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Trance
I watched Epic last night. 7/10
Balupu.......
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Joseph Cotten leads in this Hitchcock suspense story as a killer of rich widows who escapes police surveillance by returning to his long lost family in a small Californian town. The family are overjoyed to welcome him back, completely unaware that he is wanted for three murders on the other side of the country.
Gradually, however, certain traces of his murderous character come to light when detectives arrive in town having him marked down as a suspect. The problem with the film is that it loses the 'did he, didn't he' aspect early on in the film so that we know that he's the killer and not another man, also being hunted elsewhere as a possible suspect. The acting is, as one might expect from Hitchcock, first rate and the film gets 8/10.
http://youtu.be/KShiFuerkCk
Spring Breakers, the new Harmony Korine movie.
3.9/5 stars.
I watched Dorian Gray and it really disappointed me. Movie ruined the original story and the characters. 4/10
Saw Monster University with my daughters (8 and 10). Not bad, but we were all a little disappointed that it was a so short on incipient nihilism.
Was it the 8 or 10-year-old who said that? And how did the other respond?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Celeste and Jesse Forever 8/10 I really like Rashida Jones. A sweet and low-key indie that explores the dissolution of a young woman's first important relationship and her coming to terms with it's loss.
Fruitvale Station 10/10 The last day in the life of a young man.
Ugetsu, by Kenji Mizoguchi. 9/10, a really good film.
Scenes From A Marriage, by Bergman. I'm not sure how to rate it, but I can say it's not one of my favorite Bergman.
Animal Kingdom 8 maybe 8.5/10
Actually Nell (10) felt more strongly than Grace (8) about the lack of incipient nihilism. Grace was of the opinion that, on the whole, the piece was played straight without the usual car crashes and bloodletting that has marked the decline of the US cinema with the onset of incipient nihilism and its worldwide exploitation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Me, I felt that by definition 'incipience' covers the concept of 'initiation', so 'onset' was redundant. But kids today, eh? Their thinking is sloppy and so is their sentence construction. I blame the parents.
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I watched Eraserhead with the lad the other night. I have seen if before in the 80s, but, except for a few scenes - I'd had a few and my mate insisted even though I was falling asleep - I couldn't remember it.
So we watched it, and I now have an "I watched Eraserhead All the Way Through" badge, and membership to the Pretentious Crap Film Club. I'm still an admirer of Henry's hair though.
I saw "Hannah Arendt" last night. There's not much action; the life of the mind is not quite as "cinematic" as cow-punching. It did appear as if chain smoking cigarettes makes one smarter -- they appear to have worked for Ms. Arendt, who chain smoked throughout the film. I was going to take up smoking and philosophizing (thinking it might help me in my arguments on the "Religious Literature" board), but my girlfriend told me that she wouldn't hang out with me any more if I start smoking.
The movie focuses on Arendt's coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial for "The New Yorker". It was in her New yorker articles that she coined the phrase, "The banality of evil." The movie used only old TV footage from the actual trial to show Eichmann in his glass caged defendant's dock. It was creepy. Eichmann looked like a banal beaurocrat, but an evil, self centered one. "I was just following orders," was Eichmann's consistant refrain, and, indeed, he appeared to have no personal animosity toward the hundreds of thousands of Jews he sent to death (he was in charge of organizing transportation to the Concentration camps).
Arendt's articles (which I haven't read) focused on the breakdown of morality -- on how in trying times people stop "thinking" -- the ultimate sin for Arendt. This was true not only of Eichmann, but of some Jewish leaders who were complicit in sending their brethren to their deaths, as Arendt reported. The combination of blaming Jewish leaders, and reporting on Eichman as being a banal beaurocrat instead of a monster threw Arendt into a firestorm of criticism from the Jewish community in both New York and Israel. It probably didn't help that she had been an acolyte (and lover) of Martin Heidegger prior to the war, and that Heidegger had joined the Nazi party.
Despite it's non-cinematic themes, the movie is well done. Smokers might want to wait for the video, so they can puff away while watching.
Camus is shown smoking in almost every picture I've seen of him. It is strange that there still remains to extent this association of smoking with sophistication when smoking has to be one of the most stupid things a person can do. I'm a smoker and I experience deep shame lighting up in public.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ecurb
I checked an Arendt book out of the library once. It was really tough and I ended up quitting it out of intellectual laziness.
Well, back then they didn't know it caused cancer. It wasn't until the sixties that they started to figure it out. I remember my dad had smoked a pipe and still enjoyed cigars, but when they started informing the public of the dangers of smoking, he quit immediately. He had great discipline. My mom continued, then suffered for years from emphysema.
Anywho. that was just part of the lifestyle then, although there are some dangers in showing this and making it seem sophisticated, as you said. Young people are apparently very susceptible to those images, interestingly. And did you know that if a child plays with/eats candy cigarettes (do they even still make those?) it may increase their chances of taking up smoking?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0618091217.htm
The last movie I saw, is 'Under the Tuscan Sun'...it was on cable, and my son was asleep, and so I finally got to see it.
