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Postby jefe górgory » Fri May 17, 2019 11:38 pm

Mg, with all due respect to Gloria Bell, you gotta see another movie!
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Postby broodstar » Sat May 18, 2019 12:00 am

is this the long day's journey into night slag off thread
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Postby incoherent grunting » Sat May 18, 2019 1:26 am

Oh man, The Killing (1956) is a goooood movie
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Postby carlagain » Sat May 18, 2019 5:41 am

broodstar wrote:is this the long day's journey into night slag off thread

hey I was trying to be nice
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Postby aububs » Sat May 18, 2019 5:42 am

Milk wrote:check out La Femme infidèle if you haven't already.


i have not, and i will, thanks milk
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Postby Dinosauria We » Sat May 18, 2019 7:08 am

I watched my first Hitchcock movies last night, Rear Window and Psycho. I really loved them both, but especially Rear Window. I've always stayed away from movies of that era for some dumb reason and I have a mind to amend that. I remember seeing Vertigo years ago, but have no recollection of it, so I'll be watching that very soon. What other Hitchcock films are essential? Also anything Hitchcock-adjacent in terms of vibe.

Based on that still alone, I will definitely be seeking out The Killing, too.
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Postby carlagain » Sat May 18, 2019 7:08 am

The Image Book was a good movie I wanted to say that for a while. cause I watched it with my brother and I never see him
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Postby Pris » Sat May 18, 2019 7:27 am

Dinosauria We wrote:I watched my first Hitchcock movies last night, Rear Window and Psycho. I really loved them both, but especially Rear Window. I've always stayed away from movies of that era for some dumb reason and I have a mind to amend that. I remember seeing Vertigo years ago, but have no recollection of it, so I'll be watching that very soon. What other Hitchcock films are essential? Also anything Hitchcock-adjacent in terms of vibe.

Based on that still alone, I will definitely be seeking out The Killing, too.


Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946) and North by Northwest (1959) are three of my favorites. But there's at least a dozen more Hitchcock movies that are also reccomended.

Also: Night of the Hunter (1955), The Pawnbroker (1964), Key Largo (1948), Odd Man Out (1947), Seconds (1966), Rififi (1955), Les Diaboliques & The Wages of Fear (1955 & 1953, Cloutzot is referred to as the French Hitchcock), Touch of Evil (1958)
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Postby incoherent grunting » Sat May 18, 2019 7:49 am

You can really tell how influential The Killing was on basically every heist movie since.

Or maybe it's not the Ur heist, but there's so much good stuff in it
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Postby A WOMAN IN TROUBLE » Sat May 18, 2019 11:11 am

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Postby nosebleeds » Sat May 18, 2019 11:20 am

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Postby Tuba Gooding Jr » Sat May 18, 2019 1:35 pm

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Gosford Park (2001) - Both perfectly charming movies until they are not. Ultimately, they're enjoyable but thin, both overlong and overreliant exercises in costuming and setting (despite how much I really enjoyed these aspects). I thought Malkovich being a devious pervert for two hours would be enough for me, but sadly it was not.

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Postby aububs » Sat May 18, 2019 7:48 pm

saw this 20 years ago and tbh it didn't make much of an impression. it holds up really, really well. def my favourite movie of hers. soundtrack goes so hard, the cast is stacked, crazily confident debut. that one guy was also in the phantom menace in the same year? ok. my friend thinks wes anderson should owe this movie some royalties, i'm not sure, but i get it

and i like a movie where the mysterious stranger is 5 people

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Postby furrowed brow » Sat May 18, 2019 7:54 pm

I like Virgin Suicides waaaay better than anything of Wes Anderson's I've seen but Rushmore came out a year before it. I don't really see that much similarity there, in any case.
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Postby aububs » Sat May 18, 2019 8:05 pm

they're their own directors with their own styles, she has a subtley and he has a sledgehammer, but imo they work in a similar headspace and i get the comparison, even if it doesn't need to be made at all

it's crazy looking at the other american movies that were released in '99. a lot of them were really good but this was v distinctive
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Postby Plainsong » Sun May 19, 2019 1:06 am

Dinosauria We wrote:I watched my first Hitchcock movies last night, Rear Window and Psycho. I really loved them both, but especially Rear Window. I've always stayed away from movies of that era for some dumb reason and I have a mind to amend that. I remember seeing Vertigo years ago, but have no recollection of it, so I'll be watching that very soon. What other Hitchcock films are essential? Also anything Hitchcock-adjacent in terms of vibe.

Based on that still alone, I will definitely be seeking out The Killing, too.

In terms of Hitchcock i'd recommend The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog (1927), Blackmail (1929), The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), The Lady Vanishes (1938). In terms of 50's stuff Strangers On A Train (1951), and Dial M For Murder (1954) are really good.
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Postby forest design » Sun May 19, 2019 2:36 am

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Postby shame dawg » Sun May 19, 2019 5:29 am

Her Smell

The confrontations and verbose monologues felt much better in this ARP as I think someone mentioned before. Bloated and certainly imperfect at times but in the end I didn’t feel that took too much away from the experience. Unless i missed something I found it interesting they never explicitly reveal her early issues are drug and/or mental illness related although you could totally assume either, just didn’t see any on the nose explicit scenes pointing to either. Moss is a force
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Postby Plainsong » Sun May 19, 2019 9:13 am

