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    Ingmar Bergman might be the director that needs the most focus from the viewer to appreciate his movies. Without it, you'd probably think he's one of the most boring directors alive.

    Fanny & Alexander, meant to be a miniseries, is probably best viewed as one. Even the 3-hour version has very obvious breaks in between, and I appreciated it much better this way, with each hour being very special in its own way.

    The first hour might be the most "Christmas" thing ever put on movie.
    The second hour is really a perfect bridge for the two, with a culmination that is purely Bergman.
    The third hour is Bergman at his best.

    Not a ding against the movie, but I'm not really sure that Fanny serves any purpose to this movie, and I think has one dialog-less scene in the last third. FilmTwitter would be up in arms.

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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    I wanted to compare Justice League vs. The first Avengers originally, but I think JL won that easily, and JL vs. Endgame is a walkover for the latter because it has like a million actors in it. So JL vs A:AoU was the comparison to produce a roughly similar cast list length. Of course, I haven't seen JL and don't remember AoU much, so most of these actors are probably in them for like 10 seconds.
    Yeah, I couldn't remember who Julie Delpy played and it turns out it was the woman who trains Natasha Romanoff, probably setting her up for a more significant role in the Black Widow movie.

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    In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell, 1992) warm
    I really liked this too. Surprisingly low viewership on letterboxd. Seymour Cassel and Steve Buscemi work very well together -- loved the single take of Buscemi learning to cha-cha-cha. Jim Jarmusch and Carol Kane cameos were also a highlight.

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    I really liked this too. Surprisingly low viewership on letterboxd. Seymour Cassel and Steve Buscemi work very well together -- loved the single take of Buscemi learning to cha-cha-cha. Jim Jarmusch and Carol Kane cameos were also a highlight.
    It's a delight. I was surprised how much energy Cassel had, given that the film was made almost twenty-five years after Faces. And I was surprised how much hair Stanley Tucci had; he looks like Phillip Roth. ("My wife eats me!") Also I never made the connection between Alexandre and Sam Rockwell until the latter turns up in this.
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    Lucky Number Slevin is a decent enough if kind of forgettable, movie. I liked the cast but the plot is a bit too by the numbers and there is a nice love subplot that I found more interesting than the rest of the movie. Maybe I would have liked this better back in 2006 but maybe not.

    The Apartment lives up to its reputation as being funny, surprisingly dark at times and a reflection of 1960s sexual politics. Billy Wilder was really good at that sort of thing. Also the one liners are very memorable. "That's the way the cookie crumbles...cookie wise." "Shut up and deal."
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    Quote Quoting baby doll (view post)
    80 minutes or under:

    • A Corner in Wheat (D.W. Griffith, 1909)
    • The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille, 1915)
    • Easy Street (Charles Chaplin, 1917)
    • Die Puppe (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
    • Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
    • Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
    • By the Law (Lev Kuleshov, 1926)
    • Page of Madness (Kinugasa Teinosuke, 1926)
    • The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
    • Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
    • Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
    • Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
    • Vampyr—Der Traum des Allan Gray (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
    • Hard to Handle (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
    • Japanese Girls at the Harbour (Shimizu Hiroshi, 1933)
    • The Goddess (Wu Yanggong, 1934)
    • Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Naruse Mikio, 1935)
    • Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1936)
    • Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1936)
    • What Did the Lady Forget? (Ozu Yasujiro, 1937)
    • I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
    • The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
    • Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
    • Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
    • Begone Dull Care (Evelyn Lambart/Norman McLaren, 1949)
    • Le Sang des bêtes (Georges Franju, 1949)
    • Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, 1953)
    • Pickup on South Street (Sam Fuller, 1953)
    • Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954)
    • Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais, 1955)
    • Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958)
    • Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
    • La Boulangère de Monceau (Éric Rohmer, 1963)
    • Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963)
    • Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht (Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub, 1965)
    • The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
    • La Noire de... (Sembène Ousmane, 1966)
    • Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1967)
    • Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dušan Makavejev, 1967)
    • Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
    • Sayat-Nova (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
    • Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970)
    • Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970)
    • Cuadecuc, vampir (Pere Portabella, 1971)
    • Fuji (Robert Breer, 1974)
    • Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen, 1975)
    • Ici et ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard/Anne-Marie Miéville, 1976)
    • Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)
    • The Scenic Route (Mark Rappaport, 1978)
    • Foster Child (Gil Cardinal, 1987)
    • Un histoire de vent (Joris Ivens/Marceline Lordian-Ivens, 1988)
    • Virile Games (Jan *vankmajer, 1988)
    • Calendar (Atom Egoyan, 1993)
    • A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
    • Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, 1998)
    • Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
    • Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki, 2016)
    • The Green Fog (Evan Johnson/Galen Johnson/Guy Maddin, 2017)
    • Mi piel, luminosa (Nicolás Pereda/Gabino Rodr*guez, 2019)
    • (tourism studies) (Joshua Gen Solondz, 2019)


    Just to name the first sixty that come to mind.
    I've seen only 10 of those. Gonna copy this list to my phone if you don't mind simply for the recs which are always welcome even if you and I don't always get along due to me being, well, me.
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    Quote Quoting baby doll (view post)
    It's a delight. I was surprised how much energy Cassel had, given that the film was made almost twenty-five years after Faces. And I was surprised how much hair Stanley Tucci had; he looks like Phillip Roth. ("My wife eats me!") Also I never made the connection between Alexandre and Sam Rockwell until the latter turns up in this.
    Yeah, I really enjoyed In the Soup a lot as well. Cassel is back with Buscemi in Trees Lounge.

