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 No.2428 [Last50 Posts]

New thread!

What was the last thing you watched, and what did you think of it?

Old thread here:

>>50

>>50

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 No.2513

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Fail Safe is a cold war political thriller released the same year as Dr. Strangelove. It's also been overshadowed by Kubrick's film – rightly so in my judgement. Fail Safe runs half an hour too long and can't match the authenticity of Strangelove.
Still the film contemplates a number of interesting ideas that stem from mankind's newfound ability to nuke the globe.
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 No.2524

One of the most grating films I've watched.
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 No.2525

>>2524

> grating


It starts off with potential but the second half is precisely that.
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 No.2527

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watched the 1944 version of The Lodger
since I already knew the story from Hitchcock's silent film and his radio play, I wasn't particularly fond of this adaptation. it explicitly names Jack the Ripper (instead of "The Avenger") and added a bunch of can-can dance numbers
also the most compelling thing about the book was the ending, but for some reason neither of these film versions were true to the source.
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 No.2565

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Der Golem (1920)

No deep thoughts but it's an enjoyable expressionist silent with a few fantastic scenes of wizardry that may have influenced Faust. I briefly tried the (very cool) Frank Black score, but it was a tad distracting to accompany a first viewing of the film.
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 No.2566

Hunger Games MockingJay Part 1

Very badly done. Not sure what I was expecting

Most of it is how to frame propaganda. The only redeeming scene is when jlaw gets chocked the fuck out. I cant wait for the gif.
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 No.2568

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Helter Skelter (2012)

Basically the Britney Spears Southpark episode beutifuly done.

Looking for more like it.
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 No.2601

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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

The restoration has this film looking pristine. It exceeded my expectations for an early talkie, neither the (fantastic) action scenes nor the acting seem especially dated. I might even put it above Paths of Glory for a WWI film.

It's also a reminder of the strong feelings of American pacifism in 1930, which unfortunately hasn't been in style since.
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 No.2636

Metti, una sera a cena (1969)
Directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

With Florinda Bolkan, Annie Girardot and the great Jean-Louis Trintignant, who seems to have made a new movie every 2 weeks during this period.

Ennio Morricone composed some of his best music for this film, so I was curious to see the images that accompanied his sounds. Unfortunately music was mostly an afterthought here, the best cues only crop up at the end.

The movie itself has two strikes against it (for me). It's based on a theatre production, meaning there's too much tiresome introspection. The story also deals exclusively with characters' vacillating (in)fidelities, but it's always been hard for me to care who imaginary people decide to fuck.

Co-written by Dario Argento, the script needed a few more straight-razor deaths to liven things up.

On a positive note, there's some clever editing, stylish sets and plenty of vintage fashions from Fendi. But overall I was pretty bored with the whole affair.
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 No.2637

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"Picnic at Hanging Rock" is an aussie film set in the year 1900, centering around the disappearence of a group of schoolgirls at the top of 'Hanging Rock'

The film has a hypnotic quality to it, the visuals and the music really make you feel like you are on that mountain, this film will definitely stick with me for a long time, and I already have the criterion blu-ray on the way
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 No.2639

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>>2637

I love this fillim. Simply gorgeous.

One odd thing about the Criterion "director's cut" is that Peter Weir made it a little shorter than earlier versions. I'm not entirely sure why; I never saw what he removed.
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 No.2640

>>2639
Google says he removed slow scenes in the last third of the movie, involving the Girl who was actually found

There seems to be a 50/50 split on which version is better, so I'll watch the theatrical cut after I get my Blu-ray
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 No.2644

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The Beast With Five Fingers (1946)

A low-budget mystery/horror about a murderous hand starring Peter Lorre and Alan Alda's father.

This strange-sounding title was lodged in my head for some reason, so I decided to try it out. Turns out to be somewhat underrated, at least by the IMDb score. The peculiar premise outweighs the film's budgetary limitations, and Lorre's fantastic scenes cause a second-rate production to be quite memorable.
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 No.2647

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The Seventh Seal (1957)
Really enjoyed the themes of impending death and questioning faith, very memorable scenes and how could you not love the idea of playing chess with death?

Pleb trying to really visit film for the first time, go easy on how entry level my film choices will be when I write about them in this thread…

fucked up that spoiler…
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 No.2648

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Finally got around to watching "As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty". It was fairly underwhelming. Its point is simplicity of these "paradise" moments in life, so it protects itself from much criticism you can throw at the concept. But the concept isn't very impressive, something that you hear mimed over and over again actually put onto film. The projector-like quality of the images are nostalgic. Mekas' narration is worthless, he doesn't say anything illuminating, but maybe that's the point.
Before that I watched "The Gospel According To St. Matthew", easily the best film about Jesus Christ's life. The acting was on point from the Christ. The score was sparse, but Bach is amazing. Some of the moments were absolutely mesmerizing, like the water walking scene, or when Christ is praying in the night as his disciples fall asleep. Don't want to spoil The Bible. Overall it was beautiful, probably one of my favorites I've seen in recent times. It was my first Pasolini, and I'm afraid to watch anything else of his. It was also my first Mekas, anything by either of these people that anyone would recommend?

>>2601
I've only seen the tv-movie, downloading this now.

>>2647
Bergman really is the greatest stepping stone into "higher" film. He has a great variety of things going on in his massive filmography, and he's definitely made some masterpieces. He's easy to love no matter how much you watch.
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 No.2651

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>>2637
Speaking of Peter Weir, shortly after PaHR he made this slowburning psychological thriller for Australian television. Not the first Peter Weir project people normally think about, but it's a cool little gem worth seeking out.
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 No.2655

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"The most dangerous game" (1932) is a film based on a short story of the same name. one of my favorite concepts put to use in some of my favorite movies (predator, battle royale) this is the earliest adaptation of the story, and man for 1932, it's pretty hardcore, definitely worth checking out for the performance of the villian alone

>>2651
I tend to stay away from television (aside from the twilight zone) but I may check it out at some point, thanks!
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 No.2656

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All That Heaven Allows was the last film I saw. It was a film by Douglas Sirk that came out in the late 50's staring Rock Hudson and Jane Wyatt. All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson).

It has major expressionism which elevates it above most Melodrama and the direction as well as the beautiful Technicolor Cinematography is phenomenal. I highly recommend it.
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 No.2657

>>2656
Sirk was an acquired taste for me. I went from thinking his movies were ridiculous to wishing I could walk into the screen, heh heh.

I'm trying to watch his Hollywood stuff in order, but I really enjoyed Written on the Wind and Magnificent Obsession.
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 No.2658

>>2637
I need to check this one out, I've heard it's the spiritual predecessor of "Cracks" starring Eva Green. You might like it.
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 No.2679

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The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
Directed by Vicente Aranda

Watched this on a whim as I do with most eurohorrors. Nonetheless I expected a giallo as I'd gotten it confused with The Bloodstained Blutterfly.

Made in Spain and less overtly stylish in visuals and music than the Italian equivalent. Beautiful young girls and rather sickly middle-aged men inhabit a dingy manor.

There's an undercurrent of the sexual politics of the time along with mystery, nudity and gore to keep things marginally interesting. Overall the movie remains fairly typical to the trappings of its genre and does not really transcend.

Maybe The Bloodstained Blutterfly will be a little better.
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 No.2681

>>2679
One addendum regarding the "sexual politics" comment. Horror films can be a little misogynistic, the cliché being the hideous mouthbreather who chops up a string of pretty women.

But this movie was actually thematically anti-feminist, with a man's frigid wife eventually leaving him so she could dyke out with a sexy vampire. This behaviour was simply appalling to every male character and had to be stopped at all costs.

I was thinking that feminism in 1972 wasn't nearly the horror it's become today, so I'm wondering which (if any) contemporary horror movies overtly address the issue?
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 No.2698

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Just awesome. I wish it was longer. Anyone know films like it?
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 No.2699

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Watched a few Benoît Poelvoorde films lately. He's had an interesting career trajectory, from playing a serial killer to playing the hopeless suitor in romantic comedies.
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 No.2701

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My brain is fried trying to come to terms with this film

Surrealist near-future fantasy, I really liked the camerawork, and some of the imagery was interesting. I feel like the film is saying something, I'm just not grasping it

The definition of 2deep4me, if anyone else has seen this, care to weigh in on it?
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 No.2703

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>>2698
Been a while since I've seen it, but perhaps Waking Life or Coffee and Cigarettes for the "series of conversations" structure.

>>2699
Whoa, I haven't seen him in anything after Man Bites Dog.

>>2701
Thanks for reminding me I still need to see that.


I watched Roger Moore in The Man Who Haunted Himself. As the title implies, the plot is built around a cool doppelganger concept. (Cool doppelganger concepts are underrated I think.) And while this is not quite essential viewing, it's still fun to see the bizarre mystery unfold with Moore in an unusual role against type.
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 No.2719

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Wow, this was quite the loud mess. I was hoping for production design dominated by Moebius, but his influence seemed to be marginal and overshadowed by postmodern mishmash.
Was this the beginning of the end for Luc Besson? Nikita and Léon actually had some heart.
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 No.2720

>>2719

Not a huge fan myself…terrible writing and cartoonish action. Big budget PG-13 movies are basically made for children.
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 No.2748

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First Fellini I've seen. That was fucking incredible. I loved the way he handles the dreams and flashbacks, integrating them into the narrative in such a subtle manner.
Plus, almost every female member of the cast was gorgeous.
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 No.2805

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I watched A Day at the Races, the second Marx Bros. release for MGM. I've heard their worst Paramount movie is still better than their best MGM movie, yet all four I've seen are from MGM. I look forward to finally watching the "good stuff".

The film's plot is convoluted nonsense about winning a horse race to save a sanitarium that can't attract customers. Not a great long-term business strategy; I'm not sure why they didn't simply turn the sanitarium into a resort hotel and give the Marx Bros. stage time every week. The film has several funny moments although the humor doesn't always hit the mark. MGM shoehorns some lame songs into the proceedings, but they're slightly redeemed with a fantastic jazz number setting up the final act.

Maureen O'Sullivan's affected Mid-Atlanic dialect instantly reminded me of Mia Farrow, who turns out to be …her daughter.
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 No.2807

Did anyone else watch Nothing Lasts Forever on TCM the other night?
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 No.2819

>>2807
wow, that looks really cool. why haven't i heard of that before…
did you see it?
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 No.2824

>>2819
Yes, I managed to watch it. As far as I know it hasn't had a major release, only playing in a few theaters in the 80s. I didn't know about it either.

It was pretty cool if you like absurdity.
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 No.2857

Inherent Vice is a noir comedy that knows it's a noir and wastes no time making sure it confuses the audience with a grand puzzle. Characters are great, just enough to understand them but not enough to spoil the mystery, and Doc is a well acted and odd duck of a protagonist. Also it's pretty funny (and raunchy).
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 No.2866

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
I saw Stardust Memories, Woody Allen's version of 8 1/2, complete with expressive b&w photography and grotesque close-ups. I'd rank it somewhere in the middle of Woody's output. It's often fun, but never quite goes anywhere or says anything.

The film is full of critics nitpicking a director's move away from comedy, making me wonder if this reflected his experience with Manhattan (which he made right before this one).

His art seems to imitate his life, and sometimes it's a little creepy. A conversation about his character's attraction to a 14 (or 13?) year old follows a separate discussion of father-daughter incest. I was reminded how the topic of underage attraction comes up with some regularity in his work, foreshadowing things to be publicly disclosed later. Same thing with Polanski… in his films there's very often a virginal female character who gets defiled in some way.

These brief "fictional" moments are amplified by the directors' scandalous real-life behavior. I'd almost like to see a "prescient perv montage" for each director, compiling all the hints they dropped in their films.
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 No.2890

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Inferno (1980)
Directed by Dario Argento

Having seen the Italian director's top four or five films, I screened Inferno because it was frequently mentioned on the Suspiria commentary track. A loose sequel to the latter film, it wasn't as bad as I expected. In fact it's likely a better Italian horror than most contemporary homages to the genre.

Like David Lynch, Argento's films often exist in warped worlds of dream-logic – or maybe nightmare-logic. Strange things happen with no explanation needed, so you are constantly surprised.

My main gripe is there's only a small mystery driving the narrative forward. The core of the story is explained over the opening credits, and most of the time is spent verifying what you were told.
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 No.2917

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I just watched Argoman a.k.a. Argoman the Fantastic Superman a.k.a. The Incredible Paris Incident a.k.a. Come rubare la corona d'Inghilterra (1967).

Argoman is silly yet fairly entertaining capeshit d'italiano, a blend of the eurospy and superhero genres that resides somewhere between Bond, Batman, and Diabolik. Like fumetti characters Diabolik and Kriminal, Argoman is no high-minded advocate for truth and justice. Instead he wields his superhuman powers to be a mischievous thieving prick and serial horndog. I'm not sure why enthusiastic criminals were popular superheros in 1960's Italy, but that adds to the ridiculousness of it all.

Another highlight is the fabulous costumes worn by villainess Dominique Boschero, at times reminiscent of retrofuturist designs by the likes of Pierre Cardin and Andre Courreges (google 'em).
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 No.2919

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Floria Sigismondi music video / short film "Leaning Toward Solace"
I became aware of her unique visual style in videos for Amon Tobin, Sigur Ros, The White Stripes, etc.
This short isn't quite as arty but I liked it nonetheless. I wish she'd get more work directing features.
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 No.3032

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a fun tête-à-tête between Laurence Olivier and My Cocaine.
normally i get bored with adaptations of plays but this was engaging to the end.
i think they remade this film recently and it sucked, so stick with the original.
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 No.3039

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Just finished The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai by Mitsuru Meike

Surreal soft core Japanese film about philosophy, the begin and the end of life, politics, and of course, sex. Very good direction, some very fun scenes, and some truth here and there. Not a masterpiece, but worth a evening.
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 No.3050

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Working through Solondz's filmography.
Tame compared to some of his other work, which I don't mind. I wanted to smack the face off that little brat in the "nonfiction" segment.
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 No.3051

>>3050
I liked Solondz's interview with Marc Maron. Reminds me I never saw the film he was promoting at the time.

