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penismightier you get The Man from Nowhere because Korean action films rule all. Mean Streets is like a promise of everything Scorsese is about to become. Some of his famous trademarks are there, long takes accompanied with a song from the era, graphic gritty violence and a lucid look at the gangster lifestyle. The acting is superb, Harvey Keitel and especially Robert Deniro can't be beat in the 70s. The cinematography breathes that gritty New York feel, especially towards the end when there's great shots of them just driving, reminding me of Taxi Driver. The only thing that weakens the film a bit is the script, which is by no means bad just not matching the excellent writing and pathos in Scorsese's later works. The movie kind of plays out how you expect it to, but I guess that really emphasizes the meaningless brutal lives these men lead. Overall a great 70s film but but a bit light compared to what Scorsese would make just a few years later. LIST OF SHAME: 1.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: I adore Powell and Pressburger but I've only seen two of their films. 2.Fanny and Alexander: Seen a lot of Bergman but somehow missed this one. 3.Three Colors: White: Continuing the trilogy 4.Cul-de-sac: Wasn't the biggest fan of Repulsion, hoping to get a better feel for early Polanski. 5.Memories of a Murder: South Korea's almost always a hit. 6.*NEW*Tokyo Twilight Have never seen an Ozu that I haven't loved. 7.The Filth and Fury: Documentary about the Sex Pistols, why not? 8.The Goddess: More Satyajit Ray. 9.Le Beau Serge: Considered the first film in the French Nouvelle Vague movement. 10.Y Tu Mama Tambien: Children of Men is awesome, time to finish off Alfonso Cuaron's films Watched: Masculin Feminin, Les Diaboliques, The World of Apu, Stalag 17, Wings of Desire, Island of Lost Souls, Dogville, Wages of Fear, The Phantom Carriage, I am Cuba, Twilight Samurai, Andrei Rublev, Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Orpheus, Three Colors: Blue, Mean Streets
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Desiato posted:2.Fanny and Alexander: Seen a lot of Bergman but somehow missed this one. Watch the TV miniseries version. Sunrise was a brilliant film for the most part. The shot composition is masterful, and the camerawork features some extraordinary shots - from long, dynamic tracking shots to expertly framed static shots. The way the visuals serve the story is pretty much unmatched by anything I've seen. 1. 2. Time of the Gypsies - One of my highest PSIs on Criticker but I never really see it talked about much. 3. The Lives of Others - I see this compared to The Conversation a lot, which I loved. 4. Cries and Whispers - I haven't been emotionally destroyed by a movie in a while, maybe this can do it for me. 5. Rififi - Heist films are pretty cool. 6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Newman and Redford? I'm already sold. 7. The Pianist - Next on the IMDb top 250. 8. It Happened One Night - Might as well put another Capra film here. 9. Casino - I saw this a looooooooong time ago and all I remember is a mannequin getting assassinated and I believe a watermelon is smashed with something metal at some point. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - This sounds pretty interesting, I suppose. Watched/Criticker Tier: The Seventh Seal 10, Moon 8, Barton Fink 10, The Thin Blue Line 9, Cool Hand Luke 9, Citizen Kane 10, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10, Rear Window 10, North by Northwest 9, Goodfellas 10, Casablanca 10, City Lights 8, Seven Samurai 10, Bicycle Thieves 9, Do the Right Thing 10, The Battle of Algiers 9, On the Waterfront 7, Wild Strawberries 10, The Trial 10, Adaptation 9, Unforgiven 10, Annie Hall 9, The 400 Blows 9, Diabolique 8, Mulholland Dr. 10, Dirty Harry 5, The 39 Steps 8, Aguirre: The Wrath of God 10, 8 1/2 9, Boogie Nights 9, A Streetcar Named Desire 7, Raiders of the Lost Ark 10, The General 9, Pickpocket 7, Pulp Fiction 10, Amadeus 10, Lawrence of Arabia 10, Eraserhead 8, The Lady Vanishes 8, The Wild Bunch 8, A Clockwork Orange 7, Platoon 7, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 9, Ikiru 10, Jules and Jim 10, The Asphalt Jungle 8, M 9, The Thin Red Line 9, Dial M for Murder 9, The Sting 8, Once Upon a Time in the West 9, The Exterminating Angel 9, A Woman Under the Influence 10, Singin' in the Rain 9, Scenes From a Marriage 10, Badlands 8, City of God 10, The Gold Rush 7, The Maltese Falcon 9, The Conformist 9, The Shawshank Redemption 8, High and Low 10, It's a Wonderful Life 7, Days of Heaven 9, Le Samourai 6, The Night of the Hunter 10, Metropolis 10, The New World 10, Persona 8, Manhattan 9, Some Like It Hot 7, The Rules of the Game 10, Nights of Cabiria 7, The Graduate 10, Pather Panchali 10, Punch-Drunk Love 9, Grand Illusion 8, The Hustler 8, The Great Escape 8, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 7, Memento 9, Forbidden Planet 7, Stagecoach 7, The Usual Suspects 6, The Big Sleep 8, Modern Times 7, Tokyo Story 9, Seven 9, The Searchers 6, The Battleship Potemkin 6, Videodrome 8, Léon: The Professional 6, American History X 4, The Grapes of Wrath 7, The Wages of Fear 9, Bonnie and Clyde 6, Mean Streets 8, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 8, American Beauty 6, The Great Dictator 7, Children of Paradise 10, La Dolce Vita 4, The Deer Hunter 8, Ben-Hur 5, Magnolia 9, Rushmore 10, MASH 4, Spirited Away 8, The Cranes Are Flying 9, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7, Sunrise 9 (Total: 111)
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fenix down posted:I agree that it's a little far-fetched, but weren't the older couple intimidating them into staying? It seemed like the younger couple didn't really have any experience dealing with people, and didn't have the assertiveness to bluntly excuse themselves. It feels like a metaphor, in that a subservient type of mentality would inevitably sentence them to the same fate as the elders - frustrated and angry after a lifetime of mediocrity. It's partly academic/work politics and small town mentality, where you've got to rub elbows with your neighbors or else risk being edged out as an outsider. Nick also wants to stick around because Martha had no doubt been flirting with him earlier in the evening (and continues doing so immediately after they arrive). Plus they both already had a few drinks in them so why not hang around for the free booze and to watch the freak show for a bit.
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h_double posted:Plus they both already had a few drinks in them Ooh, yeah. This a good point that can make or break a stage version. Everybody's already a little drunk when it begins.
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This is me posting to see what was recommended for me way back before my life got temporarily insanely busy. I'll carry on my list from there... Edit- The Lady Eve it is, not surprisingly next up in my Netflix queue still. Brian Fellows fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Feb 7, 2012 |
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It's been two days since I viewed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the film WILL NOT LEAVE MY MIND. The strange nightmarish atmosphere is lingering with me, and I'm beginning to wonder if I need to watch it again. I've been realizing that what I hated about it were superficial details that might have been affected by the mood I was in when I viewed it (this is the case more than I'd like to admit). This is not a situation where I feel my opinion is wrong - I still hold my opinion until I see the film again - but when a movie haunts me this much, it means it did something right.
