Hannecke—> The Seventh Continent…
I saw Cruising Bar 2 tonight….. it was a funny film… that’s about it for my critique, I don’t have any substance to analyze in that movie anyway! haha
I ordered The Return, I will receive it within a month.
I recently saw The Darjeeling Limited.
I bought Blow Up from Antonioni and In the Mood for Love from Wong Kar-Wai.
Olivier Bélanger inspired me, I think I will go the theater and watch Four Minutes. haha
(PS…..Why are the best films with Criterion and WHY are all the Criterion films EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE… Ok, I’ve read they remaster every film… but I mean, it is very dangerous for a student to buy 60$ DVD’S….) = The solution, renting or mortgage on DVD.
Roman de Gare (2007) by Claude Lelouch turned out to be an excellent film. The plot is thick and challenging, always a few steps ahead of the audience. Acting is believable depicting characters from different walks of life.
I saw Syriana and the only problem i have is that it does feel incomplete. From stuff that i have read screenwriter/director had a falling out with soderbergh for not giving him final cut. In all the movie plays in two hours but from accounts soderbergh cut out about a half hour from the movie. I hate finding out stuff like this because it does affect how i view the film, but in all a decent pic. As for clooney he has grown to become a fine actor. Now is the performance oscar worthy? for that year yes.
Colin,
Quand j’aurai le temps, je t’enverrai des trucs pour acheter des criterions au juste prix. ;)
Il ne doit pas y avoir beaucoup de monde sur se site qui connaissent Cruising bar. Sa fait tellement longtemps que je n’ai pas vu le premier…
I would be happy to discuss about four minutes with someone!
Des DVD Criterion a un prix abordable, c’est impossible!
Criterion DVD at an abordable price, that’s impossible!
DVD criterio ha un prezzo ragionevole è impossibile!
Die DVD-Kriterium hat einen angemessenen Preis, das ist unmöglich!
DVDs κριτήριο έχει μια λογική τιμή είναι αδύνατον!
المعيار أقراص فيديو رقمية بسعر معقول من المستحيل
を基準には、合理的な価格は不可能だ！
DVDs критерий разумной цене невозможно!
When you say Four Minutes, you are talking about the song, right? (looool it’s a joke, what a dull subject : Hey let’s talk about the new song from Madonna on a Cinephile’s website!)
I recently saw Le Caporal Épinglé from Jean Renoir, I was surprised to notice that the whole storyline strangely looks like the one of La Grande Illusion… This is a 1962 film, Jean Renoir’s style has not changed, the characters are very charismatic and realistic… the film was essentially good because of the performance of the actors… the story was not very original.
LA ANTENA (2007, Argentina) by Esteban Sapir
….magnifique !!!
i propose it with out any hesitation ! George Mellies is alive !!!!
I’m watching Persona right now! I’ll give you a critic in 1 hour and 23 minutes, stay tuned! haha
Oh, I bought les Trois Couleurs from Krzysztof Kieslowski.
The last movie i have seen is La nuit américaine by Francois Truffaut.
Magnificent, i love it.
L’Avventura. Demands repeat viewings for a complete opinion.
THE YEAR OF LIVING IN FEAR
Ah I saw Wall-e…. and no I’t ain’t the best Disney at all. The movie isn’t very good.
i watched “ran” by akira kurosawa because i completely missed watching any of films growing up (apart from seven samurai) and i have to say, i thoroughly enjoyed it, got a little bit lost with the characters and some of the dialogue was fairly cryptic (although reading synopsis’ since then has improved my understanding of the film), would recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it.
Yeah, Wall-E has it’s weaknesses, specifically any of the parts with the humans, but everything with just robots is almost perfect. And an unusually, extremely caustic film from Disney!
Pixar’s film have changed my childhood! I’m sad to see Wall-E wasn’t that great, like you people say. I’d rather go see it myself as soon as possible.
I’m about to take in Master and Commander from Peter Weir. Let me ask you folks now that you are talking about Pixar, how do you feel about ratatouille? Which to me comes a close second to Finding Nemo. Not to mention that all Pixar films trail each other rather closely. I mean their only real miss has been cars. And that one looked amazing also.
Brad Bird is gold, Ratatouille and The Incredibles are some of Pixar’s best work.
I’d rather say that A Bug’s Life and Cars are their weakest films…
But all the other films are exceptional! IF it wasn’t of Pixar, Disney would have some problems. I mean, look at the films they make… Pixar is doing most of the job right now.
Do you think they will make a Toys Story 3 ?…. I heard some rumours about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_3
According to the terms of Pixar’s original deal with Disney, all characters created by Pixar for their films were owned by Disney. Furthermore, Disney retained the rights to make sequels to any Pixar film, regardless of whether Pixar chose to work on the films or not. However, there had been a gentlemen’s agreement between Disney and Pixar that Disney would not go ahead with sequels to films without Pixar’s involvement. But in 2004, when the contentious negotiations between the two companies made it look like a split was likely, Disney Chairman Michael Eisner put in motion plans to produce Toy Story 3 at a new Disney studio, Circle 7 Animation. Tim Allen, the voice of Buzz Lightyear, indicated a willingness to return even if Pixar was not on board.
In January 2006, Disney bought Pixar in a deal that put Pixar chiefs Ed Catmull and John Lasseter in charge of all Disney Animation. Shortly thereafter, Circle 7 Animation was shut down and its version of Toy Story 3 was shelved.4 The following month, Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed that Disney was in the process of transferring the production to Pixar.5 John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and Lee Unkrich visited the house where they first pitched Toy Story and came up with the story for the film over a weekend. Stanton then wrote a treatment.1 On February 8, 2007, Ed Catmull announced Toy Story 2’s co-director, Lee Unkrich, as the sole director of the film instead of John Lasseter, and Michael Arndt as screenwriter.6 Unkrich later confirmed the release date as 2010.7
See! It’s official after all!
I bought:
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Les trois couleurs (hehe colin you saw that at hmv too? :P )
fargo
amores perros (!!!!)
The ice storm
catch me if you can
once upon a time in the west
after hours
la vie avec mon père
Most of them were blind-buy… I have a lot to watch now…
Did you get them in blu ray because that is the way to go.
The Sprit of the Beehive.
it’s blowing my mind. stumbling on movies like this from director’s i’d previously not known is a great pleasure.
another astounding surprise this past year was Bela Tarr’s “Werckmeister Harmonies”. mind boggling. life affirming.
No! I bought the Trilogy at la boîte noire, 23$.
The Last House on the Left. Disturbing little movie that.
Master and Commander was much better for me on the second viewing. The first time i saw it, it felt like it dragged a bit but watching it last nigt i thought peter weir did a masterful job of pacing it. I found at times it to be similar in tone with Gallipoli, although Gallipoli has a much more tragic sense of being. Master and commander plays like a true adventure movie and makes you think that maybe Mr. Bruckheimer shouldve hired him to helm the pirates of the carribean movies. Wow that just popped a light bulb in my head. Maybe Terry Gilliam for pirates man that would’ve been pretty interesting. Anyways Master plays like an epic and holds it’s own extremely well. The movie anchored by Russell Crowe delivers in every aspect that it needs to. The effects are top notch the sound editing is loud as hell. I watched this film with the DTS maxed out and my neighbors came down to give me notes on how much they liked the boat ride. Intense film that takes you along for the chase or chases. Really a great movie about naval tactics that is not to confusing for the non seaman. Very deserving of its oscar nomination for best picture. Weir also pays homage to the films that came before (Even Ben Hur is a given a nice tribute)
Props on Tenebrae L.A.W., that’s a tough but rewarding film to love.
I saw Une Femme est une Femme (A Woman is a Woman) last week and I was amazed at what I saw. Up until that point I had seen mainly Godard’s more political and “serious” films and this film was such a breath of fresh air. It was funny and inventive, Belmondo was just a joy and Anna Karina. I mean who can’t say enough good things about Godard’s muse.
I just watched Kris (Crisis), Ingmar Bergman’s directorial debut film yesterday and I’m still infatuated with how stunning Inga Landgré is in that film. She has just replaced Paulette Goddard in the category of “Women that are so perfect, they almost seem approachable”. Crisis was surprisingly good for a first film. I think Bergman handled the actors and the material well for the most part and pulled some really great performances out of Stig Olin (Jack) and Dagny Lind (Ingeborg). Not to mention Marianne Löfgren plays Nelly’s mother extremely well. Think of Diane Ladd and Laura Dern’s relationship in Lynch’s “Wild at Heart”. Diane and Marianne’s mirror scenes are eerily similar and each have a twisted undertone that only Bergman and Lynch could produce so simply.
I’m going to watch Port of Call tonight in my Bergman/Independence day weekend.
i just finished Faces by John Cassavettes and i have to say what a film. No one is more adept at capturing raw emotion. Cassavettes put the camera right smack in the faces of the actor’s. His photography inside these clubs really gives the picture a grimmy allure that makes it seem all that more real. The performances by Cassavettes regulars are outstanding and the message of infedility and the process of going on like nothing is wrong is heard loud and clear. A beautiful experimental film that clearly paved the way for cinema. A film that was ahead of it’s time in both content and style.
“Dead Man’s Shoes” (2004) starring the always brilliant and unpredictable Paddy Considine, directed by Shane Meadow’s, it’s definitely not his best but very entertaining and twisted with a great ending! Other films by same director worth checking out are “A Room for Romeo Brass” (1999) and “This is England” (2006)
I am watching Birth with nicole kidman who i do not like but i do love jonathan glazer.
Dorothy Malone
Yes! I just bought my ticket to see it this afternoon!