Happiness really shocked me when I first saw it. Then I watched it again last year and it had none of the same impact, although I still liked it.
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 No.3052

>>3050
>little brat
Oh yeah, just heard (on a silent film podcast of all places) that this term is now politically incorrect…
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 No.3174

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Manuscripts Don't Burn - a film thwarting political censorship in Iran in both its content and its creation. while the pacing could have been tightened up a bit, MDB gives one a lot to think about. i particularly liked the restraint (and probably realism) in the depiction of the main character, who you half expected to have a change of conscience…
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 No.3175

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Although I quite liked it for its crushing bleakness, I get the impression it didn't fully capture the misery of what living in Cambodia was like back in the day.
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 No.3217

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The Sacrifice.

Despite the ADR being extremely distracting, and some of the delivery of lines seeming to be quite eccentric and silly, the film was amazing, one of the greatest I've seen so far. I also love for films to have religious symbolism about them.
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 No.3322

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Last weekend I was checking if any FAL KOBS Addicts were harassing the L&O:SVU cast on twitter when I noticed @mariska tweeted a picture of her mother Jayne Mansfield preparing for this film. I'd been dithering over watching this, and that pushed me to do it.

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

I'd never seen a Jayne Mansfield movie before. Supposedly this is one of her best, although it's really nothing special. It seems unnecessary to film a middling comedy in cinemascope. But they take so many shots at television, their intentions were clearly to compete with that medium. Lots of double-entendres and a surprising cameo at the end, but it's mostly fluff.
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 No.3462

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First Paramount Marx Bros I've seen – often called their best work I think.
It's great fun but too short. Maybe their other films are just padded out with musical numbers.
It's interesting to see how the earlier version of their characters were more anarchic. MGM sucked a bit of the edginess out of them.
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 No.3479

>>3174
there's not much love for classical liberalism in the middle east that i can find. the anti-govt intellectuals in this film speak favorably of communist revolutionaries. meanwhile ISIS is currently trying to set up a country based on religious fascism and socialism.
i get the notion that enlightenment ideas don't have many devotees in the region, but i'm not sure why they prefer leftism instead.
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 No.3536

Memento

It was a fucking excellent film, but I think I am going to need to see it again some time to decide whether it's MOTY or not
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 No.3566

File: 1425240528430.jpg (44.56 KB,427x640,427:640,2x6466.jpg)

+ general concept of the story was good
- filmic references were overdone
- throbbing lights
- FILTERS and FOCUS x1000

2/5
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 No.3570

Rashomon, it's the first Kurosawa I've seen, really good plan on watching more
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 No.3575

>>2566
>>2644
>>2699
>>2866
>>3322
>>3566
very very nice my good sirs
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 No.3619

>>2748
What is this?
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 No.3620

File: 1425394146427.gif (995 KB,500x266,250:133,marcello.gif)

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 No.3626

Inside Man - I thought it was well done and glad it ended the way it did. I also went into it with no expectations other then it was suggested by /pol/ (take that how you will).
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 No.3644

File: 1425449465733.jpg (57.8 KB,345x499,345:499,Diaboliquement vôtre.jpg)

A decent French psychological thriller. Perhaps more style than substance, but I enjoyed it all the same.
I like Alain Delon in general and the film was shot by Melville's cinematographer Henri Decae.
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 No.3706

File: 1425608979012.png (4.24 MB,1024x1444,256:361,CityDragon.png)

Hilariously entertaining if you're into the B-Movie circuit.
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 No.3747

File: 1425714909993.jpg (57.51 KB,600x826,300:413,flaming_creatures.jpg)

Flaming Creatures has a remarkable look and atmosphere but I've never witnessed a more tedious orgy.
Funny how this was shown to many US Senators as part of the "Fortas Film Festival"

> When President Johnson nominated Justice Fortas to replace Chief Justice Warren in 1968, Fortas’s opponents investigated his record, hoping to justify a filibuster. Among other things, they discovered Jacobs v. New York, in which Fortas alone voted to reverse obscenity convictions for showing Flaming Creatures, an obscure art film that featured a transvestite orgy. Senator Thurmond showed Flaming Creatures to several senators, convinced them to join the filibuster, and blocked the Fortas nomination.
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 No.3798

File: 1425850863363.jpg (345.78 KB,800x1114,400:557,Pandora-and-the-Flying-Dut….jpg)

Great for soaking up the vintage postcard colours of Jack Cardiff's British Technicolor.
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 No.3949

File: 1426320505162.jpg (119.18 KB,1280x800,8:5,the-house-of-the-devil-pho….jpg)

I watched this because it gets mentioned with retro styled films like Beyond the Black Rainbow. In that regard it was average, not too much beyond the rotary phones and walkman. And I believe car alarms were more of a 90s thing.
The movie itself held my attention until the final act, wow. Apparently building suspense is a little easier than paying it off.
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 No.3970

File: 1426408031593.jpg (55.04 KB,330x475,66:95,MV5BMTkzNzIwNTA5NV5BMl5Ban….jpg)

>>3706
fat face vs fat face. Not enough kenpo, plenty of car crashes. Glorious Speakman vs Shatner endboss fight.
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 No.3993

File: 1426528265205.jpg (8.49 KB,320x320,1:1,934081-doc_savage_posters.jpg)

Doc Savage (1975)

After the insistence of my father to watch this film, we did. It was extremely corny, Im still not sure if the corny part are on purpose as a comedic trick or should be taken seriously.
Solid 3/10. Kinda fun to watch if you plug off your brain.

>>3462

Duck Soup is fantastic, is it the best of the Marx brothers?
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 No.4002

>>3993

> Duck Soup is fantastic, is it the best of the Marx brothers?


It's right up there. A Night at the Opera is another one in the top tier (that I've seen).
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 No.4004

File: 1426565042707.jpeg (11.96 KB,227x300,227:300,th-1.jpeg)

What a fantastic film.

Another great lead performance with the same girl from spirit of the beehive. Also similar thematically following a child's loss of innocence in the face of human suffering, and escape through imagination.

Less magical than beehive and more dramatic, she pretends through memories fitting her immediate environmental context, and are also given introspective insight through an intermittent monologue by her older self.
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 No.4007

>>4004
Ah, I've wanted to see that for a while but still haven't gotten the HD upgrade. Glad to hear you liked it. Have you seen anything else from Carlos Saura?
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 No.4008

>>3949
i felt the same way about Innkeepers (2011) which Ti West also wrote and directed. It's kind of frustrating. He can build such great atmosphere and suspense with meh actors and limited budget/locations, but the build up never pays off.

i honestly think he'd be a great director if someone else was writing and he had a little bit more cash to work with.
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 No.4009

File: 1426571276575.jpeg (13.58 KB,220x221,220:221,assault on 13.jpeg)

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

John Carpenter 2 years before Halloween. Basically a Western that takes place in modern times.

Okay movie, super interesting if you're into Carpenter. The main theme (composed by Carpenter) is fucking awesome.
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 No.4010

>>4007
Nah. I'll check out Peppermint Frappé tomorrow since its on hulu and give my thoughts.
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 No.4060

File: 1426890536110.jpg (105.15 KB,800x602,400:301,primary_EB19530101EDITOR40….jpg)

Great film (yeah, no shit!)
I was listening to the commentary track and it sounds like every change that Mizoguchi made to the original story was a nice improvement.
To nitpick a masterpiece, the scene leading up to this gorgeous image could have been written somewhat more believably.
But really it was everything I like about Japanese films.
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 No.4061

Simon of the Desert. I'm fairly new to arthouse and saw that this one was short so I went for it and was glad for it. I know that the ending was apparently conjured up out of necessity, but was still some fucking whiplash. Also someone give Claudio Brook a medal.
So, the exterminating angel next?
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 No.4066

File: 1426943984390.jpg (892.31 KB,936x1394,468:697,936full-seven-samurai-post….jpg)

>>4002

need to watch that.

>

I finally got around to watch this and it was fantastic. One of the best films Ive ever watched.
What other Kurosawa film should I watch too¿
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 No.4070

File: 1426950509106.jpg (560.79 KB,1919x1033,1919:1033,badlands_3.jpg)

Beautifully shot as could be expected and superb acting by the two leads.

Very good film
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 No.4073

>>4070
Yes very good. Sheen's character is a laugh riot.
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 No.4075

>>4066

> What other Kurosawa film should I watch too


There are several that you should probably see eventually. Rashomon is another one of his most significant films I think, good to watch if you are just starting with him.
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 No.4076

File: 1426980842816.jpg (433.5 KB,1063x1518,1063:1518,my-first-lynch.jpg)

This is probably my introduction to cinema at this level of surrealness. The actual viewing experience was great, and felt like Lynch can keep a grip on the viewer's understanding.

I'm taking that Diane assassinating her lover and reconstructing everything in her dream to be the relatively "real" interpretation, which would blot out a lot of the events and imagery that happened earlier, although I suppose this is still helping me grok more interpretable cinema.

Also, I've read that this is more accessible than most of Lynch's other stuff. By how much, if at all? Would it be because this film sort of resolves itself?
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 No.4083

File: 1427002797082.jpg (41.5 KB,640x348,160:87,axxon-n.jpg)

>>4076

> Also, I've read that this is more accessible than most of Lynch's other stuff.


It's been a while since I've seen it, but I considered it one of his weirder efforts. Dune, The Straight Story, and Wild at Heart are all pretty standard films. I haven't seen The Elephant Man but it might be too.
Inland Empire is the farthest out there. It seems like he more or less filmed whatever ideas popped into his head that day.
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 No.4144

File: 1427261419017-0.jpg (275.72 KB,1660x1000,83:50,ASkinTooFew.jpg)

File: 1427261419017-1.jpg (345.12 KB,818x583,818:583,molly-drake1.jpg)

A Skin Too Few

A short Nick Drake documentary that's more of a mood piece pairing his music with shots of his local English countryside. Moving final sequence.

It reminded me that his mother made some great music too: https://mollydrake.bandcamp.com/
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 No.4188

File: 1427580059011.jpg (154.32 KB,800x450,16:9,2014-11-03.jpg)

Felt more like a TVsoap than a Bergman film, despite it's massive length it feels like it only really scratched the surface of all the characters involved which is unusal for Bergman who usually has rich and very sympathic characters.

Not bad but not really anything special imo, great cinematography though.
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 No.4189

>>4188
It was made for TV, right? I still haven't seen it myself.

I wonder if it's a rare case where the optimum viewing speed is 25 fps, since that's how European TV shows were produced.

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/732-reality-at-25-24-frames-per-second
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 No.4194

File: 1427662075484.jpg (209.89 KB,1066x1600,533:800,el triunfo de la voluntad.jpg)

Triumph dess willes


A masterpiece, from sound trough pacing it was superb. The only thing I could say it was 'bad' was the final Hitler speech which felt a little too long. Maybe because I was tired that day.

9.99/10
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 No.4197

>>4194
Did you know what was happening, who the people were, etc.?
I was a little confused when I watched it.
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 No.4199

I just watched Fargo.

What a weird movie, don't get why all praise. I laughed an handful of times, I can't believe that people couldn't stop laughing watching this.

Could someone tell me why is this considered a 10/10 film?

I would give it a 8/10 because I like the direction.

>>4197

Its pretty straight forward, the only caracthers are the ones who did the mini discourses, the soldiers, and the crow.

You mean like if I knew who the historical persons were? Only some of them
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 No.4200

>>4199
I haven't watched Fargo for over a decade but maybe the comedy doesn't translate too well outside the United States. I think a lot of the humor is based on the exaggerated Midwestern culture.
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 No.4208

>>4197
> I was a little confused when I watched it.

The commentary track is pretty helpful in explaining what's actually happening in each scene
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 No.4265

File: 1427995054024.gif (860.98 KB,450x234,25:13,pepe.gif)

>>4200
That's an interesting thought. But if I think of one of the funniest scene, where Steve Buscemi is being put in a woodchipper by Peter Stormare, I'm not so sure if that's true. I think the scene's funny because it breaks the genre. Up until this point the movie would arguably be classified as a crime/drama (?), but this scene unexpectedly pulls it - even if just for a brief moment - into the horror genre. You wouldn't expect him to put his ex-partner-in-crime into a woodchipper, and you wouldn't expect to see everything so explicitly. To me, that's why this scene is funny (even if what's funny hardly can be explained), and that's mainly got to do with knowing the characteristics of certain movie genres.
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 No.4280

File: 1428097788262.jpg (36.7 KB,300x419,300:419,poster_adelheid_.jpg)

It's interesting how many Czech films of the 60s and 70s were shot in 4:3. Was that a consideration for television or what?
I'm trying to savor Vlacil's filmography since I like him so much …I only watch one every few months when the mood strikes. Adelheid is a stripped-down affair but still absorbing.
I'm about finished with the Vlacil films that are obtainable, so I'm curious how his late career output compares – and why those films are harder to find…
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 No.4289

File: 1428150116163.jpg (21.92 KB,200x285,40:57,Na_srebrnym_globie_1988_po….jpg)

On the silver globe

Starting off with a pretty standard sci-fi premise of astronauts leaving earth to find a new habitable planet, but soon everyone reverts back to a primitive tribe culture and its all raving lunacy from there on out. Fantastic atmosphere full of dread and hopelessness. I definitely liked the first half more. The last 30 minutes especially became unhinged and nonsensical, (that groovy rock track later on, why the hell was that in there?) partially due to the fact that the polish communist government scrapped the film after 80% of it was done. Many key scenes later on are only described in voice over. Overall I can still recommend it, even if it is flawed.
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 No.4384

File: 1428831739528.gif (751.12 KB,500x275,20:11,tumblr_m9fswaKn4j1rpusifo1….gif)

Memories of Murder

Well known Korean murder procedural. I liked it with some reservations – I don't think it's as flawless as others seem to.
Apparently it's based on a true crime which I'm interested to read about.
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 No.4386

File: 1428868900366.jpg (204.97 KB,800x1200,2:3,words-and-pictures.jpg)

Way better than I thought.

