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Ah, I miss Lykren. Such a nice guy in such a wicked world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Yeah, trust me, if you don't do self indulgent you don't do Fellini.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
:lol: You're killing me today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
I guess I should contribute to this thread. The most recent film I saw was last night, entitled Sexy Young Girl does Anal with her Friend's Dad. I'll admit I didn't understand it. I'd heard art films could be a little hard to decipher. Some of the metaphors, for example. What does 'schoolgirl's wrists and ankles bound behind her back with older man's necktie' mean, for instance? Then there were extended sections of the film where the girl enjoyed lying on the bed with her head hanging over the edge, mouth open. What's the import there? Is it a statement about women's liberation?
I learned later, too, that the film is part of a trilogy that includes Young Rebellious Girl does Anal with Therapist and My Friends Tag Teamed my Sister. The second film, apparently, attracted great interest at Cannes. I personally don't get it. Maybe art films just aren't for me.
I agree, Tyrion. I abandoned them myself, decades ago.
I didn't realize we were rating such films in this thread. What a waste of potential, I should have several hundred more entries by now.Quote:
The most recent film I saw was last night, entitled Sexy Young Girl does Anal with her Friend's Dad.
There are always several hundred entries in films like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
hahahaha
'9 to 5', an 80's comedy about women in the workplace. Dolly Parton and other women who are tired of working in a man's world. Very entertaining and some great scenes about the treatment of women in some places and by some people.
I remember seeing that when it first came out. Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda are a heck of a team, and Dabney Coleman was a perfect foil. Great fun at the time, though I have no idea how it's aged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
OK, so moments ago I finished watching 10 Cloverfield Lane. I have to say I feel I got my money's worth. It was a good thriller, definitely worth the rental. Good performances all around. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
I saw a few days The Film Crew's mocking commentary during the 1958 movie "The Wild Women of Wongo". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpoOKWhJFNo
I am still trying to figure out if I am glad I watched it or not. If you have absolutely nothing better to do, you might try this.
Score: 1/10
My wife and I watched the film "Suffragette" and throughly enjoyed it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_(film)
I think it is surprising how many things in it still apply, even though it is a comedy and should be seen as such, women are still getting harassed (by some people not all of course) and one point was made when one of them didn't get a promotion it was because 'people trust men better when it comes to numbers' , I think similar situations happen every now and then still today over 30 years after the movie was released...Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
I watched "Florence" three weeks ago. Interestig theme, grand performance by Merril Streep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HszfdNS0JSc
8,5/10
Watched Julieta today. Good argument (based on three stories by Alice Munro), good acting, beautiful scenery. But where is Almodovar?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julieta_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5_4osOZK8
8,0/10,0
Danik, Almodovar is a place in both Spain and Portugal: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almodovar
Thanks, Dreamwoven. I didn´t know there were places called Almodovar too.
But what I mean is that Julieta is not a typical Almodovar film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Almod%C3%B3var
I have watched almost all the films of this formerly very irreverent director.
Danik, you didn't know Almodovar was a place, but I didn't know it was the name of film director.
Here is another sample, this time a typical one. If my memory doesn´t fail me this is the film that brought him international fame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol9GFw_gthQ
this weekend was a Star Trek weekend for me and my son, a Kelvin timeline weekend. We re-watched 1 and 2 and yesterday went to see the third instalment in the ST Kelvin verse.
Being a huge ST nerd I could write an article about this new movie but I will just say, the best one of the three. Simon Pegg didn't let me down and as usual when it comes to him a good story.
My biggest issue comes down to direction, I am not a fan of fast moving and short shots in fight scenes, I prefer a steady cam and big picture cause these scenes can be amazing when it comes to actor/stunt-peoples movement and responses.
Still the best of three so I am happy and my son was thrilled, he was the youngest audience member.
A gem of the Chinese Cinema filched from the Chinese thread:
Red Sorghum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVTrnFSHfvI
C.H.U.DS. Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. Yum.
A few years back the really bad movies thread was all the rage for a spell. Somewhere along the way, a member offered up Night of the Lepus as a must see. After seeing the trailer at the time, it was immediately added to my must see list. It took a few years, but I finally made the leap and watched it last night.
