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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 9, 2023 20:01:40 GMT
Laurus Nobilis - A Youtube short from earlier this year, brought to my attention by a youtuber praising its "realistic" swordfighting techniques as opposed to Hollywood's telegraphed swings, clumsy staggering, and shakycam/rapid editing hiding that they're incompetent.
And yeah. It slaps. Nothing more nor less than a well choreographed swordfight using real techniques. It's pretty badass. If more "realistic" historical movies evidenced this much effort, the cinematic landscape would be a lot richer.
Edit: Apparently the director has done some stunt work in Hollywood, although nothing high especially high profile (Birds of Prey is the biggest movie)
Edit 2: Holy crap, this channel is FULL of stuff like this - cinematic swordfights dedicated to "realism" as much as possible. Daaaaaang.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 21, 2023 18:32:41 GMT
The Image (1969) - ~ 14 minutes (rewatch)Starring Rock Star David Bowie as a space alien singing about stars and comets and the vastness, particulars and nuances of space...... j / k........ Horror short - where Bowie is the subject of a painting and the brought to life conveyor/bringer of murder, sexuality (?) and madness to the artist Dialog free but pretty good and striking - Bowie is photogenic beyond belief and looks so unlike "1969" it suggests something eerie already - those cheekbones! - good ending which makes you read a lot into it that maybe you shouldn't (?) ...............because it is so witheld prior......
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 23, 2023 8:04:12 GMT
Hinterlands (2016) - ~7 minutes I may have told this story on here - that once, as an an adult ffs - I went on a haunted night out - and I'm not actually sure where I was - we drove forever......and after the usual stuff (Haunted House, Pumpkin Patch, blah, blah, blah) ........we were dumped in a field.......and nothing happened.......literally nothing.....just darkness, nature, twigs breaking, wind, odd cloud formations........an overwhelming sense of dread at just being in that spot at that time It was scary af........because well it was sort of unexplainable, overwhelming nature and what not........ This is sort of like that.......not sure what others will think.......but it freaked me out tbh.....Loved this ........Halloween starts now.........also a jarring use of sound that is something memorable........ Mattsby may like this.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 23, 2023 23:44:53 GMT
Emotion (1966) - directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi - 39 minutes
This film is wild and wildly ambitious and trippy and very much like a French New Wave film - a lot of things, ideas and images get thrown onto the frame here and some of it is baffling and incoherent.....yet some of it is quite frightening and beautiful too and this short has a pretty amazing score........this is on the DVD to Obayashi's Houose (1977) too.......
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 6, 2023 21:11:20 GMT
Bleat (2022) 30m - at the NYFF (Yorgos and Emma Stone were there for a post-screening Q&A, also spied in the audience: the Safdies, Margaret Qualley, David Byrne, etc). It's a surprisingly slow and depressing short that feels shy of its interesting twist on mystified grief. It fits Yorgos... the perverting of sacrifice (Sacred Deer), loneliness (The Lobster), familial ritual (Dogtooth)...... Might work as a reanimator sampler before Poor Things? But on its own, even with the 35mm and live orchestra, it feels too tame in its pseudo-style evocation of the silent era. I prefer some poetic life or mad experimenting in my short films!! (I thought it was heading towards a little Kuleshov crazy, or The Demon (1963) or Hour of the Wolf....). If anything, though, it proves Emma Stone's undying commitment to her now frequent collaborator.
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 14, 2023 4:02:20 GMT
The most "boys will be boys" thing I've ever seen on Youtube. The wrong people are making action movies. These guys should be making action movies.