The subject matter is something that really intrigues me ( which art medium is better?), and to my disappointment this movie barely touches it.
The first 30 minutes blows monkey's ass, then it goes better, not so much to redeem itself.

The movie felt way to short for the topic in hand, it could have been a really intellectual debate between literature and painting, but instead had some weird subplot with a chink girl that's literally useless in life.
6/10 because this movie showed me at least a bit of the "art war".
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 No.4392

File: 1428995196502.png (625.54 KB,720x540,4:3,poh.png)

Phantom of Hollywood (1974)
A TV movie about a film studio going through lean times, which was exactly what was happening when this was made. The studio is liquidating assets to raise money. You see notable sets in the MGM backlot before they are ultimately bulldozed. A cheesy villain seeks to stop the destruction.
It made me wish for a montage of all the films which used the same bridge, house, castle, etc. Sometimes a set looks very familiar to me but it's hard to make connections without additional research.
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 No.4418

File: 1429250211025.jpg (237.5 KB,1280x1024,5:4,wendy_and_lucy01.jpg)

Wendy and Lucy reminds me of the type of stuff I used to watch on IFC/Sundance. Michelle Williams carries the small-scale realist production nicely. And I dig the Pacific NW setting.
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 No.4440

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>4004
I really like it too. But I feel like I should watch it again to pick up on some of the stray details. I'd be interested to hear what native Spaniards think of it, particularly the political themes.

Also the song is fucking catchy. I'm sure I've heard it before somewhere (maybe a cover version).
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 No.4476

File: 1429907119971.jpg (19.43 KB,400x300,4:3,el.jpg)

>El Espiritu de la Colmena

Ana is cute as fuck, very nice film, but it can easily bore you if you're not into that kind of thing.

Also

>From Russia With Love

I honestly didn't like it

There's way too much "let's be retards so Bond gets a chance to do something"

Also some parts are "to be expected", i can't remember the word, you know, when you know exactly what's going to happen

I don't care how much hate i might get but i like more Daniel Craig's Bond rather than Connery's

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 No.4477

>>4075

Rashomon is pretty good, also Yojimbo is great stuff.

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 No.4479

Bergmans Video (which is actually a mini-series, but watched it in one sitting).

It was okay, but it's mostly about the interviewees. Wasn't exactly what I expected it to be in other words

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 No.4481

File: 1429949356529.jpg (120.29 KB,635x424,635:424,boro.jpg)

Boro in the Box (2011) - An imaginative short telling the story of Walerian Borowczyk's life covered by a wooden box. How could anyone pass up on something like that?

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 No.4482

File: 1429969319361.jpeg (61.63 KB,1024x435,1024:435,the-thing-top-10-the-best….jpeg)

I finally came across John Carpenter's The Thing. What a remarkable film. Both cinematography and pacing were surprisingly great for a horror-themed movie. Excellent work all over in the set and the design of the creatures. I wish the script had gone a little further, but it's definitively a masterpiece in its own terms.

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 No.4576

File: 1431124612995.jpg (63.3 KB,600x586,300:293,cagney-by-npg-sidotedu.jpg)

A fun wartime musical comedy about the life of entertainer George S. Cohan, featuring Jimmy Cagney's somewhat stilted dancing and speak-singing. I've never seen more flag-waving in two hours – this sort of headfirst nationalistic frenzy is viewed more cautiously nowadays.

My one complaint is how the screenplay ignores interesting conflicts in favor of biographical mythmaking. I would have liked to see more about the fact that Cohan was a stage performer opposed to entertainment unions, and he was a patriotic composer opposed to Franklin Roosevelt. While these points may have undercut the carefree mood (and propaganda value) of the production, the story would have carried more weight.

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 No.4577

I watched Splinter (2008). It is truly awful.

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 No.4579

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Just a silly Italian sex thriller with a mouthful for a title.

Twists at the end don't exactly add up, but I wasn't expecting too much from this.

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 No.4584

File: 1431271559523.jpg (86.07 KB,510x755,102:151,thin_red_line.jpg)

Seemed out of focus at times but all in all it was pretty good.

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 No.4587

>>4584

The crazy thing about that movie is how many storylines were filmed but not included in the final version. Adrian Brody and Clooney had their roles almost eliminated. Travolta too, but who cares about him…

I'd like to see the 5 hour rough cut but that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.

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 No.4601

File: 1431372113764.gif (612.53 KB,250x133,250:133,1383175991458.gif)

>Pic related

Heavy feels m8

>>4199

Also just watched Fargo and i'll have to agree with this guy, i liked it but at the same time i didn't see anything incredible in it, I liked The Big Lebowski way more.

>>4587

Now i'm curious, I did notice for example the expression Brody had made little sense without explanation, other than his character always shitting his pants, i guess i would have made sense in another cut, also Clooney just there at the end and Travolta just there at the start, seemed out of place.

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 No.4606

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>4587

>>4601

A bit more on Malick from Christopher Plummer and George Clooney

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 No.4607

File: 1431430579046.jpg (238.45 KB,669x878,669:878,chungking_express.jpg)

Second half was pretty much the proto-Amelie, even down to the green filter

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 No.4613

File: 1431479005493.jpg (25.71 KB,302x446,151:223,Locataire.jpg)

The Tenant is a really uneven movie: there's parts in it that are really fucking stupid and easily justify its extremely negative original reception, and others that hint at why people think much more highly of it nowadays. I'm not sure if it can even be called an objectively good or bad film, but at the very least it kept my interest the entire way through and definitely wasn't a waste of time.

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 No.4616

File: 1431539980895.jpg (267.95 KB,1600x682,800:341,lQTNW.jpg)

One of the rare cases I've seen of expository dialogue actually helping to the movie, and not working against it. The compositions of every frame were marvellous.

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 No.4618

File: 1431542283325.jpg (103.46 KB,957x720,319:240,thethinman.jpg)

>>4616

dat geometry

i've had all 3 parts of the human condition on my hard drive for years now, still haven't got to watching them, but i feel the time will soon come

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 No.4619

>>4618

Same here with The Human Condition. I've been acquiring it in a few different formats … dvds, dvdrips, and most recently 720p hulu rips (I think). One of these days I'll finally have time to pull the trigger and watch the damn thing.

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 No.4628

File: 1431585436341-0.jpg (41.85 KB,520x719,520:719,mp.jpg)

File: 1431585436341-1.jpg (80.57 KB,1600x1025,64:41,le-samourai.jpg)

Loved the cinematography, the soundtrack, and the simple story with little dialogue. Best movie I've seen to date from the time period.

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 No.4630

>>4606

>Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman, Bill Pullman, Lukas Haas, Viggo Mortensen and Mickey Rourke also performed, but their scenes were eventually cut.

kek

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 No.4636

File: 1431677406719.jpeg (688.47 KB,1483x1800,1483:1800,Annex-Stewart-James-Verti….jpeg)

Vertigo, 1958.

Really great movie. I'm still digesting it, but isn't the plot kind of loose for a Hitchcock movie? It's really convoluted, and full of giveaways. From what I've seen of his oeuvre, he has a taste for really tight, even minimalistic plots. Could someone expand on this?

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 No.4639

File: 1431705234867.gif (872.29 KB,500x272,125:68,Vertigo.gif)

>>4636

I need to watch it again start to finish, but I kind of see where you're coming from. I notice the writer also worked on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In some ways Vertigo resembles those paranormal TV shows where each episode centered around a bizarre concept.

Considering his other works, I'd say The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) has a bloated script. I don't know if it's convoluted as much as it includes needless detours. Hitchcock's 1934 version with Peter Lorre is 45 minutes shorter.

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 No.4659

File: 1431896434125-0.webm (1.35 MB,720x526,360:263,Dancing Hawk 1.webm)

File: 1431896434137-1.webm (1.83 MB,720x526,360:263,Dancing Hawk 2.webm)

Tanczacy jastrzab AKA Dancing Hawk (1977) – overlooked but worth finding! I'm a big fan of Zbigniew Rybczynski who did the cinematography. He transforms the basic story of a man's life into a barrage of experimentation.

Here are two short bits for a taste…

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 No.4661

File: 1431902540353.jpg (42.47 KB,241x378,241:378,Time_bandits.jpg)

I like it although the kid's voice is annoying.

I recently watched fear and loathing in last Vegas and it was a fun film.so I was interested in seeing more by terry Gilliam. The movie is good but not that good.

My dad and my brother hated it.

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 No.4689

File: 1432057444650.jpg (176.13 KB,800x1094,400:547,whos_afraid_of_virginia_wo….jpg)

Was pretty weird. It's obviously competently written and shot, the actors are great and all. But at the same time it was a purely disgusting experience, two grown-up people trying to hurt each other for two hours.

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 No.4696

File: 1432120767072.jpg (55.77 KB,535x755,107:151,metropolis.jpg)

I Really liked it, Even though the plot is pretty simple, the characthers are nice, saint maria is qt as fuck and slutty maria is hot as fuck, i was really impressed by the visuals they were able to achieve at that time, but i don't think that means much considering it's my firt full lenght silent film.

SUch a shame how much of the film was lost and censored.

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 No.4713

>>4689

I was glad when it finally ended. There was so much dialogue and most of it was bickering.

Do plays like that win awards any more?

>>4696

Isn't most of Metropolis recovered though? I hope you saw the most recent restoration.

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 No.4727

>>4713

It's apparently the most recent, but i'm not sure.

Some scenes were narrated and other had rough cuts, so it's very noticeable some stuff is missing, but by far most of it is there.

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 No.4736

File: 1432380282928.jpg (427.71 KB,900x1301,900:1301,Les-Miserables-Movie-Poste….jpg)

It was k

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 No.4739

File: 1432415286091-0.jpg (31.27 KB,350x520,35:52,platoon1.jpg)

File: 1432415286099-1.jpg (16.4 KB,340x340,1:1,zoolander.jpg)

File: 1432415286099-2.jpg (937.09 KB,1425x2000,57:80,Das_Boot.jpg)

>Platoon

Pretty good stuff, i didn't think Charlie Sheen could do more than dick jokes, but i was wrong, also that nigga that looks like Snoop Dogg.

>Zoolander

Had its moments, it was k, the 2000's reference was cringy for me

>Das Boot

It has to be one of my favourites movies of all time, great stuff I'm really into anti-war war films

>>4736

Seems like this is turning into my blog, i'd would be nice to have more posters.

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 No.4769

>>4739

>Das Boot

Also, Cut all the scenes form outside of the submarine once they're at the sea, i don't mean the party for example, but the depth charches exploding and the like.

Seeing only what they would see and hearing what they would hear.

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 No.4794

>>2428

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

There was alot of drugs man. Also it was pretty fun of a movie and if I wasn't half asleep I feel like I would have enjoyed the prose for more than funny druggies.

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 No.4814

File: 1433208843796.jpg (45.74 KB,610x406,305:203,Apu-Trilogy.jpg)

Watched the apu trilogy in theaters for the first time on Saturday.

Truly on of the greatest film experiences of my life. I really don't have anything to say that hasn't been articulated better elsewhere.

If you have the opportunity to see these films in theaters do it.

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 No.4815

>>4814

That sounds incredible. I haven't seen anything from Ray.

Do you think the three films are best watched in one day? Certainly best watched on the big screen with a nicely restored print.

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 No.4818

File: 1433258847038-0.jpg (605.76 KB,1600x1200,4:3,apocalypse-now.jpg)

File: 1433258847039-1.jpg (425.32 KB,1194x1686,199:281,My-Reincarnation-DVD-F.jpg)

File: 1433258847039-2.jpg (462.3 KB,1200x1800,2:3,the-act-of-killing---l-att….jpg)

>Apocalypse Now

I don't know what to say, it's just great stuff, a classic.

>My Reincarnation

It was interesting, some stuff is cringe worthy, but it was ok.

>The Act of Killing

That was so bizarre, not the doc itself but the situation depicted in it, i was expecting something more "gruesome", i wasn't expecting the guys to feel somewhat bad about it, some of them, some were even kinda likeable, well perhaps that's the issue, In any case is a must watch.

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 No.4819

File: 1433259712558-0.jpg (1.11 MB,1491x2155,1491:2155,The-Bridge-On-The-River-Kw….jpg)

File: 1433259712558-1.jpg (601.55 KB,1294x1888,647:944,the-nightmare-before-chris….jpg)

File: 1433259712558-2.jpg (326.26 KB,1000x1500,2:3,Princess_Mononoke.jpg)

>The Bridge Over the River Kwai

It was k

>The Nightmare Before Christmas

Great stuff, too short and it has some plot holes, but who cares, the style and animation is superb.

>Princess Mononoke

Top tier Waifu, i love her, it really makes me sad that she's not real and that i'll never meet a woman with such passion, great movie, one of my all time favourites.

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 No.4820

>>4815

I would say so. Theres was enough breathing room in between each film where I went and watching them in a single day ensures a fresher memory and emotion for each consecutive film.

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 No.4824

File: 1433365042171.jpg (65.84 KB,800x1066,400:533,Dogtooth-Poster-800x1066.jpg)

I finally got around to seeing this. S'okay.

A Mexican film called The Castle of Purity is a better version of the same situation. With Dogtooth I wasn't sure what to make of some of the strange behavior. But I guess I liked the attempt at something different.

