Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Lol hey sometimes a movie is just not for you. No worries.
the salton sea is amazing
I did enjoy Poor Things more than I thought I would. Same with The Lobster, another of Yorgos’ films. His last one though, Kinds Of Kindness was infuriatingly bad. I was genuinely pissed off throughout but stuck it out in hopes it might be worth it. It was not….
I enjoyed the Lobster too. Along with The Favorite. Still not sure he’s my cup of tea. Will probs try Killing of a Sacred Deer in a year or two.
Hot take: The kitchen poker scene in Training Day is almost as good as Funny How & Shine Box.
Recently found out my wife had never seen this and we both really enjoyed the rewatch. Agree that is a very strong and memorable scene.
As an aside, I was super happy to see the guy who gets his house robbed by Denzel in last week’s White Lotus.
1970's Cinema... it is just elite.
This time it was Klute... beyond fonda and sutherland, the technical aspect of the film is just so refreshing and honest.
Natural lighting, long 'held' shots and the look of that era is amazing.
Parts of the soundtrack seemingly is heavily influenced in spikes Clockers film... which I also adore and watched just a day ago
Speaking of '70s films, I just watched Panic in Needle Park. Pacino is fantastic. You can see why he was the (second) choice for The Godfather. He goes from calm to intense rage in seconds. It's a thoroughly depressing film about heroin addicts.
Hard to believe that this was NYC. 72nd and Broadway doesn't look the same today. I remember going to NYC in the '70s, walking arm in arm with a girl whose name I can't remember and almost getting hit by a garbage truck on the way to a bar around 1:00 am.
I grew up in Providence, RI, and the city is almost unrecognizable today. Now it's a great city, but in the '70s you knew where not to go.
Gentrification isn't such a bad thing.
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Hey it’s not all that bad - i saw a guy crapping in a subway station the other day!
Speaking of '70s films, I just watched Panic in Needle Park. Pacino is fantastic. You can see why he was the (second) choice for The Godfather. He goes from calm to intense rage in seconds. It's a thoroughly depressing film about heroin addicts.
Have you ever seen Crusing with Pacino and Friedkin?
It was so vilified that I had to watch it. I didn't think it was as bad as the gay community made it out to be.
I kinda enjoyed Pacino's performance.
I wonder how many of us have seen Looking For Richard.
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trivia time: name the only person to win an Oscar, Tony, and Emmy in the same year. And bonus points for knowing the year!
Total guess, just seems like I heard this somewhere.
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Rita Moreno for West Side Story? 1966?
New 4k uhd boxset from Germany... they did an exquisite job with the restoration for such an low budget film of this vintage.
My goodness... I think I saw Scully!
I had no idea there was a new Tron movie coming. Cool.
The answer was Bob Fosse, 1973!
Blue by Krzysztof Kieślowski
I haven't watched this in a few years, and I'm surprised by how much and how little I remember. The film deals with grief and how grief pulls us away from the world and from others.
Juliette Binoche stars as Julie whose husband, a composer, and her young daughter are killed in a car crash at the beginning of the film. A reporter comes to talk to her and is dismissed but shouts out a question, asking if Binoche was the real composer. That question lingers throughout the film.
Blue is not only the title of the film but also dominates the mise-en-scene. There is little dialogue, and Binoche suggests her character's thoughts with her face. It's a marvelous performance.
The ending of the film is stunningly beautiful as Julie moves towards acceptance and the words from the Bible end the score that the husband had been composing before his death.
Blue is the color of liberty. How do we liberate ourselves from grief? I think Kieslowski answers that question.
I'm also reminded of Derek Jarmon's final film, Blue, which is simply music and narration and a blue screen that never changes. Jarmon died of AIDS four months after completing the film.
How do we face death and grief both films ask? How do we accept our fate?
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I'm still astounded by those films, John. Binoche is not just navigating her way through the freedom of grief, but the freedom of having her entire life change in an instant.
Great film if slightly frustrating. I was lucky to meet William Friedkin at a screening of Killer Joe and he signed my Cruising dvd, which was awesome.
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Yellow doesn’t mean you like to watch
Great might be a stretch and I’d get rid of the slightly but it’s impossible to imagine anything like it being made today. Certainly as visceral as an Alist star/director tandem will ever get.
Boys Don’t Cry was released exactly 25.5 years ago this Tuesday.
