I agree with the ones who beg for any film from Peter Greenaway, and also more from Buñuel’s mexican era, such as The Death of Archibaldo Cruz". I reject watching No Country For Old Men on Criterion… such an overrated film. Kubrick would be nice and The Color of Pomenagrates too!!
I like the ending of “The Virgin Spring” since its very poetic.
Almost all tv related moments from “Videodrome” as well, frightening!
Emil Jennings dressed up as a a Clown becoming mad near the ending of “The Blue Angel”
One of my favorite moments of all time is when Rantes Anom, the main character from Eliseo Subiela’s “Man watching South East” directs an Orchestra for a bunch of people recently scaped from asylum.
To Mark Lansing, There’s a collection of films called “Grandes Clásicos del Cine Mexicano” which is supported by the biggest tv company here in Mexico, which is Televisa, maybe you can find them on any latin america related music or video sections on some stores. On that collection there are a lot of films from the “Mexican Golden Era”, including Buñuel’s Los Olvidados, El Bruto, El Gran Calavera, and classics such The Exterminating Angel & The Criminal Life or Archibaldo Cruz", as well as some other great works from directors such as Emilio “The Indian” Fernandez, and great actresses and actors such as Dolores del Río, María Félix, Pedro Armendariz and Ignacio Lopez Tarso.
I agree with picking Quentin Tarantino as the most overrated film director.
Even what are called his “trademarks”, non-linear the narrative speech, silly dialogues between his characters, multicultural collages on a single scene, are not characteristics of his “own”.
Here’s a comparison I would suggest anyone to make, let’s find similarities between Jim Jarmusch’s plots, characters, secuences, from Tarantino’s.
A zed and two noughts from Peter Greenaway would be great, as well as The Draughtman’s Contract, how about some films from chilean filmmaker Miguel Littin? I Suggest “El chacal de Nahueltoro” and “Alsino y el Condor”
What about The Omen III? The once almighty villian, who scaped any kind of danger during his childhood, school years and went to become prime minister..suddenly is stabbed in the back by someone who caught him distracted. The worst of all: as he lays dying, sees the shape of a GIANT MAN wearing a cassock falling to the earth!!! then Damian curses him and dies…
A terrible ending for a perfect saga known for its sophistication and mystery.
I reject Babel, Irreversible and No Country For Old Men …which I guess it’s unavoidable for Criterion to pickl on it… I would like to find Amores Perros, City of God, Carandiru & Donnie Darko, and finally, hope the swedish film “As it Is In Heaven” by Kay Pollack will get at least an Eclipse release with.. I don’t know what.
I love his vision of what a film must be, specially satisfied with A Zed and Two Naughts and Draughtsman’s Contract for all the things both of them accomplish: drama, suspense, comedy, and specially his photography, wich at moments resembles lots of universally famous paintings, since Greenaway is also a painter and has a great influence at filming.
Im looking forward for Criterion to finally release some of his films, or maybe an Eclipse boxset later on.
I have been through the same feelings but in a different way. I remember when the movie “TROY” came out, I couldn’t believe they picked Brad Pitt as the main role. I still trust it was an insult to make an archetipe such as Aquilles becoming “another face” of Brad Pitt’s capability of acting.
I love Homer’s work since I was a child and would never accept that an historical character such as Aquilles could be presented as someone’s identity that could simply be taken away by someone whose face is always watched day to day on the media. What frightens me the most is the idea of a certain loss of imagination that this movie would promote on any person that hasn’t read Homer’s poetry. Why would someone figure out the look of Achilles, while reading the book, since there is a movie that helps them not to think and the worst of all, not to imagine.
As a commercial movie it is pretty good, starting by a theme that is very original which is growing up old and dying young. But I agree with the “Oscar buzz” prefabricated mood on that one.
from the original starting point on, the film losses through the minutes. First of all, when I expect to see someone whose life starts the way button does, I want the writer to take me to all those self-discovery scenarios, but that only happens at the beggining when he doesn’t realize out why sees things clearer and begs to know the world outside the asylum.
When he falls in love with the little girl, the main reason of the movie losses itself the bad way. There are plenty of things it would be interesting to see how Button deals with. Having friends that are far from his age would be one of them (the screenwriter is very optimistic and unrealistic putting every other character unavoidably liking him all the time), being ill, being mature, or the opposite as he “grows up”. What about his views on nature?, sour grapes within people, the “mono no aware” feeling towards things?