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Hope you're better at swimming than Robert Redford, Atheistdeals. Go watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. So I watched Citizen Kane. I half expected the movie to fail to live up to the hype, but I shouldn't have worried. Instead it was probably one of the most amazingly immersing movies I've ever seen. All the elements of the movie - the acting, the cinematography, the script - are top notch, and the combination made for such a strong story that I never felt anything less than interested. It has that same easy watchability (let's pretend that's a thing) that Casablanca has, where you can see why people still enjoy and talk about them after all these years. And I've only seen Orson Welles in this and The Third Man but he's probably my favorite actor based on those two performances alone. Which of his movies should I watch next? Need to see: 1. Trafic - I've seen Mr Hulot's Holiday and Playtime, but never this. My grandma's a big fan of Tati, so I should. 2. 2001 - A Space Odyssey - I've seen this before, but I was twelve. I remember thinking it was 'lame and stupid'. 3. Dark City - I've thought about seeing this so many times, but I never seem to be in the mood. 4. Fantastic Planet - Some really groovy animation and a score by Alain Goraguer. Sounds amazing. 5. The Departed - I sometimes get Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio mixed up, so this looks like a nightmare. 6. Almost Famous - Movies about music is a favorite genre of mine, so this should be great. 7. Doctor Zhivago - Omar Sharif is a very handsome man. 8. The Day the Earth Stood Still - Have to start somewhere with the early sci-fi classics. 9. The Night of the Hunter - The stuff I've heard about this ranges from 'intense' to 'silly'. Figured I should give it a try myself. 10. A Streetcar Named Desire - I started watching this, but halfway through I managed to slice my palm open with a fruit knife and had to leave to get stitches. Have seen: Chinatown, North By Northwest, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Persona, Easy Rider, Casablanca, City of God, Predator, Modern Times, Amadeus, Hoop Dreams, The Hustler, The Apartment, Punch Drunk Love, Hard Eight, The French Connection, Pleasantville, Citizen Kane
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Admiral Goodenough posted:And I've only seen Orson Welles in this and The Third Man but he's probably my favorite actor based on those two performances alone. Which of his movies should I watch next? Touch of Evil is probably his most accessible and less "damaged" by studios after Citizen Kane.(that is if you watch the proper edited version.  ) If you're feeling adventurous jump into F for Fake or The Trial, which are highly experimental and are filled with clever and fantastic use of editing and cinematography.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:2. 2001 - A Space Odyssey - I've seen this before, but I was twelve. I remember thinking it was 'lame and stupid'. It's full of stars. Man Shame was brutal. After a slow start, when the war starts the film just enters in this unrelenting grim mood and it just gets darker as it progresses.After that point on, didn't really knew what to expect of the rest of the film, it's quite the bleak voyage. And also a fantastic psychological study on the effects of war on people, the profound changes that this calamity brings and what forces Jan and Evato do(and not do) is so devastating. Terrific job from the usual Bergman suspects too. SHAME: Richard III Long Live King McKellen! L'Âge d'or Not really knowing where to start with Luis Buñuel, I'll go from the beginning.(I watched Un Chien Andalou) The Dead The last film John Huston made. Mr. Hulot's Holiday Keeping up with the physical comedy hour. The Apu Trilogy Might as well start Satyajit Ray with these three. Samurai Rebellion Want to watch more Kobayashi before getting around to The Human Condition. Cobra Verde More Kinski+Herzog insanity. Dersu Uzala Kurosawa goes Soviet. Leningrad Cowboys Go America Road trip! The Age of Innocence Romantic Scorsese? Have watched so far 59 movies: Barton Fink, Sweet Smell of Success, The 400 Blows, Rocky, Videodrome, Charade, The Double Life of Veronique, Ace in the Hole, Easy Rider, Dark City, Gosford Park, Seven, Hard Boiled, Mystic River, The Magnificent Ambersons, Midnight Cowboy, A Serious Man, A Hard Day's Night, Manhattan, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hamlet, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The New World, Carlos, Blood Simple, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Gangs of New York, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Burn After Reading, Mesrine:Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy nrº1, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Wild Strawberries, Repulsion, The Long Good Friday, Island of Lost Souls, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom, Beauty and the Beast, Zodiac, After Hours, Nights of Cabiria, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Encounters at the End of the World, The Cameraman, Hard Eight, The Purple Rose of Cairo, My Darling Clementine, The Virgin Spring, Dodes'ka-den, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Chimes at Midnight, Miller's Crossing, Wild at Heart, Hausu, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Shame.
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Electronico6 posted:The Apu Trilogy Might as well start Satyajit Ray with these three. Watch Pather Panchali AKA Song of the Little Road. Harakiri - Set nearly 400 years ago but still contemporary. A lot of parallels could be drawn to the aimless ronin of then to contemporary US cultural malaise and high unemployment (also with soldiers coming home). You have to hand it to the ronin however. The method of threatening seppuku is a creative way to beg for coinage. It makes one wonder what would happen if the Occupy Wall Street movement adopted this as a practice. Onto the film itself. I remember learning of seppuku in a class and what's shown on film is pretty gruesome (although not taken to its full extreme). The film does a good job of hiding the motivations of the characters and switching time periods. Many aspects of what appear to be "as so" in the first half are actually "not so." The ending battle is one of the most realistic and believable 1 vs. many fights I can recall. I also liked when Tsugumo picked up the armor and threw it to the ground. There is a clear overarching message of hypocrisy and revisionism by those in charge. I'm surprised this film hasn't been remade many times (has it)? Maybe it would lose too much trying to transplant it into a western setting or another culture and time. also watched: Titanic - For being a recent best picture winner and being extremely popular this was not easy to track down on DVD. I didn't know so much of the film took place in the present time (1997) and the way it goes between the two time periods was effective. I also liked how by going to the present time they were able to give some basic history for people who knew nothing about the ship. The romance and time travel reminded me of "Somewhere in Time" (also back to 1912) with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Strong female protagonists are a hallmark of James Cameron and it is no different here. Hockley became more and more villainous as the film goes on. By the time he uses the random kid as a way of getting on a boat I was just chuckling. The film progresses with a good amount of dread and chaos continuing to build. Eventually the ship turns into a nightmarish plinko machine. Cameron and Bill Paxton have worked together a lot and the alternate ending is hilarious. Cameron likes screwing with Paxton's character no matter the type of film. But the redacted ending was probably a little too silly. Overall I liked the film and it is now my second favorite underwater adventure* by him after The Abyss. *could be displaced by Aliens of the Deep, Ghosts of the Abyss or Expedition: Bismarck. PS We're about two months away from the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic disaster and it struck me that human error still plays a significant role with these ships (I'm referring to that Italian captain, Francesco Schettino, who was showboating for his mistress last month and crashed into rocks). I wonder if they'll make a film about it. IMDb list: #194 Mary and Max - Never heard of it. I just looked it up and it's about clay people. Hopefully it lives up to Gumby's standard. 6/22/11 new #219 Drive - Another now out on DVD. The general public won't stop talking about this one. 2/7/12 #247 3 Idiots - Read some reviews but that's all. 1/17/12 #256 Before Sunrise - Relatively recent and I haven't even heard of it. 12/29/11 #264 Duck Soup - I haven't seen a Marx brothers film. Another one of those SHAMEFUL oversights. 2/1/12 Academy Award for Best Picture: 2002 Chicago - I can't say I'm looking forward to this. 11/27/11 1985 Out of Africa - Can't say I know anything about it. 12/29/11 1980 Ordinary People - Heard of it but haven't seen it. 2/1/12 1971 The French Connection - I know Gene Hackman is in this. Only best picture from the 70s I haven't seen.  2/1/12new 1968 Oliver! - I'm a little familiar with the story. 2/7/12
