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glam rock hamhock posted:SUNDANCE MOVIES
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The skits in Tampopo are of varying quality, but the end credits are legit top 5 of any movie ever.
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Feb 9, 2017 22:34
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10 (2002) - Abbas Kiarostami essentially redoes The Taste of Cherry with lo-fi DV and tinny sound. With a few notable exceptions, the film is shot from two angles: a camera pointing at the passenger side of a car and a camera pointing at the driver's side. The driver is a young remarried woman, and the film is entirely made of ten scenes of her conversations with her passengers, usually other women, be they friends or strangers. These conversations start out with an examination of the personal problems afflicting these women and then dovetailing into the larger plight of women in Iran, this stark reality augmented by the bustling environment and the cars & people of Tehran glimpsed on the periphery of the car's windows. I imagine Kiarostami had these frank conversations take place in a car because of the privacy afforded by this space, whereas anything more public is where the Iranian authorities would have had to intervene. Pointedly, her only male passenger is her seven-year-old son, who resents his mother for divorcing his father, a looming but hardly seen presence. While there is some nuance of the son being angry at his mother for working too hard at her job (apparently involving photography and painting) to properly take care of him, as the film goes on, the son's criticisms of his mother begin to reflect traditional Iranian values and thus he ends up being one of the most irritating, loudmouths in the history of film, his childish selfishness becoming an avatar for Iranian state & traditional society. This absolutely had to have been the film at the forefront of Jafar Panahi's mind when making Taxi Tehran (2015).
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Feb 20, 2017 04:25
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Ratings out of 100.
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Jul 3, 2017 18:08
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Between Paterson and Manchester by the Sea, it was a good year for the Moonrise Kingdom kids.
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Jul 3, 2017 19:39
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Egbert Souse posted:Too Late for Tears (1949, Byron Haskin) - 4.5/5 [TCM]
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Jul 24, 2017 03:56
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got any sevens posted:I think the racism was the point TychoCelchuuu posted:The racism made me grumpy and the tonal shifts lost me.
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Aug 21, 2017 23:56
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FancyMike posted:On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) 4/5 - Kim Min-hee is incredible. Beautiful film but maybe not recommended as someone's first Hong due to how personal it is, reflecting on both his previous work and the affair with Kim.
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Dec 18, 2017 20:21
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glam rock hamhock posted:Haven't posted in here in awhile
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Jan 6, 2018 18:42
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Loveless - 94
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May 3, 2018 02:26
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Typing too late at night so if these make no sense it's not my fault quote:Loveless - 94 quote:Lean On Pete - 85 quote:Underground - 88
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May 4, 2018 17:15
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Contrary to what you may think about what I've written above, I actually rated both Loveless and Lean On Pete quite similarly. I think it's cause I already knew that Zvyagintsev was capable of that level of filmmaking from flashes of his previous work, but Haigh seems to have demonstrated such significant growth as a director with this new release that I'm now even more excited about any of his future projects.
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May 4, 2018 20:08
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Like the new ratings, I still use numbers but I've winnowed them down into the following categories: WOW | PRO | Pro | pro | mixed | con | Con | CONEgbert Souse posted:Been a while (early September!) since I've posted in this thread. Going to try a different ratings.
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Nov 21, 2018 04:16
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got any sevens posted:Just watched Upstream Color for class and wow
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Jan 17, 2019 22:20
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Kiss Me Deadly - 80/100 TrixRabbi posted:Cold War (2018) -- B-
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Jan 30, 2019 17:59
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Wiktor & Zula's relationship is only shown to work when it seems the entire world is conspiring against it and crumbles when it gets to the ostensibly 'happily ever after' section; it's more of an addiction for them than anything typically romantic. When it got to the ending, I felt it was a bit sad & moving, but I also think it made all the preceding scenes carry an air of satire/dark comedy. Also, while I can see how the characters could get short-changed because of the propulsiveness of each scene, in the moment, I really enjoyed the shocks of going from one year to the next few, from one music genre to the next.
