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Haha, I just noticed I got the title wrong and it's A Brighter Summer Day...I'm a dummy
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They actually discuss the grammar of that phrase in the movie.
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FancyMike posted:Gates of Heaven - documentaries Ratedargh posted:I haven't watched my movie yet, but I really wanted to just reply with my seconding of your love for this. I somehow never saw it until the Criterion release (despite having a VHS copy for years and my mom being a huge fan of it) and I was so happy when I finally watched it. It's incredibly layered. Watched it with my mom, and I think it was her first time seeing it since she was in her 20s or something. That was pretty cool. Gonna give this another spin, soon. Review: Paths of Glory (1957) I’m a little bit of a Kubrick skeptic, but his famously cold style pays off here. From the first scene, the movie is playing with heroism and the purity of intentions of the people who seem to possess it or who take pains to display it. Even the lead, played by Kirk Douglas, is ultimately ineffectual, and one wonders if the speeches and ‘heroic’ attempts to get the condemned men off the hook are ultimately performed for his own vanity. The big picture of war is truly horrific and kind of a dead-end for moral questions. Kubrick recognizes that and so a good portion of the movie is a lot like a flipped-on-its-end version of 12 Angry Men (also from 1957!). In my opinion, the absence of sentimentality makes Kubrick’s take on this kind of moral dilemma movie ring much more truly. LIST: 1. The Kid (1921): I loved both City Lights and Modern Times - Will I appreciate an earlier and probably blurrier Chaplin? (IMDb Top 250) 2. Triumph of the Will (1935): About Nazis. 3. Gaslight (1944): About lying to your wife. 4. Witness for the Prosecution (1957): Never heard of it. Barely familiar with Agatha Christie, even, outside of Murder on the Orient Express. (IMDb Top 250) 5. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968): Sergio’s Cowboys From the Sixties, one of my favorite genres. (IMDb top 250) 6. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975): About rich people. 7. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982): About childhood. 8. Fight Club (1999): When I was 18 or 19, I had a phase where I’d get very drunk to watch movies, remember about 5 minutes of the beginning and pass out before the third act. This is one of those movies. Other victims included North by Northwest, American Psycho, and 2001, but I’ve managed to rewatch those. (IMDb Top 250) 9. Gran Torino (2008): Not at all familiar with post-cowboy Eastwood, but I’ve heard good things. (IMDb Top 250) 10. Interstellar (2014): Caught the end of it on TV a couple summers ago. Can’t say I was too fond what I saw, but maybe I’ll appreciate the movie as a whole. (IMDb top 250) De-Shamed: Scarface (1983); The King of Comedy (1982); Taxi Driver (1976); Jackie Brown (1997); The Third Man (1949); Escape from New York (1981); Mean Streets (1973); The Panic in Needle Park (1971); Sunset Boulevard (1950); The Fury (1978); Raging Bull (1980); Laura (1944); Psycho (1960); Citizen Kane (1941); Flesh+Blood (1985); Seven Samurai (1954); The Godfather (1972); City Lights (1931); Blade Runner (1982); Sunrise (1927); Modern Times (1936); The Wizard of Oz (1939); GoodFellas (1990); A History of Violence (2005); No Country for Old Men (2007); Scanners (1981); Bicycle Thieves (1948); Metropolis (1927); Gone With the Wind (1939); Tokyo Story (1953); Do the Right Thing (1989); The Breakfast Club (1985); Get Out (2017); Strike (1925); Singin’ in the Rain (1952); Showgirls (1995); 8 ½ (1963); Fargo (1996); 12 Angry Men (1957); Nosferatu (1922); Her (2013); Rosemary’s Baby (1968); Paths of Glory (1957) the_tasman_series fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Nov 16, 2018 |
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Nov 16, 2018 21:21
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Magic Hate Ball posted:They actually discuss the grammar of that phrase in the movie. Seriously? That's pretty great! I hope I can set aside the time this coming week to watch it at some point.
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the_tasman_series posted:7. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982): About childhood. Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Part II Lost in America - The ethos of Easy Rider (1969) has been humorously transplanted into the 1980s. David Howard (Albert Brooks) is excited as he's on the cusp of a promotion. He's going to sell his house and buy an expensive new car. It turns out that his boss has other plans. Soon David is screaming and cursing since he's not getting promoted to Senior VP and has no desire to transfer to NYC. Fed up with the rat race he convinces his wife (Julie Hagerty) to also quit her job and they then basically both go off the deep end. One quite doesn't know if they've gone manic or just what's going on. It has funny lines and funny segments but it's so realistic that it veers into anti-comedy at times. It's a more realistic and thus bleaker take on National Lampoon's Vacation (1983). The film breaks rules with long dialogue scenes and moments where the camera follows the actors along uncomfortably without breaking the tension. I can't recall seeing any comedy film do these things. Also watched: Moonfleet - It's a concise story featuring a young protagonist going about in a grown-up world. John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) is young but he's a go-getter who stands up to all the adult crooks in his company. He befriends one of the villains and things play out from an uncommon perspective. Most films won't show a young kid cavorting with the bad guys like this. I was reminded of things like Oliver! (1968) and Barry Lyndon (1975) to name a couple and the more recent The Goonies (1985). I guess The Secret Garden (1993) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) could be thrown in there as well. Anyway, they set out to find a large valuable diamond and encounter various kinds of adversity. One highlight includes some swashbuckling against a guy wielding a giant halberd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0niSKfUJ1Q James Bond versus Godzilla (32/64 completed): Academy Award for Best Directing (90/91 completed): 1929 The Divine Lady - A love story of some sort. 2/27/18 Notebooks on Cinema's 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World (89/100 completed): #64 Mr. Verdoux - I haven't seen a Charles Chaplin film lately. 11/12/18 #71 A Day in the Country - I haven't seen a Jean Renoir film lately. 11/12/18 #83 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas - An island adventure. 10/20/18 #87 America America - I haven't seen an Elia Kazan film lately. 11/12/18 Netflix's 20 Years. 20 Movies. (18/20 completed): new 2014 The Monuments Men - Rescuing monuments during WWII. 11/17/18 2007 The Bucket List - I remember Roger Ebert raging about this one but that evidently didn't stop it from being the most popular rental of 2007. 8/27/18 Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years: (94/100 completed): #52 Zero for Conduct - Never had a strong urge to watch this one. 10/20/18 #67 Seven Beauties - Sounds like a fresh look at WWII for a change. 9/29/18 new #75 The Producers (1967) - I would've watched this years and years ago but it's been stuck on VERY LONG WAIT in my Netflix queue for as far back as I can remember. 11/17/18
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Zogo, watch The Producers. Stagecoach: This wasn’t quite what I was expecting. I had always thought this was more of an action movie than it is. It’s quite good though. I liked the interplay between the characters on the coach. The portrayal of Native Americans is obviously not great, but that’s a well trodden discussion. This film made John Wayne a star, but it’s overall more of an ensemble piece and it works well. The ending is a bit odd, since the shootout comes after the climactic battle with the Comanche. Pretty good movie. The List: 1. Tokyo Story: I don't really know anything about this but it's on a ton of lists. 2. Solaris: One good Tarkovsky deserves another. 3. Throne of Blood: Kurosawa doing MacBeth sounds dope NEW 4. McCabe and Mrs. Miller: Just making this my Western slot. 5. Lolita: This one seems essential but I can never work up the nerve 6. The Life Aquatic: I have never seen a Wes Anderson movie. 7. North Dallas Forty: I've been told that this is the best football movie ever made. I like football and movies. 8. The King's Speech: I borrowed this from the library a few weeks ago but the DVD was scratched and gave out halfway through. I liked what I did see, though. 9. The Man Who Wasn't There: This is my Coen slot now 10. Reds: This seems up my alley and I've been meaning to watch it for years and just haven't gotten to it. Watched (61): Goodfellas, Rear Window, Rashomon, The Searchers, Lawrence of Arabia, American Psycho, The Usual Suspects, L.A. Confidential, Unforgiven, Once Upon a Time in America, Blue Velvet, Schindler's List, Vertigo, First Blood, The Sting, Annie Hall, Twelve Monkeys, The Deer Hunter, Rain Man, Chinatown, Glengarry Glen Ross, Patton, Brazil, Casino, Scanners, Black Swan, Superman, Spartacus, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Seven Samurai, Double Indemnity, The Thing, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Badlands, Planet of the Apes, Shane, Léon: The Professional, Trainspotting, The Conversation, Miller's Crossing, A Fish Called Wanda, City of God, Psycho, Singin' in the Rain, Witness for the Prosecution, Se7en, The Wild Bunch, Oklahoma!, Cool Hand Luke, Paths of Glory, The Night of the Hunter, Blood Simple, Eyes Wide Shut, Memories of Murder, Sunset Boulevard, City Lights, The Artist, The Hudsucker Proxy, Stalker, Barry Lyndon, Stagecoach
