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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 9, 2022 18:54:09 GMT
That was some sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxy stuff tbh I got a chubby..........murderous dogs.............. check........blood..........check..........black gloves.........check.........eye popping color contrasts........check. Who wants a cigarette? Whew....... Edit: Knives.........check
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 10, 2022 17:48:29 GMT
Full trailer - The trailer ALONE is a better movie by itself than anything since maybe Do You Like Hitchcock? - and I'm one of that TV movies few fans
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 11, 2022 9:45:54 GMT
This feels like Argento imitating De Palma imitating Argento. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that but I expected more.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 11, 2022 21:04:50 GMT
Clip:
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 12, 2022 18:48:04 GMT
Mixed reviews - not exactly getting raves but people seem to have bashed him enough - and let's face it, it's been a long decline (since The Stendahl Syndrome for me) - most saying it's a softer Argento B minus from Woke Annoying Movie Reviewers @ IndieWire: Of course, a film like this is not meant to pull on heartstrings; it’s meant to sever them. So soon enough that psycho killer rears his ugly head and we’re back, off to a series of kills and chases on foot, by car, and through a snake-filled marsh. Like a steady hand holding a straight razor, Argento cuts through the story with clean swipes. “Dark Glasses” has little room for twists and turns; it holds nothing up its sleeve and asks little more of the viewer than to sit still and enjoy the ride. www.indiewire.com/2022/02/dark-glasses-review-dario-argento-1234698860/
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on May 12, 2022 19:34:03 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 1, 2022 19:55:23 GMT
Putting this Vortex review here: ~ 7 / 10Gaspar Noe - who is a filmmaker that I rank right down there with Von Trier (I even hate Dogville, thanks!) has made his most effective movie.........the problem........ is like all his movies - he has the subtle touch of a pushy salesman with dinner reservations. This "movie" is just way too long - 142 minutes of death and dementia - and while it's an invigorating experiment that does work - it doesn't work in the way that NOT seeing the movie might too - if you talked to a grandparent, a priest or have seen a loved one suffer firsthand. As a "movie" this is noticeably less a work of Art than Haneke's masterpiece Amour (he wishes).........as a Gaspar Noe exercise on the topic though it achieves its specifics with emotional heft ............and it is never, ever, to be seen again (by me anyway). I do get it.......but........I got it far better earlier on ..........anyway........... split screen is used to impressive effect and some ingenious framing touches as well within the screen jumps. Side note: This all starts with a magnificent touch early on - an extremely long credit sequence (the end at the beginning? Is that - gasp! - actually wit, Gaspar?) followed by the incomparable, GOAT Françoise Hardy singing Mon Amie La Rose (1965) - the actual clip he used is below - this performance is astonishing of course - and it's astonishing in its placement in the movie too. The film places real life famous people in front of us in meta layering of death vs Death (Hardy's own real life health troubles in 2022 make this go even deeper than that - it's yet another meta level - as she is so lovely and youthful here - singing a song about the subject of the movie (symbolically). It's also included in its entirety..........not an excerpt - but a full arc - which may show us Gaspar Noe's true calling .........inserting real life video of legends into his usually joyless cinematic visions. A Life time comes and goes.. And my friend the rose Told me this morning At dawn I was born Baptized with the dew I blossomed Happy and in love The sun shined through And by the night time I was old At least there have never been A rose as beautiful as me In the flowers of your garden A Life time comes and goes… And my friend the rose Told me this morning See the God who Made me Bow my head I feel I’m falling now Yes, I’m falling now My heart is almost bare My feet is in the grave Already I’m no longer there You admired me yesterday And I'll be gone just as dust Tomorrow forever… A life time comes and goes And so my friend the rose Died this morning The moon is shining bright And I dreamed tonight Dazzling and naked His soul dancing Far beyond the clouds And smiled… The ones who can believe Me, I need to hope Otherwise I ‘m nothing A Life time comes and goes That’s what my friend the rose Said only yesterday..
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 10, 2022 16:06:30 GMT
@notebookmubi Dario Argento has revealed the first details of his next feature film—set to star Isabelle Huppert, take place in Paris and start production in spring 2023. He announced this yesterday at Spain's Sitges Film Festival. He also mentioned it'll be a remake of a Mexican film from the '40s. Not which..... tho my money is on La Otra with Dolores del Rio.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Oct 10, 2022 20:08:21 GMT
@notebookmubi Dario Argento has revealed the first details of his next feature film—set to star Isabelle Huppert, take place in Paris and start production in spring 2023. He announced this yesterday at Spain's Sitges Film Festival. He also mentioned it'll be a remake of a Mexican film from the '40s. Not which..... tho my money is on La Otra with Dolores del Rio. Isabelle is playing twins directed by Argento ? if that’s the case is quite a combo!! One of the great mexican noirs of the era. iirc it’s on youtube, fully restored.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 27, 2023 16:58:36 GMT
Prano Bailey Bond interviews Argento from earlier in May......I haven't watched this whole thing yet but I don't believe he talks about what is next just goes through his films........
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 13, 2023 18:36:03 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 20, 2023 21:31:34 GMT
I'm planning on watching La Otra - maybe tonight - (on rarefilmm I think) - opinion on it? avnermoriarti likes it a lot ^ ........just curious on how excited I should get
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 20, 2023 22:12:39 GMT
I'm planning on watching La Otra - maybe tonight - (on rarefilmm I think) - opinion on it? avnermoriarti likes it a lot ^ ........just curious on how excited I should get I'm biased toward twin thrillers! And I'm due for a rewatch but I liked it, especially the look of the movie....big classy sets with a close Hitchcockian eye. I wanted it to be starker, less melodrama....so I'm excited for Argento's update (if it's indeed the one he's doing) - you can picture him making a meal of it. And Huppert should have a blast inhabiting this psycho-diva role. Dolores del Rio perf is devouring, telekinetic...
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Post by avnermoriarti on Dec 21, 2023 19:55:58 GMT
pacinoyes as mattsby said there's moledrama involved but many different elements makes it a stand out and it has some incredible sequences. As in any other noir, there's a murder, probably the best I've seen in mexican cinema. Not just for what it means within the movie, but the choreography, lighting... all that, but also for who's the killer and who's the victim. I'm pretty sure that's a crucial moment in mexican cinema history.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 22, 2023 0:04:27 GMT
pacinoyes as mattsby said there's moledrama involved but many different elements makes it a stand out and it has some incredible sequences. As in any other noir, there's a murder, probably the best I've seen in mexican cinema. Not just for what it means within the movie, but the choreography, lighting... all that, but also for who's the killer and who's the victim. I'm pretty sure that's a crucial moment in mexican cinema history. & Mattsby - Thanks gentlemen for your takes.......I kind of loved this and I sure won't forget it : This movie has a great shot in it - a really great shot I mean - of the dead sister's legs swinging in the rocking chair so it looks like her feet are moving while the other sisters kicks off her shoes and then strips the sister of her stockings and "steps" into them - how De Palmaesque! A lot to love here - it's a Christmas movie ffs ! ..........Unforgettable last scene played with ironic and existential weight in 1946 which is saying something.......and this movie makes great use of not only light and shadow but form and silhouette too.......lots of sly directorial flourishes - early on the one sister is mistaken for the other while staring at herself in the mirror and then sees herself in a 3 way mirror - herself, dead sister, and ghost? ........several refracted images in mirrors or glass table surfaces - above and below - and things like that to suggest what maybe was and what "is", now and how they are off....... Very good stuff ...........highly recommended.......for noir fans certainly but also for fans of female romances gone off the rails ........Huppert is going to kill that scene with the fire place poker Side note: I love the early parts of this score - the "spooky" parts with the theremin - and then I loved how the score changes and becomes much sadder ........
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Post by avnermoriarti on Dec 22, 2023 6:02:55 GMT
pacinoyes So glad you loved it.I have an aversion to "what if" movies but this is the exception.
The scene at the posada (the christmas party with all the kids) it's the "scene" for me and will remain crucial in the cinema history of the country and the genre itself. Good call on the feet !! I adore Hitchcock but Gavaldón in this particular case is getting with much more through suggestion than the other ever could.
And so true, a treat for christmas. Nothing like watching a twin confined to a golden cage that she brought for herself accumulating more and more dark secrets by the day. And Dolores del Rio is a star, you wish her well, no matter how her life has turned into a bleak joke, there's always that possibility for her to fix it at least a little bit... you root for her but her existential crisis blinds her.
This very well could turn into one of Huppert's great late-career roles.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 22, 2023 15:01:45 GMT
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