28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[Spinal]

Talk Radio might still be available on Instant Viewing. I should check.

It is!

[Morris Schæffer]

Wait, he was? Whoa that's awesome.



Dude, I was joking. ;)

[StanleyK]

Man on Wire is entertaining as a heist film and inspiring in Petit's passion and childlike glee when recounting his feat. Impressive a feat as it is, though, it would have been much better if we weren't constantly reminded that is, indeed, impressive- the sequence when Petit finally pulls it off is almost ruined by his friends talking over it describing how amazing his act is. The best moments on the film are the footage of Petit simply walking on the tightrope, silently, accompanied only by a melancholy score (bitchin' soundtrack, by the way).

[Adam]

Was slightly disappointed in Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid. Charles Grodin is hilarious, like a less likeable and more skeevy Albert Brooks. And my crush on early 70's Cybill Shepherd has never been stronger. Her attraction to him in this movie doesn't make a lot of sense, though, and late in the film their "relationship" takes a weird zig when it really should of zagged. I do like how it's sort of left up to interpretation at the end whether or not he's happy

Also finally watched Paper Moon on Netflix Instant, which was pretty wonderful. Made me want to go back in time and take a road trip across the depression-ravaged midwest as shot by Laszlo Kovacs. Ryan O'Neal probably should've had a better career

[Qrazy]

Was slightly disappointed in Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid. Charles Grodin is hilarious, like a less likeable and more skeevy Albert Brooks. And my crush on early 70's Cybill Shepherd has never been stronger. Her attraction to him in this movie doesn't make a lot of sense, though, and late in the film their "relationship" takes a weird zig when it really should of zagged. I do like how it's sort of left up to interpretation at the end whether or not he's happy

Also finally watched Paper Moon on Netflix Instant, which was pretty wonderful. Made me want to go back in time and take a road trip across the depression-ravaged midwest as shot by Laszlo Kovacs. Ryan O'Neal probably should've had a better career

Ehh, when you see some of his other work he really shouldn't have. But when he's good he is quite good.

[Adam]

Ya, I've only seen him in Paper Moon, The Driver and Barry Lyndon. Kind of curious about What's Up, Doc? but that's about it

[Qrazy]

Ya, I've only seen him in Paper Moon, The Driver and Barry Lyndon. Kind of curious about What's Up, Doc? but that's about it

It's an okay film. Kind of like Bogdanovich's take on It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[Chac Mool]

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is a very wonderful film. God bless a strong female protagonist. Man she's just awesome, confident, badass, caring. Love the world, wish I could live there, giant bugs notwithstanding. Had the English dub, can't believe I didn't recognize Patrick Stewart until I looked it up.

I agree. Awesome movie. I'm not sure I can call it underrated -- no one I've talked to who has seen hasn't loved it -- but it's certainly not mentioned enough.

[Mara]

It's an okay film. Kind of like Bogdanovich's take on It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

It's not ambitious, but consistently amusing. Madeline Kahn is fantastic, and the chase scene at the end is pretty epic.

[Russ]

Rewatched Apocalypse Now, on that new blu ray edition with correct aspect ratio and all, and was just wondering: was there ever any critical backlash over the ending scenes at Kurtz's compound, specifically in regard to the ox/cow slaughter that coincides with the assassination of Kurtz? It's very difficult for me to sit through that entire scene and, not to be a wimp, but I have to avert my eyes during the real-life animal killing. Love the movie, and realize that the scene in question is relevant (and probably necessary) in the context of the film. But still. Anyone else who has reservations about that ending?

And I'm not even a card-carrying member of PETA.

But still.


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[Winston*]

I have trouble understanding why killing an animal for a film is automatically seen as worse than killing it for food (not a vegetarian)

[Russ]

I have trouble understanding why killing an animal for a film is automatically seen as worse than killing it for food (not a vegetarian)
Well, since I'm also not a vegetartian, I apparently don't have much of a problem with killing an animal for food. But, without delving into the whole vegetarian vs. canivore debate, one does need food to survive. Films? Not so much.

Do we really need to see real-life animal killings in any film? (ostensibly, it's either for art or entertainment or both...and I can almost see the artistic purpose...almost, but not quite)

[Winston*]

Well, since I'm also not a vegetartian, I apparently don't have much of a problem with killing an animal for food. But, without delving into the whole vegetarian vs. canivore debate, one does need food to survive. Films? Not so much.
But the point is that one doesn't need meat to survive. So a cow being killed for a film isn't really any less neccesary than one being killed for a bunch of hamburgers.


Do we really need to see real-life animal killings in any film? (ostensibly, it's either for art or entertainment or both...and I can almost see the artistic purpose...almost, but not quite)

Probably not.

[Scar]

I believe the sacrifice was going to happen anyways, with or without the film, so he just filmed it.

EDIT: Per wikipedia (not my preferred source), the scene was 'inspired' by a ritual, and since they were filming in the Philipines, they didn't need to worry about animal cruelty laws. The inspiration for that scene was filmed for Heart of Darkness. So, I guess I'll have to check out Heart of Darkness.

[Ezee E]

Neat Animated A-Z Thing (http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/name_that_movie_26_films_in_on e_animated_minute.html)

Some of the movies I couldn't get on the first go round.

[Qrazy]

Orlando - Took me three weeks to get through this. Such blunt tediousness.

[Qrazy]

It's not ambitious, but consistently amusing. Madeline Kahn is fantastic, and the chase scene at the end is pretty epic.

Yes, I enjoyed it overall. His first three films are greatly superior though I would say.

[Spinal]

Orlando - Took me three weeks to get through this. Such blunt tediousness.

:crazy:

[Qrazy]

Well, since I'm also not a vegetartian, I apparently don't have much of a problem with killing an animal for food. But, without delving into the whole vegetarian vs. canivore debate, one does need food to survive. Films? Not so much.

Do we really need to see real-life animal killings in any film? (ostensibly, it's either for art or entertainment or both...and I can almost see the artistic purpose...almost, but not quite)

In my opinion as long as we kill and eat animals we can and should show their deaths for artistic purposes as well. The fact that the scene is unpleasant for you to watch is one of it's primary goals.

You can not halfway grant animals admittance into the moral community.

I also remember reading they ate the animal after the fact also.

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That said I don't encourage or embrace scenes of prolonged actual animal torture.

[Boner M]

City Girl was good but not top-tier Murnau as I'd been hoping for; his technique only occasionally comes out in full force (the wheatfield tracking shot, the super-grubby attic walls at night) but not enough to salvage the very blah story. Still, it looks great on the Master of Cinema Blu-ray even though I wasn't keen on the new 2008 music score.

[Qrazy]

:crazy:

Angels have no memory!

[soitgoes...]

City Girl was good but not top-tier Murnau as I'd been hoping for; his technique only occasionally comes out in full force (the wheatfield tracking shot, the super-grubby attic walls at night) but not enough to salvage the very blah story. Still, it looks great on the Master of Cinema Blu-ray even though I wasn't keen on the new 2008 music score.The biggest problem for me was the rushed love story. I love that Murnau chose to make the film a silent film, surely a huge clash with the studio over that must have taken place. The film would have been a shell of what it is if it had been made using the primitive technology available in those early sound years. Murnau dying a couple years later is obviously one of the big losses in film history, but I'd be interested in seeing how his career would have fared since he was so much against talking pictures. I wonder how long he would have survived before being forced to switch over or retire.

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Rhapsody in August - C+Probably accurate. Better than Dreams, but a definite step below Madadayo (which is one of the best swan songs by a major director).

[Qrazy]

Probably accurate. Better than Dreams, but a definite step below Madadayo (which is one of the best swan songs by a major director).

I wasn't too huge on Madadayo to be honest. I found the pacing to be way off. There are a number of excellent scenes though and the central metaphor is strong. I now only have his early films to view. I plan on wrapping him and Fellini this year.

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I wasn't too huge on Madadayo to be honest. I found the pacing to be way off. There are a number of excellent scenes though and the central metaphor is strong. I now only have his early films to view. I plan on wrapping him and Fellini this year.
Fellini's a ways off for me, but finishing Kurosawa's was pretty great. Which ones do you have left? Madadayo was actually the last one I watched.

[Qrazy]

Fellini's a ways off for me, but finishing Kurosawa's was pretty great. Which ones do you have left? Madadayo was actually the last one I watched.

I still have everything before Drunken Angel and also Scandal and The Quiet Duel.

[soitgoes...]

I still have everything before Drunken Angel and also Scandal and The Quiet Duel.
Well, at lest you have No Regrets for Our Youth to look forward to seeing. The rest is various degrees of whatever.

[B-side]

City Girl was good but not top-tier Murnau as I'd been hoping for; his technique only occasionally comes out in full force (the wheatfield tracking shot, the super-grubby attic walls at night) but not enough to salvage the very blah story. Still, it looks great on the Master of Cinema Blu-ray even though I wasn't keen on the new 2008 music score.

Agreed.

