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My favorites are Inherent Vice, The Phantom Thread and The Master but I would happily watch any PTA movie. Criterion has a relationship with Penguin based on their previous pack-in novels, I'd buy a set with a 4K Inherent Vice and a 70s styled paperback of the novel in a heartbeat.
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DetoxP posted:How... Do I know you? Yes. TWWB, The Master, Inherent Vice, and Phantom Thread are all deeply interrelated for me. PDL (good film!) seems to be a dividing point, and I just don't spend much time thinking about his early career. edit; comparing the soundtrack art for greenwood's scores is fun, too, whereas the films prior to PDL come off as ensembles, the films after PDL carve toward character studies, which the art and music kind of reflect     BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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Hard Eight is also extremely good and especially as a debut film it's a really impressive achievement. It's exactly the type of film that usually ends up in the Criterion collection, now that I think about it.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:IMHO it's his best film by a decent margin.  Roth posted:I watched Mishima last night. This movie feels, stylistically, head and shoulders above just about any other biopic I can think of. If you like stylistically innovative biopics, you should definitely check out The Color of Pomegranates.
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Ok Comboomer posted:people like Boogie Nights for the smut Smut is underrated. We need more smut in our movies.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Smut is underrated. We need more smut in our movies. spotted Ebert's account
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Gripweed posted:I watched Quadrophenia Quadrophenia is a fantastic movie, I love it. It has some of my favorite scenes of crowds dancing in any movie. Multiple minutes-long scenes of people vibing to The Crystals with these big sweeping camera movements between them, it's impossible not to love it.
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Coheed and Camembert posted:Quadrophenia is a fantastic movie, I love it. It has some of my favorite scenes of crowds dancing in any movie. Multiple minutes-long scenes of people vibing to The Crystals with these big sweeping camera movements between them, it's impossible not to love it. The party and the riot scenes are all so good, they really capture the feeling of the crowd super well.
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Basebf555 posted:Hard Eight is also extremely good and especially as a debut film it's a really impressive achievement. It's exactly the type of film that usually ends up in the Criterion collection, now that I think about it. It is in the collection. They released it on laserdisc, as well as Boogie Nights.
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Roth posted:I watched Mishima last night. This movie feels, stylistically, head and shoulders above just about any other biopic I can think of. Excellent movie but you could argue that it’s not even the best biopic Paul Schroeder wrote the screenplay to (Raging Bull)
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Excellent movie but you could argue that it’s not even the best biopic Paul Schrader wrote the screenplay to (The Last Temptation of Christ)
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I always forget Schrader wrote that one somehow
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As most ITT know, the New York Stories series on the channel is lousy with classics this month, as well as a bunch of things I'm looking forward to seeing, like Downtown 81 and After Hours https://youtu.be/gQdDtn3agtE My wife and I used to live right across the river in Jersey City and would go to tons of things in New York before the pandemic, but what I loved most was going to as many screenings at the arthouse theaters as I possibly could. Criterion always kills it with these trailers, but drat if I didn't get a little emotional with this one. I guess it's just a potent mix of going to the city my whole life, being a movie nerd, and being bummed about a lot of the things I've missed over the last two years. I have to imagine a lot of the Criterion staff in New York have been feeling the same way. Feeling both  and  from this oneSorry, didn't mean to turn this into the CD E/N thread..
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I watched Bergman's All These Women and it was loving awful, who else has been subjected to this movie?
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I watched Some Like It Hot. It's not bad. I liked those dresses that Sugar wore that made it look like she was topless. The ending was great too. king poo poo.
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Follow that poo poo up with The Apartment if you’ve never seen it. It’s on the channel now
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Iirc they had to do like 30 takes of Marilyn going "it's me, Sugar!" for her to get it rightMagic Hate Ball posted:I watched Bergman's All These Women and it was loving awful, who else has been subjected to this movie? I really want to watch Mishima, I was thinking of watching it with my parents but they are hardcore prudes. Is that going to work? (without spoilers please) (yes I know about the incident) KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Sep 6, 2021 |
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I'm convinced that everyone who claims to love Bergman beyond Seventh Seal is a big fat liar. Smiles of a Summer's Night is good.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Iirc they had to do like 30 takes of Marilyn going "it's me, Sugar!" for her to get it right As hardcore prudes, the coup scenes are probably the thing your parents would object the least, as there's nudity, sex scenes, and plenty of latent homosexual desire in the entire film.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I watched Bergman's All These Women and it was loving awful, who else has been subjected to this movie? I actually thought it was amusing because it came off as cinematic shitposting and there's genuinely pretty use of color by Sven Nyquist. The Touch is the only Bergman I thought was flat out awful and I don't have interest in watching again. Can't even say it's a language barrier because I saw interviews with Bergman from a decade prior and he's clearly fluent in English, so I dunno what happened. It's interesting how he followed up two of his worst films with some of his best - following up All These Women with Persona, then after The Touch he made Cries and Whispers. KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I'm convinced that everyone who claims to love Bergman beyond Seventh Seal is a big fat liar. I've watched 40 feature films by Bergman, all but one from Criterion's big box, and had only seen four prior to it. While I think a lot of his 1940s/early 50s stuff tends to be forgettable, I would consider him one of my favorite filmmakers now. Of his early work, I did find To Joy, Waiting Women, and Dreams to be fantastic. Other than All These Women and The Touch, his films from 1957 onwards are consistently good to great. I'm particularly fond of From the Life of Marionettes.
