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DMX is lucky he even made it to 50. In hood and drug years, that is probably closer to 100.

He was a definite breath of fresh ferocious air in the shiny suit era. He did his thing and left a mark. R.I.P.

Clark had a good run until Rhinestone. That film ruined him. Terrible film, and he never recovered from it. Black Christmas is one of the greatest horrors of all time. Deathdream is an unusual little film about the traumas of war disguised as a horror film. It's basically a family drama with horror ...

When talking about greatness, it is necessarily limiting. When talking about creativity in general, it is much less of a concern. Certainly, everyone has different standards and views on what qualifies a piece of art as great, but, what you are doing here is not just setting up thresholds of greatn...

This is a good debate but to be honest, I think a lot of you have a different thing in mind when you’re using these terms so I don’t think you’re even disagreeing as much as you think you are. Yes. We aren't really talking past each other, we just seem to have different ideas about concepts, or per...

even in the mood for love - with tony and maggie refusing to sleep with each other as a kind of one-upmanship to their cheating spouses, choosing instead to live in a kind of limbo of desire that in a weird way matches this fake shanghai that never was that wong has built - is fundamentally pervers...

I can, to an extent, see where you are coming from. While form and style can be too sides of the same coin - and in many ways, I would say Straub-Huillet worked on style and could be classified as stylists - the general understanding is that form is more intellectual - while style is not. See Othon...

FLIP: Before we get to definitions and whether artists are consciously saying things or not, which is not entirely the point but some of it, what is symbolism? Is it inert? To me a formalist in film is distinguished more by rigor and stylistic choices that cannot be separated from the material. WkW ...

I find the discussion above a little odd. I'm not sure if this is a controversial take or not, but as far as I'm concerned style is substance, substance is style. Any additional substance not in service of style (cinematic expression) is cinematically irrelevant - at best getting a bit of sympathy ...

what sets him apart is how consistently and brilliantly he can depict romantic longing That's a good start, but what's his purpose in showing romantic longing? Movies like Vertigo, Charulata, and Last Year at Marienbad also depict romantic longing brilliantly, but each of them shows an unhealthy si...

Hollywood or Bust: I much prefer Lewis on his own, and probably Martin too. Lewis was more restrained in their films and Martin was often a wet blanket. I get that that was their 'thing', but it was very limiting, especially for Lewis. Don't understand why this is referred to as a 'Hollywood satire'...

:-) * = rewatches. A fairly light viewing month for me. Liberte* (Serra) - 7.5 Juliet of The Spirits* (Fellini) - 7 Aferim! (Jude) - 7 Fast-Walking (Harris) - 5 Godzilla: King of Monsters (who cares) - 4 Knightriders (Romero) - 5.5 What She Said: the Art of Pauline Kael (no idea) - 5 West of Zanziba...

The [...] of course. curious about your opinion of hou/rivette. i've seen basically zero rivette (one short, i think), but most of hou's filmog. can certainly understand how hou might not click - he doesn't for me every time (i seriously need to rewatch goodbye south, goodbye cuz it's rated so high...

Seen 10.

2046
In the Mood for Love
Happy Together
Chungking Express
Days of Being Wild

Not totally convinced of this director's greatness, but he has many fine moments.

Finally watched all Yang's films with A Confucian Confusion the last and found it really forgettable and disappointing, which is much the same experience I had with Mahjong. It just struck me as a try too hard comedy. Not really sure what he was up to with those two when the rest of his filmography...

b&w ford > colour ford all day every day Agree. Ford's colour films often look amazing, but my top 5 Ford re all b&w. Juliet of the Spirits: my opinion is basically the same as Roscoe's. Has some brilliant stuff and questionable moments. It is also too long, but the length bothered me less ...

fort apache -- finally!~ beautiful film. planning my upcoming road trip to monument valley: a john ford pilgrimage Ford is one of my favourite directors of all time, but I cannot understand the big fuss about Fort Apache and The Searchers. It's completely lost on me. Strange. Liberte: Rewatch. Enjo...

body swap/body switch movies : Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty, 1978) - 7/10 Every Day (Michael Sucsy, 2018) - 6/10 A Saintly Switch (Peter Bogdanovich, 1999) - 5/10 Switch (Blake Edwards, 1991) - 5/10 Seventeen Again (Jeffrey Byrd, 2000) - 5/10 Soul (Pete Docter, 2020) - 5/10 Wish Upon a Star (Blai...

All scores out of 10. * = rewatches. La Strada* (Fellini) - 7 Dumb and Dumberer* (no idea) - N/A Il Bidone* (Fellini) - 6 Gremlins* (Dante) - 7 Gremlins 2* (Dante) - 6.5 Cujo (no idea) - 4 Somniloquies - low 3.5 H.O.T.S (no idea) - 5 Nights of Cabiria* (Fellini) - 8 Health (Altman) - 4.5 Where East ...

I tracked down a film I’ve been interested in for a while, Sürkület (English translation: Twilight), by the Hungarian director Gyorgy Feher. I have a big admiration for Bela Tarr but very limited knowledge of Hungarian cinema outside of him. I think besides Tarr, Miklos Jancso was the only Hungaria...

thoxans wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:07 pm

Joks Trois wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:29 amCobb

still need to see that one! heard good things. not to mention, tlj is always a treat

Then you need to see it. Arguably his best performance.

thoxans wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:13 pm

Joks Trois wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:04 pmRon Shelton

i'm sad about shelton. bull durham, tin cup, and especially white men can't jump are all solid (dare i say auteurist?), but then the dude just lost it

Cobb is his best film to me

Running out of options eh? Whose next? Ron Shelton?

Listened to MF DOOM quite a bit in the early to mid 00's. Shame.

Operation Doomsday and Madvillainy are essential 'underground' rap albums.

* = rewatch La Chienne* (Renoir) - 8 Unhinged (no idea) - 5 Click (who cares) - 3.5 Variety Lights (Fellini) - 6.5 Goodbye, Dragon Inn* (Tsai) - 8 American Pimp* (The Hughes Brothers) - 7 I'm a Born Liar (no idea) - 6.5 Prehysteria 2 (Band) - 2 The Godfather Coda (FFC) - 7.5 Jesus Rolls (Turturro) -...

he doesn't seem to be a cinephile in the classic sense at all He is a video clip director who got lucky basically. Have you seen his greatest movies list? It is about as narrow as it gets for a director of his generation. The ambiguity you are referring to is probably the result of Fincher being ra...

Adelheid (Vlacil) Come and See (Klimov) The Cranes are Flying (Kalatazov) The Crucified Lovers (Mizoguchi) Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt (Straub-Huillet) Dreams (Kurosawa) Duck, You Sucker (Leone) Ed Wood (Burton) The Empire Strikes Back (Kasdan) Glenga...

The Godfather Coda: the new intro changes the focus of the story, and a few cuts here and there have improved the pacing. The photography looks better than ever. Willis' contrasty interiors and day shots look incredible and would have to rank up there with the best of cinema at that time. The use of...

^^Agree with all that. It wasn't good, but it was more interesting than Spike's last 4 or 5 films. He really messed up the battle scenes though which is odd considering that they were quite well done in Miracle of St.Anna.

And The Ship Sails On: Fellini's most misunderstood film.It's very difficult for people to understand (especially Anglophones) that it is both lampooning and lamenting the demise of old European bourgeois culture, of which opera is merely a symbol. To think that once upon a time people actually wors...

Nolan is not happy about Warner's streaming plans for 2021.

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