Films Recently Watched

  On 8/12/2015 at 12:08 AM, Gocab said:

Watched Vertigo, excellent! Probably my second favourite Hitchcock film next to Rope. 8/10

 

Edit: no, that's wrong, Rear Window is my favourite. This comes in third. FYI

 

[voyeur/exhibition fetishist identified]

 

 

The Lady Vanishes would be my pick, though I'd have a hard time explaining properly why.

Scorsese is going to make a movie about H. H. Holmes, "America's first serial killer" who had a crazy murder hotel. Holmes will be played by DiCaprio.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/11/leonardo-dicaprio-serial-killer-dr-hh-holmes-martin-scorsese

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

 

 

What took Hollywood so long with this story? It's insane:

 

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The ground floor of the Castle contained Holmes' own relocated drugstore and various shops, while the upper two floors contained his personal office and a maze of over 100 windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly-angled hallways, stairways leading to nowhere, doors that can only be opened from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions.

Edited August 13, 2015 by triachus

Casablanca

 

What a cast, what a film!

Still The Water, 8/10. Kawase is amazing as ever, beautiful film!

'Wish I Was Here' written, directed and starring Zach Braff. The most pretentiously cool, mawkish, pseudo-wise piece of shit I've ever seen. Fuck Netflix and their bullshit ratings.

 

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Netflix ratings remind me of reviews by Total Film magazine which are about as reliable as the word of a crack head you give money to who says that it isn't for crack. What is this western yearning for the profound when most people wouldn't know profound if I knocked on their door with a sign saying "I am me" hanging around mine neck. Thanks for the tip about the film.

Netflix are a guess if what you would think of the movie aren't they? Totally worthless whatever the case.

  On 8/13/2015 at 11:39 PM, westhead said:

'Wish I Was Here' written, directed and starring Zach Braff. The most pretentiously cool, mawkish, pseudo-wise piece of shit I've ever seen. Fuck Netflix and their bullshit ratings.

 

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I thought it was okay. I like Braff. Garden State is way better tho.

  On 8/14/2015 at 11:28 AM, QQQ said:

 

  On 8/13/2015 at 11:39 PM, westhead said:

'Wish I Was Here' written, directed and starring Zach Braff. The most pretentiously cool, mawkish, pseudo-wise piece of shit I've ever seen. Fuck Netflix and their bullshit ratings.

 

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I thought it was okay. I like Braff. Garden State is way better tho.

I don't mind Braff either and I agree on Garden State - I found the whole thing sickeningly sweet though, plus there's no way Kate Hudson would put up with his loser-but-passionate-about-his-dream ways in real life.

 

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Anyone watched Hyena? Think it might be my Friday night viewing.

  On 8/14/2015 at 1:17 PM, tec said:

Anyone watched Hyena? Think it might be my Friday night viewing.

 

Pretty good.

Has anyone watched White God? I really want to watch it

^ looks great!

I just looked it up and I'm "acquiring" it right now.

Yeah, someone was hyping it up earlier in the thread, said it was really good. I'm also in the process of acquiring it.

i only managed to sit through about 30 mins of it, this overdramatized eastern-european misery and cruelty, especially when it involves animals and children, is just unwatchable to me.

also i can't stand allegory and symbolism, which this movie seemed to be going for hard, so yeah, it didn't work.

  On 8/15/2015 at 3:48 PM, eugene said:

also i can't stand allegory and symbolism

 

So you hate the overwhelming majority of great stories from the past few millenia?

i dunno, maybe, what stories do you have in mind?

Pretty much every lauded piece of storytelling since the invention of the epic poem contains some degree of allegory & symbolism.

i read very little non-academic stuff, but when it comes to movies i prefer observational, experiential, personal and the absurd. i don't really like stuff like kubrick's 2001 and most of tarkovsky for example (with the exception of the mirror).

  On 8/15/2015 at 10:24 AM, Gocab said:

Yeah, someone was hyping it up earlier in the thread, said it was really good. I'm also in the process of acquiring it.

Yeah, it's a brilliant film I'm sure you'll all enjoy it. I had been desperate to see it. Harsh in parts but really good. Theres no getting away from reality.

  On 8/15/2015 at 6:46 PM, eugene said:

i read very little non-academic stuff, but when it comes to movies i prefer observational, experiential, personal and the absurd. i don't really like stuff like kubrick's 2001 and most of tarkovsky for example (with the exception of the mirror).

 

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Ingmar Bergman on Andrei Tarkovsky

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle.

Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

I felt encouraged and stimulated: someone was expressing what I had always wanted to say without knowing how.

Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

Ingmar Bergman solves a problem...

Suddenly I have the solution: a tracking shot. A tracking shot round the actors, past the extras, tracking. Tarkovsky is always tracking round in every scene, the camera flying in all directions. I actually think it an objectionable technique, but it solved my problem, time passes... (Laterna Magica, page 173)

Ingmar Bergman on cinema...

When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - THE SERPENT'S EGG, THE TOUCH, FACE TO FACE and so on.

Fellini, Kurosawa and Bunuel move in the same fields as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness. Melies was always there without having to think about it. He was a magician by profession.

Film as dream, film as music. (Laterna Magica, page 73)

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Monsters: Dark Continent - This was so bad I could only manage 45 minutes of it after OD'ing on army bros, I have no idea what they were thinking. I made it all the way through Battlefield LA so my complete shit tolerance is very high but I was so angry I tried to find the director on twitter to berate him.

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Not sure why I put off watching this for so long, for some reason I thought it was really low-budget, but it's not - just a smaller budget put to good use! An entertaining and enthralling watch, nice bit'a sci-fi gore, cool concept, thumbs up all around.

 

button sucking/10