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Atheistdeals.com posted:9. Magnolia - I've loved the 3 Paul Thomas Anderson films that I've seen. Recommending this because it's the next movie on my list. caiman posted:Seaniqua, please watch Reservoir Dogs. You can't be a true Tarantino fan without doing so. Wow, this movie was great. Better than I expected it to be. It's hard to say whether I liked it more or less than Pulp Fiction, but it's definitely giving Inglorious Basterds a run for my second favorite Tarantino movie. It's splitting hairs, anyway, because this movie was really quite good. I think this might be the least contrived of any of Tarantino's movies, with the possible exception of Jackie Brown, but I haven't seen that movie in probably six years. Saying it's less contrived than movies like Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds isn't to those films' discredit, it's just interesting to see a Tarantino movie about a heist gone wrong instead of an homage to this and that, or revisionary war history. It's like 12 Angry Men except instead of these guys discussing a trial, they're discussing the bank heist from Heat. I don't really think there's anything I could nitpick about this movie, I just really enjoyed it from beginning to end. It was really well paced, told an interesting story, and very well acted. Updated list of shame: 1.) Schindler's List. This is a movie I've always meant to watch but I don't think I've ever seen it on TV or anything. I assume it's pretty depressing and sometimes it's hard to get people excited to watch something like that. I expect to like this movie. 2.) Citizen Kane. Lauded by so many as one of the best movies ever, I've only ever seen snippets of it. "Rosebud" and the gif of Orson Welles clapping are really the only things I know about this movie. 3.) A Clockwork Orange. I remember my dad telling me about this movie when I was young and it scared the poo poo out of me. At least that's how I remember it. There are a handful of Kubrick movies I need to see but I think this will be the next one I watch. 4.) Casablanca. A classic favorite and I don't think I've ever seen a minute of it. Something about a war, a piano, and a hill of beans. The hill of beans might have been from Gone With the Wind, which I've also never seen, someone says hill of beans in one of those movies. 5.) North by Northwest. I don't think I've ever seen a Hitchcock movie all the way through and I've always wanted to. I don't know the plot of this movie but I'm pretty sure it involves Mount Rushmore at some point. 6.) The Incredibles. This is the only non-Cars Pixar movie I've never seen. When it was new I was in a phase where I thought family movies were stupid. Pixar proved me wrong a few years later but I have yet to remedy this. 7.) The Godfather Part III. Now, I don't expect this movie to be great, just because of all the poo poo people have talked about it. That being said, I put it on the list anyway, because I've been meaning to watch it for so long. The first two Godfather movies are two of my favorite movies of all time, so I figure I need to bite the bullet and go through with this. 8.) Sixth Sense. I know the plot, I know the twist, I know all that stuff. I've never seen a lick of this movie or any other M. Night movie. I hear this is his best one, so I'd like to see it. I'm just not big on horror movies. 9.) Yojimbo. Seven Samurai has pretty much convinced me to keep a Kurosawa film on here. 10.) Magnolia. The only PTA movie I've seen is Punch Drunk Love, and that was a long time ago. This movie comes highly recommended. List of shameless: Seven Samurai (4.5/5), Goodfellas(4/5), Reservoir Dogs(5/5) Seaniqua fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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What was most interesting about Reservoir Dogs was how much they did with how little. It was clearly a low budget film, and most of the scenes were just people talking in a warehouse, yet it felt like there was a lot going on. Most of the action was told about rather than shown, but the dialogue brought it to life. Really shows that you don't need a fortune to make a good movie.
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Seaniqua posted:9.) Yojimbo. Seven Samurai has pretty much convinced me to keep a Kurosawa film on here. You'll soon find out that Toshiro Mifune is the Original Cinematic Badass Hero. The Virgin Spring was quite intense! Simple film, yet very powerful and emotionally draining. There is plenty of symbolism and a lot of reflection on religion and vengeance, all that Bergman stuff, what reigns it all in is Max von Sydow incredible performance. Especially when he takes down the birch tree, his silent struggle and the great photography make up for great touching moment. Though I'm not so sure on that ending, something about it doesn't feel quite right, either Bergman didn't want such a bleak ending or he was having a private laugh at the characters. Remains a great film anyway. SHAME: Richard III Long Live King McKellen! Letter from an Unknown Woman Going in blind on this one. L'Âge d'or Not really knowing where to start with Luis Buñuel, I'll go from the beginning.(I watched Un Chien Andalou) Wild at Heart More wildness from Lynch. Millennium II-The Girl Who Played with Fire Yeah you'll have to force this one on me. The Dead The last film John Huston made. Mr. Hulot's Holiday Keeping up with the physical comedy hour. Miller's Crossing Almost done with the Coens. Chimes at Midnight Welles, Shakespeare and a decent Spanish DvD copy. Dodes'ka-den I still have some Kurosawa films remaining to complete his oeuvre. Have watched so far 50 movies: Barton Fink, Sweet Smell of Success, The 400 Blows, Rocky, Videodrome, Charade, The Double Life of Veronique, Ace in the Hole, Easy Rider, Dark City, Gosford Park, Seven, Hard Boiled, Mystic River, The Magnificent Ambersons, Midnight Cowboy, A Serious Man, A Hard Day's Night, Manhattan, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hamlet, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The New World, Carlos, Blood Simple, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Gangs of New York, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Burn After Reading, Mesrine:Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy nrº1, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Wild Strawberries, Repulsion, The Long Good Friday, Island of Lost Souls, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom, Beauty and the Beast, Zodiac, After Hours, Nights of Cabiria, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Encounters at the End of the World, The Cameraman, Hard Eight, The Purple Rose of Cairo, My Darling Clementine, The Virgin Spring.
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Electronico6, I loved Dodes'ka-den so that's what you're watching.   The Limey Yeah, this was pretty drat great, and it made a lot more sense than watching it cold 10 years ago did. Other than the opening and final scenes I didn't remember any of it. The editing style is probably the thing that stands out the most, and I have to admit it took me a while for it to click. Once it did, though, I thought is was brilliant. A great way to really get into a character's head. Stamp's performance is fantastic, so that helped too. Updated list: Possession Not sure why I have this on my need to see list actually. Maybe someone here recommended it? Seems like it could be brilliant or terrible. Twenty-Four Eyes Never seen a Kinoshita film. Seems like the place to start. Atanarjuat Been curious about this since it first came out, but 3 hours seems way too long. La belle noiseuse If it weren't 4 hours I would have seen it already. I've been meaning to put it on my list for a year but thought I'd get around to it on my own. Silver Lode Mr. Scorsese spoiled this movie's ending for me. I was hoping I'd forget but that's not going to happen. Portrait of Jennie Want to see more Jennifer Jones. Le Fils I've seen two great films from the Dardennes, let's watch another. Vertical Ray of the Sun Will I be bored or enamoured? Stand and Deliver Teacher movies can be very hit or miss with me, but I've heard lots of praise for this. For the hell of it, here's what I've seen so far: Last Tango In Paris 7.5/10 , Lola Montes 8.5/10 , First Blood 8.5/10 , Lolita 8.5/10 , The New World 8.5/10 , The Decalogue 9.5/10 , Neotpravlennoye pismo 10/10 , A Passage to India 8.5/10 , Yi-Yi 8.5/10 , The Last Emperor 7.5/10 , In a Year with 13 Moons 8.5/10 , The Big Red One 8.5/10 , Les Vampires 9.5/10 , Ballad of a Soldier 9.5/10 , Chelsea Girls 7.5/10 , Kin-Dza-Dza 9/10 , My Life as a Dog 8/10 , The Man who Fell to Earth 8/10 , Red Beard 8.5/10 , Satantango 9/10 , Napoleon 10/10 , Faces 9/10 , Godzilla 7/10, Olympia I 9.5/10 II 8.5/10 , Bad Day at Black Rock 9/10, Soy Cuba 9.5/10, Ossessione 8/10, Greed 10/10, Hoop Dreams 9.5/10, The Burmese Harp 9.5/10 , Éloge de l'amour 6.5/10 , Woodstock 7.5/10 , Die Nibelungen Siegfried 9/10 Kriemhild 8.5/10, Ceddo 10/10 , Wrath of Khan - 7/10 , Shoah 9/10 , City of Sadness 8.5/10, Fires on the Plain 9/10 , Berlin Alexanderplatz 9/10 , Heima 6.5/10 , Angels with Dirty Faces 8.5/10 , Juliet 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Amadeus is a good movie. Tom Hulce is great, Elizabeth Berridge even better, the camerawork is good though under-acheiving, and the normally insufferable F Murray Abraham didn't piss me off at all! I watched the director's cut, merely because it was the easiest to get a hold of, and I couldn't pick out a single scene which felt unnecessary. Those boobs were phenomenal as well. All in all, though, I don't think it's the masterpiece I heard. It's merely a very good, lively period piece - but then, what more can I ask for? PA, Portrait of Jennie is very good. New list: Mike's