The cinema thread

[darkbydesign]

Banksy Does New York on HBO.

Extremely well done documentary making use of raw footage and the art and New Yorkers being New Yorkers; to ruffle your feathers and cause a debate. I mean, I hated nearly all the people in it, but it's a documentary so you don't pick the characters and I'm glad someone put it together because it was a nice era piece.

And the Zabar's guys, and the guy selling the $60 art, as well as the housing works piece were all great sidebars.

[Shucks]

[mrbeuys]

Innaritu's BIRDMAN
2 words watch it!

must watch

Couldn't agree more. One of the best new releases I have seen in the last years. Brilliant camera work, Keaton and Norton are on top form and it's based around a Raymond Carver short. Just amazing cinema.

[Faust]

Damn, now I need to go see it.

Watched theory of everything. What a story. If Eddie Redmayne does not win an oscar for best actor, I'll be surprised.

[mrbeuys]

Forgot to mention I also watched Inherent Vice, which I had been looking forward to most out of this awards season's films...

I turned it off about 30 minutes into it - I had no clue at all what the hell was going on and the people I was watching it with started checking their instagram. We didn't really care to find out more. And I only really sat through all of The Master last year because I watched a screening in a cinema...

[kamsky]

Adding another recommendation for "Birdman". One of the better films I've seen this year, and in my estimation his best since "Amores Perros" (not to say that I don't think there's any merit to the films he's done in that interval).

Also went to see "The Babadook" two days ago and it very much has stayed with me. Beautifully composed and imaginative in the way it upends a number of the genre's trite conventions.

[Shucks]

for all u depressed goths out there who haven't found that festive spirit yet, this one is cute and might help:



it actually worked as a full movie, i thought.

[mrbeuys]

That looks rather funny.

[gregor]

downright awesome movie

helps to speak or understand hungarian, but worth watching sheerly for artistic direction

[darkbydesign]

Anyone see the trailer for Chappie yet? (From the guy who did District9)

I have to say that it looks pretty amazing. Like E.T. from an adult perspective or something. Also, the cast looks amazing and to have Die Antwoord in there is super interesting. The part in the trailer where he goes to pet the dog is a pretty amazing scene, as well as the one with He-man, etc....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhNshgSYF_M

[kamsky]

"A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is well worth checking out. Beautifully shot in a rich, vividly evocative black & white. Great take on a number of vampire movie conventions, with a smattering of nods to several different influences, such as spaghetti westerns, 60s teen dramas (don't know that that is in itself a genre, properly so-called; perhaps more of a set of stylistic and visual cues) and a healthy dose of David Lynch ("Blue Velvet" comes to mind). It all coheres very well; the direction is strong and confident without being heavy-handed and the acting is solid and nuanced -- especially given that the characters are sort of variations on well-trod tropes.

[Faust]

Has anyone seen the polish film Ida?

[snafu]

Yes, the only Polish film i have seen, very beautifully shot and it pulls you into the story. Normally I'm not so so keen on B&W films; i feel it can come off contrived, but i thought it suited the mood and the story. The whole idea of changing the course of ones life, stayed with me.
My only wish was that it lasted longer, i felt it could have been nearly doubled.

[Faust]

Thanks snaf.

[kamsky]

+1 on the "Ida" recommendation, most haunting film seen this year ("Jealousy" being a somewhat close second).