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[Expendable.]

Carol

A ravishing, intoxicating achievement. Every aspect is so delicately handled by Haynes, I was won over in minutes, and the feeling never went away. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara whittle out such immensely detailed characters with the smallest of touches, and not just figuratively. When a movie this subtle and layered eventually loses Best Picture, it will be in great company..

Currently my favorite film of the year, will be hard to top it.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter is one of the best martial arts movies I've ever seen. If you're into that kind of stuff, check it out.

 

[Insane Metal]

Steve Jobs stading at 91% on RT.

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMgQNCXy_M

I didn't even know about this. I watched the version with Ashton Kutcher and thought it was ok. Now this has Fassbender... I can't wait to see it

 

[BioHazard]

So is The Lobster seriously not coming out in 2015 in the US? It's releasing fucking everywhere in October, but not the US? Some bullshit

Also, fucking DUMB that The Witch is coming out in Feb of next year, A24 (I otherwise love them) totally dropped the ball in releasing this in the fall/halloween season.

Shit gets me heated

 

[Fancy Clown]

Sicario is a movie that, had its script landed in almost any other director's hands, would have ended up largely forgettable. That's not to say that the script is bad, it's definitely not (although I would agree the movie's few weak points all stem from the script), it's just that the subject matter is something we've seen in countless other movies and tv shows, and Denis Villeneuve portrays it in such a horrifying, almost alien manner. It shares more in common with a horror movie than a crime procedural, with a lurching and groaning score and some incredibly memorable and intense sequences. All of this is filmed with Roger Deakins' gorgeous cinematography where arial shots of the Mexican topography almost look like mars, and the colorful magic hour skies contrast the beige desert beneath them. The cast is uniformly excellent as well, with Benicio Del Toro in particular stealing every scene he's in while barely speaking a word. His sleepy, menacing eyes add so much to his role, its absolutely perfect casting. While the plot is less mysterious and more predictable than it would lead you to believe, the atmosphere it conjures absolutely makes up for that because even when you know where it's headed, it doesn't stop it from being any less horrifying.

 

[Divius]

Knight of Cups already disappearing from my local arthouse after only a week or so of playing once a day. Now I have to go to the final showing on Sunday. Might go see The Martian as well while I am there..

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

The Martian - legit fantastic sic-fi movie, blew my expectations out of the water, great soundtrack, great look, great cast, great screenplay, just a fantastic movie overall. Loved it to bits - 10/10.

 

[Window]

Knight of Cups already disappearing from my local arthouse after only a week or so of playing once a day. Now I have to go to the final showing on Sunday. Might go see The Martian as well while I am there..

The way you bolded the title, I thought a review was incoming.

 

[big ander]

Double post, but I really liked this A24 profile by David Ehrlich for Slate. They're a young company, but you look at their line-up seem to be ones snatching up all the interesting indie films these days. Stylish, young-skewing, quality films for those 20/30 something cinephilles. They already got The Witch and Green Room in 2016, and maybe even a potential Oscar nominee in Room.

Fine read, I'm not sure I like A24 more than the similarly hyped and curatorial distro/prod companies like Annapurna, Drafthouse, Alchemy, IFC, Cinelicious, Broad Green--none has built such a solid slate that I'm partial to them specifically yet. Still, I do like A24 a bunch. However...

So is The Lobster seriously not coming out in 2015 in the US? It's releasing fucking everywhere in October, but not the US? Some bullshit

Also, fucking DUMB that The Witch is coming out in Feb of next year, A24 (I otherwise love them) totally dropped the ball in releasing this in the fall/halloween season.

Shit gets me heated

...it's hard not to feel this way all the time too. I don't know if it's merely that I'm more "plugged in" so the wait feels longer, but having heard about The Witch or It Follows or The Lobster or Knight of Cups whatever for a full goddamn year as it plays every festival, then every European country before its limited release in the US even begins is frustrating. As the article says, the key to finding success for these mid-budgeters is marketing and release strategy, so I have to trust they know what they're doing by releasing The Witch in February months after its hype kicks into a frenzy...whether that is business-savvy or no, it's frustrating as a viewer.

In summation: see Knight of Cups, Divius. you gotta make us jealous

 

[daydream]

Knight of Cups already disappearing from my local arthouse after only a week or so of playing once a day. Now I have to go to the final showing on Sunday. Might go see The Martian as well while I am there..

just checked and it's running in a bunch of theatres here (berlin) and will be for the next week, at least.


on a sidenote, it feels good to finally live in a city that shows more stuff. my old uni town had a couple of neat arthouse theatres but the program was very limited.

