last movie watched

[sunrise]

I saw The Turin Horse yesterday and I think i hated it. Like it's absolutely incredibly made but way too bleak, it almost redeems itself and then just plunges even further with 'the sixth day'. (I love Satantango & Werckmeister) I'd love someone to try and convince me this has stuff going for it other than technical skills.

Also watched Universal Soldier: Regeneration, which I pretty much loved.

[glock mane]

Moonrise Kingdom made me cry at the end. I'm not sure how to feel about that.

yeah i was pretty close to doing this

[Elephant]

I saw The Turin Horse yesterday and I think i hated it. Like it's absolutely incredibly made but way too bleak, it almost redeems itself and then just plunges even further with 'the sixth day'. (I love Satantango & Werckmeister) I'd love someone to try and convince me this has stuff going for it other than technical skills.

I loved The Turin Horse. There's really no such thing as too bleak

Part of the draw for me

[ingmar b]

Oh I also saw the Dictator with my dad when I was on vacation. I thought it pretty much sucked. I didn't laugh too much.

I know I post a lot about shitty movies, but I try to even it out with some Woody Allen or Ingmar Bergman.

[delgriffith]

21 Jump Street is really funny. Thanks for vouching for it someguy.

[Motherwell]

Moonrise Kingdom - I liked it but I would have never guessed it was 94 min based on how long it felt. Should've ended soon after the kids are first discovered and Bill Murray lifts up the tent. Thought certain actors were underused. Everything with Balaban was golden. Also loved Suzy's brothers and the kitten. Obviously all the quirky details were on point. Felt a little weird how much they played up the sexiness of Suzy (makeup, revealing outfits) considered the actress was 12 at filming. Solid B- overall.

[someguy]

I saw The Turin Horse yesterday and I think i hated it. Like it's absolutely incredibly made but way too bleak, it almost redeems itself and then just plunges even further with 'the sixth day'. (I love Satantango & Werckmeister) I'd love someone to try and convince me this has stuff going for it other than technical skills.

I loved The Turin Horse. There's really no such thing as too bleak

Part of the draw for me

When I saw this Bela Tarr did a Q&A after and someone asked him about why the movie was so bleak. His response was something like "Let me respond with a question: After you saw this movie did you come out of it weaker or stronger?" and the guy said weaker then there was this awkward silence followed by "uhh...I'm sorry"

[Elephant]

When I saw this Bela Tarr did a Q&A after and someone asked him about why the movie was so bleak. His response was something like "Let me respond with a question: After you saw this movie did you come out of it weaker or stronger?" and the guy said weaker then there was this awkward silence followed by "uhh...I'm sorry"

Yeah he introduced the screening at NYFF and was all "Go outside. Why would you want to sit through this depressing black and white piece of shit?"

[Polynoggin]

Moonrise Kingdom - I liked it but I would have never guessed it was 94 min based on how long it felt. Should've ended soon after the kids are first discovered and Bill Murray lifts up the tent. Thought certain actors were underused. Everything with Balaban was golden. Also loved Suzy's brothers and the kitten. Obviously all the quirky details were on point. Felt a little weird how much they played up the sexiness of Suzy (makeup, revealing outfits) considered the actress was 12 at filming. Solid B- overall.

the "you can touch my chest" bit made me squirm in the cinema. everyone else seemed to laugh though.

[Motherwell]

^ People were laughing out loud throughout the movie. Made me feel weird because I wasn't and it's not something I usually do during his movies; just not how I react to his type of humor. I think I did in Royal Tenenbaums when Owen Wilson's character says something like "where's my other shoe?" The audience fuckin' clapped after the movie which always makes me cringe. That plus the fact that every preview was for hipster rom-coms made me a little cranky.

Re Tarr: Love the dude but that's pretty pretentious to assume someone left your movie weaker or stronger.

[Phil]

This has 0 relation to the quality of his movies, but everything that I've ever heard come out of Bela Tarr's mouth makes me think he's a complete dipshit.

[lost_blues]

anybody seen this trainwreck

[kid8]

i think fury lost his virginity to this song.

