28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[B-side]

You'd prefer a semi?

I'd rather you get hit by a bus than Gallo. He makes great films and great music. You make nothing. Check and mate.

[Spun Lepton]

I'd rather you get hit by a bus than Gallo. He makes great films and great music. You make nothing. Check and mate.

"Great" is certainly a matter of opinion here.

Alex Cox has no room to rip into anybody, considering he made this:

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[Boner M]

Let's all just agree that no one has any right to voice their honest opinions about anything cos everyone sucks and will do and/or has done something shitty.

[Winston*]

Was that Gallo quote from before he worked with Francis Ford Copolla on Tetro?

[Boner M]

Was that Gallo quote from before he worked with Francis Ford Copolla on Tetro?

Yeah, it's from that unpublicised interview conducted in the early 00's that was leaked last year (that's where all of his quotes in that article are taken from).

[SirNewt]

Also, Ingmar Bergman makes a better filmmaker than film critic ("Art movies are boring, wah wah wah!").

Yeah, I was starting to wonder if he actually watches his own movies.

I mean I quite enjoy something like 'Through a Glass Darkly' but it's not exactly trotting along.

[Qrazy]

I'd rather you get hit by a bus than Gallo. He makes great films and great music. You make nothing. Check and mate.

Actually I make a great deal.

Gallo is a complete shithead who's an average actor, made one competent film, one shit film and one film no one will ever see.

Also by your logic you should get hit by a bus as well. You've pretty much dove headlong into the old line of bullshit... you can't criticize anything if you're not better at it!

[B-side]

Actually I make a great deal.

Gallo is a complete shithead who's an average actor, made one competent film, one shit film and one film no one will ever see.

Also by your logic you should get hit by a bus as well. You've pretty much dove headlong into the old line of bullshit... you can't criticize anything if you're not better at it!

I dove into that old line of joking around. You should know me well enough by now.:P

[Qrazy]

I dove into that old line of joking around. You should know me well enough by now.:P

Yeah it's true, my bad. :lol:

[Winston*]

Any recommendations for good Japanese films about the war or that have stuff in them about the war?

[Qrazy]

Any recommendations for good Japanese films about the war or that have stuff in them about the war?

Kobayashi's Human Condition Trilogy
Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp

[Pop Trash]

Any recommendations for good Japanese films about the war or that have stuff in them about the war?

Imamura's Black Rain about the slow and painful nuke fallout after the war is quite powerful.

[Milky Joe]

In addition to the great films, Gallo has a couple excellent albums worth of music under his belt.

Oof, what a pun that was.

[B-side]

In addition to the great films, Gallo has a couple excellent albums worth of music under his belt.

I hinted toward that, yeah. I've been listening to When recently and really enjoying it.

[B-side]

The Fifth Seal, a morality tale about a group of friends living in Hungary under Nazi occupation, marks another terrific film seen during this cinematic journey. Roughly the first 35-40 minutes take place entirely within the confines of a bar where the lights are kept very low and an ear is always listening for an air raid siren. A partially crippled war veteran stumbles in the bar and his persona joins the mix as the guys continue to debate philosophical and moral issues in the face of an oppressive government and war. Fábri's camera swirls around the table and joins in the discussions with jaunty zooms accentuating faces. One of the guys, who'd thus far been obviously unimpressed with their certitude in their moral stances, poses a "be the slave or the master" question to test their convictions, which sends each of them reeling off into the night and back to their respective lives. After a group of local soldiers enter the bar again the next night after having came in the previous night and leaving without trouble, they kidnap the original four men and take them to a military compound. A young soldier is eager to execute them for accusing them of being murderers, an nice touch of irony, but the boss takes a more intellectual approach and seeks to strip them of their self-respect before letting them go free. They're each asked to slap the face of a resistance fighter twice in order to leave, who is strung up like Jesus, arms spread in the middle of a room complete with a spotlight shining directly in the mens' faces, effectively casting judgment upon them as they contemplate the deed. I'd be curious what people made, or will make, of the ending.

[baby doll]

Any recommendations for good Japanese films about the war or that have stuff in them about the war?

I remember Grave of the Fireflies being good.

[Raiders]

Any recommendations for good Japanese films about the war or that have stuff in them about the war?

Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth is very specifically about Japan in the 30s and 40s, leading from the Manchurian invasion to WWII, seen from Setsuko Hara's eyes.

[elixir]

Since I have now seen all their feature films, I shall rank the Coens!

Blood Simple - 7
Raising Arizona - 4 (I have tried twice. It's not for me. :|)
Miller's Crossing - 7
Barton Fink - 7
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7
Fargo - 9
The Big Lebowski - 8
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 7
The Man Who Wasn't There - 8
Intolerable Cruelty - 4
The Ladykillers - 3
No Country for Old Men - 7
Burn After Reading - 6
A Serious Man - 9 (the best)
True Grit - 6

[transmogrifier]

Blood Simple - 84
Raising Arizona - 48
Miller's Crossing - 89
Barton Fink - 66
The Hudsucker Proxy - 72
Fargo - 78
The Big Lebowski - 66
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 57
The Man Who Wasn't There - 58
Intolerable Cruelty - 49
The Ladykillers - 28
No Country for Old Men - 65
Burn After Reading - 66
A Serious Man - 70
True Grit - 55

[Qrazy]

If this is going to happen en masse as it usually does can it be in another thread please?

[Ezee E]

I was wondering what spawned that, but then I actually read the post.

[Henry Gale]

On a related note, I finally saw all of Raising Arizona for the first time the other night (I know, I know), and despite it being one of the few Coens I hadn't yet seen, it still managed to completely take me by surprise. It's just such a mindblowingly fun movie, which considering the rest of their work, isn't something they tend to set out to achieve without also adding their characteristically (though usually enjoyably) cynical world view in the form of a significant moral drama, whether you may consider that an asset or baggage in each individual case. If there's anything that I could bother to say negatively about it, it would maybe be that its shift to a more reflective, sentimental tone towards the end feels a bit sudden, and maybe not entirely justified considering the way it whimsically and cartoonishly presented its characters before that. But even then, once it got to the final dream, I couldn't help but feel like that last minute change was completely worth it. There's no way I could rank it anywhere near things like Ladykillers and Introlerable Cruelty.

Also, I feel like it's not brought up enough how thematically and structurally similar it is to No Country.

[Watashi]

Yeah, Raising Arizona is their best, but I love them all. Even The Ladykillers.

None of their films would receive less than a 7/10 from me.

[Pop Trash]

If this is going to happen en masse as it usually does can it be in another thread please?

NO!

Blood Simple -7
Raising Arizona -10
Miller's Crossing -7 (needs a rewatch)
Barton Fink -8
The Hudsucker Proxy -7
Fargo -10
The Big Lebowski -7
O Brother, Where Art Thou? -8
The Man Who Wasn't There -n/s
Intolerably Cruelty -n/s
The Ladykillers -n/s
No Country for Old Men -9
Burn After Reading -7
A Serious Man -7
True Grit -8

[Watashi]

I want them all.