[Qrazy]

Well, at lest you have No Regrets for Our Youth to look forward to seeing. The rest is various degrees of whatever.

Perhaps I'll save that one for last then, would be nice to go out on a strong note.

[Grouchy]

Charlotte Gray - Can't remember the last time a movie let me down this badly. I thought it was great when it started. I'm a fan of everything Cate Blanchett and, having never seen anything by Gillian Armstrong, I thought it was superbly directed with a very expressionistic use of color. But the story soon turned into total Hollywood bullshit, with a tepid romance angle and plenty of ludicrous, corny moments. The actors do what they can and they all leave an impression, but the script is terrible.

Tyrannosaur - Good drama. Considine unsurprisingly focuses on a strong central male performance. The sympathy that Peter Mullan generates as the protagonist helps to carry a film that only features different shades of grim and gritty. I think this might be so dreary in the story it tells and the sparse dialogue it uses that it almost crosses the border into unintentional comedy, but Considine shows enough assurance as a director to keep it relevant.

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Young Raya Martin, a Filipino filmmaker only in his late 20s, has, with this film, crafted a singular sci-fi experience. Inspired by one of the earliest teleportation accounts, which happened between the Philippines and Mexico during the colonial period, Buenas noches, España is a bizzare and memorable film. Repetition is key here. How many different ways can one experience the same images? Martin repeats shots with slight variations; length, color, filter and various methods of distortion. The imagery is garish and the soundtrack buzzes with the sound of discordant musical feedback. We're given temporary reprieve during a seaside segment between the two lovers featured in which the photography is mostly black and white and the soundtrack is but a simple electronic hum. The film begins with a distant image of two lovers on a couch, smoking and watching TV, and the camera slowly zooms in to enlarge the image to full frame. Immediately after we're swept into the alternate universe that lies inside the television screen. In this universe, the young man picks up the young woman as a hitchhiker and throughout we watch them frolic and play and flirt through car rides, walks in the woods and a museum visit. The museum holds the paintings of the most important artist of the Filipino revolution, whose work entrances the lovers. Granted, some of these plot details are hardly discernible within the narrative itself given the films' lack of contextual grounding. Regardless, the film is, if nothing else, a bizarre and memorable experience. My instinct to find comparative figures in the cinematic canon is strong, but I can't come up with anything here.

It's streaming here (http://www.margenes.org/buenas_noches_espanha/) for free through the 29th.

[Boner M]

Oh rad, I sadly missed that one in Rotterdam. It placed among the lowest in the poll of audience votes, which is always a good sign.

[B-side]

Oh rad, I sadly missed that one in Rotterdam. It placed among the lowest in the poll of audience votes, which is always a good sign.

:lol:

It's wild. Not surprising it turned so many off, but I liked it a lot.

[Rowland]

So it turns out this "Language Media Poetics" class that I signed up for on the basis of its description as "an immersion into language media in literature, performance, film, and digital media," is in fact comprised largely of the professor (whose terrible art gallery I had to attend for extra credit) forcing his infatuation with the Beat movement down our throats, both through the literature itself (which I don't mind) and these lousy movies (un)inspired by it. Yeesh, I hope the Factotum adaptation starring Matt Dillon is better than Howl and Beat.

[Derek]

Yeesh. Hopefully he at least throws in a Jarmusch film for good measure or is that too much to hope for?

[Winston*]

Is "language media" a real academic term, or is it just something your professor made up?

[B-side]

I know not everyone on here pirates, but I kinda thought this was important enough to mention: Dreyer's last film lacking a watchable release, his disowned 1945 film, Two People, finally got a DVD release. Unsure of the region of the DVD, but this is good news for Dreyer fans who have been wanting to check this one out. Comparison of the current VHS rip on KG and the new DVD:

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[baby doll]

Orlando - Took me three weeks to get through this. Such blunt tediousness.Are you talking about the book or the film?

[Qrazy]

Are you talking about the book or the film?

Film.

[baby doll]

Film.Okay, because the book is pure awesome.

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My third To film brings more inclination toward comparison with Tony Scott. I've written about this connection before (http://cinematicinsecurity.wordpress. com/2011/09/25/new-media-reality-in-breaking-news-to-2004-and-unstoppable-scott-2010/), but I'll direct that premise toward this film in particular. Life Without Principle is a web of narratives revolving around the global financial crisis (and I emphasize global). A woman feels new pressure from her banking employer to do more business while people are susceptible in the unease, a gangster finagles money and a couple face confrontation when the husband is stricken with indecision in the face of financial uncertainty. The bank woman sells snake oil to a vulnerable old woman who lives on a small senior salary in one of the film's more disquieting segments. To utilizes the bank's clinical interior to great effect here. The gangster makes the rounds asking for money from his "brothers" after one of his other brothers is arrested twice; once for assault and the other for suspected gangster activity, reflecting the shared burden of governmental bail outs for companies and people of dubious moral character. That To relegates his country's financial troubles to shadowy gangster figures investing in virtually unknown entities behind the scenes is all too appropriate of the world at large. Tony Scott's visceral 2009 thriller, Taking of Pelham 123, saw a criminal with experience on Wall Street and his accomplice hold a train of people hostage with prospective bounties over their heads for the sake of a rise in gold stock, a metaphor not entirely dissimilar to the aforementioned in Life Without Principle. In Unstoppable, opportunistic spectators galvanize to snap photos and shoot video of a possible tragedy in a supposedly unstoppable train with two workers aboard. To seems to share a similarly ambivalent stance on modern technology. In To's film, one of the gangsters' many brothers lies dead in the middle of a street, impaled with a flower coated with diamonds, symbolic of the wealth of his assailant. Greece's ongoing financial meltdown is the pivot point around which much of the film's monied problems revolve, and the bail out that neighboring Japan has a hand in is the impetus for the bittersweet ending that suggests more so a brighter future than a contented now.

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[Killed_by_Smalls]

I watched King Boxer (a.k.a. Five Fingers of Death). I plowed through a large chunk of the Shaw Brothers catalog last year, and I'd place this somewhere in the lower half if I were ranking them. Narratively it felt really unbalanced. The fight choreography also seemed a little lethargic. The only conflict that sticks out is the finale between the hero and the Japanese villain.

[soitgoes...]

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Cool. Good to hear. I noticed floating around on the internets, but I wasn't in the biggest rush after his last four or so films I've seen. I knew I'd get around to it someday, but that day looks sooner rather than later now. You know, because our tastes are so similar.

[Derek]

Cool. Good to hear. I noticed floating around on the internets, but I wasn't in the biggest rush after his last four or so films I've seen. I knew I'd get around to it someday, but that day looks sooner rather than later now. You know, because our tastes are so similar.

It sounds good, though hopefully the central metaphor isn't as blunt and poorly handled as in Tony Scott's Pelham.

[Qrazy]

Cool. Good to hear. I noticed floating around on the internets, but I wasn't in the biggest rush after his last four or so films I've seen. I knew I'd get around to it someday, but that day looks sooner rather than later now. You know, because our tastes are so similar.

Which were?

Did you watch Kooky yet?

[soitgoes...]

Which were?
Don't Go Breaking My Heart - better than it has any right being
Vengeance - Good, but lacking
Sparrow - Fun enough
Mad Detective - Good, but again seems to be lacking

These are all compared to his Election films and Exiled. The films on their own are generally good, but To's spoiled me into wanting more from him.


Did you watch Kooky yet?Yes, it's quite good. I'm hesitant to call it great or amazing, but it's definitely enjoyable. I like the ambiguity of whether it all takes place in the child's mind or not. It's definitely the child of the past Czech animators.

[soitgoes...]

It sounds good, though hopefully the central metaphor isn't as blunt and poorly handled as in Tony Scott's Pelham.My mind edited out all Tony Scott references as I read his review.

[Qrazy]

Don't Go Breaking My Heart - better than it has any right being
Vengeance - Good, but lacking
Sparrow - Fun enough
Mad Detective - Good, but again seems to be lacking

These are all compared to his Election films and Exiled. The films on their own are generally good, but To's spoiled me into wanting more from him.

Yes, it's quite good. I'm hesitant to call it great or amazing, but it's definitely enjoyable. I like the ambiguity of whether it all takes place in the child's mind or not. It's definitely the child of the past Czech animators.

I recommend PTU and Throw Down. But yeah, the Election films are his best. A rewatch of The Mission was not very kind to it. It's still solid but nowhere near his best work. The score is terrible.

I would say the narrative of Kooky isn't flawless but the approach to the storytelling (shooting on location) and the animation (stop motion/puppetry/coupled with the use of live animals) makes it special enough for me to consider it one of the better animated films of the decade.

[Raiders]

Mad Detective may be lacking in the story and character department, but it is among the best directed films I have ever seen.

[Boner M]

Sparrow is my favorite To. Pure formalist delight.

[Derek]

Mad Detective may be lacking in the story and character department, but it is among the best directed films I have ever seen.

It's fantastic. My favorite To so far actually.


Sparrow is my favorite To. Pure formalist delight.

