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Fanny And Alexander

Wow, just finished watching this. I wasn't planing on watching it today, I just thought to see how it started; got hooked and had too see it all (tv version). It was simply amazing, the downside is that I won't be able to watch it for the first time again lol. I really didn't expect it to be so good. Such wonderful characters and such a wonderful movie. I laughed, I cried; if some of you haven't watched it, do it. 10/10
 
Charles Foster Kane said:
Fanny And Alexander

Wow, just finished watching this. I wasn't planing on watching it today, I just thought to see how it started; got hooked and had too see it all (tv version). It was simply amazing, the downside is that I won't be able to watch it for the first time again lol. I really didn't expect it to be so good. Such wonderful characters and such a wonderful movie. I laughed, I cried; if some of you haven't watched it, do it. 10/10
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Maybe I can do a double feature tomorrow of this and Satantango.
 
The Dark Knight Rises

Not much to say about it that hasn't been said, it's brilliant.

9.5/10

Rampart

Loved Woody Harrelson in it, and it was a pretty good watch, but so many loose ends in the storylines....

6/10
 
Buffalo '66

I've been meaning to watch this for years, I was first introduced to Gallo as a musician, his album When is really beautiful, and he curated a music festival I went to around the time of Brown Bunny. I wanted to watch this, and Brown Bunny, but I've been side tracked by how much of an asshole Gallo appears to be. Some say it's an art performance, and his trolling is all very high brow art, and if that's the case or not, the net result is still a repugnant personality.

I watched 2 Days in New York a few weeks ago, which features Gallo, and I had Speedracer on in the background yesterday, so I thought it was time to finally watch this. It's an interesting film, it almost feels like he wrote the treatment when he was thirteen, and the script when he was thirty. The story has a horribly infantile sensibility to it. This guy comes out of prison, kidnaps a pretty girl, and ends up having to beat her off with a stick. But the moment to moment writing is actually pretty good at times.

The performances are all over the place, Christina Ricci tap dancing was a strange highlight for me. I hate all the sophomoric art house editing shit though. Ultimately it's alright, I don't really see why the cult status has developed around it. And the fact he had the nerve to openly shit on Sofia Coppola, when LiT is orders of magnitude a finer film, is really embarrassing.

Should I watch Brown Bunny?
 
Scullibundo said:
Still can't wait to see Anna Karenina.

Keira was great in P&P, Atonement and A Dangerous Method.

My excitement for Karenina mostly comes from Joe Wright, however.
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I doubt you will like it. Keira was great, and Joe Wright is for the most part really good. He just messed this one up.

He essentially turned this epic story into a play, and shot it as if it was a play. It looks great, it sounds great, but there is nothing there.

Jack Reacher gets a 7. It was a lot of fun. Nice to see Cruise and Duvall together again. They just make good buddies. And then you have Warner Herzog as the bad guy, I knew that creepy voice deserved more then documentary status.
 
StuBurns said:
Buffalo '66

I've been meaning to watch this for years, I was first introduced to Gallo as a musician, his album When is really beautiful, and he curated a music festival I went to around the time of Brown Bunny. I wanted to watch this, and Brown Bunny, but I've been side tracked by how much of an asshole Gallo appears to be. Some say it's an art performance, and his trolling is all very high brow art, and if that's the case or not, the net result is still a repugnant personality.

I watched 2 Days in New York a few weeks ago, which features Gallo, and I had Speedracer on in the background yesterday, so I thought it was time to finally watch this. It's an interesting film, it almost feels like he wrote the treatment when he was thirteen, and the script when he was thirty. The story has a horribly infantile sensibility to it. This guy comes out of prison, kidnaps a pretty girl, and ends up having to beat her off with a stick. But the moment to moment writing is actually pretty good at times.

The performances are all over the place, Christina Ricci tap dancing was a strange highlight for me. I hate all the sophomoric art house editing shit though. Ultimately it's alright, I don't really see why the cult status has developed around it. And the fact he had the nerve to openly shit on Sofia Coppola, when LiT is orders of magnitude a finer film, is really embarrassing.

Should I watch Brown Bunny?
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Nobody should watch Brown Bunny. I am not a fan of Buffalo 66, but I get it. Brown Bunny is like Gerry, only there is a blow job involved. It is just noise.

If you want to see Gallo in something somewhat decent, check out The House of the Spirits or even Tetro.
 
After having seen the tv version of Fanny and Alexander, I want to see the theatrical to see how he made it slimmer.

Is Scenes From a Marriage tv version better than the theatrical version too? I mean for a first watch.
 
So is there a top 10 movie thread of 2012 yet?

