Wow vampires! Whatever next!( could it be vampires?) the words total bollocks spring to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
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Wow vampires! Whatever next!( could it be vampires?) the words total bollocks spring to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
I saw Bel Ami and was disappointed with it. Robert Pattinson was a poor choice for the lead role. He kept on playing a vampire throughout the movie. 2/10
Given the absolute rubbish that's foisted onto dumbed-down audiences these days, I'm not sure whether you are joking or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
Yeah, I'm getting tired of vampires myself. Maybe Abe Lincoln Alien Killer will come out next.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
That movie was a rent 2 for $1 deal at the library. The other movie was "Margot at the Wedding". Score 5/10.
In some ways these were both technically competent, but I didn't understand why the characters were acting the way they were. Even nutty characters have an inner consistency. For example, Jack Black was using a chain saw to cut down a rather large tree while arguing with the woman he was planning to marry the next day. She was standing only a few feet from him while the saw was cutting into the tree. It didn't make sense. Why would anyone approach someone doing something like that? Of course he would leave the tree partially cut down. That made sense, not that anyone in their right mind would do something like that, but these characters were not in their right mind.
Black Narcissus was an old move (1947), but the visual display was amazing. It is worth seeing just for that. Score: 8/10
What I don't get about film viewers nowadays is the total lack of a critical faculty when choosing what to watch. I mean, any film with vampires, aliens, zombies etc. etc., is by definition a lot of crap. Anyone who doesn't agree with the idea that there has been a dumbing down of the masses must be blind, given that what was once a niche part of film making has now become the norm.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
However, the scenario with the woman standing a few feet away from someone using a chainsaw isn't so far-fetched, as there was a case in England a few years ago where a woman interrupted her husband while he was standing on a ladder using one when he fell of the ladder and the chain saw actually decapitated her.
Black Narcissus is a much respected British film made by the then famed team of Powell and Pressburger and starred, among others, a very young Jean Simmons. I saw it some time ago and would also have given it 8/10
You're probably right about film viewers. The dumb part is not so much in the initial choice. That might be an innocent mistake. The dumb part is in watching the movie to the end which I actually did with Abe Lincoln and the vampires. I mean I was only out 50 cents and I didn't even have to walk out of a theater. I just had to turn it off.
My wife has more taste than I do. If a movie doesn't start making sense to her early on, she's off doing something else.
I just watched Bronson/Fonda Once upon a time in the west. I thought it was a verygood one of the oldies.
I love the book but didn’t like the movie and the actor who played Georges Duroy. I hope you are not including me in the category of ‘dumbed-down’ audience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
My Week With Marilyn
7/10
Do you watch vampire films?Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
Usually I don’t watch such movies, but I confess I’ve seen a couple of vampire films with my friends. They love these movies specially Twilight films.
La Signora di Tutti (1934; Max Ophuls)
9/10
Wonderful film. More raw than Ophuls later work, but more daringly experimental and nakedly emotional too.
'Interlude' with Oskar Werner and Babara Ferris (1968) This British film concerns the extra-marital affair between a famous conductor and a young female reporter who is sent to interview him. Adulterous affairs are legion among conductors so the basic premise is acceptable but, as the title suggests, they tend not to last and usually end in painful break-up.
The theme is rather hackneyed and the performances not particularly good, although it does capture some of the desolate undertone's that such affairs are prone to. Given their messy and inevitably doomed conclusion, one would think that they are best avoided but it only goes to show that men can seldom resist a pretty face.
5/10
Brave.
This was a nice mother-daughter story without a single vampire in the entire movie. I liked her red hair.
Score: 10/10
Leolo-- the best movie ever for me.
Apart from You (1933; Mikio Naruse) - 8/10
Every-Night Dreams (1933; Mikio Naruse) - 7/10
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948; Max Ophuls) - 8.5/10
Great film, that.Quote:
Originally Posted by miyako73
Today I watched Slander, a film made in 1957, based on the problem of scandal magazines that plagued America during the 1950s.
These magazines relied on the prurience of readers, whose mundane lives could only be enlivened by gossip about well-known people: much the same as so-called celebrity magazines do today; the difference being that, where literally anything goes in reporting the activities of 'celebrities' nowadays, back then public perception was more adult and civilised, and unacceptable behaviour was punished accordingly. In this case, a successful performer is blackmailed by the proprietor of a scandal magazine into giving information about a famous actress he grew up with.
As a morality tale it is quite good in style and Steve Cochran, who plays the villain of the piece, is worth watching if only for the exceedingly well-cut clothes he wears: I wish I had a dressing gown like that.
Glengary Glenross.
Watching the broadway show with Al Pacino in a few weeks in nyc.
Cannery Row, baed on two short Steinbeck novels, with Nick Nolte and Debra Winger (some of the plot is taken from Sweet Thursday) an older movie but still a delight. I'd give it 3 of 4 stars as a light-hearted comedy with poignant themes.
I'm so glad you liked it. It's one of my favorite movies. It's actually "Cannery Row," and the author is Steinbeck, but the movie does star Nolte and Winger in two of their best roles, I think.
Gawd ... how far off ... how far. Thanx for the corrections.