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:2. Solaris: One good Tarkovsky deserves another. More memorable science fiction. The Producers - Zero Mostel plays a cynical and disheveled gigolo who has to scam a bevy of old widows. He reluctantly goes through the drudgery of role playing with these women for quick cash in a memorably long opening credits sequence. Anyway, I think most are familiar with the story. It has funny dialogue and funny gags throughout. It's 50+ years later and still funny. I was reminded of the spirit of things like South Park (1997-) and Dogma (1999) at times. Some of the stuff is guaranteed to offend some. I've always thought The Great Dictator (1940) to be an odd film but To Be or Not to Be (1942) was tolerable. Basically if you're going to run a scam make sure the scam pays more than the punishment. Bernie Madoff made the mistake of scamming extremely wealthy people. If he'd stuck to smaller fish he would've gotten off with fines. The opening segments of Springtime for Hitler are aesthetically pleasing and catchy although seeing those moments in 2.39:1 would've been superior. In some of the premise I was reminded how a lot of actors do work that they personally think is dumb. I think it was Matthew Perry himself who called Friends (1994-2004) "a really dumb show" or something like that. I could unpack and dissect this film a lot more so it was rich in content. PS I wish History of the World: Part II existed. James Bond versus Godzilla (32/64 completed): new The Return of Godzilla - Godzilla gets a partial reboot to begin a new era. Sixteen films into the series and we finally have one in 1.85:1. 11/24/18 Academy Award for Best Directing (90/91 completed): 1929 The Divine Lady - A love story of some sort. 2/27/18 Notebooks on Cinema's 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World (89/100 completed): #64 Mr. Verdoux - I haven't seen a Charles Chaplin film lately. 11/12/18 #71 A Day in the Country - I haven't seen a Jean Renoir film lately. 11/12/18 #83 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas - An island adventure. 10/20/18 #87 America America - I haven't seen an Elia Kazan film lately. 11/12/18 Netflix's 20 Years. 20 Movies. (18/20 completed): 2014 The Monuments Men - Rescuing monuments during WWII. 11/17/18 2007 The Bucket List - I remember Roger Ebert raging about this one but that evidently didn't stop it from being the most popular rental of 2007. 8/27/18 Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years (95/100 completed): #52 Zero for Conduct - Never had a strong urge to watch this one. 10/20/18 #67 Seven Beauties - Sounds like a fresh look at WWII for a change. 9/29/18
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Zogo posted:
Welp, fix that. A Brighter Summer Day is wonderful. It's honestly one of the more impressive first viewings I've had this year. It's four hours long, feels like it, and yet not a single second should be removed. I wanted another four hours almost immediately, despite also feeling totally devastated. It's an incredibly dense coming-of-age story while also acting as a critique of communism and oppressive political regimes (handled with astonishing clarity and subtlety. The exploits and struggles of Xia Si'r and his family are simultaneously universal and external, so there's an odd familiarity combined with enough distance to maintain a continued curiosity. Obviously, as a westerner in 2018 (who grew up in the 90s) I can't quite identify with growing up in Taipei in the 1960s, but while the specifics (and especially the tragedy) are separate from my own experiences, the general elements of conflict regarding the everyday provide a groundedness that hooks you in. Okay, beyond that...the depiction of gangland violence is done very dispassionately and in no way sensationalizes the criminal lifestyle. Even movies like Goodfellas roll with some sense of how amazing it is to be a gangster while there's never a hint of that here. I feel like I've been rambling and that none of this matters, but still...I'm just kind of thrown by how much I enjoyed, appreciated, and was surprised by this...especially after only liking Yi Yi (definitely need a rewatch). Among my favourites of the year (from another year). Also...that final shot...dear god. LIST O SHAME 1) 35 Shots of Rhum - Man, Claire Denis' movies are relatively tricky to find. This one is easier than others...so I'll start here. 2) The White Ribbon - It's taken me a long time to get into Haneke, but I want to keep going. 3) Paprika - Anime from the creator of Perfect Blue, which I was a fan of. Figured I should see another. 4) The Exterminating Angel - I've barely dipped my toe into Bunuel's filmography. 5) Starlet - Sean Baker before Tangerine and The Florida Project. 6) To Die For - Mixed on Gus Van Sant, but hear this is among his best. 7) Topsy Turvy - Ahhh Mike Leigh, looks less downtrodden than some of his work, but I'm still generally a novice with him. 8) Joint Security Area - I've seen, and loved, most of Park Chan-wook's movies, but haven't seen this one. 9) All That Jazz - Bob Fosse is a blind spot. 10) Doctor Zhivago - I love Lean, but I always need a push with him...it's so long. SHAME BE GONE (PART DEUX): Top Secret!, Yi Yi, New York New York, Rio Bravo, Dogtooth, Song of the Sea, The Fog, A Touch of Zen, Walkabout, Starman, Young Girls of Rochefort, Cléo From 5 to 7, Sansho the Bailiff, Harvey, Le Silence de la Mer, A Brighter Summer Day (Total: 16)
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Ratedargh posted:A Brighter Summer Day is wonderful. It's honestly one of the more impressive first viewings I've had this year. It's four hours long, feels like it, and yet not a single second should be removed. I wanted another four hours almost immediately, despite also feeling totally devastated. It's an incredibly dense coming-of-age story while also acting as a critique of communism and oppressive political regimes (handled with astonishing clarity and subtlety. Not to get all China/Taiwan political chat and I don’t think much about the context is required to watch the movie but the KMT are definitely 100% not communist.
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FancyMike posted:Not to get all China/Taiwan political chat and I don’t think much about the context is required to watch the movie but the KMT are definitely 100% not communist. The way I wrote that is definitely clunky and I should have separated the two ideas more clearly. I think that is very clear in the movie about KMT being not communist, but I was also referencing mainland China (even though it's all set in Taiwan) as the family left and they, themselves, are certainly not communist but are suspected to be. Which winds up making the dad's arrest even more frustrating. This is all, of course, assuming I didn't miss something/or make a leap that is actually inaccurate (entirely possible!). Edit: One thing I am excited to check out are the accompanying features, including Yang's note in the liner notes and a feature doc. One thing I love about Criterion and their contemporaries is when they provide very illuminating supplements that give that added context. Agreed, it's not necessarily required to appreciate the movie...but it adds an extra layer. Ratedargh fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Nov 30, 2018 |
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Nov 30, 2018 17:04
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Ratedargh posted:The way I wrote that is definitely clunky and I should have separated the two ideas more clearly. I think that is very clear in the movie about KMT being not communist, but I was also referencing mainland China (even though it's all set in Taiwan) as the family left and they, themselves, are certainly not communist but are suspected to be. Which winds up making the dad's arrest even more frustrating. This is all, of course, assuming I didn't miss something/or make a leap that is actually inaccurate (entirely possible!). But how would that be a critique of communism?
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Yeah, good point. I may have misread that they left China explicitly to get away from communism, which, I would take as a criticism of that. But, by leaving they wound up exchanging one system for another that wound up being oppressive. That is less a critique of communism than of oppressive governments and in this case the KMT. My bad, I was incredibly unclear and imprecise...and ill-informed.
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It’s been a little while so my memory may be a little off but i remember most of the political stuff in the movie we see from Xiao Si’r’s perspective so while there’s a connection back to the mainland it’s not really known what his parents think of the communists or specifically why they left which could be for reasons much more complex than just party affiliation. Also I think this is Edward Yang’s only period piece and his other work I’ve seen is so focused on the contemporary Taiwanese experience it’s hard to think of him trying to say much about the PRC just after the revolution. Glad you enjoyed the movie. Yang’s films are amazing and very impressive for someone who made so few.
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FancyMike posted:It’s been a little while so my memory may be a little off but i remember most of the political stuff in the movie we see from Xiao Si’r’s perspective so while there’s a connection back to the mainland it’s not really known what his parents think of the communists or specifically why they left which could be for reasons much more complex than just party affiliation. Also I think this is Edward Yang’s only period piece and his other work I’ve seen is so focused on the contemporary Taiwanese experience it’s hard to think of him trying to say much about the PRC just after the revolution. Yeah, I think I made more inference relative to them leaving mainland China for Taiwan, which would be an incorrect leap. Appreciate you taking the time to clear that up for me.
