What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[crystalsopen]

Yes It was visually stunning.

Pan's Labrynth. Anybody seen it?

[Stavros]

Which Rivette Stavros? The only I have seen was "Celine and Julie go Boating'. First time i loved it but 20 years later it seemed rather tedious.

Can't agree with that, Celine et Julie is still magical for me. Jeanne la Pucelle (parts 1 and 2) are worth seeing for a reasonable degree of historical accuracy except that, as is always the case in films, the actress playing Jeanne (Sandrine Bonnaire) was 27 when she made the first part (Les Batailles) whereas in real life Jehanne was around 16 or 17 when she first lobbied Charles VII to take on the British.

[Stavros]

Yes It was visually stunning.

Pan's Labyrinth -yes, I saw it, and thought little of it.

[Stavros]

American Hustle (David Russell 2013)
Russell directed Silver Linings Playbook and uses Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and an uncredited Robert de Niro in this film, but as with some of his earlier films (Spanking the Monkey, 1994; and I Heart Huckabees, 2004) the film promises more than it delivers. The plot is of little interest, the characters even less so, and when a character is given the name of of an Italian cheese I think you realise this film came from nowhere, has the same rythmn and tone throughout and ends up disappointing. If you do want to see films about hustling and deception, The Grifters (Stephen Frears 1990) and the Argentinian film Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens, Faien Bielinsky 2000) are both superior.

Pity as I like Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper and hope they make interesting films.

[Prospero]

Its a caper Stavros and quite funny I think! And the cheese name is a joke. The Big cheese....

[clevelandswabbie]

right & i did like "Pan's Labyrinth"...also just saw last week "Gravity"...Sarah should get the Oscar...just saying.

met a new friend from Columbus, OH...

[clevelandswabbie]

...the other last movie i saw is w/Chanel Couture...which was yesterday...

[broncofan]

Yet to see American Hustle and Inside Llewyn Davis. I agree with Prospero's take on Coen Brothers movies. I've liked a handful. Fargo, Big Lebowski, No Country, O Brother Where Art Thou, and Miller's Crossing (though I think the last one is overrated). Did not like The Man Who Wasn't There, Hudsucker Proxy, or Ladykillers. Thought A Serious Man and Burn Before Reading were okay.

Saw 12 Years a Slave and thought it was very moving.

[maxpower]

No one likes the Coens' Raising Arizona? It's one of my all-time favorites.

[Prospero]

Never seen it, Maxpower....

I watched the new Bazz Luhrmann version of "The Great Gatsby" last night. Well, to be honest, I watched some and then read a book while the rest played on. A drunken, careering car crash of a film. I wonder if he will ever make a calm film. Leonardo di Caprio was fine (and Carey Mulligan as Daisy looked lovely). Do Caprio, who has matured into a pretty good actor was a calm centre to an otherwise squally film. As Robert Louis said a few posts ago read F. Scott Fitzgerald read the books and avoid the movies. This film is horrible.