 

[BioHazard]

Speaking of A24, their latest, Mississippi Grind is out now...so good

 

[Messofanego]

So is The Lobster seriously not coming out in 2015 in the US? It's releasing fucking everywhere in October, but not the US? Some bullshit

Also, fucking DUMB that The Witch is coming out in Feb of next year, A24 (I otherwise love them) totally dropped the ball in releasing this in the fall/halloween season.

Shit gets me heated

The Lobster looks hilarious. Aww yeah we get to see it here in UK on October 16th. Macbeth this Friday yuss!

Knight of Cups already disappearing from my local arthouse after only a week or so of playing once a day. Now I have to go to the final showing on Sunday. Might go see The Martian as well while I am there..

If you go see Knight of Cups confirm whether it's worth watching just for the cinematography alone.

 

[Freewheelin']

Seeing Macbeth Sunday. Sicario sometime next week if I get the time. Some great looking movies coming out this year.

 

[Count Dookkake]

LIZA THE FOX-FAIRY: A Hungarian maid's search for love is continuously thwarted by the homicidally jealous ghost of a dapper Japanese pop star. Cute and funny.

 

[Discotheque]

If you go see Knight of Cups confirm whether it's worth watching just for the cinematography alone.

that's a foregone conclusion with malick movies tbh

 

[Moppeh]

Oh shit, last day of the month!

Rewatched both The Godfather and Grand Budapest Hotel. Godfather is still the GOAT mob movie (surprise, surprise). GBH continues to be an absolute favorite of mine. It instills pure and absolute joy in me whenever I watch it. Anderson's finest by far. Everything before this in his filmography feels like it was simply practice so he could deliver this film to his audience in this perfect, utmost-Andersonian form. It's Anderson at his most Anderson, and more importantly, his best done.

I also saw some great first watches this week!

Decided to watch more Antoine Doinel goodness, so I saw Stolen Kisses. It was such a delightful watch! A light-hearted comedy of errors with Jean Pierre Leaud, who couldn't adore this film?

Finally saw Mad Max: Fury Road. I don't think I love it as much as most of GAF does, but it was still a very exhilarating picture. It has a near perfect balance of goofiness and self-seriousness and fucking awesome action. Good stuff.

Before a few days ago, I had never seen a single Kurosawa picture. I wanted to start my trek into his filmography with Throne of Blood after seeing and reading about arrow-filled climax. I really enjoyed it, and it is an excellent, loose adaptation of Macbeth. I plan on watching Rashomon tonight!

Finally, I saw Act of Killing. Holy shit. O.O This is such a fascinating study into the minds behind mass murder. Oppenheimer picked the perfect subjects to focus on as well, since their relationship with cinema is what makes the film so especially great. I have to wonder how much of that final scene is staged. It is such a perfect ending that its authenticity certainly must be questioned. Though, since the line between reality and fantasy gets blurred throughout the second half, maybe it doesn't matter. I still can't really process it properly. But wow!

 

[True Savior]

The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter is one of the best martial arts movies I've ever seen. If you're into that kind of stuff, check it out.

It's a little crazy that in this day and age Shaw Bros movies are still so unknown to the audiences.

 

[Count Dookkake]

There's gonna be a screening of 8 Diagram Pole Fighter at Fantastic Fest, but I don't think I can fit it into my schedule.

 

[Expendable.]

Knight of Cups already disappearing from my local arthouse after only a week or so of playing once a day. Now I have to go to the final showing on Sunday. Might go see The Martian as well while I am there..

Ahhhh, so jealous.

So is The Lobster seriously not coming out in 2015 in the US? It's releasing fucking everywhere in October, but not the US? Some bullshit

Also, fucking DUMB that The Witch is coming out in Feb of next year, A24 (I otherwise love them) totally dropped the ball in releasing this in the fall/halloween season.

Shit gets me heated

Yeah, Alchemy is releasing it vaguely in the spring. I'd bet it would be released in March/April.

 

[Fancy Clown]

wtf I thought The Witch had an October release date

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

It's a little crazy that in this day and age Shaw Bros movies are still so unknown to the audiences.