Will obtain.

[MadMan]

Midnight In Paris was a really wonderful experience. The film is funny, entertaining, and delightful, plus its worth seeing just alone for Adrien Brody as Dali. Well, almost. I like that Woody Allen never bothers to explain why or how Owen Wilson's Gil is able to travel back to the 1920s. Its not important, and it would have ruined the mystery.

[TGM]

Midnight In Paris was a really wonderful experience. The film is funny, entertaining, and delightful, plus its worth seeing just alone for Adrien Brody as Dali. Well, almost. I like that Woody Allen never bothers to explain why or how Owen Wilson's Gil is able to travel back to the 1920s. Its not important, and it would have ruined the mystery.

I liked to think that what we were watching was actually his novel being played out to us. Certain things, such as the way the characters had to point out that the fiance of his novel's main character was cheating on him, sort of tipped me off to this conclusion. It showed that the book was clearly about him and his current experiences in Paris, yet it was already a fully written novel before he let the famous historical characters read it.

But I dunno, that's my thoughts on it, and I just thought that might be a neat explanation. Though like you, I do like how it's not flat out explained to us, leaving it open for interpretation.

[MadMan]

I liked to think that what we were watching was actually his novel being played out to us. Certain things, such as the way the characters had to point out that the fiance of his novel's main character was cheating on him, sort of tipped me off to this conclusion. It showed that the book was clearly about him and his current experiences in Paris, yet it was already a fully written novel before he let the famous historical characters read it.

But I dunno, that's my thoughts on it, and I just thought that might be a neat explanation. Though like you, I do like how it's not flat out explained to us, leaving it open for interpretation.I really like that take on Midnight In Paris, and it makes a great deal of sense, actually.

Especially since when him and Adriana travel to the 1890s he realizes that he really should stop being so focused on the past, and that he should make the best of his own current time.

I must note that after watching the movie I realized that, even though I wouldn't mind going back to, say, the 1970s, I like my own time. Every decade has its problems, some far more than others. This one right now sure the economy sucks, but I can watch movies and TV shows on my laptop and converse with people miles away about film. That said, I wouldn't blame the people from the 1930s and 1940s for thinking those decades sucked, and I don't know too many people longing for the 80s (yuck).

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The Telephone Book was crazy fun. Felt a little directionless at first, mostly because I wasn't sure what to expect, but it picked up quickly into this ball of raw creative energy and sexual politics. The lead actress' gorgeous, child-like eyes and squeaky voice betray her overt sexuality and subsequent enormous sex appeal. She's crafted almost into the ideal female figure for men; an innocence secreted in her voice -- a sort of attractive naivete and an adorable little figure complete with curly blonde hair. She's exploited a few times on her road to discovering the man who phoned her and proceeded to please her with sexually explicit eloquence. A man offers her dimes for phone calls so she can call all the John Smiths in the phone book if she'll get him off with dirty talk, so she tells an anecdotal story about a pastor baffled by his erection and how she needed to help him get rid of this medical affliction, as he referred to it. An older, possibly lesbian, woman offers her use of her phone and proceeds to pleasure her with a vibrator while she talks on the phone. I suppose the broader theme is that of the many ways in which sexuality expresses itself. A little sly mockery of Freudian sexual analysis and the topical hippie movement. The final 5-10 minutes are a combination of hilariously profane animation and orgasmic climax. It's just really unique and I kinda loved it.


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[MadMan]

Whoa, Brightside. That movie looks, well, interesting to say the least.

[Russ]

The Telephone Book
...want...

[B-side]

...want...

You'd love it.:P

[soitgoes...]

You'd love it.:P
I'll be watching it soon. Seems like my kind of film too. Or not.

[B-side]

Seems like my kind of film too.

I... couldn't say.

[soitgoes...]

I... couldn't say.
Considering I still have no idea what your tastes are, I feel confident I'll like this one. Maybe you and Russ can watch Top of the Food Chain for me. I'm certain Russ will like that one. Certain.

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Considering I still have no idea what your tastes are, I feel confident I'll like this one. Maybe you and Russ can watch Top of the Food Chain for me. I'm certain Russ will like that one. Certain.

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Whoa, it's that hot older lady who tried to steal Joey in Degrassi!

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Whoa, it's that hot older lady who tried to steal Joey in Degrassi!I don't know what any of this means.

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I don't know what any of this means.

You wouldn't, philistine.

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You wouldn't, philistine.
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The Stone isn't "about" anything in a traditional sense. It's not a narrative film with an accentuating atmosphere. It's an atmosphere film with an accentuating narrative, or at least some vague steps in that direction. Not reading a synopsis, or anything, really, about the film beforehand, I can't claim to have grasped onto any narrative strands here. Only after scanning a review on IMDb did I get any sense of the supposed narrative involved here. A young man enters an old home and drags an aging man out of a bath tub he's been in with clothes on and the rest is kind of a blur of barely discernible characters amidst an image warped and abstracted in chiaroscuro mud. The very atmosphere seems to be slowing their every movement to a crawl. Case in point: a scene in which we witness with static mid-level camera the aging man getting dressed for upwards of 3-4 minutes straight. Interestingly enough, the scene I found most engaging involved the two men seated next to each other at the dinner table, their faces squeezed into Sokurov's 4:3 frame, elongating them, as the older man posits existential and spiritual rhetoric to the cynical younger man. So what does it all amount to? I really have no idea. Give me a better print and I'll be happy to give another go and try and answer that.


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[Dukefrukem]

85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film (http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679472/martin-scorseses-film-school-the-85-films-you-need-to-see-to-know-anything-about-film)

[Ivan Drago]

A 35mm print of Battle Royale is being screened at midnight for a couple nights here in April at the arthouse theater close to me. Can't. Wait.

[StanleyK]

85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film (http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679472/martin-scorseses-film-school-the-85-films-you-need-to-see-to-know-anything-about-film)

I've only seen 23 of those. Looks like I know even less than I thought I did (about a quarter of 'anything', apparently).

[Winston*]

85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film (http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679472/martin-scorseses-film-school-the-85-films-you-need-to-see-to-know-anything-about-film)
Man, I've only seen 24 of those.

The article's kind of disingenuously framed, though. I imagine if Scorsese was actually creating such a list, it would significantly different.

[Grouchy]

The article's kind of disingenuously framed, though. I imagine if Scorsese was actually creating such a list, it would significantly different.
Heheh yeah.

[Sycophant]

Pretty disingenuously framed, and unforgivably shrill and obnoxious for it. If this were really a summation of Scorsese's outlook, Vincente Minelli is apparently the one of the only truly worthwhile craftsmen to come outta Hollywood and his support of Kurosawa films in the eighties was a weird rebellious phase he went through.

I've seen 19 or 20 of those.

[Sycophant]

(Not that Minelli isn't one of the greats, mind.)

[Ezee E]

Scorsese should do another Century of Cinema documentary again. Those are wonderful.

[Russ]

So cool...

watch this (http://vimeo.com/23030893).

[Qrazy]

Meh.

[soitgoes...]

The Telephone Book was crazy fun. Felt a little directionless at first, mostly because I wasn't sure what to expect, but it picked up quickly into this ball of raw creative energy and sexual politics. The lead actress' gorgeous, child-like eyes and squeaky voice betray her overt sexuality and subsequent enormous sex appeal. She's crafted almost into the ideal female figure for men; an innocence secreted in her voice -- a sort of attractive naivete and an adorable little figure complete with curly blonde hair. She's exploited a few times on her road to discovering the man who phoned her and proceeded to please her with sexually explicit eloquence. A man offers her dimes for phone calls so she can call all the John Smiths in the phone book if she'll get him off with dirty talk, so she tells an anecdotal story about a pastor baffled by his erection and how she needed to help him get rid of this medical affliction, as he referred to it. An older, possibly lesbian, woman offers her use of her phone and proceeds to pleasure her with a vibrator while she talks on the phone. I suppose the broader theme is that of the many ways in which sexuality expresses itself. A little sly mockery of Freudian sexual analysis and the topical hippie movement. The final 5-10 minutes are a combination of hilariously profane animation and orgasmic climax. It's just really unique and I kinda loved it.
I did enjoy this quite a bit, but I can't help but think that this could have been so much better had the director had more experience. Your second sentence pretty much hits the mark except that it can be carried throughout the film. The ending, which should have been the perfect capper, went on too long. It's a shame that Lyon didn't continue with film direction after this. I feel that he probably would have made something quite excellent with another film of two under his belt.

Oh, and seeing Uncle Lewis from Christmas Vacation with the most extreme case of priapism is a high point.

[EyesWideOpen]

I just watched a DTV movie called The Mortician which came out on dvd a couple weeks ago. It stars Method Man playing a timid mortician in a decaying gang overrun city. I was pleasantly surprised by it. I watched it based on a review over at dvdtalk which mentioned Method Man playing a kind of weird non-comedic role and he delivered a pretty good performance.

