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« on: April 27, 2023, 06:19:27 AM »
Beau is Afraid (2023) - 9/10. A little long, but I laughed my way through most of this. It works best when channeling the spirit of Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, and not as well when it defaults to The Truman Show, but there are some great moments here. You will believe that Bread's "Everything I Own" can be repurposed for startling comic effect. It's nice to see so many NY theater people in the cast, too: Patti Lupone and Nathan Lane and (briefly) Richard Kind (the Coens' Mr. Sebaceous Cyst!)
Now you have my interest.
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« on: April 20, 2023, 04:19:15 AM »
Also the fact that they're both somewhere between american anarchism and libertarianism and made tons of movies about that. They are very similar to me. Although of course Eastwood at his best as a filmmaker never comes close to Cimino at his best.
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« on: April 18, 2023, 02:51:47 AM »
RE: Josey Wales - High Plains Drifter is Clint's most Italian feeling western by far, to me. That could have been a Corbucci movie. Josey Wales feels much more like a Boetticher inspired western than something from Leone or Corbucci.
As for Cimino, I'd agree that Thunderbolt and Lightfoot has a lot in common with Eastwood and Don Siegel, but Cimino became a very European style filmmaker for his next two movies. Clint the director is definitely the spiritual successor to Siegel, they're both highly efficient filmmakers with a no frills flair to their work. The Deer Hunter and especially Heaven's Gate are the antithesis of Eastwood's style and philosophy, what have you.
The thing is there are a lot of different Eastwoods. Unforgiven is closer to what Cimino would do for instance.
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« on: April 16, 2023, 11:22:42 AM »
Why wouldn't You ''buy'' it? You got money.
I probably would but don't tell DJ you rat!
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« on: April 16, 2023, 10:03:26 AM »
Roma came out pretty quickly. That one definitely merited a release.
<3 The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood, 1976) - 7/10 For some weird reason it's the only Eastwood western I had seen only once. It was much better than I recalled, with some really good highliights (in characters, lines and some of the gunfights). I also remembered it to be the most SW-ish movie done by Eastwood and that part I got right. Also I was pleasantly surprised to see that as in the Forest Carter's books I've read, the KKK/fascist inspiration isn't too flagrant if you don't know what to look for. Last but not least, although I didn't know Cimino worked on that screenplay, the closeness between Eastwood's and Cimino's cinema was made very clear to me.
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« on: April 13, 2023, 01:36:57 AM »
The "fill in the blanks" point is the film's biggest failing. This should have been more Dadaist. I like the fact that the lead character suddenly changes in the middle, but the film should have stayed with the second guy (or maybe even switched to a third guy) and never returned to Bill Pullman. And Robert Blake should have had no more than two scenes, and neither one of them should have been of any consequence. The fact that Blake turned out to be a murderer in real life, though, gives the film an extra creepy vibe it wouldn't have otherwise had. Still, the killing in the film seems a lot less important than all the fucking. It's odd that there is so much of it and it's all so unappealing. But it is, as you say, an entertaining film. B+
I've always loved the final turn back to Pullman + "Dick Laurent is dead". My experience as a first time viewer was "OMG i havent understood anything in the past hour or so... and yet they STILL manage to brainfuck me after all that?" and I'll always cherish that feel. Even as i didn't understand the movie I could feel there was still something very solid behind.
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« on: April 10, 2023, 08:14:01 AM »
Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998) - 7/10
Second watch after... 15 to 20 years? I didn't remember it to be:
- that ugly to watch
- that funny
Novembre (Cedric Jimenez, 2022) - 4/10
The movie about the 2015 Paris attacks. It isn't that it's bad, it's that it is one of the most pointless movies I've ever seen. It rightfully so opens with a "that movie was inspired by true events but it's a fiction" warning, and then proceeds to show you a 2 hours commercial for the Paris police, with exactly the same level of sincere emotion and informations you would expect from a commercial. You come out of it feeling that not only weren't you moved and you didn't learn a thing, but nothing in it is even vaguely entertaining. I wonder if the movie features more than 3 scenes that exceeds the minute. It's your typical platform content, that one happens to be "around the theme of real terror attacks".
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2020) - 8.5/10
Second watch, still the most convincing anti-western I've ever seen.
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« on: April 02, 2023, 10:31:14 AM »
What version?
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« on: April 01, 2023, 10:11:34 AM »
Pretty sure all humans left the board within 2 weeks of Groggy's departure. Chatgpt has been talking to itself since then, emulating our patterns.
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« on: March 31, 2023, 12:13:53 PM »
Cry Macho - 10/10
IMAX version is 12/10
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« on: March 30, 2023, 02:23:37 PM »
He's right this time, though.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I've heard the first two minutes, he may or may not be right but he clearly has no idea what a movie is.
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« on: March 29, 2023, 04:54:58 AM »
Voyages en Italie (Letourneur, 2023) - 8.5/10
None of you will ever even have a chance to catch it, but this is absolutely great.
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« on: March 24, 2023, 04:14:04 AM »
La Vie au Ranch (Sophie Letourneur, 2009) - 8/10
Les Coquillettes (Sophie Letourneur, 2013) - 7.5/10
Those two are exactly as funny as they are exhausting.
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« on: March 15, 2023, 10:29:17 AM »
Yeah. Well. As usual we'll see. He never does what you expect him to do anyway.
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