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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 2:27:43 GMT
I just watched the Cannes and César-winning L'Interview by Xavier Giannoli - at once both incredibly charming and poignant. Inspired by real events, Mathieu Amalric plays a young French journalist obsessed with Ava Gardner. He wants to interview her to coincide with a planned screening of The Barefoot Contessa on French television - the aged, reclusive film star reluctantly agrees. But, when he arrives at her home in London, things don't go exactly as planned... And you?
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 31, 2020 20:50:43 GMT
The Haircut (1982) - a student film made for an AFI workshop class produced by Ben Gazzara's daughter, starring a hilarious Cassavetes ("Am I ever gonna get outta here?" cracked me up), Coach from Cheers, and a surprise appearance by The Bangles - pacinoyes ever see this? - it's enjoyably kooky and funny, kinda Altmany.
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Post by quetee on Jul 31, 2020 20:53:19 GMT
The one that just won the Oscar.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 31, 2020 21:38:40 GMT
The Haircut(1982) - a student film made for an AFI workshop class produced by Ben Gazzara's daughter, starring a hilarious Cassavetes ("Am I ever gonna get outta here?" cracked me up), Coach from Cheers, and a surprise appearance by The Bangles - pacinoyes ever see this? - it's enjoyably kooky and funny, kinda Altmany. I have seen this - it actually came as part of a Cassavetes bootleggy looking thing (maybe legit?) VHS package with I'm Almost Not Crazy......I of course have an insane Susanna Hoffs obsession and iirc this is pre-any level of fame for them - but I mean just look at her - she's a star waiting to happen Also btw Coach from Cheers is the director of his Columbo episode too although that's a weird thing where some people assume it's Cassavetes using his name as a cover to direct it........or something like that?
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Post by cheesecake on Aug 1, 2020 0:25:07 GMT
The Sandman (1991).
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 1, 2020 4:20:00 GMT
I don't watch hardly any shorts tbh, but I HAVE seen this one an embarrassing amount of times
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 2, 2020 0:00:33 GMT
The Hoarding (2020) 15m. Written-directed and acted in by Karen Gillan, she dropped it on Youtube yesterday. Nothing special, the script is questionable, but there's decent atmosphere and I dig Gillan who's an underrated comedic actress and the fact that she even wanted to make a lil horror between blockbusters.
Bourbon Street Blues (1979) 25m. Based on a Tennessee Williams one-act (The Lady of Lockspur Lotion) about tenants living in squalor, drunk on dreams. German production and the last thing directed by an 81y/o Douglas Sirk, with Fassbinder in the cast(!) proving again he could be quite an actor. Dig the bordello-piano and harmonica music.
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Post by stinkybritches on Nov 2, 2020 20:12:43 GMT
The Russian animated sci-fi short, Pereval (aka The Path) - 1988, Vladimir Tarasov
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 6, 2020 19:08:39 GMT
And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool (2017) 25m. Exciting short about trapped-feeling teen age, very creatively done... the filmmaker is clearly bursting with visual ideas and oddball humor. His first feature We Are Little Zombies was released this year - he reuses a lot of his fun style from the short - but at such a length, and with a Nickelodeon second act, it falls short of his potential. He needs to balance and maybe shorten his features or he'll burn out the audience. In this short it works like a charm.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 9, 2020 0:34:42 GMT
Men of Crisis, The Harvey Wallinger Story (1972) 26m. "I can't remember ever drowning, sir." Perfectly underplayed political mockumentary, prefiguring Zelig. PBS never aired this bc of pressure from Nixon. Woody's first scene is a very hilarious acting moment from him...
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Post by stephen on Dec 9, 2020 1:00:16 GMT
Nimic: Yorgos Lanthimos crafts an unsettling, if narratively slight, tone piece that boasts a riveting performance not from Matt Dillon (who is still good), but Daphne Patakia, who legitimately might be a player for my supporting actress ballot this year.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 10, 2021 23:36:00 GMT
Harry Doright's Prelude To Hell (2008) - 7.5/10 ~15 minutes Funny, very gory horror short which isn't very cinematic but would make a great Night Gallery episode or a short story. Should be mandatory viewing for people who are younger than me........or basically, you know, everybody in the world.
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Post by JangoB on Jan 11, 2021 0:30:43 GMT
The Oscar-winner "Skin". Didn't know anything about the story so when it turned out to be a revenge movie I was kinda surprised. What can I say, neat revenge method. Unfortunately the very climax of it is pretty damn heavy-handed. The message was clear before that but man, does this thing lay it on thick at the end.
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Post by Nikan on Jan 11, 2021 12:35:21 GMT
The Old Mill (1937). Lovely gem...