Instead of driving a succesful starting point through so different possibilities, the screenwriter (following the Oscar price desire and hollywood stablishment) focus most of the time not on the CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, but the too-many-times-told story of a woman and a man falling in love.
Touching anything towards World War II was a dissapointment. When you have a character such as Benjamin Button, WWII wouldn’t be necessary, since his personal history is far more interesting and unique than so many other stories related to WWII, and I find it weak, disponsable.
Finally, the Katrina stuff was unnecessary, at moments distracting, as well as starting bringing back the flash forward from hospital from time to time, with terrible excuses such as “do I still read this letter?” thinking people is so stupid they don’t remember is a story brought to the past.
Predictable moments such as putting every single character’s death and funeral are a threat of boredom, and the old man’s thoughts on how he was close to death by lightning are fun the first two times, but…you know..
I suggest you to try some Alex de la Iglesia’s films, my favourites are El día de la Bestia (the day of the beast), Acción Mutante, among others from him, really funny. One of the movies that use to bring me positive energy is the swedish “As it is In heaven”, by Kay Pollack.
There is a mexican film from the 80’s called Los Motivos de Luz, I think the director is Jorge Fons, and it deals with a mother acused of having murdered his own children.
Most of the story deals with the environment of this girl, trying to maintain five little kids in a new and poor colony, facing the violence and drunkness of her lover, also the father of the five kids, kind of justifying the killing of these creatures while exploding from the bad conditions of her life. In a sense, it would make you think if letting them live through that environment would do them any good.
I have just realized out that two days ago there was a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the downfall of the Sha, and the Victory of the revolution.
Since there are some films about other historical events, do any of you know of a film related to the rise of the iranian revolution?
Experience has already told us that even though Criterion has released Armaggedon, The Rock, Robocop and that sort of commercially succesful films, they have kept releasing high quality but still unknown films over and over, so instead of speculating a turnaround on Criterion’s focus over commercial stuff, why don’t we believe everything is going to be ok? As Ryan says, let the masses get to Criterion, and maybe the bigger its audience becomes, the bigger its collection becomes faster than ever…
Maybe its not that worth for Criterion to release a film which is already on public domain. There are plenty of reasons for someone to buy a Criterion film, such as extras, interviews, documentaries, but one of the most important, I think, has to do with the uniqueness or availability of that film. And with those public domain films, for someone who’s got to take care of every buck they spend.. there might be some kind of contempt…since they are already there for everyone to get them…
I’ve just seen on many topics some polls about Bergman’s films and I wanted to ask your opinions about the Eclipse boxset dedicated to the early films of him. Almost nobody mentions any of them among their favourites, and it makes me nervous because a cousin of mine in the US just bought that one for me and just wanted to know what to expect….are Crisis, To Joy, Torment or Thrist that bad? or is it just that for being Bergman they do not fit the standard he has accomplished with another films?
I guess Costa-Gavras “Z” is an example of journalism as a confident method of searching the truth for justice’s sake, even though the criminals at the greek government don’t seem to fall after the investigations, the journalist is the one who asks every single person involved on those events and actually the one who helps the justice to figure out how the complot was developed against Yves Montand
On Lost Highway, the Robert Blake’s face next to Fred Madison’s at the bed is one of the most horrorific surprises I ’ve ever been caught on. As well, the phone scene is amazing
As a critic I read a couple of year ago said: “it is very difficult for a movie to be really bad, since there are many elements that could work for the audience to remain interested on it, whether it is its music, humor, photograph, acting, continuity, et.al”. If I have the opportunity to speak about a movie that lacks of almost everything, Irreversible must be one of them, it’s annoying from first to last. The marketing people put too much effort on promoting the rape scene (which an inmediatly previous scene, with Bellucci about to be raped) is featured on many covers of the film), as well as its “challenge to conventional narrative” in order to attract the audience. Its message, a terrible self indulgent statement of vulgar pseudo philosophy over “time destroying everything” or “things done in the past are irreversible” kind of thing is terrible, that the only reflection you have at the end of its exhibition is that its story would have been told on a “conventional way” and its scent still remaining.
“L’Avventura” has one of the most simple plus sublime endings of all time, actually the part of the film that sumarizes it all: the uselessness of trying being true about our own feelings, well at least that’s what I get.
“Dancer in the dark”, just Bjork singing a capella…beautiful
Argento’s “deep red”, with all the cruelty that, all of the sudden, kind of kidnapps the movie..