5/10
It couldn't get the image of Pompey Bum out of my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yww2x3bm9k
EDIT
actually this video is much better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPvXMoVCV8
I saw it years ago, GG. No matter how much mayhem the giant bunnies wrought, they never stopped looking cute. It's hard feel blind panic at a monster that's wiggling its nose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GmrvH3PYnEc
Started watching High-Rise a couple of nights ago, because Tom Hiddleston (much to his chagrin, I should think) is in it and the description sounded semi-interesting. Suffice it to say, run, and I mean run screaming, from this abortion of a flick. Seventeen minutes into it, convinced this film was proof of the long-prophesied End Times, I turned it off, grabbed a bimbo and my trusty M-16, and headed for the bunker.
The Brothers Grimsby: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_brothers_grimsby/
This is one of those parody movies about spies and assassins and since there are so many of these today that to be different they had to go over the top which they did, especially at the end with the way these brothers saved the world, or rather that part of the world who enjoy soccer.
Score: 7/10 (maybe 5/10?)
Cafe Society
http://www.cafesocietymovie.com/
1930 Film Era
Somewhat to modern, with the hard cynicism of our days.
But anyway, the nostalgia of some one who has seen the Golden Days of the American Film Industry.
7/10
Aquarius
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5221584/
Symbolic of the country it represents. A good film, but a bit too long and a bit too slow.
8,5/10
I saw "Hell or High Water" and "Kubo and the Two Strings" last week. Both are excellent.
"Hell or High Water" is a modern Western. Two brothers start robbing the banks that are going to repossess the family farm of their recently deceased mother. The movie is full of dry humor, Western tropes, and beautiful shots of West Texas. For example, after the brothers rob one bank, they are chased by gun-toting West Texans who just happened to be armed while transacting business at the bank during the robbery (and have probably dreamed of forming a posse for most of their lives). Jeff Bridges plays a crusty Texas ranger, and Brit David McKenzie directs. It's very well done.
"Kubo" is an animated film from the Oregon-based studio Laika. It is set in a mythical Japan, and Kubo is the grandson of the Moon King, who has taken one of his eyes and wants the remaining one. Kubo is a story teller, accompanying his stories on his lyre, and he tells his audience, "If you blink, do it now." Otherwise, you might miss something. Don't blink during this movie, or you might miss one of hundreds of stunning shots, replete with beauty and emotional resonance. Don't wait for it to be on TV -- animated movies on TV are like the prints of great paintings reproduced in books. There are a few fight scenes that pander to kids, and go on a little to long, but the rest of the movie is so gorgeous that complaints are trivial.
'One more time with a feeling' the documentary about Nick Cave and his latest album and how he has dealt with the loss of his son. Very good and intense at times.
The album is brilliant too
A model/call girl is found murdered in her London apartment; a detective and his sidekick try to discover who among her acquaintances is the killer but are unable to pin it on any one of several suspects.
Ian Hendry plays the cynical detective who uncovers the drugs ring behind the murder and finally reveals the person responsible.
Pretty boring due to slack direction and predictable plot but at least it was in black and white.
I am a fan of the Iranian cinema, they know how to make much out of little. Usually their films are political, This one is a
situational comedy. Hilarious!
http://www.iranarthousefilm.net/movi...azemi/#trailer
10/10
I mainly enjoy comedy. I will see if I can find Maat.
Yesterday I watched "I am Wrath", an action movie rather than a comedy although since the good guys win and the bad guys get killed this might be considered a sort of comedy. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_am_wrath/
The plot was something I tend to expect. There are good guys who have superpowers, such as, having experience with "black ops", who have to act against the government to bring justice back to civilization. Once they have been wronged which motivates them to act they start killing everyone in their way until they kill the top bad guy, the governor of a state.
It was an acceptable vengeance movie, but the plot bothered me not because it has been done so many times before but because it was done at all. Usually the bad guys are foreigners trying to get nukes to blow up the world and the good guys with superpowers kill them along with a few rogue agents. It is usually safe watching foreigners getting their butts kicked especially if they are portrayed as terrorists going to blow up the world. In this case the bad guy was the governor of a state. Not a foreigner. Not exactly a terrorist. Just someone minding his own political business fabricating reality to keep his power intact and having people killed who get in his way.
That such a movie would be found acceptable enough to risk marketing it is a sign of very negative social mood. But then Rotten Tomatoes, both the normal folk and those who supposedly know better (aka critics) thought it stunk.