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Zogo posted:2002 Chicago - I can't say I'm looking forward to this. 11/27/11 It's well deserving of it's Oscars. However, I hope you do like musicals. Just finished The Crying Game and I have to say I was underwhelmed. I never got overtly bored, but the plot of the movie seemed to meander a bit too much for me. Also, I didn't like how it couldn't decide what kind of movie to be, a romance or a thriller. I really did not like the character of Dill. She was really annoying and overly dramatic and I hated the way she spoke. Fergus was a good character, although it never really dove into his motivation for sticking around after the big "reveal". I wish it would have examined that aspect a bit more. Forest Whittaker was an amazing actor as always and it never ceases to blow my mind how good he is at becoming a character, right down to perfect accent. Anyhow, it's not something I'd recommend to anyone else, but I suppose I don't feel like I wasted just under two hours of my life, so that's something. My updated list: 1. Philadelphia Story - Another movie I have no idea about, but it keeps getting recommended in this thread. 2. Mad Max. Here's something interesting. I didn't know this was three movies. I thought they were all one movie. So if this isn't the first one, let me know and I'll watch the first one instead. 3. The 3 Faces of Eve. If I'm not mistaken, this is about a woman with multiple personalities, yes? 4. Tokyo Story. Another I know nothing about but it's been recommended and loved over and over in this thread. 5. Platoon. I get the feeling this is a wannabee Apocalypse Now. I hope it stands on it's own. 6. The Kite Runner. I've heard nothing but amazement over this movie, but I really don't like the Middle East wars and I think this would just make me unable to appreciate the movie? I hope I'm wrong. 7. La Dolce Vita. Have no idea what this is about at all. I'm not even very sure of who directs it. I hope it's good. 8. Unforgiven My dad took me to see this when it came out in theaters, but I was too young to care about Westerns, much less understand what the hell was going on. 9. Rabbit Proof Fence. My dad has been trying to get me to see this one since he saw it, saying it's fantastic. Just never got around to it. 10. The Lives of Others. This looked interesting when I saw the previews when it first came out, but I've never gotten around to seeing it. I hope it really is as good as others make it out to be. Finished movies: Die Hard; Dr. Strangelove.; Chinatown; Citizen Kane; There Will Be Blood; Do The Right Thing; The Graduate; Rocky; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; A Streetcar Named Desire; Apocalypse Now; Children of a Lesser God; City of God; The Pianist; The Red Shoes; Eraserhead; Vertigo; Raging Bull; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Tombstone; Seven Samurai; 8 1/2; Dancer in the Dark; Lawrence of Arabia; Metropolis; It happened One Night; Bonnie and Clyde; The Seventh Seal; Singing in the Rain; Barton Fink; Sunset Boulevard; The Gold Rush; The Deer Hunter; My Neighbor Totoro; The Crying Game
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Bodnoirbabe posted:8. Unforgiven My dad took me to see this when it came out in theaters, but I was too young to care about Westerns, much less understand what the hell was going on. This one is amazing. For the most part I enjoyed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, though not as much as I thought I would. It starts off great, but as the film went on I starting losing interest in everything except for the dialogue exchanged between Newman and Redford. That one aspect made it all worth it, but I still wish the rest of the film was more interesting. And I thought that the music was downright awful at times. 1. L'Atalante - Next highest on the They Shoot Pictures list. 2. Time of the Gypsies - One of my highest PSIs on Criticker but I never really see it talked about much. 3. The Lives of Others - I see this compared to The Conversation a lot, which I loved. 4. Cries and Whispers - I haven't been emotionally destroyed by a movie in a while, maybe this can do it for me. 5. Rififi - Heist films are pretty cool. 6. 7. The Pianist - Next on the IMDb top 250. 8. It Happened One Night - Might as well put another Capra film here. 9. Casino - I saw this a looooooooong time ago and all I remember is a mannequin getting assassinated and I believe a watermelon is smashed with something metal at some point. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - This sounds pretty interesting, I suppose. Watched/Criticker Tier: The Seventh Seal 10, Moon 8, Barton Fink 10, The Thin Blue Line 9, Cool Hand Luke 9, Citizen Kane 10, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10, Rear Window 10, North by Northwest 9, Goodfellas 10, Casablanca 10, City Lights 8, Seven Samurai 10, Bicycle Thieves 9, Do the Right Thing 10, The Battle of Algiers 9, On the Waterfront 7, Wild Strawberries 10, The Trial 10, Adaptation 9, Unforgiven 10, Annie Hall 9, The 400 Blows 9, Diabolique 8, Mulholland Dr. 10, Dirty Harry 5, The 39 Steps 8, Aguirre: The Wrath of God 10, 8 1/2 9, Boogie Nights 9, A Streetcar Named Desire 7, Raiders of the Lost Ark 10, The General 9, Pickpocket 7, Pulp Fiction 10, Amadeus 10, Lawrence of Arabia 10, Eraserhead 8, The Lady Vanishes 8, The Wild Bunch 8, A Clockwork Orange 7, Platoon 7, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 9, Ikiru 10, Jules and Jim 10, The Asphalt Jungle 8, M 9, The Thin Red Line 9, Dial M for Murder 9, The Sting 8, Once Upon a Time in the West 9, The Exterminating Angel 9, A Woman Under the Influence 10, Singin' in the Rain 9, Scenes From a Marriage 10, Badlands 8, City of God 10, The Gold Rush 7, The Maltese Falcon 9, The Conformist 9, The Shawshank Redemption 8, High and Low 10, It's a Wonderful Life 7, Days of Heaven 9, Le Samourai 6, The Night of the Hunter 10, Metropolis 10, The New World 10, Persona 8, Manhattan 9, Some Like It Hot 7, The Rules of the Game 10, Nights of Cabiria 7, The Graduate 10, Pather Panchali 10, Punch-Drunk Love 9, Grand Illusion 8, The Hustler 8, The Great Escape 8, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 7, Memento 9, Forbidden Planet 7, Stagecoach 7, The Usual Suspects 6, The Big Sleep 8, Modern Times 7, Tokyo Story 9, Seven 9, The Searchers 6, The Battleship Potemkin 6, Videodrome 8, Léon: The Professional 6, American History X 4, The Grapes of Wrath 7, The Wages of Fear 9, Bonnie and Clyde 6, Mean Streets 8, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 8, American Beauty 6, The Great Dictator 7, Children of Paradise 10, La Dolce Vita 4, The Deer Hunter 8, Ben-Hur 5, Magnolia 9, Rushmore 10, MASH 4, Spirited Away 8, The Cranes Are Flying 9, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7, Sunrise 9, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 6 (Total: 112)
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Electronico6 posted:Touch of Evil is probably his most accessible and less "damaged" by studios after Citizen Kane.(that is if you watch the proper edited version. Putting these on my list, thanks 
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Atheistdeals.com posted:3. The Lives of Others - I see this compared to The Conversation a lot, which I loved. I saw this in a German film class a few years ago and it sticks out as one of the most memorable ones from that class. Watching the trailer on YouTube brought back a record of practically the entire plot. So, long time browser, first time poster in regards to this thread. I've decided I should watch good movies more instead of dicking around on the internet, so I threw together a starter list after perusing the top 250. I would have included some Hitchcock films, but I'm taking a class on his directing style, so that covers about 10 in the IMDB top 250. I'm hoping to do this about 2 times a week depending on my availability of the films. I guess provide a #1 "WATCH FIRST" and a #2 "WATCH THIS ONLY IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE OTHER ONE" just in case it's not available as a stream or my University library doesn't have it. In the meantime, I should actually find out if my school has DVDs that aren't on reserve for classes. Either that or study. Nah. 1. The Silence of the Lambs – I saw this streaming on IMDB one day and started to watch it, then realized it was like 2 in the morning and I didn’t want to be super scared.  2. Se7en – Seeing the name immediately made it lose its appeal when I scanned through titles many years ago, however, it is apparently very good. 3. The Usual Suspects – I saw this many years ago and didn’t like it and I would like to give it another go, my head being clearer now than at the time I saw it. 4. Casablanca – As someone who hopes to eventually work in film (or TV) I should know the classics! 5. Memento – I never really heard of any of the actors, but I’m starting to like Mark Boone Junior and the scumbags he plays in Batman Begins and Sons of Anarchy. 6. Taxi Driver – I love Scorsese and can’t believe this has slipped past my radar for so long. 7. M – I’ve seen parts of it and was supposed to see it in a film class, but it got snowed out that day. Been meaning to watch it ever since. 8. Cinema Paradiso – I’m Italian and I’m taking a course on its cinema, but it doesn’t go much past neorealism and the 70s. 9. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Apparently older Simpsons episodes are riddled with references from Dr. Strangelove and I am missing out! 10. Fargo – I love crime dramas and thriller type movies/shows and Steve Buscemi is just so cool. This also reminds me that I have to watch Boardwalk Empire now that I’m finished with The Sopranos.
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Welcome to the thread, gco. Why don't you give M a try? One of my favorite noir movies, and Peter Lorre is as creepy as ever. I enjoyed Patton a great deal. George C. Scott's performance, as everyone always says, is totally electrifying. The scene near the end of the movie where he's riding a horse in a circle really hammers home the portrait of him as an anachronism. I also liked that the portrayal of the Nazi soldiers was a little more nuanced than most movies, especially the guy who was assigned to do research on Patton. The battle scenes were excellent and the cinematography was all around gorgeous. I'd love to catch this in 70mm if I ever get the chance. One minor thing, though. I have to agree with George C. Scott about the opening of the film. While the speech is excellent, it does overshadow his performance during the rest of the film. Don't get me wrong, I loved the speech, but I wonder how the movie would play with it occurring right after the intermission, as originally planned. In any case, an 8/10 all the way. Updated list! 1. Marathon Man - I've seen endless parodies of this, but I've never actually seen it. Also, Roy Schieder impresses me in everything I've seen him in. 2. Hour of the Wolf - Loved The Seventh Seal and Persona, so I think it's about time for some more Bergman. 3. 4. Matinee - As a William Castle fan, this sounds right up my alley. 5. Butch Cassidy and the Sunday Kid - Watched The Sting a few months ago and really enjoyed it. Paul Newman and Robert Redford can't be beat! 6. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - Always been interested in this. 7. Alice - I'm always down for a spin on Alice In Wonderland. Little Otik was okay, but this looks like it focuses more on the stop motion element. 8. Barfly - I've enjoyed the Bukowski that I've read, and it's been sitting on my hard drive for a while. 9. All the President's Men - Love political thriller movies, but somehow have never seen this. 10. The Driver - Heard this movie was a huge inspiration for Drive, which I loved.
