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Postby Honk For Dracula » Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:41 am

just watched Paterson for the first time. holy shit this movie is perfect.
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Postby Fr. Blanc » Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:52 am

love Paterson
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Postby groupb » Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:27 am

goofjan wrote:any reccs for ensemble family dramas like August Osage County or Home for the Holidays?

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Postby delgriffith » Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:34 am

loaf angel wrote:just watched Paterson for the first time. holy shit this movie is perfect.

Yes
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Postby Mesh » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:37 am

aububs wrote:
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goofjan wrote:any reccs for ensemble family dramas like August Osage County or Home for the Holidays?

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wow that look essential


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Postby aububs » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:41 am

yeah I caught that. I'm a long-time hallstrom hater but that movie looks really good and is also pre-dogshit hallstrom
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Postby Fr. Blanc » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:43 am

Hachi and Hundred Foot Journey are modern and good enjoyable Hallstroms
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Postby easy » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:44 am

I saw a screening of My Life as a Dog with Hallstrom in attendance and in both the introduction to the film and his post-screening Q&A he wouldn't shut the fuck up about the fact that the movie theater we were in used "the real butter" for their popcorn. he was eating popcorn pretty much the whole time. I fell asleep during the movie.
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Postby goofjan » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:45 am

easy wrote:I saw a screening of My Life as a Dog with Hallstrom in attendance and in both the introduction to the film and his post-screening Q&A he wouldn't shut the fuck up about the fact that the movie theater we were in used "the real butter" for their popcorn. he was eating popcorn pretty much the whole time. I fell asleep during the movie.

making that film was just a long con to get free popcorn with real butter.
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Postby Fr. Blanc » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:45 am

if thats real, hell i love it
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Postby aububs » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:47 am

according to wiki he's a vegan. but he loves "real butter"?

fucking typical hallstrom bullshit
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Postby easy » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:48 am

Franco wrote:if thats real, hell i love it


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not pictured: the popcorn butterd
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Postby Fr. Blanc » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:50 am

is it true that's an all red curtain that he used the bottom for as a napkin
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Postby aububs » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:59 am

actually did not realise hallstrom directed a couple of nicholas sparks movies that I really enjoyed

love hallstrom
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Postby groupb » Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:18 am

he also directed a family drama with robert redford, morgan freeman and j-lo that i bet no-one here can name without looking it up first. i read the title 2 minutes ago and i already forgot it
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Postby furrowed brow » Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:45 pm

Roma (Alfonso Cuaron, 2018) - A very impressive film. It shows us an interesting yet totally unexceptional story. It actually shows us work, how many films do that? I suppose I like the idea of giving such a cinematic treatment to the utterly ordinary maybe more than I actually like it in practice. I am struck by how little we know of Cleo's inner world and maybe that's what prevents me from connecting with it on an emotional level.
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Postby angel eyes » Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:17 am

just came back from the theater seeing Serenity. WOW. i noticed some posts a few pages ago when it came out this weekend but i just caught a showing tonight. just wow. film of the year and it's only January. it is Book of Henry tier cinema.
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Postby angel eyes » Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:18 am

DO NOT MISS THIS ONE FOLKS. we laughed so hard the couple in front of us walked out. which i felt bad about but hey, art is powerful.
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Postby pink snake » Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:30 pm

I just saw They Shall Not Grow Old. I liked it a lot.
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Postby Thrustin Jeroux » Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:45 pm

ASH NERVE wrote:DO NOT MISS THIS ONE FOLKS. we laughed so hard the couple in front of us walked out. which i felt bad about but hey, art is powerful.


