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Postby mondrary » Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:06 am

i watched phantom of the paradise tonight and thought it was really cool and fun.

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Postby mellowgold » Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:57 am

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Postby haddonfield » Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:07 am

watched a few hours ago and can't stop thinking about The Green Ray
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Postby furrowed brow » Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:48 pm

incoherent grunting wrote:The Piano (1993)
This thing won a bunch of awards in '93 and the acting is superb but I was so confused by the motivations of the characters.. Why did the husband leave the piano on the beach? What's his damn problem!? I liked it!


I think the answer to this is pretty simple. It was too heavy and since he doesn't understand or really care about it's importance to Ada that's enough of a reason for him to leave it.
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Postby incoherent grunting » Tue Apr 30, 2019 3:20 pm

Yeah but the woman was playing a table, pretty easily he could have clued in on its importance to her... especially given how much he seemed to want her to like him
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Postby furrowed brow » Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:55 pm

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I guess I didn't feel like he really cared much about her as a person or her inner world; he just wanted someone who would be a "good wife" for him.
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Postby palmer eldritch » Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:16 pm

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Nightfall (Tourneur, 1956)

I love snowy settings. This was good overall, I suppose upon reflecting that the flashback structure actually works for the central mystery pretty well. Something about this movie seems extra violent, though it's not explicit, it's just what does happen or is threatened is much more gruesome seeming than just fistfights and handguns. There's a really good scene at the end of a gunpoint standoff, which stands out to me because it's such a trope but the acting and direction, drawing out the tension, there's something really exemplary about it. It seems like it's also a tired thing to say "Fargo" about this but yeah there's some proto-Fargo to it at times. There's also a really good Hitchcockian scene at a fashion show.
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Postby crash.landing » Wed May 01, 2019 11:18 pm

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Lou Andreas-Salome (English title: Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free) 2016

Finally got around to watching this movie about Lou von Salomé's life. Gorgeous inside and out. She was one of the very few people in her lifetime who was truly free. Ran circles around her male intellectual colleagues/lovers (Reé, Nietzsche, Rilke, Freud, etc.) and refused to ever let patriarchy dictate her life. She was also the first ever female psychoanalyst. 1861 – 1937.

Oh, and the movie reminded me again about what a vile piece of shit Elizabeth Nietzsche was [not to excuse ol' Friedrich's noted misogyny].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Andreas-Salom%C3%A9
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Postby mellowgold » Thu May 02, 2019 5:13 am

Cried at the end of Julie & Julia
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Postby aububs » Thu May 02, 2019 5:16 am

is that the meryl streep/amy adams cooking movie?

I remember loving that in the theatre
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Postby goofjan » Thu May 02, 2019 9:35 am



Eye-opening doc about a forgotten pioneer from the early days of film. It's an erratic film at times- it's like watching a doc and the making of the doc at the same time- but still a fascinating subject.
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Postby relevee » Thu May 02, 2019 11:50 am

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hurlevent (1983) - jacques rivette
rivette’s adaptation of ‘wuthering heights’. not entirely sucessful overall, but the scenes where the film delves into the realm of fantasy and dream are exceptional and demonstrate JR’s unparalleled ability conjure something magic with just a few pretty girls and choreographing movement within some french castle. also it’s pretty neat that rivette used that bulgarian folk chant record released on 4AD in the 80s to use here in a few scenes

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little odessa (1995) - james gray
insane for a debut film. aims for the rafters with its coppola-like operatic emotional tenor and more or less succeeds in doing so. superb stuff

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forty guns (1957) - samuel fuller
liked but didn’t love this one despite it being considered a major one from fuller's canon. maybe what was of most interest was just admiring what fuller could do with cinemascope

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dead bang (1989) - john frankenheimer

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the funhouse (1981) - tobe hooper

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taipei story (1985) - edward yang
my first experience with yang. this actually took a while to gather momentum dramatically for me to buy into, but by the second hour it began to culminate into something pretty beautiful. it goes without saying but the photography is gorgeous, utilising low light in a phenomenal way
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Postby furrowed brow » Thu May 02, 2019 5:21 pm

goofjan wrote:

Eye-opening doc about a forgotten pioneer from the early days of film. It's an erratic film at times- it's like watching a doc and the making of the doc at the same time- but still a fascinating subject.


I read about her short The Consequences of Feminism and it sounds like it's worth seeking out.
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Postby furrowed brow » Thu May 02, 2019 5:22 pm

I'll just post it actually:

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Postby furrowed brow » Thu May 02, 2019 5:23 pm

I think she also is credited with making the first film with an all black cast.
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Postby neely o'hara » Thu May 02, 2019 5:41 pm

The New World (2005, Malick)

hmm for some reason I thought this movie recently had a critical reappraisal and people really loved it... but I don't see why...

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In January 2010, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle designated it the No. 1 film of the decade.

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Film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz has said it is his favorite film.

???
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Postby super gas » Thu May 02, 2019 6:31 pm

saw funhouse as a kid and it completely fucked me up
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Postby Plainsong » Thu May 02, 2019 6:41 pm

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The Terrorizers (1986)- Edward Yang
This ruled.
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The Wayward Cloud (2005)- Tsai Ming-liang
Liked it, particularly the musical sequences.
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The Comedy (2012)- Rick Alverson
Really liked this.
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)- Luis Buñuel
Really liked the concept and the way it played out.
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The Flight Of The Phoenix (1965)- Robert Aldrich
Loved this, easily my fav Aldrich along with Vera Cruz.
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The Landlord (1970)- Hal Ashby
This floored me, just everything about this was amazing.
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Postby jca » Fri May 03, 2019 8:35 pm

The Intruder (2019) - so so bad
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Postby nice pass » Fri May 03, 2019 11:00 pm

neely o'hara wrote:The New World (2005, Malick)

hmm for some reason I thought this movie recently had a critical reappraisal and people really loved it... but I don't see why...

edit:

In January 2010, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle designated it the No. 1 film of the decade.

??

Film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz has said it is his favorite film.

???

I want to like it. Couldn't. It's actively bad. It was an original type of filmmaking but so was 2 girls 1 cup

Dragged Across Concrete was 9/10

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Postby it’s frank » Sat May 04, 2019 1:48 am

The New World is pretty great actually.
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Postby broodstar » Sat May 04, 2019 1:57 am

which ones are the hot, cold, and lukewarm takes
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Postby groupb » Sat May 04, 2019 2:07 am

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Postby sleigh » Sat May 04, 2019 2:18 am

under the silver lake -- haven't hated a movie as much since nocturnal animals, haven't rolled my eyes as much in a movie ever. nearly walked out. just fucking interminable
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Postby sleigh » Sat May 04, 2019 2:19 am

shit is beneath andrew garfield and DEFINITELY beneath topher grace and what's his name from westworld and sunny. jimmy simpson.
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Postby Mandible » Sat May 04, 2019 12:39 pm

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tsai ming-liang, rebels of the neon god, 1992

i loved how the whole movie is just watching the bad kid get owned over and over again.
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Postby walt whitman » Sat May 04, 2019 1:07 pm

death is my amigo wrote:under the silver lake -- haven't hated a movie as much since nocturnal animals, haven't rolled my eyes as much in a movie ever. nearly walked out. just fucking interminable

yeah that movie sucks ass (not nocturnal animals, which was good)
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Postby walt whitman » Sat May 04, 2019 1:12 pm

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power of the press- frank capra- 1928

a delightful noir-comedy, this ~60min silent film came out just as sound was being introduced. sophisticated camera movement, style and well-paced editing. documentary-esque segments show the production process of a newspaper. good performance by douglas fairbanks jr.

i saw this with a live organ player, performing right under the screen and providing synchronized sound effects (telephone rings, typewriter tapping) which made the whole thing really wonderful. (just shows that silent film was rarely ever silent.) recommended!
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Postby relevee » Sat May 04, 2019 2:14 pm

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film socialisme (2010) - jean-luc godard
a good deal better than 'the image book'

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pasolini (2014) - abel ferrara
ferrara on pasolini (the man) is the strongest material from this disjointed film. it's endearing how he got ninetto davoli to attempt to recreate something those scenes of what pasolini was wishing to make

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the texas chainsaw massacre 2 (1986) - tobe hooper

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imitation of life (1959) - douglas sirk
incredible. as dark as anything fassbinder would go on to channel into his own work
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Postby R C » Sat May 04, 2019 10:26 pm

Transit (2019) - incredible movie. was about ready to put it third out of the Petzolds I’ve seen, but that final 15 minutes fucking sealed it for me.
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