Murder I don't know enough '80s dramas, and I heard this is a hidden classic crime movie. But the same person who told me that said the same about 8 Million Ways to Die, which is dick. The Darjeeling Limited I have never enjoyed a Wes Anderson movie, but I feel obligated to watch them. Deep Red Two hour version or hour and a half version? Advise and Consent Somehow I always thought this and The Americanization of Emily were the same movie. Little Man, What Now? or Man's Castle I went through a big Borzage phase, but someone I couldn't get back into him after. I need a push to remember how much I love him. My Brother's Wedding So there's a director's cut that's like a half hour shorter? Which should I see? A Time to Love and a Time to Die Sirk hasn't steered me wrong yet. new: Apocalypto This is good, right? Montenegro or Sweet Movie I loved WR and the Eclipse set, but I've avoided Sweet Movie because I heard it sucks and Montenegro because the poster is crap. Szerelem This looks fantastic, but somehow I can't get myself to sit down for it. Finished from this thread: Au Hasard Balthazar (8/10), In the Mood for Love (8.5/10), La Dolce Vita (6.5/10), Anatomy of Murder (9/10), The Grand Illusion (9/10), Ben-Hur (8.5/10), Gone with the Wind (9/10), Black Orpheus (8/10), The Departed (4/10), Midnight Cowboy (5/10), The Red Shoes (9.5/10), Harvey (8.5/10), M. Hulot's Holiday (7.5/10), Trouble in Paradise (8/10), Ugetsu Monogatari (8/10), All That Heaven Allows (9.5/10), Blow-Up (8/10), If... (8/10), The Bad & The Beautiful (7.5/10). Autumn Sonata (9/10), Harold and Maude (3.5/10), L'Atalante (8/10), Anticipation of the Night (8.5/10), Cleo from 5 to 7 (8/10), Wavelength (7/10), Saddle the Wind (7/10), Partie de campagne (7.5/10), My Neighbor Totoro (7/10), Shadows (8/10), Odd Man Out (8/10), Don't Look Now (8/10), Dead Ringers (7.5/10), Written on the Wind (8.5/10), My Winnipeg (8/10), On Dangerous Ground (8.5/10), The King of Comedy (8.5/10), Berlin Express (7/10), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (8.5/10), 3 Women (8.5/10). Harakiri (9.5/10), Zelig (7.5/10), Veronika Voss (7.5/10), Late Spring (8/10), Soldier of Orange (7/10), Vivre Sa Vie (8.5/10), The American Friend (7.5/10), The Endless Sumer (7.5/10), Yesterday Girl (7.5/10), Battleground (8/10), Two-Lane Blacktop (8/10), Chimes at Midnight (9/10), Trash Humpers (6/10), The Docks of New York (9/10), The Fallen Idol (9/10), Fires on the Plain (9/10), Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (7.5/10), The Americanization of Emily (8.5/10), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (8/10), The Mirror (8.5/10), The Thin Man (8.5/10), Danger: Diabolik (7.5/10), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (7.5/10), Black God White Devil (8/10), Little Fugitive (8/10), Drunken Angel (7.5/10), Funeral Parade of Roses (9/10), How to Train Your Dragon (8/10), Across 110th Street (7.5/10), The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (8/10), The Wind (8.5), Portrait of Jennie (7/10), Primer (8/10), To Catch a Thief (8/10), The Fantastic Mr. Fox (4/10), Getrud (8.5/10), Our Hospitality (9/10), Les Diaboliques (8/10), The Awful Truth (8/10), Duel in the Sun (6.5/10), A Guy Named Joe (6/10), Quiet City (5/10), People on Sunday (8.5/10), Nothing but a Man (8.5/10), Spring Summer Winter Fall and Spring (8/10), Comradship (7.5/10), Too Early, Too Late (4/10), Wooden Crosses (7.5/10), White Zombie (8.5/10), No Highway in the Sky (8/10), The Wanderers (8.5/10), My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (7/10), Our Town (9/10), The Winning of Barbara Worth (8/10), Red Riding 1974 (7/10), Grand Hotel (8/10), Rapt (8/10), The Champ (7/10), Red Beard (8.5/10), Rendez-vous d'Anna (8/10), Two Thousand Maniacs! 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penismightier posted:Worst: Harold and Maude[/sub] I just now noticed this... can you please explain, or requote your old review? I adored this movie and would love to hear the flip side.
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Chili posted:I just now noticed this... can you please explain, or requote your old review? I adored this movie and would love to hear the flip side. Both the best and the worst are kinda tied - I can't really decide if All That Heaven Allows or Harakiri is the best I've seen, or if Harold and Maude or Too Early Too Late is the worst. My review was slim: "Harold and Maude was very one note. The first half hour was the same joke over and over - the suicide poo poo was impressive and funny the first time, annoying the fifth. I didn't like Harold and I didn't like Maude. I really didn't like Maude. Oh well. It was well shot, though, and I always love Cat Stevens, and it was cool to see MASH's General Hammond with a hairpiece. Oh, and Tom Skerritt was pretty funny." Maude really pissed me off at the time, but in retrospect Harold is worse. It's an uphill battle for me when your lead is listless and mopey, and he had basically no redeeming characteristics. He was a boring entitled manchild, and she was a cloying old pain in the rear end. Tom Skerritt did rule, though.
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penismightier posted:A Time to Love and a Time to Die Sirk hasn't steered me wrong yet. Here's a movie I've never heard of until now. I loved Magnolia. It feels like Anderson tried to jam everything that was on his mind at the time into this film. And it somehow works, most of the time anyway. There are a lot of characters and a lot of threads to follow, but I was interested in everything that was going on. The direction is just dazzling, I can accept this much self-indulgence when it comes from such a talented person. 1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - Next highest on the They Shoot Pictures list. 2. Time of the Gypsies - One of my highest PSIs on Criticker but I never really see it talked about much. 3. The Lives of Others - I see this compared to The Conversation a lot, which I loved. 4. MASH - Going in a slightly different direction when it comes to 70s war films. 5. The Cranes Are Flying - I am definitely looking forward to this one. 6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Newman and Redford? I'm already sold. 7. Spirited Away - Next highest ranked movie on the IMDb top 250 that I haven't seen. This one looks fun. 8. It Happened One Night - Might as well put another Capra film here. 9. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - This sounds pretty interesting, I suppose. Watched/Criticker Tier: The Seventh Seal 10, Moon 8, Barton Fink 10, The Thin Blue Line 9, Cool Hand Luke 9, Citizen Kane 10, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10, Rear Window 10, North by Northwest 9, Goodfellas 10, Casablanca 10, City Lights 8, Seven Samurai 10, Bicycle Thieves 9, Do the Right Thing 10, The Battle of Algiers 9, On the Waterfront 7, Wild Strawberries 10, The Trial 10, Adaptation 9, Unforgiven 10, Annie Hall 9, The 400 Blows 9, Diabolique 8, Mulholland Dr. 10, Dirty Harry 5, The 39 Steps 8, Aguirre: The Wrath of God 10, 8 1/2 9, Boogie Nights 9, A Streetcar Named Desire 7, Raiders of the Lost Ark 10, The General 9, Pickpocket 7, Pulp Fiction 10, Amadeus 10, Lawrence of Arabia 10, Eraserhead 8, The Lady Vanishes 8, The Wild Bunch 8, A Clockwork Orange 7, Platoon 7, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 9, Ikiru 10, Jules and Jim 10, The Asphalt Jungle 8, M 9, The Thin Red Line 9, Dial M for Murder 9, The Sting 8, Once Upon a Time in the West 9, The Exterminating Angel 9, A Woman Under the Influence 10, Singin' in the Rain 9, Scenes From a Marriage 10, Badlands 8, City of God 10, The Gold Rush 7, The Maltese Falcon 9, The Conformist 9, The Shawshank Redemption 8, High and Low 10, It's a Wonderful Life 7, Days of Heaven 9, Le Samourai 6, The Night of the Hunter 10, Metropolis 10, The New World 10, Persona 8, Manhattan 9, Some Like It Hot 7, The Rules of the Game 10, Nights of Cabiria 7, The Graduate 10, Pather Panchali 10, Punch-Drunk Love 9, Grand Illusion 8, The Hustler 8, The Great Escape 8, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 7, Memento 9, Forbidden Planet 7, Stagecoach 7, The Usual Suspects 6, The Big Sleep 8, Modern Times 7, Tokyo Story 9, Seven 9, The Searchers 6, The Battleship Potemkin 6, Videodrome 8, Léon: The Professional 6, American History X 4, The Grapes of Wrath 7, The Wages of Fear 9, Bonnie and Clyde 6, Mean Streets 8, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 8, American Beauty 6, The Great Dictator 7, Children of Paradise 10, La Dolce Vita 4, The Deer Hunter 8, Ben-Hur 5, Magnolia 9 (Total: 105)
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Atheistdeals, if you like Wes Anderson you'll love Rushmore. Enjoy. Knocked two films off of my list. Inland Empire...What to say about this loving movie? It doesn't feel like a movie, it feels like a meditation. It's like a series of scenes with nothing connecting them, a dream that never ends. I don't even know if I watched a movie or if I just fell asleep and dreamed the rest of it. At three hours it's certainly an endurance test. It's simultaneously a 0 and a 100. It defies any explanation and really is the epitome of zen - It just is. Do the locomotion. Gojira on the other hand is easier to put into words. It's good, but not great. It starts off quite slow, although the last half hour is pretty good. It's fun when Godzilla's on screen, but it can get repetitive. I'd much rather rewatch the original King Kong than rewatch this, but it's still a solid film. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - Got this as a blind buy, mostly because The RZA praised it. It's been sitting around for a few months now. Clash of the Titans - The original 1981 film. Another one that I dug out of the bargain bin and have left sitting around. The Cow - Watched a Dariush Mehrjui film in my Film & Gender class last semester and have been wanting to check out some of his other stuff. This seems interesting. A Hard Day's Night - As a Beatles fan I should really see this. Y Tu Mama Tambien - Really, I only want to watch this because I heard Frank Zappa's on the soundtrack. And road trip movies tend to be up my alley anyway. Marathon Man - This is the heart-warming tale of a man who overcomes his disabilities to win the Boston marathon...right? RIGHT? Big Trouble In Little China - John Carpenter and Kurt Russell are one of my favorite Director/Actor combos. I should probably see this. A Woman Is A Woman - Godard? Godard. On The Waterfront - I should really expand my Brando horizons. I'm not too familiar with his early roles. Black Narcissus - Something about nuns, but not the flying kind. Watched: Harold and Maude; The Third Man; Inland Empire; Gojira
