The cinema thread

[GucciAmen]

Watched two Kenji Mizoguchi films on the weekend, Sansho the Bailiff and The Crucified Lovers. Think I may watch Life of Ohira next... Anyone have any Japanese classics they would like to recommend?

[gregor]

ikiru is great, if you haven't seen it

[menofoutsiders]

Definitely Ozu, my Japanese friend also recommend me a lesser known director called Seijun Suzuki. I haven't checked his films yet but he told me Seijun is his favourite director.

Anyone here seeing Force Majeure yet?

[GucciAmen]

I watched Tokyo Story by Ozu the other day. I'd put it near or even at the top of my list, perfect film.

[kamsky]

Anyone here seeing Force Majeure yet?

Yes -- wonderfully humorous, almost claustrophobically restrained film; visually coherent to a degree seldom seen elsewhere.

[qcqc]

awards season:

imitation game and american spiner: BAD

birdman and whiplash: AMAZING

[gregor]

oh god american sniper is a wreck

not a terrible movie, but for obvious other political reasons i found it almost impossible to sit through.

[GucciAmen]

Watched my first french horror film last night, Eyes Without a Face

The score was one of my favourite parts of the film, really interesting/quirky whenever the doctor and/or his secretary were in the shot.

Also watched Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi, beautiful and tragic story, first samurai classic I've seen thus far, I guess it's obligatory now for me to watch Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa.

[Jtothewhat]

Watched my first french horror film last night, Eyes Without a Face

The score was one of my favourite parts of the film, really interesting/quirky whenever the doctor and/or his secretary were in the shot.

Also watched Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi, beautiful and tragic story, first samurai classic I've seen thus far, I guess it's obligatory now for me to watch Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa.

Harakiri and Seven Samurai are both great, Something I found entertaining was watching Seven Samurai and the original Magnificent Seven (1960) western with Steve McQueen and Yul Brenner.

I also enjoyed Takashi Miike's modern remake of Harakiri.. really well shot film and not overdone like a lot of Miike's work. Not that you likely want to watch the same story again but it is a great remake.

[flicers]

Definitely Ozu, my Japanese friend also recommend me a lesser known director called Seijun Suzuki. I haven't checked his films yet but he told me Seijun is his favourite director.

Suzuki is mostly known for making fun b-movies. Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter are the most well known and available ones and they're both very enjoyable if you like neo-noirs that mock censorship. The production design, soundtrack and outfits on both are ridiculous in a good way.

Thought Birdman was a decent movie giving actors an easy opportunity to shine, especially Edward Norton.

[qcqc]

There is a campaign against the masterpiece Leviathan in Russia: Link

[gregor]

watched Nostalghia the other night. that movie is everything I love about Eastern European cinema; off-beat, kind of surreal, and artfully pretentious. a weird romance underscores a strange black and white Soviet wanderlust story of phantasmagorical beauty. very, very hard to follow, or reflect on in post, but very much worth watching. one of tarkovsky's best works

[Faust]

/\ I fell asleep :(

[Defender]

So, Inherent Vice is garbage. P.T. Anderson's movies are usually amazing, but Inherent Vice is lacking in almost all the hallmarks of his previous work: emotional growth, processing relationships, finding something out about yourself. Inherent Vice is like a poor man's Big Lebowski - a story about a guy just moving with the flow of a spectacular series of events.

[DudleyGray]

So, Inherent Vice is garbage. P.T. Anderson's movies are usually amazing, but Inherent Vice is lacking in almost all the hallmarks of his previous work: emotional growth, processing relationships, finding something out about yourself. Inherent Vice is like a poor man's Big Lebowski - a story about a guy just moving with the flow of a spectacular series of events.

Yes, thank you. It was so bad, and not in any sort of amusing way. I can't remember the last time I found a movie so tedious and contrived that I had to walk out of it.