The cinema thread

[sam_tem]

just saw Broken Flowers, it was my first experience with Jarmusch

oh man, you have lot of great movies to see then. when you have the time start with his first film permanent vacation, even if it's a bit amateur, and watch everything he did up through dead man. i can't recommend anything past though and i wasn't a fan of broken flowers. saw it a long time ago so couldn't explain why now off the top of my head.

[munch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzBTsWE0LQ&hd=1

just watched this; Finisterrae - movie about two russian speaking ghosts who "decide to walk the Way of Saint James". very cute movie

[galia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzBTsWE0LQ&hd=1

just watched this; Finisterrae - movie about two russian speaking ghosts who "decide to walk the Way of Saint James". very cute movie

russian speaking ghosts + mediaval pilgrimage routes + suicide in the soundrack = my kind of film !!

more info on this please? filmmaker, release date etc...
the trailer is too cute

[laughed]

end of year best/favorite movies list? anyone?

[munch]

russian speaking ghosts + mediaval pilgrimage routes + suicide in the soundrack = my kind of film !!

more info on this please? filmmaker, release date etc...
the trailer is too cute

Sergio Caballero is the director/writer- as you can see it was made for Sonar Festival. release date was 2010 so it's quite new.

if you know where to look you should be able to find it quite easily

[laughed]

i never was a huge Lynch fan but I caught Inland Empire all the way through as it was on sundance.....
AMAZING. my favorite lynch now.

[sam_tem]

watched Ballast last night, amazing movie and i'm really dissapointed i let it sit in my netflix qeue for so long before finally getting it. i urge everyone to check it out if you haven't already.

edit: since i'm too lazy to see how to embed stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1lOiy3j-K0

[swami]

Caught a screening of BLUE ROMANCE , While the movie is pretty good I think it was a little too long and not a big fan of that documentary closeup style shooting either.Ryan Gosling is quite an actor.

Also watched Inarritu's BIUTIFUL seems like he has got his groove back its more on par with the gritty honesty of Amores Peros .... but then 21 grams was pretty good too
anyways watch it ...

[MoFiya]

Saw "Still Walking" by Hirokazu Kore-eda yesterday... I am ambivalent about it. While one was somehow emotionally connected with the family and felt guilty in a way, some parts of the movie were just overly pathetic and I would have preferred some things not to be spoken out loudly / shown explicit (like "oh - and if you didn't get it yet here is what I am trying to tell you").

Need new inspirations on what to watch next. Klang mind chiming in and sharing some of your latest hits?

[Faust]

Saw a Danish film yesterday, In Another World (I think the title is simply "Heaven" in Danish - I don't understand the need to fuck titles up with stupid translations). I quite liked it. I like films that grapple with questions that don't have a set right answer.

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Thanks to my father I watch this, a little poetic piece
of cinema that might have passed me by ...



Departures dir. Yôjirô Takita(2008)

[Shins]

Double Tap, a Chinese movie featuring one of Wong Kar-wai's favorite actor Leslie Cheung (now late).

[klangspiel]

Need new inspirations on what to watch next. Klang mind chiming in and sharing some of your latest hits?

here's a year-end "best of 2010" list i posted elsewhere. all the films are fantastic but the ones that really stand out for me are the godard, beauvois, wiseman, fedorchenko, benning, iosseliani and fiennes (you definitely do not want to miss this if you're a fan of anselm kiefer's).

abbas kiarostami, certified copy
jacques rivette, around a small mountain
du haibin, 1428
benedek fliegauf, womb
sophie fiennes, over your cities grass will grow
frederick wiseman, boxing gym
aleksei fedorchenko, ovsyanki (silent souls)
sharunas bartas, eastern drift
corneliu porumboiu, police, adjective
alistair banks griffin, two gates of sleep
lucien castaing-taylor, sweetgrass
manoel de oliveira, o estranho caso de angélica (the strange case of angelica)
jean-luc godard, film socialisme
xavier beauvois, of gods and men (des hommes et des dieux)
otar iosseliani, chantrapas
james benning, ruhr
ben russell, let each one go where he may
apichatpong weerasethakul, uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives
eiko ounpuu, the temptation of st tony
cristi puiu, aurora
raoul ruiz, mysteries of lisbon
alexei popogrebsky, how i ended this summer
catherine breillat, sleeping beauty
mahamat-saleh haroun, un homme qui crie
patricio guzman, nostalgia for the light
radu muntean, tuesday, after christmas
semih kaplanoglu, bal (honey)
pedro gonzalez rubio, alamar
claire denis, white material

[525252]

Oh wow I've actually watched so many of the films in this thread in the past week or so.

Just another thing I wanted to say is that the title of this thread really irks me.. photography isn't truth- Sontag/Baudrillard anyone?

[MoFiya]

here's a year-end "best of 2010" list i posted elsewhere. all the films are fantastic but the ones that really stood out for me are the godard, beauvois, wiseman, fedorchenko, benning, iosseliani and fiennes (you definitely do not want to miss this if you're a fan of anselm kiefer's).

Ha! Thanks a lot.
As mentioned before in this thread, I already saw beauvois, following your recommendation and I found it ace, as well...
Looking forward to seeing 'the rest'.