I see this director made The Lobster which was just at Cannes.

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 No.4825

>>4814

Are the two other movies of the trilogy better than Pather Panchali?

The pacing (especially on the first half) was very sluggish, something Ray himself admitted. Plus, the amateurism of the film shows in places, even though it was made with lots of heart, and the ending was particularly poignant.

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 No.4829

File: 1433424111168.jpg (71.68 KB,900x637,900:637,possesion.jpg)

>Possession

Good movie that showed how relationships and breakup works that uses a bit of horror element as a metaphor for certain thing in the film.

And overall a good film that kept me thinking even after it was done.

And had me searching for more info even after it was done.

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 No.4830

File: 1433424375557.jpg (30.85 KB,180x372,15:31,Deadlock_1970_film_poster.jpg)

>Deadlock

A spaghetti western set in modern time with a Good, The Bad, and The Ugly feel where the setting of the film adds to the desolation of the setting, and close up and sweating. and other camera techniques make it a fun film to watch.

Also the Can soundtrack really makes the film.

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 No.4835

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>4829

great film

last night i got very high and watched this fucking hilarious b-movie "alien contamination" in which a bacteria from mars makes people explode immediately on contact

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 No.4836

File: 1433517249863.gif (991.21 KB,500x283,500:283,Adjani.gif)

The long takes in Possession are great. The camera moves around a lot but manages to capture all the necessary action.

I think they used long takes to save time (and thus money) when shooting the film. But they planned the moves out beforehand, and it works brilliantly as part of the frantic visual style.

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 No.4837

>>4836

that actress was great too. some of those scenes were just, holy shit

i've got to rewatch that one

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 No.4838

>>4825

I would say he improves technically with each film. Pather Panchali still manages to be the most memorable for me.

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 No.4839

>>4835

Sounds like a bitchin Goblin score.

I wasn't aware of that one.

My favourite thing about old b-movies is the trailers. You can see all the good parts in just a few minutes. It's fun to watch a trailer compilation of these types of movies.

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 No.4841

>>4837

>that actress was great too. some of those scenes were just, holy shit

she said the film was "emotional pornography". i wish i could find the source of that quote but it's pretty accurate…

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 No.4842

>>4841

yeah, that's accurate. that scene that was in the (i think) subway tunnel was insanity.

>>4839

yeah the soundtrack was dope, I didn't know about this movie either, it was just the first film alphabetically in this bigass 50 movie compilation I found at my dad's house. i recommend seeing this one though, there's some great stuff not in the trailer. everything about that movie was just hilarious, they blow up so many people, it's beautiful

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 No.4847

File: 1433737810297.jpg (140.03 KB,724x1014,362:507,nattvardsge4sterna.jpg)

Dour existential angst that sucked the energy out of me.

Structured like a short story or a play, but it seemed much longer than 80 minutes.

I wonder if this topic of religious doubt hasn't aged out of relevance with the decline in church attendance? If you don't like church don't go. Why endlessly brood about it or put on a façade…

But everyone else seems to like it, so it's probably just one of those classics where I'm at odds with the consensus.

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 No.4848

File: 1433754935467.jpg (44.22 KB,300x445,60:89,Almost_famous_poster1.jpg)

Characters were fucking amazing. I think the director intentionally had a character cut Penny Lane off every time she started saying 'If this/that happened in the real world… '

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 No.4849

File: 1433876272760.jpg (14.01 KB,252x422,126:211,allq.jpg)

Not that great. In classic Hollywood fashion, where there was subtlety, now everything is spelled out bluntly. Skims too much over the better scenes of the book to include some additional stuff, there was honestly no need to waste an hour to get to where the book begins. Also the way they've turned the internal monologues of MC into something he actually speaks leaves a lot to be desired, it's especially grating in the scene with the dying Englishman - he's supposed to be hiding and yet here he is, running his mouth and giving away his position.

>>4819

Loved The Bridge On The River Kwai, even though it was too soft with the depiction of POWs' struggle.

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 No.4858

File: 1433962041181.jpg (227.64 KB,630x1200,21:40,ttol.jpg)

Is this the oh-so-great masterpiece of contemporary cinema?

What a load of pretentious self-important fluff, failed at connecting the creation theme with the coming-of-age story despite those fucking voiceovers, and the characters were developed in such a flat way, it has been compared to Tarkovsky and Kubrick and it singlehandedly manages to mix the worst about those two directors, together with a fetish for Godardian jumpcuts and hand-held cameras that ended up being annoying.

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 No.4859

File: 1433969006930.jpg (117.32 KB,580x775,116:155,f-for-fake-movie-poster-19….jpg)

Just watched F for Fake.

In brief, this was extremely enjoyable. I like the way it both presents and "discusses" it's topic, and I found the stories contained within, like the story of de Hory, rather engaging. And while I know nothing about editing, I must say what I felt like the film had a "flow" that at least for the most part was particularly good.

I feel like watching it again in the not too distant future.

I dunno, I'm not good at expressing myself about these sort of things.

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 No.4871

File: 1434161561956-0.jpg (298.88 KB,500x750,2:3,fargo.jpg)

File: 1434161561967-1.jpg (67.2 KB,503x755,503:755,kumiko.jpg)

I watched fargo

and overall pretty good movie

with the noticeable use of yeah being used a lot.

it was a pretty chill film to watched

but mostly watched it to watch Kumiko and that was also fun to watch but a bit slow spaced and somewhat depressing once you realize what happens in the film.

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 No.4872

>>4871

I wasn't sure if fargo was supposed to be somewhat filled with dark humor at time but it felt that way from viewing it.

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 No.4884

File: 1434269838694.jpg (287.16 KB,936x1210,468:605,ganja-and-hess-poster.jpg)

Ganja & Hess (1973) is a good pick if you're looking for something unique and unusual.

I think it was intended to be a low budget blaxploitation horror but the director added a lot of experimental and allegorical elements. On balance he was successful in creating a memorable film. I liked it more than Sweetback.

I see Spike Lee used kickstarter to remake this.

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 No.4889

File: 1434297419848.jpg (57.52 KB,600x944,75:118,serveimage.jpg)

I cried like a bitch

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 No.4934

File: 1434558363687.jpg (138.05 KB,298x449,298:449,The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_S….jpg)

So degenerate, i loved it.

Columbia is hot as fuck

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 No.4944

File: 1434655513326.jpg (58.23 KB,400x609,400:609,image.jpg)

Closer To God

It was ok. It's a movie about human cloning. I enjoyed the storytelling of human struggle on the topic. It was also well shot I thought.

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 No.4947

File: 1434683741762.jpg (445.36 KB,785x1222,785:1222,stars-crown-window-card[1].jpg)

this was a very nice film directed by Jacques Tourneur, you may know his work through the great noir film Out of the Past

this poster is hilariously misleading, the character pictured with the guns takes them out once then puts them down and starts preaching. not like a regular western at all, it has a lot to do with faith and compassion. very well shot imo and nice production design. the child actors do just fine too, recommend this to anyone looking for a nice film with that 40-50s hollywood feel

>>4934

I watched that one for the first time recently and I was really disappointed, honestly. not nearly ridiculous as I expected from its reputation and overall I was pretty bored through most of it. it doesn't even have that degenerate appeal for me, it's like degeneracy for public consumption. I dunno

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 No.4952

File: 1434755494048.jpg (87.54 KB,639x478,639:478,atrocityexhibition.jpg)

word up to the guy who recommended The Atrocity Exhibition in another thread. very fascinating film

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 No.4964

Manglehorn.

Predictable garbage, except for Harmony Korine's 3 scenes.

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 No.4966

File: 1434865271521.jpg (81.67 KB,490x700,7:10,Lampy.jpg)

This was mostly a period romance, which was fine but it's not Juraj Herz's most dynamic work.

However the last 15-20 minutes provided a welcome and unexpected dose of derangement.

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 No.5021

>>4847

>If you don't like church don't go. Why endlessly brood about it

Because you used to care for it a lot, perhaps?

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 No.5043

>>2698

Waking Life

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 No.5067

File: 1436369358975.jpg (87.97 KB,650x441,650:441,TheGhostCatofOtamaPond1960….JPG)

The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond

The name seems silly but for some reason there are many Japanese ghost stories involving cats (Kuroneko, Hausu…). I've noticed a bunch of other films with "Ghost Cat" right in the title.

This one squeezes the most from limited production resources. The sets are tiny and the action sequences are sloppy, but the film holds your interest with vivid imagery and creepy music.

It's also bloodier than anything I've seen from 1960, putting it nearly a decade ahead of Hollywood and even a few years ahead of the Europeans for depicting graphic violence.

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 No.5245

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Bruce Lee is an icon with a very brief career, so I expected a little more from his only leading role in the states. Enter the Dragon is solidly a B-movie, like an early Bond film with more throat punches. Nice finale tho, and the sequence in this video is great too.

I still need to see Fist of Fury.

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 No.5254

File: 1437333574616.jpg (33.76 KB,200x283,200:283,1088127[1].jpg)

ドグラ・マグラ or Dogra Magra by Toshio Matsumoto

an examination of insanity through pure insanity. very interesting, don't even know how I obtained this movie, I found it on my external HD. fitting. I don't have much to say, but if you're into crazy shit check this out

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 No.5261

File: 1437336531917.jpg (85.59 KB,300x450,2:3,Citizen Ruth.jpg)

I'm a fan of pretty much all of Alexander Payne's movies (I haven't seen About Schmidt) and so I definitely wanted to see this, his first feature.

At first it had some of the signs of a flawed "first movie" that you see with a lot of great directors, but it really picked up the slack after a while. It's an audacious and intense introduction for Payne to make as a filmmaker. There are some truly hilarious moments and a couple of really moving moments, too, especially at the end.

Laura Dern is a wonderful actress. Ruth isn't a very good or likable person, but Dern plays her with confidence, lots of humor and outrageousness, and but more importantly, sadness. She does a perfect job bringing a really flawed protagonist to life and making her sympathetic. The movie would have been pretty underwhelming without her, I think. She gives the film its rewatch value.

8/10. Payne at his near-best.

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 No.5266

>>5254

Nice, I remember liking that one too.

Now I see Matsumoto's Demons had a hd release which I completely missed.

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 No.5301

File: 1437629519498-0.jpg (53.19 KB,693x545,693:545,bd2e1696102b305f2fb4dddaec….jpg)

File: 1437629519500-1.jpg (55.16 KB,691x552,691:552,793594f99d720bc290ca16b7d8….jpg)

Romance for Bugle (1967) d. Otakar Vávra

I was drawn to the unassuming spirit in this one. It's a bucolic bittersweet romance with similarities to Capricious Summer. The story (adapted from poetry by the author) is simple but effective.

While searching for pictures I saw photos from stage performances. So the film must have enduring popularity with Czechs.

My one complaint is the custom subtitles were HOH for some reason.

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 No.5302

I watched a video about murders in early Hollywood made by everyone's favorite caricaturist, Nick Bougas.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397548/

Unfortunately I didn't learn much about the murders aside from the fact that they happened. The most interesting part was screen test footage from the Black Dahlia.

There was nothing much to learn about Bougas either, aside from the fact that he made these cheap trashy videos as a cash grab.

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 No.5312

File: 1437709859571-0.jpg (93.47 KB,1280x720,16:9,paleflower.jpg)

File: 1437709859588-1.jpg (112.62 KB,1280x720,16:9,paleflower2.jpg)

Watched Pale Flower today.

This film is absolutely brimming with style (more so than nearly any other crime film I've ever seen) while still managing to what seems to me paint such a natural picture of a misanthropic yakuza member, his new love interest, and their place in a post war Japan in moral decline.

sorry for the watermark on the screenshots.

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 No.5331

Watched the 7th overall it was quite enjoyable to watch went in not knowing anything about and enjoyed it alot even though I did not get much out of it spiritually since i'm not really spiritual

also

Phenomena was fun to and the reveal did make me jump at the end overall not bad specially with the Goblin soundtrack.

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 No.5332

>>>5331

7th seal*

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 No.5339

File: 1438330351353.jpg (50.28 KB,720x432,5:3,milk.jpg)

>>2701

I just saw this and wasn't thrilled with it. The ride was exciting and full of promise at first, but it soon became a tiring endurance test. I appreciate the effort but I think the film misses the mark.

It's a confounding experience. I picked up on a couple themes but the ideas seemed to be explored in a non-committal manner.

The most satisfying explanations for me come from directors, so here's the best information I've found about Malle's motivations behind Black Moon.

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/180498|0/Black-Moon.html

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 No.5341

>>5312

It's been a while since I've watched a film that had me pausing and rewinding just to see just how well some scenes were framed.

thanks for bringing it up it was very enjoyable

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 No.5371

just watched metropolis.

the story is horrible but the sets, costumes, music the overall production values are amazing.

I am pretty sure the praise this movie gets nowadays is solely based on the fact that is was a pioneer during the silent era which influences visuals to this very day.

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 No.5375

File: 1438648264978.jpg (97.61 KB,640x480,4:3,1438559323669.jpg)

Tokyo Story

I really liked it, it got me in the feelerino, at first it was jarring with the actors facing the camera as many times as they did but by the end it felt natural, but why did he shoot the film like that? Was Ozu trying to meddle with the fourth wall or something?

There were a couple things i noticed but i think i ended up missing the big picture, I'll need to watch it again.

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 No.5377

>>5375

It's been a while since I've seen it, but you could try listening to the commentary track. I know there was talk about certain filming methods like the "tatami-level shot".

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 No.5379

File: 1438754073393.jpg (72.48 KB,580x864,145:216,ill-never-forget-whats-is-….jpg)

I took a chance and came up empty. The poster makes it look saucy. It's not. Orson Welles is entertaining (as always) but the bulk of this movie is a snooze. It took forever to get going; then it refused to end.