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chosen at random:Ratedargh posted:9) All That Jazz - Bob Fosse is a blind spot. Poltergeist (1982) Spooky ghosts in the TV Tobe Hooper directed and Spielberg wrote and produced, and it definitely feels more like a Spielberg movie. The high production values, the family dynamic, and the way the supernatural is regarded made me think more of a Close Encounters style first contact film than a typical 80s horror, but there are enough horror elements that I did feel the characters were in danger. The only human badguy is the father's boss, a mayor from Jaws type. He was a minor and underwritten character given all the events were his fault. The ghost hunter lady had some nice development. She was set up as a self appointed expert, finds herself completely out of her depth, but rallies and stands by the family. I'd expected her to be one-note and either run off or be killed off early on. Zelda Rubinstein is also a lot of fun as the medium, adding equal parts spiritual wisdom and humour. My List: 1) (highest ranked imdb) Avengers: Infinity War Major superhero fatigue. 2) (comedy) Bringing up Baby Nice kitty 3) (animation) The Lord of the Rings (1978) The books and Jackson's films were favourites of my childhood/teenage years and I'd like to see this oddball one. 4) (Academy Award winner) Slumdog Millionaire I've enjoyed Danny Boyle's other films 5) (foreign language) Cinema Paradiso This forum's namesake 6) (Monster) Dracula (1958) I've never seen a Hammer Horror 7) (Horror) Phantasm Another well known horror franchise I've never seen 8) (sci fi/fantasy) Escape from New York Sounds fun 9) (epic) Once Upon a Time in America Leone doing a non-western 10) (wildcard) Quardophenia mods vs rockers Watched (49): Taxi Driver; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Iron Giant; Platoon; American History X; City Lights; My Neighbour Totoro; Rashomon; Duck Soup; Friday 13th (1980); Birdman; Frankenstein (1931); Time Bandits; Carrie (1976); King Kong (1933); Das Boot; The Blair Witch Project (1999); The Sting; Annie Hall; The Bridge on the River Kwai; The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; Godzilla (1954); Bicycle Thieves; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The English Patient; Scanners; Forbidden Planet; Deliverance; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; Life is Beautiful; Minority Report; Rosemary's Baby; On the Waterfront; Solaris (1972); Driving Miss Daisy; Eraserhead; M (1931); This is Spinal Tap; Death Race 2000; The Producers (1967); Martin; Easy Rider; Office Space; Ghost in the Shell (1995); The Kid; Freaks (1932); The Abyss; Ben Hur (1959); Poltergeist (1982)
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bitterandtwisted posted:8) (sci fi/fantasy) Escape from New York Sounds fun Enjoy. Akira (1988) dir. Katsuhiro Ōtomo What an absolutely stunning animated film.  I wasn't expecting it to fluidly change genres throughout, never limiting itself to horror, action, comedy, drama, sci-fi, or fantasy, but bouncing around where the story needs to go. While it's a simple story (I guess), there's a density to the actions and character interactions that leave the viewer grasping at the story unfolding. I never felt secure in my understanding of what's going on, but I never felt cheated or confused. I enjoyed the ultraviolence, the grittiness, and the ever-present danger. The world feels dying and dangerous. Perfect for the post-apocalyptic setting. The sound design is stellar. The creepy child-like music that plays during the hallucinations was unnerving. There are moments where the music is heavy syncopated breathing, or voices howling/singing in fearful unison. Really, the hallucinations were my favorite part. A character's guts pouring out of their chest only to see it's in their mind, and they are fearfully pulling invisible intestines back inside them, is an amazing imagery that would be hard to duplicate in a live action film. Not to mention the body horror that takes over the final act of the film. I don't have many thoughts on this, since I watched it days ago, and the imagery and sounds are what have remained rattling around. This film is an excellent argument for why we need more adult animation that isn't just geared around dick jokes. As of now, this confidently sits as one of my favorite animated films, as well as sci-fi and action films. Highly Recommended! Also, I'm cheating and bumping my list up to 11 films, since I couldn't decided on one to include. My List Paris, Je T’Aime (2006; anthology) - (12.4.18) Anthology film with a bunch of stars and great directors that I keep putting off. Y Tu Mamá También (2001; Alfonso Cuarón) - (12.4.18) I really like Cuarón, and this has been on my to-watch list for over a decade. The Last Detail (1973; Hal Ashby) - (9.10.18) Ashby's follow-up to Harold & Maude, which I love. Come and See (1985; Elem Klimov) - (8.14.18) Highest rated movie on my Letterboxd watchlist. Great poster. I guess this will be another heavy war movie. The 400 Blows (1959; François Truffaut; Criterion - (2.6.18) Another "Film School movie" I have never seen; classic of French cinema Bicycle Thieves (1948; Vittorio De Sica; Criterion) - (1.21.18) The mandatory film school movie. Sideways (2004; A. Payne) - (11.19.17) Can it really be as good as everyone says it is? I liked Nebraska and About Schmidt Stranger Than Paradise (1984; J. Jarmusch; Criterion) - (8.25.17) I love everything I've seen of Jim Jarmusch, which only amounts to 5 films. This is his first film. I've only seen the first 15 minutes. Philadelphia (1993; J. Demme) - (8.21.17) Trying to fill in my Jonathan Demme gaps. A huge moment in Tom Hanks's career that seems to have been forgotten by modern audiences. (Currently on Prime) In Cold Blood (1967; R. Brooks; Criterion) - (6.29.17) I've read the book, which I enjoyed. I know the movie looks great, I've seen the famous window rain show. I own it on blu-ray. Fitzcarraldo (1982; W. Herzog; Criterion) - (6.23.17) The other big Werner Herzog narrative I haven't seen. COMPLETED: Aguirre: The Wrath of God | Casablanca | After Hours | Schindler's List | Ikiru | F for Fake | Raging Bull | The Seventh Seal | Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Lawrence of Arabia | The French Connection | In The Mood For Love | Stalker | Tootsie | M. | The Thin Red Line | Network | The Godfather Part 2 | Monsier Hulot's Holiday | Nashville | Akira Letterboxd
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Franchescanado posted:Y Tu Mamá También (2001; Alfonso Cuarón) - (12.4.18) I really like Cuarón, and this has been on my to-watch list for over a decade. So many great films to choose from, but I went with this... a pretty big contrast to Akira. Enjoy! Ordinary People I don't think I've ever heard this comparison (or at least it's never registered with me) - but Ben Affleck & Matt Damon must've thought highly of this film when writing Good Will Hunting. And rightfully so. Ordinary People has a much more domestic approach but I couldn't help comparing Robin Williams' Sean Maguire to Judd Hirsch's Dr. Berger. This film also earns it's best adaptive screenplay Oscar, as the layers of this Chicago family slowly peel away - with 20-year old Timothy Hutton stealing this film from everyone else. The rest of the cast is great in their own right - I've never really watched much of Mary Tyler Moore, but I know enough that this performance as the distant mother had to be against-type. There are many powerful discussions, arguments and confrontations that will stay with me for a long time. It's not a film that I will pick up and rewatch endlessly due to it's mood and subject matter (I'm thinking of similar films like In the Bedroom and Manchester By The Sea), but it's one I wish I had made it a priority sooner. LIST Amy [2015 - 128mins] - (2018.05.19) - don't know much about her or her music but have heard great things about this film. (documentary) The Best of Youth [2003 - 366mins!] - (2018.05.01) - if I'm ever going to commit to watch this one, it'll be from this list. (unwatched DVD) Une Chambre En Ville [1982 - 90mins] - (2018.10.14) - apparently the "darker cousin" to Umbrellas of Cherbourg? Sounds like fun. (blind-bought boxsets) Chicago [2002 - 113mins] - **NEW** (2018.12.04) - this cast is huge... I remember all the acclaim for it - but hardly hear it discussed now. (Best Picture winner) Cria Cuervos [1976 - 110mins] - (2018.09.09) - this has been ignored on my shelf for years... I need the motivation to see it. (Criterion) An Education [2009 - 100mins] - (2018.07.16) - love Carey Mulligan & always heard great things but never make it a priority. (21st Century shame) How The West Was Won [1962 - 162mins] - (2018.09.26) - has such a huge cast & crew that I feel the behind-the-scenes is as good as the film? (Western) Irma La Douce [1963 - 135mins] - (2018.05.17) - another 2+hr Lemmon/Wilder collaboration .. & Shirley MacLaine returns! (Lemmon/Matthau) The Little Foxes [1941 - 115mins] - **OLDEST** (2018.04.21) - one of Davis' earlier roles. (Bette Davis) Your Name [2016 - 106mins] - (2018.08.04) - noticed that I'm 86% done the IMDb Top 250 list... let's get this thing completed. (IMDb Top 250) De-shamed Pt3: Ordinary People (4/5), [Total:201]