I felt it was a beautiful movie: there was just the right mix of fantasy, as well as pragmatism - as is life!
I just saw 'Pacific Rim' yesterday I really liked it. Idris Elba was great, he is my favorite actor at the moment and it doesn't hurt how very hot he is. Some of the drama was a bit annoying and I have to admit I was hoping for a slightly bigger ending without saying to much about it.
The leading male was OK (no idea who he is), it was good that he didn't take to much room I think so the others could shine, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman were great scientists.
I don't really drink and definitely not the strong stuff but there was a big drinking game in that movie.
Only God Forgives. 10/10
I saw Rise of the Guardian last night with my nieces. This time they brought the DVD and kept on reminding me that it belongs to them. We enjoyed the movie a lot. 7/10
I watched "Now you see me" on Sunday. I loved it 9/10.
I also watched Beautiful Creatures. Pile of ****e. Book was better
Ran by Kurosawa. Has anyone else seen this? I thought it was astounding, one of his very best.
I've not seen Ran I've seen quite a few of his though.
Last night I watched The Virgin Spring, Bergman, the fourth Bergman I have watched to date:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82_I...=TLfST1tyU0GIo
I thought it was OK, pretty good. Wild Strawberries and this one I have liked, that Wolf one can't think of the name of it right now and Seventh Seal, were too odd for me.
Monsters University. My cousin liked it, I thought it was ok. 6/10
I'd recommend Fanny and Alexander as his best - though it does get a little surreal toward the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I saw The Bridge as Ramagen, in military.com. I thought it was interesting regarding the exposure of Nazi officers who were no longer going to take orders from Hitler's madness and realized that their war was already lost. However on the American side the movie was inconsistent with military teamwork, and could not have happened in that messy way. It was very atypical. Still very interesting.
I watched Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted with my nieces, it was a great fun. And when the movie ended they kept on repeating the words “Trapeze Americano”. It’s amazing how kids easily learn new words. They even tried to sing like Dubois.
I'll give it 7/10
Went to see The Wolverine yesterday, pretty good. A lot of action and pain just like wolvie likes it. I didn't like Jean Gray's role in it, found it kinda pointless. And some very funny scenes about how tough he is and that he is a loner and will bear his curse alone, I always find that funny. I don't think he smoked a lot in this one, he is really the only person who 'can' smoke. I always enjoy Marvel's hidden ending, most of the audience had already left and there were about 7 of us left in our seats waiting patiently and a few who were walking down when it started but about 60% had left.
It's Marvel you know there is a secret ending!
Gangster Squad. Very well fashioned after a 40's/50's thriller. It reminded me a lot of The Asphalt Jungle, stylistically. I liked it.
El Topo. This one is a classic. A fusion of surrealism, mysticism, absurdism and existentialism typically found in Alejandro Jodorowski's films - at least, the good ones. 9, 9.5/10.
Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus. 7/10 I really liked this. Be forewarned that it's a bit rambling, and also, it's not really about drugs, although they do figure largely in the plot. Michael Cera is hilarious and awesome, as usual, as is his hair, I might add.
I saw Magic Magic with my cousins last night. There is nothing much to see except the magnificent scenery of Chile. 2/10
The same could be said of Crystal Fairy, hehe, nevertheless I want to see this one, too, Snowqueen. I didn't realize it had been released.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
I stayed up much too late last night to watch An Unbearable Lightness of Being on the box. I've decided that I definitely fancy Lena Olin, and Juliette Binoche is very nice too; they're both good actresses. However, they didn't need to do much acting to keep a chap interested because they seemed to be naked, or nearly naked, most of the time. I thought What's 'is face, the Irish chap, played a rather unsympathetic character whose primary purpose was to fornicate his way through the female cast, who all seemed to be remarkably compliant.
The most interesting part of the film dealt with the Prague Spring of '68, which I remember, and that was gritty, raw and thanks to archive footage neatly spliced in, very authentic. I wish I hadn't stayed up to watch it though. 5/10
Separate Tables (1958)
This black and white rendition of the celebrated play by Terence Rattigan has a tremendous cast including David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper and Felix Aylmer.
An English seaside hotel has a number of residents, some of whom have the inevitable skeleton in the cupboard and the resultant exposure makes for the dramatic tension between them.
The main problem with the film is that it’s set bound and the entrances and exits betray its stage origin all too obviously but, despite Deborah Kerr’s overplaying the repressed daughter of an overbearing mother, there are some excellent performances from Wendy Hiller, David Niven and Burt Lancaster. Lancaster was in my view one of the most natural actors to come out of Hollywood and turns in a very watchable performance as an American writer trying to come to terms with the failure of his marriage to Rita Hayworth, who turns up at the hotel having tracked him down through his agent.
The main thrust of the film comes from the fact that the resident British army major, played by David Niven, is in reality a confidence trickster who is arrested for molesting women in a cinema.
David Niven and Wendy Hiller won academy awards for their performances.
8/10
Global Epidemic Exposed - Television Sigil Magik
(free on awakenvideo.org)
10/10
I would really like to know your thoughts on that film, Qimi. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Jeans very nice movie.8/10