[Spinal]

85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film (http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679472/martin-scorseses-film-school-the-85-films-you-need-to-see-to-know-anything-about-film)

Stopped reading at Born on the Fourth of July. I assumed then that it was an elaborate lie.

[Sven]

It would be interesting to sleuth which actor or actress you'd seen in the most number of films. I was thinking today that I sure have seen a lot of Nicolas Cage movies.

[Qrazy]

Stopped reading at Born on the Fourth of July. I assumed then that it was an elaborate lie.

Why? That's actually a very good film.

But yeah, the list is shit. Too many picks from the same directors... Minnelli, Rossellini and Welles espesh.

[Li Lili]

I watched Cutie Honey (the film) by Hideaki Anno yesterday, actually I stopped in the middle of the film. I saw it years ago at the theatre with a bunch of crazy people, I guess the action was more entertaining in the theatre than in the film itself as when I watched it yesterday, I found the film quite boring...

[dreamdead]

So Chak De! India chronicles an Indian women's outdoor hockey league and their rise to stardom. The film still merrily draws on broad archetypes, as have most mainstream Bollywood films I've seen, but the film does push at concepts of nationalism and gender equality in interesting ways. And the musical numbers are more abstract, layered over montages rather than connected to a character in particular, which makes the transitions more effective to this Western viewer.

Because of the broadness, it's hard to grant the film a higher score than is in the sig, but it's thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining throughout.

[Grouchy]

It would be interesting to sleuth which actor or actress you'd seen in the most number of films. I was thinking today that I sure have seen a lot of Nicolas Cage movies.
I asked myself this same question recently and solved it with Criticker. The answer was, unsurprisingly, Robert De Niro with 29, Christopher Lee a close second with 24.

[Raiders]

Pretty sure it would be Jimmy Stewart for me.

[Qrazy]

You're all wrong. It's Samuel L Jackson for each and every one of you.

[Grouchy]

You're all wrong. It's Samuel L Jackson for each and every one of you.
Can't believe I didn't think of him. I've seen 27 Sam Jackson films.

[transmogrifier]

I've seen 45 films with Samuel L. Jackson in them. Can't imagine another actor beating that...

[MadMan]

I would have to check, but I imagine that John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Arnuld, and De Niro are the ones I've seen the most movies from, among a couple of others.

[dreamdead]

Killed By Smalls,

I've been interested in Down by Law for some time. Thoughts?

[MadMan]

Killed By Smalls,

I've been interested in Down by Law for some time. Thoughts?Review: http://madman731.blogspot.com/2012/01/second-chances-dont-come-along-too.html

I thought it was a pretty great movie.

[Adam]

Roberto Benigni dancing with his wife to Irma Thomas and luxuriating in her hairy Italian armpits and just their expressions as they mash their faces together = Most romantic movie scene ever, for me

[MadMan]

Yeah I loved that part. Some people think of Roberto as annoying, and they may have a point, but I think of him as eccentric. Besides he gave us one of the Oscar's most outlandishly entertaining moments: him leaping over people and seats on his way up to receive his Academy Award for Life is Beautiful.

[Adam]

Ya I like him okay in DBL, but he's hilarious in Jarmusch's great Night on Earth

gtpLgue-xLw

[Mara]

Continuing a lifelong tradition of showing me random French films, tonight I watched Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis with my dad. It was decently funny, but silly and slight. I'm surprised to look it up online and find out it was apparently a huge blockbuster.

[baby doll]

Why? That's actually a very good film.

But yeah, the list is shit. Too many picks from the same directors... Minnelli, Rossellini and Welles espesh.One can never have too much Rossellini and Welles. (Where's F for Fake?) Minnelli made some great films, but An American in Paris ain't one of them.

[Killed_by_Smalls]

Killed By Smalls,

I've been interested in Down by Law for some time. Thoughts?

I wish I had more to say about it, but after one viewing it's just one of those movies I enjoyed on a base level, primarily due to the performances. Others have already mentioned Benigni, and I agree that his eccentricities work very well in this case. I'm always excited to see Tom Waits in anything. He has one of those presences that instantly draws me in whenever he's on screen.

I'd say the film itself is about Jarmusch playing with character dynamics, experimenting with the social implications of placing disparate personalities together in a confined space. He begins by placing two naturally contentious elements (John Lurie and Tom Waits) together, and then introduces Benigni to act as a sort of social emulsifier. There's not much story, so the actors really have to carry a lot of weight, and they pull it off quite well.

[Dukefrukem]

WICKED disappointed with A Serious Man. My least favorite Coen Bros film.

[Kurosawa Fan]

WICKED disappointed with A Serious Man. My least favorite Coen Bros film.

Bah. BAH!

[Raiders]

Bah. BAH!

Indeed. It is my very favorite of theirs as a matter of fact.

[Dukefrukem]

Do we have a thread on it? I'm finding it difficult to fathom the love.

[Grouchy]

WICKED disappointed with A Serious Man. My least favorite Coen Bros film.
Would you consider watching it again somewhere down the road? I loved it from the beginning, but I noticed it tends to grow on a lot of people.

Beginners - Surprising angsty drama that oozes a lot of charm. Or maybe that was Melanie Laurent. I'd forgotten she was in this and from the moment she appears on screen she commands ever scene. Mills sticks to a lot of the tropes of this kind of film while at the same time telling his story in a very unconventional way that can only be compared truthfully to something like Annie Hall. Very recommended.

Death at a Funeral - It took me a while to get to this one. I'm a fan of British comedy but I think the extreme praise this received, specially among family and "adult people", activated some kind of caution alarm in me. I enjoyed it a lot, though. Nothing extraordinary but it's a biting ensemble comedy with a lot of delightful moments. Everyone is great on their roles and the lack of recognizable faces (well, except for Dinklage) helps the film.

[Ezee E]

A Serious Man definitely grows on you over time I think. Certainly not my favorite, but definitely within the ranks of their many 4-star movies. I'm wondering if it may be the most "Coen" movie of them all.

[Raiders]

Do we have a thread on it? I'm finding it difficult to fathom the love.

Yeah, it was heavily discussed...

http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=2254

[Dukefrukem]

Would you consider watching it again somewhere down the road? I loved it from the beginning, but I noticed it tends to grow on a lot of people.


I'd consider it. I didn't dislike it nearly as much as Tree of Life. I loved the grim humor (that exists in all Coen bros films), but I find it oddly pointless. I don't understand the connection with the opening scene and I find the ending to be a bit of a cliffhanger. Very unsatisfying.

[Dukefrukem]

Yeah, it was heavily discussed...

http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=2254

Weird. By searching by thread title with the word "serious" in it, nothing is found.

[Pop Trash]

A Serious Man definitely grows on you over time I think. Certainly not my favorite, but definitely within the ranks of their many 4-star movies. I'm wondering if it may be the most "Coen" movie of them all.

Yeah, it's grown on me. I remember being a bit of a detractor since people were falling all over themselves to praise it on here (and other film sites). Not as good as No Country, but at least as good as True Grit (possibly better).

[Spinal]

It might be their best film. I have a strong connection to Raising Arizona, but A Serious Man is just about perfect.

[Qrazy]

They really need to stop putting car accidents in their films.

[Thirdmango]

went to an oscar party and got 2 dvds for free in their wrapping. I need opinions are these movies I should keep or sell today and get something else. They're both newer so I could probably get more then the usual 5 bucks of trade in.

Water For Elephants
Another Earth

[Dukefrukem]

I didn't like Another Earth. I bumped the thread a few days ago.

edit: Hmm. my grade in my sig doesn't reflect it though.

[TGM]

went to an oscar party and got 2 dvds for free in their wrapping. I need opinions are these movies I should keep or sell today and get something else. They're both newer so I could probably get more then the usual 5 bucks of trade in.

Water For Elephants
Another Earth

I really liked Another Earth, and I thought Water for Elephants was okay. Then again, mine was an unpopular opinion, so take that however you will...

[Grouchy]

I'd consider it. I didn't dislike it nearly as much as Tree of Life. I loved the grim humor (that exists in all Coen bros films), but I find it oddly pointless. I don't understand the connection with the opening scene and I find the ending to be a bit of a cliffhanger. Very unsatisfying.
Hahah but that's sort of the point, isn't it?

[Dukefrukem]

Hahah but that's sort of the point, isn't it?

I'm gonna bump the original thread.

[Spinal]

17 successful adaptations of 'unadaptable' books. (http://www.avclub.com/articles/how-did-they-ever-make-a-movie-of-17-successful-ad,69912/)

[Sxottlan]

I never saw a thread for it, but I just wanted to say before I forgot that Mysteries of Lisbon was really good.

And by the way, Father Dinis is the Batman.

[Stay Puft]

Bosco! What's this about then?


"P.T.A. extraordinary general meeting" (Shokuzai, Japan TV mini-series) (K. Kurosawa 12) - 7
"French Doll" (Shokuzai, Japan TV mini-series) (K. Kurosawa 12) - 5.5

I've been wondering what Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been up to. (It's been four years already since Tokyo Sonata, yikes.)

