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    Quote Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
    Youth of the Beast (Suzuki 63) - 7.5
    Nice.

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    Quote Quoting Clipper Ship Captain (view post)
    Nice.
    It helps wash out the bad taste Fighting Elegy left.

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    Quote Quoting Brightside (view post)
    Gah, I love Roeg's style. I love his comparative editing. I love his zooms. I love his camera work. I love his flashbacks. I love the way he stages and films sex scenes. Acquiring Don't Look Now at the moment, will go to Walkabout after that, then... I'm not sure. Seems his well regarded films stop after the aforementioned two, Bad Timing and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Not counting Performance as it's Cammell's film, though Roeg apparently handled the technical aspect of it, which really, is a huge aspect of that film.
    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.

    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.

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    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

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    Quote Quoting Bosco B Thug (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.

    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.

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    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.

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    The Face of Another (Teshigahara 66) - 8.0
    Seen any other Teshigahara?
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    Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*

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    Quote Quoting Brightside (view post)
    Seen any other Teshigahara?
    Antonio Gaud* and The Woman in the Dunes are both great as well.

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    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.

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    Weekend:

    Hirokazu Koreeda's Distance
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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    Apparently that's his own ride.

    Once again, Hopper is awesome and Bishop is a eunuch.
    That's not surprising, considering that Hopper stared in Easy Rider.
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    The Wrestler
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    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) ***

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    Quote Quoting MadMan (view post)
    That's not surprising, considering that Hopper stared in Easy Rider.
    Stared at what?

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    Quote Quoting Boner M (view post)
    Doomsday kinda rocked, even though it went from awesome-retarded to just plain retarded by the time Malcolm McDowell showed up. Dug how straight Marshall played the whole thing, though. Guess I should get around to Dog Soldiers...
    I loved when the knights showed up.

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    Hirokazu Koreeda's Distance
    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.

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    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?
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    Quote Quoting EyesWideOpen (view post)
    The Rules of the Game
    Tokyo Story
    La Jetee / Sans Soleil
    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.

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    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.
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    Quote Quoting EyesWideOpen (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?
    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.
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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    Fuck you, Larry Bishop and your stupid wannabe biker movie. When Tarantino told you your destiny was to write, direct and star in a biker movie, he probably meant a good one, you idiot. And where in the contract did it say that the entire script had to revolve around you having a bigger cock than Michael Madsen and Dennis Hopper? Who the fuck gave you the right to do that, you piss-pants eunuch?



    Fuck off and die.

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    This is all very true. One of the most painful movies I've seen in recent times.

    Was a blast to rip apart, though. :lol:
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    So Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) is one of the best films I've ever seen.

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    Quote Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
    Antonio Gaud* and The Woman in the Dunes are both great as well.
    Definitely see Pitfall if you haven't. I liked it better than Woman in the Dunes.
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    Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
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    You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
    Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*

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    Quote Quoting Philosophe_rouge (view post)
    So Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) is one of the best films I've ever seen.
    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.
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    Quote Quoting dreamdead (view post)
    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.
    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.
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    Quote Quoting Brightside (view post)
    Definitely see Pitfall if you haven't. I liked it better than Woman in the Dunes.
    Oh yeah, it's definitely my next Teshigahara. Thanks!

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    Quote Quoting Philosophe_rouge (view post)
    So Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) is one of the best films I've ever seen.

    Isn't that the movie that was "remade" as Tokyo Story? I guess some material is just that good.
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    Isn't that the movie that was "remade" as Tokyo Story? I guess some material is just that good.
    I'm pretty sure yes.
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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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