Yeah, I hadn't heard too much about them until a friend from another forum suggested them. I'm surprised Gordon Liu isn't a bigger name. He was a good-looking dude and one hell of a martial artist.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

....the movie turned into The Bourne Identity at some point when Mann got tired of doing a modern day GitS I guess. Gun battles were cool, Mann didn't fuck that up, and the few fight scenes were well done as well.

The movie had 4 editors credited so I'm sure this was a smooth production, or is that the way Mann works?

It's not that he got bored with the GITS part of the movie, but more that the whole thing devolves from a high tech procedural into a

Spoiler

primal revenge action-thriller

. It's not a mistake that it opens on a shot of the Earth as a digital planet and scales all the way down (and back in time) to a traditional Balinese festival.

And he's used 3-4 editors in the past.

It's a little crazy that in this day and age Shaw Bros movies are still so unknown to the audiences.

I was thinking about this a few years ago. There are SO many potentially iconic scenes in their movies that just haven't had the cultural impact you think they would've in the west. There's like this entire era of martial arts movies that's barely recognized except for when some director does an homage to them.

 

[daydream]

slow west's bad case of identity crisis leaves only a skeleton of a movie behind. the static wide shots are about the only consistency that ends up working, the rest is film floundering between silent parody and slapstick but lacking all the subversive qualities that would turn its shortcomings into perks. well, some of them.

 

[Count Dookkake]

MEN AND CHICKENS: Two brothers' search for their biological father leads them to the dilapidated mansion of a low-rent Dr. Moreau and his 4 bizarre sons. Icky fun.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

That Knight of Cups trailer became like a parody of a Terrence Malick movie in its second half. I have very little hope that the movie will avoid becoming his Gertrud, i.e. a beautiful-looking movie arriving late in a director's career that encompasses almost all of the bad of that director's corpus without being counterbalanced by much or any of the good.

I'm actually more interested in that Lincoln movie that looked like a ripoff Terrence Malick movie. Was that any good?

 

[Net_Wrecker]

That Knight of Cups trailer became like a parody of a Terrence Malick movie in its second half. I have very little hope that the movie will avoid becoming his Gertrud, i.e. a beautiful-looking movie arriving late in a director's career that encompasses almost all of the bad of that director's corpus without being counterbalanced by much or any of the good.

I'm actually more interested in that Lincoln movie that looked like a ripoff Terrence Malick movie. Was that any good?

To The Wonder was already Malick doing Malick in the way you're describing. I still enjoyed it. Knight of Cups looked to be something different at first, but you're right that the 2nd half of the trailer falls back to well trodden territory, yet still I'm anticipating it ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

And The Better Angels was ok. Really beautifully shot but very much diet Malick.

 

[Currygan]

Black Souls was fantastic. An Italian gangster movie (I hate the term, "mafia movie" would be better) about three criminal brothers who find themselves in the middle of a decades old family feud they thought dead and buried. Things escalate quickly and tragically. It's got all the qualities of a typical great Italian flick: superb acting by the leads, all very convincing in their menacing roles; excellent cinematography, efficiently conveying the unsettling coldness of the story, these heartless, ignorant but very smart people, the places and its desolate surroundings, great pacing, fast moving plot. it's no Gomorrah, but it's almost there

 

[Count Dookkake]

EVILSPEAK: Classic 80s trash about Clint Howard playing with computers, pigs, and Satanism at a military school. If that is of interest, you will be entertained.

 

[~Kinggi~]

Count are you drunks when you make these genius reviews i know im drunks so its all cool

 

[Secret Fawful]

EVILSPEAK: Classic 80s trash about Clint Howard playing with computers, pigs, and Satanism at a military school. If that is of interest, you will be entertained.

That sounds really fun, although Clint Howard kinda freaks me out for some reason.

On another note, god I want to see the Assassin. That sounds so good. Contemplative wuxia.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Count are you drunks when you make these genius reviews i know im drunks so its all cool

Drunk on power.

 

[UrbanRats]

nvm, month is over.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

I'll post the thread later. I'm going to bed!

 

[True Savior]

I was thinking about this a few years ago. There are SO many potentially iconic scenes in their movies that just haven't had the cultural impact you think they would've in the west. There's like this entire era of martial arts movies that's barely recognized except for when some director does an homage to them.

Yup. Their catalog is insane. There's no other word. The amount of stuff released in terms of quantity and quality is insane. Their experimentations in the genre doesn't have parallels , but outside of some niches they haven't really been discovered. People know the brand , but dont actually know the films.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

Well, new thread!