What is the last movie you saw? and rate it.

[BienvenuJDC]

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.

[qimissung]

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

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.

Is there no way you can rent the movie, if it interested you?

[Sophia21]

The last movie that I saw was Hunger Games and I enjoyed watching it. I would rate it 6/10.

[Emil Miller]

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.

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.

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.
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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[Volya]

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.

[Mr.lucifer]

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.
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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Um, BFI just host the poll. It invites critics and scholars from around the world to vote.

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.

[Emil Miller]

Um, BFI just host the poll. It invites critics and scholars from around the world to vote.

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.
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.

[Mr.lucifer]

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.
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.

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.

[Volya]

I just watched Sinister.
It is
very
very
sinister.

I shall not sleep tonight.

[BienvenuJDC]

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.

Sexy women with guns?

[YesNo]

The Avengers has a couple of sexy women with guns along with other superheroes making a mess of NYC while saving the world from Loki. It was definitely entertaining with some good lines.

Score: 10/10

Here's one of my favorite scenes when the Hulk takes on Loki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8sLAJ1R9RU

[Emil Miller]

Witness to Murder (1954) is a well made thriller with Babara Stanwyck, George Sanders and Gary Merrill in the lead roles. Stanwyck plays a woman who sees a murder being committed in a building opposite to where she lives. The murderer, played by George Sanders, covers his tracks so well that the police believe that the woman is mentally unbalanced when she won't leave the case alone. George Sanders plays his part with all his well known suavity but gets his just deserts at the end.
As a footnote, Sanders was the inspiration for Hercules Grytpype-Thynne the super suave villain played by Peter Sellers in the BBC Goon Show. In this clip he uses his perfect diction to good effect.
Apologies for the poor and unnecessary German though. 8/10

http://youtu.be/2LtfH8j5po8

[Volya]

Sexy women with guns?

Indeed.

[tonywalt]

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?...roller;housing

Great documentary on Sixto Rodriguez - bizarre and interesting.

[Helga]

[QUOTE=YesNo;1176181]The Avengers has a couple of sexy women with guns

I preferred the sexy men with all the power, Loki's smile just melts me, one of the best villains in Marvel.

I just saw Frankenstein from 1931 it was OK, more funny than scary, maybe because of years of violent movies.

Also saw 'Land and freedom' pretty good, I didn't know that much about this war so this movie and a lecture were both very interesting.