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TrixRabbi posted:Big Trouble In Little China - John Carpenter and Kurt Russell are one of my favorite Director/Actor combos. I should probably see this. I have unwatched blind-bought DVDs and VHS recordings from years ago lying around, as well as access to a university library. I'm tired of seeing that stuff sit around, so force me to watch and write about these movies in order to improve my viewing habits and my critical writings about film. Ace in the Hole - Vicious Billy Wilder satire? Sign me up! L'Avventura - I love L'Eclisse, so let's see the film that made Antonioni a force in world cinema. An Autumn Afternoon - I've burned through nearly all of the single Ozu releases, as well as the Silent and Late Ozu boxsets. Let's finish up what I have (until I inevitably buy that combo-pack of The Only Son/There Was a Father). Cutter's Way - A critic I enjoy reading said this was his favorite film of the 80s. I probably won't agree with him, but it's obscurity intrigues me and hey, Jeff Bridges. Days of Heaven - Seen three of Malick, so let's go for four. The Magnificent Ambersons - Welles is always worth a watch, even if compromised. McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Loved Nashville, haven't really seen anything else by Altman. My Dinner with Andre - I blind-bought this before the Community episode.  Sansho the Bailiff - Ugetsu was gorgeous but left me a bit cold, so let's see what this does. Wooden Crosses - I blind-bought the Bernard Eclipse set on the basis that this obscure French film about WWI was some kind of hidden gem. Now, I'll be motivated to see if this was true or not.
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Well this thread has been slow the last couple of days. A radii hike, watch Days of Heaven. It's my favorite Malick. Big Trouble In Little China was great because it knows exactly what it wants to be. It's tongue in cheek but also completely sincere in it's absurdity. I especially love that half the time, Jack is useless. Especially during the big battle where he knocks himself out and then gets his knife stuck. It's a lot of fun and finds Carpenter at his most willing to be silly. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - Got this as a blind buy, mostly because The RZA praised it. It's been sitting around for a few months now. Clash of the Titans - The original 1981 film. Another one that I dug out of the bargain bin and have left sitting around. The Cow - Watched a Dariush Mehrjui film in my Film & Gender class last semester and have been wanting to check out some of his other stuff. This seems interesting. A Hard Day's Night - As a Beatles fan I should really see this. Y Tu Mamá También - Really, I only want to watch this because I heard Frank Zappa's on the soundtrack. And road trip movies tend to be up my alley anyway. Marathon Man - This is the heart-warming tale of a man who overcomes his disabilities to win the Boston marathon...right? RIGHT? A Woman Is A Woman - Godard? Godard. On The Waterfront - I should really expand my Brando horizons. I'm not too familiar with his early roles. Black Narcissus - Something about nuns, but not the flying kind. 3 Women - Never seen any Altman. Watched: Harold and Maude; The Third Man; Inland Empire; Gojira; Big Trouble In Little China
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TrixRabbi posted:Marathon Man - This is the heart-warming tale of a man who overcomes his disabilities to win the Boston marathon...right? RIGHT? My own list: The Crying Game - I haven't been living under a rock, so I already know the twist... but I should see it at some point. I like Stephen Rea a lot. East of Eden - I just haven't gotten to it. No particular reason why. Gigi - Same. I love Leslie Caron and Vincente Minnelli is one of my favorite directors. Gilda - I hear she does some cool poo poo with her hair. Godzilla - Not all that into monster movies. (Don't pick this one until the Criterion bluray comes out at least) The Life of Emile Zola - Just haven't gotten to it. I've never read any Zola. The Public Enemy - One of the few of the genre I haven't seen, even though it's probably the most famous example. A Streetcar Named Desire - This is probably the most shameful one. Three Colors: White - Kind of stupid since it's the middle film of the trilogy, though they're not really connected. I loved Blue, I thought Red was so/so. A Woman Under the Influence - I'm very love/hate with Cassavettes, and I have to be extremely in the mood for him. And when I am, so far I've picked shorter films. robix smash fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Jan 16, 2012 |
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robix smash posted:A Streetcar Named Desire - This is probably the most shameful one. Watch it! I've always wanted to see it. In a college class we read the play and for some reason watched the Alec Baldwin version. Electronico6 posted:You'll soon find out that Toshiro Mifune is the Original Cinematic Badass Hero. This pretty well hits the nail on the head. I can't believe how different Mifune is in this movie compared to Seven Samurai. I was really enthralled with his acting and general badassery. Overall, though, I didn't think this movie was as good as Seven Samurai. Maybe that's the wrong way to put it. It's hard to say what exactly I liked more about Seven Samurai. I think I was more emotionally gripped by the story in Seven Samurai. Yojimbo is an exceptionally well made movie, but maybe I was expecting something different after seeing Seven Samurai. It's hard for me to go into Yojimbo without Seven Samurai on the brain, since it's the only other Kurosawa film I've seen, and I saw it so recently. Maybe it will warm on me on subsequent viewings. That being said, I really really enjoyed watching Mifune in this movie. What Kurosawa film should I put on my list next? Updated list of shame: 1.) Schindler's List. This is a movie I've always meant to watch but I don't think I've ever seen it on TV or anything. I assume it's pretty depressing and sometimes it's hard to get people excited to watch something like that. I expect to like this movie. 2.) Citizen Kane. Lauded by so many as one of the best movies ever, I've only ever seen snippets of it. "Rosebud" and the gif of Orson Welles clapping are really the only things I know about this movie. 3.) A Clockwork Orange. I remember my dad telling me about this movie when I was young and it scared the poo poo out of me. At least that's how I remember it. There are a handful of Kubrick movies I need to see but I think this will be the next one I watch. 4.) Casablanca. A classic favorite and I don't think I've ever seen a minute of it. Something about a war, a piano, and a hill of beans. The hill of beans might have been from Gone With the Wind, which I've also never seen, someone says hill of beans in one of those movies. 5.) North by Northwest. I don't think I've ever seen a Hitchcock movie all the way through and I've always wanted to. I don't know the plot of this movie but I'm pretty sure it involves Mount Rushmore at some point. 6.) The Incredibles. This is the only non-Cars Pixar movie I've never seen. When it was new I was in a phase where I thought family movies were stupid. Pixar proved me wrong a few years later but I have yet to remedy this. 7.) The Godfather Part III. Now, I don't expect this movie to be great, just because of all the poo poo people have talked about it. That being said, I put it on the list anyway, because I've been meaning to watch it for so long. The first two Godfather movies are two of my favorite movies of all time, so I figure I need to bite the bullet and go through with this. 8.) Sixth Sense. I know the plot, I know the twist, I know all that stuff. I've never seen a lick of this movie or any other M. Night movie. I hear this is his best one, so I'd like to see it. I'm just not big on horror movies. 9.) Lawrence of Arabia. I literally know nothing about this movie. I've heard it mentioned so many times and it's very high on AFI's list, so maybe it's about time I find out what's up. 10.) Magnolia. The only PTA movie I've seen is Punch Drunk Love, and that was a long time ago. This movie comes highly recommended. List of shameless: Seven Samurai (4.5/5), Goodfellas(4/5), Reservoir Dogs(5/5), Yojimbo(3.5/5) Edit: vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv I'm interested to know the general opinion of Kurosawa's movies in relation to eachother. Since I had never seen one until two weeks ago it's sort of bizarre to go in not knowing what to expect at all. P.S. Thanks for catching my typo Seaniqua fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jan 16, 2012 |
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Jan 16, 2012 21:39
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Seaniqua posted:Overall, though, I didn't think ths movie was as good as Seven Samurai. It's okay, nobody does.
