10. Hell's Heroes (1929) - Went with an old Wyler film. Bunch of bank robbers find themselves having to shape up and take care of an orphan. Its a quick bite of filmmaking style and story, enjoyed the characters and cinematography. 7/10.
10. Hell's Heroes (1929) - Went with an old Wyler film. Bunch of bank robbers find themselves having to shape up and take care of an orphan. Its a quick bite of filmmaking style and story, enjoyed the characters and cinematography. 7/10.
Ooohhh this sounds good. I must check it out. Haven't seen any of Wyler's stuff from that early.Quoting Zac Efron (view post)
Have you seen The Heiress? It is SO. DAMN. GOOD.
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"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I have not. Will do!
Trying to decide what to watch from Wes Anderson's Top 10, and nothing is really jumping out at me to be honest.
Might put all the titles on the wall, cover my eyes and throw a dart.
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I tried to help. I haven't seen a single one of those films.
Was interested in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, but it isn't on Criterion Channel.
Currently trying to decide between The Exterminating Angel and The Insect Woman. Leaning towards the former.
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I almost went with those as well. Seem like solid choices.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Au hasard Balthazar is, imo, the best movie on Wes' list.
Why not watch both (and Madame de... and Au hasard Balthazar and Pigs and Battleships and La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV)? I haven't seen The Friends of Eddie Coyle but the book is a masterpiece.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
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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
Watched The Exterminating Angel, and loved it.
Just as relevant today as its set time period, with stuff rich aristocrats satisfyingly taken down several notches.
"He took off his jacket? What poor etiquette!"
I loved the central mystery, and its Twilight Zone-esque moral commentary (not to mention an ending that felt like it could have been penned by Serling himself).
Was nothing at all what I expected. Very pleasantly surprised. Can't wait to watch it again.
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"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Nice Meg. Yeah, a friend of mine watched it as well and had a similar reaction. I might bump it ahead of Viridiana as my next Bunuel movie.
I think this was my first from Buñuel.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
I'm loving this Criterion Challenge (despite being a bit behind). I've now seen 3 movies I may never have otherwise, and all 3 have been great viewings.
Also, the Criterion Channel is a godsend.
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"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
For your second, you might want to check out Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, which is a sort of companion film to El ángel exterminador. In his autobiography, Buñuel expressed a certain amount of dissatisfaction with the earlier film, which he had originally planned to make in England (where the kind of aristocracy portrayed in the film actually existed), and the film is a bit shaky technically in comparison with his later European films (there's a visible boom mic in one shot). Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie is a much more polished piece of filmmaking with bigger stars, although in the areas that count, it's actually not that much more interesting and successful.Quoting megladon8 (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
After sitting on a DVD my grandma bought me over a decade ago, I went with Lonesome for week 10. The human condition is politely declining your friends’ invitation to Coney Island (“I’m afraid I have too many things to do”) just to sit alone in your apartment filing your nails and flipping through magazines. Don’t listen to the haters who say the spoken dialogue ruins the film -- I mean it’s terribly awkward, sure, but the entire movie is such a chaotic and silly romp (complete with bonkers carnival attractions, an arrest for “picking up girls,” and more confetti than you’ve ever imagined) that the occasional thirty-second early-sound clip simply becomes another sideshow attraction in this non-stop Roaring Twenties jamboree. This Pal Fejos cat is full-steam-ahead with the cinematic trickery, too: plenty of multiple exposure shots (like a clock superimposed over images of our leads at their jobs, a constant reminder of their menial work), some truly gorgeous color tinting (most remarkably a magical realism dance sequence that surely inspired West Side Story and La La Land), and an incredibly mobile camera that careens overhead, flips upside-down, and attaches to the front of a roller-coaster. One of the earliest in its genre, Lonesome is one of the rare rom-coms in which the lovers’ delight in each other is equaled by a delight of craft and tone. Four stars. Thanks grandma.
This might explain why I've always confused them.Quoting baby doll (view post)
Thank you for the recommendation!Quoting baby doll (view post)
I was reading that Buñuel was disappointed that the budget budget Exterminating Angel didn't allow him to go as far as he wanted. His original intent was to have the people devolve into cannibals.
I think I prefer what we got. Do you think the film would have been stronger if it went that direction?
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"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Idioteque, you've sold me on Lonesome.
I'm looking forward to seeing more silent stuff with this challenge. I see multiple opportunities to watch things that have been on my radar for years and just never gotten around to them.
My favorite is still The Phantom of the Opera from '25. Freaking gorgeous production, that is. Chaney kills it. Love it to death.
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"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Where did you see it?Quoting Zac Efron (view post)
For me, Blood Simple and Fargo are about tied. I love both of them equally. They are their two masterpieces. As for Buñuel, I'm not a big fan. I think his best work is at the start when his movies were more surreal as with Un Chien Andalou and L' Âge d'or - he sacrifices too much with narrative in his later films and I don't think they've aged well - in contrast to Jodorowsky.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
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Rewatching O Brother Where Art Thou? recently was great. I was never very fond of it, but loved it this time.
I was just too young to get most of the humor, having been like 13 when I saw it.
Also Raising Arizona is a darn masterpiece.
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"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Stroszek or Au hasard Balthazar? - Kurt CobainQuoting Zac Efron (view post)
It's hard to say; a lot would depend on the execution. Still, the film works so well without the characters resorting to cannibalism it's hard to imagine that it would be much better if they did.Quoting megladon8 (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
Personally I've always considered L'Age d'or one of Buñuel's lesser films. It doesn't do anything that Un chien andalou didn't do better in less time. Rather than sacrificing anything, it seems to me that Buñuel's later films are enhanced by their narratives which provide a context for their surrealist elements so that they register more forcefully. By contrast, it's the more freeform (read: undisciplined) films of Jodorowsky that strike me as relics of the '60s counterculture in their compulsion to pile one outrageous image on top of another at the expense of any sustained narrative, as a result of which a film like El topo is ultimately less than the sum of its parts.Quoting Yxklyx (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
Watched Rebecca for the #12 item.
Average for Hitchcock.
If I tell Jen this this will cry.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."