Coming in March, 2016:
This is such an incredible film. I am so excited to finally see this on blu-ray. I cannot wait!
Coming in March, 2016:
This is such an incredible film. I am so excited to finally see this on blu-ray. I cannot wait!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens made more on a Thursday than the last Fantastic Four movie made in its entire run.
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) ***
Its impact on the orange industry cannot be overstated.Quoting D_Davis (view post)
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) ***
We are living in a post-sphere world.Quoting D_Davis (view post)
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) ***
Roar (Noel Marshall, 1981) - Ratings hardly seem applicable (or appropriate) when it comes to as astonishing of a train-wreck of a film as this one. I give it a WTF + for now.
"With fangs bared and claws extended, the must-be-seen-to-be-believed 1981 film Roar plays like a trippy episode of Wild Kingdom gone wrong, a nerve-racking experience fraught with the possibility of a casual mauling or deadly pounce from start to finish. It may be one of the most fucked-up movies you’ll ever see.
The film is a Screen Actors Guild nightmare. The performers don’t so much act in the film as they survive it. Most of the time, the cast is avoiding a lion, hiding from a lion, running from a lion, getting knocked down by a lion, or praying not to be eaten alive by a lion. In one scene, a prostrate and helpless Melanie Griffith lies amidst the shambles of the house with a huge lioness atop her, the creature’s jaws nearly framing her face. To the actress’ credit, she appears calm, which is either a testament to her acting craft or her resignation to fate. The incident required 50 stitches and some cosmetic plastic surgery. Other actors in the film suffered much, much worse injuries. The blood on Noel Marshall’s hands in Roar is both literal and figurative.
Roar is a freaky taste of danger that no one in his right mind would ever attempt to undertake again. Something this bad can’t help but be good."
It's to Tippi Hedren's credit that she continues to run and maintain Shambala, the wildlife preserve north of Los Angeles that is home to her menagerie of big cats and other various and sundry African wildlife. Now I'm itching to read her book, The Cats of Shambala, which detailed the entire ill-fated and catastrophe-plagued 11 year production of Roar, which endured flooding, a major fire, and injuries suffered at the claws and teeth of the film's "stars" to 70 cast and crew members.
It's absolutely amazing that no one was killed while shooting the film.
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) ***
That makes me wonder how big the market is for Bollywood outside India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
It's huge. Brown people just like to see other brown people speaking their language on film for some reason.Quoting Irish (view post)
Incidentally, while The Crow's Egg seems to be doing good business in Hong Kong, it's not really a typical Tamil film, and most of the people in the audience I saw it with were Chinese rather than South Asians (despite the proximity of Broadway Cinematheque to Chungking Mansions).
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
That makes me wonder how big the market is for Bollywood outside India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.Quoting baby doll (view post)
(I know it's huge; Bollywood has been the second largest film industry in the world for several decades, at least).
I remember when I was in California that there were a few theaters that seemed to ALWAYS have a Bollywood movie playing, and they'd be pretty full on weekends or its opening weekend.Quoting Irish (view post)
Here in Charlotte one of the AMCs always has at least one, usually two programmed. Usually packed from what I can tell. They play them louder than any non-IMAX screen, too. Can always hear it through the walls in adjoining theaters.
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
Letterboxd
The Harrison Marathon - A Podcast About Harrison Ford
There's always two or three Bollywood films at any given time showing at the one of the downtown theatres in Toronto. The audience seems to be there, even if it's not comparably huge here or anything. edit - didn't read the whole discussion and missed Spinal's post. I guess it's only getting bigger?
Giving up in 2020. Who cares.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima) *½
The Marksman (Robert Lorenz) **
Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
I was referring to the diaspora. Brown people aren't confined to South Asia.Quoting Irish (view post)
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
Well with 6 days left in the year, my quest to watch at least 1 movie from the 1001 movies to see before you die has driven me to watch Lawrence of Arabia for the first time. Wish me luck.
Hopefully it's on a big screen?Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
No on my TV.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Hopefully a big tvQuoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Boogie Nights is one of the most captivating movies I've ever seen. More later.
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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?
Gotta be one of the top 3 movies of the 90s.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
In my top ten of all time.Quoting MadMan (view post)
So I bought this copy of Ken Russell's The Devils:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ilpage_o02_s00
I expected it to be pan-and-scan but it's actually a non-anamorphic widescreen and very good quality! Awesome film!
After twenty minutes, I've determined that Hard to Be a God is officially Not For Me. Could have guessed as much from everything I'd seen and read on it, but it's now been confirmed.
Hate not finishing stuff but I can't foresee a time where I won't be too tired to stay awake through three hours of Russians wallowing in mud.
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
Letterboxd
The Harrison Marathon - A Podcast About Harrison Ford