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ASIAN CULT UNITE!
It's seriously one of the most amazing movies I've seen. I hope you have easy access to part two. And hopefully it's a decent digital transfer.
MY WEEKEND
Harakiri (mebbe for reals this times)
Jigoku
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Okuribito/Departures
Some other Japanese movies.
Kinda got an itch to see Scott Pilgrim
The Big Lebowski and the Coen Brothers both are awesome. The Ninth Configuration is a great movie. Waltz With Bashir is very good indeed.
Weekend:
*The Last Winter
*The Girl Who Knew Too Much
*Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('78)
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My anticipation is growing. I do have both parts so no worries there.
This gives me the same reaction that A Chinese Odyssey gave to you. Watch it.
Damnit. It came in cracked. I've been looking forward to that one.
Nazarin is very good. Tristana is the weakest Bunuel I've seen, although not awful. I am Cuba is great. Ashes of Times is interesting. A Chinese Odyssey brings the lolz.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Tristana, just to fill out the spectrum of opinions about it, is one of the best Bunuel films I've seen. One of my favorites of his, anyway.
Ah.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I Am Cuba is probably the film I most look forward to seeing out of the bunch. All the other films by Kalatozov I've seen are at the very least good if not great.
I'm probably leaning more towards watching Nazarin first, it just seems more interesting to me, but both will get watched in short order. It's going to really have to be special to even be considered one of the top three Buñuel films I've seen. The guy's nothing short of amazing.
So what's with the low rating for Good Men, Good Women?
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Red-Headed Woman is quite the movie.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
weekend possibilities
Alien on the big screen
the rest of Flowing
Me & Orson Welles (did anyone here see this?)
In Vanda's Room
Times Square
36th Chamber of Shaolin
Le doulos (1962) was quite good, although it lacked the very driven style of Le Samourai or the entertainment value of Le Cercle rouge. For now, I'd say that the characters, being complete bastards, are the opposite of the ones in the other Jean-Pierre Melville movies I've seen, and therefore I'm left feeling rather cold about what happens to them-you don't really give a damn, actually. Which may be the point, but then its a sharp contrast to the honor oriented gangsters that populated the other two movies I've seen from Melville, which is quite interesting I suppose. The famous long take in the interrogation room is really the only thing I'll probably take away from this movie, to be honest.
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It's somewhere between 2 and a half and three stars, but the film takes me back to The Puppet Master. Just a bore. I think structurally it is one of Hou's most interesting films, but as a whole it is a far cry from his coming of age trilogy and City of Sadness. I'm not sure what happened between 1989 and 1993, but the four films I've seen prior I wouldn't rate below ***½ (actually two of them are 4 star films) and the two after are around **½. I'm sitting on Goodbye, South, Goodbye, but I fear it's going to be in the same vein as these other two.
I do have to reiterate that the structure of Good Men, Good Women is amazing. Having a present, a flashback past, and then the actress from the present playing a role from the 1940's to parallel the present is genius. I just wish the film itself was as interesting as how Hou set it up.
Oddly enough, I don't find anything very different in Hou's approach to storytelling and mise en scène between City of Sadness and The Puppet Master, except that the former is a lot funnier, uses at least one big star (Tony Leung--the good one) as opposed to strictly casting non-professionals, and the earlier film is more difficult to follow as storytelling.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Watch Melville's Le deuxième souffle. Much better than Le doulos.
Hmm, maybe time hasn't been too kind to it. It was my first experience with Hou, but Good Men, Good Women kinda reinforces that I might not have been too far off on it. After watch his coming of age trilogy I did think I might have been off on my Puppet Master rating. Who knows? Different strokes and all that. I still think Hou, based on his 80's work is the best thing Taiwan has given us. I'd be tempted to say all of Chinese filmmakers, but I love me some Zhang Yimou and Wong too.
And L'Armée des ombres is much better than Le Deuxième souffle. I win!
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
It is better! Agreement! We both win!
Torn Curtain was really not good. Hitchcock did her no favors, but what a horrible performance from Julie Andrews.
The Passenger (Antonioni): 9
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Yates): 5
Red (Schwentke): 4
The Count of Monte Cristo (Reynolds): 5
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog): 8
Kick-Ass (Vaughn): 3
I was looking through my old posts on here. There was a thread from September of last year called The Way Too Early Oscar Prediction Thread. My two selections for consideration: The Tree of Life and All Good Things. Obviously, I am way ahead of my time.
The Passenger (Antonioni): 9
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Yates): 5
Red (Schwentke): 4
The Count of Monte Cristo (Reynolds): 5
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog): 8
Kick-Ass (Vaughn): 3
Rain Man was still mediocre but Dustin Hoffman was still great.
Heh soitgoes and baby doll, I'll just watch both. My library also has Army of Shadows on Criterion, so I should see that, too.
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And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?
Why the CRAP doesn't Netflix Instant have captions yet? It's so irritating.
...and the milk's in me.
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