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I'm really partial to Roy Scheider after seeing The French Connection recently, so it's Marathon Man for you, melvin. I enjoyed 2001 more now that I have a bit more patience. It's one of the most visually stunning movies I've seen, and all the aesthetic creativity was more than well matched by the epic scale of the story. I guess mankind came across as the most interesting character. There was something almost endearing about the portrayal of our curiosity, as if we're really no smarter now than we were 4 million years ago. HAL is such an amazing character too, the turnabout he does towards the end from lord of the realm to almost regretful lover ("I can change!") was one of my favorite moments. I don't really know what to make of the ending, but I'm sure it's something that I will think about for the next days. Probably my favorite Kubrick movie yet, although I have one or two left. I'd love to know how they created some of those shots, is there some sort of source for this? Need to see: 1. Trafic - I've seen Mr Hulot's Holiday and Playtime, but never this. My grandma's a big fan of Tati, so I should. 2. WarGames - Dr Strangelove for the Brat Pack generation? Interesting premise anyway. 3. Dark City - I've thought about seeing this so many times, but I never seem to be in the mood. 4. Fantastic Planet - Some really groovy animation and a score by Alain Goraguer. Sounds amazing. 5. The Departed - I sometimes get Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio mixed up, so this looks like a nightmare. 6. Almost Famous - Movies about music is a favorite genre of mine, so this should be great. 7. Doctor Zhivago - Omar Sharif is a very handsome man. 8. The Day the Earth Stood Still - Have to start somewhere with the early sci-fi classics. 9. The Night of the Hunter - The stuff I've heard about this ranges from 'intense' to 'silly'. Figured I should give it a try myself. 10. A Streetcar Named Desire - I started watching this, but halfway through I managed to slice my palm open with a fruit knife and had to leave to get stitches. Have seen: Chinatown, North By Northwest, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Persona, Easy Rider, Casablanca, City of God, Predator, Modern Times, Amadeus, Hoop Dreams, The Hustler, The Apartment, Punch Drunk Love, Hard Eight, The French Connection, Pleasantville, Citizen Kane, 2001
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Well here's a good page on some of the effects. What effects in particular are you wondering about? There was a lot of double-exposure, front-projection, and motorized tracking used (the miniature stuff was shot super-slow, too, which is why it looks so real).
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Feb 9, 2012 01:11
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Thanks for the link, it looks like just what I wanted. I can't single out any scene in particular, just that I thought of the mechanics behind shoots more than I use to. e.  quote:During the filming of what are probably best termed the "psychedelic" effects for the end sequence, we all joked that "2001" would probably attract a great number of "Hippies" out to get the trip of their lives. It seems now that what was once a joke is fast becoming reality, and as of this writing, I understand that each showing draws an increasing number of these people, who would probably prefer to just see the last two reels over and over again. MIDWIFE CRISIS fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Feb 9, 2012 |
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Feb 9, 2012 01:23
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Admiral Goodenough posted:Thanks for the link, it looks like just what I wanted. I can't single out any scene in particular, just that I thought of the mechanics behind shoots more than I use to. An absolutely incredible amount of thought went into the principles behind everything, too (the only thing they didn't anticipate: software). Hal's Legacy is a really cool book on the feasibility of HAL
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penismightier posted:An absolutely incredible amount of thought went into the principles behind everything, too (the only thing they didn't anticipate: software). Hal's Legacy is a really cool book on the feasibility of HAL This looks fascinating, I'm going to see if I can find a used copy somewhere. Is the sequel worth a watch?
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Feb 9, 2012 02:21
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Admiral Goodenough posted:This looks fascinating, I'm going to see if I can find a used copy somewhere. It's not even, like, a quarter of the movie the first one is, but yeah it's worth a watch. Some interesting ideas and good performances in it.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:This looks fascinating, I'm going to see if I can find a used copy somewhere. What Penis said. Roy Scheider stars in it, too, and has one of his better performances.
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Admiral Goodenough, your movie is The Day The Earth Stood Still -- it's a great example of sci-fi as social commentary, and as such has held up impressively well (especially compared to the recent remake, which screwed up the film's whole message). Tokyo Story was an excellent movie, but has a very subdued pace, and at something like 2h12m in length it was a bit of an effort to get through. It's a simple tale about an aging Japanese couple who travels to Tokyo for a few days to visit their adult children. Most of the movie consists of quiet little scenes of everyday life, making smalltalk and fussing over the details of the daily routine. In other words, the sort of things that get streamlined out of other movies. But it's all very well observed, and after all, this sort of milling about is how people do spend much of their time, and there's a lot that's quietly revealed about the characters through their mannerisms. The visual style is simultaneously stylized and naturalistic, with lots of beautifully composed shots of Japanese domestic life. Most shots are at a fairly low angle (the same height as a viewer sitting on the floor), which takes a little getting used to, but is an effective technique. The film (released in 1953) can also be seen as a look at the transition between traditional Japanese culture and industrial/postwar society -- this theme is established right from the opening montage, with scenes of nature and traditional architecture beautifully juxtaposed with railways and new urban structures. It's a sad movie (it really captures the sort of claustrophobic awkwardness that can accompany visiting with one's parents as an adult) but there's also a lot of tenderness. UPDATED LIST: 1. Fallen Angel - I'm not sure I've seen any Preminger other than Laura, which is one of my favorite noirs, so this sounds like a good next step. 2. Querelle - I don't think I've seen any Fassbinder, and I'm interested in queer cinema; I was going to watch this with my housemate but he moved before I got a chance to. 3. Bringing Out The Dead - One of the handful of Scorsese films I haven't seen; I haven't heard much about it but it has Nic Cage so why not. 4. Howards End - A Merchant Ivory film with Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave doing E.M. Forster? Surely this is worth my time. 5. Grey Gardens - Looks like it could be an interesting documentary, I don't know much about it except for the basic premise. 6. 3 Women - I love Altman and this is about the only high-profile Altman film on my to-watch list. 7. Red Sorghum - Zhang Yimou is one of my favorite directors and this was his first film. 8. Harlan County, USA - Picked up the Criterion on sale ages ago, haven't gotten around to it yet. 9. A Dangerous Method - This sounds like such weird territory for a Cronenberg film. 10. Day of Wrath - Dreyer is my favorite silent film director (not that I've seen a ton of silents) and I'm curious to see what he can do with talkies. WATCHED: Rules of the Game (5/5), The 400 Blows (5/5), The Woman in the Window (2/5), A Mighty Wind (4/5), The Aviator (4/5), The Night Porter (5/5), Dr. Strangelove (5/5) Tokyo Story (4/5) h_double fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Feb 9, 2012 |
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Glad to hear you liked Tokyo Story, h_double. I haven't actually seen any of the movies on your current list, but I'll give you Quarelle since it's the only one I haven't heard of. I enjoyed Marathon Man. It's a solid seventies style thriller. Hoffman, Scheider, and Olivier give great performances, but William Devane kind of sucks as the cop. I wasn't digging the score, either. The strange synthesizer stuff didn't seem to fit the movie and took me out of it. Some great cinematography and writing, though. 7/10 Updated list! 1. 2. Hour of the Wolf - Loved The Seventh Seal and Persona, so I think it's about time for some more Bergman. 3. High Noon - Big western fan, but somehow this has slipped under my radar. 4. Matinee - As a William Castle fan, this sounds right up my alley. 5. Butch Cassidy and the Sunday Kid - Watched The Sting a few months ago and really enjoyed it. Paul Newman and Robert Redford can't be beat! 6. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - Always been interested in this. 7. Alice - I'm always down for a spin on Alice In Wonderland. Little Otik was okay, but this looks like it focuses more on the stop motion element. 8. Barfly - I've enjoyed the Bukowski that I've read, and it's been sitting on my hard drive for a while. 9. All the President's Men - Love political thriller movies, but somehow have never seen this. 10. The Driver - Heard this movie was a huge inspiration for Drive, which I loved.
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melvinthemopboy3 posted:9. All the President's Men - Love political thriller movies, but somehow have never seen this. For my assignment, I watched The Wages of Fear. I loved it! The striking photography caught my attention immediately, and the town felt really vibrant and full of activity. The candid and unpredictable characters added a large amount of depth to the atmosphere. And when the action started heating up, it kept the tension high right up to the finish. I don't want to say too much about it, because it's best to know as little as possible going in. Put it on your list if you haven't seen it! 1. Anatomy of a Murder - I like Preminger's Laura and The Man with the Golden Arm, and Jimmy Stewart rules. 2. Band of Outsiders - I don't know what this is about, but I like Godard's avant garde approach to just about any topic. 3. Barry Lyndon - The last big Kubrick I have yet to check out. I know I will like it, what I don't know is why I've put it off for so long. 4. Closely Watched Trains - I'm not sure what it's about, I assume there's a train involved. It's on the Time 100 Movies list so it must be good. 5. Mulholland Dr - Lynch fascinates me, I've seen Eraserhead, Dune, and Blue Velvet, and they were all extremely creative and unique, weirdness notwithstanding. 6. Kind Hearts and Coronets - I don't know anything about this one either, but it does seem to show up frequently in great movies lists. 7. Pather Panchali - I haven't seen any Satyajit Ray films, but I read once that he influenced Wes Anderson, which is a huge draw for me. 8. Solaris - If it's anything like Stalker (one of my favorite movies) I'm sure I'll enjoy it. 9. The Crowd - Supposed to be one of the best silent films. Also directed by a king, but I'm not sure which country he ran. 10. Wings of Desire - The synopsis sounds really promising. Plus, a black and white film made in 1987 really piques my interest.