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Jan 16, 2012 21:51
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Seaniqua posted:That being said, I really really enjoyed watching Mifune in this movie. What Kurosawa film should I put on my list next? If you want another great Kurosawa film with Mifune in you should probably add Rashomon next time.
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Jan 16, 2012 21:56
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Noxville posted:If you want another great Kurosawa film with Mifune in you should probably add Rashomon next time. OK cool, thank you. After I watch whatever my next movie is, Rashomon will be next on my list. 
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Jan 16, 2012 21:57
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Seaniqua posted:OK cool, thank you. After I watch whatever my next movie is, Rashomon will be next on my list. Also if you want to see some other cool Samurai stuff from different filmmakers, Kobayashi's Harakiri is almost as good as Seven Samurai. drat, I always envy someone just getting into Kurosawa.
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Jan 16, 2012 22:01
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Seaniqua posted:I'm interested to know the general opinion of Kurosawa's movies in relation to eachother. Since I had never seen one until two weeks ago it's sort of bizarre to go in not knowing what to expect at all. P.S. Thanks for catching my typo His absolute best films are usually agreed to be Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ikiru, and Ran. Everyone likes Sanjuro/Yojimbo, but they usually get classified as "fun" movies that aren't quite on the level of his more serious work (see also: The Hidden Fortress)
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Seaniqua you get the incredible classic Lawrence of Arabia Twilight Samurai felt more like a movie living in the shadow of other classic movies than a great one itself. It was clever and fun to watch, but I couldn't help but be aware of it's closeness to Harakiri; set in the same era, struggling impoverished single father samurai, themes centered around the failing bushido code,a bamboo sword. There were many great scenes particularly towards the end when he faces the shamed sword master, but they only offered observations about samurai life, no interesting conclusions. Perhaps I was a bit frustrated at the static nature of Seibei, despite recognizing the corruption of the bushido code he simply plays out his part within that system and is rewarded for it, never fully questioning it. Every other aspect of the movie was excellent, well paced, great acting and the cinematography, though simple, does it's job well. Just make sure you see Harikiri before you see Twilight Samurai. I also wound up catching Andrei Rublev in my local art house cinema. An occasionally uneven but overall great film, set on a scale I hadn't seen Tarkovsky work on before, especially the massacre in the second half, reminded me of Seven Samurai with it's casual lucid violence. The film is heavily steeped in themes of peaceful enlightened religion set amongst a harsh barbaric world, and it takes it's time exploring this heavily. The journey Andrei Rublev takes trying to reckon his religion against the brutal medieval world is extremely fulfilling at it's conclusion, the casting of the bell and then color film of Andrei Rublev's surviving works ties up it's themes so satisfyingly. The episodic nature of the film, where it leaps up to 12 years at a time, is initially jarring but provides a quicker pace not normally found in a Tarkovsky movie, especially one 3.5 hours in length. Like most Tarkovsky movies the plot is handled very lightly and occasionally it's hard to see how some pieces fit in the greater whole, but the themes and the character of Andrei Rublev come shining through so clearly that I can't help but greatly recommend this film. LIST OF SHAME: 1.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: I adore Powell and Pressburger but I've only seen two of their films. 2.*NEW*Fanny and Alexander: Seen a lot of Bergman but somehow missed this one. 3.Three Colors: Blue: Loved Double Life of Veronique, no excuses here 4.Cul-de-sac: Wasn't the biggest fan of Repulsion, hoping to get a better feel for early Polanski. 5.*NEW*Memories of a Murder: South Korea's almost always a hit. 6.Curse of the Jade Scorpion A little Woody Allen to lighten this list up a bit. 7.The Filth and Fury: Documentary about the Sex Pistols, why not? 8.The Goddess: More Satyajit Ray. 9.Le Beau Serge: Considered the first film in the French Nouvelle Vague movement. 10.Orpheus: Just saw Beauty and the Beast recently, now I want more Jean Cocteau. Watched: Masculin Feminin, Les Diaboliques, The World of Apu, Stalag 17, Wings of Desire, Island of Lost Souls, Dogville, Wages of Fear, The Phantom Carriage, I am Cuba, Twilight Samurai, Andrei Rublev
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Fag Boy Jim posted:His absolute best films are usually agreed to be Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ikiru, and Ran. Everyone likes Sanjuro/Yojimbo, but they usually get classified as "fun" movies that aren't quite on the level of his more serious work (see also: The Hidden Fortress) High and Low is often forgotten but it easily stands amongst Kurosawa's greatest works and Mifune's best roles.
