It's fantastic. My favorite To so far actually.Quoting Raiders (view post)
Will obtain.Quoting Boner M (view post)
It's fantastic. My favorite To so far actually.Quoting Raiders (view post)
Will obtain.Quoting Boner M (view post)
Midnight In Paris was a really wonderful experience. The film is funny, entertaining, and delightful, plus its worth seeing just alone for Adrien Brody as Dali. Well, almost. I like that []
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But I dunno, that's my thoughts on it, and I just thought that might be a neat explanation. Though like you, I do like how it's not flat out explained to us, leaving it open for interpretation.
I really like that take on Midnight In Paris, and it makes a great deal of sense, actually.Quoting TGM (view post)
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I must note that after watching the movie I realized that, even though I wouldn't mind going back to, say, the 1970s, I like my own time. Every decade has its problems, some far more than others. This one right now sure the economy sucks, but I can watch movies and TV shows on my laptop and converse with people miles away about film. That said, I wouldn't blame the people from the 1930s and 1940s for thinking those decades sucked, and I don't know too many people longing for the 80s (yuck).
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The Telephone Book was crazy fun. Felt a little directionless at first, mostly because I wasn't sure what to expect, but it picked up quickly into this ball of raw creative energy and sexual politics. The lead actress' gorgeous, child-like eyes and squeaky voice betray her overt sexuality and subsequent enormous sex appeal. She's crafted almost into the ideal female figure for men; an innocence secreted in her voice -- a sort of attractive naivete and an adorable little figure complete with curly blonde hair. She's exploited a few times on her road to discovering the man who phoned her and proceeded to please her with sexually explicit eloquence. A man offers her dimes for phone calls so she can call all the John Smiths in the phone book if she'll get him off with dirty talk, so she tells an anecdotal story about a pastor baffled by his erection and how she needed to help him get rid of this medical affliction, as he referred to it. An older, possibly lesbian, woman offers her use of her phone and proceeds to pleasure her with a vibrator while she talks on the phone. I suppose the broader theme is that of the many ways in which sexuality expresses itself. A little sly mockery of Freudian sexual analysis and the topical hippie movement. The final 5-10 minutes are a combination of hilariously profane animation and orgasmic climax. It's just really unique and I kinda loved it.
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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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Whoa, Brightside. That movie looks, well, interesting to say the least.
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...want...Quoting Brightside (view post)
"We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
You'd love it.:PQuoting Russ (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'll be watching it soon. Seems like my kind of film too. Or not.Quoting Brightside (view post)
I... couldn't say.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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Considering I still have no idea what your tastes are, I feel confident I'll like this one. Maybe you and Russ can watch Top of the Food Chain for me. I'm certain Russ will like that one. Certain.Quoting Brightside (view post)
Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
Whoa, it's that hot older lady who tried to steal Joey in Degrassi!
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 don't know what any of this means.Quoting Brightside (view post)
You wouldn't, philistine.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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:cry:Quoting Brightside (view post)
The Stone isn't "about" anything in a traditional sense. It's not a narrative film with an accentuating atmosphere. It's an atmosphere film with an accentuating narrative, or at least some vague steps in that direction. Not reading a synopsis, or anything, really, about the film beforehand, I can't claim to have grasped onto any narrative strands here. Only after scanning a review on IMDb did I get any sense of the supposed narrative involved here. A young man enters an old home and drags an aging man out of a bath tub he's been in with clothes on and the rest is kind of a blur of barely discernible characters amidst an image warped and abstracted in chiaroscuro mud. The very atmosphere seems to be slowing their every movement to a crawl. Case in point: a scene in which we witness with static mid-level camera the aging man getting dressed for upwards of 3-4 minutes straight. Interestingly enough, the scene I found most engaging involved the two men seated next to each other at the dinner table, their faces squeezed into Sokurov's 4:3 frame, elongating them, as the older man posits existential and spiritual rhetoric to the cynical younger man. So what does it all amount to? I really have no idea. Give me a better print and I'll be happy to give another go and try and answer that.
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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A 35mm print of Battle Royale is being screened at midnight for a couple nights here in April at the arthouse theater close to me. Can't. Wait.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
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I've only seen 23 of those. Looks like I know even less than I thought I did (about a quarter of 'anything', apparently).Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Man, I've only seen 24 of those.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
The article's kind of disingenuously framed, though. I imagine if Scorsese was actually creating such a list, it would significantly different.
Heheh yeah.Quoting Winston* (view post)
Pretty disingenuously framed, and unforgivably shrill and obnoxious for it. If this were really a summation of Scorsese's outlook, Vincente Minelli is apparently the one of the only truly worthwhile craftsmen to come outta Hollywood and his support of Kurosawa films in the eighties was a weird rebellious phase he went through.
I've seen 19 or 20 of those.
Scorsese should do another Century of Cinema documentary again. Those are wonderful.
So cool...
watch this.
"We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."