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fenix down posted:Barry Lyndon - The last big Kubrick I have yet to check out. I know I will like it, what I don't know is why I've put it off for so long. You won't regret this. Having initially seen the previews for this in theaters as a kid I had the impression it was a long, slow, boring and ponderous historical epic. It's long, but there's nothing boring or ponderous about it, and it's one of the most beautiful films you'll ever see. For my assignment I saw "Harold and Maude", which is one of those cult-y classics that was a midnight movie feature around my college campus that was always showing but I never got around to seeing. I really liked it. Quirky film about a strange, morbid sperglord, played by Bud Cort, who spends his time attending strangers' funerals, and staging mock suicides around the house for his mother to see. He makes an unusual friendship with an old lady who shares his hobby of attending funerals, but basically shows him how to enjoy life. Perfect soundtrack of Cat Stevens songs including a couple that were apparently written specifically for the film. Having finally seen this I think it was probably a huge influence on Wes Anderson, especially on "Rushmore" which seems to go for a similar mood and pace and actually has a significant amount of Cat Stevens on its soundtrack. One moment that really won me over was a scene late in the film where Harold and Maude are spending time together and he catches a glimpse of a concentration camp number tattooed on her arm. Some films might have had some explanation or even a flashback sequence covering this. There's never any discussion or explanation at all, it's just there. Sunshine - Love Danny Boyle, love sci-fi, not sure how well they mix, just never got around to watching it. Y Tu Mama Tambien - Had started watching this a couple of times, liked it but just hadn't made it through. Un Chien Andalou - legendary surrealist stuff that I just haven't gotten around to watching. The Battleship Potemkin - Old classic I just haven't gotten around to. The Third Man The 39 Steps Quills - Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade. Really, what's not to like? Super Troopers - is this actually funny or is it more that everyone who saw it was high at the time? Hobo With a Shotgun - is this actually any good, or is it more the idea of Rutger Hauer as a hobo, with a shotgun? The House of the Devil - I don't know too much about this one except I've seen some good notices on these forums, and I'm always up for any decent horror film. Watched: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Brick, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Harold and Maude
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Zwabu posted:The Third Man It's a classic! Watched the whole The Apu Trilogy, that is Pather Panchali, Aparajito and World of Apu. It's amazingly consistent as a trilogy, the only low point would be Aparajito and would still be hard to call it anything else other than a great film. My favourite of the three is World of Apu, even though it's the one that has the most abrasive emotional manipulative moments, but everything about it is s sharp and well directed, the romance parts were great and of course that ending makes the whole journey through Apu's life worth it. Pather Panchali comes a very close second, not as tight but equally beauty and a devastating emotional experience. Aparajito tries to cover some of the same points and beats of Pather Panchali but doesn't quite hit them with the same intensity, it did have my favourite shot of the whole trilogy, when Apu comes home after receiving the letter that his mother ill, then it clicks in his head that she is gone and he just curls up crying in the dirt. Of all the deaths in Apu life's that was the hardest to watch for me. And boy everyone dies around this guy. Good thing there isn't a fourth part so his kid could die in some horrible disease too. Was half expecting that really, when the grandfather mentions that the boy is feverish. Anyway, the whole trilogy is amazing and beautiful experience it feels so authentic at times and it just gets under you. Shame about the DvD quality, which was all over the place. These films deserve much more. SHAME: Richard III Long Live King McKellen! L'Âge d'or Not really knowing where to start with Luis Buñuel, I'll go from the beginning.(I watched Un Chien Andalou) The Dead The last film John Huston made. Mr. Hulot's Holiday Keeping up with the physical comedy hour. Samurai Rebellion Want to watch more Kobayashi before getting around to The Human Condition. Cobra Verde More Kinski+Herzog insanity. Dersu Uzala Kurosawa goes Soviet. Leningrad Cowboys Go America Road trip! The Age of Innocence Romantic Scorsese? The Man Who Knew Too Much Alfred Hitchcock remakes Alfred Hitchcock. Have watched so far 62 movies: Barton Fink, Sweet Smell of Success, The 400 Blows, Rocky, Videodrome, Charade, The Double Life of Veronique, Ace in the Hole, Easy Rider, Dark City, Gosford Park, Seven, Hard Boiled, Mystic River, The Magnificent Ambersons, Midnight Cowboy, A Serious Man, A Hard Day's Night, Manhattan, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hamlet, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The New World, Carlos, Blood Simple, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Gangs of New York, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Burn After Reading, Mesrine:Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy nrº1, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Wild Strawberries, Repulsion, The Long Good Friday, Island of Lost Souls, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom, Beauty and the Beast, Zodiac, After Hours, Nights of Cabiria, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Encounters at the End of the World, The Cameraman, Hard Eight, The Purple Rose of Cairo, My Darling Clementine, The Virgin Spring, Dodes'ka-den, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Chimes at Midnight, Miller's Crossing, Wild at Heart, Hausu, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Shame, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, World of Apu.
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Electronico6, prepare yourself for Cobra Verde, which doesn't quite measure up to Aguirre, but is still a fantastic film. Fassbinder's Querelle was really interesting. Based on the Jean Genet novel, it's the story of a shifting web of homoerotic relationships amongst the sailors and stonemasons who inhabit the docks of the French port of Brest. The movie takes place around the Hotel Feria Bar, "the raunchiest whorehouse in the world", where customers have to play dice with the owner, the hulking stallion Nono. If they win, they get the pick of the girls; if they lose, they get hosed by Nono instead. It feels like if Tom of Finland made a film noir, and then somebody filmed a stage adaptation of it. The whole thing takes place on just a handful of sets, all strangely lit with a dreamy palette of oranges and yellows, populated by beautiful and dangerous specimens of masculinity. The only female character is Lysiane (played by Jeanne Moreau when she was in her late 50s), the regal but vain and insecure wife of Nono. Her lover is Robert, whose brother Querelle is a sailor newly arrived in port, and an elaborate web of intrigue and betrayal soon begins to form. The film is a great (and very sexy) examination of the dynamics of male-male sexuality, a world that's simultaneously lustful and philosophical, where there's a strange distant balance between pleasure and love, where tenderness and aggression can weirdly blend together, especially in the rough trade world depicted here. The whole movie has an air of emotional distance, and Querelle is especially unsympathetic, but as a whole it's an alluring and fascinating thing to behold. I also love the soundtrack, which alternates between eerie choral/organ music and gypsy jazz, with a recurring theme of Lysiane singing a song about how "each man kills the thing he loves". UPDATED LIST: 1. Fallen Angel - I'm not sure I've seen any Preminger other than Laura, which is one of my favorite noirs, so this sounds like a good next step. 2. The Magnificent Ambersons - I think this is the only major Orson Welles film I haven't seen. 3. Bringing Out The Dead - One of the handful of Scorsese films I haven't seen; I haven't heard much about it but it has Nic Cage so why not. 4. Howards End - A Merchant Ivory film with Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave doing E.M. Forster? Surely this is worth my time. 5. Grey Gardens - Looks like it could be an interesting documentary, I don't know much about it except for the basic premise. 6. 3 Women - I love Altman and this is about the only high-profile Altman film on my to-watch list. 7. Red Sorghum - Zhang Yimou is one of my favorite directors and this was his first film. 8. Harlan County, USA - Picked up the Criterion on sale ages ago, haven't gotten around to it yet. 9. A Dangerous Method - This sounds like such weird territory for a Cronenberg film. 10. Day of Wrath - Dreyer is my favorite silent film director (not that I've seen a ton of silents) and I'm curious to see what he can do with talkies. WATCHED: Rules of the Game (5/5), The 400 Blows (5/5), The Woman in the Window (2/5), A Mighty Wind (4/5), The Aviator (4/5), The Night Porter (5/5), Dr. Strangelove (5/5), Tokyo Story (4/5), Querelle (4/5) h_double fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Feb 11, 2012 |
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h_double posted:10. Day of Wrath - Dreyer is my favorite silent film director (not that I've seen a ton of silents) and I'm curious to see what he can do with talkies. Haven't seen any of your ten. My die told me this one. Chicago - I watched the Razzle-Dazzle edition of the DVD. The editing on this was so frenetic my head was spinning. It seemed like it was one minute of dialogue then a five minute song and dance number over and over. That's a ratio that I've never liked in films. I did like the scene where Richard Gere tapdanced for about 5 minutes. The style and subject reminded me a lot of the No Doubt "It's My Life" cover (other movie references as well): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubvV498pyIM IMDb list: #194 Mary and Max - Never heard of it. I just looked it up and it's about clay people. Hopefully it lives up to Gumby's standard. 6/22/11 #219 Drive - Another now out on DVD. The general public won't stop talking about this one. 2/7/12 #247 3 Idiots - Read some reviews but that's all. 1/17/12 #256 Before Sunrise - Relatively recent and I haven't even heard of it. 12/29/11 #264 Duck Soup - I haven't seen a Marx brothers film. Another one of those SHAMEFUL oversights. 2/1/12 Academy Award for Best Picture: 1985 Out of Africa - Can't say I know anything about it. 12/29/11 1980 Ordinary People - Heard of it but haven't seen it. 2/1/12 1971 The French Connection - I know Gene Hackman is in this. Only best picture from the 70s I haven't seen. 2/1/121968 Oliver! - I'm a little familiar with the story. 2/7/12 new 1967 In the Heat of the Night - I remember the TV series vaguely. Not sure if it's related to the film at all. 2/10/12
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Zogo posted:Chicago - I watched the Razzle-Dazzle edition of the DVD. The editing on this was so frenetic my head was spinning. It seemed like it was one minute of dialogue then a five minute song and dance number over and over. That's a ratio that I've never liked in films. Rob Marshall did the same to Nine. That guy needs to stay the hell away from musicals in general. I get the music-to-dialogue ratio because Chicago on-stage is in the style of vaudeville so it's almost entirely ironic (it's way sharper and meaner than the film, too) and that wouldn't work on-film, or at least not in a Big Hollywood Film, but yeah, some scenes are like a cut every second.
