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
Pain and Gain
"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
Wrong, by the bloke who was mr Ozio
Safety not guaranteed
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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
Interesting thematic link to the truly superb "Incendies" which I posted about a few postings back - the war that ravag the lives of the lebanese. Israel is only a back drop in "Incendies'. "Waltz with bashir" was indeed excellent.
We van only hope for the time when film maker can look back at the present hatred ravaging Syria and make movies about it.
I know Wajdi Mouawad's plays and I like him a lot! But I confess I still haven't seen "Incendies". It's always with some reluctence that I get myself to see movies with such difficult subject matters. Guess I'm a bit of a "pussy". But I'll get to this one as I always eventually get to all interresting films like it. :)
As to Syria, yes, you're right, Prospero. It seems like such a remote possibility right now...
Any other "Sherlock" fans out there?
I really enjoyed seasons 1&2 of this BBC America modern take on the Sherlock Holmes theme.
Glad to see that filming has begun on season 3 ,scheduled for release this winter.
http://screenrant.com/sherlock-tv-sh...art-date-2013/
Last night I saw what I suspect may be next year's Oscar and Bafta winner for best foreign film. It's a wholly enchanting french comedy called "Populaire" (a brand of French typewriter) which is about typewriters and relationships. Set in 1958/59 in Lisieux in France. Utterly charming. It has Berenice Bejo (female lead in The Artist) but the two main characters are played by an actress i'd not seen before - Deborah Francois - and Romain Duris.
it's the first film from a director called Regis Roinsard.
A seasoned audience from the film and television industry burst into spontaneous applause at its conclusion at an industry screening in London last night.
Populaire - Trailer - YouTube
Populaire - Trailer - YouTube
Outskirts (Boris Barnet, 1933)
An early example of Russian sound, rather crude, but curious film which seems to be a mixture of the tragic and the comic, possibly satirical. Set between the outbreak of World War 1 and the Revolution of 1917 in a remote town of Tsarist Russia, mostly revolves around the life of shoemakers, one with two sons who die in the war, the other with a young daughter who befriends a German POW. The film lacks substance, but I recall there was a Barnet retrospective at the National Film Theatre in I think the 1980s so his later films might have been better.
There must be hundreds of Russian films that have never been shown in the English-speaking world.
1/7 The Outskirts (Окраина) by Boris Barnet, Mezhrabpomfilm, USSR 1933. - YouTube
Hansel And Gretel - Witch Hunters.
Kinda fun, had it's moments! :shrug
Carancho (Pablo Trapero, 2011)
Powerful film about an ambulance chaser looking for change who falls in love with a medic also looking for a change: to get out of a corrupt system: good script, outstanding acting -as usual- from Ricardo Darin, and also Martina Gusman, who co-produced the film.
Carancho - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube
Above The Rim. I was bored, and that was the first DVD I laid eyes on at my pad.
Hangover 3 ... Thought it was nearly as good as the original
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)
I have never seen the whole of this film before, so now having done so and also watched it twice with Brian Cox's narration I think it is quite outstanding; there are flaws, and I am not sure about Pinbacker, but it is an accomplished film which doesn't take the imagination too far away from reality, as Cox points out for example, the outer surface/layers of the Sun at 6,000C is cooler than the heat generated by re-entry into earth which can had up to 20,000C and so on. Acting is formidable too, and let's face it SciFi movies (Star Wars and Star Trek being obvious) can often be so beyond belief they are not worth watching at all.
Sunshine Trailer - YouTube
Star Trek 2.... Imax, 3D.... predictable, unoriginal, uninventive and the same visual elements, with some extra polish, that have filled mass audience sci-fi since Stars Wars (and how long ago was that!). Dull and stupidly crass and only intermittently bearable. The originality of the first new Stars Trek film has evaporated leaving cliched nods to character and way too much crash bang and cosmic wallop. This is cinema for kids not adults - even those who enjoy some silly entertainment. It was not entertaining.
