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Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

Son of Saul is actual vulgar auteurism, Tony Scott's ouevre has nothing on Niemes' freshman effort.
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loslakersss · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:59 am Post subject:

The Gentlemen was a fun time. About as good as other Ritchie flick. I definitely like his style.

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loslakersss · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:20 pm Post subject:

Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

For golden armor: sounds like Hittman's latest, debuting at Sundance, really kills.
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Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

I am no Baumbach expert, but as Netflix announces that Marriage Story (along with I Heard You Paint Houses and Atlantics) are getting Criterion releases, I wonder when the superior Baumbach film Meyerowitz Stories will go Criterion.
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Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

Satoshi Kon was a genius filmmaker before his early death and deserves to be revered among the pantheon of truly genius animated film directors: Japan Times.

I could never do his work justice, but if David Lynch worked in animation he'd still fall a hair short of Kon. A brilliant artist lost too soon.
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Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

Uncut Gems didn't garner any Oscar nominations and has been under discussed with mixed reviews on LG.com, but there's a fascinating ongoing discussion among younger Jewish critics about the film's thematics and import that I think is one of the most interesting conversations in film criticism over the past year: Uncut Gems

It's one of the most unabashedly Jewish films in American cinematic history and I wonder if it won't be even more beloved as gentile audiences come to terms with its unapologetically brilliant Jewishness in the coming years.
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Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

Uncut Gems is my #11 film of the year and it already feels too low.

Here's another exceptional essay about the "difficult Jew:" Link
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I bleeping loved uncut gems

SPOILER BELOW

I bleeping love how he hinged the entire thing on the jump ball - just beautiful
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Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover is as baroque, gorgeous, vicious, and funny as I remember it. God Greenaway. But what surprised me now watching it a second time 20 years later is how tender the relationship between Georgina (Helen Mirren) and Michael (Alan Howard) becomes in such a short time, and their final scene together had me tearing up. Michael Gambon plays one of the all-time great bastards of cinema, a gangster thug who purchases the upscale Le Hollandais restaurant - the only restaurant that will still serve him - and sadistically, obstreperously terrorizes staff, customers, his own goons, and especially his wife Georgina who sprints toward a dangerous affair with a bookish regular customer, Michael. Gambon and Mirren destroy the screen while Greenaway manages to balance tones of horniness, horror, dark comedy, and pathos perfectly.

It's streaming on Criterion Channel through January 31st, but is worth owning and watching multiple times. It's (bleep) cinema.

Ties to other films:

- Georgina's gynecologist (referred to, but never seen) is apparently an Ethiopian Jew, which I never would've picked up on without having seen Uncut Gems. Black Jew power!

- This may or may not have been an influence on Ari Aster's Midsommar, but Greenaway's film is another superior predecessor that is sincere and affecting in its kinkiness and its terrors while successfully blending multiple tones along with its political and religious allusions. Of course, there's no shame in falling short of peak Greenaway.
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DaMuleRules · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:42 pm Post subject:

Two words:

Troop Zero . . .

. . . lovely film.

OK . . . four words.
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Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

Here's a nice behind the scenes article on the making of Malick's A Hidden Life, which is gorgeous and should be seen on the biggest screen possible: Vulture.com.

Also, Bilge Elbiri is a good Twitter follow.
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Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

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Rewatching Vivre Sa Vie because my heart is broken today and crying. Crying.
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Omar Little · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:40 pm Post subject:

I’d like to recommend Dear Basketball.
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kikanga · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:45 pm Post subject:

Today they're starting filming on the next Batman movie. I know. Just what we need. Another Batman movie. That and more Starbucks locations. I walked 3 blocks the other day without seeing one.

If you wanna play a fun game. Try to guess what character each of the following actors are playing.

Colin Ferrell
Andy Serkis (guy who did Gollum in LOTR)
John Turturro

Unless you looked it up already, I doubt anybody would get all 3 right.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877830/
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panamaniac · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:35 pm Post subject:

Those Planet of the Apes reboots were a borefest. I hope Reeves can up his game for this new Batman. I do like the casting, except for Paul Dano as The Riddler.

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panamaniac · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:38 pm Post subject:

Baron Von Humongous · Retired Number Joined: 02 Jul 2015 Posts: 32979

The original Tourneur Cat People > Paul Schrader's Cat People > your favorite horror movie.
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loslakersss · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:03 am Post subject:

I watched a 2018 movie with Nicole Kidman called Destroyer and it was really good for the 'hell-bent cop looking to solve an old case' genre. Pretty solid supporting cast as well. It's on Hulu.