[MadMan]

17 successful adaptations of 'unadaptable' books. (http://www.avclub.com/articles/how-did-they-ever-make-a-movie-of-17-successful-ad,69912/)Really cool list. I've only seen Lolita, American Psycho, The LOTRs (of course), Moneyball, and Where The Wild Things Are.

[Qrazy]

Really cool list. I've only seen Lolita, American Psycho, The LOTRs (of course), Moneyball, and Where The Wild Things Are.

Really? I would have thought you'd seen most of them.

[Bosco B Thug]

Bosco! What's this about then?



I've been wondering what Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been up to. (It's been four years already since Tokyo Sonata, yikes.) So what Kiyoshi's been up to is he apparently directed a TV miniseries last year and it premiered in January. Each episode has the run-time of a short feature and is a self-contained story, but they're connected by a framework story. If anyone wants to watch them, they're on a streaming website here (http://www.wat.tv/video/shokuzai-e01-subbed-part1-4sku1_4sk3f_.html).

It's pretty good. His style is more than apparent, but the material is all very noticeably written for television, and it shows in Kiyoshi Kurosawa-isms that are more dressing than really driven in the way of his seminal work. The first episode should've been a lot better, it's pretty meh and coy, but this last episode was pretty solid. Will soldier on through them soon enough.

It's all about young Japanese women and victimhood. All a biiit typical. Hope that isn't offensive to say. :lol:

[Sycophant]

Oh, shit. Thanks for linking those, Bosco. I'd worried that Kurosawa was just teaching these days. I'll be watching this as soon as possible.

[Rowland]

Good to see Kurosawa take some time off from teaching Tobe Hooper's Spontaneous Combustion to Japanese film school students to direct something. I'll give these a look.

And speaking of his work as a film school professor, has anyone seen Barren Illusion? He made it in collaboration with a group of his students, and contrary to the inane review by Jerry White in his dreadful book The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear (http://www.amazon.com/Films-Kiyoshi-Kurosawa-Master-Fear/dp/193333021X) (which I sadly do own), it's a fascinating film that positively drips with that distinctly KK-ian style. I wonder if any more of his disciples than Takashi Shimizu have made it into the film industry?

[dreamdead]

And speaking of his work as a film school professor, has anyone seen Barren Illusion? He made it in collaboration with a group of his students, and contrary to the inane review by Jerry White in his dreadful book The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear (http://www.amazon.com/Films-Kiyoshi-Kurosawa-Master-Fear/dp/193333021X) (which I sadly do own), it's a fascinating film that positively drips with that distinctly KK-ian style. I wonder if any more of his disciples than Takashi Shimizu have made it into the film industry?

Hey, I own the Jerry White book, too. What's bothersome about it is how often White almost gets to critical analysis only to back off of it and settle for insignificant summary.

[Rowland]

Hey, I own the Jerry White book, too. What's bothersome about it is how often White almost gets to critical analysis only to back off of it and settle for insignificant summary.He spent what felt like half of his review, at least substance-wise, on Barren Illusions describing how bored he and his wife were while watching it. It's really embarrassing that this is the only book in English devoted to Kurosawa.

[MadMan]

Really? I would have thought you'd seen most of them.I can't tell if you are mocking me or being sincere.

[Bosco B Thug]

Good to see Kurosawa take some time off from teaching Tobe Hooper's Spontaneous Combustion to Japanese film school students to direct something. I'll give these a look. A worthy sideline. But yes, I'm glad he's on the job again. :)

Haven't seen Barren Illusion. What I was lucky enough to see at a festival and am really itching to see again (especially since I walked in 5 minutes late) was his 2004 short Soul Dancing, which is pretty weird, he made with students, and with a vodka company's money.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Apocalypto.

It was good.

More if I think if anything valuable to say.

[Sven]

Hey Brightside, miserable Mission to Mars rating. What gives? You don't like movies or something?

[B-side]

Hey Brightside, miserable Mission to Mars rating. What gives? You don't like movies or something?

Hate 'em. They're the worst. I liked it, but I'm not terribly thrilled with it. Some wonderful long takes, especially the one capturing Tim Robbins' character as he walks around the spaceship a la 2001.

[Dukefrukem]

I get Mission to Mars mixed up with Red Planet.

[Rowland]

I kinda liked both Mission to Mars and Red Planet. I would have been a maverick in 2000, when everyone hated both of them.

[Qrazy]

I enjoyed both because I'm a sucker for sci fi, but they're both bad ultimately.

[Dukefrukem]

I enjoyed both because I'm a sucker for sci fi, but they're both bad ultimately.

This.

It's also how I feel about the second Riddick movie.

[MadMan]

I liked Red Planet a lot more when I saw it in theaters as a kid. I revisited some of it on SyFy channel a couple years back, and realized it was not a good movie. Too bad, since it sports a pretty good cast.

I never saw Mission To Mars, but since I'm slowly morphing into a DePalma fanboy (the last one I saw was Snake Eyes, and I really dug it a lot) I guess its now a priority.

[Pop Trash]

Caught Cassavetes' Love Streams on the big screen. It's definitely a good movie, and I'm glad I watched it, but it still felt at times like an endurance test and not sure how much I liked it on a purely subjective level. It's a bit like A Woman Under the Influence meets All That Jazz (but not as good as either esp. Jazz) Still not sure how much I like Cassavetes in general.

[Boner M]

Caught Cassavetes' Love Streams on the big screen. It's definitely a good movie, and I'm glad I watched it, but it still felt at times like an endurance test and not sure how much I liked it on a purely subjective level. It's a bit like A Woman Under the Influence meets All That Jazz (but not as good as either esp. Jazz) Still not sure how much I like Cassavetes in general.
It's better than 'good', it's better than All That Jazz (which is great), and you love Cassavetes if you're sensible.

Reviewed it here (http://match-cut.org/showpost.php?p=20639&postcount=151), if you're interested.

[Pop Trash]

It's better than 'good', it's better than All That Jazz (which is great), and you love Cassavetes if you're sensible.


:rolleyes: Nice blanket statement. Crap like this just makes me like Cassavetes less.

[Boner M]

:rolleyes: Nice blanket statement. Crap like this just makes me like Cassavetes less.
Facetiousness, dude.

[Pop Trash]

Facetiousness, dude.

Anyways, apparently it's one of your favorite films, so I'm discussing with a brick wall here, but 2+ hours of Cassavetes doing his dark underbelly of Dean Martin shtick is a bit too much for me to handle at times.

[B-side]

Watch The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

[Derek]

Watch The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

Yes. But after Opening Night. Immediately after. I want to test your limits, PT.

[Pop Trash]

Watch The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

It's on my radar. I've seen Shadows, parts of Faces, A Woman UtE, and now Love Streams. I still think I like Shadows the best, but Cassavetes is one of those guys where I feel like I should watch his films rather than really wanting to watch his films. Mostly I just wish I had watched the Truffaut or Louis Malle films I haven't seen yet.

[Boner M]

IMostly I just wish I had watched the... Louis Malle films I haven't seen yet.
Ewww.

[B-side]

Young Adult or: Why Do I Keep Getting Roped Into Watching This Asshole's Work

[baby doll]

Young Adult or: Why Do I Keep Getting Roped Into Watching This Asshole's WorkI stopped after Juno and haven't looked back.

[B-side]

I stopped after Juno and haven't looked back.

You're better off.

[MadMan]

I enjoyed Thank You For Smoking and Up In The Air. However, I still haven't seen Juno. Now there's an idea for a thread: watch movies that are hated by most of the posters on Match-cut. So far I've got Crash, Juno, and I'm sure there are a couple others that apply. I'm not watching Twilight, though. Hell no.

[Qrazy]

It's on my radar. I've seen Shadows, parts of Faces, A Woman UtE, and now Love Streams. I still think I like Shadows the best, but Cassavetes is one of those guys where I feel like I should watch his films rather than really wanting to watch his films. Mostly I just wish I had watched the Truffaut or Louis Malle films I haven't seen yet.

You will like Minnie and Moskowitz the most. Don't listen to these others.

[EyesWideOpen]

I enjoyed Thank You For Smoking and Up In The Air. However, I still haven't seen Juno. Now there's an idea for a thread: watch movies that are hated by most of the posters on Match-cut. So far I've got Crash, Juno, and I'm sure there are a couple others that apply. I'm not watching Twilight, though. Hell no.

A "Match-Cut is too cool for..." thread would be great. You can also throw Slumdog Millionaire in that mix.

[Ezee E]

Strangely, I gave all those positive ratings.

And I think only eternity and number8 have seen Twilight. Maybe K-Fan.

[EyesWideOpen]

Strangely, I gave all those positive ratings.

And I think only eternity and number8 have seen Twilight. Maybe K-Fan.

I've seen it and read the book.

[Lucky]

Strangely, I gave all those positive ratings.

Same here. Especially Up in the Air. Huge fan of that one.

[Derek]

A "Match-Cut is too cool for..." thread would be great. You can also throw Slumdog Millionaire in that mix.

