Interiors (1978) - Woody Allen
7.5/10
Another great screenplay by Woody Allen with tremendous performances by Maureen Stapleton, E.G. Marshall and specially Geraldine Page, who should have won best supporting actress for this.
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Better Things (2009) Duane Hopkins 7/10
Depressing and bleak Bresson-like drama in which each shot is framed like a painting.
Winner Take All (1932) Roy Del Ruth 5/10
Synecdoche, New York (2008) Charlie Kaufman 7/10
Gardens in Autumn (2006) Otar Iosseliani 6/10
Hansel and Greta (2007) Pil-Sung Yim 7/10
Depressing and bleak Bresson-like drama in which each shot is framed like a painting.
Winner Take All (1932) Roy Del Ruth 5/10
Synecdoche, New York (2008) Charlie Kaufman 7/10
Gardens in Autumn (2006) Otar Iosseliani 6/10
Hansel and Greta (2007) Pil-Sung Yim 7/10
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No I'm not a film critic and I did see these films over a 5 days period. Also I don't watch any television so I have more time to watch films.flipp525 wrote:My lord, you watch a lot of movies. I've been so busy lately, I think I've watched maybe 3 in the same number of weeks. Are you a movie critic or something?
"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)
Transformers (Michael Bay) - 4/10
My God, this movie is fucking stupid. There are two stories in this film: A) a boy finds out his car is alive (SWEEEEET!) and B) Transformers fight for the sake of the planet. Don't care about B) nearly as much as A). A) is put in a choke hold by the ramping-360 around/boom out on a sea of helicopters over the desert that has been Michael Bay's career: a walking, waking handjob to the military complex. Which has so little place in this movie! I want A). I have B). I also hate that the Transformers talk and have names like Jazz and Bone-Crusher. If this is your childhood, I'm sorry. The leaps of logic in this film are too much. At least it's plausible that a box of pizza fell into the sewer and the Ninja Turtles began there love affair.
My God, this movie is fucking stupid. There are two stories in this film: A) a boy finds out his car is alive (SWEEEEET!) and B) Transformers fight for the sake of the planet. Don't care about B) nearly as much as A). A) is put in a choke hold by the ramping-360 around/boom out on a sea of helicopters over the desert that has been Michael Bay's career: a walking, waking handjob to the military complex. Which has so little place in this movie! I want A). I have B). I also hate that the Transformers talk and have names like Jazz and Bone-Crusher. If this is your childhood, I'm sorry. The leaps of logic in this film are too much. At least it's plausible that a box of pizza fell into the sewer and the Ninja Turtles began there love affair.
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American Dream (dir. Barbara Kopple, 1990) 5/10
Hormel gets the "villain meat-packer" edit in this overlong documentary that seems to be more about how ugly clothes really got in mid-80's Minnesota than it does about one of the biggest labor disputes of that decade. Kopple loses out on the golden opportunity to make this a more personal experience by showing the effects of the strike on the community of Austin, Minn, which is something she achieved more effectively in Harlan County, USA. Only towards the end of the film do we get a poignant scene of one wife packing up her soon-to-be-foreclosed home as a result of lost jobs, lost dreams. Inexplicably won the Oscar for Best Documentary over the seminal, non-nominated (and far-superior) Paris is Burning.
The Tenant (dir. Roman Polanski, 1976) 7/10
If you've ever wanted to see Roman Polanski in a dress, this is your film. Directing and starring in this Kafka-esque exercise in claustrophobia and paranoia, Polanski as "Trelkovsky", a timid clerk, takes over the lease of a squalid Paris apartment recently vacated by a mysterious woman who jumped from the window to her death into the building's courtyard and through a glass porch. Slowly becoming obsessed with her while convincing himself that the other tenants of the building drove her mad, Polanski delves deeper and deeper into her psychosis. A veritable feast of Oscar winners of yore appear in cameos (Jo Van Fleet, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters, Lila Kedrova, etc.), and there is also a young Isabelle Adjani to behold. Not bad, but only gets really interesting in the last third. Trelkovsky's passivity began to grate.
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (dir. Jack Hofsiss, 1982) 3/10
Horrid and disturbing "Valium-is-Bad!" Jill Clayburgh showcase. For a more extensive review, please see further downthread.
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Hormel gets the "villain meat-packer" edit in this overlong documentary that seems to be more about how ugly clothes really got in mid-80's Minnesota than it does about one of the biggest labor disputes of that decade. Kopple loses out on the golden opportunity to make this a more personal experience by showing the effects of the strike on the community of Austin, Minn, which is something she achieved more effectively in Harlan County, USA. Only towards the end of the film do we get a poignant scene of one wife packing up her soon-to-be-foreclosed home as a result of lost jobs, lost dreams. Inexplicably won the Oscar for Best Documentary over the seminal, non-nominated (and far-superior) Paris is Burning.
The Tenant (dir. Roman Polanski, 1976) 7/10
If you've ever wanted to see Roman Polanski in a dress, this is your film. Directing and starring in this Kafka-esque exercise in claustrophobia and paranoia, Polanski as "Trelkovsky", a timid clerk, takes over the lease of a squalid Paris apartment recently vacated by a mysterious woman who jumped from the window to her death into the building's courtyard and through a glass porch. Slowly becoming obsessed with her while convincing himself that the other tenants of the building drove her mad, Polanski delves deeper and deeper into her psychosis. A veritable feast of Oscar winners of yore appear in cameos (Jo Van Fleet, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters, Lila Kedrova, etc.), and there is also a young Isabelle Adjani to behold. Not bad, but only gets really interesting in the last third. Trelkovsky's passivity began to grate.
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (dir. Jack Hofsiss, 1982) 3/10
Horrid and disturbing "Valium-is-Bad!" Jill Clayburgh showcase. For a more extensive review, please see further downthread.
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"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
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My lord, you watch a lot of movies. I've been so busy lately, I think I've watched maybe 3 in the same number of weeks. Are you a movie critic or something?Precious Doll wrote:The Sinful Dwarf (1973) Vidal Raski 7/10 (Guilty pleasure)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) Richard Thorpe 4/10
Paris 36 (2008) Christophe Barratier 3/10
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) Mamoru Hosoda 7/10
Tenderness (2009) John Polson 1/10
The Garden Murder Cased (1936) Edwin L Marin 4/10
The Casino Murder Case (1935) Edwin L Marin 4/10
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The Sinful Dwarf (1973) Vidal Raski 7/10 (Guilty pleasure)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) Richard Thorpe 4/10
Paris 36 (2008) Christophe Barratier 3/10
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) Mamoru Hosoda 7/10
Tenderness (2009) John Polson 1/10
The Garden Murder Cased (1936) Edwin L Marin 4/10
The Casino Murder Case (1935) Edwin L Marin 4/10
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) Richard Thorpe 4/10
Paris 36 (2008) Christophe Barratier 3/10
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) Mamoru Hosoda 7/10
Tenderness (2009) John Polson 1/10
The Garden Murder Cased (1936) Edwin L Marin 4/10
The Casino Murder Case (1935) Edwin L Marin 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)
Agreed, although I would stop at a nomination. Baker is fantastic in Street Smart.mlrg wrote:I think Kathy Baker was totally robbed of an oscar nomination (and possible win).
"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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