The sound recording was so bad I have to comment on that too – coats rustling, paper crinkling, rooms echoing, and stairs creaking to drown out the dialogue.

I've never seen a Michael Winner movie before. He improved later?

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 No.5383

Lawrence of Arabia.

I loved it. deserves all the 10/10 scores it gets basically everywhere.

I am actually mad at myself for not watching it sooner since it's a well known classic.

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 No.5385

>>5377

Thanks I'll look into it, I just got Floating Weeds and had a browse and sure enough it has that same frontal look

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 No.5404

File: 1439106905350-0.jpg (27.11 KB,720x304,45:19,A.jpg)

File: 1439106905369-1.jpg (13.29 KB,720x304,45:19,B.jpg)

File: 1439106905370-2.jpg (13.64 KB,720x304,45:19,C.jpg)

Two on a Guillotine (1965)

Not as much horror as you'd hope. Half of this movie is a big scary house. But the other half is a lukewarm love story between a too-chipper Dean Jones and the type of weak female character that people like to complain about now.

Caesar Romero is very entertaining in a brief role and there's a fantastic musical cameo by The Condors.

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 No.5415

File: 1439410542868.jpg (469.76 KB,1600x1259,1600:1259,aff_foreign_affair-1.jpg)

A Foreign Affair (1948) - A Billy Wilder comedy set in post-war Berlin.

An American congressional delegation flies into town to check the progress of the military rebuilding German society. It's not wall-to-wall laughs, but I enjoyed it more than The Lost Weekend and Witness for the Prosecution.

I don't know what to make of Marlene Dietrich. She a bit masculine to play sexy females, especially when sporting 1940's shoulder pads. I guess the WWII shift in gender roles is reflected in the era's fashions and actresses. That pendulum swung back hard in the 1950's.

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 No.5442

File: 1439751476466-0.jpg (161.2 KB,618x412,3:2,alec-baldwin-david-letterm….jpg)

File: 1439751476467-1.jpg (602.06 KB,2141x3250,2141:3250,match.jpg)

How do I find old David Letterman episodes? Letterman chuckled about the odd plot of The Match King during his interview with Alec Baldwin in 2011. The clip was removed from Youtube.

The film is pretty obscure (only a TV rip) but I got a kick out of it. Warren William shows why he's the precode king with a fiendishly magnetic portrayal of a scheming industrialist. Can't wait to see more from him.

I just want to remember what else Dave said about it…

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 No.5443

File: 1439793234250.jpg (110.56 KB,500x708,125:177,67a50bccbe44bb49e0931f6594….jpg)

High and Low by Kurosawa. It was good fun, but I was put off by the change of pace in the movie after the ransom is paid to the kidnapper at the mid way point. It had really good focus on an interesting character who had to pick between his moral integrity and his financial success. After he pays the boys ransom, the film drops focus on him in favor of fun but dull police officers who with relative ease solve the case.

Regardless it was still enjoyable, and the ending monologue redeemed it for me

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 No.5444

>>4836

Hello friend,

What year is this from? There are multiple 'Posession's.

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 No.5453

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 No.5463

File: 1440140396950.jpg (225.2 KB,397x563,397:563,h8.jpg)

H-8… (1958) was mentioned here a while ago. Reviewers call it one of the great Croatian films and they're probably on to something.

The story (based on an actual event) is introduced by a true crime voiceover and expressive noirish camerawork. We become familiar with a group of well-sculpted characters through intermingling story lines….as they hurtle toward impending tragedy. It's an effective story construct that's been used in many disaster movies, but this is one of the earliest and most poignant examples of it.

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 No.5466

>>5463

don't know that i've ever seen any films from Croatia, I'll have to give that a look

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 No.5496

File: 1440526246667.jpg (173.73 KB,300x464,75:116,2001_A_Space_Odyssey_Style….jpg)

Too long dor its own good, in 68 it must have been incredible to see the special effects and i understand why the scenes with heavy special effects are so long, but now it's not very interesting so those same scenes feel boring and unnecesary.

Otherthan that i really like it.

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 No.5502

>>4076

Just watched it.

Love that film, it has a bit of everything, and well done too.

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 No.5504

File: 1440667158197.jpg (84.83 KB,600x400,3:2,rashomon.jpg)

>>5443

Continuing my circuit through Kurosawa's body of work, I checked out Rashomon. The film making seemed so ahead of its time,all the panning through the forest and the lighting were brilliant. I wasn't as satisfied with the story as much as I though I would though. I felt like there needed to be another witness or more character development for the murder victim. And why was Tajomaru and Takehiro so eager to confess crimes that one of them couldn't have committed. Also the medium felt awkward, I could have bought it if her voice wasn't replaced by Masako's.

Still an ace movie

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 No.5506

>>5504

are you planning to watch most of his films at once?

that would be interesting to try.

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 No.5518

File: 1440814642022.jpg (79.36 KB,868x357,124:51,zabriskie.jpg)

just watched Zabriskie Point. god damn was that some nice photography

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 No.5525

>>5504

Everyone that was telling the story was trying to make themselves seem honorable.

The bandit knew he was going to be killed for his other crimes, so he claimed to have killed the samurai in an epic fight. Tajomaru is now the a womanizing bandit that was a great swordsman.

The wife claims she didn't enjoy the rape and helped her husband. The husband killed himself and she tried drowning herself in disgrace.

Husbando samurai made it out like he wasn't able to kill fight the bandit and killed himself to save honor.

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 No.5537

File: 1440939247250.jpg (192.73 KB,1280x1024,5:4,The-Mist-the-mist-25395981….jpg)

It isn't his best work but its world was unnerving and the ending was emotional enough to get something out of me which 99.9% of mainstream flicks fail to do nowadays.

Nothing to write home about but worth a watch.

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 No.5546

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

I watched Bill Murray in Quick Change after a comedian on a podcast claimed it was one of the funniest movies ever. It falls short of that standard but it's a time capsule of some types of ethnic humor usually avoided today.

Actually the movie makes fun of all kinds of people in 1990 New York – Wall Street assholes, Boomer scum, Mafioso, bus drivers, bum musicians, construction workers, etc. But when the characters chuckle at a goofy foreigner or recoil at a seedy minority neighborhood, it's hard to avoid thinking about how today's outrage bloggers would react. These nagging thoughts took me out out of the movie more than once.

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 No.5553

>>5537

That ending indeed.

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 No.5558

>>5506

Pretty much, I can't get DVD's from criterion collection in Australia- but the next best thing for us is Madman entertainment and they offer a pretty good range of stuff. Most of it is Kurosawa and they were on for a good price so i figured i'd buy as much as I could. I really like his stuff. No matter how simple it may be it's always entertaining or beautiful to look at.

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 No.5560

File: 1441265243436-0.jpg (27.25 KB,624x368,39:23,Bab el hadid.avi_snapshot_….jpg)

File: 1441265243436-1.jpg (10.27 KB,624x368,39:23,Bab el hadid.avi_snapshot_….jpg)

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I just watched Bab el hadid AKA Cairo Station (1958).

The film takes place in a train station and moves briskly for all of its 77 minutes. The story starts off innocently enough, but soon things become complicated. Stylistically I'd put it somewhere between neorealism and Hitchcock. The degree of sensuality and blood might even surpass what Hollywood allowed in 1958, which surprised me for a film made in Egypt.

Very good all around. I recommend it with no misgivings.

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 No.5569

File: 1441330974352.jpg (74.73 KB,494x720,247:360,MV5BMTUyMTE0ODcxNF5BMl5Ban….jpg)

this is one of the worst movies i have ever seen, no shit. i am seriously in awe of how bad this was, i don't think there was a single person involved in this movie who actually cared about it. that is the best way i can describe it

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 No.5570

File: 1441331958941.jpg (49.78 KB,387x580,387:580,onesheet[1].jpg)

Thought it was very good and definitely one of my favorites of 09. On looking at Blomkamp's personal history and sets of subject matter, I expected some left-wing garbage about muh diversity and open borders. But the moral ambiguity surprised me. Sure, the humans were thoroughly sadistic, but the prawn were practically inviting it with their savagery. Most of the characters follow some logical path that gives them the role and attitudes they ultimately end up with.

For that reason, it was easy enough to set political interpretations aside and look at the film more broadly as on the subjects of identity and association–in which regard I felt it shined. Killer fucking camera work and some damn fine action scenes don't hurt neither.

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 No.5577

>>5569

Explain.

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 No.5581

Saw floating weeds and I just didn't get it.

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 No.5586

>>5569

Funny, I could've sworn the case was the exact opposite.

Or are you just one of those faggots who let the crazy feminazis' lie get to your head?

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 No.5592

>>5586

>>5577

idk what you mean about feminazis. i can definitely see a feminist/communist agenda in this movie, but that's not why the movie itself was horrible

it was just a long chase scene with zero character, next to zero plot, just no depth at all. i know it's just a hollywood action movie, but it was just appalling to me, i guess i haven't watched anything out of modern hollywood for so long i forgot how awful it can get in terms of complete lack of content. it was on level with a call of duty singleplayer campaign, lower than that even.

it looked absolutely disgusting, the cgi was so fucking obvious and hideous, all the filters they threw on it were just terrible. like they just fucking change the hue to blue for nighttime. last big movie i saw before this was interstellar, it was dumb as shit but at least it looked nice.

watching this, it was like they just put together a bunch of dumbass "tense" situations to give the masses their vicarious adrenaline dose for the week. clearly i am not the target audience

there is literally nothing positive i can say about this movie

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 No.5598

File: 1441588868967.jpg (183.53 KB,500x370,50:37,1440110484403.jpg)

>>5504

Saw Seven Samurai next, the opening was average, but it worked its way to brilliance, you can see this films influence in a lot of stuff

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 No.5609

File: 1441729024534.jpeg (61.24 KB,477x620,477:620,exterminatingangel.jpeg)

I watched this recently and enjoyed it but can't see how it's a masterpiece.

Cinematically it seemed just above average for the most part. Hardly as well shot as something like Viridiana. The audio seemed shit even for it's time and there was one scene early on where you could clearly see a mic sticking out from under the table. There are also a few autistic gripes about the editing i have that I won't get into.

The concept and its execution is great. To simply have a group of upper class unable to leave a room, having their delusions of sophistication broken and their vanity flourish. I can only interpret it as symbolic of their group mentality fear of the other.

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 No.5622

File: 1441952816109.jpg (4.14 MB,2439x1626,3:2,Koi-Koi_Setup.jpg)

>>5312

Nice recommendation. I liked this a lot. It adds to my theory that the best 1960s New Waves were in Japan and Czechoslovakia. Now I've got to watch Shinoda's Double Suicide. And Oshima's.

Here are those cool flower cards they used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda

Another interesting tidbit is that the author of the source novel later became a nationalistic Japanese politician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara

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 No.5646

File: 1442319543853.jpg (29.9 KB,220x341,20:31,220px-American_graffiti_ve….jpg)

The most american film i've ever seen.

Pretty good stuff.

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 No.5695

File: 1442644537771.jpg (23.72 KB,352x465,352:465,KAFR.jpg)

Kafr kasem (1974)

Syrian docudrama from a Lebanese director about a 1956 massacre in a Palestinian village by Israeli border guards. Only 11 votes on imdb makes it the most obscure thing I've seen in a while.

I don't watch many films about this enduring political conflict, so I found it interesting to see how Palestinians viewed themselves and their situation soon after Israel became a nation. A lot of tension arose from Egypt's takeover of the Sinai Canal, both with Arab nationalists who saw a victory and the Israeli military who planned swift action.

Although Israeli soldiers are portrayed as the one-dimensional heartless Nazis of the story, you still scratch your head wondering what the hell was going on with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafr_Qasim_massacre

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 No.5700

>>5592

>>5569

I completely agree with you.

The only movie that I think was worse than this was The Expendables 3 and man that was a bad movie.

Even the "hardcore" and "intense" and "cool" scenes like the dude hanging playing the guitar felt so bad that made me cringe.

My brother liked it tho.

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 No.5717

File: 1442837841673.jpg (490.15 KB,1350x2000,27:40,the-lovely-bones.24789.jpg)

Maybe I'm a bit of a faggot but this film elicits feelings of sadness and anger in me every time, mainly on the part of Mr Harvey. I guess it's because I kind of recognise that I've had similar impulses and fantasies to do horrible things in the past, and this film just serves to remind me what sort of damage it would cause to people just to satisfy my own selfish desires. I guess it makes me hate myself for ever having had such thoughts.

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 No.5720

>>5717

I remember that looked kind of interesting. Then the trailer went on to reveal about 85% of the plot/mystery (as usual with trailers) so I didn't care about watching it any more.

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 No.5722

File: 1442872509796.jpg (970.82 KB,1000x1500,2:3,sicario.jpg)

Saw this yesterday. It was okay. I liked the oppressing feel it gave but it didn't excel in it as much as I would want to. Performances were on point, some scenes were intense and fuck no don't do that ear thing, but as with Enemy and even Prisoners, it lacked a certain something I can't tell.

65/100

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 No.5724

>>5722

Is it some bullshit sob story Oscar bait or does it go fucking hard like Apocalypse Now in its approach to the topic?

Because I fear it might be some tired message about drug war.

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 No.5741

>>5724

Like Traffic?

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 No.5746

>>5741

is traffic the former or the latter?

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 No.5748

>>5746

Traffic was drug war Oscar bait, I'd say.

I haven't seen it since it came out though.

