Nice.Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
Nice.Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
It helps wash out the bad taste Fighting Elegy left.Quoting Clipper Ship Captain (view post)
It's exciting that you've realized this before you've gotten to his two most recognized films! And they are definitely brilliant! I haven't seen Bad Timing, so I don't know if you're going up or down, but hopefully you can do no wrong.Quoting Brightside (view post)
That said, I started watching The Man Who Fell To Earth a while ago, but never got past the first 10 minutes. Not because I didn't like what I saw or anything, I guess the strange material was something I didn't feel I could get into properly that particular week.
Weekend: Wes Craven's Shocker, The Gleaners and I
The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer 13) - A
Stranger by the Lake (Giraudie 12) - B
American Hustle (Russell 13) - C+
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese 13) - C+
Passion (De Palma 12) - B
I highly recommend Bad Timing. I'd wager it's more playfully excellent in the editing department than the other 2 Roeg's I've seen. Garfunkel falters a bit, and the characters aren't as immediately compelling as they should be, but it's still technically terrific and gets gradually better and more complex as it goes along.Quoting Bosco B Thug (view post)
Seen any other Teshigahara?Quoting soitgoes...
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Antonio Gaud* and The Woman in the Dunes are both great as well.Quoting Brightside (view post)
I've just realized, apart from Kurosawa, I'm very ignorant as far as classic Japanese filmmakers go. For example, I've only seen one Mizoguchi (Tales of Ugetsu) and one Ozu (Tokyo Story), and nothing from Naruse or Teshigara.
I have seen a lot more of current Japanese cinema, though.
Weekend:
Hirokazu Koreeda's Distance
The Soloist
The Son
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Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
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That's not surprising, considering that Hopper stared in Easy Rider.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
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Weekend:
The Wrestler
I've Loved You So Long
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
Stared at what?Quoting MadMan (view post)
I loved when the knights showed up.Quoting Boner M (view post)
Weekend
Raise the Red Lantern
Days of Being Wild
Wolfen
Please do share thoughts on this one, if you have them. I saw a it a couple years back and my memory's a little vague, but I'd be interested to get your take on it.Quoting Raiders (view post)
I found out my local library has a ton of Criterion and Eclipse dvds. I checked out these:
Scandal (Kurosawa)
The Rules of the Game
Tokyo Story
Shadows in Paradise (Kaurismaki)
La Jetee / Sans Soleil
Any recommendation on what to watch first?
TV Recently Finished:
Catastrophe: Season 1 (2015) A
Rectify: Season 3 (2015) A-
Bojack Horseman: Season 2 (2015) A
True Detective: Season 2 (2015) A-
Wayward Pines: Season 1 (2015) B
Currently Playing: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (replay) (XB1) / Contradiction (PC)
Recently Finished: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4) A+ / Life is Strange: Ep 4 (PS4) A / Bastion (replay) (PS4) B+
I've seen these three, and they're all like the best movie ever. I can only assume the other two are as well. Watch them all when you're very awake though.Quoting EyesWideOpen (view post)
I'm pretty excited since in just the first row of dvds I found between 30-40 criterion & eclipse dvds but I didn't want to check out too much at once.
TV Recently Finished:
Catastrophe: Season 1 (2015) A
Rectify: Season 3 (2015) A-
Bojack Horseman: Season 2 (2015) A
True Detective: Season 2 (2015) A-
Wayward Pines: Season 1 (2015) B
Currently Playing: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (replay) (XB1) / Contradiction (PC)
Recently Finished: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4) A+ / Life is Strange: Ep 4 (PS4) A / Bastion (replay) (PS4) B+
If you haven't seen any of these, I envy you for what you are about to experience. Tokyo Story and Sans Soleil are my faves, I guess.Quoting EyesWideOpen (view post)
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This is all very true. One of the most painful movies I've seen in recent times.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
Was a blast to rip apart, though. :lol:
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Definitely see Pitfall if you haven't. I liked it better than Woman in the Dunes.Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Yeppers. One of my best viewing experiences was watching the copy of this that Russ hooked me up with. It comes across initially as a simple melodrama, but its depth and range take it far beyond that scope. Though it's always economical in its film language, it nonetheless conveys its ideas powerfully.Quoting Philosophe_rouge (view post)
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Yea, I was surprised by how touching and devastating it was. It started off simply enough, but built slowly and carefully on it's foundation until it hits about the mid poiint and everything just comes together perfectly.Quoting dreamdead (view post)
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Oh yeah, it's definitely my next Teshigahara. Thanks!Quoting Brightside (view post)
Isn't that the movie that was "remade" as Tokyo Story? I guess some material is just that good.Quoting Philosophe_rouge (view post)
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I'm pretty sure yes.Quoting fasozupow (view post)
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So a couple of months ago I got pulled into one of those marketing rooms in a movie theater so they could show me a trailer of that movie that's opening this weekend, "Fighting."
After the trailer, they asked what I liked about it and what I didn't. I said nothing and everything, respectively, and then they started wheedling and whining and asking about seventeen different ways what they could change about the trailer so that I would see it. I responded about seventeen different ways that I would sooner have my teeth pulled than go see some lame film about skinny white boys pounding on each other.
Apparently, they weren't used to this, because eventually the guy's manager came and took over. He had a silky, coaxing voice, and I'm pretty sure he would have married me if I had given him any hint that the film looked like something other than visual pain.
Eventually, they refused to finish the survey, clicked out, and thanked me for my time.
This is everything you need to know about Hollywood marketing.
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