Talk About Movies: Part 4

My Night at Maud's.

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I have that problem in so many movies - I see a character and don't know if I've seen them before or not.

The Before movies?

Was this asking me, or referring to movies which are mostly just conversation?

Heh I really hate those ****ing Before movies. But not quite as bad as Andre, just a little inane. I'd have let Julie Delpy talk all she wanted!

Try My Night at Maud's.

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Kioshk, try letting a little love in your life

i often stay up late at night wondering if kioshk was hugged by a stranger whether or not it'd turn that grinch frown upside down and he'd solve world hunger and bring peace to the middle east

or, just enjoy perfectly wonderful movies like Before Sunset or My Dinner With Andre

The Man From Earth is another good conversation film, not quite on the same elite level as My Dinner With Andre tho.

12 Angry Men another one that still holds up.

Never seen the Before trilogy, I'll have to check that out.

Diplomacy was awesome and is 99% just two people talking. "Set in Paris in 1944, it offers an imagined account of the efforts by the Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling to avert the destruction of the city by the German general Dietrich von Choltitz."

I'd also recommend Certified Copy, just two people walking, driving, and talking. Great film that I've watched at least six times.

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A friend suggested Love Lies Bleeding when they saw it a month ago by saying “It’s my favorite film I’ve seen since Beau Is Afraid”. I thought BIA was brilliant but obnoxious and I don’t think I liked it very much. But I really liked Love Lies Bleeding a lot. I know very little of Kristin Stewart’s work, but she was great. As was the rest of the small cast. An odd decision or 2 at the end but it didn’t ruin anything. And the mid-credit bit was awesome!

Thing about movies like that is that they are like a stage play in many ways. But I don't mind when the dialogue is that good. But I guess I can see how some might feel they aren't cinematic enough.

Interestingly, I've always found Tarantino movies to be very stage-play like in that there are long dialogue scenes that could really be theatre pieces. A lot of Pulp Fiction is like that. And Reservoir Dogs is basically a filmed play. And the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. But he usually breaks up the long scenes of nothing but dialogue with some sequences of action/violence.

I missed this gem in the VERY limited release it had in only a few theaters so I ordered and waited a long time to get this one just today... I ordered it in early Sept, of 2023.

it's pure esthetic story telling of the indigenous peoples in various parts of Mexico... there is NO dialog, but the movie doesn't need language to portray the peoples and there lives.

it's a beautifully shot and rendered cinematic piece.

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Kristin Stewart has taken on some very different roles, apparently, from her early Twilight films. Personal Shopper and Clouds of Sils Maria are extraordinary films with extraordinary performances by Stewart. (Both films are directed by Olivier Assays.) She is one of the finest actors working today.

I've tried watching Beau Is Afraid three times and just can't get through it.

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Ari Aster is a vastly over-rated filmmaker. Hereditary is a mess, Midsommer was decent but ultimately exists for shock value, and Beau Is Afraid is awful.

The Loves Lies Bleeding (2024) movie is a love story and a thriller and is totally bonkers, but is not dull. Somehow actress Kristen holds the movie together. I just finished it. Early on you know something is wrong with this movie when Lou Sr (Ed Harris) decides to get the attention of an employee of his by firing a bullet past her head from 50 yds away. You get women's bodybuilding, fine actor Ed Harris looking ridiculous in his makeup, Hulk-like scenes, shiny handguns, FBI, drugs, sex, fights, and love triangles. The central question is "are muscular women hot or not?". What else could you want?

Go Kristen Stewart

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/pauly...

Meet the Huggetts, along with Dennis Price as the holiday camp psychopath. Can post-war Britain have been remotely like this?

Challengers - Finally, a Guadagnino film I like! Maybe because it centres around tennis, albeit that's truly a cover for a toxic love triangle. Zendaya is really good as the manipulative wife/coach who is living the career she never had through her husband. She's no master manipulator though, as she's easily distracted by her attraction to the down on his luck loser Patrick Zweig, in whom I think she also sees potential. There are a lot of layers to the character dynamics, plenty to talk about.

I have minor quibbles towards the end of the move, when Guadagnino can no longer keep a clamp on his inner 'artist'. Slo-mo is overused to capture every drop of the players' dripping sweat and hammer home the underlying message of the characters' actions. It's not art Luca, it's cheesy and incredibly blatant storytelling.

She's channeling human garbage.