Can sum it up pretty quickly for you without a thread:

MatchCut is too cool for emotionally manipulative Oscar-baity trash.

EWO is too cool for any non-narrative film.

No need to thank me for saving you the effort. :)

[Qrazy]

Don't get me started on fucking Slumdog Millionaire.

[Boner M]

A "Match-Cut is too cool for..." thread would be great. You can also throw Slumdog Millionaire in that mix.
How about a 'EWO actually defends the films that match-cut is allegedly insincere in their disregard for' thread.

[EyesWideOpen]

How about a 'EWO actually defends the films that match-cut is allegedly insincere in their disregard for' thread.

You guys take me way too seriously. I don't honestly think most of you are insincere in your disregard for certain critically praised films.

[EyesWideOpen]

EWO is too cool for any non-narrative film.



At first I was like hey, I like non-narrative films but now I can't think of any. What are the non-narrative films I don't care for that you're using as an example.

Edit:
I just googled non-narrative films and on the third page found an interesting sounding article and it took me to a forum post on a white pride website.

[Derek]

At first I was like hey, I like non-narrative films but now I can't think of any. What are the non-narrative films I don't care for that you're using as an example.

I suppose neither is non-narrative, more like story is secondary, but I was thinking of Le Quattro Volte and The Tree of Life. Although I think I remember seeing another C or C- in your sig that would've fit in that category.


Edit:
I just googled non-narrative films and on the third page found an interesting sounding article and it took me to a forum post on a white pride website.

Racists do like their avant-garde films!

[EyesWideOpen]

I suppose neither is non-narrative, more like story is secondary, but I was thinking of Le Quattro Volte and The Tree of Life. Although I think I remember seeing another C or C- in your sig that would've fit in that category.


Yeah, those are the two I was figuring you were basing this on. And in my defense I expected to LOVE The Tree of Life. I really loved The New World.

And the other one you're thinking of was probably Cars 2.

[Derek]

Yeah, those are the two I was figuring you were basing this on. And in my defense I expected to LOVE The Tree of Life. I really loved The New World.

Glad you at least love The New World.


And the other one you're thinking of was probably Cars 2.

I haven't seen it, but I'm pretty sure that'd be a pretty straightforward narrative film. :) It may have been a month or two ago.

[Qrazy]

Le Deuxieme Souffle (Melville, 1962) **½

Not nice.


Man's Favorite Sport (Hawks, 1964) ***

Nice.

[soitgoes...]

Not nice.
Yeah, that one is one of my favorite Melville films, probably just a tick below Army of Shadows and Le Samourai.

[B-side]

So it turns out Julien Donkey-Boy is still brilliant. Harmony Korine might be the most important artist of his generation.

[Boner M]

Harmony Korine might be the most important artist of his generation.
I thought Trash Humpers was a step in the right direction... but fuck no.

[Boner M]

Among the many striking things in Lisandro Alonso's four films to date is their use of music. Just one or two snatches of original score/soundtrack in most of his films - usually over the opening and/or end credits - and yet they radically alter the mood of his spare narratives without being the least bit emotionally manipulative (in fact, they're consistently weird and seemingly incongruous). In the case of Liverpool, it's a jaunty Link Wray-ish surf-rock instrumental (from his house band Flormaleva), and, like the techno beats that open La Libertad, it casts such a strange energy and texture over the proceedings. Likewise, he exhibits such formal control that only becomes apparent in the progression of scenes and shots; Bresson's insistence on expressivity between images rather than within them comes to mind. On the other hand it's possible that his films are far more precarious than I'm giving them credit for, but whatever the case, he's one of the most exciting contemporary filmmakers in my eyes.

[B-side]

I thought Trash Humpers was a step in the right direction... but fuck no.

Bah. Trash Humpers isn't even his best film.

[Qrazy]

Bah. Trash Humpers isn't even his best film.

Harmony Korine's best film is an oxymoron.

[Watashi]

Harmony Korine's best film is an oxymoron.
You're talking to the Tony Scott fan, remember?

[Dukefrukem]

I coudn't watch 10 minutes of Trash Humpers.

[Spinal]

There are many words to describe Harmony Korine. Some of which are positive. But 'important' is not one that I would use.

[Spinal]

Gummo ***
Julien Donkey-Boy **1/2
Mister Lonely **1/2

[Qrazy]

You're talking to the Tony Scott fan, remember?

Oh true, my bad.

[MadMan]

A "Match-Cut is too cool for..." thread would be great. You can also throw Slumdog Millionaire in that mix.Heh, sure. Although I guess I'm not alone here in liking those movies. I enjoyed Slumdog Millionaire, but I joined many others in groaning when it won Best Picture.

Without Match-cut, I wouldn't even know who Harmony Korine is. Hurray for knowledge :pritch:

[Dukefrukem]

w3NwB9PLxss

[Qrazy]

One of the most unfunny sketches I have ever seen. Relies 100% on half-assed celeb appearances and goes on interminably. Kimmel also stole the idea of Movie the Movie from a much funnier indie youtube video which I can no longer find.

[Derek]

Kimmel also stole the idea of Movie the Movie from a much funnier indie youtube video which I can no longer find.

This one?

rbhrz1-4hN4

[Spinal]

My favorite subtle gag in the Youtube video is the character taking off their shirt facing away from the camera, implying that the film will maybe have nudity.

[Qrazy]

This one?

rbhrz1-4hN4

Yep.

[Boner M]

Paris Belongs to Us: Intriguing parallels between the students' theatre production of Pericles and their paranoia about the invisible conspiratorial forces around them - and the sense that it's us as an audience who're the secret, elusive group constantly shadowing them. Nonetheless, it's clearly a blueprint work for more fully-realised Rivette films to come, lacking the liminal, digressive quality of his best work, not to mention the understated visual splendour of his collaborations with William Lubtchansky. Still, a pretty good debut.

[MadMan]

Both Kimmel's Movie: The Movie and Trailer for Every Oscar Winning Film Ever are both funny. I don't know why you have to like one over the other, but then I realize that these days Qrazy traffics too much in extremes for some reason.

[Spinal]

I want to see that Helen Mirren hovercraft movie.

[Boner M]

The repeated Cranston-exploding-skyward shots are the only funny thing about that Kimmel trailer, I'm assuming that was someone else's idea.

[B-side]

Paris Belongs to Us: Intriguing parallels between the students' theatre production of Pericles and their paranoia about the invisible conspiratorial forces around them - and the sense that it's us as an audience who're the secret, elusive group constantly shadowing them. Nonetheless, it's clearly a blueprint work for more fully-realised Rivette films to come, lacking the liminal, digressive quality of his best work, not to mention the understated visual splendour of his collaborations with William Lubtchansky. Still, a pretty good debut.

I wasn't all that taken with it either. Nor'west remains my favorite of his.

[Qrazy]

Both Kimmel's Movie: The Movie and Trailer for Every Oscar Winning Film Ever are both funny. I don't know why you have to like one over the other, but then I realize that these days Qrazy traffics too much in extremes for some reason.

Or maybe I just think exactly what I explicitly stated namely that Kimmel's is shit? Do you think maybe that's possible? IS THAT A FUCKING POSSIBILITY?

[MadMan]

Or maybe I just think exactly what I explicitly stated namely that Kimmel's is shit? Do you think maybe that's possible? IS THAT A FUCKING POSSIBILITY?http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/american_psycho_guffaw.gif

[Qrazy]

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/american_psycho_guffaw.gif

Nice. :lol:

[MadMan]

That is the last time I'm going to use that gif, as I've used it way too much on several websites over the past week.

[Dukefrukem]

The Man Who Wasn't There - it's good. Loved the random UFO scene towards the end.

[B-side]

I contribute to this site, and I was just a participant in a podcast on Harmony Korine (http://reeltimepodcast.org/2012/03/05/reel-time-episode-043-harmony-korine-spotlight-gummo-julien-donkey-boy-trash-humpers/), so... listen to it or something? I'm the one with the weird, nasally-sounding voice who says "y'know" a lot.

[Qrazy]

When you make a podcast not about Harmony Korine I will listen to that.

[B-side]

When you make a podcast not about Harmony Korine I will listen to that.

I hate you.:lol:

[Kiusagi]

I contribute to this site, and I was just a participant in a podcast on Harmony Korine (http://reeltimepodcast.org/2012/03/05/reel-time-episode-043-harmony-korine-spotlight-gummo-julien-donkey-boy-trash-humpers/), so... listen to it or something? I'm the one with the weird, nasally-sounding voice who says "y'know" a lot.

What do you think of his current project, Spring Breakers?

[B-side]

What do you think of his current project, Spring Breakers?

