MUBI brings you a great new film every day.  Start your 7-day free trial today!
Watch a new film every day for $4.99.
Try MUBI for FREE.
 

Noiresque: Filmography

22 Oct 11
Infamous

First, the inevitable: Toby Jones is Capote, PSH is PSH doing Capote. I prefer Infamous, overall. The greater artistry and atmosphere - as if the people are characters in a work by Capote - draws out interesting performances and human truths. Bullock's statement at the end about Harper Lee's artistry is kind of heartbreaking: "We want everything you have, and we want it as fast as you can turn it out."

Infamous
22 Oct 11
Carole Landis

So vibrant in I Wake Up Screaming. What a loss.

Cast Member Still
22 Oct 11
Gas, Food Lodging

One of the best American coming of age films.

Gas, Food Lodging
Sue Ball likes this

21 Oct 11
The Lincoln Lawyer

Sherry Lansing used to greenlight movies like this by the bucketload, but other than one or two releases every year, these kind of dramas are relegated (a poor term, as the best of them are great) to TV. The Lincoln Lawyer was pure popcorn with not a superhero in sight. I loved how Los Angeles looked. ldeally this will turn into a franchoise and a few more crime novels will be adapted to film.

The Lincoln Lawyer
21 Oct 11
Lone Star

I was in love and in lust with Chris Cooper when I first saw Lone Star.

Lone Star

My favourite late-era Ivory film. From baby Jesse, Leelee and Virginie, to Isaac, Jane, Kris and Barbara hitting it out of the park, it's entirely a pleasure.

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
21 Oct 11
Le divorce

It's not all bad, really. But I have a serious complaint of Naomi Watts. I don't care how self-pitying you are after your husband has left you: no one who has Jean-Marc Barr gazing on her so adoringly for 60% of the screen time has any right to look so mopey!

Le divorce

One of Brando's top 2 or 3 films *and* performances.

Reflections in a Golden Eye
21 Oct 11
Billy Bob Thornton

I love me some BBT. He's one of the best 2 or 3 American actors of his generation. No matter the film, he performs with integrity.

Cast Member Still
21 Oct 11
Walton Goggins

Best actor on TV right now. He plays these broadly written, pitifully stereotyped characters and makes them flesh-and-blood and complexly human.

Cast Member Still
21 Oct 11
Wise Blood

Amy Wright is fucking genius. And Brad Dourif nailed Hazel Motes (Walton Goggins for a remake?) And you can't got wrong with Ned or Harry Dean. Just brilliance all around.

Wise Blood
21 Oct 11
Boom!

Debauched Liz *and* Joseph Losey? I must see this!

Boom!
21 Oct 11
The Man in the Moon

Another great film by Robert Mulligan of the coming of age of a young girl, this time personally, rather than politically.

The Man in the Moon
21 Oct 11
Tuesday Weld

The ultimate hot blonde. No coquette she who begs men to love her, and cute only superficially. Tuesday Weld is the possessor of a direct and powerful sensuality she wields for herself alone.

Cast Member Still
21 Oct 11
Lawn Dogs

I saw this when I was 16, and got a masive crush on Sam Rockwell's character. Somewhat disturbingly, I was far closer to the age of Mischa's character at the time! Still, it's a good little film, and I loved the fairy tale elements and the bonds of friendship.

Lawn Dogs
SpaceOctopus likes this

21 Oct 11
John Duigan

I hope he makes some more movies soon. He has a singular vision, and a couple of his films are among my favourites.

Cast Member Still
21 Oct 11
Alfred Hitchcock

When did I start loving classic movies? When I saw Rear Window as a child, snowed in on a ski holiday. Thank you, Hitch.

