“The Shooting” (1967) man I just love me some Warren Oates. 7.5/10 – I have to watch it again, that rating could go up . . . or down.
[REC] 7.5/10 Better than average horror film from Spain. No classic but entertaining.
Rushmore: 8/10 – I saw it because it is a favourite here and I now know why – everyone here identifies with the nerdy Max and I do too.
L’ Eclisse 10/10 I rewatched this film tonight, and was blown away by the first 15 minutes of this film. The way the events flow are like jazz, really something of great beauty.
I just watched M again. That’s pretty much a perfect film. 10/10
“Stranger Than Paradise” 9/10
“The People Under The Stairs” – Wes Craven – how much fun can one film have, I won’t give it a rating-where would I begin? Damn, that girl looked like Lea Thompson!
bella…5/5 a genuine heartfelt masterpiece…bravo
I have watched half of Bella and so far it’s like 6.2/10.
weird Kent, didn’t know the last person would have watched the same exact movie as me. Quite a coincidence! ;)
Haneke’s “The Piano Teacher”: 85/100. Isabelle Huppert: 95/100.
Th 400 Blows 7/10
Battle Royale : 7 upon 10
Tropa de Elite : 8 upon 10
House of Bamboo 6/10
Cantata (jancso, 1963) His first long feature: very bad. 4.
I couldn’t sleep so I watched Taxi Driver.
great movie if you somehow have never seen it.
Shadows – 6.5/10
If you love gratuitous sex and The Sixth Sense, you’ll love this!
It should have just been called “Horny Ghost”.
Night of the Hunter 10/10
The most singular 1950s picture I’ve ever seen. I kept think about ERASERHEAD, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, and CAPE FEAR the entire time. Highly recommended! So strangely unhollywood-like: a serial killer, sexual dysfunction, pointed critiques of religion and society, hardbitten characters, dreamy sequences, cartoon violence mixed with realistic violence, and an unforced, standard Hollywood ending. It is a tragedy that there aren’t more films like this.
Withnail & I 8/10
Oddball, louche actors strapped for cash go on holiday in the country. Very witty, druggy, and absurd. I get the sneaking suspicion that Neal Gaiman has the same fashion sense as “I.”
Tropic Thunder – 7/10, must say that I loved it. The money shot/sequence for me was the little kid, Ben Stiller’s newfound “son,” riding him piggyback and stabbing him fitfully in the neck, blood spraying—before Ben flings the boy like a ragdoll off the exploding bridge. There’s much to be said of the value of sadism in American film comedy. Too many comic actors and too many comedies – the king’s portion of them – are just ingratiating, mendaciously sly and fake-witty, aiming for a class they don’t deserve. Films like Tropic Thunder or Idiocracy retain that degrading, reductive part of film comedy that really has teeth. (And note how critics make the non-distinction between comedy and satire—so that you don’t feel that you’re missing out on something, when you fail to laugh much as you’re forced to sit though the newest Anne Hathaway/Kate Hudson/Jen Aniston opus.)
slumdog millionaire – 4/5
the reader – 5/5
the wrestler – 3.5/5
vicky cristina barcelona – 3.5/5
doubt – 3.5/5
waltz with bashir – 4/5
Larisa Shepitko’s THE ASCENT, 75/100
El Topo – 93.5571/99.9999918224
ok but seriously, isnt this thread sort of pointless? there is a whole system built into the site specifically for this…
last night i went to a double feature screening of “the class” followed my “waltz with bashir.”
“the class” has gotten rave reviews but i cannot see why. i can give it points for not following the usual predictable characterizations and ending (and that fact that it addresses issues of immigration), but i feel like i have seen this movie 100 times. Also, sometimes cinema-verite style can become annoying and self-conscious. ironically so because it tries to make a movie seem “more natural” (5/10)
“waltz with bashir” on the other hand was brilliant. amazing animation, documentary-like feel, hypnotic and very, very powerful. (9/10)
The Man Who Never Was (1956) **1/2
The Wrestler : 9/10
- The performances were all great. The whole thing was pure Aronofsky, the rise and fall of individuals, Jersey, great music, etc.
The Wedding Director 4/10.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance: 9/10. Brutal, depressing, and epically tragic. Great performances from the two leads. Now I just have Lady Vengeance left to complete the Vengeance trilogy (Oldboy is the other one).
Persona 10/10
Steve Oerkfitz
Valkyrie 6/10 Not terrible just kind of bland.