A Separation (2011; Asghar Farhadi) -- 8/10
A well-deserved Best Foreign Film Oscar. It's refreshing to see a film where there's serious conflict but no clear protagonist/antagonist and the morality is so ambiguous.
lol, you're welcome.
That's my favorite movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
I saw Midnight in Paris; it’s a film by Woody Allen. Though it wasn’t as good as Match Point, but I enjoyed watching it.
There's nothing wrong with a little melancholy in a Christmas film, and 'Comfort and Joy'(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsw1I15Fj9I) has a sleigh's worth of plaintiveness in amongst a continually surprising story of a recently-dumped radio DJ who becomes a go-between in the middle of estranged gelato producers. I'm nothing less than circumspect around movies that purport to be exemplary products of British humour, but this one is so bitingly sardonic yet strangely festive that I was won over in no time. On a twelve-days-of-Christmas scale, it rates a 10/12. The only trouble is that this isn't exactly a family-friendly Xmas flick, due to the romantic woe and the depiction of the ice cream wars(in which six people died).
?! What's the scoop there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Svidrigailov
Davide Manuli's "La Leggenda Di Kaspar Hauser." Amazing film, a little strange. I've always had a thing for Vincent Gallo. The man is rather unlikable but he does have talent and a certain irresistible charm. This film though, surreal, amusing, strange. Long takes alongside electronic music. An odd combination, yet it works to some degree. This film is surely not for all, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Kaspar Hauser, an evil Grand Duchess, a pusher, a DJ sheriff, the mediterranean, long takes, surreal sequences, an amazing electronica soundtrack of sorts. 7.5/10
Has anyone seen Manuli's earlier film Beket? It looks absurd and fascinating. A strange retelling of various works of Samuel Beckett with a predisposition towards Waiting for Godot. Hideous, fragmented, disjointed, repetitive, absurd, filled with trance music dreams. Or so the trailer seems to suggest. Now if only I could find a copy.
The Iron Lady (2011; Phyllida Lloyd) - 7/10
Meryl Streep was predictably awesome, but everything else was fairly meh.
The Grey (2011: Joe Carnahan) - 5/10
Mediocre plane crash survival film with some hilariously bad CGI wolves.
Bride & Prejudice: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361411/
A musical based on Pride and Prejudice with the action centered in Amritsar, Punjab.
Score: 7/10
I've seen a couple of movies with my nieces.
Ice Age: Continental Drift 5/10
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas 7/10
A Christmas movie with Henry Winkler and Aubrey Hepburn. It sucked.
Manhattan by Woody Allen 8/10!
We entertained my 9 year old niece and nephew this weekend.
The entertainment included the thrilling Forbidden Planet pulled from the Gurgle vaults.
Forbidden Planet stars Leslie Nielson, Walter Pigeon, the smoking hot Anne Francis and the robot "Robby"
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y4crGU7dkg
The kids were enthralled with Robby and the special effects, while I was stealing glances at Anne.
The usual 7/10 (the 'Killer Shrews" being a perfect 10)
I remember seeing that when I was a child. Something about the "monsters of the id" was all I remember being too young to appreciate Anne Francis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Husbands (1970; John Cassavetes) - 8/10
Depending on your opinion of Cassavetes' style of actor-centric improvisation, the film is either exhilarating or exasperating. I lean towards both. It's an experience I won't forget, but one I likely won't feel the urge to revisit soon.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011; David Fincher) - 7/10
Better than the Swedish version thanks to Fincher's laser sharp direction, but it still feels rather underwhelming despite the fine performances.
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010; Raul Ruiz) - 9.5/10
Its narrative is labyrinthine with its wealth of intricately related vignettes woven together over a 4.5 hour runtime. One can tell that its source is a 19th century novel with the proliferation of characters and stories-within-stories. However novel-esque its plot, it's the extraordinary visuals that make it entirely cinematic. It looks like Mizoguchi directing a Visconti film, with the opulent, operatic production design and melodrama of the latter paired with the cinematographic, graceful, long-takes and distance of the former. A truly unforgettable experience.
Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) Directed by Eric Rohmer.
This film in black and white, as most of the so-called 'New Wave' French films of the period are, is a stylish but also slightly stylised and wordy story of a man's struggle to live according to his religious principles in a world where religion has been undermined by science. As an engineer for the Michelin company his Catholicism and the requirements of his work are the cause of a conflict that becomes even more sharply focused when he meets an old schoolfriend who introduces him to a smart divorcee who tries to seduce him. Although he is tempted, he rejects her for a woman he has seen attending church services and whom he eventually marries.
There is some outstanding camera work showing the town of Clermont-Ferand and the Auvergne countryside in winter and good, though slightly muted, performances from the cast.
7/10
Quartet (1981): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082964/
The library put up a display of their Merchant-Ivory films and so I tried this one. It is based on Jean Rhys' novel. I enjoyed Isabelle Adiani's portrayal of Marya.
8/10
That's my favorite Rohmer film of those I've seen thus far, but I think it's better when seen in the context of his other "Six Moral Tales." As is typical with Rohmer, complex and ambiguous moral situations are worked out with a great deal of detail, with plenty of interplay between the copious dialogue and camera.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I watched Adventures of Tintin with my young cousins who are spending their weekend with us. This movie is directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson and we all enjoyed it. 8/10