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Jan 31, 2019 17:14
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Egbert Souse posted:The Long Day Closes (1992, Terence Davies) [Blu-ray] - 5/5
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Apr 28, 2019 06:21
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Egbert Souse posted:The Long Day Closes is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. It's just a series of "memories" but it's almost like some sort of daydream. I'm eager to see more of Davies' filmography, especially Distant Voices, Still Lives.
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Apr 29, 2019 14:19
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Surrealism is not for everyone (esp. w/ such politically charged works)
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May 16, 2019 15:43
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sounds loving awesome, i'll be there opening weekend
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Sep 6, 2019 21:45
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Egbert Souse posted:Leon Morin, Priest (1961, Jean-Pierre Melville) [Blu-ray] - 4.5/5
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Dec 10, 2019 05:20
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Egbert Souse posted:Uncle Boonmee is the first of "Joe's" films I've seen and I loved it. Meditative, surreal, but real. I want to see the rest of his work now. Egbert Souse posted:The Irishman or I Heard You Paint Houses is the third masterpiece in Scorsese's "Mob Epic Trilogy" after Goodfellas and Casino. There's just so much to take in, ranging from all the themes about betrayal, the soul, violence, and the passage of time. DeNiro, Pesci, and Pacino are at their absolute loving best. Plus we get some smaller, but great parts for Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, and Anna Paquin (her big scene feels like a brick to the face). This feels like both the apotheosis of the gangster film while also being an even deeper criticism. You know, for the idiots that saw Goodfellas and Casino thinking they glorify violence. The three main stars really get a chance to beat back their film stereotypes. Pacino owns at playing Hoffa and you'd never think he was up there in his years in the earlier scenes. Likewise, DeNiro and Pesci play it way more subtle. DeNiro almost plays Sheeran as childlike. He's this deadly force, but there's a heart to him. Which makes Pesci even more astounding. He doesn't even raise his voice, but you get the sort of ruthlessness to his character. The CGI makeup gets a lot of talk, but it blends in well and gives a certain bit of surreality to the film. (Some even compare it to the work of Bunuel). While I'm woefully behind on 2019 films, this is my pick for the best film I've seen this year and I'd even say it's one of Scorsese's best. Only going to get better over time. Egbert Souse posted:As for the Bowers films, I watched the entire Flicker Alley Blu-ray set. Some, like There It Is, Now You Tell One, and Egged On, play like weirder Keaton comedies while Bowers almost resembles Harry Langdon. There's also some neat later sound-era shorts like It's a Bird (with a fantastic one-take animation of a full size car emerging from an egg) and Oil Can and Does (a slightly reworked NY World's Fair film to advertise petroleum products, directed by Joseph Losey and animated by Bowers). Worth checking out since they're not very well known. There It Is is probably the weirdest silent-era short I've seen.
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Dec 10, 2019 23:46
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Kull the Conqueror posted:The Souvenir (2019): 85
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Dec 23, 2019 22:35
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Well it's certainly an acquired taste
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Jan 24, 2020 02:17
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I think a film that's viciously cynical about space exploration, the bodies that both exploit & are exploited in the name of it & God, a future of still rampant corporatization as capitalism continues being elevated to the sacrosanct, and the primal fear of no one being out there to answer our calls for loneliness has worth, it's just that Ad Astra ends up only just remaining on this side of the threshold of "good"
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Jan 27, 2022 17:17
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Rick posted:There was definitely some good ideas to the film, and it'll probably end up being fairly prescient, I just, really really really didn't like it as a whole. So much that I didn't post about it in this thread because I couldn't think of anything nice to say about it even weeks after seeing it, it made me really mad.
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Jan 27, 2022 19:11
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what are you docking 0.5 from 7 samurai for?
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Mar 13, 2023 16:08
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I'm being lightly joking, 4.5 vs 5 is just a really minor taste difference, I'm more interested in reading his reasoning
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