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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 23, 2020 8:05:40 GMT
The Night Of The Shooting Stars (1982) - 10/10 re-watch Director: Paolo and Vittorio TavianiIn some ways the simplest, loveliest, most poetic film the Tavianis' ever made - it's a war film, a love story, a God story, a faith story, and that doesn't cover it . More universal than Padre Padrone and more fully realized than Fiorile - my other favorites of their work. I know a lot of people think this is schmaltzy, but so are Il Postino and Cinema Paradiso and this is a better and a better made movie (fight me!) and giving it a 9 seems too low ......which makes it sound like a guilty pleasure and.......I don't feel guilty. Some images here are so staggering and that word doesn't begin to describe it - Spirit of the Beehive level of simple awe.....
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 23, 2020 12:49:35 GMT
Next of Kin (1982) - 8.5/10. Oz mystery-horror that has direct visual refs to The Shining and Salem's Lot, also brought to mind Argento and Shirley Jackson. So it's a little familiar, so what! when it's also this masterfully well made. Every scene, and just about every shot and every cut are perfectly fused with forward tension (editor of Picnic at Hanging Rock) - along with curious incongruities in the details, it's deceptively smart, genuinely scary at times, with deeply felt shocks. It outsmarted me by the end... There are poetic touches too... One of the first scenes is in a diner, it's a simple, maybe two minute scene, nothing much seems to happen, and yet it should be studied in film school - it's overflowing with ideas, side details, background hints, creepiness, feeling, and humor. This movie just had me in awe..... cheesecake Who listed this in last year's 31 Days of Horror - when she spoke, we ALL should've listened! So glad you liked it!
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 23, 2020 12:50:40 GMT
John McTiernan's Nomads. Holy YIKES. Pierce Brosnan's French accent is one for the record books though.
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Post by ibbi on Apr 23, 2020 13:04:01 GMT
1. What IS a classic film? To quote Peter Parker "Did you ever see this really old movie, Aliens?" Movies from the 90s are 'classic' now, guys. Seriously, turn on TCM. 2. I watched Magnificant Obsession and in classic Sirkian style he has this very nice story he blows up to the point of laughable idiocy with his penchant for laying it on thick... And I still liked it better than All That Heaven Allows
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 23, 2020 18:43:16 GMT
The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973) 5/10. Directed by Javier Bardem’s uncle! Starring a very good, beguiling Jean Seberg, but otherwise this Spanish-produced psychosexual slasher-drama is a let down. Predictable, exceedingly perverse, and lamely made. Only during the climactic knifing is there some great, palpable style to it. Watching this right after Next of Kin reminds me just how much a talented director can add - here there are all the elements, attractive leads/locations and a ripe conflict, but there is no vision, there's no fun, and it doesn’t cohere…
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Post by Pavan on Apr 23, 2020 19:26:00 GMT
The Next Three Days (2010)- 6/10
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Post by Pavan on Apr 24, 2020 20:22:48 GMT
Atomic Blonde (2017)-
Nothing good apart from Charlize's charming performance and action scenes- 6/10
Mr. Brooks (2007)-
Interesting subject but poorly conceived- 5.5/10
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Post by Viced on Apr 24, 2020 21:24:46 GMT
Bullitt (1968)This bored me to tears as a young man... what a pleb I was! Though a bit flat at times, this is pretty remarkable overall. Definitely a precursor to some of the best gritty crime films of the '70s... but with a large dose of the procedural second half of High and Low... and a small dose of the style/general '60s-ness of Point Blank. And I'd say the influence it had on Michael Mann is obvious... and not just the chase through the airfield. And obviously the car chase is legendary... and Steve McQueen is cooler than pretty much anyone.
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Post by DeepArcher on Apr 24, 2020 22:18:22 GMT
Images (1972): Damn great film. Altman's versatility continues to astound me. Hypnotic cinematography from Vilmos Zsigmond, absolutely haunting atmosphere, phenomenal Susannah York performance, impeccably eerie score by John Williams. One big flaw towards the end ... it works a lot better if it doesn't show the "real" Marcel after she kills him, I think ... that and I'm not totally sure that the ending (the reveal of the very lost shot) works for me, just a couple of things holding this back from being one of Altman's absolute best for me.
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Post by Archie on Apr 24, 2020 22:37:02 GMT
Images (1972): Damn great film. Altman's versatility continues to astound me. Hypnotic cinematography from Vilmos Zsigmond, absolutely haunting atmosphere, phenomenal Susannah York performance, impeccably eerie score by John Williams. One big flaw towards the end ... it works a lot better if it doesn't show the "real" Marcel after she kills him, I think ... that and I'm not totally sure that the ending (the reveal of the very lost shot) works for me, just a couple of things holding this back from being one of Altman's absolute best for me. Dude go watch California Split.
