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Post by mikesheawright on Apr 20, 2022 15:48:02 GMT
caught the Inland Empire restoration at IFC last week and it blew my mind, incredible theater experience.
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Post by griffen on Apr 28, 2022 18:35:59 GMT
Gonna see the Inland Empire restoration in a couple of weeks. Glad you had a great experience with it, makes me excited to revisit. I really enjoyed the consumer DV of it all so interested to see what they did with that.
Inland is my favorite Lynch. I saw it at the Music Box Theater (shout out Chicago thread) at midnight when it was touring the country and Lynch introed it. We had to stand in line outside during a blizzard for like an hour and a half before we were let in. The Music Box has a huge red curtain and an organ, so spotlight on Lynch in front of this enormous red curtain with the organ playing an Angelo Badalamenti like piece, then a short intro where Lynch said something about "our dreams" then an enjoy. So sure that whole experience affected my enjoyment of the film. But also it's one that hasn't been explained to death by people or Lynch himself, which he kinda unfortunately has been pressured into doing in the past with Mullholand Dr. and a few others. As Mark E. Smith once said "Pale-minded liberals have moaned the subtleties out of it, as is their wont." Kinda love that Inland is a little too out there for people to even want an explanation.
Saw Frenzy on 35mm in LA last weekend and thought it was great. Been avoiding it for years because most things I have read/heard were not favorable, but turns out I loved it. It's Hitchcock back in London for the first time since he left for Hollywood with loosened up production codes, so Hitch goes full pervert in this one. London looks gross, no real stars, so everyone looks like regular people, and there are at least 3 or 4 incredible sequences that are way more drawn out than other Hitchcock.
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Post by teemcgee on Apr 29, 2022 9:02:16 GMT
Saw Everything Everywhere All At Once the other night at an early screening in Denver. A super fun time! Sort of like Matrix by way of Looney Tunes and Scott Pilgrim. The humor in it is wide-reaching, there's something in it for everyone... gags that I thought were a little dumb had some folks in the theater laughing like crazy, and vice versa. If a dildo-fight isn't your cup of tea, maybe you'll connect with the elegant racoon-based humor later on.
I am heavily proselytizing for this film - I think it's one of the best pieces of popular cinema I've seen in years. It's a simple story at base, but the techniques it employs to tell that feel really fresh.
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Post by griffen on May 23, 2022 21:43:38 GMT
Watched Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996) directed by Jun Ichikawa last week. Which is about an apartment complex where a ton of famous mangaka lived. Very chill, steady, collection of vignettes that show the, mostly working, lives of the creators who lived there. The protagonist is Hiroo Terada, who drew baseball manga, and he is shown as being extremely good at an older style of manga that other creators and editors loved but that was kinda out of touch with the readership and polls. Also featured are Fujiko Fujio, Naoya Moriyasu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka along with some cameos by Tezuka Osamu, Hideko Mizuno and Yoshiharu Tsuge. The former and latter being shown as what came before and then what was to come in the world with Tezuka actually living in the apartment building for a time.
Once I got into the vibe of it, it was a very pleasant watch. Now I am interested in how many of those vignettes were based on actual stories. Like did Terada and Tsuge really love each other's stuff even though they were total opposites? If anyone knows of any books that address this time period please let me know.
I don't see that it's available streaming or for purchase anywhere other than in an un-subtitled Japanese blu-ray release. A fansub is out there though.
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Post by mikesheawright on Oct 15, 2022 1:24:22 GMT
SPEAK NO EVIL anyone watch this one? it's on Shudder, maybe my movie of the year? great stuff.
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Post by manoopuesta on Dec 10, 2022 20:04:21 GMT
Sick and mostly bed-ridden, I have been watching more films that I had done in a while at home. I watched the other day Harold and Maud. I knew of this classic already but recently a friend pitched the plot as: "someone so into death he ends up with an old person". Happily surprise is not like that at all. It is an ode to weirdness and about weird (and cool) people finding each other, I think. Very sweet movie. A friend has been pushing also for me to watch some movies related with the bad aspects of current technology (i.e. social media). I finally gave in and watched The Social Dilemma, it was an interesting watch but there wasn't much there that I didn't know about our shitty current technology and habits. He is telling me I have to watch also The Great Hack, about the Cambridge Analytics' scandal but I think I am done for the moment with the subject, maybe another time...
Yesterday I watched Anomalisa. I always love Charlie Kaufman scripts, and the animation they managed was really cool. It left me at the end a bit depressed but it felt very fitting to watch right now a movie that happens mostly in a (hotel) room. I am gonna try to watch The Square, cause i've been meaning to do for ages but I never had the time to do so.
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Post by justareed on Dec 30, 2022 4:23:29 GMT
My partner's been on a Mike Leigh kick lately and we just watched his film Life is Sweet. It's a fantastic movie focused on everyday life but with intense specificity in its characters that brings a lot of humor to the film.
Also, PSA, Tokyo Godfathers has a new dub out (from 2020?) and it's quite good. 'Twas a hit with the family back home on Christmas Eve.
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Post by mikesheawright on Dec 31, 2022 15:40:04 GMT
just did a rundown of my annual movie spreadsheet, here are my faves that i saw for the first time this year (in no particular order):
Jackass Forever (2022) Inland Empire (2006) The Parallax View (1974) RRR (2022) Keyboard Fantasies (2019) Mad God (2022) The Vanishing (1988) The Celebration (1998) The Element of Crime (1987) Seconds (1966) The Thin Man (1934) Petite Maman (2021) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) The Square (2017) Speak No Evil (2022) Another Year (2010) Triangle of Sadness (2022) The Apartment (1960)
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Post by manoopuesta on Jan 3, 2023 21:53:46 GMT
I've watched a couple of movies since the year started: "Pacifiction" by Albert Serra, from 2022. I found the movie aesthetically pleasing and I liked the acting in it but the movie was extremely slow (and long, almost 3 hours, which I don't think was that much necessary). So I liked it just ok... I had heard of Serra's movies before but I decided finally to watch one cause I saw him a few months ago in a talk he had with Fernando Arrabal (before the screening of one of Arrabal's movies). Serra seemed like a super nice guy, extremely gentle with Arrabal who is always a complete nerve wreck (I say that in the better sense, I love him). So now I am disappointed with myself for not liking the movie cause Serra was such a nice guy, is that weird? haha (tl;dr: Pacifiction was just ok).
I also watched the documentary "Sisters with Transistors", about the pioneer women in electronic music. I don't have too much knowledge on electronic music history but I enjoyed this documentary a lot, and I highly recommend it if you are into analog recording, synthesizers and so on. The rare footage shown is so, so great. Also, the movie is narrated by Laurie Anderson.
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Post by mikesheawright on Jan 15, 2023 4:10:02 GMT
anyone check out Skinamarink yet?? i LOVED it, don't watch the trailer or read anything about it. A+ theater experience.
i also kept thinking about how "comics" it is, the visual language of the movie is sort of panel-esque and uses that pacing with enormous success. never seen anything like it really.
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Post by fatherspukashells on Jan 18, 2023 23:22:11 GMT
My partner's been on a Mike Leigh kick lately and we just watched his film Life is Sweet. It's a fantastic movie focused on everyday life but with intense specificity in its characters that brings a lot of humor to the film. "Naked" by Mike Leigh is now one of my favorite movies, and an excellent one to have on in the background while drawing because it's so dialogue/soundtrack-heavy. I saw it for the first time this summer and have rewatched it at least three times since. It has this amoral stance towards its pretty fucked up protagonist that reminds me of my favorite alt/underground comics. Plus David Thewlis looks like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo if he dressed in all black.
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Post by manoopuesta on Jan 20, 2023 21:54:51 GMT
My partner's been on a Mike Leigh kick lately and we just watched his film Life is Sweet. It's a fantastic movie focused on everyday life but with intense specificity in its characters that brings a lot of humor to the film. "Naked" by Mike Leigh is now one of my favorite movies, and an excellent one to have on in the background while drawing because it's so dialogue/soundtrack-heavy. I saw it for the first time this summer and have rewatched it at least three times since. It has this amoral stance towards its pretty fucked up protagonist that reminds me of my favorite alt/underground comics. Plus David Thewlis looks like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo if he dressed in all black. I haven't watched too many Mike Leigh movies, Secrets and Lies is my favorite one of his. Naked is one of his movies I was very interested in watchiing, and your post definitely makes me want to watch it soon.
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Post by justareed on Jan 23, 2023 5:30:46 GMT
"Naked" by Mike Leigh is now one of my favorite movies, and an excellent one to have on in the background while drawing because it's so dialogue/soundtrack-heavy. I saw it for the first time this summer and have rewatched it at least three times since. It has this amoral stance towards its pretty fucked up protagonist that reminds me of my favorite alt/underground comics. Plus David Thewlis looks like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo if he dressed in all black. I haven't watched too many Mike Leigh movies, Secrets and Lies is my favorite one of his. Naked is one of his movies I was very interested in watchiing, and your post definitely makes me want to watch it soon. I need to revisit Naked. It was the first one of his I saw and I found it very off putting at the time... But given how much I've enjoyed his other works I feel I need to give it another shot. Secrets and Lies is on the list too! More recently watched High Hopes and that was another favorite for sure. Also watched "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" for the first time earlier this month. Absolutely loved it.
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Post by manoopuesta on Jan 23, 2023 18:33:16 GMT
I need to revisit Naked. It was the first one of his I saw and I found it very off putting at the time... But given how much I've enjoyed his other works I feel I need to give it another shot. Secrets and Lies is on the list too! More recently watched High Hopes and that was another favorite for sure.
Now that you mention, I think I've postponed watching for years even though I had heard a lot about it, just because of the off putting content, from what I had heard about it. Then I forgot...
Same thing I have also done for years with many of Haneke's movies even though I liked the ones of his I've watched so far... need to have a good day to watch these kind of movies, right? haha
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Post by mikesheawright on Aug 2, 2023 17:57:12 GMT
bringing this thread back to hype up NIGHT FLIGHT, a bonafide treasure trove of 60s/70s/80s/90s art trash. straight to video slashers, weirdo international crime shit, troma archive, and some super niche and mega rad music docs, specifically punk and punk-adjacent stuff. i've watched like 12 things on there already and they've all been gold or better. $5/month well spent www.nightflightplus.com/
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