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Guilty pleasure of mine:friendo55 posted:Chicago [2002 - 113mins] - **NEW** (2018.12.04) - this cast is huge... I remember all the acclaim for it - but hardly hear it discussed now. (Best Picture winner) Escape from New York Arkham City the movie In the far future of 1997, Manhattan has been transformed into a walled prison and the prisoners have to survive as best they can. The President's plane crash lands and it's up to Snake Plisskin to rescue him. I love the premise and the setting. The budget is not huge, but it's well utilised. We get some nice miniatures and matt paintings and a couple of cool locations like the theatre and train station, but unfortunately no giant severed Statue of Liberty head like on the poster. One neat effect is the computer's 'wire frame' view of the city, which wasn't computerised at all - they used a model and a blacklight. The cast are good. Snake gets a few allies and they all get time for characterisation. Isaac Hayes unfortunately doesn't have a huge amount of screentime and is a fairly generic mob boss. It's got that good ol' 1980s post apocalyptic aesthetic. The Duke's main henchman in particular looks like he's straight off the set of the Road Warrior and there are fun touches like the Duke's car's chandeliers. It's got quite a dour tone throughout, but it's not very violent (rated 15). I feel the premise and Snake's character call for a movie that's more camp or violent or both. My List: 1) (highest ranked imdb) Avengers: Infinity War Major superhero fatigue. 2) (comedy) Bringing up Baby Nice kitty 3) (animation) The Lord of the Rings (1978) The books and Jackson's films were favourites of my childhood/teenage years and I'd like to see this oddball one. 4) (Academy Award winner) Slumdog Millionaire I've enjoyed Danny Boyle's other films 5) (foreign language) Cinema Paradiso This forum's namesake 6) (Monster) Dracula (1958) I've never seen a Hammer Horror 7) (Horror) Phantasm Another well known horror franchise I've never seen 8) (sci fi/fantasy) Logan's Run Feelin old 9) (epic) Once Upon a Time in America Leone doing a non-western 10) (wildcard) Quardophenia mods vs rockers Watched (50): Taxi Driver; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Iron Giant; Platoon; American History X; City Lights; My Neighbour Totoro; Rashomon; Duck Soup; Friday 13th (1980); Birdman; Frankenstein (1931); Time Bandits; Carrie (1976); King Kong (1933); Das Boot; The Blair Witch Project (1999); The Sting; Annie Hall; The Bridge on the River Kwai; The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; Godzilla (1954); Bicycle Thieves; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The English Patient; Scanners; Forbidden Planet; Deliverance; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; Life is Beautiful; Minority Report; Rosemary's Baby; On the Waterfront; Solaris (1972); Driving Miss Daisy; Eraserhead; M (1931); This is Spinal Tap; Death Race 2000; The Producers (1967); Martin; Easy Rider; Office Space; Ghost in the Shell (1995); The Kid; Freaks (1932); The Abyss; Ben Hur (1959); Poltergeist (1982); Escape from New York
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bitterandtwisted posted:9) (epic) Once Upon a Time in America Leone doing a non-western An epic among epics. Mr. Verdoux - An unemployed bank cashier inevitably turns to a life of crime and becomes a persistent bluebeard. He's always on the run and despite raking in cash he endures a series of bad investments culminating with various stock market and bank failures in the 1920s and 1930s. Some will definitely be disturbed that Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) is humanized when choosing to spare a life or visiting his disabled wife and son at home. There are many good twists that I won't detail or spoil. I was reminded of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) but I liked this one more. It also reminded me of Catch Me If You Can (2002) in that I could see it inspiring conmen and serial killers alike. Although here the stakes are a little higher as Frank Abagnale Jr. wasn't a serial killer. The film ends with Mr. Verdoux expounding on the scales of war and crime and the duality of good vs. evil. Pondering how killing a few people is criminal but building massive weapons of war is lauded by many. I recall Charles Manson invoking the same lines of thought at times during his imprisonment. Also watched: The Bucket List - Back in November I serendipitously ended up watching a star-crossed trilogy of terror: Midnight Express (1978), Missing (1982) and Salvador (1986). Three similarly bleak films to say the least. Needless to say I decided it was time to watch this lighter one. Two men are both diagnosed with cancer and not given much time to live. One is a wealthy hospital owner and the other a mechanic. They're opposites but ultimately complementary to each other. They argue over afterlife concepts and religion and ultimately set out to complete a shared bucket list. Like Ebert said in his famous review...turning Wit (2001) into a comedy was bound to tick off some cancer patients. A lot of scenes have an odd, jokey and farcical tone to them. There's a scene with Edward (Jack Nicholson) gobbling up prosciutto and then later violently vomiting it all back into a toilet. Or another scene after his brain surgery where he looks like an angry mummy writhing around in agony. Viewers are reminded that being in a hospital generally sucks. Anyway, these two old kooks set out to see the sights, jump out of planes, race cars, meet prostitutes etc. At times the bucket list backfires and leads to conflicts. One of the perversely funny moments occurs when Carter (Morgan Freeman) gets into an argument with his wife and they have this off-kilter argument about him running off with Edward. Ultimately, both guys die and Edward's assistant puts their cremains into makeshift coffee can urns on top of a mountain. A fittingly strange ending to this strange film. James Bond versus Godzilla (32/64 completed): The Return of Godzilla - Godzilla gets a partial reboot to begin a new era. Sixteen films into the series and we finally have one in 1.85:1. 11/24/18 Academy Award for Best Directing (90/91 completed): 1929 The Divine Lady - A love story of some sort. 2/27/18 Notebooks on Cinema's 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World (90/100 completed): new #23 The Mother and the Whore - It's ranked highly on the TSPDT list every year. 12/10/18 #71 A Day in the Country - I haven't seen a Jean Renoir film lately. 11/12/18 #83 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas - An island adventure. 10/20/18 #87 America America - I haven't seen an Elia Kazan film lately. 11/12/18 new #91 Daybreak AKA Le Jour Se Leve - All I know is that Arletty is in this. 12/10/18 Netflix's 20 Years. 20 Movies. (19/20 completed): 2014 The Monuments Men - Rescuing monuments during WWII. 11/17/18 Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years (95/100 completed): #52 Zero for Conduct - Never had a strong urge to watch this one. 10/20/18 #67 Seven Beauties - Sounds like a fresh look at WWII for a change. 9/29/18 Zogo fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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bitterandtwisted posted:Guilty pleasure of mine: The much maligned sequel is both, and good
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zogo posted:The Return of Godzilla Once Upon a Time in America I watched the 229 minute version I really felt the bond between Noodles and Max, especially when they were young. I loved the scene at the start where the telephone sound is playing over what we see, including someone lifting a telephone receiver. It really drives home the importance of the call Noodles made to the events of the film. The rape scene was horrific and happens just when your sympathies are fully with Noodles. It's such a jarring moment, and he faces no consequences for it, which I suppose is not unrealistic, but I was soured on the rest of the film. I was interested to read up on the production of this that Leone originally wanted two three-hour films and was beaten down to 269 minutes, then the 229 version I saw and then it was butchered to 139 minutes for the US release, where it flopped horribly. I'm glad I watched it, and there's a lot to appreciate, but I feel this is one I'm unlikely to revisit My List: 1) (highest ranked imdb) Avengers: Infinity War Major superhero fatigue. 2) (comedy) Bringing up Baby 😺 3) (animation) The Lord of the Rings (1978) The books and Jackson's films were favourites of my childhood/teenage years and I'd like to see this oddball one. 4) (Academy Award winner) Slumdog Millionaire I've enjoyed Danny Boyle's other films 5) (foreign language) Cinema Paradiso This forum's namesake 6) (Monster) Dracula (1958) I've never seen a Hammer Horror 7) (Horror) Phantasm Another well known horror franchise I've never seen 8) (sci fi/fantasy) Logan's Run Feelin old 9) (epic) Dr Zhivago Just very famous 10) (wildcard) Quardophenia mods vs rockers Watched (51): Taxi Driver; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Iron Giant; Platoon; American History X; City Lights; My Neighbour Totoro; Rashomon; Duck Soup; Friday 13th (1980); Birdman; Frankenstein (1931); Time Bandits; Carrie (1976); King Kong (1933); Das Boot; The Blair Witch Project (1999); The Sting; Annie Hall; The Bridge on the River Kwai; The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; Godzilla (1954); Bicycle Thieves; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The English Patient; Scanners; Forbidden Planet; Deliverance; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; Life is Beautiful; Minority Report; Rosemary's Baby; On the Waterfront; Solaris (1972); Driving Miss Daisy; Eraserhead; M (1931); This is Spinal Tap; Death Race 2000; The Producers (1967); Martin; Easy Rider; Office Space; Ghost in the Shell (1995); The Kid; Freaks (1932); The Abyss; Ben Hur (1959); Poltergeist (1982); Escape from New York; Once Upon a Time in America