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Zogo posted:1971 The French Connection - I know Gene Hackman is in this. Only best picture from the 70s I haven't seen. Ikiru is essentially Carpe Diem: The Movie, but it's not quite as maudlin as I'm making it out to be, though there still is some excess sentiment. I blame it on Takashi Shimura's wet, puppy-dog eyes that he flaunted just a bit too often. The constantly arched back was a nice touch, I'll give him credit for that. Anyway... the first part of the movie that focused on Watanabe trying find meaning in his life was overall pretty good, not great, with the exception of both the first Life is Brief scene and a dinner date scene that impressively used deep focus to comment on the action in the foreground (though I think Kurosawa was being too clever/cute by half by alluding to it in the very next scene). The second part was structurally interesting but maybe overlong. I will say that the second Life is Brief scene should rightfully be remembered as one of the greatest moments in the history of the cinema. I don't really mind that scene's placement in the story because I felt the ending was simultaneously (and satisfyingly) cynical and hopeful in that Kurosawa way, if that makes sense. 3 Women - More Altman that's available to me, hooray Ace in the Hole - Vicious Billy Wilder satire? Sign me up! L'Avventura - I love L'Eclisse, so let's see the film that made Antonioni a force in world cinema. An Autumn Afternoon - I've burned through nearly all of the single Ozu releases, as well as the Silent and Late Ozu boxsets. Let's finish up what I have (until I inevitably buy that combo-pack of The Only Son/There Was a Father). Cutter's Way - A critic I enjoy reading said this was his favorite film of the 80s. I probably won't agree with him, but it's obscurity intrigues me and hey, Jeff Bridges. The Magnificent Ambersons - Welles is always worth a watch, even if compromised. My Dinner with Andre - I blind-bought this before the Community episode.  Rashomon - I really haven't seen much of major Kurosawa. The Thin Red Line - I'll have technically seen all of Malick's features once I see this. Wooden Crosses - I blind-bought the Bernard Eclipse set on the basis that this obscure French film about WWI was some kind of hidden gem. Now, I'll be motivated to see if this was true or not. Shameless: Days of Heaven, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Sansho the Bailiff
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a radii hike posted:L'Avventura - I love L'Eclisse, so let's see the film that made Antonioni a force in world cinema. Let me know how this is. I'm trying to expand my knowledge of Italian cinema. Ah, M. I have seen segments of your camerawork in clips and screenshots but this was the first time I saw it all put together. It’s exactly how I expected it would be, given how it set the example of fearing what isn’t in the frame. It’s amazing what can be implied without showing it, and Fritz Lang is spectacular at conveying it. He is also a master when it comes to suspense, which is as great in this film as it was in Nosferatu. 8/10 1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – I saw this streaming on IMDB one day and started to watch it, then realized it was like 2 in the morning and I didn’t want to be super scared. 2. Se7en (1995) – Seeing the name immediately made it lose its appeal when I scanned through titles many years ago, however, it is apparently very good. 3. The Usual Suspects (1995) – I saw this many years ago and didn’t like it and I would like to give it another go, my head being clearer now than at the time I saw it. 4. Casablanca(1942) – As someone who hopes to eventually work in film (or TV) I should know the classics! 5. Memento (2000) – I never really heard of any of the actors, but I’m starting to like Mark Boone Junior and the scumbags he plays in Batman Begins and Sons of Anarchy. 6. Taxi Driver (1976) – I love Scorsese and can’t believe this has slipped past my radar for so long. 7. NEW The Sting (1973) – I saw this twice when I was younger but I have no recollection of the plot besides the fact that there’s a sting.  8. Cinema Paradiso(1988) – I’m Italian and I’m taking a course on its cinema, but it doesn’t go much past neorealism and the 70s. 9. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – Apparently older Simpsons episodes are riddled with references from Dr. Strangelove and I am missing out! 10. Fargo (1996) – I love crime dramas and thriller type movies/shows and Steve Buscemi is just so cool. This also reminds me that I have to watch Boardwalk Empire now that I’m finished with The Sopranos. CHALLENGES COMPLETED: M (1931): 8/10 (Grand total: 1)
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gco, you have a lot of great picks there, but you should watch Fargo because I'm not going to pass up the chance to make somebody watch a Coen bros. film. Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag) is a 1943 film by Danish director Carl Theodore Dreyer. It takes place in a small town in Denmark in 1632, where an old woman is accused of witchcraft. She goes to hide in the rectory overseen by the pastor Absalon, who is a widower, remarried to the much younger Anne (Lisbeth Movin, who reminds me of a Nordic version of Aubrey Plaza). On the same day, Martin (Absalon's grown son from his previous marriage) comes to visit, to meet his new "mother" who is younger than himself. This is a fantastic psychological drama interwoven with a grimly gothic depiction of the witch hunts. I don't want to talk too much about the story (which was supposedly based on actual events), but it puts the viewer in the period mindset (where witchcraft was absolutely taken seriously as a real thing) while also making universally relevant observations about faith, loyalty, and love. The cinematography is gorgeous and the whole production reminds me a lot of Bergman in places (I'm curious if Bergman ever talked about being influenced by Dreyer). It's also worth noting that this film was made when Denmark was under Nazi occupation, which adds another layer to the themes of persecution here. UPDATED LIST: 1. Fallen Angel - I'm not sure I've seen any Preminger other than Laura, which is one of my favorite noirs, so this sounds like a good next step. 2. The Magnificent Ambersons - I think this is the only major Orson Welles film I haven't seen. 3. Bringing Out The Dead - One of the handful of Scorsese films I haven't seen; I haven't heard much about it but it has Nic Cage so why not. 4. Howards End - A Merchant Ivory film with Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave doing E.M. Forster? Surely this is worth my time. 5. Grey Gardens - Looks like it could be an interesting documentary, I don't know much about it except for the basic premise. 6. 3 Women - I love Altman and this is about the only high-profile Altman film on my to-watch list. 7. Red Sorghum - Zhang Yimou is one of my favorite directors and this was his first film. 8. Harlan County, USA - Picked up the Criterion on sale ages ago, haven't gotten around to it yet. 9. A Dangerous Method - This sounds like such weird territory for a Cronenberg film. 10. Ordet - Ready for some more Dreyer, this was probably his biggest non-silent film. WATCHED: Rules of the Game (5/5), The 400 Blows (5/5), The Woman in the Window (2/5), A Mighty Wind (4/5), The Aviator (4/5), The Night Porter (5/5), Dr. Strangelove (5/5), Tokyo Story (4/5), Querelle (4/5), Day of Wrath (5/5)
