Nicely put, Spinal. I liked it quite a bit as well.
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Nicely put, Spinal. I liked it quite a bit as well.
... Aaaand a few hours later, I finally connected the opening scene of Everyone Else to the last scene. Man, I'm slow sometimes.
The Ruiz consensus was scheduled for 17 days from now, but considering how far behind we are on it, you guys will have more time to please me.
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Hey soitgoes, I found this little guy wandering the streets all cold and lonely. He tells me he got lost from a recent signature rating of yours. I'll send him over.
Whenever I go to the movie theater, I can only hope to have the exciting, mesmerizing experience I had when I saw Everyone Else.
Well, it depends on how daring you feel, I suppose. You seem to enjoy surrealism and the more baroque, so something like City of Pirates, The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting or Time Regained would be good for that. Time Regained being my personal favorite. For something a bit more approachable and easily digested, I'd suggest something from his later years, the best of which being Genealogies of a Crime, The Lost Domain and Klimt. Some of these, of course, are only available via places like KG.
Plus Oscar pools, even if picking the winners is getting rather easier these days, are fun.
I recently viewed Last Year at Marienbad, and wrote a crappy review about that yesterday. Before that I watched The Expandables, which was decent and gave me this strange feeling that Sly was just using it as a launching pad for an entire series of movies that would end up starring even more action legends, until he finally creates his action masterpiece epic that truly blows us all away. Or something.
Oh and a rewatch of The Royal Tenenbaums reminds me why I really love that movie. Even though its not Anderson's best. Up next is Paris, Texas from Wenders, which I keep hearing endless amazing things about.
I am not very daring: overwhelming trepidation eats my mind when leaving the house and a general fear of everything ensues. Anyways, I've decided to track down The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting because the title is glorious. Then I'll look into Time Regained. My KG ratio can handle the hit.
Valhalla Rising has some great pieces, but as a whole there isn't much to discuss except for the bits of violence and how well it's shot. The heavy metal guitar and weak excuse of a story make this a big disappointment for me.
Refn's got the talent. But maybe he shouldn't be a writer.
Well Demme's film is great, but do you really think it deserves 5 stars out of 4? A little excessive, even if Byrne is awesome. ;)
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Never mind - had to remember the last scene. Hmm, I like it even more now.
weekend:
R'Xmas
The Devil's Playground
The Headless Woman
The French Connection 2
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
The weekend will continue my year-end catch-up scramble:
October Country
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Dogtooth
Weekend:
Last 3 parts of Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard) <---- Turning out to be awesome
Three Brothers (Rosi)
Day for Night (Truffaut)
Housekeeping (Forsyth)
The Dead (Huston) <--- I predict a negative score