The cinema thread

[Jorge Hache]

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A very rainy weekend, so i stay home with my gf and watch some films:</P>


- Caotica Ana/ Julio Medem</P>


- Cashback/ Sean Ellis</P>


- 4 Months, 3 Weeks &amp; 2 Days/ Cristian Mungiu </P>


- Paranoid Park / Gus Van Sant</P>


Really liked all , maybe in this order: </P>


1- 4 months..., 2-Caotica Ana, 3- Cashback and 4-Paranoid Park</P>


I must said that Gus Van Sant is in top form, and this sort of thematic sequel to elephant is pretty interesting, a little bit dreamy and poetic but well acted and not over pretentious, not a masterpiece but a very good exercise in filming.</P>


Julio Medem is surreal and strange as ever, with very beautiful images and dizzy narrative, the ending is weird and very hard but i really liked and to me gives sense to the story (as opposite as a lot of the critics and detractors of this polemical movie)</P>

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

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The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock(1963)</p>

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La Belle Noiseuse dir. Jacques Rivette(1991)</p>

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[kira]

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The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock(1963)</p>

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La Belle Noiseuse dir. Jacques Rivette(1991)</p>

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The Birds is one of my all time scariest movies... not scary in the sense of heart dropping or thriller but its the repeditiveness (SP) if that is a word - it really kind of freaks me out- even though you know what to expect in the room... it just freaks me out. [79]
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[Huxley]

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Watched...</p>

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Adaptation</p>

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In Bruges</p>

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Picnic at Hanging Rock</p>

All superb films!
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[Faust]

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I am the only person in the world who thinks that the Kaufman brothers suck.</p>

On a separate negative note, I actually want to go to the movies this weekend, and I can't find anything worthwhile playing. Help.</p>

[AKA*NYC]

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I am the only person in the world who thinks that the Kaufman brothers suck.</p>

On a separate negative note, I actually want to go to the movies this weekend, and I can't find anything worthwhile playing. Help. </p>

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It's a bad time for movies but if you can leave your critical thinking cap at home I would suggest The Happening above all. </p>

[Faust]

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[quote user="AKA*NYC"][quote user="Faust"]

I am the only person in the world who thinks that the Kaufman brothers suck.</p>

On a separate negative note, I actually want to go to the movies this weekend, and I can't find anything worthwhile playing. Help. </p>

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It's a bad time for movies but if you can leave your critical thinking cap at home I would suggest The Happening above all. </p>

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True. Summer to the rest of the movie year is what the new york times sunday edition to the rest of the week. </p>

[Huxley]

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I am the only person in the world who thinks that the Kaufman brothers suck.</p>

On a separate negative note, I actually want to go to the movies this weekend, and I can't find anything worthwhile playing. Help.</p>

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Wall-E
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[BECOMING-INTENSE]

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The last Film I saw at the cinema was the kite Runner.</p>

I'm kind of depressed about the state of cinema lately or quite for some time! [79]
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[Faust]

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The last Film I saw at the cinema was the kite Runner.</p>

I'm kind of depressed about the state of cinema lately or quite for some time! [79]
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Really? I think the last two years have been pretty awesome!</p>

[Servo2000]

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I am the only person in the world who thinks that the Kaufman brothers suck.</p>

On a separate negative note, I actually want to go to the movies this weekend, and I can't find anything worthwhile playing. Help. </p>

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Wall-E
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I'm an enormous Pixar fan and I'm really excited to see this. Reviews look impeccable but I thought that Ratatouille played better with the critics than it actually was, although the art and direction was spectacular. I highly recommend The Art of Ratatouille (or any of the Pixar-related art books), especially if you're an illustration nerd like me.</p>

edit: another good one was the art book for Open Season. I heard the movie was weak but it's an interesting look at applying strong 2D design to 3d environments. I wish the film had looked more like Eyvind Earle's work (which they reference constantly) but it looked pretty decent anyway.</p>

[klangspiel]

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[quote user="Faust"] I think the last two years have been pretty awesome![/quote]</p>

i concur. last year alone i saw about 10 films that i would not hesitate to see again and again.
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highlights include bela tarr's man from london, pavel lounguine's the island, laurent salgues's dreams of dust</p>

and jia zhang-ke's still life.
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[Diego]

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Been sick at home:</p>

Kurosawa's kagemusha</p>

Scorsese's after hours</p>

Greenaway's the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover </p>

Mizoguchi's ugetsu </p>

[Fuuma]

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Been watching big american blockbusters and some other recent american movies. Of those I'd definitely recommend Femme fatale, DePalma is in top form.</P>


Watching a bunch of Woody Allen movies for now; don't bother with Cassandra's dream and go straight for the classics. I had never seen shadows and fog and must say I was impressed by this farsical movie about fascism inspired by german impressionism.</P>

[Fuuma]

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[quote user="Faust"] I think the last two years have been pretty awesome![/quote]</P>


i concur. last year alone i saw about 10 films that i would not hesitate to see again and again.
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highlights include bela tarr's man from london, pavel lounguine's the island, laurent salgues's dreams of dust</P>


and jia zhang-ke's still life. </P>


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I haven't seen Zhang-Ke's latest, how would you describe it? In fact the last I saw was "the world" and he might have made 2 since that time.</P>