Cast Member Still
chanandre and 2 others like this

bronson, roger o. thornhill

  • Picture of chanandre

    chanandre

    25Nov11

    Oh yeah. Rear Window (my all-time Hitch flick) and snow (my all-time favourite thing made out of water) together in a single sentence? Yes! Loved that film since shot number one. Those opening credits, THE slo-mo kiss. kelly and stewart. stewart and kelly. miss lonely heart. the dancer. the doggie. the mean neighbors. the peeping tomness of it all. so great. so great.

21 Oct 11
Marnie

Marnie one of my top 2 or 3 Hitch films. It's dark and pulpy and funny and unsettling and it doesn't take itself too seriously. So much better than the po-faced Black Swan bunkum that everyone loves. Tippi is brave and brilliant (I'd love to see Naomi Watts in the role), Connery was never sexier (dredging the depths of his sadistic carnality that Bond takes for granted) and Diane Baker has the best hair ever.

Marnie
21 Oct 11
Million Dollar Baby

Pygmalion retold in the most human way possible - as a genuine love story. Swank is transcendent as she creates the purest pleasure in her small life through her sheer will. But, her story supports that of Frankie and Scrap, muddling through their lives and try to redeem what is left of their failures. M$B is the very best of the past decade of a very underrated and misunderstood genre - the melodrama.

Million Dollar Baby
21 Oct 11
The Burning Plain

I vastly prefer this to Babel or 21 Grams.

The Burning Plain
Nicole86 and 2 others like this

lolo341, Aram

21 Oct 11
Mother and Child

Naomi's complexity left me astonished that her character and dialogue was written by a man. Her relationship with SLJ was perfectly represented - a guilty sexual game, leading into a friendship of genuine respect and responsibility which resulted in her character acting (possibly for the first time in her life) with the best interest of someone other than herself. Rodrigo Garcia knows women. Brilliant.

Mother and Child
Yuki Aditya and Lorena like this

21 Oct 11
Norbit

Norbit is the film that lost Eddie Murphy his Oscar. It's actually not as bad as that. It is not good, but as a stupid American comedy of its ilk, it is one of the better ones. Amid the scatology and grotesquerie, there are a some sharp lines, the character of Norbit is very likeable, and the actors deliver. I don't recommend it as such, but I had to say that the reputation of Norbit as irredemable is exaggerated.

Norbit
Tom JF likes this

21 Oct 11
Ashley Judd

We'll always have Ruby In Paradise, Heat and Bug, Ashley. Hopefully she works through her psychological health and is able to work with a great director and a great script again.

Cast Member Still
12 Aug 11
Paddy Considine

One of the best 2 or 3 contemporary film actors going, in any language. Yes, he's that good.

Cast Member Still
12 Aug 11
Red Riding: 1974

The weakest of the three. The messiest script (seriously, the Sean Bean character? And seriously, Sean Bean? I love him, but he was way miscast) and the awfulness of Andrew Garfield's hair, Rebecca Hall's Acting With A Capital A, and most of all, the only film to have a hack director. But none the less, it's always worth a look.

Red Riding: 1974
12 Aug 11
Red Riding: 1980

Easily the best film in the trio. Best leading character (Paddy is a genius), best blond woman (am gobsmacked that Rebecca Hall got a BAFTA) and most sensible direction.

Red Riding: 1980
12 Aug 11
James Marsh

Love The King - an encroaching, dark fairy tale. His part of Red Riding Trilogy was easily the best. His documentaries are superb, but I hope he keeps up the fiction output as well.

Cast Member Still
12 Aug 11
Samantha Morton

She's this generation's gold standard.

Cast Member Still
16 Jul 11
Swan Lake: The Zone

I would *love* to hear this in Ukrainian

Swan Lake: The Zone

Yul Brynner's animal magnetism makes a sensual Karamazov extraordinaire. Albert Salmi as Smerdyakov and Claire Bloom as Katya also excel and similarly bring the essence of their characters on screen. William Shatner and Richard Basehart have somewhat difficult roles cinematically, playing in turn spiritual and cerebral men, but if not the "dream" rendition of Alyosha and Ivan, are still fine.

The Brothers Karamazov