The cinema thread

[endorphinz]

Argo is worth a watch. looking forward to seeing django

[mrbeuys]

Moonrise Kingdom is a charming film and a great reminder of just how boring symmetry can be.

[AKA*NYC]

Tarantino kept the long, masturbatory 'clever' dialogues in check for the most part, though it dragged a bit when they were negotiating at 'candieland'.

funny you say that because that's the only part of the movie i somewhat enjoyed. the rest was just a bad pastiche of peckinpah etc. i really wish i could have the three hours back.

[Faust]

I also don't understand the above comment. Tarantinos's dialogues are where it's at. You sound like someone who'd enjoy transformers. Best scene that has ever been put on film.

[BSR]

Best scene that has ever been put on film.

^a tad hyperbolic maybe

[drizzly]

oh man that scene is epic.

tarantino movies are all about the dialogue, he has done them poorly in a few movies (ie death proof) but pulp fiction and reservoir dogs were hits because of the dialogue. if you are going to see his movies expect it... just my 2c

[888]

I was referring more to Death Proof and Inglorious Basterds, wherein i thought the dialogue became a little self-indulgent at times.

[Faust]

^a tad hyperbolic maybe

That's where it's at!

[darkbydesign]

I've liked Django, Samsara, Argo, and Zero Dark Thirty of recent movies.

So I was just checking Cannes winners and ran across this with Elijah Wood. What a creepy, dark, sinister role to pick up for a mainstream Hollywood actor. Should be an interesting combo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8VHjmm3hV0

[eleven crows]

Marnie is a terrible film and anyone who says otherwise is a Hitchcock apologist.

Seven Psychopaths, on the other hand, was great. No apolgies there.

[MoFiya]

I've been searching for Noés Carne for the past week with no luck :'(

Other than that, saw Vertigo - the new "best movie of all time" and didn't like it. Saw Restless by Gus Van Sant which was just too much of a teenie movie.
Looking forward to finally see Kieslowskis Dekalog.

[profondo nero]

Looking forward to finally see Kieslowskis Dekalog.

Truly brilliant director and screenwriter, I'm just about to see Trois couleurs again.

[drizzly]

finally watched django, not bad

[mrbeuys]

Just finished watching zero dark 30 - one of the 3 best movies of the awards season for sure ( The Hunt and Amour are my other 2 ).
There's an observational detachment which makes it closer to a documentary, there are obvious avenues it could have taken and it didn't and it's better for it. Great film-making.

[bonejelly]

Finally ordered the DVD version of "The Moon and The Sledgehammer". Awesome!