“The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”, after the intentional loss of the first place at the competition, just watching the guys preparing the gas masks for war, and that quintessencial british song just fading out, as the movie itself does
Among another one’s already mentioned, I agree with Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, the 400 blows, bicycle thieves…
He’s impressing, just to see him knocking out Rick Hatton on the first round, I would say he’s invencible right now. I don’t like him very much since the last to years he’s been beating the greatest mexican boxers out there (one of them actually beat Pacquiao, but the referees didn’t let him get the victory), but there’s almost an anonymous conclusion that he’s one of the greatest ever. Since he’s more than a symbol for his country, would be possible to see a film on his life some years later.
I’ve just watched the film and really like it, quite different from other noir’s I’ve seen. Like the fact that the narrator is neither a punisher or a force who asks the killer do his thing, he describes what the actor is about to do, but also let people know that there are some things quite unavoidable for Frank Bono to do. Instead of letting us all know why he’s dedicated to such a forbidden labor, the narrator just brings glimpses of Bono’s past. “You would have been an arquitect”… “you are now alone, just the way it should always must be”, just after leaving the girl.
This is one of those movies that tells you more from not saying, rather than to say it all. I liked when he visits the girl he loves and founds her husband up there, he just leaves getting mad, instead of the typical hollywood response, which is hitting the husband or the girl, I don’t know, its just more human and logical, not a thing that a viewer asking for violence would need.
Also loved the fact that it’s not justice or police the authority who brings Bono’s jorunal to an end, but the internal logical of the criminal group he’s into, the one that a couple of days ago he wanted to leave in order to change his life. Instead of the movie ending being an apology to State and the other force who implicitly all of us must accept and recognize, the autor just ignores its role on the movie and let the persons, the non-recognized factic powers solve its problems its own way.
I second The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Fear eats the soul
If…
No te mueras sin decirme a dónde vas (Don’t die before telling me where you are going)
Kiss me deadly
A pretty good example of Buñuel’s philosophy around the clash of classes, subtly laughing at the way of thinking of the upper ones, but also suggesting interesting solutions to something that becomes an absurd problem. Very funny dialogue, turning around the banality of the guests to the party.“The worst of all, is that he (a guy with cancer) is going bald soon” sort of thing says the doctor about one of his patients; It’s one of the greatest films ever taking place on México.
Tonight I just thought the same thing. Other thing that was taken directly from Raging Bull are the flashes of the photographs: At some fights in Raging and on the Awards Ceremony and at one of the weddings of the filming crew.
Even though the last scene is basically the same Robert DeNiro did, It is to observe how P.T. handled the usual modern story about a man reaching a peak and then falling (La Motta, Kane, and now Dirk Diggler) putting this character in a context where lots of other people are trying to accomplish something out of their lives. Instead of the typical story centered on just the principal character, we have the opportunity to really emphazise on the spirit of certain people at a certain era.
It’s the first Anderson film I watch, and actually loved it, I can’t wait to see Punch-drunk love
Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
I agree with the ones who beg for any film from Peter Greenaway, and also more from Buñuel’s mexican era, such as The Death of Archibaldo Cruz". I reject watching No Country For Old Men on Criterion… such an overrated film. Kubrick would be nice and The Color of Pomenagrates too!!
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BEST SEQUENCE OR SCENE FROM ANY FILM(CAN BE AN OPENING OR ANYTHING ELSE) over 3 years ago
I like the ending of “The Virgin Spring” since its very poetic.
Almost all tv related moments from “Videodrome” as well, frightening!
Emil Jennings dressed up as a a Clown becoming mad near the ending of “The Blue Angel”
One of my favorite moments of all time is when Rantes Anom, the main character from Eliseo Subiela’s “Man watching South East” directs an Orchestra for a bunch of people recently scaped from asylum.
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Buñuel recommendations? over 3 years ago
To Mark Lansing, There’s a collection of films called “Grandes Clásicos del Cine Mexicano” which is supported by the biggest tv company here in Mexico, which is Televisa, maybe you can find them on any latin america related music or video sections on some stores. On that collection there are a lot of films from the “Mexican Golden Era”, including Buñuel’s Los Olvidados, El Bruto, El Gran Calavera, and classics such The Exterminating Angel & The Criminal Life or Archibaldo Cruz", as well as some other great works from directors such as Emilio “The Indian” Fernandez, and great actresses and actors such as Dolores del Río, María Félix, Pedro Armendariz and Ignacio Lopez Tarso.