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Post by DeepArcher on Apr 24, 2020 22:47:37 GMT
Images (1972): Damn great film. Altman's versatility continues to astound me. Hypnotic cinematography from Vilmos Zsigmond, absolutely haunting atmosphere, phenomenal Susannah York performance, impeccably eerie score by John Williams. One big flaw towards the end ... it works a lot better if it doesn't show the "real" Marcel after she kills him, I think ... that and I'm not totally sure that the ending (the reveal of the very lost shot) works for me, just a couple of things holding this back from being one of Altman's absolute best for me. Dude go watch California Split. That's next up! Will probably watch it next week.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 24, 2020 23:20:57 GMT
Sea Fever (2020) - ~5.5-6/10
Dull, not scary "thriller" that's at 86% on RT right now........GTFO.......well played and a certain level of craft but not that much and subtle to the point of being sleep inducing.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 25, 2020 2:06:40 GMT
Landscape in the Mist (1988) - rewatch. “What a strange world. Suitcases, freezing railway stations, words and gestures we don’t understand, and the night which scares us!”
Glacially paced, symbol-heavy, often unpleasant (that truck scene….). Still, it’s one of the poetic epics from Theo Angelopoulos - a master Greek filmmaker even if his work isn’t for many. There are a lot of superb visuals, and the sense of something/everything adrift inside of a dreamlike gloom. There’s also a sadness hanging over a scene with literally hundreds of motorcycles, as Angelopoulos died in real life after getting hit by one on the road. Like the dumbfound townsfolk who are statue-still under the snow; the man who thinks he’s a bird, flapping his arms but going nowhere; the jubilant wedding caravan behind a dying horse on the road; the empty film negative that also might be an image of a clouded tree (an idea that comes back for the last shot); these are symbols but they are also unforgettable and heartbreaking…
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Apr 25, 2020 4:24:04 GMT
Live Free or Die Hard - I find it difficult to believe that this was the first Die Hard sequel to originally be written as one (both 2 and 3 were scripts that were repurposed into Die Hard films) and it would change McClane from "I'm just a regular cop" into "holy fuck, I belong in The Avengers". However, it's not as bad as I remember it (first time watching it in probably 10 years) but at the same time it's Die Hard in name and character only.
So that's the first four movies in the series in the past couple of weeks (though I went 1->3->2->4). I will not be rewatching 5. Ever.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Apr 25, 2020 6:44:23 GMT
Just Friends - I love this movie. I don't care what any ya'll say!
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 25, 2020 12:56:29 GMT
Onward
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Apr 25, 2020 19:11:13 GMT
Glad I finally caught Gas Food Lodging on Criterion Channel just before it leaves on the 30th.
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Post by Pavan on Apr 25, 2020 21:06:23 GMT
Three Days of the Condor (1975)- 6.5/10
Clue (1985)- 7/10
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 26, 2020 7:28:06 GMT
I've had The Scalphunters on my watchlist for 15 years and finally got around to it -- also marks the last Pollack I needed to see. I dug it! Ossie Davis was everything.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Apr 26, 2020 9:09:20 GMT
Oh honeys, all of you should watch this: Now is the time to want to be alone... Garbo is magnetic, Crawford stunning, and Beery is leery (with shades of Harvey). A perfect movie for those feeling like a depressed ballerina stuck indoors... Always the same. People come. People go. Nothing ever happens.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 26, 2020 18:56:21 GMT
Judy & Punch (2019)
Pretty solid stuff. Its last act brings it down a notch or two, descending it into a degree of cheesiness that was ill-fitting with what came before it. Still, in its best moments it was very good.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 26, 2020 19:45:40 GMT
Bad Education (2020) - 6/10, more or less....
Welker White, Stephanie Kurtzuba, and Kathrine Narducci, in successive scenes? It's The Irishman wives reunion! It's unsurprising that the same casting directors did both movies. Anyway, yes, that's my first thought. I read the script for this last year and didn't like how convenient feeling the teen characters felt... Even if it's "true" it plays as plated even more so on screen. It also doesn't help that the movie is so glibly fast-paced, that we jump from characters more than getting into them. Allison Janney is pretty good (with a spot on Long Island accent). Jackman is good..... Looking like a tightened crinkled approximation of handsome success. His best scenes are when he's "catching on" like the diner scene with his former student, how he fixes his hair, and the board scene where he has to be persuasive....
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Post by evilbliss on Apr 26, 2020 20:23:29 GMT
Bad Education (2020) - 6/10, more or less.... Welker White, Stephanie Kurtzuba, and Kathrine Narducci, in successive scenes? It's The Irishman wives reunion! It's unsurprising that the same casting directors did both movies. Anyway, yes, that's my first thought. I read the script for this last year and didn't like how convenient feeling the teen characters felt... Even if it's "true" it plays as plated even more so on screen. It also doesn't help that the movie is so glibly fast-paced, that we jump from characters more than getting into them. Allison Janney is pretty good (with a spot on Long Island accent). Jackman is good..... Looking like a tightened crinkled approximation of handsome success. His best scenes are when he's "catching on" like the diner scene with his former student, how he fixes his hair, and the board scene where he has to be persuasive.... Alison Janney was superb!! I wish she had more screen time but she was soooo good.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 26, 2020 20:33:04 GMT
Alison Janney was superb!! I wish she had more screen time but she was soooo good. Waiting for a gif of her making the margarita...
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Post by evilbliss on Apr 26, 2020 20:52:24 GMT
Alison Janney was superb!! I wish she had more screen time but she was soooo good. Waiting for a gif of her making the margarita... And her facial expressions when she's confronted in that little office by the school staff. Her anger!
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