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 17, 2021 15:27:56 GMT
Nimic
Weird, unsettling stuff from Lanthimos once again. The classic doppelganger trick given in a slightly different way, by an excellent Daphne Patakia.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 19, 2021 1:47:26 GMT
Mattsby who may enjoy this......or maybe saw it.... Whistle and I'll Come To You (1968) 8/10 - ~40 minutes free on YoutubePart of the BBC series Omnibus this is an adaptation of M.R. James story - marvelous writer that most of us know from the Ghost Story At Christmas BBC specials - one of which I reviewed recently : A Warning To The Curious (great). This is a major oddity - a horror piece that is all internal - there is nothing threatening except in the change in manner of the lead - a great Michael Hordern who speaks to himself all through this, cuts himself off from others and so by extension is already haunted in a creation of his own device. Directed by Jonathan Miller who got one of the best Shakespeare performance ever - Bob Hoskins as Iago - this is a kind of simple stunner. Of course you may get irritated at a character talking to themselves like a loon for 40 minutes but it pays off.....nobody likes a know it all.....and this piece is horrific in what happens to them .....or this one at least, keeping a running commentary on his losing grip of rationality.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 19, 2021 1:54:30 GMT
Mattsby who may enjoy this......or maybe saw it.... Whistle and I'll Come To You (1968) 8/10 - ~40 minutes free on YoutubePart of the BBC series Omnibus this is an adaptation of M.R. James story - marvelous writer that most of us know from the Ghost Story At Christmas BBC specials - one of which I reviewed recently : A Warning To The Curious (great). This is a major oddity - a horror piece that is all internal - there is nothing threatening except in the change in manner of the lead - a great Michael Hordern who speaks to himself all through this, cuts himself off from others and so by extension is already haunted in a creation of his own device. Directed by Jonathan Miller who got one of the best Shakespeare performance ever - Bob Hoskins as Iago - this is a kind of simple stunner. Of course you may get irritated at a character talking to themselves like a loon for 40 minutes but it pays off.....nobody likes a know it all.....and this piece is horrific in what happens to them .....or this one at least, keeping a running commentary on his losing grip of rationality. Still have to get to Warning To The Curious, but this I've seen! Sort of simple but effective, especially how it slides into the horror, very lowly and creepily in its use of sound and visual.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 25, 2021 21:15:42 GMT
Judgement (1999) - 26m from Chan-wook Park the year before JSA not only put him on the cinematic map but really made an important cultural impact too. His shorter works are usually fascinating and worth seeing (Cut, Night Fishing). This one uses a real disaster to frame its conflict - two different families in a morgue trying to claim the same young victim of a recent catastrophe. Park strikes it all with pitch-black humor. It's on YouTube.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 25, 2021 23:23:03 GMT
Judgement (1999) - 26m from Chan-wook Park the year before JSA not only put him on the cinematic map but really made an important cultural impact too. His shorter works are usually fascinating and worth seeing (Cut, Night Fishing). This one uses a real disaster to frame its conflict - two different families in a morgue trying to claim the same young victim of a recent catastrophe. Park strikes it all with pitch-black humor. It's on YouTube. I love this - I had seen it before but just gave it a re-watch and how about that shot where he has the back of the mother, the "daughter" facing her in the middle of the frame and the father in back of the daughter so you can see his reaction and then she moves forward and out of the frame (you just see her hair) before .......well you know.............so you see the father's reaction first and then mirror breaks (or the overhead glass light) that then seconds later shatters and you see the father's image split....... That's some genius level directing choice stuff......
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 13, 2021 20:08:14 GMT
The Back of Her Head (2007) 21m - While a film student in Boston, Josh Safdie made this, and stars, around his own apartment building.... a vertical comedy, kinda like a lo-fi, anti-romantic Rear Window. Amusingly absurd with some clever ideas to it.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 14, 2021 18:34:08 GMT
This just dropped online......Written-directed by Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) last year, only 17y/o. Pretty funny 3 minute movie, visuals look good.
He said next up, he's already been writing and setting up a feature-length comedy-slasher.
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 14, 2021 22:47:40 GMT
Hair Love (2019). Some of the editing and the lack of dialogue between characters kind of threw me, but once I settled in this was really lovely.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 26, 2021 17:56:11 GMT
Beautiful New Bay Area Project (2013) 30m - directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, about the young boss of a development project who goes half-mad in his pursuit of a cute dockworker. After stealing her name tag she retaliates in a big way. Very interesting off-balancing use of score and some great wide-frame visuals. I thought this was awesome - you get to see Kiyoshi make a straight up kung fu movie.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 1, 2021 20:48:55 GMT
Quick punch of horror from Rob Savage, who made zoom-horror Host last year which got him a three picture deal with Blumhouse. Under 2 mins, plays a bit like a teaser trailer... thrillingly made with some very clever details.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 8, 2021 2:37:49 GMT
Boy and Bicycle (1965) Very good and simple little movie from Ridley Scott - a 23y/o student at the time as it actually shot in 1961, he wouldn't direct his feature debut until he's nearly 40y/o. It's kinda kitchen sinky but with its own youthful fastbreak to it and an interesting use of voiceover that's like a chorus clutter but centralized, and with sarcasm like his parental impression ("Stand on his own two feet, he must"). Extra bittersweet as Ridley casted his then teen brother, who we know had a tragic end.... he's even credited in the past tense: "The boy was Tony Scott."
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