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The Man from Nowhere is pretty good, I guess. It's loaded HARD in cliches, and for much of it the lead motherfucker is just so doofy looking with his silly hair. There's some good action scenes, though. It's the kind of movie I'd have been all over if it were on TNT in the '90s. h_double, give 3 Woman a whirl. New list: new: The Whole Shootin' Match This is another one of those ones that I'm really intrigued by but somehow am never in the mood for. The Darjeeling Limited I have never enjoyed a Wes Anderson movie, but I feel obligated to watch them. Deep Red Two hour version or hour and a half version? Senso Always up for a melodrama. Man's Castle Borzage crazy. My Brother's Wedding So there's a director's cut that's like a half hour shorter? Which should I see? Ils or The Strangers Hear good stuff about these two, but French extremism turns me off. Apocalypto This is good, right? Montenegro or Sweet Movie I loved WR and the Eclipse set, but I've avoided Sweet Movie because I heard it sucks and Montenegro because the poster is crap. Szerelem This looks fantastic, but somehow I can't get myself to sit down for it. Finished from this thread: Au Hasard Balthazar (8/10), In the Mood for Love (8.5/10), La Dolce Vita (6.5/10), Anatomy of Murder (9/10), The Grand Illusion (9/10), Ben-Hur (8.5/10), Gone with the Wind (9/10), Black Orpheus (8/10), The Departed (4/10), Midnight Cowboy (5/10), The Red Shoes (9.5/10), Harvey (8.5/10), M. Hulot's Holiday (7.5/10), Trouble in Paradise (8/10), Ugetsu Monogatari (8/10), All That Heaven Allows (9.5/10), Blow-Up (8/10), If... (8/10), The Bad & The Beautiful (7.5/10). Autumn Sonata (9/10), Harold and Maude (3.5/10), L'Atalante (8/10), Anticipation of the Night (8.5/10), Cleo from 5 to 7 (8/10), Wavelength (7/10), Saddle the Wind (7/10), Partie de campagne (7.5/10), My Neighbor Totoro (7/10), Shadows (8/10), Odd Man Out (8/10), Don't Look Now (8/10), Dead Ringers (7.5/10), Written on the Wind (8.5/10), My Winnipeg (8/10), On Dangerous Ground (8.5/10), The King of Comedy (8.5/10), Berlin Express (7/10), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (8.5/10), 3 Women (8.5/10). Harakiri (9.5/10), Zelig (7.5/10), Veronika Voss (7.5/10), Late Spring (8/10), Soldier of Orange (7/10), Vivre Sa Vie (8.5/10), The American Friend (7.5/10), The Endless Sumer (7.5/10), Yesterday Girl (7.5/10), Battleground (8/10), Two-Lane Blacktop (8/10), Chimes at Midnight (9/10), Trash Humpers (6/10), The Docks of New York (9/10), The Fallen Idol (9/10), Fires on the Plain (9/10), Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (7.5/10), The Americanization of Emily (8.5/10), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (8/10), The Mirror (8.5/10), The Thin Man (8.5/10), Danger: Diabolik (7.5/10), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (7.5/10), Black God White Devil (8/10), Little Fugitive (8/10), Drunken Angel (7.5/10), Funeral Parade of Roses (9/10), How to Train Your Dragon (8/10), Across 110th Street (7.5/10), The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (8/10), The Wind (8.5), Portrait of Jennie (7/10), Primer (8/10), To Catch a Thief (8/10), The Fantastic Mr. Fox (4/10), Getrud (8.5/10), Our Hospitality (9/10), Les Diaboliques (8/10), The Awful Truth (8/10), Duel in the Sun (6.5/10), A Guy Named Joe (6/10), Quiet City (5/10), People on Sunday (8.5/10), Nothing but a Man (8.5/10), Spring Summer Winter Fall and Spring (8/10), Comradship (7.5/10), Too Early, Too Late (4/10), Wooden Crosses (7.5/10), White Zombie (8.5/10), No Highway in the Sky (8/10), The Wanderers (8.5/10), My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (7/10), Our Town (9/10), The Winning of Barbara Worth (8/10), Red Riding 1974 (7/10), Grand Hotel (8/10), Rapt (8/10), The Champ (7/10), Red Beard (8.5/10), Rendez-vous d'Anna (8/10), Two Thousand Maniacs! (7/10), The Old Dark House (7.5/10), The Tarnished Angels (8/10), Ordet (9/10), Pigs and Battleships (8/10), The Naked City (8/10), The Ninth Configuration (4/10), Sling Blade (8.5/10), Le Trou (8.5/10), I Know Where I'm Going! (7.5/10), The Hangover (7.5/10), Body Heat (7.5/10), Night Moves (8.5/10), The Earrings of Madame De... (8/10), Toto, Peppino, e la Malafemmina (7/10), Short Cuts (9/10), The Mystery of Picasso (8/10), The Wisdom of Crocodiles (6.5/10), To Be or Not to Be (9/10), Barfly (5.5/10), Billy Liar (8/10), Hana-bi (7.5/10), The Fighter (8/10), Cop Land (8/10), Cairo Station (8.5/10), Beware of a Holy Whore (8/10) That Obscure Object of Desire (8.5/10), The Structure of Crystals (8.5/10), Farewell, My Lovely (8/10), The Blue Angel (7.5.10), Amadeus (8/10), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (8.5/10), Mike's Murder (8/10), I Saw the Devil (7/10), Advise and Consent (8/10), Little Man, What Now? (8.5/10), Outrage (7.5/10), Electra Glide in Blue (8/10), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (8/10), The Man from Nowhere (7/10) Total: 139 Best: All That Heaven Allows Worst: Harold and Maude
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penismightier- Mel Gibson's career is so tainted, and Apocalypto came out during one of the periods where he was getting a lot of negative press, so I think many overlooked this one. It's very entertaining though, hope you like it. Watched Barry Lyndon: The movie is very epic to look at. I enjoyed when the camera would pull back to reveal this beautiful landscape. The movie itself wasn't completely my cup of tea though. I can't point to anything specific as to why I didn't love it, its parts were good, but I think as a whole it just didn't fit my taste. Very beautiful movie to look at though. Side note, I had a HELL of a time trying to get a copy. My local library didn't have it, so I had to interloan it from another. I requested it twice, and somehow both times it got "lost" somehow, not sure what happened, but when I went to pick it up it was gone. I finally asked my wife to request it, since she has better luck at it then I do, and she got it in a week. I missed participating, glad to be back! My new list: 1. Dial M for Murder: I'm a big Hitchcock fan, but never saw this one. 2. The Lives of Others: I have never heard of it before, but it appears to have a high rating on IMDB. 3. The Hustler: More Paul Newman 4. City Lights: More Chaplin 5. Some Like It Hot: More Billy Wilder 6. Gandhi: Never got around to it 7. In Bruges: I know nothing about this, but it seems to be highly rated. 8. The Deer Hunter: Just never saw it 9. Ben Hur: Another long epic I'm afraid of 10. Spartacus: Another Kubrick I have never seen Already watched: Jaws, Scenes From a Marriage, The Searchers, Fanny and Alexander, Sawdust and Tinsel, Stagecoach, Silence of the Lambs, Modern Times, Do the Right Thing, Schindler's List, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Magnolia, La Strada, Die Hard, Persona, Aliens, The Great Escape, Cool Hand Luke, 400 Blows, Lawrence of Arabia, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Network, The Great Dictator, The Elephant Man, To Kill a Mockingbird, Amadeus, The Big Sleep, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Killing, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 8 1/2, Rosemary's Baby, Exorcist, All About Eve, The Apartment, Barry Lyndon zandert33 fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Feb 12, 2012 |
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zandert33, watch Spartacus.  Vertical Ray of the Sun Well, I wasn't bored, but I wasn't exactly enamoured either. It's a very pretty film, and the melancholy mood, helped along by the soundtrack and and visual style, was definitely the highlight. Even when I wasn't really understanding what was going on I had an emotional understanding of the characters, which is quite a feat. Unfortunately, that lack of understanding on the narrative side got frustrating as things went on. Maybe part of it is the subs, but I suspect it's the editing. It starts comparing and contrasting a bit too early, before clearly establishing the characters, so I ended up spending the time keeping track of who everyone was and their relationships rather than understanding their dramatic arcs in the context of the film. Because the actual story isn't all that important, this wasn't a particularly fruitful tradeoff. I still got quite a bit from it, but I feel like a rewatch would be much more rewarding when I can focus on the emotional aspect of the film. Updated list: Possession Not sure why I have this on my need to see list actually. Maybe someone here recommended it? Seems like it could be brilliant or terrible. Twenty-Four Eyes Never seen a Kinoshita film. Seems like the place to start. Atanarjuat Been curious about this since it first came out, but 3 hours seems way too long. La belle noiseuse If it weren't 4 hours I would have seen it already. I've been meaning to put it on my list for a year but thought I'd get around to it on my own. Silver Lode Mr. Scorsese spoiled this movie's ending for me. I was hoping I'd forget but that's not going to happen. Stand and Deliver Teacher movies can be very hit or miss with me, but I've heard lots of praise for this. L'Enfance nue I don't know what this is about but I've heard it's good and the one Pialat film I've seen was excellent. Awaara An early Bollywood musical. One of the new entries on the TSPDT list. Zabriskie Point Antonioni is hit and miss with me, and this film seems to be hit and miss with others, so who knows what to expect. For the hell of it, here's what I've seen so far: Last Tango In Paris 7.5/10 , Lola Montes 8.5/10 , First Blood 8.5/10 , Lolita 8.5/10 , The New World 8.5/10 , The Decalogue 9.5/10 , Neotpravlennoye pismo 10/10 , A Passage to India 8.5/10 , Yi-Yi 8.5/10 , The Last Emperor 7.5/10 , In a Year with 13 Moons 8.5/10 , The Big Red One 8.5/10 , Les Vampires 9.5/10 , Ballad of a Soldier 9.5/10 , Chelsea Girls 7.5/10 , Kin-Dza-Dza 9/10 , My Life as a Dog 8/10 , The Man who Fell to Earth 8/10 , Red Beard 8.5/10 , Satantango 9/10 , Napoleon 10/10 , Faces 9/10 , Godzilla 7/10, Olympia I 9.5/10 II 8.5/10 , Bad Day at Black Rock 9/10, Soy Cuba 9.5/10, Ossessione 8/10, Greed 10/10, Hoop Dreams 9.5/10, The Burmese Harp 9.5/10 , Éloge de l'amour 6.5/10 , Woodstock 7.5/10 , Die Nibelungen Siegfried 9/10 Kriemhild 8.5/10, Ceddo 10/10 , Wrath of Khan - 7/10 , Shoah 9/10 , City of Sadness 8.5/10, Fires on the Plain 9/10 , Berlin Alexanderplatz 9/10 , Heima 6.5/10 , Angels with Dirty Faces 8.5/10 , Juliet 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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Twenty-Four Eyes Never seen a Kinoshita film. Seems like the place to start. This looks interesting. The Lives of Others - A fine story that builds on itself nicely until the last 15 minutes or so, where it then spends too much time neatly wrapping everything up. Also, the use of a couple convenient plot moments kinda dampened the impact of the story a little bit. All that is mostly nitpicking, though. It's still a great movie. 