Score 4/10
I think you will enjoy this one, though it is not a vengeance movie. On the contrary it is an example of Iranian resilience. I just don´t know if it and where it is available. It was selected for our yearly Film Festival and it won a price. But as it was made on a very limited budget, the director paid for it out of his own pocket, I don´t know if it will have a good distribution in spite of two awards (it won the audience award too and was applauded.)
http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/4080...at-Mostra-film
As to the film you saw:
"It is usually safe watching foreigners getting their butts kicked..."- Thank you very much Yes/No, I really appreciate that!!:shocked:
"In this case the bad guy was the governor of a state.Not a foreigner. Not exactly a terrorist. Just someone minding his own political business fabricating reality to keep his power intact and having people killed who get in his way."Although it seems to be a commonplace movie,"I am Wrath" is an significant choice if you reflect what day we have today. Your unconscious mode seems to be wide awaken.
I wasn't able to find Maat but the trailer looked more realistic than the kinds of films I have been watching recently.
About those foreigners, you're right that it was the governor who was the bad guy, and he was not a foreigner. The good guys broke into the governor's mansion, killed all of his guard and then killed the governor as well. Normally, I don't expect to see such a plot although there are anti-government films being made. So I am thinking it might have to do with a decentralist, "negative" social mood perspective.
I saw another action movie last night almost the opposite of "I am Wrath". This one was "Criminal". In this one the foreign, anti-government forces where going to blow up the world and the US government was trying to stop them. I would label that one a centrist, "positive" social mood perspective. The problem with Criminal is that it was too unrealistic although it had some nice moments.
It seems that Maat is not running officialy yet. Even in Iran it will only start on Nov, 16. I´ll wait a bit more for, of course, the director will now try to sell copies of the fill to other countries. In Brazil the interest in Iranian films used to be good. But now with the crisis they are importing only blockbusters. I´ve no idea about the US market.
If I find it in the net later on I´ll post it.
Most of the blockbusters I have seen recently I have not been able to finish. I started watching the action movies only recently.
The library showed an old movie (1958) about a month ago written by John Gay and Terence Rattigan that I thought was pretty good: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/101...parate_tables/ I'd give it a 10/10.
The cast looks fine. I´ll look for it in the internet later on.
We had an opportunity to meet the director of Maat for a short talk. Guy around 30 years, and this was his first international event, I guess. The film was shoot in two days, shouldn´t wonder if the location belonged to him or to someone of his family/friends. It is based on a real story.
I reviewed Separate Tables on this thread a while ago and agree that it's better than any 'Blockbuster'.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
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
I thought this movie was probably one you would have seen, if not already reviewed here. I initially went to see it because (1) it is an easy walk to the library, (2) they have a nice theater, (3) it was "free" (but then I do pay taxes supporting these showings), and (4) maybe some culture would rub off on me. It turned out I enjoyed the movie more than I expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Of all the people in the story, I enjoyed the hotel hostess the best or maybe I empathized with her character more. It did seem like it was "set-bound" as you mentioned. The movie was shown as part of a four-part series featuring Deborah Kerr. Of the four movies, I was able to also see "The Innocents" which was a retelling of Henry James, "The Turn of the Screw".
"The Bad Seed": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/ (I think you can find this on YouTube.)
This is another old movie (1956) the local library displayed. Director: Mervyn LeRoy, Writers: John Lee Mahin. It was based on a play by Maxwell Anderson and a novel by William March. I'm listing all of this information since I have never heard of these people and I am trying to get cultured.
There is a question whether someone can be bad because of their heredity or whether the environment causes them to be bad. Evil can be reduced to either (1) heredity or (2) environment. There is a third alternative: they just choose to be bad, but that assumes they can choose at all.
In this case the bad guy is an eight year old girl who is outwardly too perfect, but she is killing off people so she can get stuff. It turns out her mother, who is normal, finds out that she herself is the daughter of a serial killer and she was adopted by her parents when the serial killer abandoned her. So her daughter is bad because her mother was bad.
All throughout this movie there is a lot of jarring music which tries to set the mood but is more annoying than it needs to be.
Although the movie seems to promote option (1), heredity, the credits at the end are humorous. Like one would expect in a play, the actors are introduced one by one at the end. Finally the actresses playing the eight year old girl and her mother appear. After they take their bows, the actress playing the mother grabs the actress playing the girl and gives her a good paddling. As I see it the message changes sharply at this point and the third option is affirmed with a little help from option (2), the environmental paddling.
For a score, I'd have to deduct for the music, but the story kept my interest right through the credits. And so, I'd give it an 8/10.