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Post by coke & comics on Nov 19, 2015 14:24:26 GMT -5
I was underwhelmed by Raising Arizona. I liked it, as I generally like the Coens' take on crime and criminals, but I found it less impressive than many of their other works.
A few months back, I watched Before Sunrise for the first time, and continued last night with Before Sunset. The former is perhaps the best pure romance film I have ever seen, and the second continues it nicely. Before Midnight was inexpensive on Blu-Ray on Amazon, so I went ahead and purchased it. I look forward to completing the trilogy.
EDIT to note: Before Sunset is actually higher on the list than Sunrise. That seems backwards to me, though it was an excellent film. Even if it left me very concerned for the poor driver.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 19, 2015 15:27:59 GMT -5
I was hankering for another silent film so I took another look at the list today to see if there were any on there that I already owned that would suit my fancy and found A Trip to the Moon! It's one of my favorite films of all time, so I hardly needed the excuse to watch it but watch it I did as well as the documentary about its restoration which is very interesting. with its run time of just less than sixteen min. it certainly falls short of a feature length...but it's so awesome I'm going to count it anyway. I like Melies's Conquest of the Pole a lot. It's probably on YouTube. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 19, 2015 20:43:38 GMT -5
I was hankering for another silent film so I took another look at the list today to see if there were any on there that I already owned that would suit my fancy and found A Trip to the Moon! It's one of my favorite films of all time, so I hardly needed the excuse to watch it but watch it I did as well as the documentary about its restoration which is very interesting. with its run time of just less than sixteen min. it certainly falls short of a feature length...but it's so awesome I'm going to count it anyway. I like Melies's Conquest of the Pole a lot. It's probably on YouTube. Yeah, I'm pretty sure all his surviving films are in the public domain but I enjoy owning them when I can and in this case I have a really great collection of all his films, plus the separate dvd that has the color restored version that I mentioned. The full collection was around 80 bucks I think, and totally worth it in my mind. |
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 21, 2015 18:10:47 GMT -5
Young Mr. Lincoln is available on Netflix Instant. Liking courtroom dramas, I gave it a go.
John Ford paints a picture of an extremely likeable Young Mr. Lincoln. Can a man really get to be president on charm alone?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 18:52:49 GMT -5
Young Mr. Lincoln is available on Netflix Instant. Liking courtroom dramas, I gave it a go. John Ford paints a picture of an extremely likeable Young Mr. Lincoln. Can a man really get to be president on charm alone? Outstanding John Ford film with Henry Fonda totally capturing the personality, melancholy and all of our future president. He does a great portrayal of Lincoln, and his demeanour on screen is so natural. His delivery is also very at ease which makes it all the more funny when he cracks jokes so matter of factly. Young Mr. Lincoln isn't a biography, rather it's a view and homage to the Abraham Lincoln myth and everything it represents. It's innocently beautiful, with truly remarkable acting and well-oriented directing; a real masterpiece. A scene cut from the film involved Lincoln meeting a very young John Wilkes Booth, his future assassin. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 22, 2015 13:51:41 GMT -5
The Exterminating Angel is one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. I can't decide if it's a dark, satirical comedy or a straight horror film though perhaps it's best to say it was both. It's a film that is designed to be confusing, but unlike other films in that vain this is much subtler which made it all the more striking.
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 23, 2015 3:57:08 GMT -5
Watched All About Eve. A truly excellent film. Bette Davis delivered about a billion great snide lines. Even though it was clear what was coming, Anne Baxter still had you sucked in believing her.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 24, 2015 11:53:27 GMT -5
The Exterminating Angel is one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. I can't decide if it's a dark, satirical comedy or a straight horror film though perhaps it's best to say it was both. It's a film that is designed to be confusing, but unlike other films in that vain this is much subtler which made it all the more striking. I love the work of Luis Bunuel and this is my favorite one. If you have a spare 25 minutes, watch Las Hurdes, also known as Tierra sin pan or Land Without Bread. It's a Bunueal film from the early 1930s and it's said to be the first mockumentary. A unique cinema experience. I watched it on YouTube in French with Spanish sub-titles. (I read Spanish reasonably well.) |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 24, 2015 20:11:05 GMT -5
The Exterminating Angel is one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. I can't decide if it's a dark, satirical comedy or a straight horror film though perhaps it's best to say it was both. It's a film that is designed to be confusing, but unlike other films in that vain this is much subtler which made it all the more striking. I love the work of Luis Bunuel and this is my favorite one. If you have a spare 25 minutes, watch Las Hurdes, also known as Tierra sin pan or Land Without Bread. It's a Bunueal film from the early 1930s and it's said to be the first mockumentary. A unique cinema experience. I watched it on YouTube in French with Spanish sub-titles. (I read Spanish reasonably well.) I imagine I'd need more than 25 min. to watch it as I had to watch Angel twice to really make sense of it. It's a great film, but it's certainly not something I could just watch casually. |
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 26, 2015 3:42:31 GMT -5
Spartacus was a fine little film.
I should also probably watch Ben Hur one of these days.
But it's not on the list.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 26, 2015 13:19:26 GMT -5
Spartacus was a fine little film. I should also probably watch Ben Hur one of these days. But it's not on the list. Ben Hur isn't a patch on Spartacus. It's overly long and overly earnest. |
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 26, 2015 16:29:12 GMT -5
At approximately the halfway mark of Sunrise, a man sits next to the wife at a barbershop and flirts with her. I am fairly certain that man is J. Jonah Jameson. Check the 50 minute mark and tell me if I'm wrong. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 26, 2015 17:12:53 GMT -5
I've seen Sunrise a bunch of times. It used to be my favorite silent film but nowadays I'm a little more partial to Pandora's Box or Safety Last.
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 30, 2015 2:01:16 GMT -5
This was a fun month. Watched 9 films I probably should have seen long before now.
I honestly wouldn't mind a film club devoted just to that list. I still have more than 800 to go.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 30, 2015 18:11:57 GMT -5
This was a fun month. Watched 9 films I probably should have seen long before now. I honestly wouldn't mind a film club devoted just to that list. I still have more than 800 to go. It was indeed, although I didn't get to watch as many as I would have liked. And unless someone chimes in by the end of the day I think you get to pick next month's theme for December and if you were so inclined you could continue the theme and still allow some leeway by using the 100 top directors from that same list. |
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