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 No.5753

>>5748

i agree, but i want to know what japan-man meant. traffic was just retarded, i particularly enjoyed how the guy's daughter went from trying smoking heroin once to fucking black guys just for a shot so quickly

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 No.5756

File: 1443157678308.jpg (1.97 MB,1997x2822,1997:2822,poster.jpg)

Going through the old Animerama trilogy and saw Cleopatra earlier tonight. It was alright, had some interesting undertones and a couple nice gags, but its visual style, character development, experimental sequences, and overall scope came across as dull in comparison to A Thousand and One Nights. I would only recommend it if you want to go through the Animerama trilogy or make a point of watching obscure animated films to impress people, otherwise just go with the other film if you feel like watching an epic psychedelic comedy.

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 No.5758

>>5756

i'm planning to watch both of those. obscure animation impresses .... me!

are there english subtitles for A Thousand and One Nights?

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 No.5759

>>5724

Yeah pretty much Oscar bait. It's like 'muh opression, look at how unstoppable this machine is even tho I had a million chances to stop being a cog in this unstoppable machine'. On the surface the tension is pretty palpable but some shit was very cliché and forced you to just ho along with it.

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 No.5761

>>5758

The English dub is lost, and a lot of the torrents apparently have some older, more inaccurate English subs, so bakabt.me is probably your best bet.

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 No.5764

>>5761

Thanks, I'll check into that

I had trouble finding them last I checked.

I liked The Sensualist too, have you seen that one? >>5289

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 No.5765

>>5759

Exactly what I fucking feared. Thanks for the input, I can lower my expectations now a good bunch.

Did the movie involve the regular 'Dennis Villeneuve twist' in the style of Incendies or Enemy?

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 No.5802

File: 1443494038084.jpg (243.88 KB,403x564,403:564,poster.jpg)

Belladonna of Sadness has art deco, french peasants, watercolor illustrations, creatively animated demon rape, and jazzrock. It's exactly what it sounds like and you ought to be grateful that it exists in the first place.

>>5764

It's on the watchlist.

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 No.5808

>>5802

The new restoration is being screened at festivals now. Their description say they added "8 minutes of surreal and explicit footage cut from the negative" but the version I watched (custom dvd) seemed to have plenty of that already.

http://fantasticfest.com/films/belladonna-of-sadness/

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 No.5832

File: 1443652056958.jpg (34.9 KB,220x310,22:31,Boyhood_film.jpg)

Was rather bored for the first third, after that it picks up, enjoyable, gave me some feels.

It was alright.

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 No.5851

>>5808

Interestink

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 No.5858

File: 1443878873222.jpg (53.21 KB,379x555,379:555,TheDanceofReality.jpg)

Pretty bizarre, pretty good, hilarious at times, deep at others.

Also, Sara's tits

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 No.5861

>>5858

thanks for reminding me about that one. I haven't seen anything he made after Santa sangre.

A few years ago they were talking about a sequel to El topo but it's probably better they didn't make that. It could only be disappointing.

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 No.5868

File: 1443991979843.jpg (121.31 KB,696x445,696:445,Africa_Addio3.jpg)

Here's a good companion film to Concerning Violence. I watched it for the purported imperial racism, which didn't amount to much. The horrific aspect is actually an unflinching depiction of animals and humans being slaughtered. I would still recommend it. It's the best Mondo movie I've seen.

What are some other worthwhile documentaries/films on colonialism?

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 No.5887

>>5832

First third was probably my favorite part tbh. I thought it was interesting to watch the main characters involved in orchestrations that they're effectively controlling but ultimately powerless if not even unaware of.

The later parts were cool too. Really captured the whole idea of growing into yourself as a person during formative years and the melodrama it entails. Totally lived up to the hype, I thought.

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 No.5891

Maybe it was the subs that I downloaded but this hard as fuck to follow. I haven't read the novel so I don't know how close the movie stays faithful including bits which I found strange, like people looking straight at the camera and everyone sniffing everything. I also watched Tsar and Kin Dza Dza, bretty great movies themselves.

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 No.5893

>>5891

which movie are you talking about? hard to be a god?

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 No.5894

Watched a Torinoi lo

Great movie, one of my favorite now. Even tho its very long it dint feel so, and tar was very smart on avoding the same shots even tho its very repetivive.

th best existentilist film ive ever seen.

>>5759

>>5724

like tomorrowland.

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 No.5895

>>5893

Yeah

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 No.5908

>>5895

first i had bad subs for that too. many awkward phrasings made the movie harder to understand.

so i quit watching after half an hour. but there are better subtitles i found, the one with 1461 lines seems to be good.

i will try watching again.

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 No.5916

>>5908

Me too. Where did you get the subs from?

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 No.5920

File: 1444371601341.jpg (21.35 KB,220x325,44:65,ultra highrez.jpg)

The Steamroller and the Violin

If Andrei Tarkovsky's student films are this good, I can't wait to start watching his full-length films.

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 No.5932

File: 1444402734662.pdf (106.52 KB,Aleksey German - (2013) Ha….pdf)

>>5916

i don't remember but here's the file i have. change the extension back to .srt

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 No.5942

>>5932

Not working, what's the sauce?

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 No.5949

>>5942

it worked when i tried it..

what happens when you change the file extension?

http://www.solidfiles.com/d/0060afa50a/

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 No.5950

>>5949

It remains a pdf

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 No.5967

File: 1444683485315.png (323.81 KB,640x480,4:3,mpv-shot0008.png)

Finally remembered >>5764 's suggestion and watched The Sensualist. The plot is simple: an older man reminisces about his sex life while helping a bumbling younger friend get laid with a courtesan, so it's mostly something you'd watch if you're interested in seeing what's essentially animated ukiyo-e.

If I made some APNGs to give you an idea of how the film looks in motion, should I post them in here or the anime film thread?

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 No.5968

>>5967

Oh yeah, nice to hear you watched it. I'm disappointed ukiyo-e isn't imitated more often because it's a striking style.

IMO you could post apngs in the anime thread so they don't get lost in the mix.

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 No.5969

>>5891

I'd suggest German's Soviet era movies as they are instantly accessible, but I am afraid they may hinder his individual methods with what's common and don't help much. However, “Khrustalyov, my car” is probably the movie to watch before “Hard to be a god”. Of course, it also has thousands of details from Soviet fifties that no living being (apart from director's family and close friends) can probably recognize and count, but anyone familiar with dystopias should be able to guess what's happening.

After a couple of viewings, “Hard to be a god” is beautiful, and everything in it makes sense. Compared to it, even the good movies seem to spell out too much.

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 No.5970

File: 1444699880083.jpg (61.19 KB,656x480,41:30,La.maman.et.la.putain.1973.jpg)

Speaking of films doing everything differently, I've just seen “The Mother and the Whore”.

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 No.5971

>>5970

did you like it?

it wasn't my type of film... too long and i hated the main character

it gets many positive reviews so i know i have a minority opinion

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 No.5975

File: 1444723580496-0.jpg (126.8 KB,673x1024,673:1024,hatchet_for_honeymoon_post….jpg)

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First horror for me this month. Starts as a standard giallo with models/fashion like Bava's earlier Sei donne per l'assassino. Things get interesting after a spooky twist, though...

I love the vibrant colour and hard lighting in films made around 1970. A few years later the style was a grainy, washed-out "realistic" look.

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 No.5979

File: 1444800321476-0.jpg (1.02 MB,1935x2933,1935:2933,daughters_of_darkness_post….jpg)

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>>5975

Horror #2: Les lèvres rouges which has a completely different English title Daughters of Darkness. "Red Lips" fits better.

The dodgy script is redeemed by Delphine Seyrig's magnetic personality and fabulous gowns. She was probably slumming it though.

If you watch this avoid the IFPD rip. It looks like an oil painting...

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 No.5980

>>5949

much better, thanks fam

>>5969

I have Krystalyov next to download. Will definetley re-watch трудно again

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 No.5981

>>5971

I did, that's why I wrote about it.

Alexandre is only horrible when compared to typical movie hero, a tight pack of words and actions. He is part intriguing, part genuinely selfish, part weak, like your average person (but also lively and handsome).

Continuing to compare two movies having little in common:

If German skips expositions and explanations completely because he orchestrates the whole complex world instead of following a single plot line, Eustache dumps them to remove any notion of pre-constructed plot. For example, showing just empty pseudo-intellectual talk may be perceived as director's direct comment on main character so he frames it with long silences and uneasiness. Pronounced acting may be taken as a gesture so he makes sure no one is visibly agitated higher than the certain level. Instead of scenes that have start, finish and a message, Eustache renders the process.

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 No.5982

>>5980

>Will definetley re-watch трудно again

>Will definetley re-watch hard again

what_does_it_mean.jpg

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 No.5987

>>5982

the movie ya dingus

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 No.5993

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 No.5998

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 No.6000

>>5998

Then why name another movie?

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 No.6075

File: 1445548701822-0.gif (1.33 MB,245x163,245:163,BOF2.gif)

File: 1445548701830-1.gif (1.95 MB,500x363,500:363,BOF.gif)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

I enjoy most well-known 1920s horrors but very few well-known 1930s horrors. Silent horror just seems more frightening. Or maybe the US censors sanitized horror too much.

Unlike most sequels, this one is better than its predecessor (which I hardly remember). But it was still average until the grand finale. I wasn't completely sure what to make of all the Catholic imagery in the middle of the film. First it was a plot point... then it was everywhere.

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 No.6092

>>6000

I wrote it short for быт богом you fucking autist

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 No.6129

File: 1446045302468-0.jpg (1.18 MB,1853x2635,109:155,phantasm_1_poster_04.jpg)

File: 1446045302468-1.gif (1.96 MB,500x282,250:141,Phantasm.gif)

Phantasm

I think the quality of acting can make or break a low budget horror movie. Phantasm works well in that regard. The actors sell it convincingly.

There was 3 hour cut with more plot details -- does anyone know what was removed?

Are there new horror movies that have this kind of independent spirit? Most look like torture porn so I don't bother.

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 No.6140

File: 1446158597389.jpg (37.14 KB,350x480,35:48,Punition_(1973).jpg)

La punition (1973)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069135/

The poster art is unique so I gave this a whirl. It's one of the "pretty girl sex slave" movies which came into vogue in the early 70s, similar in some ways to Story of O. A French prostitute is confined to a large empty hotel room to be "punished" after offending a client. I thought this was a little sadistic and exploitative, but it turns out to be based on an autobiographical novel by "Xavière".

The film opens strong with a couple inventive, colourful scenes. The story is told by jumping in and out of flashback and topped off with a nice bit of misdirection. The set design would probably look great with a decent restoration (this is only available in VHS quality).

On the negative side, things can be a little dull. It's possible the score is too gloomy for the heavy subject matter.

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 No.6165

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Blush (2005)-- A filmed version of a dance show. Lots of grappling, running, twirling, hopping, writhing ... from which I learned I don't enjoy contemporary dance or the bombastic people who pursue it. It was a little too chaotic and bestial, people bumping into each other. If I have to watch dancing I'll take old fashioned grace and elegance (in small doses though).

However, it all distills into a nice trailer

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 No.6169

File: 1446446736575.jpg (280.54 KB,1500x1160,75:58,peanuts.jpg)

A Boy Named Charlie Brown (12/1969)

I was nervous about the new Peanuts movie from Blue Sky and Fox coming out this weekend, having seen about 15 years of the creations of Dr. Seuss and Jay Ward FUBAR, but I'm more inclined to give it a shot after seeing this one. The author of the comics, Charles Schulz, wrote all the films and specials with the same cherubic goofball innocence as the comics, with animation always done by a production unit led by UPA alumnus Bill Melendez, who capitalizes on a slightly higher budget with some stylized use of the camera to complement Schulz's writing. A Boy Named Charlie Brown also features some nice songs and a leisurely jazz score by Vince Guaraldi, and a cast of characters voiced by real youngsters, as in the TV specials.

If you somehow can't get ahold of the comics and want to see what the fuss is about with the great American comic of the 20th century, I'd recommend it.

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 No.6174

>>6169

>new Peanuts movie from Blue Sky and Fox coming out this weekend

what

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 No.6179

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>6169

I vaguely remember that one from when I was very young. It must not have been replayed very much though.

I revisited the Peanuts Thanksgiving special last year. It's not that great, but the strange pointless plot and animation shortcuts are a little endearing when you watch as an adult.

I see Variety complaining about the lack of diversity and modernization in the new Charlie Brown movie, and that "genuinely hilarious" producer Paul "Girly Ghostbusters" Feig should not have been shut out of the writing. So perhaps there's hope they didn't take all the charm out of this franchise by going full PC.

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 No.6193

File: 1446700685511-0.jpg (45.71 KB,270x403,270:403,The_Killing_Fields_film.jpg)

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Finally, a well-made movie about genocide that isn't nagging us to remember muh 6 gorillion. The Killing Fields does well at portraying Pol Pot's rise to power from a street level perspective, Mike Oldfield's knack for distractingly good soundtracks, and horribly misusing John Lennon's "Imagine" in ways the production team never intended.

In the meantime, Mamoru Oshii reminds his audience that birds are very important in political intrigue plots for reasons you will never fully understand.

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 No.6206

File: 1446880469823.jpg (47.43 KB,544x765,32:45,vBI5ign.jpg)

The Goat Horn is apparently one of the finest film offerings from Bulgaria. The title refers to a tool of death that doubles as a recurring symbol within the film's examination of gender - an examination occurring before that topic was so clumsily politicized.

I'm attracted to these sorts of films set in rural Europe because of the raw simplicity of the characters' behavior and of life in general. When survival is harder, everything becomes a little more honest.

Bottom line: Well-constructed story, compelling performances, a world cinema gem. Put this on your watchlist.

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 No.6211

File: 1446941429977.webm (3 MB,704x336,44:21,Kozijat Rog (Metodi Andon….webm)

>>6206

teaser clip

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 No.6237

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This was the first movie I've watched and thought "wow, that was pretentious as fuck". Alonso obviously tried to channel Tarkovsky but failed hard, producing nothing but 2 hours of watching dull landscapes. I did like two scenes where Mortensen was allowed to show some emotion, but that's it.

