The Education of Charlie Banks (2007) Fred Durst 4/10
Me Two (2008) Nicolas Charlet & Bruno Lavaine 2/10
Operation Mad Bull (1957) Richard Quine 5/10
The Buccaneer (1938) Cecil B. DeMille 4/10
The Cheat (1931) George Abbott 4/10
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Whole Movie: Up (dir. Pete Docter) - 8/10
Prologue: Up (dir. Pete Docter) - 11/10
At the center of a pretty solid if rushed Miyazaki film is an emotionally devastating relationship between a man and his wife and the life unlived. At the beginning of the movie is the most heartbreaking short film I've ever seen.
Prologue: Up (dir. Pete Docter) - 11/10
At the center of a pretty solid if rushed Miyazaki film is an emotionally devastating relationship between a man and his wife and the life unlived. At the beginning of the movie is the most heartbreaking short film I've ever seen.
"How's the despair?"
The Scarlet Empress (1934; Josef von Sternberg) 10/10
WOW! Direction, acting, cinematography, editing, costumes, sets--simply breathtaking and astonishing from start to finish!
WOW! Direction, acting, cinematography, editing, costumes, sets--simply breathtaking and astonishing from start to finish!
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
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Practically Yours (1945) Mitchell Leisen 4/10
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) Marina Zenovich 8/10
State of Play (2009) Kevin Macdonald 4/10
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) Marina Zenovich 8/10
State of Play (2009) Kevin Macdonald 4/10
"I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation! Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?" Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) in John Waters' Desperate Living (1977)
Jane Eyre (1944; Robert Stevenson) 8/10
Atmospheric adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles going all gothic with aplomb. Script strips the story to its basic core (and jettisons the book's major weakness, a third act development that would've dragged the film); gorgeous black & white cinematography.
Atmospheric adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles going all gothic with aplomb. Script strips the story to its basic core (and jettisons the book's major weakness, a third act development that would've dragged the film); gorgeous black & white cinematography.
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
Beau Travail - work of art
Beyond letter grade or stars given, Beau Travail is simply a work of art, and the most aptly named film I've ever seen. "Good work." "Good work, man." "Sir, this is what we expect of you." All in this title. Beau Travail is freedom through oppression, art through work, and through cinematic ellipses, Denis strips down filmic narrative to the same regiment in which these men train. It's basically a work of art, not for everyone, emotionally distant, physically immediate.
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Beyond letter grade or stars given, Beau Travail is simply a work of art, and the most aptly named film I've ever seen. "Good work." "Good work, man." "Sir, this is what we expect of you." All in this title. Beau Travail is freedom through oppression, art through work, and through cinematic ellipses, Denis strips down filmic narrative to the same regiment in which these men train. It's basically a work of art, not for everyone, emotionally distant, physically immediate.
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"How's the despair?"
Friday Night - 8/10
Life is gorgeously major miniature. Who is Jean? We are always left wondering as does Laure. Her mind restlessly de- and reconstructs this man she has picked up. Is he by nature seducer or lonely? The prospect of merely either one is too much for her. This is a rapturously shot film, among the most gorgeous I've seen, and to date the only Claire Denis film I've seen.
As Before Sunrise sadly yet admirably ages into an increasingly adolescent, androcentric fantasy (or gloriously into Before Sunset), my thirst for liberating cinematic rendez-vous remains unquelled. If Friday Night occasionally languishes, it does so fetishistically, playfully, and humanistically.
Life is gorgeously major miniature. Who is Jean? We are always left wondering as does Laure. Her mind restlessly de- and reconstructs this man she has picked up. Is he by nature seducer or lonely? The prospect of merely either one is too much for her. This is a rapturously shot film, among the most gorgeous I've seen, and to date the only Claire Denis film I've seen.
As Before Sunrise sadly yet admirably ages into an increasingly adolescent, androcentric fantasy (or gloriously into Before Sunset), my thirst for liberating cinematic rendez-vous remains unquelled. If Friday Night occasionally languishes, it does so fetishistically, playfully, and humanistically.
"How's the despair?"
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Wild Boys of the Road (1933) William Wellman 9/10
I've wanted to see this for years and I wasn't disappointed.
Murder at the Vanities (1934) Mitchell Leisen 6/10
The Art of Being Straight (2008) Jesse Rosen 4/10
Acolytes (2009) Jon Hewitt 1/10
I've wanted to see this for years and I wasn't disappointed.
Murder at the Vanities (1934) Mitchell Leisen 6/10
The Art of Being Straight (2008) Jesse Rosen 4/10
Acolytes (2009) Jon Hewitt 1/10
"I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation! Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?" Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) in John Waters' Desperate Living (1977)
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I agree with Precious. The Lost Horizon musical is so bad it's good. Charles Boyer as the High Lama and John Gielgud as Chang actually deliver good performances, but they're lucky, they don't have to sing or mouth any of the cheesy, if catchy, songs. Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van and James Shigeta were the only ones who actually did their own singing. Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Olivia Hussey and the others were dubbed.
"Question Me an Answer" is hard to get out of your head.
"Question Me an Answer" is hard to get out of your head.
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Cinemanolis wrote:The Lost Horizon - 1973 1/10
Without a doubt the worst choreography i have ever seen in a film. A dreadful experience and i didn't even watch the whole film. How were Albert Finney, Liv Ullmann, John Gielgud and even Hussey and York convinced to be involved with such a trainwreck?
Money no doubt. Though not Finney as he is not in it.
Lost Horizon is so bad it's good. In particular 'The World is a Circle' number.
Love Bette Midler's line on Liv Ullmann in this. 'I never miss a Liv Ullmann musical!'.
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"I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation! Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?" Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) in John Waters' Desperate Living (1977)