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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jan 2, 2024 15:32:27 GMT
I started the New Year with a comfort movie rewatch. A Bronx Tale
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Jan 2, 2024 15:35:24 GMT
Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin.
A strange, colorful concoction. Just delightful
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Post by stabcaesar on Jan 2, 2024 15:59:45 GMT
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. It kind of runs out of steam towards the end but the first 90 mins or so are pretty good. Burstyn and the actor who played her son have great chemistry, and Diane Ladd is super fun.
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Post by getclutch on Jan 2, 2024 16:26:23 GMT
Nadia, Butterfly.
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Post by SZilla on Jan 2, 2024 17:00:22 GMT
Night Must Fall
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Post by JangoB on Jan 2, 2024 18:36:08 GMT
A rewatch of Letter Never Sent, one of the most gorgeous of all Soviet films.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jan 2, 2024 18:46:40 GMT
Public Enemies (rewatch)
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jan 2, 2024 18:56:06 GMT
Oh honeys, rewatch Julia (1977). I love this movie.
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Post by stephen on Jan 2, 2024 19:09:03 GMT
A rewatch of A History of Violence. Still a masterpiece.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 2, 2024 19:21:38 GMT
celebrated Tom Wilkinson with a Michael Clayton rewatch. Such a solid and well-written thriller but still too clinical for me to really love, and the final Clooney/Swinton showdown lacks catharsis & triumph although maybe that's intended. Best scene is the confrontation between Arthur and Michael on the street with that glorious bag of baguettes.
I had to rewatch it a couple times to soak in Wilkinson's reading. The upward lilt to the question punctuates the dialogue brilliantly and makes it stick out but it also makes Arthur seem almost impatient, like he's talking to a child who hasn't thought about what he's saying. The movie does a great job of undercutting much of Arthur's truth-telling with paranoid ramblings but he's startlingly clear-eyed in this moment and fully knows the score.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 2, 2024 19:33:00 GMT
Secret Sunshine (2007) - rewatchOne of the most bleak, utterly uncompromising films of the 2000s - and one of the great female performances of the 2000s too Extremely hard to watch tbh (covered in the Last Great Performance thread) 
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Post by tep on Jan 2, 2024 19:45:11 GMT
Black Hawk Down. Thought it was pretty boring tbh.
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Post by Nikan on Jan 2, 2024 20:17:36 GMT
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); which went hard. The kind of film that makes me not feeling the need to watch another thing for awhile. It was my first exposure to this story; one of those timeless ones that leave you bewildred as to what situations could human beings put each other in (and to think that it wasn't the only one of it's kind  )... there's a scene in the middle that rivals hitchcock in creating suspense (featuring perhaps the most unforgettable performance by a cat on screen ever)... and I love how there's more to these characters than just being trapped victims (It's a great coming-of-age story too; God bless Audrey H. but I'd give her spot to Millie Perkins that year)... how each character is fleshed out, understandable and lovabale by the end so that harrowing last group-shot of them, seconds before they vanish in the dust could stay with us for ever... Strong start that's what I'm trying to say. 
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jan 2, 2024 20:38:01 GMT
Ridley Scott's Napoleon (2023)... Not without technical/visual flourish, but woefully miscast...
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 3, 2024 2:39:45 GMT
Rustin
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Post by hilderic on Jan 3, 2024 5:15:12 GMT
The Titfield Thunderbolt
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Post by speeders on Jan 3, 2024 23:35:29 GMT
Showing Up and I really regretted it. The only film I didn't dig that I watched over the holidays (alongside Thanksgiving)
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Jan 4, 2024 2:07:15 GMT
A rewatch of Notting Hill (1999), in the very first hours of the new year. Still a 10/10.
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Jan 4, 2024 2:33:09 GMT
Mr Klein (1976) - First Joseph Losey film I've seen, really solid stuff. The surreal, Kafkaesque approach to identity and bureaucratic persecution feels incredibly unique for a Holocaust narrative.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 5, 2024 1:54:11 GMT
A rewatch of Oshii's The Sky Crawlers. Oshii's handling of this YA dystopian script elevates the material greatly. The empty bowling alleys and barrooms, the lonely diner in the middle of nowhere, the red lights of the whorehouse... it is all so evocative of the sad existence of the omnipresent... well, present. No future, no past, just go out, do your work, come back and buy a pie, fuck a girl, drink a beer. Not to say that the script is bad: the sci-fi elements don't make one damn lick of sense (perhaps the novels do a better job of fleshing them out), but the repetitive nature of the movie is an asset to driving home the hopelessness of the situation - this is a world far beyond "hope," because nothing but the "now" can be envisioned. I'd rather have twenty of these over another Hunger Games movie - at least this is tackling situations that real teenagers will find themselves in, dystopia or no.  |
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)... there's a scene in the middle that rivals hitchcock in creating suspense (featuring perhaps the most unforgettable performance by a cat on screen ever)... and I love how there's more to these characters than just being trapped victims (It's a great coming-of-age story too; God bless Audrey H. but I'd give her spot to Millie Perkins that year)... how each character is fleshed out, understandable and lovabale by the end so that harrowing last group-shot of them, seconds before they vanish in the dust could stay with us for ever... 