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bitterandtwisted posted:7) (Horror) Phantasm Another well known horror franchise I've never seen Make sure you watch the 4k restoration. Y Tu Mamá También (2001) dir. Alfonso Cuarón (available on Netflix)  I have an unusual friend group. I have three best friends who may as well be my siblings; the one I've known the longest (we'll call him A), I've known since 3rd grade (20ish years now). The second longest friendship (R) has been since 6th grade. The 3rd longest friendship (S) was started in 9th grade. They mostly get along very well with each other. This film was first recommended to me when I was 18, fresh out of high school, where I immediately went to work with R. I should have watched it then, but I was too busy living through a similar emotional journey. I was learning the world is not idyllic, that growing up is painful, and that the friends I take for granted won't always be my friends. By the end of that first summer, my friendship with R had withered from competitive antagonism and a new friend with more in common; A was starting college, was dealing with heartache from his failed high school relationship (which I was also dealing with, albeit worse); and S and I, with a mutual affinity for marijuana and classic Wu-Tang Clan, started to fill in the gaps left by all of our friends moving on away from us. It was a tumultuous time of intense loneliness, nostalgic longing, and exhaustion, punctuated by a growing interest in mind-altering substances and cigarettes. The next year would be the hardest for me. Faith would be redefined, family members and people I grew up with would die, my high school would be rocked by a high-profile murder, and my work (an international industry) would introduce me to hundreds of people from all walks of life who's careers would all be threatened by the BP oil spill (which, to this day, the industry has never recovered). Cuaron was 40 years old when this film was released. He had wanted to make this film before he went to film school, or so he says, but wasn't able to make it until much later in his career. He wrote it with his brother, and it was a major career boost for both. Some stories just take time to tell. I am not well-versed on Mexican history, so the more nuanced context of the background and setting--constant threat of police and military, a tumultuous political climate with many rumors of corruption and a looming election, the many examples of poverty, the lower class being pushed aside for new expensive developments--are lost to me, while still providing a growing dread towards the dangerous world our boys are reluctantly growing into. The film ends with one of the greatest guitar solos put to wax, Frank Zappa's Watermelon in Easter Hay, a song that helped me a lot out during that period of my life. Zappa never intended to allow the song to be used in film, but his estate, upon seeing this film, gave special permission for it to be used. I'm happier and healthier now, and I'm (thankfully) old enough to look back at that ignorant young man and remember that melancholy with a knowing smile. I will be A's best man this July; S and I see each other about twice a week still; R's career is doing very well, and we get together whenever his schedule allows. My List The Holy Mountain (1973; A. Jodorowsky) - (12.18.18) I love Jodorowsky Paris, Je T’Aime (2006; anthology) - (12.4.18) Anthology film with a bunch of stars and great directors that I keep putting off. The Last Detail (1973; Hal Ashby) - (9.10.18) Ashby's follow-up to Harold & Maude, which I love. Come and See (1985; Elem Klimov) - (8.14.18) Highest rated movie on my Letterboxd watchlist. Great poster. I guess this will be another heavy war movie. The 400 Blows (1959; François Truffaut; Criterion - (2.6.18) Another "Film School movie" I have never seen; classic of French cinema Bicycle Thieves (1948; Vittorio De Sica; Criterion) - (1.21.18) The mandatory film school movie. Sideways (2004; A. Payne) - (11.19.17) Can it really be as good as everyone says it is? I liked Nebraska and About Schmidt Stranger Than Paradise (1984; J. Jarmusch; Criterion) - (8.25.17) I love everything I've seen of Jim Jarmusch, which only amounts to 5 films. This is his first film. I've only seen the first 15 minutes. Philadelphia (1993; J. Demme) - (8.21.17) Trying to fill in my Jonathan Demme gaps. A huge moment in Tom Hanks's career that seems to have been forgotten by modern audiences. (Currently on Prime) In Cold Blood (1967; R. Brooks; Criterion) - (6.29.17) I've read the book, which I enjoyed. I know the movie looks great, I've seen the famous window rain show. I own it on blu-ray. Fitzcarraldo (1982; W. Herzog; Criterion) - (6.23.17) The other big Werner Herzog narrative I haven't seen. COMPLETED: Aguirre: The Wrath of God | Casablanca | After Hours | Schindler's List | Ikiru | F for Fake | Raging Bull | The Seventh Seal | Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Lawrence of Arabia | The French Connection | In The Mood For Love | Stalker | Tootsie | M. | The Thin Red Line | Network | The Godfather Part 2 | Monsier Hulot's Holiday | Nashville | Akira | Y Tu Mamá También Letterboxd
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Check outFranchescanado posted:Bicycle Thieves (1948; Vittorio De Sica; Criterion) - (1.21.18) The mandatory film school movie. Phantasm (4k restoration, thanks Franchescanado) A sinister dude is turning people into Jawas. The bond between the brothers was completely believable and I really felt for these characters. The older brother's friend Reggie is also well defined and sympathetic. There are no stock slasher characters just there to be killed off, even though the opening scene in the graveyard made me think that was exactly the sort of movie this would be. One weird moment was when Reggie showed up after everyone thought he was dead, claiming he rescued four women offscreen and I was thinking for sure, that's the Tall Man in disguise, but no, that's how it happened. The famous sphere was in it a lot less than I expected, but man that was a good kill scene. The music was great. The score was kickass, and there was a nice little character moment with Reggie and Jodie jamming together. They should have just given the Tall Man the actor's name - "Angus Scrimm" is a great name for a monster. Not entirely sold on the ending. Maybe it has something to say on the nature of death and acceptance of mortality, but "it was a dream" and "monster goes boo! cut to credits" are both very hokey and cliched. Are the sequels worth checking out? They're all on Arrow, and I have 6 days left of a free trail. My List: 1) (highest ranked imdb) Avengers: Infinity War Major superhero fatigue. 2) (comedy) Bringing up Baby 😺 3) (animation) The Lord of the Rings (1978) The books and Jackson's films were favourites of my childhood/teenage years and I'd like to see this oddball one. 4) (Academy Award winner) Slumdog Millionaire I've enjoyed Danny Boyle's other films 5) (foreign language) Cinema Paradiso This forum's namesake 6) (Monster) Dracula (1958) I've never seen a Hammer Horror 7) (Horror) Videodrome More Cronenberg 8) (sci fi/fantasy) Logan's Run Feelin old 9) (epic) Dr Zhivago Just very famous 10) (wildcard) Quardophenia mods vs rockers Watched (52): Taxi Driver; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Iron Giant; Platoon; American History X; City Lights; My Neighbour Totoro; Rashomon; Duck Soup; Friday 13th (1980); Birdman; Frankenstein (1931); Time Bandits; Carrie (1976); King Kong (1933); Das Boot; The Blair Witch Project (1999); The Sting; Annie Hall; The Bridge on the River Kwai; The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; Godzilla (1954); Bicycle Thieves; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The English Patient; Scanners; Forbidden Planet; Deliverance; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; Life is Beautiful; Minority Report; Rosemary's Baby; On the Waterfront; Solaris (1972); Driving Miss Daisy; Eraserhead; M (1931); This is Spinal Tap; Death Race 2000; The Producers (1967); Martin; Easy Rider; Office Space; Ghost in the Shell (1995); The Kid; Freaks (1932); The Abyss; Ben Hur (1959); Poltergeist (1982); Escape from New York; Once Upon a Time in America; Phantasm
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Phantasm II is definitely a must see if you enjoyed Phantasm. It's kinda like Evil Dead 2 where it's mostly the same kind of movie just with a bigger budget and everything dialed up to 11. After that it's more debatable because the budgets weren't there and Coscarelli never really checks his ambition so for me they end up feeling a little cheap.
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bitterandtwisted, only one on your list I saw was Dracula(1958), so see that next. Just saw Sherlock Jr.. Fun movie by Buster Keaton. Not quite as good as The General, but pretty good. Keaton does a great job as always. Also saw The Cat Returns which is a Studio Ghibli film. Thought it was a sequel to Whisper of the Heart, but other than one character, it really isn't. Not as good as Whisper of the Heart, are most of the other Studio Ghibli, but it is decent. Probably wouldn't see it again though. My List: The Shootist - Feel like it's time for another John Wayne movie. OLDEST Gladiator - Jabberwocky - Following up one Terry Gilliam movie with another. Our Hospitality - Another Buster Keaton movie. The Cocoanuts - Working my way through the Marx Brothers movies. This is their first movie. Castle in the Sky - Need to see some more Studio Ghibli. NEWEST Stray Dog - Starting to run out of Kurosawa films. What a great director. Oklahoma - Don't know anything about it. Next on my musicals list. Die Nibelungen - Interested in seeing another Fritz Lang picture. To Catch a Thief - More Hitchcock here. King Creole - Adding a new slot here for Elvis, Sinatra, Beatles movies. Starting with one of Elvis'.