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Bergman is absolutely one of the GOATs for me. When I was at university I had a Woody Allen-level devotion to him just in case anyone isn’t aware this is a reference to Allen being a huge Bergman fan, not some sort of weird pedo joke
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One film that caught me off guard was Saraband, which deceptively starts off as you'd expect from a seasoned filmmaker making something more sentimental. He gets you into that comfort zone, then rips the carpet under, but still manages to have that level of tenderness that doesn't come off as inauthentic. For those unfamiliar with Bergman's work outside The Seventh Seal, I'd say Wild Strawberries, Winter Light, Shame, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander are all extremely accessible. Persona is probably my favorite Bergman film overall, but that may not be the easiest to get into.
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Yeah my favourites are Scenes, Persona, F&A, and Winter Light, but the only one I’ve seen I wasn’t so hot on was The Silence. Wild Strawberries and Scenes are my personal recs for good starting points, but any of the others Egbert mentioned would work. Persona was the first Berg I saw funnily enough and I absolutely loved it, but yeah it’s very weird and experimental compared to his other work. Big influence on Mulholland Dr, which is why I watched it in the first place
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I'm about as diehard as a Bergman fan as you can get (see my avatar). I've seen 61 of his features (including TV movies and televised theatrical productions), 5 of his shorts, and 5 films he wrote but didn't direct. All These Women is at the very bottom of the list. I forced myself to sit through it a second time, couldn't bring myself to watch it again on Blu-Ray (although I did skim it to appreciate the cinematography, which is the only redeeming quality). My top 30: 1. Fanny and Alexander (miniseries) 2. Scenes from a Marriage (theatrical) 3. Through a Glass Darkly 4. Scenes from a Marriage (miniseries) 5. Shame 6. Winter Light 7. Sawdust and Tinsel 8. Autumn Sonata 9. Smiles of a Summer Night 10. The Silence 11. Wild Strawberries 12. The Virgin Spring 13. Persona 14. The Seventh Seal 15. Saraband 16. Hour of the Wolf 17. Summer with Monika 18. Thirst 19. Cries and Whispers 20. In the Presence of a Clown 21. Brink of Life 22. Fanny and Alexander (theatrical) 23. Dreams 24. Hustruskolan (School for Wives) 25. The Passion of Anna 26. Summer Interlude 27. Spöksonaten (The Ghost Sonata) 28. The Last Gasp 29. Ovader (Storms) 30. The Magician
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Electronico6 posted:As hardcore prudes, the coup scenes are probably the thing your parents would object the least, as there's nudity, sex scenes, and plenty of latent homosexual desire in the entire film. Gripweed posted:Smiles of a Summer's Night is good.
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Lmao https://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/status/1435224735919579137?s=19
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Filmed and Furious: HK Grift.
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Chris Knight posted:Filmed and Furious: HK Grift.
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Tampopo is really good. Easily my second favorite comedy featuring Ken Watanabe as a truck driver. The segment with the businessmen in the fancy restaurant is the best part
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Gripweed posted:Tampopo is really good. Easily my second favorite comedy featuring Ken Watanabe as a truck driver. The segment with the businessmen in the fancy restaurant is the best part Tampopo slaps. It makes me hungry as hell, and who could resist that adorable face. 
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Definitely has me craving turtle soup!
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No Fuckin’ Thanks
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Chris Knight posted:The ending sucks though. The second half also felt weaker. All of the bossing around got old.Just watched my first WKW. Days of Being Wild. Really loved the cinematography, the smoldering characters, and weirdly enough, even the green tint too! rngd in the womb fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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Isnt the Tampopo ending just a western ending. Town is saved, time to ride off. Best movie showing gives life, sex, death, and squishys.
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checkplease posted:Isnt the Tampopo ending just a western ending. Town is saved, time to ride off. 
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Lol oops. Forgot about that.
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I watched Sunset Boulevard the other night on the channel as many directors cite it as an inspiration. The opening and last 20 minutes were fantastic. But the middle dragged for me quite a bit. Maybe the Norma character was just very effective in being unlikeable.
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quote:Seitz recalled asking Wilder what he required for the pet chimpanzee's funeral scene. Wilder replied, "you know, just your standard monkey funeral shot."
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