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Who do you think the most overrated director is? over 3 years ago
I agree with picking Quentin Tarantino as the most overrated film director.
Even what are called his “trademarks”, non-linear the narrative speech, silly dialogues between his characters, multicultural collages on a single scene, are not characteristics of his “own”.
Here’s a comparison I would suggest anyone to make, let’s find similarities between Jim Jarmusch’s plots, characters, secuences, from Tarantino’s.
Mystery Train (1984) with Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Ghost Dog (1999) with Kill Bill (2002).
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WHICH DIRECTORS...NOT...CURRENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE CRITERION COLLECTION DO YOU WANT TO SEE INCLUDED? over 3 years ago
A zed and two noughts from Peter Greenaway would be great, as well as The Draughtman’s Contract, how about some films from chilean filmmaker Miguel Littin? I Suggest “El chacal de Nahueltoro” and “Alsino y el Condor”
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GREAT MOVIES WITH BAD ENDINGS... over 3 years ago
What about The Omen III? The once almighty villian, who scaped any kind of danger during his childhood, school years and went to become prime minister..suddenly is stabbed in the back by someone who caught him distracted. The worst of all: as he lays dying, sees the shape of a GIANT MAN wearing a cassock falling to the earth!!! then Damian curses him and dies…
A terrible ending for a perfect saga known for its sophistication and mystery.
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WHICH MOVIES...PUT OUT IN LAST 5 YEARS...DO YOU THINK WILL ONE DAY JOIN THE CRITERION COLLECTION? over 3 years ago
I reject Babel, Irreversible and No Country For Old Men …which I guess it’s unavoidable for Criterion to pickl on it… I would like to find Amores Perros, City of God, Carandiru & Donnie Darko, and finally, hope the swedish film “As it Is In Heaven” by Kay Pollack will get at least an Eclipse release with.. I don’t know what.
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Peter Greenaway over 3 years ago
I love his vision of what a film must be, specially satisfied with A Zed and Two Naughts and Draughtsman’s Contract for all the things both of them accomplish: drama, suspense, comedy, and specially his photography, wich at moments resembles lots of universally famous paintings, since Greenaway is also a painter and has a great influence at filming.
Im looking forward for Criterion to finally release some of his films, or maybe an Eclipse boxset later on.
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Is the cult of celebrity and PR destroying our ability to suspend disbelief? over 3 years ago
I have been through the same feelings but in a different way. I remember when the movie “TROY” came out, I couldn’t believe they picked Brad Pitt as the main role. I still trust it was an insult to make an archetipe such as Aquilles becoming “another face” of Brad Pitt’s capability of acting.
I love Homer’s work since I was a child and would never accept that an historical character such as Aquilles could be presented as someone’s identity that could simply be taken away by someone whose face is always watched day to day on the media. What frightens me the most is the idea of a certain loss of imagination that this movie would promote on any person that hasn’t read Homer’s poetry. Why would someone figure out the look of Achilles, while reading the book, since there is a movie that helps them not to think and the worst of all, not to imagine.
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Am I the only one who liked Benjamin Button? over 3 years ago
As a commercial movie it is pretty good, starting by a theme that is very original which is growing up old and dying young. But I agree with the “Oscar buzz” prefabricated mood on that one.
from the original starting point on, the film losses through the minutes. First of all, when I expect to see someone whose life starts the way button does, I want the writer to take me to all those self-discovery scenarios, but that only happens at the beggining when he doesn’t realize out why sees things clearer and begs to know the world outside the asylum.
When he falls in love with the little girl, the main reason of the movie losses itself the bad way. There are plenty of things it would be interesting to see how Button deals with. Having friends that are far from his age would be one of them (the screenwriter is very optimistic and unrealistic putting every other character unavoidably liking him all the time), being ill, being mature, or the opposite as he “grows up”. What about his views on nature?, sour grapes within people, the “mono no aware” feeling towards things?
Instead of driving a succesful starting point through so different possibilities, the screenwriter (following the Oscar price desire and hollywood stablishment) focus most of the time not on the CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, but the too-many-times-told story of a woman and a man falling in love.
Touching anything towards World War II was a dissapointment. When you have a character such as Benjamin Button, WWII wouldn’t be necessary, since his personal history is far more interesting and unique than so many other stories related to WWII, and I find it weak, disponsable.