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Dmitri Russkie posted:The Shootist - Feel like it's time for another John Wayne movie. OLDEST John Wayne's final role. The Return of Godzilla - This is the return of the old Godzilla. Godzilla isn't a benevolent ecological hero or even an indifferent Earth defender. He's an angry and hungry menace to society. And this time he's brought some giant radioactive lice along with him. These lice look like the giant insectoid typewriters in Naked Lunch (1991). Godzilla has nuclear cravings this time around and at one point eats a Russian nuclear submarine like a submarine sandwich. Naturally, being in the midst of the Cold War this nearly sets off WWIII between the US and USSR nuclear superpowers. Japan plays the role of mediator between these foes. While Godzilla inadvertently plays the role of Sebastian Shaw in X-Men: First Class (2011). The film also does some social commentary with its lying and deceptive reporters and a looter trying to eat a fancy dinner as Godzilla rampages in the area. We're in the 1980s now so naturally the effects are better than ever. Godzilla mainly faces off against Super X (a flying fortress) which has been designed to take him out. However, direct military action against Godzilla nearly always fails. Eventually scientists lure Godzilla into a volcano using bird homing signals. Kind of a sad ending even though Godzilla was a terrorist this go around. It's hard to reconcile all the past personas. Also watched: Daybreak - Its framing is kind of unique as François (Jean Gabin) is holed up in a hotel room recounting how he ended up in this precarious situation. Police are blasting hundreds of bullets and launching teargas into his room trying to coax him out. But he refuses to leave his claustrophobic confines. Just like in Children of Paradise (1945) Marcel Carné is able to direct characters that exude palpable and authentic jealousy. This aspect is what makes it memorable. I won't detail the love story too much because as Bob Dylan once said in his song Love Sick "I'm sick of love." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJqMhK8XdzU But it's like that song Love Hurts by Nazareth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1LP3Z6pW4 We get a hardcore ending with François going for the suicide solution rather than facing the police. He knows prison awaits as he's murdered somebody. James Bond versus Godzilla (33/64 completed): Academy Award for Best Directing (90/91 completed): 1929 The Divine Lady - A love story of some sort. 2/27/18 Notebooks on Cinema's 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World (91/100 completed): #23 The Mother and the Whore - It's ranked highly on the TSPDT list every year. 12/10/18 new #39 Ivan the Terrible, Part I - Controversial in its time. 12/23/18 new #46 The Crowd – Something about NYC. 12/23/18 #71 A Day in the Country - I haven't seen a Jean Renoir film lately. 11/12/18 #83 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas - An island adventure. 10/20/18 #87 America America - I haven't seen an Elia Kazan film lately. 11/12/18 Netflix's 20 Years. 20 Movies. (19/20 completed): 2014 The Monuments Men - Rescuing monuments during WWII. 11/17/18 Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years (95/100 completed): #52 Zero for Conduct - Never had a strong urge to watch this one. 10/20/18 #67 Seven Beauties - Sounds like a fresh look at WWII for a change. 9/29/18 Zogo fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Dec 24, 2018 |
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Random number generator give Zogo: 5quote:#71 A Day in the Country - I haven't seen a Jean Renoir film lately. 11/12/18 Dracula (1958) They change the original story about a bit - Harker is now aware from the get go that Dracula's a vampire, and he's out to kill him by applying to be his librarian. Mina is now Arthur's Holmwood's wife and Lucy engaged to Harker and there's no Renfield. It's quite racy for the time. Lots of cleavage and bright red blood, including on the opening titles themselves. The effects for Dracula's death were cool. Lee is great, but in it a lot less than I expected. "Less is more" is a generally good for monster films, but with a social monster like Dracula I feel we could have had a bit more dialogue with him. Cushing fits the role of Van Helsing perfectly. Wonderfully atmospheric. Love the lavish sets and costumes and there's a sincerity to everything. My List: 1) (highest ranked imdb) Avengers: Infinity War Major superhero fatigue. 2) (comedy) Bringing up Baby 😺 3) (animation) The Lord of the Rings (1978) The books and Jackson's films were favourites of my childhood/teenage years and I'd like to see this oddball one. 4) (Academy Award winner) Slumdog Millionaire I've enjoyed Danny Boyle's other films 5) (foreign language) Cinema Paradiso This forum's namesake 6) (Monster) The Blob (1958) Haven't seen the 80s version either. Might do a double feature. 7) (Horror) Videodrome More Cronenberg 8) (sci fi/fantasy) Logan's Run Feelin old 9) (epic) Dr Zhivago Just very famous 10) (wildcard) Quardophenia mods vs rockers Watched (53): Taxi Driver; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Iron Giant; Platoon; American History X; City Lights; My Neighbour Totoro; Rashomon; Duck Soup; Friday 13th (1980); Birdman; Frankenstein (1931); Time Bandits; Carrie (1976); King Kong (1933); Das Boot; The Blair Witch Project (1999); The Sting; Annie Hall; The Bridge on the River Kwai; The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; Godzilla (1954); Bicycle Thieves; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The English Patient; Scanners; Forbidden Planet; Deliverance; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; Life is Beautiful; Minority Report; Rosemary's Baby; On the Waterfront; Solaris (1972); Driving Miss Daisy; Eraserhead; M (1931); This is Spinal Tap; Death Race 2000; The Producers (1967); Martin; Easy Rider; Office Space; Ghost in the Shell (1995); The Kid; Freaks (1932); The Abyss; Ben Hur (1959); Poltergeist (1982); Escape from New York; Once Upon a Time in America; Phantasm; Dracula (1958)
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bitterandtwisted posted:7) (Horror) Videodrome More Cronenberg "Long live the new flesh!" A Day in the Country - A brisk look back at a picnic in 1860s France. Parisians go on an excursion into the country and encounter griping workers. There's a little bit of the common rural vs. city rhetoric but it quickly dissolves with the countryfolk fantasizing about and stalking two women in the party. While some of the men go fishing two pairs go out on skiffs with seduction on their minds. Despite the abrupt ending it leaves a strong thesis on unrequited lust and the subsequent mopey fallout. I was reminded of Claire's Knee (1970). Also watched: Zero for Conduct - It captures the hooliganism and rebellious youth associated with younger teenagers. Screaming kids and their horseplay going against stuffy and threatening teachers. I was reminded of younger summer camp days when kids would run wild and try to break as many rules as possible without being sent home. At times it's like a dream but it compares well with two other French films: Goodbye, Children (1987) and the underrated Small Change (1976). Older authoritarians would definitely want all these kids to be clapped in the stocks. All in all a strange ode to juvenile delinquency. The Divine Lady - Based on actual events it covers various goings-on in Europe in the period ~1782-1805 (mainly before the Napoleonic wars). It makes for an okay companion piece to Napoleon (1927). The film has a few twists and unfolds in an unexpected way a few times. There are a few impressive ship battles but it's mainly a drawn-out love story between Emma Hamilton and Admiral Nelson (and many other suitors trying to lock her up or send her elsewhere). Initially some see her as a "brazen hussy" but eventually come around and call her a "gem." Emma starts out as a cook with a talent for singing but by the end she's an ambassadress playing a significant role in the war against the French. That's it. I've seen all 91 Academy Award for Best Directing winners.  James Bond versus Godzilla (33/64 completed): Notebooks on Cinema's 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World (92/100 completed): #23 The Mother and the Whore - It's ranked highly on the TSPDT list every year. 12/10/18 #39 Ivan the Terrible, Part I - Controversial in its time. 12/23/18 #46 The Crowd – Something about NYC. 12/23/18 #83 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas - An island adventure. 10/20/18 #87 America America - I haven't seen an Elia Kazan film lately. 11/12/18 new #88 Him AKA El - I haven't seen a Luis Bunuel film lately. 1/16/19 Netflix's 20 Years. 20 Movies. (19/20 completed): 2014 The Monuments Men - Rescuing monuments during WWII. 11/17/18 Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years (96/100 completed): #67 Seven Beauties - Sounds like a fresh look at WWII for a change. 9/29/18 new #92 The Naked Kiss - I haven't seen a great many of Samuel Fuller's films. 1/16/19 new #96 My Little Chickadee - I haven't seen a film starring W.C. Fields in a film in a long, long time. 1/16/19 Zogo fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Jan 17, 2019 |
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Been a while since anyone posted on this thread. Just saw The Shootist. Really good movie. Anyone who says John Wayne can't act, should watch this movie. Wonderful portrayal of J.B. Books. I like the congruity of J.B Brooks upcoming death, situated with the demise of the Old West with the new century as well as Wayne's coming to the end of his life, and the demise of the Western genre in film in general. Very meta. Good job by the supporting actors, too. Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard. I really felt for Wayne's character, which I can't always say in his movies. Zogo, as usual, I've never seen any movies on your list. So, I'll pick America America just because. My List: Fort Apache - This will be my John Wayne spot for now. NEWEST Gladiator - Jabberwocky - Following up one Terry Gilliam movie with another. Our Hospitality - Another Buster Keaton movie. The Cocoanuts - Working my way through the Marx Brothers movies. This is their first movie. Castle in the Sky - Need to see some more Studio Ghibli. Stray Dog - Starting to run out of Kurosawa films. What a great director. OLDEST Oklahoma - Don't know anything about it. Next on my musicals list. Die Nibelungen - Interested in seeing another Fritz Lang picture. To Catch a Thief - More Hitchcock here. King Creole - Adding a new slot here for Elvis, Sinatra, Beatles movies. Starting with one of Elvis'.
