We rewatched Ghostbusters as well a few months back. It's mildly diverting and occasionally inventive in how Ramis pulls off some of the effects. My esteem for it diminished a lot, though, partly because Isaac's right that Murray seems to operate at an entirely different register. Ten year old dd might not have been the most critical of viewers...
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Its all about Once Upon A Time In America for me when it comes to 1984. Best movie I've ever seen.
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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?
You're all terrible people.
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) *
Anyways, finally got a few more things to add:
1. Far from Vietnam (Chris Marker, et al, 1967)
2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
3. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
4. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
5. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
6. The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
7. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
8. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
9. Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932)
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) *
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For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Big Night (Scott, Tucci; 1996)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
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Star Trek: Nemesis (Baird; 2002)
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This is one weird-lookin' list:
- The Act Of Killing
(Oppenheimer, 2013) - **** / 9.3- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
(Gilliam, 1988) - **** / 9.2- The LEGO Movie
(Lord/Miller, 2014) - **** / 9.2- Fargo
(Coen, 1996) - **** / 9.2 (First time seeing it all the way through, and even the bits I knew I'd seen before felt fresh)- The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Anderson, 2014) - **** / 9.1- The Visitor
(Paradisi, 1979) - **** / 9.1- Noah
(Aronofsky, 2014) - **** / 9.0- Nebraska
(Payne, 2013) - **** / 9.0- Jaws
(Spielberg, 1975) - ***1/2 / 8.8 (see Fargo's parenthesis)- Jodorowsky's Dune
(Pavick, 2014) - ***1/2 / 8.8
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Only including stuff I rated ***1/2 or 8.0+
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
1. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
2. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
3. Deadly Prey (David A. Prior, 1987)
4. Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier, 2014)
5. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2014)
6. The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014)
7. The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon, 1971)
8. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
9. Cheap Thrills (E.L. Katz, 2014)
10. Jodorowsky's Dune (Frank Pavich, 2014)
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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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Here's my full list so far:
1 Primer Carruth, Shane
2 Upstream Color Carruth, Shane
3 Gravity Cuarón, Alfonso
4 The Wolf of Wall Street Scorsese, Martin
5 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Russo, Anthony & Joe
6 Her Jonze, Spike
7 The 39 Steps Hitchcock, Alfred
8 Falling Down Schumacher, Joel
9 Inside Llewyn Davis Coen Brothers
10 The Place Beyond the Pines Cianfrance, Derek
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I always wondered what his last name was.
I'd donate to Kickstarter to make this project happen.
I defy you to find another list where The 400 Blows is one spot ahead of Movie 43.
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) ***
Updated for Pialat's Van Gogh:
1. Van Gogh
2. Onibaba
3. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
4. Wake in Fright
5. The Hired Hand
6. The Defiant Ones
7. Another Year
8. The Man with the Golden Arm
9. Profound Desires of the Gods
10. The Face of Another
Everything else I've given 8/10 or above:
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I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
lists and reviews
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The Raid: Redemption (Evans; 2011) -- Best action movie I've seen in a long damn time.
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For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Big Night (Scott, Tucci; 1996)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
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1. The Selfish Giant (2013, Clio Barnard)
2. The Spectacular Now (2013, James Ponsoldt)
3. A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May)
4. Blackboard Jungle (1955, Richard Brooks)
5. Gravity (2013, Alfonso Cuarón)
6. Blue Jasmine (2013, Woody Allen)
7. All is Lost (2013, J.C. Chandor)
8. Nebraska (2013, Alexander Payne)
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9. Blood for Dracula (1974, Paul Morrissey)
10. I'm So Excited! (2013, Pedro Almodóvar)
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The Raid: Redemption (Evans; 2011)
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For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Big Night (Scott, Tucci; 1996)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
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1. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
2. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
3. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2014)
4. Deadly Prey (David A. Prior, 1987)
5. The Immigrant (James Gray, 2014)
6. Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier, 2014)
7. The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014)
8. The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon, 1971)
9. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
10. Cheap Thrills (E.L. Katz, 2014)
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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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The Raid: Redemption (Evans; 2011)
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For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Big Night (Scott, Tucci; 1996)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
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First post on the board!
