Well, I finished Maboroshi no Hikari. Thank you, it was fantastic! The music added a lot, don't you think?
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Well, I finished Maboroshi no Hikari. Thank you, it was fantastic! The music added a lot, don't you think?
I only remember noticing it during the funeral procession scene. Actually I'm watching movies now on my tablet and the speakers are really subpar, it's defintely hurting my ability to appreciate the music and sounds of the films and that's something I actually really care about. A bigger screen would be nice, but the audio is more important I think.
Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard
Yeh it was okay, watching it fifty five years after release I'm not wowed by anything that would have seemed groundbreaking to film audiences in 1960. I was hoping the girl would go to jail with Michel for being such a moron "you killed a police officer? Tee hee, lets go get dinner" but I was relatively satisfied with the ending anyway.
7/10 (but a weak 7)
I saw that, too! Really enjoyed it (8/10) and plan to get one of the books of her photography. She's quite a fascinating character.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
Saw American Sniper the first weekend it opened. I didn't see it as a screed for war, but rather the story of a man very damaged by the war. I think the word hero gets bandied about a lot these days, so I don't know that I think he's a hero. He did something he believed in, I guess. I also heard that he wasn't such a nice guy in real life.
I just finished watching "A Month by the Lake". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113849/
In a resort in Italy an older couple (Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox) meet but can't seem to connect until a young girl (Uma Thurman) gets between them and then brings them together. It's complicated.
Score: 7/10
Two Days, One Night is the latest movie from the Dardenne brothers, who specialize in bleak, minimalist dramas. The solar panel factory where our heroine (Marion Cotillard, now that the Dardennes can afford her) works is over-staffed. They offer the 16 workers a vote -- each will get a 1000 Euro bonus, and Cotillard will get fired, or Cotillard keeps her job and nobody gets a bonus.
Cotillard, who is recovering from Depression, runs around grim, suburban Liege asking her co-workers to vote that she gets to stay. The movie is like a piece of Phillip Glass music -- Cotillard tracks down each of her co-workers and goes through the same, rehearsed speech (it's only two sentences, thank God). Each of them reacts in his or her own way. It's a theme and variation.
I liked the last Dardenne movie (Kid with a Bike) -- but this one is a little too grim, visually dull, and repetitive for my taste (despite getting excellent reviews from others). The situation is a bit too forced to be realistic. It's a fairy-tale situation, with all the magic removed. There is no music; there is no beauty (even Cotillard looks haggard and plain, as astonishing as that may seem). Cotillard is an excellent actress, and the Dardennes (I think) accomplish their goals as filmmakers. But did I really enjoy my participation?
I just finished watching Coffee Town: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234025/
This is about a guy who doesn't want the coffee shop he uses as his workplace, because of the free wifi, to turn into a bistro and so he takes matters into his own hands. There is also a cute girl whom he likes and a bartender whom he doesn't like who also likes the girl. This gets the males to start competing as best they can and complicates the plot, but don't worry. You won't be required to think too hard. This guy also has two friends who are idiots.
All in all, it was quite enjoyable nonsense. Score: 9/10
I was hooked when I read in my Film Guide: 'Parachutists pass through a red mist and disappear into thin air. And before long you will too! There is little point in sticking around to find out it's alian Maurice Evans putting skydivers in suspended animation and substituting duplicates. Talky, laughably low-budget and hopelessly inept.' I must admit that my hand did hover over the delete button more than once but we British are made of stern stuff and I watched it until the ultra embarrassing end.
2/10 For the nostalgia element of seeing the usual British suspects in both leading and supporting roles.
OMG
Dumb and Dumber To was in the library.
I checked it out.
Harry (Jeff Daniels) was looking for his abandoned daughter (Rachel Melvin) to see if she'd give him a kidney. After they find her, there's evidence to suggest that Lloyd (Jim Carrey) was really her father. The mother (Kathleen Turner) has reason to believe they might both be wrong. There are bad guys trying to kill them. I think I spoiled too much of the plot already.
Score: 10/10
I saw another comedy in the stupid category last night: The Interview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Int...282014_film%29
Franco and Rogen star as two characters who are going to interview Kim Jong and assassinate him. They delightfully mess everything up.
Score: 10/10
After a long day of studying yesterday I turned on my tv and found Animal planet, I like that tv station but last night there was a movie on, called: Blood Lake the attack of the killer lampreys
fish attacking humans, I'm not gonna rate it but I have to admit I couldn't stop watching
I just finished watching "Hector and the Search for Happiness". I guess this would be a rom-com. Instead of the boy chasing the girl to the airport he leaves on a plane without her in search for happiness. It is not the kind of movie I expected Simon Pegg to be in. Where are the zombies? Where is the of the end of the world? But he does seem to figure it out in the end.
Score 10/10
I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel with a friend yesterday, who said he had liked it the first time he saw it. I hated it and only finished because he said he had liked it; after it was over we each foud out that the other hadn't liked it either! He had changed his mind on a second viewing.
double trouble a presley film. good entertainment
A Most Wanted Man -- excellent Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Whiplash -- excellent J.K. Simmons
The Sapphires -- fascinating, recommend it, on Netflix
Very tough and serious film -- '71, as in Belfast, Ireland in 1971. Very involved and suspenseful. Exceptional directing, fine acting.