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    I'm Thinking of Ending Things feels like being stuck in a car with two insufferable dumb smart people for three days, broken up in the middle by Kaufman trying and failing miserably at replicating the dinner scene from Eraserhead. It gets mildly interesting in the last 15 minutes, but it's too little too late. Awful movie, and considering this and Anomalisa I think maybe Kaufman should have stuck to being a screenwriter.

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    Quote Quoting StanleyK (view post)
    I'm Thinking of Ending Things feels like being stuck in a car with two insufferable dumb smart people for three days, broken up in the middle by Kaufman trying and failing miserably at replicating the dinner scene from Eraserhead. It gets mildly interesting in the last 15 minutes, but it's too little too late. Awful movie, and considering this and Anomalisa I think maybe Kaufman should have stuck to being a screenwriter.
    Think I said it somewhere else, but Synecdoche, NY might be the biggest "movie I should like, but absolutely hate it each time I try to rewatch."

    That's quite the title.

    A list of others off the top of my head:

    -Andrei Rublev
    -Satantango
    -Being There

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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    Think I said it somewhere else, but Synecdoche, NY might be the biggest "movie I should like, but absolutely hate it each time I try to rewatch."

    That's quite the title.

    A list of others off the top of my head:

    -Andrei Rublev
    -Satantango
    -Being There
    Not a fan of Synecdoche and I can understand Satantango and Being There but Andrei Rublev is one of my favorite films - you just need to slow yourself down a bit before watching. Take some deep breaths, relax and take it all in.

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    I blind bought Andrei Rublev on DVD in around 2005. I still haven't watched it.
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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    Think I said it somewhere else, but Synecdoche, NY might be the biggest "movie I should like, but absolutely hate it each time I try to rewatch."

    That's quite the title.

    A list of others off the top of my head:

    -Andrei Rublev
    -Satantango
    -Being There
    I love all these movies. I liked Synecdoche, New York quite a bit, too, though it feels significantly inferior to Kaufman's screenwriter-only output.

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    Rewatched Soderbergh's The Limey tonight (on Prime), I loved this one a lot this time. My viewing was a bit impaired though because I thought it was going to end up in Spain, as I got it confused with Frear's The Hit (also with Stamp) - and now I want to rewatch that one but have no idea where I can find it.

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    Quote Quoting Yxklyx (view post)
    Rewatched Soderbergh's The Limey tonight (on Prime), I loved this one a lot this time. My viewing was a bit impaired though because I thought it was going to end up in Spain, as I got it confused with Frear's The Hit (also with Stamp) - and now I want to rewatch that one but have no idea where I can find it.
    The Hit is on Criterion that's how I watched it. Good flick but The Limey is better.
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    The Limey is an all time great.
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    I'm a huge fan of all three latest Kaufman-directed movies.

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    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garc?a (S. Peckinpah, 1974)
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden, Dragon (A. Lee, 2000)
    Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (J. McNaughton, 1986) ☆
    Blowup (M. Antonioni, 1966) ☆
    Io capitano (M. Garrone, 2023) ☆
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    Is it gauche to loathe Ken Burns? I dunno. But I sorta do.

    Quote Quoting From a famous critic's branded website
    “Hemingway” is undeniably comprehensive, but all that really takes is intense research. It’s not just the details unearthed here that make this a must-watch—it’s how everyone involved comes together to illuminate more than could be gained from a traditional biographical series. Hemingway himself often took simple sentence and storytelling structures and imbued them with an honesty and insight that his colleagues (and later imitators) couldn’t muster. He would have liked this series too.
    This reads like an eighth grade book report. I legit don't get it. There's something soft and dumb and ill-conceived in every sentence of the closing paragraph (above).

    Meanwhile, I fully intend to carefully hate-watch Burns' show and nitpick the hell out of it in my head for at least an hour.

    Harrumph. :/

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    Wow, looking at his filmography...I don't think I have ever seen a single film by Burns.
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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    This reads like an eighth grade book report. I legit don't get it. There's something soft and dumb and ill-conceived in every sentence of the closing paragraph (above).
    Without Googling, I'm gonna guess...Berardinelli?
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Wow, looking at his filmography...I don't think I have ever seen a single film by Burns.
    Definitely take a look. Granted, they're all mini-series, so you can space it out, but I've always been interested in any of his movies. Civil War, Baseball, and the Jack Johnson ones have been my favorites.

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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    Definitely take a look. Granted, they're all mini-series, so you can space it out, but I've always been interested in any of his movies. Civil War, Baseball, and the Jack Johnson ones have been my favorites.
    Thank you! I'll take a look!
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    The only one I've seen from Burns is The Vietnam War, and I thought it was phenomenal.

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