This is one of my favorite films also.Quote:
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This is one of my favorite films also.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
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"Incendies" a French-Canadian movie set in the Lebanese Civil war and the present day. A truly wonderful and powerful emotional piece about brother an sister seeking the truth about their borhter and their father after the death of their mother. Highly recommended.
Incendies Official Trailer #1 - (2010) HD - YouTube
Incendies (2010) - Bus Scene // l'Autobus - YouTube
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All slightly off kilter films that you have to work on.
"Shame", by Michael Fassbender, with Steve McQueen and Carey Mulligan. Second viewing. I modified my judgement on it, although it was already positive. Beautifully filmed. Slow, very meditative rythm for a film with such a subject. Economical but absolutly brilliant scenario. The photography is often breathtaking. I love this movie. Tough though, very tough. And McQueen as excellent as always.
SHAME Trailer 2011 Michael Fassbender - Official [HD] - YouTube
The strength of the film is in its acting and dialogue; there is a lot of sex in films, but very few films about sex, which is what this film deals with so intelligently. I think it is one of the best films made in recent years, and Fassbender is emerging as one of the most interesting actors too, and puts into shade a tedious bore like Jack Nicholson described in today's Telegraph as 'The King of Acting' --!!
I've seen this one a little while back, but I don't think anyone has mentioned it here. The "Palme d'Or" at Cannes in 2011, "Drive", by Nicolas Winding Refn, with Ryan Goslin and Carey Mulligan. Another slow, meditative movie, but in this case, much lighter in terms of content. Yet, the photography is amazing, especially the urban night scenes, and the thin anecdote is told brilliantly. Not in my book of great films, but I liked it a lot nontheless. Worth seeing it.
Drive 2 - Official Trailer (2013) [HD] - YouTube
Drive (2011) Official Trailer HD - YouTube
Agree with every thing and could not have said it better, Stavros.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
I agree that it is an intelligent film, a good film about sex and that Jack Nicholson is - at least on the strength of anything he has done for the past 25 years - a hugely overated actor who thinks leering substitutes for just about anything in his acting.
Don't think it one of the best films of recent years though by a long chalk.
I was surprised by this one, an animated feature from Israel, by Ari Folman, "Waltz with Bashir" (2008). This movie is strangely made exactly the same way it could have been in a regular production, despite being an animation film, which is the first striking thing about it. It's the story of an Israeli soldier who participated to the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and who can't possibly recall events he has some images of, and keep dreaming of. Seems so innocent, oniric, and yet is such a powerful evocation of the conflicts that destroyed this beautiful country. And as the film progresses, you have the feeling you understand the reason why it was made as animation; it's too hard to tell, just exactly as it is too hard for the character to remember. No huge violence scene, no wild "action", just accounts given by people who were there as invaders, and try to put the puzzle back togheter. The voices are authentically those of the former soldiers presented in the movie. Very compelling, as far as I'm concerned.
WALTZ WITH BASHIR - Trailer - YouTube