Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Please watch more Ozu movies. You only have one life to live. And time is running out.
Yesterday I watched Terms of Endearment for the second time. "I was inches from a clean getaway," says Jack Nicholson's character.
It's one of those movies I resisted seeing for a long time. Shirley MacLaine is great, and Deborah Winger is radiant.
I also watched State and Main. It's about trying to make a film in a small town in Vermont. Written and directed by David Mamet. Terrific cast. Witty dialogue, and I particularly like the town's characters, a doctor and a couple guys who sit around a diner.
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Finally saw Furiosa and if I hadn’t immediately watched Fury Road after, I think I would’ve had them neck and neck, but the rewatch put me in the camp of liking Furiosa more.
Also watched In A Violent Nature. And it’s…. Interesting… but in an odd way. The perspective is different than you usually see in a slasher and the shots are really nice a lot of the time. But I don’t quite get what the point was overall. The ending was kind of nonsensical and the acting was atrocious. Most of the kills were bland but there is one in particular that would have felt right in line in Terror.
I'm halfway thru In the Name of the Father. It's so powerful I'm finding it difficult to watch without getting all emo. Might have something to do with my own relationship with a straitlaced father, who turns 91 in 2 weeks btw.
I find it fascinating how people connect emotionally to certain films. My students often say that they have no emotional connection to literature and film, but there's always something that gets to them for some reason they often can't express. I try to tell them that's why great films and literature exist. They release those thoughts and emotions that you can't express.
I know how I feel when I read King Lear and see City Lights, but I think the play and the film know me better than I know myself if that makes any sense.
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That's well explained, John.
I connect a lot more to art than I do people, I think.
Tonight I watched Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going. Woman is trying to get to a remote island off the coast of Scotland to get married. The island has been rented by the man she is going to marry from the Laird of Killorin.
Basically, the film is the entitled woman (Joan) tamed by the great guy type. He saves her from marrying the wrong man. That's the plot, a familiar one.
The beauty in this one is in its execution. There's a moment in the film where the woman says that the people in the town are poor to which Laird Killorin replies, "Oh they're not poor. They just don't have any money." This is what Joan must learn.
The scenery that is actually shot in Scotland is gorgeous, and there's a phone booth built next to a waterfall.
If you like Local Hero, you will like I Know Where I'm Going. I can't think of two better films for a double feature.
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Nice, I will check it out
A Quiet Place: Day One - London stands in for New York a bit too obviously at times. It can be a bit distracting if you know that's Canary Wharf and Westminster Cathedral.
Decent effort though. The intrinsic plot holes did bother me - how do they figure out within mere hours of the start of the attack that the aliens hunt through sound? And how is that cat the most quiet, chilled out cat in existence? The first film remains the best.
Yesterday I watched Terms of Endearment for the second time. "I was inches from a clean getaway," says Jack Nicholson's character.
It's one of those movies I resisted seeing for a long time. Shirley MacLaine is great, and Deborah Winger is radiant.
Yeah, me too. But I loved it. Shirley MacLaine is indeed great.
Inside Out 2 was cute. It was a good movie, but nothing close to the original.
A Quiet Place: Day One - London stands in for New York a bit too obviously at times. It can be a bit distracting if you know that's Canary Wharf and Westminster Cathedral.
Decent effort though. The intrinsic plot holes did bother me - how do they figure out within mere hours of the start of the attack that the aliens hunt through sound? And how is that cat the most quiet, chilled out cat in existence? The first film remains the best.
It is a helper cat - the same cat that can go out in public, is walked on a lead and can sit during theatrical performances.
I watched Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah the other day on Amazon. It's ok, and if you're into the storied Austin music scene of the 70s and 80s it's must-see. He was a good guy and a talented songwriter. Close friends with Townes Van Zandt, he might be considered a poor man's TVZ. The main problem here is the filmmaker's refusal to talk about the elephant in the room, that Blaze was a hopeless drunk. A very talented, kind man, but still a drunk. It's like somebody tried to make a documentary about Oscar Wilde and barely mentioning that he was gay.
I've seen David Lean's Brief Encounter a couple times, so last night I watched it with the commentary. The movie was described a few times as a women's picture that even men would like. Interesting comments about how music and sound in the film.
I haven't seen it since I was a teenager, so I also watched The Ladykillers. Spoiler: no ladies are killed in the film.
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New Restored Six Heures version!
ive heard so much about that film
We are FINALLY getting a 4k uhd restoration for the 70th anniversary of Seven Samurai... the work has already been done and will get a Limited Theatrical Release 7-5-2024
Tickets are up if you are lucky enough to have a release in your area.
Beverly Theater in Las Vegas
i watched the ladykillers remake by the coen bros with tom hanks
it was awful
Would such a cat even sit quietly, not a hiss or a miaow, when a giant freaking alien is nearby?
A cat is a lot more likely to sit quietly than a newborn baby, yet the protagonists of the first film thought it was a good idea to have one.
That was a bigger plot hole than any other. Sure people in horror movies are always stupid, but this family was smart in every other way but this.
Our youngest kid just got eaten by a monster because he couldn't stop making noise? No problem, just have another even noisier kid and risk the lives of everyone.
Gance's La Roue is on Criterion. It's about seven hours in four parts.
I haven't watched it.
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