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Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:34 pm

wba wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 11:28 am

Would like

There's a copy on one of the gray-market pages, quality might not be up to your standards, but it looked fine on my laptop...

Was just fantasizing, cause you wrote "Takeshi Miike", and I wondered how a film by a directorial cross-breeding of Takeshi Kitano with Takashi Miike on material by Takashi Ishii would look.
Probably PHENOMENAL!!!

watched heaven knows what which was a tough one for me but it's very very good

Not My Type (Belvaux)

Ariane's Thread (Guediguian)
Boyhood (Linklater)
Cold in July (Mickle)
Coming Home (Zhang)
5 to 7 (Levin)
Gone Girl (Fincher)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Gunn)
Interstellar (Nolan)
Leviathan (Zvyagintsev)
Marshland (Rodriguez)
A Most Violent Year (Chandor)
Nightcrawler (Gilroy)
Phoenix (Petzold)
The Price of Fame (Beauvois)
The Purge: Anarchy (DeMonaco)
Two Days, One Night (Dardenne Bros.)
What We Did on Our Holiday (Hamilton, Jenkin)
Whiplash (Chazelle)
Wild Tales (Szifron)

final list, for a pretty meh kind of year:

the homesman (jones)
little quinquin (dumont)
metamorphoses (honoré)
don't go breaking my heart 2 (to)*
a girl walks home alone at night (amirpour)
mr turner (leigh)
good night cinderella (conceição)
ex machina (garland)
saint laurent (bonello)
the duke of burgundy (strickland)
maidan (loznitsa)
amour fou (hausner)
the old man of belem (oliveira)
stella cadente (miñarro)

Final

From What Is Before

Phoenix
National Gallery
Boyhood
Two Days One Night
0.5mm
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Horse Money
Journey to the West
Heaven Knows What
Inherent Vice
Saint Laurent
Hill of Freedom
Clouds of Sils Maria
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
The Look of Silence
Leviathan
Li’l Quinquin
Girlhood

Final list:

1. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)

Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Marshland (Alberto Rodríguez)
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron)
Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
God's Pocket (John Slattery)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
Birdman (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)

i guess i'm done here. tried to get into princess of france but couldn't do it

0.5 mm
don't go breaking my heart 2
horse money
phoenix
from what is before
heaven knows what
jauja
it follows
journey to the west
welcome to new york
white nights on the pier
gueros
the homesman
national gallery
hill of freedom
nightcrawler
john wick
goodbye to language

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:43 pm i guess i'm done here. tried to get into princess of france but couldn't do it

it's piniero's worst film i think. the great argentine film of the year is gold bug which has (among many other things) one of the best straub/huillet jokes i've seen in a movie (maybe the only straub/huillet joke i've seen in a movie?).

good it's not just me!

Just watched Non-Stop, what glorious nonsense. Hoping to squeeze in Hill of Freedom, Eden, Heaven Knows What and Ex-Machina before the deadline, might be a touch ambitious.

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:08 pmwhat glorious nonsense

how I feel about all of the Collet-Serra's that I've seen. They are wonderful and terrible at the same time.

liquidnature wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 1:11 am

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:08 pmwhat glorious nonsense

how I feel about all of the Collet-Serra's that I've seen. They are wonderful and terrible at the same time.

I also really like Unknown but sadly failed to get the 'wonderful' effect from The Commuter, even though it was the only one of the three I managed to see in the cinema.

From the Collet-Serra's I've seen I thought Non-Stop was by far the best. The other three weren't anywhere as good, sadly.

Horse Money






A few others that are nowhere near as good as Horse.

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:59 am

liquidnature wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 1:11 am

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:08 pmwhat glorious nonsense

how I feel about all of the Collet-Serra's that I've seen. They are wonderful and terrible at the same time.

I also really like Unknown but sadly failed to get the 'wonderful' effect from The Commuter, even though it was the only one of the three I managed to see in the cinema.

Yeah, Unknown was my favorite. But tbf I have an immense love for Diane Kruger.

JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)

the algerian war! (jean-marie straub)
clouds of sils maria (olivier assayas)
don't go breaking my heart 2 (johnnie to)
the drop (michael r. roskam)
golden time (takuya inaba)
haider (vishal bhardwaj)
happy new year (farah khan)
highway (imtiaz ali)
the homesman (tommy lee jones)
pompeii (paul w.s. anderson)
welcome to new york (abel ferrara)

wba wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:22 am From the Collet-Serra's I've seen I thought Non-Stop was by far the best. The other three weren't anywhere as good, sadly.

not sold on him overall but have you seen his house of wax?

nrh wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:41 am

wba wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:22 am From the Collet-Serra's I've seen I thought Non-Stop was by far the best. The other three weren't anywhere as good, sadly.

not sold on him overall but have you seen his house of wax?

