Fortunately new trailers learned from those mistakes and now ruin everything in less than 2 minutes.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Fortunately new trailers learned from those mistakes and now ruin everything in less than 2 minutes.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Yeah, it's a piece of shit.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
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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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I've never thought much about Clint Eastwood as a director. Most of his career, he's been hampered by being forced to cast himself as the lead to get funding. And he's always been something of a commercial, populist kind of moviemaker.
His movies always seem deeply rooted in the time they were made (Every Which Way But Loose, Pink Cadillac, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil). Sometimes his timing is perfect (Unforgiven, 1992) and sometimes it's awful (Pale Rider, 1985). He also whored himself out a bit in the 1990s, obviously more interested in payoffs than art (Absolute Power, Space Cowboys).
The reason I keep seeing his movies is the same reason I keep seeing Woody Allen and Spike Lee's stuff. Because even if the work in question is below par, hell, I figure it's got a better than even chance to be interesting subject matter and have some kind of a point of view, both socially and artistically. You can't really say that about a lot of people working today.
Directing is something of a secondary career to him and he's made 35 movies to date. He's still turned out, by my count, eight or nine movies that are notable and worth seeing.
That alone puts him well above average, in just about any context.
I like that (in most of his films) Eastwood has no problem putting his personal politics on display, even if they are questionable by societal standards.
Even if it's an opinion or view I don't agree with, I find it much more interesting to see someone being honest about how they see the world, than pandering to audiences or critics.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Eastwood seems to have movies that I'll either love or find unwatchable. His last two for instance just seem so boring and uninteresting that I'm not even going to bother with them.
When it deals with one character, it seems to be at its best. So long as he doesn't get carried away with multiple storylines like in Changeling or Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil.
Well said.Quoting Irish (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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I kinda feel the opposite. I feel like I could go the rest of my life without experiencing Eastwood's artistry or his point of view and be just fine.
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) ***
Haha, fair enough. I get what he's aiming at, though.Quoting Spinal (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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Don't think I've seen this posted yet.
August's Criterions:
And several blu-ray re-releases of earlier Criterion films: Battle of Algiers, If... and Orpheus.
Out of 4 stars:
The Guest: ***1/2
Furious 7: ***
The Tale of Princess Kaguya: ***
It Follows: ***1/2
I thought that was an Eclipse set of 5 Kiyoshi Kurosawa films I've never heard of, then got all giddy, then sighed with disappointment upon 2nd look.
Still, nice month.
Are you saying that all Japanese names in which both the first and the surname have the same number of syllables and begin with the letter K, the first names end with a 'yoshi', and the surnames almost rhyme, are difficult to tell apart? That's racist!Quoting Boner M (view post)
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
I've become more excited for each month's announcement of Eclipse titles than I am with Criterion.
I hear the original title for the box was The Warped World of Another Japanese DudeQuoting Rowland (view post)
Same here. I mean, as much as we needed another DVD of The Killing...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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Really, they couldn't have included The Gate of Youth, which Kurahara co-directed with Kinji Fukasaku in 1981?!
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
The terrible acting is more obnoxious than the pacing.Quoting Boner M (view post)
And was it a well known fact he rushed it out the door?
And the Killing box art there is fucking amazing.
By the way, did anybody hear that a director's cut of Ishtar is being screened in New York this week? I rather liked the original version, so I hope this gets some kind of DVD release.
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
This is the most bizarre thing I've ever heard anyone say in relation to entertainment.Quoting baby doll (view post)
All the more confusing as it's coming from you.
Hm, so entertainment shouldn't get some kind of DVD Release? Are you retarded?Quoting Irish (view post)
Anyway, a Blu-ray release of the original cut was up for pre-order months ago on Amazon, but Sony cancelled it for some reason. This new Director's Cut must have been that reason, and I guess it'll come out in that format sooner or later. Which is great, because it's an awesome film.
edit- her previous stuff deserves a release more though. I think they're either out of print (The Heartbreak Kid), unreleased (A New Leaf) or really expensive in sub-par editions (Micky and Nicky).
What are you talking about? A guy liked a movie and hopes its director's cut makes it to DVD. Sounds perfectly sensible to me.Quoting Irish (view post)
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I like Gran Torino.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
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Because, my god, it's Ishtar. Ishtar?!Quoting balmakboor (view post)
We're talking about the Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman movie, right? Or did he mean something else?Quoting dmk (view post)
You do know that Ishtar has a great many defenders?Quoting Irish (view post)
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You have single handedly just darkened my faith in humanity. I honestly did not believe that possible. :cry:Quoting balmakboor (view post)