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Post by SZilla on Nov 14, 2023 4:14:57 GMT
Saw the two new Godzilla shorts from the Godzilla Fest event from this year.Godzilla vs. Megalon and Godzilla Fest 4: Operation Jet Jaguar. They're both just very basic Godzilla fights, which are fun, although one utilizes CGI while the other goes the more traditional man in suit style. Honestly? I think I prefer suits more.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Dec 8, 2023 18:46:22 GMT
The Staggering Girl by Luca Guadagnino (Italy, 2019) Certainly inspired by Woody Allen's Another Woman ( pacinoyes Javi Mattsby MsMovieStar ) with a very intriguing central performance from Julianne Moore. Featuring a lilting original Ryūichi Sakamoto score, a delicious supporting turn from Marthe Keller as Moore's mother, and Valentino haute couture galore ( LaraQ ), this short film is a beautiful, beguiling watch.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 13, 2024 13:50:20 GMT
The PriceMaster (2001) - ~ 7 / 10 - 1st time watch - 32 minutes, but....... Not quite a better movie than Nomadland - but a better argument against Capitalism and no shitting in a bucket ......and also far funnier There is no need to watch ALL 32 minutes of this but watch any 5 minutes and you'll get it and it's kinda brilliant: A masked man (puppet maybe ?) sort of like a pro wrestler tbh - oversees a yard sale and matter of factly answers potential custumers who ask "How much?" ......the answer is almost always wildly absurd and scarily funny - "400 thousand dollars!" etc said ominously.......... Recommended for people who will eat Dollar Store Bulk Ramen their whole lives while complaining about financial hierarchies and think America would be soooooooooooooooooooo much better off if it was only more like some hippie collective of 11 people in Finland.........but at the same time it is also wildly entertaining as a Performance Art piece about how your neighbors (in this case Denton, Texas) are not only trapped and sad but also utterly baffled by their new tyrannical financial overlord.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 21, 2024 21:00:20 GMT
The Court Jester (2024) - 10 minutes
Pauly Shore IS.....Pauly Shore.......impersonating .......Pauly Shore as Richard Simmons........I wanted to watch this because I thought it would be funny if I suffered a massive coronary and this is how I'd go out........with all my talk of Chabrol, Huppert, de Oliveira's Doomed Love and The Decalogue .......it all ends like a half eaten donut with sprinkles.......
Alas, nope......... I just saw it so you wouldn't have to....... touching and not mean spirited but also not great........and not awful.......not fattening and yet not good for you....and........
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 21, 2024 1:39:14 GMT
The Oldest View: Beneath The Earth (2023) dir Kane Parsons - 12 minutes
Really fascinating, anxiety inducing mix of narration, sound design, CGI (?), premise, and sudden stop Blair Witch-like ending - so you aren't quite sure what happened .....apparently the kid who made this has caused quite a stir with his work and there may be a sequel alredady............interesting stuff.....
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Mar 14, 2024 23:08:19 GMT
Anomalie ( Anomaly) - dir. Michel Jeanpert, France - 26 mins I'm typically not one for sci-fi, but I found this to be a very intriguing and absorbing watch, thanks entirely to a very haunting, sensitive performance from French model-turned actor Roberto Calvet. I think his acting tends to recall a young Laurent Terzieff. pacinoyes Mattsby Javi LaraQ
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Mar 24, 2024 2:29:17 GMT
A short documentary double bill! - the theme: Maurice Ronet. Jusqu'au 23 juillet (2006): A short that juxtaposes Louis Malle's 1963 classic The Fire Within with its source material, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle’s Le Feu Follet, a 1931 novel on dadaist writer Jacques Rigaut. Mathieu Amalric (looking very dashing!) discusses his love for the film, along with writer Didier Daeninckx and Cannes film curator Pierre-Henri Deleau. I'd say this is a must for fans of Malle/ The Fire Within and Amalric. Amalric is so poetic in the way he talks about film... It's beautiful. Jane Birkin, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, and co. on LA PISCINE (2021): A collection of archival footage Criterion put together surrounding the media frenzy in Europe with regard to the onscreen reunion of co-stars and former power couple Alain Delon and Romy Schneider. Jane Birkin, Maurice Ronet, and Jacques Deray are seen in behind the scenes footage, but the real reason to watch: an interview Schneider gave in Munich prior to the film's German release.
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