame, but what can you do. i live in a capitalist hell hole in the arse end of the planet.

OK, go see Pulp Fiction. It's the lesser of the films; but if you've seen them already, it's more fun and as there's always a bit
of business here or there you either missed or forgot. (And it's got Uma Thurman at her cock-sure best.)

But if you're really "serious" (fun,fun,fun) about films:

Saw these recently:

Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven
Gus Van Sant 's Mala Noche
Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train
 Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways

I subscribe to fandor.com  It's $10 month/$90 year
(but you can just pay $10 and go crazy for a month every 6 months or so)
A Google Chromecast ($35) and WiFi is all you need.

They have an amazing collection of independent/foreign films. (I don't bother with Netflix, Hulu, etc.)
A few hundred films from Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance... and more than 20 other film festivals
with more as each festival comes around throughout the year.
*And this is why I originally signed up:
They have large selection of Criterion Collection (Google them) films for a limited time (constantly rotated).
And thousands of others.

i saw clean shaven last year and mystery train is one of my favourite films. really great. i haven't seen laurence anyways, but just watched the trailer and looks really interesting. i have just downloaded it. i also haven't seen mala noche, gus van sant is hit or miss with me--good will hunting and gerry are for me two of the greatest films of all time [in very different ways, of course]; but elephant, last days and finding forrester were a bit rubbish--actually, come to think of it maybe last days wasn't that bad. i should give it another watch one of these days. but the trailer looks interesting. downloaded that too. i'll watch them both now. cheers. and i'll check out that fandor thing. see what that's all about.