Watching A Serious Man again this weekend. That and Machete.
Watching A Serious Man again this weekend. That and Machete.
Contagion (Soderbergh, 2011) - 6.5
The Descendants (Payne, 2011) - 7.5
Midnight in Paris (Allen, 2011) - 5
Margin Call (Chandor, 2011) - 6.5
The Ides of March (Clooney, 2011) - 5
Weekend:
Malice
The Kids Are All Right
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
I can, but I'm not on salary yet and I don't feel like losing a whole day's pay. Guess I'll see it on demand.Quoting baby doll (view post)
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Just saw Brick, and thought it was pretty awesome. One thing though, I would have liked it a lot better if it had more of those 'film noir' clashing with 'high school genre' elements. I guess it would have altered the atmosphere of the film significantly, as it would be difficult to balance the two, yet keep the dark/foreboding line that runs deep, but it would have made for a much more interesting flick, I think. Too often I felt it just played as a straight up Sam Spade flick, which was a little disappointing given how much room Johnston gave himself to work with in terms of genre mixing.
Still, very good. I also didn't know JGL could act, considering I only really remember him from Inception, so that was a nice surprise too.
Quoting Grouchy (view post)
The Killing is.... fantastic. Very Reservoir Dogs'esk almost. My first "Film noir" :|Quoting Ezee E (view post)
I have decided that Maurice Chevalier irritates me.
Good points, all. I was actually wondering if the short version would just be an extended version of the Vienna segment. I think a 2.5 films about the leadup and aftermath would actually be quite manageable.Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
I think my favorite scene was the apartment/informant bit at the end of P1 - the camera circling the ukelele players, the surveying of faces... sadistic tension at its best.
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Sacré bleu!Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Ha! You have used my own post of Monsieur Chevalier against me!Quoting Rowland (view post)
I often feel like he's trying to sell me a used car.Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
A crappy used French car.
Dammit, the man's trying to sell me a Renault.
...and the milk's in me.
You can watch Harmony Korine's new short film here.
Korine fans will be pleased. I certainly was.
Last 5 Viewed
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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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It's okay. I consider myself a "Korine fan", but at this late in the game, his approach to filmmaking is reaching a point where each individual film (with the exception of Mister Lonely, which takes a more polished approach to the same idea) seems like a continuation of the basic concept Herzog presents in Even Dwarfs Started Small. Korine's distinction—a retro found-footage approach to documenting fictional lower class citizens—works for me, but beyond that, I can see Korine's films forcibly having to rely solely on character structuring. (At this point, I think he's done a good job mythologizing lower classes and is as respectful to and as interested in them as a sociologist would be a third-world country.)Quoting Brightside (view post)
By the way, recent Criterion newsletter clues indicate Broadcast News and Kes are on the way.
Nice. I've been waiting on Kes. I have it recorded on TCM, but it's impossible to understand without subtitles.Quoting MacGuffin (view post)
Broadcast News is one of the best films of the 80's.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Is it true that Broadcast News is loosely inspired by the on-air suicide of Christine Chubbuck?
Agreed. Kubrick has more and less formally interesting works in the catalog, but as far as comedies go, Strangelove is top shelf. All the elements together make it one of his personal best.Quoting balmakboor (view post)
And I do find it laugh out loud funny.
letterboxd.
A Star is Born (2018) **1/2
Unforgiven (1992) ***1/2
The Sisters Brothers (2018) **
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) ***
The Informant! (2009) ***1/2
BlacKkKlansman (2018) ***1/2
Sorry to Bother You (2018) **1/2
Eighth Grade (2018) ***
Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018) ***
Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) **1/2
I'm not sure how. I don't remember anyone dying in the film let alone killing themselves on-air. Albert Brooks sweats a lot.Quoting MacGuffin (view post)
I see. Perhaps the connection had something to do with an apparent plethora of character distress throughout the film.Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
Where did you hear about this connection? A link perhaps, because I don't see it all.Quoting MacGuffin (view post)
Sorry, I can't remember. It was at least half a year ago; I think I was reading something about Chubbuck's on-air suicide on AVManiacs and someone mentioned the film.Quoting soitgoes... (view post)
Reading Chubbuck's wiki entry, I guess there could be some similarities with Brooks' character. Having a love triangle where a person ends up hurt has happened on film hundreds of time. But set it around a television news set...
It's cool. I think any comparisons are purely coincidental.Quoting MacGuffin (view post)
With the film, see it if you must, but it's far from necessary.
Fook ya oon abote?Quoting Watashi (view post)
I don't agree. I grew up in an extremely lower class town and the disgusting filth mongering Korine partakes in is nothing like the reality of the 'lower class' (that which a sociologist would be interested in). Korine's films may have some sense of disturbed and heightened fringe reality, the one percenters of the 'lower class' if you will, but only barely. Even the mentally ill and (separately) violent youth of my childhood were no where near the brand of ugliness Korine generates. Korine is not interested in respecting the lower class as a sociologist would (this entails approaching some degree of care and reality with his characters), nor is he interested in mythologizing them. John Ford mythologizes the lower class. Korine approaches them in a Lynchian manner, exposing what he feels to be their underbelly.Quoting MacGuffin (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+