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Dmitri gets Gladiator, because I've seen it Videodrome Max, the CEO of a small TV station stumbles upon a violent porn channel and is drawn into a conspiracy of mind control and sadism. The body horror is great, everything is so disgusting. It's very surreal and dreamlike and gets increasingly so as Max falls under the power of the signal and it gets less clear what is real and what is a hallucination. It was ahead of its time and it's strangely quaint the way TVs and VHS tapes are presented as a sinister gateway to the conspiracies and violent sexual imagery the internet we know is packed with. It's probably one of the few 80s movies that hasn't been remade but could be in a new, interesting way. My List: 1) (highest ranked imdb) Avengers: Infinity War Major superhero fatigue. 2) (comedy) Bringing up Baby 😺 3) (animation) The Lord of the Rings (1978) The books and Jackson's films were favourites of my childhood/teenage years and I'd like to see this oddball one. 4) (Academy Award winner) Slumdog Millionaire I've enjoyed Danny Boyle's other films 5) (foreign language) Cinema Paradiso This forum's namesake 6) (Monster) The Blob (1958) Haven't seen the 80s version either. Might do a double feature. 7) (Horror) Misery Ow mah legs 8) (sci fi/fantasy) Logan's Run Feelin old 9) (epic) Dr Zhivago Just very famous 10) (wildcard) Quardophenia mods vs rockers Watched (54): Taxi Driver; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Iron Giant; Platoon; American History X; City Lights; My Neighbour Totoro; Rashomon; Duck Soup; Friday 13th (1980); Birdman; Frankenstein (1931); Time Bandits; Carrie (1976); King Kong (1933); Das Boot; The Blair Witch Project (1999); The Sting; Annie Hall; The Bridge on the River Kwai; The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; Godzilla (1954); Bicycle Thieves; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The English Patient; Scanners; Forbidden Planet; Deliverance; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; Life is Beautiful; Minority Report; Rosemary's Baby; On the Waterfront; Solaris (1972); Driving Miss Daisy; Eraserhead; M (1931); This is Spinal Tap; Death Race 2000; The Producers (1967); Martin; Easy Rider; Office Space; Ghost in the Shell (1995); The Kid; Freaks (1932); The Abyss; Ben Hur (1959); Poltergeist (1982); Escape from New York; Once Upon a Time in America; Phantasm; Dracula (1958); Videodrome
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bitterandtwisted posted:4) (Academy Award winner) Slumdog Millionaire I've enjoyed Danny Boyle's other films Since we're so close to the Oscars, this makes sense. Chicago I'm not too sure why I wrote this off as something not so important to see over the years - maybe because I've never had a big fondness for the top 3 stars.. but Chicago changed that for all 3. There's stellar performances from Catherine Zeta-Jones (Velma Kelly) and Renee Zelwegger (Roxie Hart) as dueling murderesses trying to grab the media spotlight with help from Richard Gere (lawyer Billy Flynn) - and it's got the energy and pace to match with a nearly 2-hour film that flies by. And it's true what people have said - there isn't a bad musical number in the entire film. The one that stands out most for me is Zeta-Jones' dance to impress that has her sliding towards the screen at the end. Typically she's that sultry or elegant character, so to see her dance and move all around the screen felt so new and refreshing. I've (shamefully) yet to see All That Jazz, but this reminded me of Paul Whiteman and his King Of Jazz revue with the array of colour and flashy, elaborate sets. I generally love musicals to begin with, and that crime story backdrop (with The Wire's Dominic West) had me drawn in from the start. And as a cherry on top, John C Reilly was his fantastic self as the hapless husband Amos Hart. I'm glad he got to have that "Mister Cellophane" number - however minor it was. LIST Amy [2015 - 128mins] - (2018.05.19) - don't know much about her or her music but have heard great things about this film. (documentary) The Best of Youth [2003 - 366mins!] - (2018.05.01) - if I'm ever going to commit to watch this one, it'll be from this list. (unwatched DVD) Une Chambre En Ville [1982 - 90mins] - (2018.10.14) - apparently the "darker cousin" to Umbrellas of Cherbourg? Sounds like fun. (blind-bought boxsets) Cria Cuervos [1976 - 110mins] - (2018.09.09) - this has been ignored on my shelf for years... I need the motivation to see it. (Criterion) An Education [2009 - 100mins] - (2018.07.16) - love Carey Mulligan & always heard great things but never make it a priority. (21st Century shame) How Green Was My Valley [1941 - 118mins] - **NEW** (2019.02.11) - all I ever hear is how great it is - maybe it's the boring title that kept me away? (Best Picture Winner) How The West Was Won [1962 - 162mins] - (2018.09.26) - has such a huge cast & crew that I feel the behind-the-scenes is as good as the film? (Western) Irma La Douce [1963 - 135mins] - (2018.05.17) - another 2+hr Lemmon/Wilder collaboration .. & Shirley MacLaine returns! (Lemmon/Matthau) The Little Foxes [1941 - 115mins] - **OLDEST** (2018.04.21) - one of Davis' earlier roles. (Bette Davis) Your Name [2016 - 106mins] - (2018.08.04) - noticed that I'm 86% done the IMDb Top 250 list... let's get this thing completed. (IMDb Top 250) De-shamed Pt3: Ordinary People (4/5), Chicago (4.5/5), [Total:202]
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I would give anything to have had Bob Fosse make his own film version, his staging of the original production was so wonderfully nasty.
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Friendo, watch How the West was Won. Solaris: I really wish I liked this more. I’m generally pretty receptive to longer movies (I adore Stalker) but this one takes forever to get going. The premise was very interesting but outside of Kris and Hari, the characters aren’t. It felt very dry to me. I can get why this is so renowned but it just didn’t do it for me. The List: 1. Tokyo Story: I don't really know anything about this but it's on a ton of lists. NEW 2. Andrei Rublev: More Tarkovsky. 3. Throne of Blood: Kurosawa doing MacBeth sounds dope 4. McCabe and Mrs. Miller: Just making this my Western slot. 5. Lolita: This one seems essential but I can never work up the nerve 6. The Life Aquatic: I have never seen a Wes Anderson movie. 7. North Dallas Forty: I've been told that this is the best football movie ever made. I like football and movies. 8. The King's Speech: I borrowed this from the library a few weeks ago but the DVD was scratched and gave out halfway through. I liked what I did see, though. 9. The Man Who Wasn't There: This is my Coen slot now 10. Reds: This seems up my alley and I've been meaning to watch it for years and just haven't gotten to it. Watched (62): Goodfellas, Rear Window, Rashomon, The Searchers, Lawrence of Arabia, American Psycho, The Usual Suspects, L.A. Confidential, Unforgiven, Once Upon a Time in America, Blue Velvet, Schindler's List, Vertigo, First Blood, The Sting, Annie Hall, Twelve Monkeys, The Deer Hunter, Rain Man, Chinatown, Glengarry Glen Ross, Patton, Brazil, Casino, Scanners, Black Swan, Superman, Spartacus, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Seven Samurai, Double Indemnity, The Thing, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Badlands, Planet of the Apes, Shane, Léon: The Professional, Trainspotting, The Conversation, Miller's Crossing, A Fish Called Wanda, City of God, Psycho, Singin' in the Rain, Witness for the Prosecution, Se7en, The Wild Bunch, Oklahoma!, Cool Hand Luke, Paths of Glory, The Night of the Hunter, Blood Simple, Eyes Wide Shut, Memories of Murder, Sunset Boulevard, City Lights, The Artist, The Hudsucker Proxy, Stalker, Barry Lyndon, Stagecoach, Solaris
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I would give anything to have had Bob Fosse make his own film version, his staging of the original production was so wonderfully nasty. Oh, wow, Chicago was a Bob Fosse production? That explains a lot.