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Now this sucks: I've seen six of the movies on Seaniqua's list, and none on Desiato's. Missed it by that much. Well, time for a random number: *roll* 6: Curse of the Jade Scorpion. I've heard that stunk, but hopefully you'll disagree. Schindler’s List really was excellent. It wasn’t nearly as grim as I was expecting- there’s a lot of surprising humor (some of it rather dark). Schindler’s character arc was well-developed, but I was heartbroken at the end where he shouted about how he could have saved more- don’t we all sometimes feel we should be doing more? Kingsley’s acting was brilliant, and Fiennes sure is good at playing monsters (I was only able to recognize him by imagining him without a nose). I also love that someone was willing to make a black-and-white movie in this day and age. The only complaint I might have had was that it was a bit too long. That wasn’t really a problem, though, as all the characters were compelling. I think the issue was all the details of the Holocaust were not as moving as they should have been. Perhaps in 1993 it wasn’t as well-known, but I already know about the crematoriums and the stripping and the gas and all the other, so I was kind of numb to it. I actually found the random violence in the early scenes more shocking, like Goeth sniping at people wandering the ghetto for not working fast enough. So, bottom line: the scenes of the horrors of the Holocaust didn’t shock me like they were probably intended to, but the movie is still brilliant and I loved every one of the characters. Rating: 4/4 9. The Aviator - More from that Scorsese clown. This one isn't as much a must see as some of the others, but it's added shame because it's another one that I own but haven't seen (there's probably another five movies like that, but most of them are more obscure). I bought it for three bucks about four years ago when a local video store went out of business and I've never taken it out of the box. 24. The Great Dictator- I think this Chaplin kid may be going somewhere. Maybe I should take a look at one of his movies. 26. Battleship Potemkin- I have no idea what this is about- is it Russian, I think? I don't know, but it's on so many best of all time lists that I figure I should put it on mine. 27. Gattaca- Another on the embarrassingly long "owned but not watched" list. This is sci-fi, I think having something to do when genetic engineering? I was thinking maybe it was a prison, but that's Attica. As you can see, I'm mostly blind on this one. 28. Sophie's Choice- I really have no idea what this is, but I've seen it referenced a lot lately. I'm not sure why, but I figure there must be a reason. 29. Gandhi- Bald Ben Kingsley takes on the British Empire. P.S. Ben Kingsley is British. Sure, why not. 30. Platoon- "Hey, dad, I made a Vietnam movie, too!" "That's nice, Charlie." "Ah, screw you! I'm gonna go snort coke off a hooker's rear end." Also the Green Goblin is in this. 31. Brazil- So a Monty Python guy made a trippy Orwellian sci-fi movie. Sounds fun! 32. Young Frankenstein- These last few have been pretty depressing- how about a goofy comedy? I liked Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, and The Producers (and I used to watch Get Smart all the time, not knowing Brooks was involved). Men in Tights wasn't great, but even poor Mel Brooks is pretty good, and YF is supposed to be the tops. 33. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari- Classic horror, silent movie, sounds fun. I think this is on instant watch. Okay, tell me what I’m watching! Shame relieved: The Godfather: 3.5/4, The Godfather Part II: 4/4, Taxi Driver: 4/4, Casablanca: 4/4, Duck Soup: 2/4, Pulp Fiction: 4/4, Barton Fink: 3.5/4, Annie Hall:3/4, Rashomon: 4/4, Blade Runner: 3.5/4, Chinatown: 4/4, Nashville: 3.5/4, Goodfellas: 4/4, The Seven Samurai: 4/4, Superman: 2/4, The Exorcist: 3/4, A Face in the Crowd: 3.5/4, The Seventh Seal: 2.5/4, Treasure of the Sierra Madre: 3.5/4, Apocalypse Now: 4/4, 2001: A Space Odyssey: 2.5/4, The Deer Hunter: 3/4, Schindler's List: 4/4
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Jurgan watch Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.   Portrait of Jennie is both beautiful and a little ridiculous. It's a slightly surreal romance with Joseph Cotten as a struggling painter looking for his muse, finding her in the flighty young Jennie. From the overwrought opening sequence it took some effort to get past the fact that the writers obviously thought they were expressing the most important message in the world, the power of love and faith that comes up again and again throughout the film. The message just isn't that grand. On the other hand, the film's grandeur is reflected in the endless parade of striking dreamlike images and does push it into being something special just for how well it executes it's charming little story. The burst of colour at the end came as a genuine surprise and meshed very well with the tension that was created at that point. It's not perfect but it's a very pretty film and the feelings it expresses are very beautifully transmitted through the performances. Updated list: Possession Not sure why I have this on my need to see list actually. Maybe someone here recommended it? Seems like it could be brilliant or terrible. Twenty-Four Eyes Never seen a Kinoshita film. Seems like the place to start. Atanarjuat Been curious about this since it first came out, but 3 hours seems way too long. La belle noiseuse If it weren't 4 hours I would have seen it already. I've been meaning to put it on my list for a year but thought I'd get around to it on my own. Silver Lode Mr. Scorsese spoiled this movie's ending for me. I was hoping I'd forget but that's not going to happen. Le Fils I've seen two great films from the Dardennes, let's watch another. Vertical Ray of the Sun Will I be bored or enamoured? Stand and Deliver Teacher movies can be very hit or miss with me, but I've heard lots of praise for this. New York, New York A Scorsese musical with Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro, I don't even know. For the hell of it, here's what I've seen so far: Last Tango In Paris 7.5/10 , Lola Montes 8.5/10 , First Blood 8.5/10 , Lolita 8.5/10 , The New World 8.5/10 , The Decalogue 9.5/10 , Neotpravlennoye pismo 10/10 , A Passage to India 8.5/10 , Yi-Yi 8.5/10 , The Last Emperor 7.5/10 , In a Year with 13 Moons 8.5/10 , The Big Red One 8.5/10 , Les Vampires 9.5/10 , Ballad of a Soldier 9.5/10 , Chelsea Girls 7.5/10 , Kin-Dza-Dza 9/10 , My Life as a Dog 8/10 , The Man who Fell to Earth 8/10 , Red Beard 8.5/10 , Satantango 9/10 , Napoleon 10/10 , Faces 9/10 , Godzilla 7/10, Olympia I 9.5/10 II 8.5/10 , Bad Day at Black Rock 9/10, Soy Cuba 9.5/10, Ossessione 8/10, Greed 10/10, Hoop Dreams 9.5/10, The Burmese Harp 9.5/10 , Éloge de l'amour 6.5/10 , Woodstock 7.5/10 , Die Nibelungen Siegfried 9/10 Kriemhild 8.5/10, Ceddo 10/10 , Wrath of Khan - 7/10 , Shoah 9/10 , City of Sadness 8.5/10, Fires on the Plain 9/10 , Berlin Alexanderplatz 9/10 , Heima 6.5/10 , Angels with Dirty Faces 8.5/10 , Juliet of the Spirits 7/10 Kings of the Road 8.5/10 , Farewell My Concubine 7.5/10 , Dodesukaden 10/10 , The Shootist 7/10 , Goodbye Lenin 9.5/10 , La hora de los hornos 9/10 , The Traveling Players 5/10 , Reds 9/10 , Werckmeister Harmonies 9/10 , Five Fingers of Death 8/10 , Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 9/10 , Ong-bak 7.5/10 , The Devils 8.5/10 , Nostalghia 8/10 , Killer's Kiss 8.5/10 , Koyaanisqatsi 8.5/10 , Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo 9.5/10 , The Cove 9/10 , America, America 8.5/10 , Pour la suite du monde 5/10 , Lilja 4-ever 9/10 , The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 7/10 , Burma VJ 8.5/10 , The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 8.5/10 , Europa '51 9/10 , The Killers 9/10 , The Killers 7/10 , Pursued 8.5/10 , Pelle the Conqueror 8/10 , Brink of Life 9/10 , Fear and Desire 4/10 , The Naked Spur 6/10 , Stroszek 8.5/10 , Beau Travail 8/10 , Kanal 9/10 Field of Dreams 6/10 , Mishima 7/10 , Novecento 7/10 , A Face in the Crowd 9/10 , Floating Weeds 8.5/10, Heaven's Gate 8.5/10 , Days and Nights in the Forest 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PA, watch Le Fils. I haven't seen this one, but the Dardennes make some great stuff. Not knowing much about The Conformist, I was both pleasantly surprised and mildly disappointed. The Netflix DVD sleeve described it as a thought-provoking drama and an intense character study, so I was disappointed when the story was boring and the main character wasn't interesting at all. What the sleeve didn't mention was how absolutely stunning the cinematography was! Every scene was a visual treat (the austere government buildings, the spiral dancing!), which kept me watching until the end and excited for the next scene. 