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by mystery meat » Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:35 pm
not happy about that post saranclaps
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by saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:38 pm
i'll upgrade the last hour or so of jules and jim to decent.
i'll give playtime and the half of mon oncle i watched that it's technically incredible but nonetheless incredibly boring to watch
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by maraschino cherry » Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:57 pm
Omg, I’ve seen this in a museum setting! I think it was when I was in NYC last year but genuinely can’t remember, anyway it blew me away, bummer it’s not available online anymore
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by saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:04 pm
palmer eldritch wrote:remind me what it is you do like
i watched Michael Mann's latest cut of Ali and thought it was pretty good
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by jalapeño ranch » Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:15 pm
Alec Baldwin
really wanted to kill that kid! This movie was hilarious.
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by antoine » Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:34 pm
Session 9 - probably my favorite horror movie of the 2000s
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by BlackSugar » Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:51 pm
me and my kid watched a few movies this weekend
the new fantasy island. this was dumb but fun. and since I grew up watching this show on tv, the twist on it was amusing. we had a good time watching it and were having fun chatting over it and laughing at the direction the plot was going in
the beach house we watched feeling intrigued but ultimately let down as it proceeded. at the end, he said "I'm glad we watched it but it wasn't very good"
and tonight we watched the tom hanks ww2 movie greyhound. he was bored and on his phone the whole time, but I ended up loving it. it's a purely procedural movie with almost zero character development, but I was completely transfixed during the whole thing. the fx are pretty laughable and corny USA USA patriotism gets old fast, but I ended up really liking this a lot
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by jalapeño ranch » Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:54 pm
I'd like to see Greyhound but I don't feel like wasting any TorrentDay ratio on it. Hopefully I can get around to it soon.
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by BlackSugar » Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:56 pm
jalapeño ranch wrote:I'd like to see Greyhound but I don't feel like wasting any TorrentDay ratio on it. Hopefully I can get around to it soon.
I've got a perfectly fine 1.5g file of it. I'll put it in now
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by saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Sun Jul 12, 2020 11:43 pm
bergman's summer with monika
neorealist i like it
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by jalapeño ranch » Sun Jul 12, 2020 11:45 pm
BlackSugar wrote:jalapeño ranch wrote:I'd like to see Greyhound but I don't feel like wasting any TorrentDay ratio on it. Hopefully I can get around to it soon.
I've got a perfectly fine 1.5g file of it. I'll put it in now
Thanks!
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by ero guro vidal (aka todd) » Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:29 am
antoine wrote:Session 9 - probably my favorite horror movie of the 2000s
I like Session 9. I think it cultivates mood and a sense of fatalism that lingers throughout the entire thing. It's a movie that really lives-and-dies by Peter Mullan's performance and forcing a viewer to watch a stoic, "good" man and the foundation of the group crumble, which takes everyone down with him. The way his DP shoots that hospital is really effective; like, you kinda get a sense of the layout but only obliquely, so it's not quite clear how every room and cooridor link up. Makes it feel creepier, like its own disjointed reality. The way he shoots the rooms to have their own character is great too. The record room that the former law student guy gets obsessed with is all slivers of natural lighting and shot from ground up, giving it a claustrophobic feel. The gym with the asbestos is huge and kinda frames the mullet dweeb and josh lucas as small in comparison, but their tension kinda fills it. gif of caruso going "fuck you."
It's real proto-A24/Elevated Horror. Just a tight script that leaves things cryptic enough.
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by jalapeño ranch » Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:06 pm
The best part of Session 9 is clearly
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by cooly » Mon Jul 13, 2020 3:32 pm
wrong thread
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by walt whitman » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:34 am
all that heaven allows.
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by ero guro vidal (aka todd) » Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:26 am
Watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters last night. I can’t gather my thoughts yet, but this is probably the best expression of Schrader’s interests: competing impulses of self-creation and self-destruction, outsiders looking to control first themselves and their immediate contexts, art as myth making, that transcendental style only ever able to be expressed through self destruction. The set designs for the chapters from the three books were mind blowing. Ogawa was amazing - capturing both the charm, showmanship and narcissism of Mishima. The Phillip glass score was gorgeous and overwhelming; it sounded borderline religious. Really gave me Tim hecker virgins feelings. Iunno. I have to sit with this. Just really affecting.
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by antoine » Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:40 pm
ero guro vidal (aka todd) wrote:antoine wrote:Session 9 - probably my favorite horror movie of the 2000s
I like Session 9. I think it cultivates mood and a sense of fatalism that lingers throughout the entire thing. It's a movie that really lives-and-dies by Peter Mullan's performance and forcing a viewer to watch a stoic, "good" man and the foundation of the group crumble, which takes everyone down with him. The way his DP shoots that hospital is really effective; like, you kinda get a sense of the layout but only obliquely, so it's not quite clear how every room and cooridor link up. Makes it feel creepier, like its own disjointed reality. The way he shoots the rooms to have their own character is great too. The record room that the former law student guy gets obsessed with is all slivers of natural lighting and shot from ground up, giving it a claustrophobic feel. The gym with the asbestos is huge and kinda frames the mullet dweeb and josh lucas as small in comparison, but their tension kinda fills it. gif of caruso going "fuck you."
It's real proto-A24/Elevated Horror. Just a tight script that leaves things cryptic enough.
Yeah. Except it's like 100 times less pretentious than A24 shit. I think it's an ingenious setup for a horror movie in that it actually deals with working class people, something you hardly ever see today and I think symbolizes the enormous stress and precarity of these kinds of jobs. I love how straightforward and naturalistic it is. I actually kind of wanna write something about the class politics of the film but I might be too stupid and lazy to do that. Like, compare this to something like Hereditary, which is a film about bourgeouise rich people living in a million dollar architectural wonder of a home or Midsommar which is about entitled grad students mewing about their relationships. The people feel real in Session 9, they're not archetypes. They're just regular folks doing an extraordinarily dangerous job alone, by themselves in this cavernous, corrupted and failed institution. I dunno. Like I said I wanna write something about it but those are some random thoughts I have on the film.
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by goofjan » Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:55 pm
Brad Anderson is a strange case. what are his other good movies? I remember liking Transsiberian.
plz if u get a chanse put some flowrs on algernons grave kthxbye
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by ero guro vidal (aka todd) » Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:00 pm
def think it's a good point, antoine. i think it's sorta
frankie teardrop: the movieToggle Spoiler. a single income provider disintegrating under the weight of a recession. i also agree that each of the four (and i guess the nephew) feel like characters; i don't think they're fully realized characters, but there's enough of a sketch to each of them to suggest full characters. the failed law school guy. josh lucas getting with caruso's wife but now kinda resenting being in the domestic role. caruso himself acting like the "get the shit done" second in command. each of them having their own downfall of sorts. the blue collar angle and that they're working on cleaning up "a failed institution" is interesting. i'd be interested to read what you have to write on it if you end up doing it.
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by ero guro vidal (aka todd) » Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:17 pm
goofjan wrote:Brad Anderson is a strange case. what are his other good movies? I remember liking Transsiberian.
literally never seen anything else from him, except for a clip of the torture scene in transsiberian.
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by antoine » Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:26 pm
The Machinist is decent but more big budget and show offy in a way that I don't like as much as the style of Session 9. It's also a little too goth edgelord for my taste. I should rewatch it tho.
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by emotional fascism » Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:34 pm
The Machinist is watchable because of it's atmosphere, Bale's look, and JJL's performance. Twist is real dumb and obvious, but it's about 75% good.
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by jalapeño ranch » Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:43 pm
Just watched The Big Easy and it absolutely ruled.
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by Thrustin Jeroux » Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:00 pm
jalapeño ranch wrote:Just watched The Big Easy and it absolutely ruled.
you are only coming through in waves
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by walt whitman » Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:50 am
ero guro vidal (aka todd) wrote:Watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters last night. I can’t gather my thoughts yet, but this is probably the best expression of Schrader’s interests: competing impulses of self-creation and self-destruction, outsiders looking to control first themselves and their immediate contexts, art as myth making, that transcendental style only ever able to be expressed through self destruction. The set designs for the chapters from the three books were mind blowing. Ogawa was amazing - capturing both the charm, showmanship and narcissism of Mishima. The Phillip glass score was gorgeous and overwhelming; it sounded borderline religious. Really gave me Tim hecker virgins feelings. Iunno. I have to sit with this. Just really affecting.
this is my favorite movie, most days
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by walt whitman » Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:51 am
hey cinephiles
can you recommend a good film about motherhood and/or care work?
thx
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by Phil » Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:31 am
Besides the obvious Akermans...
Milla
Daughter Rite
My Name is Oona
Gloria
Mildred Pierce (the Haynes more than the Curtiz)
Extreme Private Eros
Riddles of the Sphinx
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