28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[Melville]

1. The Son
2. Mulholland Dr
3. Punch-Drunk Love


That list hasn't changed in about 10 years. So here's a more fluid one: my top three movies of the current decade:

1. The Grey
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Margaret

[Watashi]

1. It's Such a Beautiful Day
2. Speed Racer
3. Happy-Go-Lucky

[Milky Joe]

1. The Master
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Moonrise Kingdom

hard one

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Tree of Life
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. Black Swan

[Mr. McGibblets]

1. Hot Fuzz
2. Ocean's Twelve
3. The Darjeeling Limited

[MadMan]

Off the top of my head:

1. Drive
2. Children of Men
3. Mullholland Dr.

[baby doll]

• Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000)
• Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
• Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2009)

[dreamdead]

Since 2000:
Before Sunset
Mulholland Dr.
Tree of Life

Since the turn of this decade:
Tree of Life
A Separation
Timbuktu

HM: Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Uncle Boonmee

[Stay Puft]

Tropical Malady
Mulholland Dr.
Millennium Actress

Just this decade:
The Assassin
Oslo, August 31st
Goodbye First Love

[Russ]

3. Inland Empire

Rep! Prefer (slightly) over Mulholland Dr.


EDIT: So stupid that I have to "spread my rep around". I just find posters with the lowest rep, who haven't posted in this forum in years, and "rep" them with an obligatory "I am forced to spread the rep around" to get around this inane restriction.


LLLLLLLL!

[PURPLE]

Lists ya'll. I don't care if they're technically from the wrong century.

1. Songs From the Second Floor
2. Marseille
3. Goodbye, First Love

Most singular:
1. Le quattro volte
2. Enter the Void
3. Kung Fu Hustle

[Grouchy]

In no particular order:

Mad Max: Fury Road
Oldboy
There Will Be Blood

[Yxklyx]

1. Amelie
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

all from 2001

[Lazlo]

1. The Lord of the Rings (I realize I've argued in the past to take them separately, but I'm getting greedy here and there's nothing you can do to stop me)
2. No Country For Old Men
3. The Royal Tenenbaums

[Irish]

1. Memories of Murder
2. Memories of Murder
3. Memories of Murder

Runner-up: You Can Count on Me

[Izzy Black]

New banner is stunning

[dreamdead]

Well, this is a portion of film history that I missed in graduate school. The role of spanking in 1930s to 1960s cinema, and how it was purely natural.

[Morris Schæffer]

Just a heads-up, Criterion movies now available also in the UK region B. Not the whole catalogue obviously, but new ones will be added.

https://www.avforums.com/news/criter...-blu-ray.12544

[Lazlo]

Uhhh, ya burnt, CinemaSins.

[Spinal]

Uhhh, ya burnt, CinemaSins.

I'm glad someone took the time to do this. CinemaSins drives me bonkers with its flippant dull-headedness.

[Melville]

Well, this is a portion of film history that I missed in graduate school. The role of spanking in 1930s to 1960s cinema, and how it was purely natural.

Interesting article, especially all the quotes from actual people in that era. Did you check out the article on Christian Domestic Discipline that it links to?

[Skitch]

I'm glad someone took the time to do this. CinemaSins drives me bonkers with its flippant dull-headedness.

I remember my last CinemaSins. The video began, it said "A Paramount Picture" (or whatever big company I can't recall which), ding, sin counter 1. Vowed I would never click another.

[Yxklyx]

So I searched this whole site for mention of Michael Ritchie's Diggstown and all I could find was a rating of 2/10 from soitgoes (still around?). This film was awesome! A perfectly tight script with entertaining characterizations all around. James Woods was never better. I can't remember any other film with Louis Gossett Jr. but I will always remember him in this and of course Bruce Dern in maybe his best role. Oliver Platt? Who the hell is he? He was hilarious in this! Some beautiful eye candy with Heather Graham.. and what an ending! Listed on The Onion's The New Cult Canon. One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in a long time.

[dreamdead]

Interesting article, especially all the quotes from actual people in that era. Did you check out the article on Christian Domestic Discipline that it links to?

Yeah, what interests me is how film stars filed for divorce and used the spanking act as an entry point for later physical abuse. It's a fascinating subculture, and odd to see 18 minutes compiled that make that sort of filmic transgression appear utterly mundane and shoehorned in to fit then-contemporary trends. So much of the distaste in the Jezebel compilation is the degree to which others witness these spankings merrily, as though there's no need to worry about the pain. I looked at the other Domestic Discipline article, and it further highlights the horror of how these relationship trends move perfidious (when not performed by two agreeing adults) to acceptable because of expectations.

Also related to this story, my, John Wayne appears in a lot of this BS.

[dreamdead]

Is it common to regard the second of Ray's Apu Trilogy, Aparajito, as the stronger than the first film, Pather Panchali? There's something more fundamentally decent about the second film's treatment of the mother, where she becomes less bitter and judged, and begins to embrace her life wih Apu, especially as the other family members fall away. Also, Ray's direction feels more assured, finding more compelling imagery across the board amidst the modernization of India and even more interestingly documenting the rural/urban divide in the country.