Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Fritz Lang... The Indian Tomb
the Snake Dance... Oh My, and in 1959!
Saw dunes in imax today , first time i saw it in its entirety and while i wasnt a huge huge fan of it (i have trouble suspending logic), the imax experience makes movie 5x better to watch.
i don't think i would have been able to enjoy it nearly as much as i did if it was a regular tv
also the theater was 99% packed which is kinda crazy for movie that was released 2 years ago and the last movie i saw last night had 3 people including me and my girl , total.
Dune is probably the best IMAX movie experience that I can recall. It added a lot to the film.
Night Moves is a criminally underrated Gene Hackman film [1975] with a very young Melanie Griffith as well, he plays a PI looking for a runaway daughter. I think it is one of the best noirs of the 1970s, but gets lost among his French Connection, The Conversation roles.
Directed by Arthur Penn, he does an amazing job of showing a PI that thinks he's figuring everything out, but as often the case in noirs, that turns out to not be the case.
I think it's only 99 mins long so very little wasted time/energy.
Night Moves is a criminally underrated Gene Hackman film [1975] with a very young Melanie Griffith as well, he plays a PI looking for a runaway daughter. I think it is one of the best noirs of the 1970s, but gets lost among his French Connection, The Conversation roles.
Directed by Arthur Penn, he does an amazing job of showing a PI that thinks he's figuring everything out, but as often the case in noirs, that turns out to not be the case.
I think it's only 99 mins long so very little wasted time
Couldn’t agree more. Back when criterion had the noir movies on, I watched them all and was blown away by how good this was (along with Body Heat).
early access...
You Hurt My Feelings - Nicole Holofcener is really good at making enjoyable, comedic dramas out of small relationship conflicts - not something I see from many directors.
This one is about the white lies couples tell each other. There are many other familial complexities as well. I found particularly thought provoking the resentment the son feels towards his parents streaming from his belief that they like each other more than him.
rob asked for link and i shared it earlier
https://smallscreenings.org/mast/ninety-...
was it not you who shared this here?
I dont think so... but I am senile.
American Fiction moving this to my #1 movie for 2023 over The Holdovers. Loved everything about it. While it’s not laugh out loud funny at any moment, you grin or smile or chuckle the whole way through. It’s good to see these types of movies being made again
^Hear Hear
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) is a French-English, courtroom drama about a woman trying to prove her innocence in the investigation into her husbands death. It's probably 60-40 French-English, subtitles are required of course.
Worthy of the praise imo. Won't say too much but I liked it quite a lot. Acting was great. I think if this was made in Hollywood, it wouldn't have captured the same feeling. Something about the blunt nature and language of Europeans heightened the drama for me and that would have been lost otherwise.
4/5
i'm the senile one
Really good short film. God I love short films.
just felt like something you'd share 😀
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) is a French-English, courtroom drama about a woman trying to prove her innocence in the investigation into her husbands death. It's probably 60-40 French-English, subtitles are required of course.
Worthy of the praise imo. Won't say too much but I liked it quite a lot. Acting was great. I think if this was made in Hollywood, it wouldn't have captured the same feeling. Something about the blunt nature and language of Europeans heightened the drama for me and that woul
Excellent film.
If you are watching in a theater, then obviously the film has your full attention. But if you are watching this at home, then take the time to truly watch it and follow the subtitles without multitasking. This is pure gold in cinematography, dialogue, etc.
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) is a French-English, courtroom drama about a woman trying to prove her innocence in the investigation into her husbands death. It's probably 60-40 French-English, subtitles are required of course.
Worthy of the praise imo. Won't say too much but I liked it quite a lot. Acting was great. I think if this was made in Hollywood, it wouldn't have captured the same feeling. Something about the blunt nature and language of Europeans heightened the drama for me and that woul
If it were made in America, it would be difficult or impossible to show how different languages convey different ideas.
Sandra Huller is great. I recommend Toni Erdmann for her performance. It's also one of my favorite films of the past ten years.
https://youtu.be/lI4fy4XrfvY?si=hjU5xOQM...
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I am in the market to watch:
- Anatomy of a Fall
- The Holdovers
- American Fiction
- Past Lives
Anyone care to rank them for me to prioritize?
I have all 4 of those near the top of my list as well.
I am in the market to watch:
- Anatomy of a Fall
- The Holdovers
- American Fiction
- Past Lives
Anyone care to rank them for me to prioritize?
Haven't seen American Fiction. The rest are all good and hard to pick one over another. I think I might prefer Past Lives, but I would gladly watch all of them again.
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Just watched Hitchcock's 1930 film, Murder! (Yes the exclamation point is part of the title).
It's an amazing film for its time, and it still holds up well. Editing and sound are particularly impressive. The murder mystery isn't hard to figure out. One of the characters is referred to using coded language although no one today wouldn't understand what's being said.
Murder! also presages North by Northwest with both films referencing Hamlet and playacting. Murder! has direct allusions to Hamlet while North by Northwest is a bit more subtle although the title is right from Hamlet's line "I am but mad north-northwest."
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I am in the market to watch:
- Anatomy of a Fall
- The Holdovers
- American Fiction
- Past Lives
Anyone care to rank them for me to prioritize?
I’ve got American Fiction as my #1 and Holdovers as my #2 for 2023. I haven’t seen the other two yet, but will soon. Don’t think you can go wrong with any order. If you want to watch in a theater we were the only two people in American Fiction on a Friday night. It may not be in the theater long but that probably applies to all four films.
