What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
March 24th, 2018 at 4:52:54 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | No. Orson Welles and Trevor Howard in post war Vienna. Black and white. Stark. Winter. Shadows. Dutch angles. Dispute over the ending. Producer wanted upbeat ending but Orson Welles insisted on a cold hopeless and more realistic ending. |
March 24th, 2018 at 5:20:21 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | Just saw Game Night. As a fan of classic board games and the movie starring to actors from Friday Night Lights (the TV series), it was hard to say no. Plus, nothing else looked better. I'm tough to please with comedies but this one was darn good. The closest movie I could compare it to would be The Hangover but Game Night is better. Definitely a fun kind of "date night" movie. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
March 24th, 2018 at 5:38:37 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | https://mubi.com/ If you fancy yourself an intellectual for $9 a month there is a streaming service called Mubi. They choose one movie a day, usually old, and often in a foreign language, and you can only watch the last 30 movies chosen. But then you join the social forum and talk about the movie with 7 million kindred souls. Compared to Netflix, $9 for 30 old movies is no bargain, but if you want to talk to movie lovers, and force yourself to explore art house cinema, this is a good chance. EB should at least try the free week and watch all the movies. DON'T BLINK - ROBERT FRANK LAURA ISRAEL Canada, 2015 A portrait of one of America’s finest visual artists, Don’t Blink – Robert Frank is told in a flurry of unpredictable interviews, a rich mosaic of visual reference points. Plus, its backed by a soundtrack provided by Frank’s past photographic subjects: The Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground & more. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON MAYA DEREN, ALEXANDER HAMMID United States, 1943 Today we celebrate International Women’s Day with this landmark short film from the godmother of the American avant-garde, Maya Deren. No other film describes the illogic mystery of dreams quite like this one—its miraculous images are potent enough to find a way into your own dreamscape. THREE SISTERS WANG BING France, 2012 CHINESE INDEPENDENTS, PART 1 We’re launching a series on the groundbreaking documentaries, often produced against the will of the state and concerning uncharted struggles, that have recently come out of China. We start with Wang Bing’s patient, provocative, and deeply compassionate portrait of three provincial young sisters. BRITISH SOUNDS JEAN-LUC GODARD, JEAN-HENRI ROGER, GROUPE DZIGA VERTOV United Kingdom, 1970 GODARD AND THE DZIGA VERTOV GROUP We continue our series on the radical—politically and cinematically—films of Godard’s Dziga Vertov Group, named after the brilliant Soviet filmmaker. This experimental doc visits scenes of labor, feminism, TV production, and student agitation to create an agitpop exposé of this post-68 moment. FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY ASGHAR FARHADI Iran, 2006 Iran has a great tradition of first-class filmmakers such as Kiarostami, Panahi, Makhmalbaf and, more recently, Farhadi, who took home an Oscar with his riveting The Salesman. This earlier film, set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year, is another of his engrossing explorations of marriage. A PURE FORMALITY GIUSEPPE TORNATORE Italy, 1994 Giuseppe Tornatore, most famous for his nostalgic masterpiece Cinema Paradiso, shows another side of his cinema with this deft and claustrophobic procedural thriller. Two legends of the art form, Gerard Depardieu & Roman Polanski, go head to head in a frantic yet sublime game of cat and mouse. THE PIANIST ROMAN POLANSKI Germany, 2002 Oppression, claustrophobia and the perverse absurdity of the human condition have been among the themes of Roman Polanski’s films. The director reaches his apex with this multiple Academy Award winning drama of survival—a deeply personal culmination, as Polanski himself was a Warsaw ghetto survivor. JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS SERGE GAINSBOURG France, 1976 Today is legendary musician Serge Gainsbourg’s birthday, and we offer his directorial debut as celebration. Venturing outside of his recording career was in this case a total success for Gainsbourg: Je t’aime moi non plus is as sensual, entrancing and romantic as his music. Starring Jane Birkin! KAILI BLUES GAN BI China, 2015 This remarkable debut is formed by a playful structure, rich characters, and one of the most beguiling long takes in modern cinema. Kaili Blues is a dreamy rumination into a nation’s past and the eternal grip tradition has on contemporary life. Winner of the Best New Director award at Locarno. FUCK FOR FOREST MICHAŁ MARCZAK Poland, 2012 THE UNUSUAL SUBJECTS We continue our Unusual Subjects series with perhaps the most uncanny subject matter of the selection: Fuck For Forest, for which the title effectively doubles as a synopsis. We’ll say no more. Winner of the Best Documentary at the Warsaw International Film Festival. A FILM LIKE ANY OTHER JEAN-LUC GODARD, GROUPE DZIGA VERTOV France, 1968 GODARD AND THE DZIGA VERTOV GROUP Famous for his trailblazing films in the French New Wave, Godard controversially re-invented his cinema after the failed revolution of May ’68. Our series on his radical films with Jean-Pierre Gorin and under the name Dziga Vertov Group explores cinema’s capacity for political engagement and change. THE MILKY WAY LUIS BUÑUEL France, 1969 BUÑUEL In case you remain unconvinced of Luis Buñuel’s provocations, we offer one last masterpiece in subversive surrealism from his late career. The Milky Way once again assembles a stellar ensemble cast to take aim at the legacy of organized religion through an array of unforgettable comedic scenarios. THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY LUIS BUÑUEL France, 1974 BUÑUEL Following his Oscar win for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Buñuel landed his biggest production—which birthed one of his most incendiary films of subversive hilarity. A seemingly endless cast of international stars rounds out this cinematic reckoning with the absurdity of modern existence. DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID LUIS BUÑUEL France, 1964 BUÑUEL Jean Renoir took his turn (in Hollywood!) adapting Octave Mirbeau’s great novel, but Buñuel made the definitive (and deliciously provocative) version—a truly wicked satire. Jeanne Moreau is unforgettable as the maid whose presence reveals the dark currents of politics and desire in the countryside. BRIGHT NIGHTS THOMAS ARSLAN Germany, 2017 Berlin School veteran Thomas Arslan’s return to the German festival’s competition is a majestic yet intimate father-son road movie. With unassuming minimalism and a breathtaking use of landscape, Arslan charts both a geographical and an emotional journey infused with serene, affecting melancholy. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE LUIS BUÑUEL France, 1977 Luis Buñuel’s final film concerns an aging French widower who falls in love and lust with a seductive younger woman, famously played by two different actresses, Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina. |
March 24th, 2018 at 5:48:10 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
That trailer looks fantastic. I hope that's not all the best parts of the movie. |
March 24th, 2018 at 6:29:48 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | That is a well done trailer. It captures the movie well but, like many trailers, went to the point where the trailer becomes a mini version of the whole movie. That plane scene, for example, doesn't happen until the end. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
March 24th, 2018 at 11:59:46 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
I’m very surprised you liked “Game Night”. I hope you stayed all the way through the end credits for the bonus gag. I’ll be interested in your take of “Ready Player One”, as it contains an homage to the work of Stanley Kubrick. |
March 25th, 2018 at 4:10:46 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Rachel McAdams looks adorable. I have seen some of her other movies, but I don't remember her as much. Doctor Strange Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Sherlock Holmes Wedding Crashers |
March 25th, 2018 at 8:40:03 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I couldn't take my eyes off of Kylie Bunbury. She seemed familiar to me but I haven't seen any of her previous films. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
March 25th, 2018 at 9:07:45 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Under the Dome on CBS? |
March 25th, 2018 at 10:58:27 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Despite being a Stephen King fan, I never got into that show. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |