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Post by ely on Sept 16, 2021 23:20:44 GMT
Just recently watched After Hours as well, and loved it. I had a fantastic time working my way through most of Criterion Channel's Neo-Noir collection last month. Seeing Body Double for the first time and rewatching Blowout were the highlights for me. Blow Out is a perfect movie, IMO. Blow Out is so amazing, rewatched it a few months ago and it really holds up. If you like Blow Out you would most likely love the Spanish horror movie Tesis. Really solid flick, not too scary really (maybe horror is the wrong genre) but very tense and about snuff films
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Post by lonyowdely on Sept 17, 2021 1:13:16 GMT
Body Double is so good. I need to see Blow Out. De Palma knows how to have fun.
If I ever meet James Cameron, I'm going to ask him if the lead character in Avatar's name "Jake Sully" is a dumb pun based on the "Jake Scully" character in Body Double (cause he has a big blue body double, get it???). Then I'll ask of him and De Palma ever bonded over their mutual ex-wife Gale Anne Hurd.
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Post by papersnail on Sept 23, 2021 14:51:31 GMT
Blow Out made me want a portable Nagra reel-to-reel recorder SO BAD
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Post by manoopuesta on Sept 23, 2021 15:09:57 GMT
I watched the other day De Sica's "C'eravamo tanto amati" (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Very funny and uplifting movie.
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Post by catznite on Sept 23, 2021 20:00:04 GMT
been tearing thru jacque tati’s work. highly recommend playtime and mon oncle, but you really can’t go wrong with the proto-bean stuff he manages to pull off
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Post by mikesheawright on Sept 23, 2021 20:26:46 GMT
Really looking forward to hunkering down every weekend this October and watching horror movies. I've got a stack of Japanese horror and ghost stories that I've had on the shelf for a while that I'm excited to watch for the first time or re-watch like Ugetsu, Kwaidan, Kuroneko, House, etc. Highly recommend CURE which I watched last night, blew me away. Maybe not totally horror but very unsettling, skip the trailer and go in cold. Streaming on Criterion and probably elsewhere.
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Post by blaisemoritz on Sept 23, 2021 22:17:43 GMT
Okay, off topic from comics, but it's a visual medium with words and pictures but instead of being silent and still they are loud and move. So theyre kinda similar right? Plus I hear that comic movies are all the rage right now. So what have you watched lately? Did it rock or did it stink? Did it influence the way you make or read comics? Some recent watches: Seconds (1966) - Total fucking banger of a movie. Like a long and really good episode of the Twilight Zone. Every moment is either sad or disturbing, or maybe a combination of both. Involving identity crises and a bit of gangstalking. Miami Blues (1990) - So fucking fun. Probably a new favorite of mine. Alec Baldwin gets out of jail, falls in love with the first girl he meets and wants to live the American dream, but can't stop robbing people. He also steals a cop's badge and puts it to some use. Hilarious without being a goofy 80's comedy. Also it's Miami so it looks amazing. Harold and Maude - Super let down. I hate Cat Stevens. Corny, too quirky, blech. Awesome to see Seconds mentioned! For me, that's one of the more frightening movies I've seen. I'm love several of John Frankenheimer's movies (Seven Days in May, The Manchurian Candidate, The Train - all of which could be great comics) and a lot of them are distinguished by having that lush b/w cinematography of the "it's the 50s/60s and most movies are in color, but we can also now make luminous b/w" era. The color in Seconds works so great.
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Post by blaisemoritz on Sept 23, 2021 22:27:37 GMT
Here's a movie (in fact three movies) that I'd recommend to folks, especially folks into comics, and be interested to hear thoughts on.
The main one is The Magician (1958), an Ingmar Bergman film. I like a lot of Bergman without really being a devotee. This one is pretty different. Very Bergman, but a lot more accessible in terms of plot. And the theme (like a lot of magic based movies) is the relationship between what you see and what you believe to be real. I wouldn't say it's "more visual" than other Bergman movies. Plenty of them are amazing visually, but again this one is a bit more familiar in its visuals. Could easily see this as a graphic novel.
The two bonus movies are more recent: The Illusionist (2006) and The Prestige (2006). Those two are a great double bill, and a fun example of "twinned" movies. And The Magician can make three's company with them.
I especially love The Illusionist, and would think that watching it then reading the short story it's based on is pretty amazing for any artist. Steven Milhauser's a great writer and very much in tune with a lot of contemporary graphic storytelling. His story "The Next Thing" (about a surrealistic, nightmarish amazonish fulfillment center--I know they may be nightmarish by nature) would make a great graphic novel. But it's pretty incredible to see the visuals and the plot as presented in the movie then look back at the source material.
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Post by mikesheawright on Oct 5, 2021 0:41:59 GMT
I just watched CURE on Criterion the other day, maybe my favorite movie I've seen this year? Beautifully shot/paced/acted, doesn't treat the audience like an idiot, doesn't say too much but also fully of stunning imagery. Also includes an absolute hall-of-fame final shot. Someone just released a 4k print in some limited theaters, I might go see it again on the screen. That one really stuck with me.
Also plowed through a bunch of the Neo-Noir series! Some of the Home Invasion stuff on there this month is real fucked up.
Anyone use a spreadsheet or Letterboxd? I've been keeping an exhaustive Google Sheet for the past 5 years, I love discussing movie logs if anyone else is interested.
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Post by possessed on Oct 5, 2021 5:01:56 GMT
I love that neo-noir series. I don't really "get" what neo-noir exactly is since it seems to span a wide variety of movies but I tend to be a sucker for the overarching style. I also love a movie that is based on "guy digs too deep and gets in over his head," as broad as it may be.
I'm on Letterboxd, my name on there is vivians_babe because I love my gf. Sue me.
Recently saw Risky Business for the first time and blew the lid off my expectations. Such a fun one.
Also I saw Ghost in the Shell 1995 on IMAX twice in a week. Love that fucking shit.
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Post by mikesheawright on Oct 5, 2021 21:59:35 GMT
Also I saw Ghost in the Shell 1995 on IMAX twice in a week. Love that fucking shit. whaaaat where??
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Post by papersnail on Oct 6, 2021 13:35:05 GMT
Anybody see Cryptozoo? I've liked Dash Shaw's comics in the past but I wasn't so into it. Felt like it probably would've been better as a short rather than a feature.
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Post by possessed on Oct 18, 2021 4:59:45 GMT
Also I saw Ghost in the Shell 1995 on IMAX twice in a week. Love that fucking shit. whaaaat where?? The Bay Area but it was showing around the country for a minute!
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Post by teemcgee on Oct 19, 2021 20:25:05 GMT
Something comics adjacent - I saw the latest film of Jacques Audiard at the London Film Festival, called Paris, 13th District (or Les Olympiades in the original french) - trailer here. It was only as the opening credits rolled that I discovered that the film is adapted from three Adrian Tomine stories...
I like Audiard's violent social realist films - A Prophet, Dheepan, etc - and this film verged on rom-com territory at times and never really worked for me, but if any Tomine superfans want to see a loose cinematic adaptation of Amber Sweet (amongst others), here's your moment...
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Oct 20, 2021 3:04:08 GMT
Any thread that starts out with mentions of Miami Blues and Seconds is a thread that I want to participate in! Too tired and furry in the brain to sculpt any proper paragraphs tonight, but I thought I'd mention that a week ago Tuesday I engaged in a very enjoyable, if inconvenient, double-feature - two different theaters and three different bus rides to have a look at Lamb and Titane. Anyone here have a peek at either yet?
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