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Shadows In Paradise 10 / 10

The Taste of Tea 2004
DIR Katsuhito Ishii
143 Min

TV commercial as feature-length film about the self-involved.
Entertaining but I can imagine a second viewing as torture.

5/10

I just finished vagabond, I finally watched it after recording it a month ago. My favorite agnes varda film.

opps forgot a rating 8/10.=]

Black Book (2006)

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

Great WWII movie set in nazi-occupied Holland. Carice Van Houten gives a cracking performance as a Jewish singer who infiltrates the local nazi high command for the Dutch resistance. Only real negative is the mise en scene is far to clean and shiney. Nothing looks like its suffered 5 years of war, least of all, the down-trodden Dutch. Great story though.

6.7 / 10

The Song Lantern (1943)

Minor Naruse. 6/10.

>The Taste of Tea 2004
>TV commercial as feature-length film about the self-involved.
Entertaining but I can imagine a second viewing as torture.

And I hope you haven’t seen the ridiculous Funky Forest. THAT is a real torture.

“Only real negative is the mise en scene is far to clean and shiney”

only real negative is the whole film itself,it’s practically on the verge of a Showgirls,with the Nazi cover-up!!!!

and i’m not exaggerating,for a real anti-war Verhoeven film,check out Soldier of Orange….

Funky Forest: Oh crap, it’s in my netflix queue !

Bangkok Dangerous … Nic Cage starring remake by the Pang Brothers .. more like Bangkok Inertia … dull, tedious and cliched 1/10

wow…a 1/10 rating :D

WALKABOUT (1970)

amazing film that caught me by surprise with it’s plot…I must have been thinking the film revolved solely on the kid’s journey through the australian outback with a tribe of Aborigines but it turns out the film’s “walkabout” is about a aboriginal young man and his accompanyment of the kid’s as they try to find some life…intense and unforgettable!

(warning: if you’re a strict vegan/vegetarian/animal rights gung ho then skip it…tons of hunting and killing for most tastes)

8.5/10

Tragg-1 – I’ve never thought about Walkabout from a dietary standpoint. Interesting.

Up the River 2/5

The title card for this John Ford film from 1930 labels it a “comedy-drama”. That’s true enough, but neither area is particularly strong, leaving an all around dull experience. There are some good laughs, but the drama is all cheese. The source materials for this film are pretty banged up – there were enough jump cuts to satisfy three Jean-Luc Godard films – which may have stunted the flow of the narrative and comedy a little.

Just watched Zombi last night, the unofficial sequel to the orig Dawn of the Dead. 5/10.

That Evening Sun 3/4 – I love Hal Holbrook and while this little movie isn’t anything special, he shines. Another entry in the genre “Distinguised-Actor-Playing-An-Old-Guy-In-A-Small-Indie-Film” (see Venus, Man in the Chair, Starting Out in the Evening, Is Anybody There?, etc.).

Song of the Little Road 1955
Pather Panchali
DIR Satyajit Ray
SCR Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray
DP Subrata Mitra
115 Min

Best of the trilogy, one of the best films ever made

11/10

The Unvanquished (1956)
Aparajito
DIR Satyajit Ray
SCR Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray
DP Subrata Mitra
110 Min

7/10

The World of Apu (1959)
Apur Sansar
DIR Satyajit Ray
SCR Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray
DP Subrata Mitra
105 Min

clichéd & trite, but not contrived – beautifully shot

10/10

They Were Expendable: 8/10
Gone With the Wind (blu-ray): 9/10
Redbelt: 6.5/10
Rear Window (1954): 9/10
Dr Strangleove: 10/10.

The Sacrifice – 8/10
Network – 8.5/10

@Dimitris

“it’s practically on the verge of a Showgirls,with the Nazi cover-up!!!!”

Explain

The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch).
A weird one – it’s not usually the kind of film I take to, but there was something about it I can’t put my finger on that held my interest. 7/10.

oh Abel,i can’t believe you couldn’t see through the looking glass of Verhoeven’s de-sexualized illusion ;)
anyways,my point was that Verhoeven is taking this rather too seriously for what it’s worth…yes,it’s supposed to be a tragic story of a brave heroine against the backdrops of Third Reich but it would have worked as an homage instead of a multi-layered storyline….
at least it’s better than Good German,hehe.

@Peabody

the whole trilogy is perfect,there’s no least or major…oh well,i suppose you’re gonna say the same things for Angelopoulos and Hou trilogies..

for my part…a couple of short films.

Ah L’Amour 5/5
Wasp 4,5/5

Dear Summer Sister
5/10

@Dimitris
This is a thread where we rate films – I’m not as competitive a watcher as you are, but I gotta call ‘em as I see ‘em. There is something about the 2nd film that caused me to look up the dp to see if it was the same dp.
Hou – I’m taking your advice and staying away from his films

I start with a very ordinary, banal situation,
and this situation usually has something in it that
makes me feel strongly. It’s a stereotypical
feeling, but very strong. I have this desire to look
at it… Perhaps it’s a blind feeling. I put it on the
table, and I look at it. I open up, and these pieces
surface. They are not related, they conflict with
each other. But I try to find a pattern that makes
all these pieces fit into one. That’s what I do.

Hou goes over banal to bland

Tran Anh Hung does this:
They are not related, they conflict with
each other. But I try to find a pattern that makes
all these pieces fit into one.

Tran does it much better aesthetically
Angelopoulos: the giant hand rises from the water ? wtf?
.

I’ll meet you on any thread to discuss a film – not FTW, but to learn.

“the giant hand rises from the water ? wtf?”

you’re gonna hate the Greek Civil War history in Travelling Players if you hated that scene..oh dear…. ;)

The Seventh Continent (1989)
Der siebente Kontinent
ViewsDIR Michael Haneke
SCR Michael Haneke, Johanna Teicht
104 Min

renounce the self or destroy the self
- Goethe

6/10

They Were Expendable 3/5

Some notables – James Agee, Lindsay Anderson, Joseph McBride – have praised this John Ford WWII drama about a PT boat squadron that gets scuttled around from island to island in the Pacific on missions of little renown. After a second viewing, I’m not sure I can stand with those notables.

It’s a decent picture, but I think I might agree with Ford himself when he insisted to Anderson that the film could have been trimmed a little bit. For all it’s beautiful poetic realism, They Were Expendable has quite a bit of fat on it’s bones. There are a number of beautiful passages though to make this a worthwhile film.

My John Ford binge should be coming to a close within the next week or two.

Rice People (1994)
Neak sre
Dir Rithy Panh
125min

what good are tears
what good are prayers
when you are alone

10/10

The Castle
Directed by Michael Haneke
4/5

I really liked it. Much more than I was expecting, actually. However I do agree with those who think it dragged on a little at times. Maybe this was necessary to capture the mood, though.

TIMECRIMES – 2007 (Nacho Vigalondo)
Funny and intelligent time travel film from Spain. Using no special effects, the paradoxes that make time travel films so much fun are explored through character and logic. Also pokes a little fun at the slasher genre .
8/10

DOWNHILL RACER – 1969 (Michael Ritchie)
Beautiful skiing footage almost saves this interesting, but dull film. Robert Redford plays unlikable, which is offputting, as it’s supposed to be. Gene Hackman is great as always, but doesn’t have enough screen time. Ritchie’s themes will resonate better in The Candidate.
6/10

MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS – 1985 (Paul Schrader)
Yukio Mishima is a fascinating character I’ve never seen on film before, an acclaimed author whose world-view leads to a bizarre life and even more bizarre death. Schrader films in three distinct styles for his contemporary story, flashback and depictions of his writing. With all Japanese actors and dialogue and his own visual flair (and a very effective score by Phillip Glass), it the ultimate East meets West.
10/10

4.2345324/10000000000000000000001 :O(