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 No.6242

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This one really surprised me and could have really been great with a more ambitious editing. It has one of the most original aesthetics I've seen of a film released in the past 5 years, teetering on the precipice absurdity and authenticity with it's boisterously told narrative if a trannies revenge on Christmas eve and it's iphone cinematography of Los Angeles subculture and life.

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 No.6251

File: 1447389153459.png (999.4 KB,593x756,593:756,Poster 2.png)

Hearing there would be a new Bond movie i relived some of the old films and while i was also digging Hong Kong i decided to check 2 movies in preparation for the new film:

1/2

國產凌 凌漆 Gwok Chaan Ling Ling Chat aka From Beijing with Love, directed by the good ol' Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer) and Lik-Chi Lee

- A light-hearted comedy that uses untranslatable double-entedre, slapstick humour and the Chow trademark random moments to move its paper-thin plot, which comes decent enough and even goes to ruthless points that move its rating to M17, which the director uses to slip some naughty jokes too.

It takes a lot of shots at the Bond movies, the title and the Living Daylights parody poster would give that away in a second, but it does while also being respectful, with the loaned characters and icons being translated to the mainland and HK China, with Jaws being a modified fishermen, the gadgets being all skillfully hidden behind everyday objects but serve like other everyday objects (Get Smart jokes i believe), and even the main character who uses a pirated Bond anthology (with photo copied art book included) as his unreachable standard, even going as closely to seek a poor choice of tie, this making Bond a far away legend or just famous media, closing any intention of "replacing" these said images.

The intro gives a proper action segment famous in the 90's HK, giving a much needed and intended contrast to the Get Smart buffonery that will come into place, while also acting like real spies without forgetting it's a parody all along, giving a 2-edged meaning of the Woo-esque bullet rain, which makes it look like it's at home

The technical aspects are OK, i've seen far better from both directors, especially in God of Cookery and Kung Fu Hustle, but it doesn't fall into cheap C-tier chinese knock-off, it has its decent cinematography and framework, the music takes pieces from a lot of past Bond themes but still make it somewhat original and refreshing, if clown-like for the sake of the context.

Overall a very pleasant view if you are a Bond fan, especially for historical reasons because it shows a girl eerily similar to Elektra (5 years prior) and accentuates the joke that was that Die Another Day amateur fan-movie because a key role here was played by the North Korean General i believe (starting his 007 fame with a parody, like Madonna with Austin Powers), or if you like HK stuff or even Chow stuff, this already shows his trademark style.

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 No.6252

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2/2

SPECTRE, directed by Sam Mendes

- This is AAA big budget compared to the previous example mainly because it is, the biggest spy spoof since Goldmember and it shows in its vast research on the subject and sets, but this is a different kind of parody as it uses satire and obscure inside jokes, much in the like of Robocop and the perceived future of american media or Airplane with the use of stone-faced serious actors to deliver inane dialog.

The hilarity starts from the very intro, with a gigantic Day of the Dead public party with hundreds of Baron Samedi costumes instead of the traditional Parka or Huesuda attire/makeup, the dirty little inside joke with the Bond-esque main character using laser sights (which is also a joke itself as he is completely miscasted to resemble 007's old ongoing nemesis, Red Grant and his "sons", and Bond claims laser is for "new cats" in a book time ago)

It continues with the apparent spoof of A-Ha's theme for The Living Daylights, but more affeminated and with sudden tone changes, this fills a glass i will talk later on

Our hairless white-head hero (an old joke too) mumbles his name as "Bend, Jaymes Bend", a very suspicious shot at double O, and goes to report to his nervous superior Uhm (M), MuhniePennay (Moneypenny) and Coo (Q), this degrading the small chuckle grin one could develop already 20 minutes into the movie, it also takes lowkicks at Coo being a joker (which itself is a joke at the no nonsense laboral nature Q has when being serious about Bond's cars)

Places also get no mercy here, with the Living Daylights' Tangier couple-escape-gone-sour get a shot here, along with the famous train rides with Jaws & Red Grant, the cozy alpine clinic from OHMSS, Bond's apartment, Bond's sidekick apparence (hilarious skin color changes, terrific age changes) and even an unashamed M16's dilapidated HQ having a cameo, this also goes with the henchman not-Sandor, a mexican Oddjob and a Bond's wife look-alike (with the ending being a parody too), plus a Bellucci cameo as a joke on Olga's infamous fame and role in another spoof made time ago, the stuff even gets into the mysterious and cringeworthy internet inside jokes with Bend being repeatedly called a cuck/cuckold and a Bert/Arthur parody scene, all involving the tech-savvy main villain

Not trying to spoil things but this movie has a shot, reference or joke towards the Bond franchise or its spillovers (MGS video game series, or the unrelated Usual Suspects' famous dialogue) in almost every scene, it rarely stops and can get you a crack when you dont suspect, it goes into every detail to spoof the 00 agent even to the cinematography aspect making it look like Bourne antics or Nolan's Batman movies with the long shots, inhuman superhero set pieces and low-bumper camera, which Nolan himself said where over-exagerated Bond exploits and the 007 series should not go in that route, absolutely hilarious if you are a tough fan, but it also comes as being unashamedly disrespectful to the franchise, unlike Austin Powers or Chow's Beijing, this constant hitting and doing straight-forward references fills a unsettling glass that at some point spills and everything becomes tiring much like Operation Kid Brother (which even includes previous Bond actors), especially with the reveal of the main villain, and very especially taking into account this was a british production. At least Johnny English used the argument it was a spoof at Atkinson's experience and work in the non-official Never Say Never Again, not at Bond himself.

A dangerous must-see for a fan that wants to test his knowledge in the series and have fun at the same time with the hidden gems all around the place along with the obvious balls-to-the-wall jokes.

While the 2 movies go on their way to make fun of their target one does so far more tastefully than the other even if it comes at the cost of too innocuous or friendly, but respectful at the source material, which is sometimes forgotten in the realm of pioneers and trendsetters in cinema

The wait has been long, last Bond movie was in 1999, so here's hoping this next film will break the thrist for more super agent exploits!

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 No.6264

>>6252

That was a very entertaining review, cheers.

You've seen Operation Kid Brother? I doff my chapeau at your eurospy prowess.

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 No.6268

File: 1447445103542-0.jpg (43.49 KB,500x709,500:709,Poster 2.jpg)

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>>6264

Saw it on TV a while ago, it was bad and distasteful (literal Connery brother being the MC, Largo, Russian girl, M and Moneypenny being here ALMOST reprising their roles, straight in our face references STOP READING FLEMING'S NOVELS, DOCTOR) but i feel it doesn't deserve the heat it gets, it was hilariously bad no doubt, but at many times it tried to do its own thing, casting something away from 007, unlike that Spectre movie which i can also seriously compare to Meet the Spartans, trying to do something original but falling into cheap spoof jokes time and time again for 90+ minutes, it's like watching a bird nest fall from a very tall tree, you get shocked, then cringe and move in your sit in horror then you will eventually laugh and finally just stare at it like one does after ordering a large order of food and realizing you didnt like it since the first bite

No kidding, 2 and half hours of cringe & laughs

A little off-topic, so here's some letters of a film i watched a week ago but i still "feel" it, something that honestly only happens with good movies (or trainwrecks):

Ogro, released in 1979 by Gillo Pontecorvo (Battle of Algiers, Queimada, Kapo)

- A dramatization of the kidnapping and assassination attempt at Carrero Blanco, Franco's successor in late 60's/early 70's Spain, by Basque separatists aka ETA

A classic example on how the official poster spoils the whole thing if you dont know anything about the background (poster not pictured), this movie retakes the previous well-known docudrama style from Battle of Algiers (but with official actors, which makes it somewhat less real due to their more pronounced line delivery), the director gives a simple but interesting look at the lives and procedures of several ETA members in Madrid. The movie drags a little, it shuffles between present time (1978 in this case) and the past events, someone without patience will surely quit after 30 minutes if not for the intro segment in present time that actually sparks interest, it makes you wonder what really happened, and when it dries off there's another scene that refuels the spark (if you actually reach to care about the characters), it's all a slow build-up for the ending sequence (IMHO)

The acting is good enough, even when the movie promotes the excellent Gian Maria Volonte as the main man or Saverio Marconi as support, the actual MC is Eusebio Poncela as one of his cold but rebellious henchman. I think nobody does a bad job here, and even if that happened it would be easily confused with fear and nervousness, something natural with their roles in context. Unintentional humour at times if one has a sick sense of it (or if you are a football fan), it gives a good contrast for the expected and somewhat cliched but still poignant ending and its very well-known future context

The technical aspects are OK, good cinematography, tasteful frames from time to time and good audio (tough gunshots, realistic urban atmosphere, Ennio Morricone soundtrack)

An enjoyable look, a must-see for those fans of docudramas or slow, natural situations that don't reach on the mundane, also a prime example on how confusing vital things, in this case PE4 with TNT, can lead to highly amusing results

No offense intended at all to any Spaniard fellas around here but it's funny how this movie, surely the best i've seen from Spain, comes from Basque investors, characters and a full Italian production team. And even so the well-made Spanish edit gets some content chopped

Someday i will look into Spain's cinema to wipe a little that poor fame they have because this movie shows talent in the actor's sector

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 No.6270

File: 1447457925088.jpg (41.3 KB,601x255,601:255,601px-Richard_Johnson-W-PP….jpg)

I haven't seen OK Connery but I need to give that a shot. It looks like it could be a hard one to finish though...

My favorite Bond ripoff is Deadlier Than the Male. Maybe it's the best one? It has the perfect tone for a silly spy story IMO. I tried the sequel Some Girls Do which pales in comparison. It's disappointingly uninspired and not even widescreen.

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 No.6276

File: 1447527720668.png (2.71 MB,1920x816,40:17,aptswsm.png)

>>6270

>It looks like it could be a hard one to finish though...

You are in for a ride, it needs extra motivation, if you are a MST3K fan then there's a version in it if you want company

Best i've seen is a flip between the silly Goldmember or the serious In the Interest of the Nation (a mainstream adaptation of a Hamilton book, which is heavily inspired/ripped from Bond books)

Any Austin Powers is more memorable thou, and the rip-offs aren't that good because James Bond actually isn't THAT good either, they are very charming but almost all of them are flawed at some point, if you watch them more than a couple of times you will realize most of them could have been way better if taken seriously and not rushed

It's also funny how if you skip/ignore some movies there's a very consistent timeline with many layers, my guess is that it was accidental but the result is good enough even with all the creative media problems (Blofeld), like an improvisational paint fest/epilepsy attack can lead to good results

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 No.6279

File: 1447567390916-0.jpg (147.65 KB,572x800,143:200,media.jpg)

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>>6276

> You are in for a ride, it needs extra motivation, if you are a MST3K fan then there's a version in it if you want company

Ha ha, I might try that. Cheap Italian movies from 1967 can be pretty fun, and I especially enjoy early Morricone. It has to be one of the lowest-rated movies that he scored though.

Yeah Bond movies aren't consistently great and I haven't even seen very many of them. They can be formulaic to the point of self-parody. The 60s spy genre is basically adolescent male fantasy fulfillment. But that's not so bad and I'd watch more given time — the (original) French "0SS 117" series for example.

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 No.6293

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I felt like watching something other than 70s/80s chinese cartoons and remembered >>2648 recommending The Gospel According to St. Matthew, to whom I now owe my undying gratitude.

Because I'm awful at writing reviews or anything in general, have a webm of >>6193 instead.

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 No.6299

File: 1447834360713.jpg (109.26 KB,712x544,89:68,Diamonds.jpg)

Diamonds of the night - This one grew on me the more i thought about it afterwards, and i would like to rewatch it sometime. It used an effective stream-of-consciousness editing which blends memories of the past with visions of the future ....and it's not always clear which is which. I also liked the visceral handheld tracking shots through the forest. Cinematographer was Jaroslav Kucera who shot Daises among other things.

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 No.6300

>Haxan

I was surprised by how disturbing it could be at times

>Vagabond

Probably now my favorite from Varda. Really haunting, reminiscent of La Strada, and had some really interesting sprinkles of philosophical discussion in it.

>Leon: the Professional

just garbage, Besson's films deserve no praise

>Lake Mungo

surprisingly decent, the photographs felt like much more than just a gimmick, very well-executed horror flick

>Bram Stoker's Dracula

why Coppola?

>The Long Day Closes

not particularly interesting

>Il Grido

incredible, one of the best of what could be considered Italian neorealism.

also, is the font on this board courier? if so, that's pretty awesome

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 No.6322

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>>6300

>just garbage, Besson's films deserve no praise

Very controversial opinion that i fully share, i can see some talent behind the film but for one Leon is always sold as a hitman movie with something extra. But it ends up being just a drama about the "interesting" relation of an old man and a girl (interesting in the Hollywood sense, with its implied morbid and romantic buttsex links) with a "tragic" yet "feel-good" ending, and it just turns out the old man was a hitman by mere coincidence (and not a very good one)

It's very overrated in that sense (hitman genre) and also falls flat in the action and morbid relation departments

Who knows why it got so much praise, and why nobody in the damn building heard Oldman's screams and a dude inside the vents, still not really a bad film like his newer stuff

Nikita is a little better but falls short due to a lot of decisions and scene/idea focus that aren't supposed to be the focus

5th Element had a lot of moments but it always felt like a silly journey with underused (Oldman) and overworked (Leopard Dress Tucker, Willis) actors, and a Bladerunner universe blantant rip-off

That's Luc Besson's works for me, lots of potential that don't deliver and then take another road one really doesn't expect nor want

And talking about french hitman movies, saw Le Deuxième Souffle (Second Breath) by Jean-Pierre Melville

In line with Le Cercle Rouge, this one is about the post-prison exploits and coincidential moments of a criminal who just went out from prison. They share many aspects, but this one focuses a little more on the relation between the ex-con and his old partner in crime and supposedly in love who is now a night club and racket owner plus his old friends (without overblowing it like Besson), this instead of the focus on procedures and planning talk Cercle Rouge had

It's one of the lesser-known titles from Melville but i found it to be one of his best, IMO better executed than Army of Shadows (who both share lead actors and locations), it doesn't have the slow tension or cold atmosphere of it but repays with interesting set pieces and dialogue dynamics, and it doesn't hide cool images from time to time

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 No.6323

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>>6322

> It's one of the lesser-known titles from Melville but i found it to be one of his best

Agreed. In fact I like it more than Le cercle rouge which seemed a bit average by comparison. It must be one of the first heist movies to feature dual / dueling police and criminal protagonists. Michael Mann lifted that idea in Heat of course.