3.5/5 Kes Don't know anything about this. Still Life Next on TSPDT's 21st Century list. Don't know anything about it. The Wind That Shakes the Barley Another recent Palme d'Or winner. Cabaret On the most iCM lists. ehh. The Freshman Only seen Safety Last! from Lloyd. West Side Story Almost done the AFI list. Not a big fan of musicals. Cookie's Fortune Another hidden Altman gem? A Taste of Cherry Just saw Certified Copy, want to check out more Kiarostami. Raise The Red Lantern I haven't seen too much Chinese cinema. The Mirror Next on TSPDT. I'm going to love one of these Tarkovskys eventually! Not ashamed anymore: Lawrence of Arabia 4.5/5, The Battle of Algiers 2/5, Toy Story 2 3.5/5, Sherman's March 3.5/5, His Girl Friday 4/5, Last Year at Marienbad 3/5, M 4/5, Stolen Kisses 3/5, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 4/5, Lost Highway 4/5, Gates of Heaven 3/5, Downfall 4/5, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 4/5, Grizzly Man 4/5, Wings of Desire 2/5, Z 3/5, A Shot in the Dark 2.5/5, Toy Story 3 4.5/5, The Fountain 4/5, Inland Empire 2/5, The Wild Bunch 4/5, Hunger 4.5/5, The Green Mile 3.5/5, The Ballad of Cable Hogue 4/5, A Woman Under the Influence 5/5, La Dolce Vita 4/5, Das Boot 4.5/5, Camera Buff 4.5/5, The Red Shoes 4.5/5, The Rules of the Game 3.5/5, Persona 4.5/5, Black Narcissus 2.5/5, The Battleship Potemkin 3.5/5, Departures 4/5, The Wages of Fear 4.5/5, Werckmeister Harmonies, 4/5, Blazing Saddles 1.5/5, Pickpocket 4/5, McCabe and Mrs. Miller 5/5, Le Cercle Rouge 4/5, Night and Fog ?/5, Opening Night 5/5, Notorious 4.5/5, Night of the Living Dead 3.5/5, Seven Chances 4/5, Faces 4/5, Europa 3/5, A Day at the Races 4/5, Three Colors: White 4.5/5, Vernon, Florida 4.5/5, Hud 3.5/5, Slacker 4.5/5, The Thing 4/5, Code Unknown 3.5/5, The Double Life of Veronique 4/5, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4/5, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 4.5/5, Sullivan's Travels 3.5/5, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 4/5, Ben-Hur 2.5/5, Mona Lisa 3/5, Brief Encounter 4/5, Laura 4/5, Beauty and the Beast 4/5, Solaris 3/5, Alphaville 4/5, Nights of Cabiria 3.5/5, Gun Crazy 4/5, Tokyo Story 3.5/5, The Piano Teacher 3.5/5, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 3.5/5, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 4/5, The Best Years of Our Lives 4.5/5, A Bittersweet Life 4.5/5, Rebecca 3.5/5, Sleuth 4.5/5, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 4/5, Hearts and Minds 3/5, L'Atalante 2.5/5, The Passion of Joan of Arc 4.5/5, Far From Heaven 4/5, Children of Paradise 3.5/5, Shock Corridor 3/5, Heaven Can Wait 4/5, That Obscure Object of Desire 4.5/5, Before Sunrise 4/5, Before Sunset 5/5, When We Were Kings 4.5/5, Rio Bravo 4.5/5, Ordet 3.5/5, Bed and Board 2.5/5, Alice 3.5/5, Idioterne 4.5/5, L'avventura 2/5, Au Revoir Les Enfants 4.5/5 Amarcord 3.5/5, A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2.5/5, Princess Mononoke 2/5, Tender Mercies 4/5, Ran 5/5, Witness for the Prosecution 4.5/5, Winchester '73 4/5, Local Hero 3.5/5, Fanny and Alexander 5/5, Diabolique 3/5, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 3.5/5, Ugetsu 4/5, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1.5/5, Syndromes and a Century 4/5, Smiles of a Summer Night 4/5, Shadows 2.5/5, Umberto D. 3.5/5, Naked 5/5, Andrei Rublev 2/5, A Matter of Life and Death 4.5/5, I Am Cuba 4/5, A Zed and Two Noughts 5/5, The Belly of an Architect 3/5, Videodrome 4/5, Picnic at Hanging Rock 3/5, 2046 4.5/5, Fallen Angels 4/5, Schizopolis 4/5, Blind Chance 2.5/5, The Grapes of Wrath 4/5, Ace in the Hole 4.5/5, Safe 4/5, Woman in the Dunes 5/5, Scarface 4.5/5, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance 4/5, Ghost World 3.5/5, Contempt 3.5/5, The Magnificent Ambersons 4/5, Fantastic Planet 3.5/5, The Kid 3.5/5, Santa Sangre 4/5, Pather Panchali 4/5, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 4.5/5, Aparajito 4.5/5, Tout Va Bien 3.5/5, A Face in the Crowd 4.5/5, The Class 5/5, Intolerance 3/5, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance 2.5/5, The Holy Mountain 4/5, Nosferatu 3.5/5, Sweet Smell of Success 4/5, Stalker 4/5, Days of Heaven 4.5/5, The Apostle 3.5/5, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 3.5/5, Shane 3.5/5, The World of Apu 4.5/5, 3 Women 5/5, Do The Right Thing 5/5, A Short Film About Killing 3/5, Au Hasard Balthazar 4.5/5, Withnail & I 3.5/5, Le Trou 4.5/5, The Conformist 3.5/5
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TenSpadesBeTrump posted:West Side Story I saw most of this in a class when I was younger. Not sure if I've seen all of it however. In the Mood for Love - The settings and wardrobe styles were memorable but beyond that I didn't get into this that much. The editing felt abrupt at many points and Yumeji's theme was interesting at first but by the end of the film it felt really overused. IMDb list: #194 Mary and Max - Never heard of it. I just looked it up and it's about clay people. Hopefully it lives up to Gumby's standard. 6/22/11 #237 Harakiri - This must've shot up the list recently. 1/6/12 new #247 3 Idiots - Read some reviews but that's all. 1/17/12 #250 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Don't know much about it. 11/20/11 #256 Before Sunrise - Relatively recent and I haven't even heard of it. 12/29/11 Academy Award for Best Picture: 2002 Chicago - I can't say I'm looking forward to this. 11/27/11 1997 Titanic - Cameron is truly a visionary (in all the good ways) and I've enjoyed everything I've seen from him thus far. I did a research paper on the ship itself a while ago. I also remember going to see a Titanic exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. They had this frozen block of ice to illustrate just how cold the water was for the people who couldn't make it onto a boat. The ship was launched just over 100 years ago so it might be time to watch this. 12/3/11 1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Don't know much about it. 12/8/11 1985 Out of Africa - Can't say I know anything about it. 12/29/11 1983 Terms of Endearment - Heard the name before. 12/29/11
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Nausicaa is really good. To quote another poster in this thread about a different movie, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a movie I respected more than I liked. Silent movies may not be my thing, but I'm not sure if I've seen any others. It's a whole different genre with its own tropes. Dialogue cards bug me- unlike subtitles, they break immersion by hiding the action, and at least in this case they were on screen far longer than I needed to read them, which slowed down the pacing. The story was decent, but I may have missed a few elements of it. On the other hand, I really liked the Escher style backgrounds- they did a lot to help the dream-like atmosphere (was it all a dream in the end?). I can't say I really liked the movie, but I liked some of the elements, and can see how they influenced future movies. Rating: 3/4 9. The Aviator - More from that Scorsese clown. This one isn't as much a must see as some of the others, but it's added shame because it's another one that I own but haven't seen (there's probably another five movies like that, but most of them are more obscure). I bought it for three bucks about four years ago when a local video store went out of business and I've never taken it out of the box. 24. The Great Dictator- I think this Chaplin kid may be going somewhere. Maybe I should take a look at one of his movies. 26. Battleship Potemkin- I have no idea what this is about- is it Russian, I think? I don't know, but it's on so many best of all time lists that I figure I should put it on mine. 27. Gattaca- Another on the embarrassingly long "owned but not watched" list. This is sci-fi, I think having something to do when genetic engineering? I was thinking maybe it was a prison, but that's Attica. As you can see, I'm mostly blind on this one. 28. Sophie's Choice- I really have no idea what this is, but I've seen it referenced a lot lately. I'm not sure why, but I figure there must be a reason. 29. Gandhi- Bald Ben Kingsley takes on the British Empire. P.S. Ben Kingsley is British. Sure, why not. 30. Platoon- "Hey, dad, I made a Vietnam movie, too!" "That's nice, Charlie." "Ah, screw you! I'm gonna go snort coke off a hooker's rear end." Also the Green Goblin is in this. 31. Brazil- So a Monty Python guy made a trippy Orwellian sci-fi movie. Sounds fun! 32. Young Frankenstein- These last few have been pretty depressing- how about a goofy comedy? I liked Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, and The Producers (and I used to watch Get Smart all the time, not knowing Brooks was involved). Men in Tights wasn't great, but even poor Mel Brooks is pretty good, and YF is supposed to be the tops. 34. Hamlet-I've never seen nor read any version of this (unless you count The Lion King). I think I tried reading it once, and failed. Shakespeare was meant to be watched. When I try to read it, I get bogged down trying to understand all the archaic words, but when I'm viewing it, the momentum helps me understand the action even if I miss some of the dialogue. That's what happened with Kenneth Branagh's excellent version of Much Ado About Nothing, so I'll go with his version of Hamlet as well. Okay, tell me what I’m watching! Shame relieved: The Godfather: 3.5/4, The Godfather Part II: 4/4, Taxi Driver: 4/4, Casablanca: 4/4, Duck Soup: 2/4, Pulp Fiction: 4/4, Barton Fink: 3.5/4, Annie Hall:3/4, Rashomon: 4/4, Blade Runner: 3.5/4, Chinatown: 4/4, Nashville: 3.5/4, Goodfellas: 4/4, The Seven Samurai: 4/4, Superman: 2/4, The Exorcist: 3/4, A Face in the Crowd: 3.5/4, The Seventh Seal: 2.5/4, Treasure of the Sierra Madre: 3.5/4, Apocalypse Now: 4/4, 2001: A Space Odyssey: 2.5/4, The Deer Hunter: 3/4, Schindler's List: 4/4, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: 3/4