- RENDEZVOUS IN JULY (1949, d. Jacques Becker)
- EDWARD AND CAROLINE (1951, d. Jacques Becker)
- ANTOINE AND ANTOINETTE (1947, d. Jacques Becker)
- A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (2011, d. Guillaume Brac)
- TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (1971, d. Francois Truffaut)
- OUR SUNHI (2013, d. Hong Sang-soo)
- STRAY DOGS (2013, d. Tsai Ming-liang)
- UNDER THE SKIN (2013, d. Jonathan Glazer)
- VIOLENT SATURDAY (1955, d. Richard Fleischer)
- X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (2014, d. Bryan Singer)
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My Letterboxd Diary
Excluding new (ie, 2013/14) films:
1. Moving (Somai, 1993)
2. Charulata (Ray, 1964)
3. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947)
4. American Dreams (lost and found) (Benning, 1984)
5. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas, 1971)
6. Everybody in Our Family (Jude, 2012)
7. House by the River (Lang, 1950)
8. Le deuxième souffle (Melville, 1966)
9. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella, 1999)
10. The Boston Strangler (Fleischer, 1968)
RU: Reds, Shame (Bergman), The Outlaw Josey Wales
It's astonishing to me that this film isn't better known. Pretty much became an instant favorite of mine on just a first viewing. I've watched it like four times now and it just gets better and better. I haven't been able to find anything else that compares to it in Somai's filmography either, though he's definitely under-appreciated as a whole.
But this movie...man.
Well, I finally have ten. It has been a slow year for me.
1. Far from Vietnam (Chris Marker, et al, 1967)
2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
3. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
4. Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987)
5. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
6. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
7. The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
8. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
9. X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer, 2014)
10. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
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) *
Yeah, I'm pretty baffled as to why something so accessible and obviously-great is so little-known... it's one of the best depictions of childhood and the loss of innocence I've seen, that works as a charming and dramatically sound coming-of-age film as well as something more formal and abstract (I'm thinking of the almost Jancso-like way the camera dances around certain actions/rituals of the family). The last 20 minutes or so, and the combination of magic realism (which usually leaves me cold) and heartbreak... just stunning. And then it's like a Vincent Minelli musical in the last scene!
Hoping it gets a decent re-release or a Criterion edition or something. I saw it in 35mm at an art gallery, sadly I missed Somai's Ah! Spring which played as well... what else of his do you recommend?
His last film, KAZA-HANU (2000) is quite good, as is TYPHOON CLUB (1985). I began watching AH, SPRING a while back, got side-tracked and never finished it, though it seemed impressive from what I saw. Need to get back to it. Most of his films are available with English subs now thanks to fan-subbers online, so I need to get around to the rest of his filmography. The general consensus amongst those who have seen the bulk of his work is that MOVING is his masterpiece, which is fine by me as it'd be hard to hold a filmmaker with as (sadly) short a working career as Sômai's to multiple films of that caliber.
Yeah, the transformation the film takes in the final third feels both surreal and completely fluid with what came before. Sômai's control of tone is just stunning throughout the film. I'm completely with you on the "usually leaves me cold" last-act-magic-realism thing, but here it just devastates me every time. There is such a great balance of precision and mystery to the symbolic notes of her little adventure that I'm just overwhelmed whenever I see it, especially the fire festival moments.
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945, Elia Kazan)
2. The Past (2012, Asghar Farhadi)
3. Last Night (1998, Don McKellar)
4. The Selfish Giant (2013, Clio Barnard)
5. The Spectacular Now (2013, James Ponsoldt)
6. A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May)
7. Blackboard Jungle (1955, Richard Brooks)
8. Gravity (2013, Alfonso Cuarón)
9. Blue Jasmine (2013, Woody Allen)
10. All is Lost (2013, J.C. Chandor)
This is tough because I've been binging on some classics this year.
Probably forgetting some.
1. Les Miserables (1934)
2. Children of Paradise (1945)
3. Army of Shadows (1969)
4. Come and See (1985)
5. Underground (1995)
6. My Night at Maud's (1969)
7. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
8. Kes (1969)
9. Il Sorpasso (1962)
10. Rififi (1956)
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The Raid: Redemption (Evans; 2011)
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For a Few Dollars More (Leone; 1965)
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The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Attack the Block (Cornish; 2011)
Thor: The Dark World (Taylor; 2013)
The Ice Harvest (Ramis; 2005)
You're Next (Wingard; 2011)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
Big Night (Scott, Tucci; 1996)
Despicable Me 2 (Coffin, Renaud; 2013)
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