Also, I'm in the mood for a suspenseful super-natural movie tonight. Any ideas?
 
Guzim said:
Chungking Express and High & Low are in my top ten films of all-time.
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I certainly think they'd be in my overall list now, at least top 30 or so. Definitely will be rewatching both though. It's crazy I watched both in the first week of January this year. Started out on the right note!
 
Charles Foster Kane said:
Fanny And Alexander

Wow, just finished watching this. I wasn't planing on watching it today, I just thought to see how it started; got hooked and had too see it all (tv version). It was simply amazing, the downside is that I won't be able to watch it for the first time again lol. I really didn't expect it to be so good. Such wonderful characters and such a wonderful movie. I laughed, I cried; if some of you haven't watched it, do it. 10/10
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Amazing coincidence, I just watched this yesterday. Unlike you, it didn't impress me too much. I enjoyed the last hour when it started getting, ahem, heated, but I was just sort of following along, not fully engaged for most of it. I liked everything it was doing, but it didn't really come together for me. IDK. Some really good performances though.
 
These are some 10s that I'm pretty sure I saw this year: Ordet, Red Beard, Minnie & Moskowitz, Double Indemnity, Letter From An Unknown Woman, Night Of The Living Dead, Shoah.
 
Charles Foster Kane said:
That seems interesting and much more fun indeed. I wish I could remember all the ones I got to se this year for the first time. I'll give it a try.

I haven't watched High and Low, but completely agree with Balthazar.
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My Best non-2012 movies I saw this year for the first time:

1. Melancholia
2. Antichrist
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Detachment
5. The Fog of War
6. Mr. Nobody
7. Hard Eight
8. The Unbelievable Truth
9. The Skin I Live In
10. Collateral
 
Ok, I'm up for this. Best non-2012 films I watched this year that I'd never seen before:



10- The Decalogue
9- Stalker
8- The Exterminating Angel
7- Fanny and Alexander
6- The Good The Bad and The Ugly
5- Ikiru
4- Nights of Cabiria
3- Au Hasard Balthazar
2- Manhattan
1- Tokyo Story


lol, yeah it's embarrassing I only watched those for the first time this year. At least I still I have lots of stuff to look forward to next year. And the ranking is baloney, just what I feel right now.
 
Top 10 non-2012

  1. In A Lonely Place
  2. Day for Night
  3. The Bad Sleep Well
  4. The Seven-Ups
  5. Comrade, Almost a Love Story
  6. Contempt
  7. Summertime
  8. Sex, Lies, and Videotape
  9. The Conformist
  10. The Long Good Friday
 
Ok, top 10.

10. The Lady Eve
9. High and Low
8. Cafe Lumiere
7. Street of Shame
6. Bringing Up Baby
5. The Tree of Life
4. Fargo
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Ordet
1. Ashes and Diamonds
 
Top 10 Non-2012 for me.

1. Sunrise : a song of two humans
2. Letter from a Unknown Woman
3. Hannah and her sisters
4. Detour
5. Once Upon a Time in the West
6. Bigger than Life
7. The Conversation
8. It's a Wonderful Life
9. Paris, texas
10. The Red Shoes

Honorable mentions: The Third Man, Out of the past, Shadow of a doubt, Barry Lyndon, Brief Encounter, Branded to Kill, A Seperation, Purple rose of Cairo, The Mirror, In a lonely place.

Man even though I lagged behind in the second half of 2012. I've seen a ridiculous amount of good films this year.
 
My non-2012 list:

1. The Sunset Limited
2. After Hours
3. Into The Abyss
4. The Human Condition Trilogy
5. Breaking The Waves
6. Das Boot
7. The Mirror
8. Blue Velvet
9. The Bothersome Man
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Honourable Mentions. Cell 211, Barry Lyndon
 
Best non-2012 watches:

1. Pierrot le Fou
2. Who Are You, Polly Magoo?
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. The Double Life of Veronique
6. The Man Who Sleeps
7. Deep End
8. Last Year at Marienbad
9. Naked
10. Gun Crazy

There are too many to mention, really.
 
Just saw "John dies at the end" and loved the fuck out of it. It's total B movie schlock but fun as fuck and I think it's going to have an immediate cult following.
 
Top ten non-2012:

1 - Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
2 - Temple Grandin (2010)
3 - Now, Voyager (1942)
4 - The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
5 - A Separation (2011)
6 - The Great Escape (1963)
7 - Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
8 - Le quai des brumes (1938)
9 - Anastasia (1956)
10 - Summertime (1955)

If Cabin in the Wood doesn't qualify as a 2011 movie, I'd replace it with The Big Clock (1948).