[kid8]

[urlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3uqjuOg8xw][/url]i think fury lost his virginity to this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3uqjuOg8xw

[naturemorte]

This has 0 relation to the quality of his movies, but everything that I've ever heard come out of Bela Tarr's mouth makes me think he's a complete dipshit.

I dunno, this really does it for me, though the last two of his films haven't:

“Technology really looks like a new car. If you want to travel, you have to use your car. From time to time, you get stupid new things in the car. But the car is serving you. You are not the servant of the car. I am not a servant of technology. If it is not working for the humanity and human dignity, my opinion is it is a piece of shit.” -Béla Tarr

[naturemorte]

Bird with the crystal plumage. I finished year one of grad school today and just really felt like watching some women get murdered Also watched twitch of the death nerve which was mostly trash (smashing ending however) but the argento was a real winner. Was surprised to see such pervasive use of POV in an early argento. I only really remember this and opera but eye stabbing seems to be a constant threat in his movies, which makes the alternating points of view all the more interesting. Fucking a-mazing morricone score, by the way.

[husbands]

Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli/1975

It was just restored last year, debuted at Rotterdam. It's a 3.5-hour shot-on-video documentary about a pregnant, drug addicted, and frequently naked 16-year-old. So not really the easiest thing to show.

Andrea Picard had a good piece on it in the last Cinema Scope: http://cinema-scope.com/columns/filmart ... evolution/

dang I was hoping to see this at Light Industry but didn't get to NYC in time on saturday

is the KG copy decent quality

[Phil]

The same rip from Italian TV that's on KG is on youtube, but neither of them have subtitles. And no, just from scrolling through it, it's not very good.

[swamp thing]

overflowing with contempt for the audience

lot of jokes about black ppl

looked like a nickelodeon original picture

[Shart Damage]

that's just an oppressively ugly CGI nightmare of a movie, right there. too many decent actors' talents laid to waste + awful '60s pop culture references

which is too bad because MIB could really be an awesome franchise

at least the second one had Rip Torn, Michael Jackson, and the Ballchinian scene:

[Ampersand]

Also watched twitch of the death nerve which was mostly trash

Ugh.

[Ampersand]

Oh, also I wrote about Twixt here: http://nessuntimore.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... ppola.html

It sounds like I liked it more than those of you ITT. I mean all of its problems (narrative and visual) seemed pretty darn deliberate to me, and I loved what I was able to take out of it.

[Kafkaesque]

i think Phil and i were the only people who posted about Twixt in this thread, but we were both fairly positive about it fwiw. i like what you wrote though, that scene where Kilmer gets drunk and writes really was great.

[Ampersand]

Oh I know, and I liked what you both had to say about it (however brief). I just noticed some slight hesitation or questioning of intent/method in both write ups, so was surprised when I watched it and was able to embrace it so openly.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

[someguy]

this is not a film - fuckin incredible

[Hieronymus Kush]

this is not a film - fuckin incredible

It really is. So apparently the guy who filmed it (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb) is currently in prison as well?

[someguy]

yeah when the film premiered at TIFF last fall he tried to leave iran to attend but he wasnt allowed and is apparently under arrest for possibly being a bbc spy

[deadwolfbones]

the thing that really stood out the most was how most of the problems in the future society would be solved by just having paper currency

also im guessing the script was like 20 years old and rewritten a million times cause this future doesnt have cell phones or the internet and the cops dress like the matrix

it was really bad!

yeah this was terrible, but on the other hand, she's real cute.

[glock mane]

Moonrise Kingdom made me cry at the end. I'm not sure how to feel about that.

yeah i was pretty close to doing this

despite it largely being a Lana Del Rey video

[can]

was going to bump the movie poster thread but since this probably gets more views, figured i'd mention that emovieposter.com has a ton of really cool and rare insert posters (14 x 36) up for auction. obviously a lot of the more popular films are going to sell for a shitload but there's some cool stuff that you might be able to get for a decent price. a ton of older movies but there's some good picks from the 70s/80s as well. just browse through the "current auctions" and i think it goes up to page 20 or so