28 Film Discussion Threads Later

**B-side** · 09-01-2011, 04:55 AM

Quoting soitgoes... (view post)

Awesome. Check out Diary for My Children too. Not quite as good as Adoption, but still an amazing work from the wife of one of the all-time greats (how's that for a backhanded compliment?).

Nearly gave it an 8.5. It probably deserves it. I'll definitely be checking that out next. I put in requests for about 5 or 6 of her films yesterday.

**soitgoes...** · 09-01-2011, 05:03 AM

Quoting Brightside (view post)

Nearly gave it an 8.5. It probably deserves it. I'll definitely be checking that out next. I put in requests for about 5 or 6 of her films yesterday.

I just added to the request pot for each, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna help you out with those fucking Ruiz films! Damned, I tell you!

**B-side** · 09-01-2011, 05:07 AM

Quoting soitgoes... (view post)

I just added to the request pot for each, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna help you out with those fucking Ruiz films! Damned, I tell you!

Heh. If anything I'd ask you to contribute a few GBs to my two István Gaál pots.

**Qrazy** · 09-01-2011, 06:24 AM

Can you guys throw me some gbs to get my ratio up please? It's at like .694 or something.

**B-side** · 09-01-2011, 06:32 AM

Quoting Qrazy (view post)

Can you guys throw me some gbs to get my ratio up please? It's at like .694 or something.

Done.

**soitgoes...** · 09-01-2011, 07:07 AM

Quoting Brightside (view post)

Done.

And done.

**Qrazy** · 09-01-2011, 07:50 AM

Thanks bros.

**dreamdead** · 09-01-2011, 02:21 PM

Not that I was expecting much, but the narrative design for the video game-to-film adaptation of Tekken is all over the place. Characters, especially our lead Jin, fall into romance without regard for the girl he's left behind, and the admittedly one-dimensional fighters receive less than clear narratives. Anna Williams is all but dropped from the film, despite the fact that neither she nor Christie had been eliminated from the tournament. And the overkill of flashbacks suggest that there is no forward momentum or development to these stock characters.

Given its R-rating, and the very clear Anna and Nina Williams sisters three-way with Kazuya, the film could have shot for transcendent pulp and excess, but it seems to sidestep each moment where unseemliness could have created a more unique tone and out of the generic mode that it remains otherwise locked in.

Almost curious to watch The King of Fighters to see how that one goes...

**Ezee E** · 09-01-2011, 04:50 PM

Telluride movies thus far:

Turin Horse
Kid With the Bike
Descendents
George Harrison doc
We Need To Talk About Kevin
A Dangerous Method
Albert Noobs
The Artist
A Separation
Le Havre
Shame.

**Rowland** · 09-01-2011, 08:29 PM

I can't believe Detective Dee has a 93% on RT, and I'm the only nay around these parts. I didn't expect to come across as so contrarian, I just honestly thought it was lousy. This may shape up to be the year's single most overrated movie for me.

**soitgoes...** · 09-01-2011, 08:58 PM

Quoting Rowland (view post)

I can't believe Detective Dee has a 93% on RT, and I'm the only nay around these parts. I didn't expect to come across as so contrarian, I just honestly thought it was lousy. This may shape up to be the year's single most overrated movie for me.

I'm not too hot on it either, even with my yay here.

**Ivan Drago** · 09-01-2011, 09:55 PM

Does the Tekken movie at least have King in it?

**Rowland** · 09-01-2011, 10:03 PM

Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)

Does the Tekken movie at least have King in it?

Or Kuma?

**Boner M** · 09-01-2011, 11:06 PM

Quoting soitgoes... (view post)

I'm not too hot on it either, even with my yay here.

Ditto.

**chrisnu** · 09-01-2011, 11:53 PM

Quoting Watashi (view post)

What the fuck, Lucas?

Awful. I do have to say that the insertion of CGI Yoda into TPM is an improvement, as well as appropriate in that only the prequels feature CGI Yoda.

Also, Wicket now blinks.

**Boner M** · 09-02-2011, 03:39 AM

Huge week for movies ahead...

Theatre: The Blue Angel, Elena, Horrible Bosses, Senna
Double feature w/ friends: Miracle Mile + Friedkin's Sorcerer
Youtube: Queysanne's The Man Who Sleeps, Alan Clarke's Contact, Frederiock Wiseman's Meat, Garrel's Le révélateur

**Stay Puft** · 09-02-2011, 05:33 AM

Quoting Ezee E (view post)

Telluride movies thus far:

According to Werner Herzog's production website, Into the Abyss is going to be at Telluride.

**elixir** · 09-02-2011, 05:36 AM

Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinema is pretty incredible. I'm pretty sure I only caught one out of every one hundred references though. Nonetheless, it's a remarkably compelling look into the history (or the histories. or the story. or the stories!) of film (and in some ways, the 20th century in general--though I suppose the two can't really be separated, can they?), clearly made by a man who loves the medium as much as he is fascinated by it. There are so many stretches of jaw-dropping beauty (some favorites on first viewing include the section on Italy's cinema and the one on Hitchcock) and I found it to be nothing short of enthralling throughout. Anyhow, I can't even really begin to work out what it all means, but I loved it.

**Ezee E** · 09-02-2011, 05:55 AM

The Artist is my first screening of Telluride, and it's a great one for me to start off with. It plays a double entendre with silent films, referencing the greats, but using it to its own advantage to push its current story. The acting is lovely from the two leads, especially the main actress. Michel Hazanavicius shoots the hell out of it too.

**Boner M** · 09-02-2011, 06:11 AM

Anyone familiar with Robert Kramer? I just blind-bought these two:

Heard a lot of raves about his work: kinda fiction/doco-hybrid investigations of American people, politics, landscapes, etc. Often mentioned alongside Jon Jost (nudge, nudge B-Side).

**B-side** · 09-02-2011, 06:56 AM

Quoting Boner M (view post)

Heard a lot of raves about his work: kinda fiction/doco-hybrid investigations of American people, politics, landscapes, etc. Often mentioned alongside Jon Jost (nudge, nudge B-Side).

He's on my radar now. Thanks.

**Qrazy** · 09-02-2011, 08:00 AM

What are some films you didn't realize were remakes?

I just found out The Maltese Falcon had been made before. Had no idea.

**B-side** · 09-02-2011, 08:06 AM

Quoting Qrazy (view post)

What are some films you didn't realize were remakes?

I just found out The Maltese Falcon had been made before. Had no idea.

Drive. It's pretty much a remake of the Walter Hill film, right?

**Qrazy** · 09-02-2011, 08:27 AM

Quoting Brightside (view post)

Drive. It's pretty much a remake of the Walter Hill film, right?

I believe it's based on a 2005 novel actually. I wouldn't be surprised if the novelist saw and was inspired by Hill's film though, which Hill wrote the screenplay for.

**B-side** · 09-02-2011, 08:30 AM

Quoting Qrazy (view post)

I believe it's based on a 2005 novel actually. I wouldn't be surprised if the novelist saw and was inspired by Hill's film though, which Hill wrote the screenplay for.

Oh, yup, it's based on a book. Premise sounds nearly identical to The Driver, even the whole enjoying pop music thing.

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