Honorable mentions for:
The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World' (2005) (hugely entertaining and informative documentary)
Boardwalk Empire
Homeland

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Oops! Solo, I fixed it! Plus another edit since rewatches aren't allowed.
 
ymmv said:
Top ten non-2012:

1 - Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
2 - Temple Grandin (2010)
3 - Now, Voyager (1942)
4 - The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
5 - Some Like It Hot (1959) (rewatch)
6 - A Separation (2011)
7 - The Great Escape (1963)
8 - The Avengers (2012)
9 - Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
10 - Le quai des brumes (1938)

Honorary mentions for:
The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World' (2005) (hugely entertaining and informative documentary)
Boardwalk Empire
Homeland
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Hmmmm....
 
Top 10 non-2012 films i saw in 2012.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Chungking Express
3. 500 Days of Summer
4. Gattaca
5. In Bruges
6. Lost Highway
7. Tokyo Godfathers
8. Blue Velvet
9. The Social Network
10. Sword of the Stranger

Honarable Mentions:

- Millennium Actress
- Taxi Driver
- Dogtooth
- eXistenZ
- Synecdoche, New York

ICM made it easy to remember which ones i saw this year.
I've seen alot of great films this year!
 
-Stranger- said:
Top 10 non-2012 films i saw in 2012.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Chungking Express
3. 500 Days of Summer
4. Gattaca
5. In Bruges
6. Lost Highway
7. Tokyo Godfathers
8. Blue Velvet
9. The Social Network
10. Sword of the Stranger

Honarable Mentions:

- Millennium Actress
- Taxi Driver
- Dogtooth
- eXistenZ
- Synecdoche, New York

ICM made it easy to remember which ones i saw this year.
I've seen alot of great films this year!
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Shame on you. Taxi Driver should be top everything!

Just kidding, but it should.
 
I'd swap a few of those movies with Taxi Driver and existenz. looks like you were on a lynch kick. You seen Mulholland Drive yet aka HIS BEST MOVIE EVER MADE AND ONE OF THE BEST OF ALL TIME
 
Eh, if everyone else is doing it

1) Satantango (Tarr, 1994)
2) On the Silver Globe (Zulawski, 1987)
3) The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
4) Red Desert (Antonioni, 1965)
5) Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
6) A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavettes, 1974)
7) Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
8) Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
9) My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
10) Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)

There's probably some big omissions.
 
top 10 non-2012 movies seen this year (from what I remember):

10. Submarine
9. Human resources
8. Kikujiro
7. Hiroshima mon amour
6. Waltz with Bashir
5. Shame
4. Blow up
3. Still Walking
2. Once upon the time in America
1. Fallen angels
 
Well, since I had a baby my movie watching has come to a halt while my backlog has grown tenfold.

Still I kinda remember what I watched before. In no particular order :

- A separation
- The red shoes
- Buffy the vampire slayer (not the movie)
- The long goodbye
- The searchers
- Scanners
- Hara-Kiri
- Murder on a Sunday Morning (which became one of my all-time favorite documentary)
- A man escaped
- All that heaven allows

Worst movies watched in 2012 :
- A.I.
- Contact
 
I think 21 Jump Street may be the best film I've seen this year, or Cabin In The Woods. If we're including non 2012 in the list then Tangled wins.
 
BaronLundi said:
Well, since I had a baby my movie watching has come to a halt while my backlog has grown tenfold.

Still I kinda remember what I watched before. In no particular order :

- A separation
- The red shoes
- Buffy the vampire slayer (not the movie)
- The long goodbye
- The searchers
- Scanners
- Hara-Kiri
- Murder on a Sunday Morning (which became one of my all-time favorite documentary)
- A man escaped
- All that heaven allows
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I really loved these and haven't watched the others. Nice to see appreciation for The Red Shoes.
 
Charles Foster Kane said:
I really loved these and haven't watched the others. Nice to see appreciation for The Red Shoes.
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Then Hara-Kiri should move on top of your watch list pronto !

The Red Shoes and Hara-Kiri are also probably two of the most visually stunning movies I've ever seen. All that heaven allows isn't too shabby either (everyone should be privy to Rock Hudson's feeding a deer, plus it'll please swoon).
 
BaronLundi said:
Then Hara-Kiri should move on top of your watch list pronto ! A man escaped too.

The Red Shoes and Hara-Kiri are also probably two of the most visually stunning movies I've ever seen. All that heaven allows isn't too shabby either (everyone should be privy to Rock Hudson's feeding a deer, plus it'll please swoon).
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I had a friend who loved Harakiri. For some reason I've never seen it. And yes, The Red Shoes is beautiful. The dance scene elevates the movie.
 
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