Ah, okay. I didn’t remember the detail about gravity, specifically, but yeah.
I love this movie. I think it’s the funniest movie the Coen Brothers have made.
Great Expectations (1946), directed by David Lean. Extraordinary in every way. Given the year it was made, I think the editing, photography and music are astounding. I’ve cued a few examples from what appears to be a complete online version. If you’re going to watch it, do yourself a favor and check out the scenes below after you’re seen it.
The shadows in the forge:
Great Expectations 1946 (dir. David Lean) - YouTube
In this scene, notice how the music replaces and ultimately enhances the woman’s shouts for Joe and Pip:
Great Expectations 1946 (dir. David Lean) - YouTube
Pip’s arrival in London. Back it up a bit to see how Lean filmed the journey. What I love about this part is how the music accompanies Pip’s wonderment and the way it abruptly stops for a second when he’s brought to his senses:
Great Expectations 1946 (dir. David Lean) - YouTube
I mentioned this in my dak comedy thread but Filth is an amazing movie - best I’ve seen in a while. You might not think so until about 3/4 of the way through when the depth of it hits you.
The Bad Guys. A fun, entertaining Dreamworks movie. And yes, even animated Sam Rockwell gets to dance.
First link was blocked, didn’t bother trying any others.
That’s too bad. Probably won’t work for the rest of you in the US. If you’re interested and have access to the film, I can easily provide the minutes and seconds of those scenes. They’re worth checking out. Better yet, just watch the whole film if you haven’t already. I liked the entire middle section less, just because of the subject matter, and, even so, I had a great time watching it (my second time).
It took me more than one viewing to appreciate Burn; it just felt silly the first time. But suddenly society and government were inundated by totally self-centered idiots, couples handling money problems by selling secrets to Russia, and conspiracy nuts winning federal elections.
On subsequent views the film seemed tightly constructed, and the conflicts between the flawed and the moronic sadly believable.
Devotion on Paramount+. Korean War story based on actual aviators who flew Corsairs in the war, and one pilot in particular, who was one of the few black pilots at that time, and his wingman, a white pilot. The movie doesn’t really work, as the character development is fairly poor.
Finally got around to seeing Knives Out, the original film. Very enjoyable and better than I expected. I’d still rate Glass Onion somewhat higher, if only because it was a more lavish production. I see that critics generally rated Knives Out somewhat higher than the sequel.
Thanks for the explanation of the white streamers in Stalker - don’t remember that ever being addressed in the movie.
I have one big issue with this film. Don’t read if you haven’t seen it yet…
I have a really hard time believing that a donkey would choke on a finger. Well, okay, I probably have more than one issue, but this will do.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (on a plane). The word “enchanting” is thrown around loosely these days, but it absolutely applies here. See it — you’ll laugh, you’ll cry. I hope it wins the Oscar for best animated feature.
Speaking of the Coen brothers, I re-watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs again last night. Some parts funny. Some parts sad. All parts entertaining. Great flick.
Maybe I just remember it from the story…
Bullet Train
Overall, this worked for me. I liked how the story unfolded. I liked the cast of quirky characters, particularly Lemon and Tangerine.
My friend who watched it with me said a lot of the material is 25 years too late.
I can see that criticism, though I don’t view the film as a Tarantino knockoff as many do. Was Tarantino an influence? I would imagine so. But the story did its own thing.
It’s a ludicrous film. Suspend your disbelief very high and you may also enjoy it.
In the wake of Gina Lollobrigida’s passing, I decided to check out:
It’s a busted TV pilot/short film. Sans fake-proboscis and with occasional accompaniment of the familiar zither music, Welles wears thin as host (and editor), frequently digressing and obnoxiously manipulating interviews - he probably wasn’t even in the same country when most of them took place - while putting words in the mouths of others. Gina’s belated appearance is awesome, but given Orson’s badgering/sealioning(?), it’s easy to see why she “…was unhappy with the way the production turned out and obtained an injunction against it being shown in the US.” (from IMDB)
Streamed Immanence last night.
Started off strong. Devolved into silliness. They tried to tie everything up in the end and …failed.
I finally watched this tonight. I pretty much agree with the above. I watched the whole thing but I was thinking of this review and by the time (about 10 minutes in) when that soulless, money-grubbing TeeVee producer lady was saying, “Who wouldn’t want to be a reality star?” I had pegged how the rest of it would go. The notion that they should have just left this kid alone and not tried to earn a buck off him like an Elizabethan freak was the overriding feeling I was getting.
It’s more of a condemnation of media whores who tried to use him even though I don’t think that was their aim.
I watched Junk Food by Masashi Yamamoto a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been trying to comprehend what I saw!
I chose it because the beginning of the description said it started with the start of the day with an elderly blind woman… Awwww…how sweet!
We see the woman (said to be Yamamoto’s mother) wake up to the news on the radio, say a prayer and go to the store to get bread for her breakfast…AWWWWW…
The next scene has an attractive woman get out off bed with a man. She looks at the sun through her fingers and plays with the water in the tub…once again, AWWWWW…what a beautiful contrast!
Then she sits down to smoke some meth, then ties up the man and…
Spoiler alert. The summary below does a better job than I could. The common thread between the characters, perhaps even the old woman is that they’re unhappy with life in Osaka.
[spoiler]Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD depicts the hitherto unseen world of aberrant sexuality and savage violence that emerges when the sun goes down and clean, orderly Tokyo exposes its sordid underbelly. From gambling dens to wrestling rings, through make-shift funerals and crime-of-passion murders, director Masashi Yamamoto expertly knits together a series of smoky, neon-lit vignettes with documentary immediacy and gruesome clarity. Cashing in her antiseptic white-collar world for a white powder hell of lethal sex-play and furtive drug abuse, a beautiful young computer programmer unravels her way to the gutter. Clinging to an empty dream of success, a Pakistani immigrant graduates from armed robbery to double homicide. Using the same copycat precision with which they dress and drive, a carbon copy LA style street gang mounts a bloodthirsty coup d’etat of appalling viciousness.
There’s also a latina wrestler ready to head home and a Japanese hooker from America who loves sex. And a possible low level Yakuza who spends the night with the hooker and meeting up with the immigrant and wannabe cholo in a bar.
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