I'm excited, definitely. It's shooting now, I guess. Emma Roberts dropped out due to creative differences.:lol:

[B-side]

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Outside Satan is outside standard moral categorization, much like the central relationship between teenage Elle and the homeless village drifter she spends most of her time with and the vengeful act that kickstarts the film. Elle's step-dad abused her, so she recruited the help of the aforementioned village drifter to kill him. She maintains a kinda of childish fascination with his stoicism and defensive actions in her favor, even unsuccessfully trying to match his emotionless demeanor. Elle's mom, who shares with her a similar gait and masculine haircut, cries incessantly after her husband's death, though in one of the film's more poignant moments apologizes to Ellle for allowing him to abuse her. The loner spurns her advances claiming he just isn't interested in her, though I'm inclined to believe this was as much for her benefit as it was for his due to the probably 20 year age gap between them and the man's dubious actions. Dumont often shoots wide, letting characters walk far into the distance while keeping their heavy breathing an integral part of the film's soundtrack. In addition to the breathing, this is the third 2011 film I've seen to feature intense wind as such an imposing component of its soundtrack. It whips the man's small fire about while he sleeps in the sandy beachside recesses of beautiful rural France. Three specific encounters between the loner and another woman delineate his persona, two of them seemingly divine, again playing into his enigmatic characterization. I won't spoil the second or third, but the first sees him essentially revive a nearly catatonic adolescent girl with a strange open mouth kiss that looks and sounds more like some sort of soul-sucking exorcism. If anything, this particular Dumont felt even slower and less narratively defined than his usual output, and that's hardly a complaint. The directionless drifting in Dumont's 2.35:1 frame is pretty transfixing by itself. I'm not sure where I place it in his filmography yet, but it's certainly a top 10 of 2011 film.


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[Boner M]

Didn't like it when I saw it at MIFF last year, but damn it's grown on me like mad. Probably his best-looking film yet.

[B-side]

Didn't like it when I saw it at MIFF last year, but damn it's grown on me like mad. Probably his best-looking film yet.

I haven't seen Hadewijch or Flandres yet, for whatever reason, but of the four I've seen, it's definitely the best-looking.

[Raiders]

I'm all set to begin me Bruce McDonald marathon. Just need to actually get started...

(no, this won't be all in one day)

Roadkill
Highway '61
Dance Me Outside
Hard Core Logo
Picture Claire
The Tracey Fragments
Pontypool
Trigger

[MadMan]

I want to see Outside Satan merely just because of the title alone. Good write up (as usual) Brightside.

[Qrazy]

After finding Wet Hot American Summer hilarious I decided to give Role Models a shot. Pure Hollywood in terms of narrative content, very few laughs in this film.

[soitgoes...]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/outsidesatanjournalbanner.pngW ant.

[Winston*]

After finding Wet Hot American Summer hilarious I decided to give Role Models a shot. Pure Hollywood in terms of narrative content, very few laughs in this film.

"I've heard of popcorn in the face, but this is ridiculous"

[Ezee E]

After finding Wet Hot American Summer hilarious I decided to give Role Models a shot. Pure Hollywood in terms of narrative content, very few laughs in this film.
Disagree.

[Rowland]

Yeah, I think Role Models is pretty hilarious, and at the very least has a higher batting average than most comedies of its ilk. It's a bit of a grower though, as I was fairly lukewarm after my theatrical viewing, but revisiting it at home I've liked it progressively more. And for all its barbed, if a bit obvious, satire, it has a very warm-hearted sensibility that I appreciate as well.

[Qrazy]

"I've heard of popcorn in the face, but this is ridiculous"

She was the best part about the film but even her bit got old after a while and I've seen that comedy bit many times before (the former drug addict provides humorous anecdotes).

[Qrazy]

Yeah, I think Role Models is pretty hilarious, and at the very least has a higher batting average than most comedies of its ilk. It's a bit of a grower though, as I was fairly lukewarm after my theatrical viewing, but revisiting it at home I've liked it progressively more. And for all its barbed, if a bit obvious, satire, it has a very warm-hearted sensibility that I appreciate as well.

You say warm-hearted, I say false shmaltzy bullshit.

[Rowland]

She was the best part about the film but even her bit got old after a while and I've seen that comedy bit many times before (the former drug addict provides humorous anecdotes).That line actually belonged to Gary.

You say warm-hearted, I say false shmaltzy bullshit.Okay.

[Qrazy]

That line actually belonged to Gary.


My bad, still her character was the best part.

[Derek]

Qrazy - there's an 8-page article about Alexei German in the new Film Comment. Got it in the mail today so I haven't read it, but you may want to pick up that issue or see if the articles online. I believe it was written by a Russian critic, so it may have some good insight.

[Boner M]

I'm all set to begin me Bruce McDonald marathon. Just need to actually get started...

(no, this won't be all in one day)

Roadkill
Highway '61
Dance Me Outside
Hard Core Logo
Picture Claire
The Tracey Fragments
Pontypool
Trigger
Out of all the directors to have a marathon of... (though McDonald's pretty good).

[Qrazy]

Qrazy - there's an 8-page article about Alexei German in the new Film Comment. Got it in the mail today so I haven't read it, but you may want to pick up that issue or see if the articles online. I believe it was written by a Russian critic, so it may have some good insight.

Thanks, I'll try to find it. Hopefully it helps him get some more recognition in the west.

History or the Arkanar Massacre is supposed to come out this year... although it was supposed to come out the last few years so who knows.

[Boner M]

Thanks, I'll try to find it.
Turns out it's online (http://www.filmlinc.com/film-comment/article/the-strange-case-of-russian-maverick-aleksei-german).

[Raiders]

Out of all the directors to have a marathon of... (though McDonald's pretty good).

I really wanted to watch some "genre cinema" and he seemed a good choice.

[Qrazy]

Turns out it's online (http://www.filmlinc.com/film-comment/article/the-strange-case-of-russian-maverick-aleksei-german).

Good piece but major spoilers for all of his films, including his newest which has not been completed yet, for anyone else interested in reading.

[Qrazy]

The Bothersome Man - Pretty half-assed absurdist tragicomedy. Felt like I'd seen it all before... echoes of Sartre, Beckett and Kafka but without any of the wit or depth. Punctuated throughout with moments of extreme and arbitrary violence. Bad film.

[Yxklyx]

The Man Who Wasn't There - it's good. Loved the random UFO scene towards the end.

I blind bought this a long time ago and was slightly disappointed on my first watch. I've seen it a few more times since and I've liked it more each time. I guess I've gone back to it because of its unique mood.

[Fezzik]

Yeah, I think Role Models is pretty hilarious, and at the very least has a higher batting average than most comedies of its ilk. It's a bit of a grower though, as I was fairly lukewarm after my theatrical viewing, but revisiting it at home I've liked it progressively more. And for all its barbed, if a bit obvious, satire, it has a very warm-hearted sensibility that I appreciate as well.

I loved Role Models. One of the reasons, I think, is that I saw myself in the characters - Mintz-Plasse and Rudd remind me so much of how I was as a teen and how I am now. I didn't LARP, but I've always been heavily into fantasy and RPGs. While it is somewhat more accepted now, when I was a kid, I was constantly teased and the stuff with the parents was very (sadly) accurate.

It had an understanding of the travails of the true outcast/gamer geek that I'm not used to seeing in film. Plus, I found most of the stuff hilarious (which helps).

[Fezzik]

I had a minor freak out moment this morning when I saw our local AMC theatre was no longer an online ticketing option for movietickets.com.

Soon after, I found out that AMC Theatres have moved their online ticketing to Fandango.

So, minor thing, but good to know :D

[Dukefrukem]

I blind bought this a long time ago and was slightly disappointed on my first watch. I've seen it a few more times since and I've liked it more each time. I guess I've gone back to it because of its unique mood.

It’s definitely not as fast paced as Coens other movies. If anything I think this movie allowed me to appreciate A Serious Man more.

[dreamdead]

Affleck's The Town is decent genre filmmaking. Nothing all that noteworthy or singular about the style, though it is better than perfunctory, and the characters never really interest beyond their status as archetypes. I like the little moment with Jeremy Renner sipping cola at the end, but those kind of character moments are too seldom. Great cast, but had the film somehow had another half hour to breathe maybe there would be more individuality to the scenes.

Rewatched Battle Royale (thefourthwall hadn't seen it before and we thought it'd be interesting to compare it to the forthcoming The Hunger Games). Not the most fleetly edited film; it's rather a jumbled mess in how characters get access to weapons midfight. And the characters remain largely one-dimensional. That said, it's still compulsively watchable, and even with these faults I find intrigue in how operatic (sometimes eyerollingly so) Fukasaku goes with the film.

[soitgoes...]

Oh, Moon! (Erdem, 1988) 7.5
Go on...

I haven't seen this one yet. The three Erdem films I have seen are all wonderful.

[Wryan]

I got to tell Bill Murray that I liked Broken Flowers at the gas station on the way home tonight. He said, "Oh, thank you. I liked that one."

[Boner M]

I got to tell Bill Murray that I liked Broken Flowers at the gas station on the way home tonight. He said, "Oh, thank you. I liked that one."
:eek:

[B-side]

Go on...

I haven't seen this one yet. The three Erdem films I have seen are all wonderful.