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Feb 13, 2019 01:41
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Samuel Clemens posted:Oh, wow, Chicago was a Bob Fosse production? That explains a lot. The musical Gideon is working on in All That Jazz is a parody of Fosse's own work on Chicago, particularly the "Take Off With Us" scene which is, I've heard, a direct reference to his presentation of his staging of "All That Jazz", where producers got their first taste of how he was going to cruelly warp what they thought would be a radio-friendly 30s throwback a la No No Nannette.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:10. Reds: This seems up my alley and I've been meaning to watch it for years and just haven't gotten to it. "I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain." America America - The year is 1896 and Greeks and Armenians are both under persecution by the dominant Turks. The minority populations are burning down large banks and in retaliation their churches are being burnt to the ground. Our main character is Stavros Topouzoglou (Stathis Giallelis) and he has within himself a pathological need to get to America. We follow his travels as he's entrusted with all of his family's heirlooms. He meets a wayward and comedic traveler named Osman (who ends up being a treacherous albeit ingratiating villain). Osman squanders all of Stavros' possessions and as he bows down for prayer time Stavros flies into a rage and stabs him to death. Stavros then does nine months of hard labor to recoup some of his losses but then it's all abruptly stolen by a prostitute. So then it's time to enter into marriage for money. I won't detail the whole story but these are just a few of the surprising turns. Considering most of the setting it could've been titled Turkey Turkey but that probably wouldn't have sold as well. At times the palpable desperation of its characters is as real as those found in Schindler's List (1993) and the story is as epic as Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Besides the engaging story that runs for three hours the film is also full of memorable characters that I haven't even mentioned like Stavros' mother and her agony. Thematically the story felt like The Emigrants (1971). That film had a continuation called The New Land (1972) and it's too bad this film doesn't get one. All in all, another great Elia Kazan film. Also watched: The Monuments Men - A newer entry into the long list of WWII films where US soldiers are paragons of altruism. Wherein the allies are patronizing, sanctimonious and preachy and the axis is the polar opposite. This whole dichotomy is best exemplified by the scene featuring the platoon standing around a mine waiting for it to explode. That was insane...as if the US military was so altruistic they'd turn themselves into lemmings. So it suffers from a few mainstream canards. Early on Frank Stokes (George Clooney) points out that war is destructive as he shows slides of the abbey at Monte Cassino reduced to a pile of rubble. The need to rescue important art is brought up. With its glossiness (and light and cheery music) and some cutesy jokes like James Granger (Matt Damon) speaking French poorly I was reminded of The Patriot (2000). The film keeps positing the question as to whether or not art is worth life. In the end it concludes that it is but things are not always that simple. It's a case-by-case basis at best but even that's debatable. I suppose the story was novel in a few ways but still bogged down by familiar underpinnings. I'm tired of this popular dichotomy. Show me some films on the Dresden bombings, show me a film with Germans working in a crematorium. Show me a film with FDR hanging around with his mistress Lucy Mercer. Show me a film featuring Hitler during WWI. Show me a film during the Nuremberg trials with the allies laying out the selective prosecution of war crimes. These are just a few difficult, challenging and disturbing topics that probably won't ever be covered in popular contemporary US film. And as time goes on things will only get more distorted and shoehorned to fit into modern tastes. I watch war films not for the schmaltzy sugarcoated fare but for unbridled WAR. Films like Red Angel, Come and See and Johnny Got His Gun. Not this black and white morality/hogwash that says "allies are good guys that smile and the axis are bad guys that make angry faces." Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in ruins while people partied in the US. Imagine a film intercut between those two settings...it'd be repulsive. Just one of the many strange realities of WWII. It's peculiar that if actual authentic WWII films were made they'd outclass the vast majority of entries in the horror genre. The stuff would be rated NC-17 and leave viewers exiting the theaters sick. I remember meeting with a guy who survived The Battle of the Bulge and the unfiltered stories from actual veterans is the stuff nightmares are made of... OK...I could continue this soapbox rant much longer but I'll stop here. The Naked Kiss - Another raw and blunt film from Samuel Fuller. It has intelligent dialogue and feels like a 1960s throwback to the 1930s and 1940s. Kind of like M (1931). A vindictive prostitute uses her purse as a powerful weapon. But she's fed up with her line of work and decides to go into nursing. Nursing crippled kids who constantly dress up as pirates. Near the end it takes a hard and salacious turn as it's revealed that a wealthy and respected local is actually a pedophile. Our nurse/prostitute slams a large telephone over his head and kills him. From then on she's seen as a villain until she can prove her innocence. Like the other Samuel Fuller films I've seen it's basically a nightmare with a few reprieves to soften the blow. James Bond versus Godzilla (33/64 completed): new Godzilla vs. Biollante - Godzilla vs. giant flower. Godzilla in the 1980s definitely went by fast. 2/22/19 Notebooks on Cinema's 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World (93/100 completed): #23 The Mother and the Whore - It's ranked highly on the TSPDT list every year. 12/10/18 new #31 The Barefoot Contessa - I've seen so many great films starring Humphrey Bogart and yet there are still many more remaining. 2/22/19 #39 Ivan the Terrible, Part I - Controversial in its time. 12/23/18 new #40 The Wind - I've heard it's another underseen one. 2/22/19 #46 The Crowd – Something about NYC. 12/23/18 #83 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas - An island adventure. 10/20/18 #88 Him AKA El - I haven't seen a Luis Bunuel film lately. 1/16/19 Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years (97/100 completed): #67 Seven Beauties - Sounds like a fresh look at WWII for a change. 9/29/18 #96 My Little Chickadee - I haven't seen a film starring W.C. Fields in a film in a long, long time. 1/16/19 Zogo fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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Feb 22, 2019 23:46
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Zogo posted:
Here you go. I loved All That Jazz. It's frantic, it's stylish and kind of scuzzy, and it's a meditation on mortality. I don't know a whole lot about Bob Fosse, though I'm vaguely aware that this was at least somewhat auto-biographical based on his time making Lenny while juggling a Broadway show (Chicago?), right? Correct me if I'm wrong...I haven't taken the dive into the Criterion special features just yet. Anyway, I love Roy Scheider here (and in everything, honestly). He cuts the arrogance and general scoundrel behaviour with a tenderness and certain amount of regret that makes him feel human. Not exactly redeemable, I don't think he's let off the hook, but multi-faceted enough that it doesn't feel like a giant stroke job. For a movie that jumps into some pretty dark water, its breeziness and flair make it a blast to watch. I can't wait to see it on the big screen this coming week...it's playing at the Royal Cinema in Toronto. I also watched To Die For, and it was exactly my kind of thing and I don't usually go for Gus Van Sant. It's fierce, vicious, funny, disturbing. It's kind of a miracle that all the tones are effectively juggled, but they are. Nicole Kidman unsurprisingly incredible as a wannabe television personality who will stop at nothing to get where she needs to be. While it's definitely its own beast, I definitely was reminded of movies both older and newer than it while watching. It's like taking A Face in the Crowd, Gone Girl, Nightcrawler, and a Christopher Guest mockumentary and tossing them all in a blender. I just appreciate how far it takes the Suzanne character. At first, she just seems like a naive, try-hard, airhead go-getter...but it's obvious with how Kidman locks into her performance that it's all a method of disarming people. She's underestimated...and maybe if she wasn't so discretely overconfident, things might have gone a bit differently. LIST O SHAME 1) 35 Shots of Rhum - Man, Claire Denis' movies are relatively tricky to find. This one is easier than others...so I'll start here. 2) The White Ribbon - It's taken me a long time to get into Haneke, but I want to keep going. 3) Paprika - Anime from the creator of Perfect Blue, which I was a fan of. Figured I should see another. 4) The Exterminating Angel - I've barely dipped my toe into Bunuel's filmography. 5) Starlet - Sean Baker before Tangerine and The Florida Project. 6) Taste of Cherry - Kiarostami is very good from what I've seen, so let's check out some more. 7) Topsy Turvy - Ahhh Mike Leigh, looks less downtrodden than some of his work, but I'm still generally a novice with him. 8) Joint Security Area - I've seen, and loved, most of Park Chan-wook's movies, but haven't seen this one. 9) Winter Light - More Bergman. 10) Doctor Zhivago - I love Lean, but I always need a push with him...it's so long. SHAME BE GONE (PART DEUX): Top Secret!, Yi Yi, New York New York, Rio Bravo, Dogtooth, Song of the Sea, The Fog, A Touch of Zen, Walkabout, Starman, Young Girls of Rochefort, Cléo From 5 to 7, Sansho the Bailiff, Harvey, Le Silence de la Mer, A Brighter Summer Day, To Die For, All That Jazz (Total: 18)
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All That Jazz is explicitly a sardonic selfie, yeah.
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I thought so. I wonder how the Fosse/Verdon show on FX will be.
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Ratedargh posted:6) Taste of Cherry - Kiarostami is very good from what I've seen, so let's check out some more. I can't not choose Kiarostami... perfect for a weekend morning / afternoon. Enjoy. How the West Was Won With this ridiculous ensemble cast, the real standout is the Cinerama - which would've been really great to see on three screens back in 1962. But on DVD at home the screen felt almost squished together at times. All the big names from James Stewart to Gregory Peck to Henry Fonda are all good here, but it was Debbie Reynolds as Lily Prescott that is most memorable. Whether it was her lavish dresses or her cheery disposition (particularly in singing around the campfire), she made the film far more entertaining and less of a bore that could've resulted without her. I do love the overture, intermission and entr'acte in films like these, but it always makes such an immediate and grandiose statement. With that, it also raises your expectations and needs to deliver, and How The West Was Won does plenty to keep things interesting. Oh, and Thelma Ritter was fantastic as always. LIST Amy [2015 - 128mins] - (2018.05.19) - don't know much about her or her music but have heard great things about this film. (documentary) The Best of Youth [2003 - 366mins!] - (2018.05.01) - if I'm ever going to commit to watch this one, it'll be from this list. (unwatched DVD) Une Chambre En Ville [1982 - 90mins] - (2018.10.14) - apparently the "darker cousin" to Umbrellas of Cherbourg? Sounds like fun. (blind-bought boxsets) Cria Cuervos [1976 - 110mins] - (2018.09.09) - this has been ignored on my shelf for years... I need the motivation to see it. (Criterion) An Education [2009 - 100mins] - (2018.07.16) - love Carey Mulligan & always heard great things but never make it a priority. (21st Century shame) How Green Was My Valley [1941 - 118mins] - **NEW** (2019.02.11) - all I ever hear is how great it is - maybe it's the boring title that kept me away? (Best Picture Winner) Irma La Douce [1963 - 135mins] - (2018.05.17) - another 2+hr Lemmon/Wilder collaboration .. & Shirley MacLaine returns! (Lemmon/Matthau) The Little Foxes [1941 - 115mins] - **OLDEST** (2018.04.21) - one of Davis' earlier roles. (Bette Davis) The Wind That Shakes the Barley [2006 - 124mins] - **NEW** (2019.03.02) - the international Best Picture? I'm only 37% through Cannes biggest prize. (Palme d'Or winners) Your Name [2016 - 106mins] - (2018.08.04) - noticed that I'm 86% done the IMDb Top 250 list... let's get this thing completed. (IMDb Top 250) De-shamed Pt3: Ordinary People (4/5), Chicago (4.5/5), How the West Was Won (3.5/5), [Total:203]
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