Outlander Way better than I expected it to be. My expectations were low. LOL.

cargo 200
This was potentially the most twisted Soviet movie I've ever seen. Recommended.

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Electra complex is basically a fancy word for "i want to get into my daddies' pants"

Yeah, I didn't get that from the film. Seemed to me like she slept with other men because she thought her father didn't love her.

Quod erat demonstrandum...

The Proposal with my roommate. It was worse than I thought it would be.

Sandra Bullock looks good. So does Ryan Reynolds. But the combination doesn't necessarily make a good movie.

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Originally posted by Ingmar Bearman's Magic Lantern:
Electra complex is basically a fancy word for "i want to get into my daddies' pants"

Yeah, I didn't get that from the film. Seemed to me like she slept with other men because she thought her father didn't love her.

Quod erat demonstrandum...

Yeah, you're both right. I was thinking of something else.

pastorale
i have had this forever and i finally got around to watching it. it's a view into a completely different time/world. i love watching stuff like this.

mishima: a life in four chapters
yeah, this was a good film. it left me wanting to understand the main character more, to find out more about him. i like when that happens. and it's a very neat film visually, with its use of color and black and white to tell different parts of his story. the philip glass soundtrack is pretty incredible, too.

la discrete
hmm. it was alright. i liked bits of it. and i found it funny that i was telling woo woo how the lead character reminded me of someone out of a rohmer film, and then i looked him up and found out that he actually was one of rohmer's regulars.

the passion of anna
worth seeing just for the scene of liv ullmann recalling the accident she was involved in..just a huge closeup of her face as she leans against a blue sofa. it's incredibly powerful. but, i liked the movie for lots of other reasons, too.

f for fake
a bear-recommended movie. thanks, ingmar. i loved it. the way it was filmed, the editing, the concept.. it's good.

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Wings

A beautiful film flawlessly acted. I loved Larisa Shepitko's shot composition throughout. Everything was always very, very tight and claustrophobic, unless the shot was associated with flight. There is a brief, brilliant exception to this rule late in the film when we see a main character in the cockpit of a plane. Brilliant long takes and tiny, almost unnoticeable surreal moments, such as two shots of a man doing a handstand on a diving board. Great film, thank you Criterion for releasing it.

I strongly recommend this film to sayyes.

i checked it out from the library. i'll watch it this weekend. ibee recommended this to me, too. i just forgot to watch it.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

It was quite interesting – I already knew the main bits from reading ‘Hells Angels’, ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ and ‘The Great Shark Hunt’ but this put it all in order and context and i'd never really actually seen footage or heard him before. I think it says a lot about him/his work that it basically jumps from the late seventies to his death...

Pickpocket

Half asleep when watching, but struggling to stay awake due to an intense interest, Pickpocket demands another viewing. I loved the flow of the film and the repetiton in the narrative.

There was something transcendent about the film.

saw that one and a few other Bresson films at a festival a few years ago. nice to see it on teh big screen. really great.

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Wings

A beautiful film flawlessly acted. I loved Larisa Shepitko's shot composition throughout. Everything was always very, very tight and claustrophobic, unless the shot was associated with flight. There is a brief, brilliant exception to this rule late in the film when we see a main character in the cockpit of a plane. Brilliant long takes and tiny, almost unnoticeable surreal moments, such as two shots of a man doing a handstand on a diving board. Great film, thank you Criterion for releasing it.

I strongly recommend this film to sayyes.

i checked it out from the library. i'll watch it this weekend. ibee recommended this to me, too. i just forgot to watch it.

Fallon 1, iBee 0


Sword of Doom

A very good film with a great film desperately trying to get out. The film basically goes like this: defiantly one-dimensional evil samurai (I mean this in a good way) kills an old man, then slices one guy after defiling his wife, then a bunch of guys, then Toshiro Mifune kicks some ass for a while, then the evil guy kills another guy...then he kills a bunch of guys and destroys a room, roll credits. If the movie were, say, fifteen minutes shorter and an unnecessary female character were mostly eliminated, the film would be exponentially better. The film is damn near perfect already, to put a terribly-written helpless courtesan love interest (love interest to a character who doesn't matter, no less) only makes it drag. The fifteen or twenty minutes that she takes up of screen time are an eternity when you have such an interesting main character who has no part of her "story".

The action scenes, actually, are few and far between - but exceptionally well-done and endlessly enjoyable to watch. There is one long take that is undoubtedly mimicked in Chan-Wook Park's famous sequence in Oldboy. This is probably one of the two or three best chambara films I've seen, and if you know what that word means you know what a complement it is. So much discussion and detail is put on the specifics and techniques of swordplay. Add to that the fact that the film is wonderfully photographed, and it's just great to watch.

One last thing: Tatsuya Nakadai, who plays the evil samurai flawlessly, is one brilliant actor. He constantly chose challenging roles and every one that I've seen he's mastered. Watch in in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Face of Another, playing a man with a face-implant, or in Akira Kurosawa's Ran and Kagemusha, commanding the screen with two insanely demanding roles, or playing Clint Eastwood-playing-Toshiro Mifune in the Fistful of Dollars remake Kill! (by Kihachi Okamoto, who directed Sword of Doom). He's also the bad guy in Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and plays variety of roles in other Kurosawa films. My favorite performance of his is probably in Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri (he's also in Kobayashi's Kwaidan and stars in the three-part WWII epic The Human Condition, which I cannot WAIT to see), where he demands every drop of your attention. Every time I see a new film featuring Nakadai, I am blown away by his range and sheer talent, but also by the way he works with other actors on the screen. What an actor.

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f for fake
a bear-recommended movie. thanks, ingmar. i loved it. the way it was filmed, the editing, the concept.. it's good.

Success!

Last movie i saw was :Un condenado a muerte se escapa

Glorious movie, great use of the sound to make the story broader than what you see on the frame.

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f for fake
a bear-recommended movie. thanks, ingmar. i loved it. the way it was filmed, the editing, the concept.. it's good.

the movie as a whole i found a it meh, but this monologue ranks up there with one of the best moments in film

Chartres

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the movie as a whole i found a it meh,

Meh yourself

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the movie as a whole i found a it meh,

Meh yourself

its admittedly been a while since ive watched it. need to revisit

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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

It was quite interesting – I already knew the main bits from reading ‘Hells Angels’, ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ and ‘The Great Shark Hunt’ but this put it all in order and context and i'd never really actually seen footage or heard him before. I think it says a lot about him/his work that it basically jumps from the late seventies to his death...

I just watched Fear and Loathing again last night. The thing that constantly amazes me about Hunter is that while on one level he was a fuckup, he was also absolutely brilliant. He had that rare gift to effortlessly slice through the bullshit and turn it on its head. None like him before or since. Lived life on his terms, and to hell with the assholes.

Watership Down - Reliving my high school English class days, I suppose. Still an excellent film.

Hard Eight. PT Anderson's first movie. He's gotten better!

Whisky Galore! (1949)

My first visit to the tiny independent cinema in my new town (Electric Palace). It was actually pretty funny and it helped to see it with an audience (almost the 50 capacity!). I’m assuming there are drinking games for this film?