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Jurgan, you get Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder at his maniacal apex is one of the most beautiful things ever committed to film, and that's only one of the movie's virtues. Classic. I've had no lack of shameful omissions to plow through since only really getting into movies the last couple years, and have done a pretty good job stumbling through on my own. There's still a fuckload more, however, and now seems like a great time to finally participate in this thread! Memento-  I've had a major plot point spoiled for me, which long ago robbed me of any sense of urgency in getting around to this one. Still, I also had a major bit of Fight Club spoiled for me, and enjoyed the hell out of that movie, so it's a rather excuse in general, isn't it?Being John Malkovich- Adaptation and Where the Wild Things Are were both pretty cool, so it's time to check out Spike Jonze's debut feature. Also, John Malkovich. This Is Spinal Tap- I really have no excuse, except that the DVR hosed up when recording it off TCM, and there's no way I'm going to watch this for the first time on basic cable. Thanks, Netflix streaming, for being there for me, and letting me put this in a queue where I continue to ignore it because I take it for granted, or something. Lethal Weapon- Bit by bit catching up on '80s and '90s action movies, and this is the next big one I've yet to see. Leon (The Professional)- Everyone I know who has seen this loves it. Really looking forward to it, but the fact that it's on DVD and not something I need to get to before it expires from streaming or gets recorded over leads to another taken for granted/lack of urgency situation. Tora! Tora! Tora!- Been interested to see this ever since the WWII unit in high school history class where I first heard of it. Given the other WWII films we watched in that class, I'm excited. La Strada- I've never seen any Fellini. Saving Private Ryan- I'm just a terrible human being, I guess. Robin Hood: Men in Tights- Apparently a Mel Brooks classic among my age group, watched by many as young kids who probably shouldn't have watched it, and later a staple of high school band trips. I wasn't in band, so I missed a prime opportunity there. King Kong- I did see this once, but it's been a long time. Like, "back before Remember WENN when AMC talked up film preservation and showed classic American movies and this was one I happened to catch" long time. Since I've only really gotten into classic films in the last couple years, and since it's on the DVR, it is time for a rewatch.
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Sirk started his career with a movie about WW2 and ended with one, too. A Time to Love and a Time to Die, his last film, is different from Hitler's Madman, his first, in every way. It's a high-budget widescreen color melodrama about a German soldier, whereas his first was a micro-budget fullscreen propaganda piece about the horrors the German army committed. It's rare you see a career so perfectly bookended. It's a triumph, a final masterpiece in a career of dizzying excellence. A complicated, painful film, which asks you to love the individual even if you hate what he stands for. There's a great classic Sirk-ian love story here, which is built beautifully on small moments, as well as a truly unsettling look at the Eastern front. The evils of the Nazis hang over the film like death, until a perfectly underplayed scene near the end in which the newly married couple realizes they can't go to Paris because of what they've done to the French. Discount Viscount, I just watched and loved War Horse, so you will watch Saving Private Ryan. New list: Mike's Murder I don't know enough '80s dramas, and I heard this is a hidden classic crime movie. But the same person who told me that said the same about 8 Million Ways to Die, which is dick. The Darjeeling Limited I have never enjoyed a Wes Anderson movie, but I feel obligated to watch them. Deep Red Two hour version or hour and a half version? Advise and Consent Somehow I always thought this and The Americanization of Emily were the same movie. Little Man, What Now? or Man's Castle I went through a big Borzage phase, but someone I couldn't get back into him after. I need a push to remember how much I love him. My Brother's Wedding So there's a director's cut that's like a half hour shorter? Which should I see? new: Outrage Ida Lupino fascinates me. Apocalypto This is good, right? Montenegro or Sweet Movie I loved WR and the Eclipse set, but I've avoided Sweet Movie because I heard it sucks and Montenegro because the poster is crap. Szerelem This looks fantastic, but somehow I can't get myself to sit down for it. Finished from this thread: Au Hasard Balthazar (8/10), In the Mood for Love (8.5/10), La Dolce Vita (6.5/10), Anatomy of Murder (9/10), The Grand Illusion (9/10), Ben-Hur (8.5/10), Gone with the Wind (9/10), Black Orpheus (8/10), The Departed (4/10), Midnight Cowboy (5/10), The Red Shoes (9.5/10), Harvey (8.5/10), M. Hulot's Holiday (7.5/10), Trouble in Paradise (8/10), Ugetsu Monogatari (8/10), All That Heaven Allows (9.5/10), Blow-Up (8/10), If... (8/10), The Bad & The Beautiful (7.5/10). Autumn Sonata (9/10), Harold and Maude (3.5/10), L'Atalante (8/10), Anticipation of the Night (8.5/10), Cleo from 5 to 7 (8/10), Wavelength (7/10), Saddle the Wind (7/10), Partie de campagne (7.5/10), My Neighbor Totoro (7/10), Shadows (8/10), Odd Man Out (8/10), Don't Look Now (8/10), Dead Ringers (7.5/10), Written on the Wind (8.5/10), My Winnipeg (8/10), On Dangerous Ground (8.5/10), The King of Comedy (8.5/10), Berlin Express (7/10), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (8.5/10), 3 Women (8.5/10). Harakiri (9.5/10), Zelig (7.5/10), Veronika Voss (7.5/10), Late Spring (8/10), Soldier of Orange (7/10), Vivre Sa Vie (8.5/10), The American Friend (7.5/10), The Endless Sumer (7.5/10), Yesterday Girl (7.5/10), Battleground (8/10), Two-Lane Blacktop (8/10), Chimes at Midnight (9/10), Trash Humpers (6/10), The Docks of New York (9/10), The Fallen Idol (9/10), Fires on the Plain (9/10), Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (7.5/10), The Americanization of Emily (8.5/10), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (8/10), The Mirror (8.5/10), The Thin Man (8.5/10), Danger: Diabolik (7.5/10), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (7.5/10), Black God White Devil (8/10), Little Fugitive (8/10), Drunken Angel (7.5/10), Funeral Parade of Roses (9/10), How to Train Your Dragon (8/10), Across 110th Street (7.5/10), The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (8/10), The Wind (8.5), Portrait of Jennie (7/10), Primer (8/10), To Catch a Thief (8/10), The Fantastic Mr. Fox (4/10), Getrud (8.5/10), Our Hospitality (9/10), Les Diaboliques (8/10), The Awful Truth (8/10), Duel in the Sun (6.5/10), A Guy Named Joe (6/10), Quiet City (5/10), People on Sunday (8.5/10), Nothing but a Man (8.5/10), Spring Summer Winter Fall and Spring (8/10), Comradship (7.5/10), Too Early, Too Late (4/10), Wooden Crosses (7.5/10), White Zombie (8.5/10), No Highway in the Sky (8/10), The Wanderers (8.5/10), My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (7/10), Our Town (9/10), The Winning of Barbara Worth (8/10), Red Riding 1974 (7/10), Grand Hotel (8/10), Rapt (8/10), The Champ (7/10), Red Beard (8.5/10), Rendez-vous d'Anna (8/10), Two Thousand Maniacs! 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Jurgan posted:To quote another poster in this thread about a different movie, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a movie I respected more than I liked. Silent movies may not be my thing, but I'm not sure if I've seen any others. It's a whole different genre with its own tropes. Dialogue cards bug me- unlike subtitles, they break immersion by hiding the action, and at least in this case they were on screen far longer than I needed to read them, which slowed down the pacing. The story was decent, but I may have missed a few elements of it. On the other hand, I really liked the Escher style backgrounds- they did a lot to help the dream-like atmosphere (was it all a dream in the end?). I can't say I really liked the movie, but I liked some of the elements, and can see how they influenced future movies. Glad that you gave this (and silent film) a shot. It's one of my favorite movies. You call silent film a different genre; I'd agree but almost go so far as to call it a different medium. Silent films move me in an entirely different way than sound films. They're much better able to convey mood purely through images (which, to me, is the primary goal of film). That's why I believe horror is the genre that works the best for silent film. Unsettling images are allowed time to sink into our minds without distractions from constant dialog. Since silents are image-driven, they also tend to have a slower-moving plot, further allowing the images to do the work. Horror directors for decades have often attempted to convey the same mood through images, but in my opinion they typically don't come close to producing an eerie mood as well as a film like Caligari. Just watch the scene where we first meet Cesare and tell me it's not one of the creepiest moments ever filmed. Also, your complaint about intertitles is interesting, as I prefer them to subtitles. Subtitles take me out of the action more because they force my eyes away from what's going on and the action continues while I read them. Intertitles, on the other hand, effectively pause the action while I read, allowing me to not miss anything. Give more silents a try. If you haven't seen Nosferatu that should be next.
