28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[MadMan]

Posting more.

Bingo.

Post +1 btw (a small homage to the RT days)

[Watashi]

Weekend:

The Golden Compass
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Sicko

[Derek]

Weekend:

A few of the following, someone tell me which...

Do Not Miss:

Story of the Late Crysanthemums

Pretty great:

Fists in the Pocket
Exotica
Father and Son
Veronika Voss

Good:

Smiles of a Summer Night
Las Hurdes

Meh:

Judgement at Nurembourg
An American Werewolf in London

Awful, despite McCarey otherwise being "the man":

An Affair to Remember

[Spinal]

Weekend:

A few of the following, someone tell me which...


An American Werewolf in London

This one!

[Spinal]

Meh:

An American Werewolf in London

What? Seriously? :sad:

[Sycophant]

Weekend:

Nobody Knows

Yay!

[number8]

Wrote something about Rapeman.

[origami_mustache]

Weekend:

Goodbye South, Goodbye
Flowers of Shanghai
City of Sadness

[Boner M]

Wrote something about Rapeman.

A great short-lived late 80's hardcore band fronted by Steve Albini (Pixies/PJ Harvey/Nirvana producer) named themselves after the source comic. I've been curious about the film since discovering the band.

[Qrazy]

So now that I've viewed Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, and enjoyed both, what are some other good Egoyan films?

[number8]

A great short-lived late 80's hardcore band fronted by Steve Albini (Pixies/PJ Harvey/Nirvana producer) named themselves after the source comic. I've been curious about the film since discovering the band.

Yeah, I know. A bunch of their singles were lewd panels from the comic.

[Boner M]

So now that I've viewed Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, and enjoyed both, what are some other good Egoyan films?

Calendar, The Adjuster, and especially Speaking Parts are all worth your time. I also like Ararat and Felicia's Journey more than most. Where the Truth Lies was lame, though it has a few supporters here.

[Briare]

Watched Downfall for the first time tonight. I know, I'm a little late to the party but what a punch that packed. It was interesting how Hitler was portrayed, if expected but what I found most intriguing was how each of his henchmen was shown throughout the movie. The delusional Himmler who is convinced that he can just walk up to Eisenhower and negotiate surrended springs to mind, and the actor, one Ulrich Noethen does a terrific job in Himmler's few scenes but perhaps of all the cast I found each scene with the deranged Goebbels to be most disturbing; the man was a ball of pure evil, a truly disgusting creature who feels no remorse at the death of his children. He seems to derive some pleasure out of hearing Hitler at last decry Speer, Himmler and Goring at the dinner table and later wordlessly limps around the bunker after the death of Hitler, silently gloating to himself that he alone came out on top and was named Fuehrer in the place of the dead dictator. The film is especially surprising in depicting Hitler as human but thats ground thats been tread thoroughly for years now so I'll leave it there. Just some thoughts.

[Qrazy]

Calendar, The Adjuster, and especially Speaking Parts are all worth your time. I also like Ararat and Felicia's Journey more than most. Where the Truth Lies was lame, though it has a few supporters here.

Thanks, I'll check 'em out.

[balmakboor]

Come on guys. An American Werewolf in London is great.

[Qrazy]

Well, Vinyl was an unbearable piece of crap. The central premise of an unwavering single shot for more or less the entire film could have worked if Warhol had some talent for staging, cinematography or mise-en-scene, or if the actors were marginally competent, but alas, neither is the case. Art, we're making art! Surface, things are all surface! Hooray! Shut the fuck up already.

Watching the film, which is a very loose adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, did get me thinking about the book though, and if Sartre ever commented on the work. The book's notion of free will and of choice (with a focus on choice between 'good' and 'evil') seems detrimentally simplistic to a certain degree. Which is not to say that the novel and Kubrick's work don't raise other interesting issues, just that this primarily religious conception of choice seems too easy. Plus, Alex strikes me as a quintessential case of bad faith.

Also, while a Pavlovian method of conditioning could work to link specific songs to a chemically induced sense of illness... I have rather high doubts about the effectiveness of using violent videos as a means to condition a distaste for violent behavior in general. There are too many uncontrolled variables and the relationship between the two is far too abstract. These are just some general thoughts, not to be taken as a critique of those elements of the novel or anything... often the science in science-fiction is primarily used as a jumping off point for the philosophical issues under analysis anyway.

[Yxklyx]

Rocco and His Brothers - awesome
Smiles of a Summer Night - good
Failsafe - awesome
The Heiress - good
Veronika Voss - good
Things to Come - poor
An American Werewolf in London - good
Soldier of Orange - meh
Story of the Late Crysanthemums - good
Nine Queens - good
A Room with a View - good
Lady Snowblood - meh
Exotica - good

[Yxklyx]

Weekend:

finishing up The Newsroom (1996)
Border Incident (dir. Anthony Mann)

[Raiders]

Weekend:

I'm Not There
The Golden Compass
Atonement
Loft

[Ivan Drago]

Weekend:

No Country For Old Men

That's about it.

[Li Lili]

Still Life

I've seen it, and while many liked it very much I prefered his early films, fresher, perhaps more radical and critical. However the film succeeds in a cinematic point of view. Out of all Jia Zhangke's films, Xiao Wu and Platform are my favourite.
I've also seen the documentary, Dong, which is like a "sister" of Still Life, I found the first part much powerful and interesting than the second part.
Also, Chinese cinema, and perhaps especially the documentary genre, is very abundant at the moment. It's even quite crazy how much films are produced...

[Li Lili]

Weekend:
Versus (rewatch)

I saw it long ago, but it was quite of a good fun.

Exodus

The opening sequence is excellent, Simon Yam is as always very good, and I must admit that the story is quite original (about women killing all men). I'm pretty sure you will like it.

[Li Lili]

I don't know what I'm going to watch this week-end, I don't know what I'm going to do, but I know I will be busy, surely go out and have fun.
I may watch :
Paranoid Park
Glory to the Filmmaker
or some HK films.
Depends on my mood.

[dreamdead]

Weekend:

Bratz: The Movie
Children of Paradise (it's gonna happen this week. I can feel it)

[Kurosawa Fan]

Weekend:

Finish Dexter
The Cement Garden? Maybe? I suck at watching movies.