Not sure what to say, really. It's a good film. I bookmarked several Turkish films yesterday and downloaded that one and an older one from the 60s that looked really good. Yilmaz Güney interests me quite a bit as well, and he has several films on KG with subs. He seems to be one of the major figures in the country's cinema.

[Qrazy]

Polanski's What? was hilarious fun times. Perhaps the most unique take on Alice in Wonderland in existence. Up there for me with Mackendrick's Don't Make Waves for narratively inconsequential comedies executed with formal excellence.

Highlights: The hate filled dynamic between Mastroianni's pimp character and Polanski's fisherman.

"Before morning one of us with have his guts out, as God's my witness."

[MadMan]

I got to tell Bill Murray that I liked Broken Flowers at the gas station on the way home tonight. He said, "Oh, thank you. I liked that one."I'm forever and eternally jealous.

[Bosco B Thug]

I was hoping the middling ratings for The Last Wave here would turn out baseless, but yeah, quite quite disappointing. That should've been a much stronger picture. Vague and ill-defined, disjointed and unconvincing, and fails to create a strong enough atmosphere. It has its moments, but what happened to the Picnic at Hanging Rock guy?

[MadMan]

THX-1138 is bizarre, yet it is uniquely strange and perhaps at its very heart that's the entire point. I'm still endlessly fascinated by the fact that so many sci-fi movies have such a grim and fascist view of the future. Perhaps this is due though to the fact that human nature always screw things up, so maybe its best not to hope for a better world....

[Grouchy]

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Enter the Void - I had started watching this months ago, but my internet connection broke down and I was streaming it, so I couldn't finish it. Although I'd liked what I'd seen a lot, I somehow never found another moment in which I wanted to watch it. Fortunately I live in Buenos Aires, the greatest city in the world, and someone found it wise to show the movie under the stars.

This is great stuff. I predict many will find the story too linear, the point too strongly made and the movie too morose and repetitive. I think those are all valid arguments, but they miss the point. More than any other film I know of, this makes a conscious effort to reproduce the point of view of someone under the influence of drugs. Most of the portrayals of drug-induced moments in movies are goofy and dated. Instead, this takes you right inside the mind of the protagonist and manages to keep that intensity for over two hours. Technically, the film is a marvel. And if the story doesn't interest you at least you can appreciate the frankness and intensity of the storytelling. It's also kind of interesting how this is nominally a live-action film but with all the special effects and the trips inside the human body combined, I wouldn't be surprised if it's 50% animated.

Shakespeare in Love - Like I said before, having two movie channels on HD makes me watch stuff I wouldn't even dream of approaching before. This was just embarassing. Inertia and weed are to blame that I even finished it.

The Eel - Kind of baffled by my first Imamura. On one hand, it was an engaging story even if it sort of meandered towards the end. On the other hand, so many plots and characters are added that I felt the initial story was underdeveloped. If you're gonna ask the audience to identify with a killer, even if it's not a cold-blooded murder, and stick with him in his new life, I feel a little more insight into his mind, thoughts or personality is useful. But then again, maybe I'm asking the film to be something it's not. I remain positive in it because it was interesting. Based on it, at least I want to see something else by Imamura.

[soitgoes...]

There you go, Johnnie To! Finally, he's made something else I consider great. Life Without Principle is very different from his wonderful Election and Exiled. To balances three storylines, interweaving each to tell his tale of global financial crisis. Taking place over two days as the Greek economy fails, To looks at a banker who has to cloud the truth in order to stay competitive with her peers, a bumbling gangster who will do anything his "brothers" need of him, and a young couple who are trying to decide if they can afford to buy their dream flat. The first two story arcs are exceptional, whilst the last one is good enough to keep this entertaining.

[soitgoes...]

Oh, and I don't see the Tony Scott comparison at all.

[B-side]

Oh, and I don't see the Tony Scott comparison at all.

If you've seen Taking of Pelham 123 and Unstoppable, the comparisons seem pretty clear to me. Granted, To's takes are longer, but still. Breaking News is a much closer companion to Tony's work, though.

[MadMan]

Everything I watch ends up only getting reviewed in my blog these days, it seems. That's not a bad thing although it does mean I'm assuming that people will bother to go read what I write, heh. Anyways my write up of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is up for human consumption-link is in my sig...

[Irish]

Shakespeare in Love - Like I said before, having two movie channels on HD makes me watch stuff I wouldn't even dream of approaching before. This was just embarassing. Inertia and weed are to blame that I even finished it.

I love this movie. It's a grad student's wet dream. The only thing (and it's a big thing) that comes close to throwing it over is the lead actress. She's awful in most movies, but that fake, awful sounding accent puts this "performance" in a class by itself.

Everything else? Top flight.

[baby doll]

I got to tell Bill Murray that I liked Broken Flowers at the gas station on the way home tonight. He said, "Oh, thank you. I liked that one."Was he working at the gas station Ã* la Coffee and Cigarettes?

[Wryan]

Was he working at the gas station Ã* la Coffee and Cigarettes?

Nope, just pumping his own gas and squeegeeing his windshield. He had one eye screwed up, like the sun was in his eyes, when he turned to me, as if he expected me to tell him how much I fuckin loved Zombieland, which I haven't seen but heard was fun.

I wouldn't put it past him to temporarily kick the attendant out and run the station for a while, though. There have been quite a few sightings around college campuses and the like, and here in Charleston. Last time I heard he picked up someone's burger and carried it away to eat it, but not before saying, "No one will ever believe you." This may be apocryphal.

[B-side]

This is gold. (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tom-kambouris/terrence-malick-intervention_b_1281579.html) Some asshole's "critical intervention" for Terrence Malick. He seems to respond to every comment, so I encourage anyone to mutilate his silly article.

[MadMan]

This is gold. (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tom-kambouris/terrence-malick-intervention_b_1281579.html) Some asshole's "critical intervention" for Terrence Malick. He seems to respond to every comment, so I encourage anyone to mutilate his silly article.I have only seen Malick's last two films, so I really cannot comment. However if Terry is so "pretentious" then what the hell am I doing watching and liking his movies? Because of this guy I am actually going to try and finally watch both The Thin Red Line and Badlands. Thanks, random critic who I don't know :pritch:

[Sven]

He doesn't strike me as very assholish, B.Side. Mutilation seems harsh.

[Sven]

Last time I heard he picked up someone's burger and carried it away to eat it, but not before saying, "No one will ever believe you." This may be apocryphal.

It's a well-spread story, with multiple variations. My guess: it happened once and is a funny story so everyone wanted it.

[Qrazy]

He doesn't strike me as very assholish, B.Side. Mutilation seems harsh.

"In spite of the black holes in the plot, I like The Thin Red Line. It´s a guy film with two kickass war scenes."

Seems like a quintessential asshole to me.

[D_Davis]

There you go, Johnnie To! Finally, he's made something else I consider great. Life Without Principle is very different from his wonderful Election and Exiled. To balances three storylines, interweaving each to tell his tale of global financial crisis. Taking place over two days as the Greek economy fails, To looks at a banker who has to cloud the truth in order to stay competitive with her peers, a bumbling gangster who will do anything his "brothers" need of him, and a young couple who are trying to decide if they can afford to buy their dream flat. The first two story arcs are exceptional, whilst the last one is good enough to keep this entertaining.

Good to hear. Need to check this out.

In other HK-related news, I'll be watching The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate tonight.

[Derek]

Seems like a quintessential asshole to me.

No, he sounds like a fucking moron.


"In 139 minutes not one word of dialogue passes between Brad Pitt and Sean Penn."


"In The Tree of Life he pisses on that talent with endless MTV slice and dice cutaways."


"Here's my hypothesis: Terrence Malick is living off of the performances he pulled from Sheen and Spacek in Badlands."

[Derek]

He doesn't strike me as very assholish, B.Side. Mutilation seems harsh.

Really unnecessary to PC-police this place, esp. with statements that are clearly hyperbolic.

[Sven]

Just seems like a harsh label to give to a guy with poor taste/critical skills. Those aren't on my rubric for assholery.

[MadMan]

The guy who wrote that piece bashing Malick is not a poor writer, or an asshole. He's just horribly mistaken/wrong, that's all.

[Sven]

Really unnecessary to PC-police this place, esp. with statements that are clearly hyperbolic.

Oh. Okay, Officer Derek. Or is it Professor? Should I just call you dad?

[MadMan]

The Match-cut Mod Squad:

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This is what you get when you google "Policemen with mustaches, apparently" :P

[Derek]

Oh. Okay, Officer Derek. Or is it Professor? Should I just call you dad?

Uh, you're the one who was policing. It's no biggie and there are occasional offensive remarks that warrant it, but it's hardly the first time that someone gets all huffy about a remark that was clearly not meant to be taken literally.

[Stay Puft]

In other HK-related news, I'll be watching The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate tonight.

in THREE DEE??????????

[D_Davis]

in THREE DEE??????????

No. :)

2D, on the DVD.