Prospero that's the same way I felt after watching Star Trek 2. You just said it better that I would have lol
I liked the start of this movie, but I was disappointed at the dramatic turn this movie took. Great cast though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Iron Man 3
About Star Trek 2. I didn't think it was that bad, but I didn't go into it with very high expectations.
Pros: I thought the special effects were great, the guy who plays Kirk is pretty good and I liked Khan.
Cons: The McCoy character is horrible, too many cliches and reverse story situations and the Admiral piloting the super battleship was not very believable.
I know there will never be another Shatner/Nimoy era and I've learned to accept that. Gene Roddenberry is long dead and, for the most part, the general public is a bit too stupid and lacks the attention span for intense, intelligent sci-fi stories. Therefore, I've tried to dumb myself down and enjoy them as much as I can.
"Behind the Candelabra' the much acclaimed biopic about Liberace. Brilliant perforance by Michael Douglas, but overlong and it seemed to reinforce certain old myths about the gay community.
I've also seen this film and was duly impressed. Darin's previous film, The Secret in Their Eyes, is an outstanding piece of work about the aftermath of Argentina's dirty war. Latin American cinema is pretty exciting these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
My knowledge of Latin American cinema is not extensive -I saw most of Glauber Rocha's films in the 70s, and saw three of them again recently (Black God, White Devil; Land in Anguish; Antonio das Mortes) and was also keen on Sweet Hunters and Os Cafajestes by Ruy Guerra. I think along with Cuban cinema, Lucia (Humberto Solas) in the 60s and 70s they were playing with narrative structure, but it is also something one also notices with Inarritu's films (Amores Perros, Babel), whereas Argentinian films I have seen are often about the underside of life in Buenos Aires and how people struggle to make a living in a precarious economy -Nine Queens, The Secret in their Eyes and Carancho being quite different from say Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai) which is also set in Buenos Aires. Mexico also has Gael Garcia Bernal, good at both acting and directing, his film Deficit stands up to repeated viewing. Have no idea what is happening outside Mexico, Cuba, Brazil and Argentina, these seem to be the main countries regularly producing good films, although I am not an admirer of the recent Brazilian films about prison life. Would appreciate some recommendations.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
The Last film i saw was 'Exiled.' Its a neat combination of Chinese Gangster and Spaghetti Western style. Johnnie To does really well with the subject material and its just funny enough without being campy.
EXILED - A Johnnie To Film - YouTube
Reinhardt do you -does anyone- know a Johnny To film in which a crew, dressed sort of like Reservoir Dogs, goes to a large house somewhere to eliminate someone only to find themselves depleted one by one? I saw it on an aeroplane some years ago and can't recall its title.
"The Bling Ring" - Sophia Coppola's new film based on a factual Vanity Fair feature about a group of young California girls, plus one guy, who go on a robbery spree in LA - stealing stuff from the likes of Paris Hiton and Lindsay Lohan. An overlong film which could have thrown some light on the perculiar culture of young kids who are fascinated by the empty fame of people like Hilton and who aspire to the sort of fame that accrues without any visible talent. But it spends too long on the bling and partying little time on probing beneath to offer a glipe of this lost generation.
Great closing song by Frank Ocean.
I have been disappointed with her films, or is it just that she makes safe films without an edge?
The second assertion is true I think which results in your and my disappointment.
Man Of Steel. It was alright. I'd watch it again.
I love movies : Konstantin and Stigmata !!! Last movie I watched : We . Believe in love . There are a couple of Russian films if you find them translated into English : "Gloss"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF0tb6AP7rA
Valhalla Rising.
If i hadn't been stoned, I don't think I'd of made it thru to the end! :shrug
Man of Steel. I didn't like it. Good special effects but how many buildings do they have to fly through for us to get the point? Kryptonians are really, really strong and really hard to hurt. And what's the point of fighting if neither person can be hurt? Turned the superman story into a silly action movie.
The Shining http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cb3ik6zP2I
Drive Brilliant Film & A Great Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcV1UpZAWAc