Nope only seen The Shallows (meh), The Commuter (decent), Unknown (interesting) and Non-Stop (enjoyed it very much). He doesn't seem to me to be a "worthwhile" filmmaker at all. Unnecessary sloppy at times. Not one I'm interested in exploring further. I saw so "many" cause I watched three with friends/family, and I generally like and seek out films on trains, films on planes, films about memory-loss and films where someone is (stuck) on open water. So I definitely enjoyed watching all of the films on those premises alone.

Final list I guess since time's almost up.

Timbuktu
Clouds of SIls Maria
Goodbye to Language
Mr. Turner
Jauja
Interstellar
Grand Hotel Budapest
Horse Money
Malificent
Dawn in Luxor

Saint Laurent
Nightcrawler
Magical Girl
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
What We Do in the Shadows
Ballet 422
Brotherhood of Blades
The Monuments Men
Action Jackson (watched without subs)
Noah

Final List

1. Boyhood (Linklater

It Follows (Mitchell)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas)
The Homesman (Jones)
Song of the Sea (Moore)
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono)
The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)
Two Days, One Night (Dardenne Bros)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (To)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
White Nights on the Pier (Vecchiali)
Jauja (Alonso)
Welcome to New York (Ferrara)
Breathe (Laurent)
Last Days in Vietnam (Kennedy)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Andersson)
Heaven Knows What (Safdie Bros)
Bird People (Ferran)
From What is Before (Diaz)
Girlhood (Sciamma)

--final ballot

Happy New Year
Haider
The Homesman
Goodbye to Language

Stations of the Cross
Edge of Tomorrow
Highway
L'il Quinquin

Two Shots Fired
Unfriended
Bewakoofiyaan
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

Winter Sleep
Maps to the Stars
Two Days, One Night
Jersey Boys

Re. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT :

What are those little bottles that they steal from a convenience store and then sell for cash to that guy working in a street stall?

Final list:

1. Goodbye to Language (Godard)

Jauja (Alonso)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas)
Horse Money (Costa)
Two Days, One Night (Dardennes)
Li'l Quinquin (Dumont)
Happy New Year (Khan)
Breathe (Laurent)
Mr. Turner (Leigh)
As the Gods Will (Miike)
Seven Weeks (Obayashi)
Phoenix (Petzold)
Gueros (Ruizpalacios)
Girlhood (Sciamma)
The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)
Wild Tales (Szifron)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (To)
White Nights on the Pier (Vecchiali)
National Gallery (Wiseman)

pabs wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:01 pm Re. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT :

What are those little bottles that they steal from a convenience store and then sell for cash to that guy working in a street stall?

it's 5-hour energy. these go for like $2.50 apiece

I guess this'll have to be my final thing; there are a lot I regret not having gotten to, but whaddayagonnado? I still plan toi download c0.5M at the earliest opportunity, and Tokyo Tribe... And Leviathan, and the remake of Viy...

Sunrise - Partho Sen-Gupta

Chauranga - Bikas Ranjan Mishra
Court - Chattanya Tamhane
La Dictadura Perfecta - Luis Estrada
The Fool -
Gonzalez: The False Prophet - Christian Diaz Pardo
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
Gueros - Alonso Ruizpalacios
Haider - V. Bhardwaj
Horse Money - Pedro Costa
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Labour Of Love - Sangupta
Llevate Mis Amores/All Of Me - Arturo Gonz�lez Villase�or
Maidan - Loznitsa
Nabat - Musaoglu
Navajazo - Ricardo Silva
Nuits Blanches Sur La Jetee - Paul Vecchiali
Postman's White Nights - Konchalovsky
The Taking Of Tiger Mountain - Hark Tsui
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki)

We're about 12 hours from the end of this thing as we know it. Results will probably be posted sometime overnight (Western US time) about 24 hours from now.

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:10 pm

pabs wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:01 pm Re. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT :

What are those little bottles that they steal from a convenience store and then sell for cash to that guy working in a street stall?

it's 5-hour energy. these go for like $2.50 apiece

Ok, so it's like Red Bull. I thought it was something much more expensive, since I thought that guy they sold it to paid $1 per bottle, but maybe he paid them less than that.
Good film, though, as harsh and sad as it is.

Not sure I'll have time for my other planned watches before the deadline but Hill of Freedom goes straight onto the list, very funny, hits all the Hong notes.

I just realized I've still got time for more! (I love it when that happens!) I'm gonna watch something easy to find/get so it'll be JOHN WICK.

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 11:33 am Not sure I'll have time for my other planned watches before the deadline but Hill of Freedom goes straight onto the list, very funny, hits all the Hong notes.

I found it really endearing and real with dialogue that's mostly in broken English. Such a neat, bittersweet film.