Finally, the Katrina stuff was unnecessary, at moments distracting, as well as starting bringing back the flash forward from hospital from time to time, with terrible excuses such as “do I still read this letter?” thinking people is so stupid they don’t remember is a story brought to the past.
Predictable moments such as putting every single character’s death and funeral are a threat of boredom, and the old man’s thoughts on how he was close to death by lightning are fun the first two times, but…you know..
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Recommend some Light Hearted/Uplifting/Feel Good FOREIGN Movies over 3 years ago
I suggest you to try some Alex de la Iglesia’s films, my favourites are El día de la Bestia (the day of the beast), Acción Mutante, among others from him, really funny. One of the movies that use to bring me positive energy is the swedish “As it is In heaven”, by Kay Pollack.
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? over 3 years ago
Anna Karina and Catherine Denueve always look great. The most outstanding personality among those women, I think is the one of Marlene Dietrich.
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Moral Relativism on Films over 3 years ago
There is a mexican film from the 80’s called Los Motivos de Luz, I think the director is Jorge Fons, and it deals with a mother acused of having murdered his own children.
Most of the story deals with the environment of this girl, trying to maintain five little kids in a new and poor colony, facing the violence and drunkness of her lover, also the father of the five kids, kind of justifying the killing of these creatures while exploding from the bad conditions of her life. In a sense, it would make you think if letting them live through that environment would do them any good.
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IRANIAN REVOLUTION over 3 years ago
I have just realized out that two days ago there was a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the downfall of the Sha, and the Victory of the revolution.
Since there are some films about other historical events, do any of you know of a film related to the rise of the iranian revolution?
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Benjamin Button!?!? What the Hell? about 3 years ago
Experience has already told us that even though Criterion has released Armaggedon, The Rock, Robocop and that sort of commercially succesful films, they have kept releasing high quality but still unknown films over and over, so instead of speculating a turnaround on Criterion’s focus over commercial stuff, why don’t we believe everything is going to be ok? As Ryan says, let the masses get to Criterion, and maybe the bigger its audience becomes, the bigger its collection becomes faster than ever…
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Public Domain Films criterion should be releasing about 3 years ago
Maybe its not that worth for Criterion to release a film which is already on public domain. There are plenty of reasons for someone to buy a Criterion film, such as extras, interviews, documentaries, but one of the most important, I think, has to do with the uniqueness or availability of that film. And with those public domain films, for someone who’s got to take care of every buck they spend.. there might be some kind of contempt…since they are already there for everyone to get them…
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EARLY BERGMAN'S ECLIPSE about 3 years ago
I’ve just seen on many topics some polls about Bergman’s films and I wanted to ask your opinions about the Eclipse boxset dedicated to the early films of him. Almost nobody mentions any of them among their favourites, and it makes me nervous because a cousin of mine in the US just bought that one for me and just wanted to know what to expect….are Crisis, To Joy, Torment or Thrist that bad? or is it just that for being Bergman they do not fit the standard he has accomplished with another films?
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JOURNALISM MOVIES about 3 years ago
I guess Costa-Gavras “Z” is an example of journalism as a confident method of searching the truth for justice’s sake, even though the criminals at the greek government don’t seem to fall after the investigations, the journalist is the one who asks every single person involved on those events and actually the one who helps the justice to figure out how the complot was developed against Yves Montand
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Favorite Moment In A David Lynch Movie about 3 years ago
On Lost Highway, the Robert Blake’s face next to Fred Madison’s at the bed is one of the most horrorific surprises I ’ve ever been caught on. As well, the phone scene is amazing
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I Just Watched Irréversible For the First Time! about 3 years ago
As a critic I read a couple of year ago said: “it is very difficult for a movie to be really bad, since there are many elements that could work for the audience to remain interested on it, whether it is its music, humor, photograph, acting, continuity, et.al”. If I have the opportunity to speak about a movie that lacks of almost everything, Irreversible must be one of them, it’s annoying from first to last. The marketing people put too much effort on promoting the rape scene (which an inmediatly previous scene, with Bellucci about to be raped) is featured on many covers of the film), as well as its “challenge to conventional narrative” in order to attract the audience. Its message, a terrible self indulgent statement of vulgar pseudo philosophy over “time destroying everything” or “things done in the past are irreversible” kind of thing is terrible, that the only reflection you have at the end of its exhibition is that its story would have been told on a “conventional way” and its scent still remaining.
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What is your favorite ending? almost 3 years ago
“L’Avventura” has one of the most simple plus sublime endings of all time, actually the part of the film that sumarizes it all: the uselessness of trying being true about our own feelings, well at least that’s what I get.