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I think one of the things most people realize when they finally watch a silent movie is that they too can be mature and effective. There seems to be this common preconceived notion people have that old movies are all whimsical and childish (I know I did), but there are a lot of really good silent movies made by adults for adults. Even Chaplin handled a lot more serious themes than people give him credit for.
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I guess I'm just a fast reader. I don't think I'd mind the intertitles if they didn't stay on screen longer than necessary. With subtitles, I can usually read the whole line at a glance. Now, I like long stretches without dialogue, and so in that sense I do enjoy silent movies. But seeing the actors pantomime and then dialogue pop up on screen... I don't know, it just doesn't work for me. I am planning to see Nosferatu (I liked Shadow of the Vampire, and that piqued my curiosity), and probably Metropolis as well, since I loved M.
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Jurgan posted:I guess I'm just a fast reader. I don't think I'd mind the intertitles if they didn't stay on screen longer than necessary. With subtitles, I can usually read the whole line at a glance. Now, I like long stretches without dialogue, and so in that sense I do enjoy silent movies. But seeing the actors pantomime and then dialogue pop up on screen... I don't know, it just doesn't work for me. Also watch The Phantom Carriage. One of the best silents I've seen, horror or otherwise.
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TenSpadesBeTrump posted:West Side Story West Side Story Swing Time Close Encounters of the Third Kind Dances with Wolves The Best Years of Our Lives All Quiet on the Western Front Yankee Doodle Dandy Sunrise Edit: penismightier I can't believe you don't like Harold and Maude - I've watched it 3 times, and it gets funnier every time!
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fenix down posted:How many do you have left? I have 8 left of the 123: I was only going off the current top 100, of which I'm missing 6: West Side Story, Cabaret, Titanic, Swing Time, Sophie's Choice and Yankee Doodle Dandy Counting the ones that were removed I'm missing 5 more: Dr. Zhivago, Birth of a Nation, A Place in the Sun, An American in Paris and Wuthering Heights.
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Jurgan posted:I guess I'm just a fast reader. I don't think I'd mind the intertitles if they didn't stay on screen longer than necessary. With subtitles, I can usually read the whole line at a glance. Now, I like long stretches without dialogue, and so in that sense I do enjoy silent movies. But seeing the actors pantomime and then dialogue pop up on screen... I don't know, it just doesn't work for me. Different silents treat intertitles differently. Caligari was still pretty early in the medium so they hadn't really refined it yet. Other films use them in really dynamic ways. FW Murnau, in particular, had a lot of fun with them - he made The Last Laugh entirely without intertitles, and then in Sunrise he turned them all into little bits of expressionism. Here's some cool ones: From The Clinging Vine  From The Hoodlum:  From Harold Lloyd's The Freshman:  And this is my all time favorite, from FW Murnau's Sunrise: 
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I LOVE the intertitles in Sunrise. I also enjoyed the lack of them in The Last Laugh - sometimes you just don't need them. Another movie that uses them very creatively is The Cat and the Canary.
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Edit: Okay, I think PenisMightier was the last one to post a list. So, what's Mike's Murder? Sounds... murderous. MWAHAHAHAHAHA! Young Frankenstein was a ton of fun. It was kind of a slow start, but it had a lot of great moments. Every character was alive in this movie, and every one of them had something funny to do. What I liked best, though, was that the characters took it seriously. I don't like comedies where the characters act like they're in a comedy. It's only funny if the characters believe in the logic of their situation (as Roger Ebert once said, a man wearing a funny hat isn't funny, but a man who doesn't know he's wearing a funny hat- ah, now you've got something). Sure, Wilder went incredibly over the top, but given the situation he was dealing with and the characters he was parodying, that was to be expected. Blazing Saddles was probably better (except for its stupid ending), but this movie was still terrific. By the way, "you take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban?" Did that line sound a lot like Groucho Marx was delivering it? I'm thinking that was a deliberated homage. Rating: 3.5/4 9. The Aviator - More from that Scorsese clown. This one isn't as much a must see as some of the others, but it's added shame because it's another one that I own but haven't seen (there's probably another five movies like that, but most of them are more obscure). I bought it for three bucks about four years ago when a local video store went out of business and I've never taken it out of the box. 24. The Great Dictator- I think this Chaplin kid may be going somewhere. Maybe I should take a look at one of his movies. 26. Battleship Potemkin- I have no idea what this is about- is it Russian, I think? I don't know, but it's on so many best of all time lists that I figure I should put it on mine. 27. Gattaca- Another on the embarrassingly long "owned but not watched" list. This is sci-fi, I think having something to do when genetic engineering? I was thinking maybe it was a prison, but that's Attica. As you can see, I'm mostly blind on this one. 28. Sophie's Choice- I really have no idea what this is, but I've seen it referenced a lot lately. I'm not sure why, but I figure there must be a reason. 29. Gandhi- Bald Ben Kingsley takes on the British Empire. P.S. Ben Kingsley is British. Sure, why not. 30. Platoon- "Hey, dad, I made a Vietnam movie, too!" "That's nice, Charlie." "Ah, screw you! I'm gonna go snort coke off a hooker's rear end." Also the Green Goblin is in this. 31. Brazil- So a Monty Python guy made a trippy Orwellian sci-fi movie. Sounds fun! 34. Hamlet- I've never seen nor read any version of this (unless you count The Lion King). I think I tried reading it once, and failed. Shakespeare was meant to be watched. When I try to read it, I get bogged down trying to understand all the archaic words, but when I'm viewing it, the momentum helps me understand the action even if I miss some of the dialogue. That's what happened with Kenneth Branagh's excellent version of Much Ado About Nothing, so I'll go with his version of Hamlet as well. 35. Yojimbo- Kurosawa and Mifune haven't let me down yet. Okay, tell me what I’m watching! Shame relieved: The Godfather: 3.5/4, The Godfather Part II: 4/4, Taxi Driver: 4/4, Casablanca: 4/4, Duck Soup: 2/4, Pulp Fiction: 4/4, Barton Fink: 3.5/4, Annie Hall:3/4, Rashomon: 4/4, Blade Runner: 3.5/4, Chinatown: 4/4, Nashville: 3.5/4, Goodfellas: 4/4, The Seven Samurai: 4/4, Superman: 2/4, The Exorcist: 3/4, A Face in the Crowd: 3.5/4, The Seventh Seal: 2.5/4, Treasure of the Sierra Madre: 3.5/4, Apocalypse Now: 4/4, 2001: A Space Odyssey: 2.5/4, The Deer Hunter: 3/4, Schindler's List: 4/4, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: 3/4, Young Frankenstein: 3.5/4 Jurgan fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jan 19, 2012 |
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Jurgan posted:Edit: Okay, I think PenisMightier was the last one to post a list. So, what's Mike's Murder? Sounds... murderous. MWAHAHAHAHAHA! I was starting to wonder if anyone was ever gonna pick that one.
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Jurgan posted:By the way, "you take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban?" Did that line sound a lot like Groucho Marx was delivering it? I'm thinking that was a deliberated homage. It was an homage to Alan Alda  (Seriously though, yeah, most definitely)
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Desiato posted:LIST OF SHAME: You should really watch this sometime. I'll edit my shame list into this post when I wake up in a few hours.
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Jurgan posted:Blazing Saddles was probably better (except for its stupid ending)
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