YES. i was laughing my ass off and i loved every second of it. no one else was having it though. my girlfriend started laughing cause i was.
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Postby Thrustin Jeroux » Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:47 pm

i still think about the shot of mcconaughey standing in the middle of the street as digital shards begin to reshape his environment around himToggle Spoiler
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Postby incoherent grunting » Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:55 pm

I just watched Crazy Rich Asians and it fucking sucked!
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Postby deadwolfbones » Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:28 am

Serenity sounds insane and I can't wait
dead was real dumb
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Postby 2nd_yellow » Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:00 am

Just finished Gaspar Noe's new flick, Climax. Gotta say it was a bit underwhelming compared to his previous work. Most of his films will have a scene or two that hits you like a hammer, but the usual feeling of being uncomfortable while watching his films just wasn't there during Climax.
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Postby antoine » Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:48 am

Independence Day: Resurgence

Every scene in this movie reminds me of the Radioactive Man episode of The Simpsons. Is the director character in this ep actually based on Roland Emmerich?

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I was really only half-watching it because it was so fucking boring and embarrassing seeming.
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Postby goofjan » Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:19 am

finally watched Sorcerer. really enjoyed it, particularly the sort of mystical horror/man vs nature sense of dread. a little like a testosterone pumped Peter Weir film. but god, Friedkin must have been (be?) such a nightmare of a person. I heard him on a podcast recently complaining about how people are too mean to Trump. megalomaniacs gotta look out of each other, I guess. anyway:

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Postby ero guro vidal (aka todd) » Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:18 pm

Watched City on Fire (Lam, 1987) for the first time in a decade.

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Chow Yun-fat’s rise concurrent with the new wave of Hong Kong cinema of the 80s was p great. He’s so fucking charismatic and that kinda dance scene in the public park is rad. Lam’s frequent theme of men having to choose between law and crime, and how both ruin you but like most Hong Kong flicks of the 80s and 90s, it’s hyper cynical about the cops in particular (he’s tortured by the cops for doing his job as an undercover cop in the name of political posturing between captains). He and Woo both were invested in brotherhood between criminal and cop forged from respect and being in a dangerous life where only they can really empathize. Woo’s was always romanticized and heightened by stylistic flourishes. Lam’s is matter of fact; he’s a journeyman with very disintictive visual cues and preoccupations that hit you by how sparingly they’re used (the string light reflections on the car windshield during the final chase sequence). Hong Kong cinema of the 80s and the heroic bloodshed thing held similar disenfranchisement with law enforcement and other modern capitalist institutions in a time of growth as new Hollywood, but unlike the latter, Lam’s (and woo’s) flicks always had a friendship birthed out of men with conviction - where convinction is a trueness to the self as opposed to mindless obedience to the institution. It’s less cynical in that way. Iunno, this is great.

Lam never had the successful breakout in the States as Woo or that global run he had (and his work never had that ostentatiousness and quickly identifiable visual flair that Woo’s did, which made him a novelty to pluck and run with for a while), but he had a string of all-time flicks (the “On Fire” trilogy and Full Alert). Even his minor straight-to-video fair with JCVD is watcheable (but not good work). This movie is great.
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Postby ero guro vidal (aka todd) » Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:21 pm

goofjan wrote:finally watched Sorcerer. really enjoyed it, particularly the sort of mystical horror/man vs nature sense of dread. a little like a testosterone pumped Peter Weir film. but god, Friedkin must have been (be?) such a nightmare of a person. I heard him on a podcast recently complaining about how people are too mean to Trump. megalomaniacs gotta look out of each other, I guess. anyway:


God, this movie is so good and lean and fucking nasty. Apparently, that bridge was really unsafe and Friedkin insisted that they only fortify it to the minimal degree so as not to disturb the look.
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Postby internetfriend » Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:29 pm

man somehow I got it in my head that Sorcerer was a zulawski movie ive been meaning to watch. finally looked it up and realized i watched it like two years ago. neither i or my cinematic wife remembered seeing it at all, we needed to like check the wikipedia synopsis to jog our memories. weird, i remember enjoying it a lot and dont usually forget movies that way
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Postby landspeedrecord » Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:33 pm

sounds like it put a spell on you
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