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It was a very good film and I have seen it three times. It recently replaced Citizen Kane as the best film of all time by Sight and Sound magazine. I don't know what got into them but it's hilarious to see such silliness being displayed by the British Film Institute.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkyCetacean
I don't what know what silliness got into the critics of sight and sound in the first place to vote Citizen Kane the greatest film. There are many other choices for greatest: Tokyo Story, Mirror, Sans Soleil, The Rules of the Game, Sansho the Bailiff,Shoah, The Emperor's naked army marches on,Maborosi , Floating Clouds, Abraham's Valley, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Transformers:Revenge of the fallen it's decent, a lot of action and would have been soooo much better if they had left out the parents and the annoying girlfriend stuff.
I would concede that Tokyo Story and The Rules of the Game might be contenders but the rest of your choices are unknown to me as I suspect they are to most discriminating film goers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.lucifer
Actually, I discovered the rest of those films from discriminating film goers. Sans soleil and Shoah are considered to be two of the greatest documentaries of all time. Floating clouds is a film by Mikio Naruse, who is considered by Japanese film scholars(as in scolars who specialize in the study of japanese cinema, not exactly film scholars who are japanese) to be the equal to Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Have could you could not heard of Sansho the bailiff? Its the masterpiece of Mizoguchi, one of the big three of Japanese cinema. Anyway, the Sight and Sound poll is nothing but a glorified intellectual popularity contest. Every one of the critics who participated were mostly giving put down their personal favorites.
I watched the first half of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince last night, and it seemed quite well made (especially the sound - I didn't have to keep flipping the audio up and down as happens a lot lately), but alas I just couldn't keep awake to the end. An online review informed me it was a good film, but had a clause that it would have been better if they stuck close to the book which is apparently better, but I have yet to read. It seems to be quite sizable so whether to borrow it and get the full story, or wait until the second half of the movie returns, or both, only time will tell
The Avengers 8/10. It was a really fun movie with a lot of one liners and good action. The special effects were well done. Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr. were more memorable than the rest of the cast. The relationship between the two characters of Loki and Thor was well developed. Overall, I think Marvel Studios did a good job bringing all these movies together into the present film. A great film to watch with your family or a group of friends. It has something for everyone to enjoy. Robert Downey Jr. does it for me. Always an Ironman fan!
Lawrence of Arabia
12/10
Amazing film...the character development was superb. I'd have much more to write about it, but I'm tired and have a terrible headache.If you haven't seen this one...don't wait too long.
You can't go wrong by reading the book, Mystyry. Granted, it's long, but while a fun and engaging read, it's not difficult. Your local library probably has a copy of it, if you don't want to buy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Is there no way you can rent the movie, if it interested you?
The last movie that I saw was Hunger Games and I enjoyed watching it. I would rate it 6/10.
Well as I said on another loosely related thread, I don't watch films post 1960s for the reasons stated and it's interesting that none of the films listed in the poll was less than forty-years-old . I do recognise the importance of Kurosawa, Ozu and Mizoguchi in world cinema but, notwithstanding the importance of such films as Ugetsu Monogatari, Rashomon and Tokyo Story etc etc., the innovative use of the camera and the superb acting of everyone in Citizen Kane sets it above its challengers, which is why it held its position for 50 years as the best film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.lucifer
Welles was only twenty-five-years-old when he produced,directed, co-scripted and acted in it, which I doubt any other film maker in the history of cinema could have done.
I have just watched a clip of Sansho the Bailiff and agree that it does look very good and I hope to be able to watch a complete version in due course.
The BFI's decision to award best film to Vertigo just happens to coincide with their launch of 'The Genius of Hitchcock ' season. Hitchcock was a very good director but most of his films fall within the same genre i.e. suspense; his best being, in my view, Rebecca.
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The new Resident Evil film.
7/10 - I was exactly what I expected. An hour and a half of mutants, explosions and sexy women with guns. There is no question that the dialogue was awful, and the plot really didn't make that much sense. But when has Resident Evil ever been about the dialogue. :p
Um, BFI just host the poll. It invites critics and scholars from around the world to vote.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
You're making a huge mistake limiting your to certain decades. There have been a ton of new masters since then focusing of regular people. From japan, we have kore-eda and Hara. In China, there is Jia Zhangke, Liu Jiayin, and Wang bing. Taiwan, despite being a minor power, has finally contributed in world culture by giving us three grandmasters in Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang. South Korea has Hong Sang Soo and Lee Chang-dong. Even Thailand has an acknowledged master in Apichatpong Weerasethakul(yes he had a long and unpronounceable name).
From Iran, we have Abbas Kiarostami, whom some say in the greatest living director. But Iran has other greats beside Kiarostami , there is Asghar Farhadi and Jafar Panahi.
If you don't like mainstream american films, then try alternative film directors like John Cassavettes and the duplass brothers. They don't make films about the antics of quirky characters, but regular people with real problems.
Germany has two post-war masters beside Hergoz, there is also Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders. I don't much about France, but The Mother and the Whore and The Green Ray are among the greatest French films period.
Have you heard of Tarkovsky? He always have always been considered one of the greatest directors. I'm not kidding, he was always put there with Goddard, Jean Renoir, Chaplin, John Ford, Fellini. He made his best films aster the 60's. Only made 7 films, every one of them was declared a masterpiece. Bergman thought he was the greatest.
Yes but the critics who voted don't seem to have agreed with your selection despite the fact that some of the films have been lauded in recent times. I have heard of Tarkovsky and also watched some extracts from some of his films but he doesn't strike me as being particularly good, I think weird is a word I would apply to his films and it's no surprise that Bergman identified with him because, for all his excellence there is also something offbeat about his work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.lucifer
As for Cassavetes, he is all about urban angst and of those films that I saw, I got the impression that he was trying too hard because they were rather laboured.
Fassbinder and Wenders never registered with me as their films seemed too arty crafty and, in any case, they didn't have much to build on as the German cinema lost many of it's best directors to Hollywood when Hitler came to power and it never fully recovered.
The Sight and Sound Sight poll is a intellectual popularity contest. The veteran film critics focus too much of the old classics and thats why most of the the directors I mentioned don't receive as much attention. I am not saying the original classics are outdated or overrated, but there are still a lot of masterpieces still being even today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Most of the filmmakers I mentioned aren't that obscure in the art film scene, Abbas was considered by Kurosawa to be the greatest living director. Scorsese shares the same opinion. A lot of their films are in the criterion collection. Honestly I am more influenced by a circle of peers who are very knowledgeable in the art of cinema. I do believe that the grand masters are overrated, but I believe that are other greats worth watching.