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The Naked Island (1960)- Kaneto Shindo
Amazing film, loved the detail that was shown of the farmers' challenges, and the cinematography was beautiful.
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Devil's Doorway (1950)- Anthony Mann
This ruled.
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Postby walt whitman » Sun May 19, 2019 1:44 pm

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reaaallly good.
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Postby it's the suspense that gets me » Sun May 19, 2019 2:02 pm

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belly (1998)

i had seen this before long ago but jesus christ i could have watched four hours of this. the ending of it is kindof hokey but i mean it straight up feels like an american wong kar wai film starring dmx nas t-boz and method man. what's not to love. i guess people critiqued it for their performances but i mean . . . given the impressionistic/music video style it's working in it makes perfect sense to use people that are used to filming hip hop videos.

we also watched the pre-tetsuo the iron man shorts and me and yyou and everyone we know. the former was uhh interesting as someone who loves shinya tsukumoto films to death. the latter was one of the worst films i've ever seen but we had an absolutte blast watching itt.

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oh wait, we also watche dkony 2012. it's amazing how well it captures the feeling of going to a state college in the early 2010s. very uneasy feeling.
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Postby futurist » Sun May 19, 2019 11:13 pm

i liked watching this and would love to watch more 90s made-for-tv true crime sensational shit. any recommendations?

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Postby naturemorte » Sun May 19, 2019 11:56 pm

futurist wrote:i liked watching this and would love to watch more 90s made-for-tv true crime sensational shit. any recommendations?

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Postby carlagain » Mon May 20, 2019 3:35 am

we had a special Kony assembly at my high school
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Postby carlagain » Mon May 20, 2019 3:43 am

also had a futuretech assembly
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Postby goofjan » Mon May 20, 2019 8:27 am

my gf and I got high and watched Book Club. it wasn't as good as The Jane Austen Book Club.
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Postby mondrary » Mon May 20, 2019 11:05 pm

thank you landspeedrecord and aububs for the advice!

me and my friends spent a weekend in new hampshire (that culminated in the brakes on my car failing, which wasn't cool), and we watched the quick and the dead on saturday night. it is so absurdly predictable but it was admittedly a lot of fun. there are some completely audacious decisions being made here, mainly the excessive canted angles and weird zoom-ins and the one shot from behind a guy getting shot in the head. also entertaining to see younger russell crowe and super young leo dicaprio.
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Postby Sweet Gregory Pectin » Mon May 20, 2019 11:14 pm

the quick and the dead is grade a certified fun
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Postby walt whitman » Tue May 21, 2019 11:43 am

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a religious cult in the woods uses snakes to communicate devotional love to god. loved the snakes and acting. beautiful autumnal appalachia footage, with crisp orange and yellow leaves everywhere. the DP did great work. apparently most folks didn't love this but whatevs
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Postby it's the suspense that gets me » Tue May 21, 2019 3:21 pm

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mother! (2017)

after watching all of aronofsky's "serious" films in short order i think the thing he's best at is capturing the hell of working retail/service industry jobs. the scene where mickey rourke is working the deli counter in the wrestler were pretty easily my favorite scenes in that film just b/c they hit really close to home & aronofsky's key trick of quickly amping up anxiety maps 1:1 with that experience to me. i feel like the first 2/3 of this film basically work it's way from the creeping feeling of having your living space violated up to that point and idk i was pretty in for the ride in a way i wasn't really expecting based on what most discussions of this film centered around. the "crazy" last 1/3 seemed like something that should've been up my alley but idk maybe it's just because i'm at the tail end of a living situation where i have no idea who else is living in this house, paying rent etc. but like while i appreciated parts of it in theory it was kindof a letdown. come to think of it i was similarly shocked by liking the wrestler so much, when i mostly watch aronofsky films to gawk at how ridiculous/over the top they become. i haven't seen the bunuel films this is cribbing from in awhile but i think it's maybe time.

i feel like aronofsky is sortof like arthouse michael bay. afaict most of his films are like, shameless ripoffs/homages to other, better films but done in a bombastic mainstream hollywood style (i.e. pi = tetsuo the iron man, requiem for a dream was already based on an author who did a pulp calvinist version of william burroughs early novels and it takes most of it's visual pyrotechnics from van sant's drugstore cowboy, the fountain = the romance plot in xenogears, the wrestler = buffalo 66??? [the wrestler is a better film than buffalo 66 a million times over], black swan = the red shoes/perfect blue, mother! = rosemarys baby/end of evangelion/the exterminating angel). i totally get why someone would hate this but i think it lands for my sensibilities if i set my expectations properly.

i really went in dreading this given that i think jennifer connelly's treatment in requiem was exploitative pornographic trash but i felt like that even if this films treatment of lawrence's character oversteps at times it's at the very least conducive to sympathy & while the film is 2 hours of terrible shit happening to her nonstop i don't feel like it ever lingers on it or takes glee in any of the transgressions in the way requiem did. i don't really put aronofsky on a pedestal or anything but i really have to chalk up a lot of what i hate about that film to hubert selby jr. like i don't want to let aronofsky off the hook completely for willingly filming a scene where keith david delivers that line about "paddy chicks giving good brain" or w/e but it feels like 5 million times more hateful and meanspirited than any of his other films.

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300 (2007)

i made my own thread about this but just feel like remarking in this one how much this looks and feels like an independent christian movie in 2019, both visually and subtextually. i had never seen it before but i really wonder how this played in 2007.
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