At the theater :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
Vertgo. . .. on the big-screen!!!
I am officially the most envious person in the world for today.
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At the theater :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
Vertgo. . .. on the big-screen!!!
I am officially the most envious person in the world for today.
I saw X-Men 2 the other night on DVD. It was everything that movies can aspire to: light characters & a light plot, lightly tied together with an over-dependence on the audience to graciously fill in the holes in the story-line. Oh yes, and it had some kicka. . ., er, awesome action sequences.
As movies go, this film deserves 10/10 adamantite claws.
I watched The Boondock Saints again... I do love that one... I am addicted to IMDB.com so I checked it out there and saw that there is a movie number 2.... sounds intriguing...
Hehehehe :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
Last year i watched rear window :D
"Zombieland", 10/10. So. Awesome.
Where on earth did you get to see these classics, ON THE BIG SCREEN! :eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
live in NYC, Chicago, L.A, or Toronto, there are classic film festivals and classic film theaters!Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
There are a few movie clubs here, the one i am a member of rents a theater once a week :nod: They have both old and new films (but i pick the old ones most of the time).Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
Wow, where I live they're non-existent. You sure are lucky. It's been years since I saw a film on a big screen; mainly because I prefer older films, too. I wanted to see something last year but in no time flat it had disappeared from the theaters. That was unfortunate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mathor
:wave: Hi manolia, I am like you. Mostly I take out the older films from my library. I am glad they have a lot of those available and if they don't, I can always request one and they will find it in the county collection. Might take time; but hey, it's free rental, so I don't mind waiting.
Last night I watched Shrink, a newer movie (2009) starring Kevin Spacey, who never fails as a fantastic actor, whether on screen or stage, and one of the few films of, a name I had to research, Jonas Pate; Thomas Moffett, another unfamiliar name I looked into, wrote the screenplay.
Despite Spacey seeming the only prominent name in eyesight, other than cameo appearances from Robin Williams and Gore Vidal, this film had many twists and turns, an astoundingly complex plot composed of few main characters with extraordinarily precise, careful directing of the sensitive subjects of psychotherapy/psychiatry, substance abuse, mental illness, death, and struggles with adolescence. Each character has his/her bright and shining moment, and, though the first half of the roughly 100-minute film has a few slow and vague parts, everything comes together smoothly and beautifully like a once-shattered vase, pieced back together like new, full of "ooohs" and "aaahs" in the surprise ending.
The talent, obvious hard work, and definitude placed into what seems regarded as a mostly "no-name" film really surprised me, and I intend upon watching it again before returning it to the video store to admire again its solidarity of writing/directing and remarkable acting.
Rating: 10/10
Cry_Wolf
6/10
I'm glad to see there are people out there watching this movie. It's a complete independent picture, and unfortunately the reviews for it were very terrible. However, I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Kevin Spacey regularly impresses, though there a large group of people out there who are put off by Spacey's work as an actor.Quote:
Originally Posted by mono
I have a personal sentiment towards films made or set during the 20's, for it has to be my favorite era in history, culturally, muscially and artistically. Fitzgerald always touches me in a very personal way every time I read him, Loius Armstrong's trumpet always seems to tug at some joyful part of my soul, and Singin' in the Rain is on my list of ten greatest films ever made.
Recently, we've had two utterly moving pictures made about the 20s', both of them biographical, and both of them containing some of the best acting, directing and special effects to come out this decade.
The Curious Case of Benjeman Button - A truly poetic film about the passing of time, seen through the eyes of a man who ages backwards (we is born an old man and dies a baby). Director David Fincher perfectly and beautifully illustrates all the ages that Benjeman goes throughout his life, from the Progressive era, to the Jazz Age, to the seventies; this is a breathetaking (though sentimental) film on the grand scale of an entire life. Of course not all relationships can be illustrated as vividly in the course of three hours, but each friendship that Benjeman makes is like a subtle litte short story. Take his affair with the wife of a politician (played sublimely by Tilda Swinton), their late night chats in the kitchen are so reflective of real life, that most of this film seems to be a strange ironic story, based on fantasy and built into something pure and real. This has Brad Pitt's and Cate Blanchett's best performance to date, and has too many perfect snapshots of life to be listed entirely in a review. Their relationship throughout the film is beautiful, except for one mistaken scene, which seems to be a bit too fantastic and feel as if it came out of some cheap romance novel (I merely refer to the scene in which they make love on the beach while the sun sets). Stunning make-up and special effects, all integrated into one of the best films to come out in the past ten years. What do you know? Hollywood finally comes out with a picture with unbelievable special effects and performances *gasp* 9.9/10
The Aviator - Of Scorsese's big bidget collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio in the past ten years, this one in my opinion is his best (I loved The Departed by the way). This is a truly masterful biographical film about the great Howard Hughes (with DiCaprio in probably the greatest performance of his career), who was a filmmaker, an industrialist, a playboy, and most importantly an aviator. He was also a troubled man, who's compulsions and phobias got in the way of his genius, and eventually led to his demise. Goddamn it, besides Stanley Kubrick, nobody knows how to use music in a film better then Scorsese, especially pop music. Ever since the bursting explosion of the opening song in Mean Streets, to the wide pop soundtrack in Goodfellas, Scorsese has always mastered a sense of time in place through the soundtrack. Here he makes a big use of jazz from the Big Band era (which I must thank the film, for it's music is what turned me on to jazz). Cate Blanchett has a fun little performance as Katherin Hepern (Hughes's short-time girlfriend), which can be easily underappretiated, due to the fact that Blanchett pulls it off without looking like a muttering fool. As in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and a ton of his other films, Scorsese masters a sense of subjectivity within the audiences mind in relation to the character, in which we are seeing the paraniod illusions that Hughes is tormented by. Oh, and did I happen to mention that DiCaprio's performance is top-notch? and that Scorsese's directoral work is unsuprisingly true mastery. Maybe I should shut up. Go see this. 10/10
(sorry everybody for constantly writing raving 10/10 reviews, and calling almost all of them "masterpieces", I just don't go to the cinema that often to see recent pictures, and when I do, I sure as hell better make sure that it is directed by somebody I know. Just my personal bias :redface: )
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Brilliant.
10/10
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Originally Posted by MarkBastable
This is probably one of my favorite films of this current year. I'm very confident you'll see this movie with the word "Oscar" related to it in the coming months.