“Dancer in the dark”, just Bjork singing a capella…beautiful
Argento’s “deep red”, with all the cruelty that, all of the sudden, kind of kidnapps the movie..
“The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”, after the intentional loss of the first place at the competition, just watching the guys preparing the gas masks for war, and that quintessencial british song just fading out, as the movie itself does
Among another one’s already mentioned, I agree with Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, the 400 blows, bicycle thieves…
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Songs you strongly associate with certain films almost 3 years ago
Walker Brothers “Nite Flights” album with David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway
“In the court of the crimson king” by King Crimson, with R.W. Fassbinder’s “Despair”
“O Fortuna” with Peter Greenaway
Brand X music with Wim Wenders “State of Things”
King Crimson’s “21 century schizoid man” and “pictures of a city” with film noir
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MANNY PACQUIAO! almost 3 years ago
He’s impressing, just to see him knocking out Rick Hatton on the first round, I would say he’s invencible right now. I don’t like him very much since the last to years he’s been beating the greatest mexican boxers out there (one of them actually beat Pacquiao, but the referees didn’t let him get the victory), but there’s almost an anonymous conclusion that he’s one of the greatest ever. Since he’s more than a symbol for his country, would be possible to see a film on his life some years later.
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Just watched Blast of Silence...... almost 3 years ago
I’ve just watched the film and really like it, quite different from other noir’s I’ve seen. Like the fact that the narrator is neither a punisher or a force who asks the killer do his thing, he describes what the actor is about to do, but also let people know that there are some things quite unavoidable for Frank Bono to do. Instead of letting us all know why he’s dedicated to such a forbidden labor, the narrator just brings glimpses of Bono’s past. “You would have been an arquitect”… “you are now alone, just the way it should always must be”, just after leaving the girl.
This is one of those movies that tells you more from not saying, rather than to say it all. I liked when he visits the girl he loves and founds her husband up there, he just leaves getting mad, instead of the typical hollywood response, which is hitting the husband or the girl, I don’t know, its just more human and logical, not a thing that a viewer asking for violence would need.
SPOILEEERR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also loved the fact that it’s not justice or police the authority who brings Bono’s jorunal to an end, but the internal logical of the criminal group he’s into, the one that a couple of days ago he wanted to leave in order to change his life. Instead of the movie ending being an apology to State and the other force who implicitly all of us must accept and recognize, the autor just ignores its role on the movie and let the persons, the non-recognized factic powers solve its problems its own way.
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What is the greatest film title ever? almost 3 years ago
I second The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Fear eats the soul
If…
No te mueras sin decirme a dónde vas (Don’t die before telling me where you are going)
Kiss me deadly
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exterminating angel over 2 years ago
A pretty good example of Buñuel’s philosophy around the clash of classes, subtly laughing at the way of thinking of the upper ones, but also suggesting interesting solutions to something that becomes an absurd problem. Very funny dialogue, turning around the banality of the guests to the party.“The worst of all, is that he (a guy with cancer) is going bald soon” sort of thing says the doctor about one of his patients; It’s one of the greatest films ever taking place on México.
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Criterion B&N November 2009 Sale now Live! over 2 years ago
HELP!
I’m into a though B&N decision
NIKKATSU NOIR vs MAKAVEJEV’s FREE RADICAL VS THE HUMAN CONDITION
Have you seen ’em? Which one would you rather pick and why?
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Criterion B&N November 2009 Sale now Live! over 2 years ago
double post
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Dirk Diggler is Jake LaMotta? over 2 years ago
Tonight I just thought the same thing. Other thing that was taken directly from Raging Bull are the flashes of the photographs: At some fights in Raging and on the Awards Ceremony and at one of the weddings of the filming crew.
Even though the last scene is basically the same Robert DeNiro did, It is to observe how P.T. handled the usual modern story about a man reaching a peak and then falling (La Motta, Kane, and now Dirk Diggler) putting this character in a context where lots of other people are trying to accomplish something out of their lives. Instead of the typical story centered on just the principal character, we have the opportunity to really emphazise on the spirit of certain people at a certain era.
It’s the first Anderson film I watch, and actually loved it, I can’t wait to see Punch-drunk love
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Criterion Newsletter Comic Guesses over 2 years ago
They’ve been a little bit more predictable than before, maybe it’s just Antonioni’s L’Eclisse on Blue-ray
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