Has anyone seen the remake? I kind of wanted to watch the remake of Bob le flambeur with Nick Nolte too. I don't think that either of those are especially great.

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 No.6325

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Funeral Parade of Roses. Pretty good.

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 No.6328

>>6325

>only region 2 according to dvdbeaver

where the hell can I find this

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 No.6329

>>6322

>Le Deuxième Souffle

ya that's #409 on my queue so I expect to see it in about 2 years from now. also, I recently watched Accattone and Grey Gardens. What would you say is Pasolini's best work? He seems like a director I'd enjoy, like pretty much every other Italian director. As for Grey Gardens, it felt like I was in an anthropology class or something. Any recs for films like it? I was going to check out Gimme Shelter by the Maysles brother but I'm wondering if there are any films that can recapture the vibe from GG

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 No.6330

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>>6328

i could have sworn criterion released it by now

but no, it's not even on bluray except in Japan!

http://www.kingrecords.co.jp/cs/g/gKIXF-197/

you'll probably have to download it to see it

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 No.6331

>>6329

> What would you say is Pasolini's best work?

probably The Gospel According to St Matthew. i should mention Che cosa sono le nuvole? too (it's a short)

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 No.6335

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I have never seen a movie start out so promising and then shit itself that hard until now.

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 No.6336

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>>6323

>Michael Mann lifted that idea in Heat of course

And funny thing is, Heat is the remake of of one of his lesser known low-budget TV movies L.A. Takedown

That's why i rarely skip TV movies from well-known directors when making lists, there's some who have big potential or quirky something-something if one can ignore the lack of funds or talent in some parts (if there's is)

Haven't seen the remake of Deuxieme but i heard bad rap in terms of looking fakey and trying too hard, or at least that's what the TV guide said. Also Eric Cantona as an actor

Nick Nolte has a strange thing going on, a good bunch of his films are regarded as trash but have a cult following or so to say, like Mulholland Falls, it even landed the director the 007 job (which was a disaster). Kinda like Nicholas Cage but less overblown and from what i have seen not about his acting either, so i wouldn't be surprised one of those niche films was Bob the Gambler (or Good Thief)

>>6329

>What would you say is Pasolini's best work?

Well i'm kinda ashamed to say i haven't seen all Paso's work other than the obligatory Salo viewing, Accatone and Arabian Nights. From those 3 i will say the one i liked the most was Accatone, but i heard around here Vangelo Secondo San Matteo (Gospel of Matthew) and Cantebury Tales are his peaks. Cantebury is seen as a Caligula-esque film, it has its chops but people see it for the skin

But the guy is one of those who had respectable prizes in most of his films, my bet is that you would most probably find his job interesting if not good

About Grey Garden i'm kinda ignorant on that

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 No.6337

>>6329

> any films that can recapture the vibe from GG

That's one Maysles Bros documentary I haven't seen yet. Can you be more specific about what you want? I can make an easy suggestion to try others who utilized "direct cinema": Allan King, Robert Drew, DA Pennebaker, Frederick Wiseman, Robert Kaylor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Cinema

>>6336

> Heat is the remake of of one of his lesser known low-budget TV movies L.A. Takedown

Yes, I forgot about that detail and I'd like to check that one out. I still need to see Thief too.

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 No.6345

>Eyes without a face

was an alright flick not much more

>Viridiana

The scene with the suicide was absolutely mesmerizing, something about it was just done so well. I didn't have a high opinion of Bunuel when it comes to things like shot composition and general cinematography but I'm now determined to rewatch his films and see if I can't notice similar-quality shots. Apart from that, it felt like he was too obvious with the symbolism in Viridiana at times. Still pretty effective though

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 No.6365

File: 1448725931267.jpg (31.02 KB,300x405,20:27,Ran.jpg)

Pretty damn epic, the last battle was a bit of a letdown, also i think a prologue of sorts showing the actions Hidetori took against Sue and Kaede's families would have been nice.

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 No.6376

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One of my all time favourites

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 No.6381

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If there's supposed to be an underlying message to El Topo as a whole, I'll freely admit that I didn't pick up on it but still enjoyed the film and its dream logic. Maybe I'll rewatch it someday when I'm less of a plebian and understand it a bit better, in the meantime I'm just grateful to have seen it at all.

As for Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, it was essentially just a more traditional Mamoru Oshii movie with too many philosophy quotes that just happened to share some characters with the original movie. It's not a bad film by any means, it's just that the director has made much better films in the past and I'm surprised that this competed for the Palme d'Or at all.

There's not much of a point in saying anything about Vertigo at all, since so much has already been said on the film and there's no reason for me to write an entire essay praising it when I can barely manage two or three sentence posts on what movies I've watched.

Fuck, I really need to learn how to write properly or else there's not much of a point in participating in these threads.

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 No.6384

>>6381

There's a director's commentary track for El topo if you want to know more about Jodorowsky's intentions.

I think it's good to preserve some of the enigma of the film though. It loses some of its magic if you know the definitive purpose of every scene.

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 No.6387

>>6384

At least getting it straight from the director and other production crew members is better than reading theories from hack feminist scholars and other mediocre writers/critics whose ideologies actively get in the way of watching and interpreting movies.

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 No.6390

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>>6387

Yeah plenty of film theory comes off as overwrought mental masturbation so the critic can justify their own existence.

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 No.6398

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Beyond the Black Rainbow. It was okay, I guess. A bit too masturbatory at times.

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 No.6407

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>>6390

I see this sentiment expressed often, towards criticism in general, not just film theory.

It took me some time to understand its popularity considering its so staunchly anti-intellectual but I've come to realize it's usually shared in the interest of someone protecting their ego because they were accidentally exposed to something that went over their head (the horror!) and can't accept the off chance they might not know everything (or are simply stupid). It's a lot more likely that you simply don't have the background (or IQ) to understand a piece than an entire professional community is deceived by an "emperor's new clothes". Tough shit.

There's a good anecdote about the reception of Malevich's utopian art with the working class. They refused to believe such radical abstract art could be a sincere attempt to bring art out of the hands of the rich to the people through a universal aesthetics. So, like you, the working class assumed it was another pretentious, indulgent prank of the upper classes trying to make a fool of the people as much as they seem to make a fool of themselves. Emperor in new clothes! Art that had long been kept out of their reach was now handed straight to them, but in their fear, they chose to preclude themselves from the prize. Tough shit.

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 No.6411

>>6407

Hm, I've found that writers can become storytellers themselves and project more meanings and find more connections in a piece of art than the creator could have ever intended. Some of that may be interesting to read, but I approach everything (including film analysis) with an empiricist's skepticism.

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 No.6415

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>>6407

Actually, I would argue that your first paragraph describes the community you're attempting to defend.

The world of critics who interpret movies primarily through their ideology of choice, whether it be feminism, marxism, christianity, or another flavor of the month, quite often stumble across films that were not created with these frameworks in mind and as you stated, "can't accept the off chance they might not know everything (or are simply stupid)." Their professional communities are often not infallible either, built up on social networking and knowing the right things to say to please their teachers and peers who grant their positions. Many philosophical movements and critical opinions of the past have since been found faulty and abandoned entirely, making it foolish to assert that modern critics and academics are incapable of being mistaken as well simply because of their positions, numbers, and agreement (see the gender studies community, for instance).

That's not to say that good critics do not exist, mind you, they generally have a broad background of knowledge and experience to refer to rather than one or two constantly fluctuating movements which rise and fall from favour. I would not consider myself to be one of these people yet either, which is why I don't write at length on most of the films I watch in the same manner as Mexico anon and some of the others will.

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 No.6423

File: 1449624221159.jpg (149.38 KB,800x1186,400:593,locke.jpg)

I watched locke. Didn't know anything about it going in. I enjoyed it, but wasn't too attached to the characters. Really liked the visuals though.

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 No.6468

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That was pretty damn good.

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 No.6473

>>6407

>It's a lot more likely that you simply don't have the background (or IQ) to understand a piece than an entire professional community is deceived by an "emperor's new clothes". Tough shit.

I don't think critic community is ever deceived, but it's prone to "fashionable" opinions. How many movies got shat on release only to be redeemed years later? How many Oscar nominants were completely forgotten next year? My favourite example, Vertigo, got panned on release and it wasn't until one essay that it became "the best American movie ever, better than Citizen Kane". The movie itself is still the same mediocre shit it was, but now it's okay like it, so here we are. Critics are a fickle bunch, and you shouldn't trust them completely.

>There's a good anecdote about the reception of Malevich's utopian art with the working class.

It's funny that you've picked Malevich of all people for an example, a man whose crowning achievement was painting the canvas black. No shit proletariat didn't like that. Do you also consider Jackson Pollock a great artist?

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 No.6477

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>The forbidden Fortress

It was ok, definitely not my favourite Kurosawa pic, the interplay between the two peasants was funny and touching at the end, I found the entire 'hiding gold in wood' plot point distracting they carried tons of that shit on their backs

>The quiet duel- Kurosawa

Pretty good, but felt awkwardly paced

>Scandal- Kurosawa

I loved this one, based Takashi Shimura at it again, couldn't figure out why he wasn't the main character or at least why he showed up so late he was far more interesting than Mifune's character was this just Kurosawa frothing over him again or because they just needed a handsome incorruptible leading man? Pacing seemed a bit imbalanced again with the actual 'scandal' that the title suggests not happening until 3 quarters through the movie. That seen where he's offering presents to his daughter had me close to tears.

>The assassination of Jesse James by some Cassey Afflek looking kid- Andrew Dominik

Pretty good but fucking long, it might as well have been a book with all that narration

>The merchant of four seasons

Pretty depressing, didn't seem like a black comedy to me, but it could just be German humour.

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 No.6478

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Slow West ... I like that westerns are still getting made but this was fairly unremarkable. Quite nice music and landscapes though. The color saturation was often too high, nearing Skittles commercial levels. The familiar character types made me interested to read the westerns section of tvtropes.

There were several lines expressing regret for the widespread killing of Indians, which made me wonder how many people of the time actually held that viewpoint.

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 No.6479

File: 1450899897078.jpg (368.02 KB,2232x1216,279:152,sicar.jpg)

>Sicario

Not much I liked in here, despite eagerly waiting it.

Some of the aerial shots looked pretty as did the landscapes were dark blue sky mixed to setting sun. Aerial shots mixed with the heavy bass OST managed to muster up some scary atmosphere.

The op. of extracting the cartel head over the border was the final time I was thrilled. Even the conclusion to that, raise guns get shot boo you are supposed to condemn the operators? What.

I felt like I had seen the movie before seeing it and I guess this little thought kept nagging and nagging inside my head.

I think I'd have liked it more if was completely from the POV of Brolin's organization. Felt it lacked the scope to pull the final conclusion.

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 No.6481

The Seventh Continent - Haneke

After watching his Palm D'or winning movies and the original Funny Games I decided to watch Haneke's filmography. I think this was pretty great for a debut film and it has the typical Haneke violence that just leaves you feeling bad for hours after watching it. The fishies got me sad though

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 No.6506

>Mordecai(2015)

Ironically, Depp like Mordecai had to be in serious debt to agree to do this.

>Stars Wars VII

sight, just dissapointing.

Not gonna say its bad, but it wasnt good either, just meh.

I barely recognized JJ direction on this, I dont think he had much control over it.

The acting and pacing was horrible tho.

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 No.6588

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I can't hate on Jean Dujardin because Oscar voters are stupid. Even if he's not a great actor I think he can be pretty funny under the right circumstances. So I gave this a chance...

It's a French comedy with an interesting spin on an old concept about trying to outwit death (who appears at your house in the form of a man), but it's all executed so limply you wonder why it was ever made. It sets up for black comedy but doesn't pay off. Writer/director Bertrand Blier might be getting too old?

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 No.6628

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This has to be one of Franco Nero's best roles and one of the best Italian cop movies. The genre is often pulpy and violent but Confessions of a Police Captain is less action and more brooding. The film gives a cynical critique of Italian society and the complex web of corruption that dominates it.

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 No.6632

File: 1454089768187.jpg (25.66 KB,855x345,57:23,springnightsummernight.jpg)

Saw this last night, a rare and long forgotten piece of American independent cinema. It's main value is ethnographic, providing a realistic depiction of impoverished rural American, and is really the only thing that kept me awake through the amateurish editing and pacing, as well as some rare moments of solid cinematography.

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 No.6666

this thread kills the 8ch

we need a new one.

Finally watched The Fountain.

Great movie, almost cried.

When you make a movie about life you have to touch death, and this movie really touched it, in almost every possible way. Its sad that the criticism I see for this movie is more about hur dur trees cannot live outside in space, instead of actually taking the meaning in.

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 No.6668

File: 1454629197716.jpg (33.25 KB,1920x1080,16:9,konec.jpg)

A new thread exists!

>>6630

>>6630

This one is now locked.

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