Well, yeah, but if you’re watching it for the first time in a theater at a time when you don’t have a smart phone with you, it appears they’re speaking English with a fakey Swedish gloss.
I never knew that was Madeline Kahn! Obviously, I didn’t know who she was back in 1968/9. Today is the first time I’ve watched it since then.
:: offers cigar ::
Fallic cimbol?
1972 Travels with my Aunt. Comedy adventure and Oscar winner for Best Costumes
Featuring Maggie Smith, very convincing as a fashionable woman of the world (and pot smuggler) in her 70’s, Did not recognize her at first as her younger self in a flashback scene.
Fun movie, groovy baby!
TWMA
Everest, the 2015 movie based on the 1996 disaster. Somehow I’ve fallen down the Everest rabbit hole after reading the Straight Dope thread. I read Krakauer’s account in Into Thin Air which is both gripping and disturbing. But that is the account of a traumatized man and it’s so full of existential despair, I’ve been losing sleep.
I thought Everest would just ratchet the horror up a notch, and was genuinely afraid to watch it. But the film is more drama than horror, and not particularly good. They didn’t really piece together a coherent narrative for the film. You watch people that you barely know or care about slog up the mountain and then die. The one sort of interesting part was their attempt to capture the experience of Beck Weathers, the mountaineer left for dead who miraculously revived enough to stumble through a blinding snowstorm into camp. But they didn’t fully commit to him as a protagonist, so it didn’t work.
I would probably have been even more confused by this film if I hadn’t read the book first.
I’m a big Into Thin Air fan, too, and recently rediscovered a 1998 IMAX movie, also called Everest. The documentary film crew found itself on the mountain just as the 1996 tragedy was unfolding; they shifted gears and were able to help a bit, and still make a very engaging film.
I saw this years after reading the Krakauer book and found it very difficult to follow. It had no sense of the characters’ locations in relation to each other and the scenes seemed out of sequence some how.
I did see a documentary about the tragedy that carefully framed the interviewees so you don’t notice their missing fingers and other injuries until the stories get to the relevant parts. Rather clever and at the same time shocking.
I watched Don’t Worry Darling on Netflix. It was odd and interesting. A little long though, for my tastes.
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Had to see this to fill an important gap in my Wes Anderson experience, especially as it’s one of his highest rated films. Based on a children’s book by Roald Dahl but with considerable additions by scriptwriters Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Voices include George Clooney as Mr. Fox and Meryl Streep as Mrs. Fox and a few other big names. Anderson himself was the voice of Weasel.
Anderson’s films are always a surprise, and this quirky lighthearted romp is no exception, as Mr. Fox and his animal friends try to outwit three evil farmers. The quality of the animation is impressive, most of it stop-motion done with puppets. Very enjoyable on several different levels and highly recommended.
Cocaine Bear - A reasonably entertaining film about a bear that ingests a lot of cocaine and goes on a rampage.
Babylon - Also entertaining but overly long and seems to think it’s more important of a film than it really is. Also a bit derivative and highly reminiscent of another black comedy about people navigating major Hollywood industry shifts starting Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie called 'Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood."
Where did you find this? It’s listed on Amazon Prime but when you click in it says “This video is not available.” I also noticed that Amazon used the same movie cover for the 2015 film and the 1998 documentary, which unnecessarily confuses things.
I’m glad you liked it, because the stop-motion in this film bugged the heck out of me. It just unsettled me so much that I could barely finish the movie. I wonder what caused that?
No idea. I thought the furry lifelike foxes were really cute! I really thought the animation was superb.
As with other Wes Anderson movies, the music selections were perfect.
It was shown at my local art-house theater a few months back as part of a series of IMAX movies, remastered and also reformatted for smaller screens. Maybe you could find it on DVD?
Last night I watched Run Lola Run. Somewhat weird and surreal, but entertaining, and Franka Potenta has a face, talent, and presence that should have made her a bigger star.
She popped up in a couple of Bourne films didn’t she but other than those I can’t recall anything else. Perhaps she stuck to German language films?
Promising Young Woman (2020). This was mentioned a few times upthread, including by me, but dammit, it needs to be highlighted again and I needed to watch it again, which I did. This is a movie that could be misconstrued as a “feminist” morality tale about men who are predators, but it’s so much more than that. Extraordinarily well done, it’s a masterpiece whose ending will leave you teary-eyed at the fact that justice does prevail, even if it comes at a huge cost.
Strays (2023). As a fanatical dog lover (to paraphrase P.G. Wodehouse, I’m sort of an honorary dog myself) I really wanted to like this movie. And, in fact, in many ways I did. The live-action talking dogs were amazing and obviously involved a lot of training and some very fine editing and SFX.
The film suffered from trying much too hard to be “grownup” and hip, creating too many moments of unnecessary vulgarity that I guess some were supposed to find funny, the same sorts who laugh at scatalogical humour (which this film also has an excessive abundance of). The dogs’ constant cursing was the least of it (although when the strays pass a couple of cats and one of them turns to them and goes “fuck you”, it’s kinda funny). It’s too bad about the vulgarity because the movie does have many genuinely amusing moments – I loved the part where the four strays are suddenly confronted by police – the “police” of course being talking K9 German Shepherds! (The cops become more friendly when they recognize one of the strays – the one stuck with wearing a plastic cone around its head – as a former colleague who dropped out of the canine police academy! 
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But all the vulgarity disappears in a genuinely heartwarming ending. So I’m kinda conflicted. It was fun but overall I’d be hard-pressed to justify more than 2½ out of 4 stars, it’s main redeeming quality being the technical excellence of the dog performances.
Find The Princess and the Warrior for another film by the same director/actor combination (a very different ambience, though)
Pity. Also, as the title indicates, she ran a lot in that movie. It had to be exhausting, and she looked great doing it. Better than Tom Cruise! 
But can she do a pumpy arm run?