1. L'Atalante - Next highest on the They Shoot Pictures list. 2. Time of the Gypsies - One of my highest PSIs on Criticker but I never really see it talked about much. 3. 4. Cries and Whispers - I haven't been emotionally destroyed by a movie in a while, maybe this can do it for me. 5. Rififi - Heist films are pretty cool. 6. Army of Shadows - All I know about this is that it's bleak. Really bleak, apparently. 7. The Pianist - Next on the IMDb top 250. 8. It Happened One Night - Might as well put another Capra film here. 9. Casino - I saw this a looooooooong time ago and all I remember is a mannequin getting assassinated and I believe a watermelon is smashed with something metal at some point. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - This sounds pretty interesting, I suppose. Watched/Criticker Tier: The Seventh Seal 10, Moon 8, Barton Fink 10, The Thin Blue Line 9, Cool Hand Luke 9, Citizen Kane 10, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10, Rear Window 10, North by Northwest 9, Goodfellas 10, Casablanca 10, City Lights 8, Seven Samurai 10, Bicycle Thieves 9, Do the Right Thing 10, The Battle of Algiers 9, On the Waterfront 7, Wild Strawberries 10, The Trial 10, Adaptation 9, Unforgiven 10, Annie Hall 9, The 400 Blows 9, Diabolique 8, Mulholland Dr. 10, Dirty Harry 5, The 39 Steps 8, Aguirre: The Wrath of God 10, 8 1/2 9, Boogie Nights 9, A Streetcar Named Desire 7, Raiders of the Lost Ark 10, The General 9, Pickpocket 7, Pulp Fiction 10, Amadeus 10, Lawrence of Arabia 10, Eraserhead 8, The Lady Vanishes 8, The Wild Bunch 8, A Clockwork Orange 7, Platoon 7, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 9, Ikiru 10, Jules and Jim 10, The Asphalt Jungle 8, M 9, The Thin Red Line 9, Dial M for Murder 9, The Sting 8, Once Upon a Time in the West 9, The Exterminating Angel 9, A Woman Under the Influence 10, Singin' in the Rain 9, Scenes From a Marriage 10, Badlands 8, City of God 10, The Gold Rush 7, The Maltese Falcon 9, The Conformist 9, The Shawshank Redemption 8, High and Low 10, It's a Wonderful Life 7, Days of Heaven 9, Le Samourai 6, The Night of the Hunter 10, Metropolis 10, The New World 10, Persona 8, Manhattan 9, Some Like It Hot 7, The Rules of the Game 10, Nights of Cabiria 7, The Graduate 10, Pather Panchali 10, Punch-Drunk Love 9, Grand Illusion 8, The Hustler 8, The Great Escape 8, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 7, Memento 9, Forbidden Planet 7, Stagecoach 7, The Usual Suspects 6, The Big Sleep 8, Modern Times 7, Tokyo Story 9, Seven 9, The Searchers 6, The Battleship Potemkin 6, Videodrome 8, Léon: The Professional 6, American History X 4, The Grapes of Wrath 7, The Wages of Fear 9, Bonnie and Clyde 6, Mean Streets 8, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 8, American Beauty 6, The Great Dictator 7, Children of Paradise 10, La Dolce Vita 4, The Deer Hunter 8, Ben-Hur 5, Magnolia 9, Rushmore 10, MASH 4, Spirited Away 8, The Cranes Are Flying 9, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7, Sunrise 9, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 6, The Lives of Others 8 (Total: 113) Atheistdeals.com fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Feb 12, 2012 |
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Athiestdeals.com, give Casino a whirl, it's a super polished and entertaining movie. 3 Women is spectacular, one of Altman's better films, aided considerably by an amazing performance by Shelley Duvall. Duvall is Millie, who fancies herself the "thoroughly modern" sophisticate, whose ideas of fancy entertaining is pigs in a blanket and crackers with cheez whiz. She works as a physical therapist in a geriatric home, where she meets the shy, childlike Pinky (Sissy Spacek), who she takes on as a roommate. Pinky worships Millie, and tries fit into Millie's social life at Dodge City, an abandoned roadside tourist trap turned into a roadhouse, frequented by off-duty cops and dirt bikers. The bar is managed by Willie, an enigmatic pregnant woman who spends most of her time painting elaborate murals that vaguely resemble Australian aboriginal art. The film has a dreamlike tone, but Altman is a master of stories that have a light, meandering narrative while still being engrossing and packing a lot of emotional depth (and as usual for Altman, the incidental background dialogue is amazing). The heavy focus on Millie & Pinky is a change from his usual busy ensemble pieces, but they are rich and fascinating characters, and the film is full of beautiful 1970s detail; the use of color is particularly great. I really like this movie a lot. UPDATED LIST: 1. Fallen Angel - I'm not sure I've seen any Preminger other than Laura, which is one of my favorite noirs, so this sounds like a good next step. 2. The Magnificent Ambersons - I think this is the only major Orson Welles film I haven't seen. 3. Bringing Out The Dead - One of the handful of Scorsese films I haven't seen; I haven't heard much about it but it has Nic Cage so why not. 4. Howards End - A Merchant Ivory film with Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave doing E.M. Forster? Surely this is worth my time. 5. Grey Gardens - Looks like it could be an interesting documentary, I don't know much about it except for the basic premise. 6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Sounded like dull Oscar-bait when it came out, but the combo of Pitt + Blanchett + Fincher has got me intrigued. 7. Red Sorghum - Zhang Yimou is one of my favorite directors and this was his first film. 8. Harlan County, USA - Picked up the Criterion on sale ages ago, haven't gotten around to it yet. 9. A Dangerous Method - This sounds like such weird territory for a Cronenberg film. 10. Ordet - Ready for some more Dreyer, this was probably his biggest non-silent film. WATCHED: Rules of the Game (5/5), The 400 Blows (5/5), The Woman in the Window (2/5), A Mighty Wind (4/5), The Aviator (4/5), The Night Porter (5/5), Dr. Strangelove (5/5), Tokyo Story (4/5), Querelle (4/5), Day of Wrath (5/5), 3 Women (5/5)
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The scene that always comes back to me from 3 Women is when Pinky spills the cocktail sauce and Millie berates her for it. I don't know why. Something about that moment captures the film's entire essence.
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h_double posted:
Let's go with that one for you. I'm just gonna pick a bunch of stuff out of this stack of movies I haven't gotten to yet. 1. Black Hawk Down - My entire family has seen this and I vaguely remember one scene from it because it was so long ago, then I found it somewhere really cheap. 2. Dr. Strangelove - Metal Gear Solid 3 told me about this and who am I to question my favorite game, especially about black comedies? 3. Any Sean Connery Bond Movie - The collection showed up for Christmas, and I've only ever seen Casino Royale (good) and Quantum of Solace (disappointing). 4. A Fistful of Dollars - I've seen bits and pieces of probably every Eastwood western ever thanks to my dad, but never an entire one. Watching this will probably lead to me watching the entire Man With No Name Trilogy. 5. The Grudge - I love horror in just about every form, I was freaked out by The Ring way back when it was just released on DVD, and like with everything, I've heard mixed reviews on this one in particular. 6. Fern Gully - I saw Avatar back when it was in theaters, and now years later my friends tell me this is pretty much the same thing, but with fairies. I feel the need to pay my respects at some point to the source of a movie I liked. I buy way more movies than I've taken the time to watch, hopefully this changes that. To be honest, most of these boil down to me not being driven to watch them for some reason.
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