Realized the other day that I haven't seen a single film that's been nominated for an Oscar this year.
That might be a first as a grown person.
Been too busy with other shiz, I guess.
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302The Fabelmans. NC. However, it suffered from me knowing where it was going.
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303The Fabelmans. NC. However, it suffered from me knowing where it was going.
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304Watching it twice on the bounce will do that. 
at war with bellends
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305Half way through Tàr and.. I dunno. Blanchett is obviously talented and it's certainly stylish, but not much of a story other than watching someone breathe their own farts. I think I've just met too many people like this (not composers, or even 'successful' people, but still).
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306Fantastic movie.andyman wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:47 am Caught L'Atalante (1934) a while back and it was an instant top 10 film. Who needs a complicated script when you're busy showcasing the beauty and humour of everyday life?
That swimming scene.. wow.
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307We watched this the other day, too, and agree: fantastic movie. The Can sequence is a highlight.tallchris wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2023 4:40 pm Criterion Channel just posted three of Jerzy Skolimowski's films in honor of his recently released EO (still need to see that).
After first reading about it 20+ years ago I finally saw DEEP END and it was a great as I could possibly have hoped for. If you described all the individual bits it doesn't seem like it would be that great, but it all comes together in a really fantastic way.
Real long scene set to most of (the) Can's "Mother Sky", great to finally hear that in context!
Definitely gonna watch the other two films in the series asap!
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308Not to disregard Skolimowski, or Vigo, but I finally watched Tàr on Sunday. Didn't care for it.
A frustrating film in that it toyed at times with going somewhere more interesting but impeded its own progress on this front. Of reviews I've read by higher profile critics, I think Richard Brody's take might be closest to my own.
Right off the bat, it seemed Cate Blanchett's performance was affected, overly AC-TORly even in a film depicting someone characterized as often full of herself. Whereas bathos can be an unfortunate crutch in contemporary culture, here I think Tàr would've worked better had the filmmakers leaned more toward satire or borderline satire at several junctures. There were tastes of it to be sure, but the way the film played out, there were just too many scenes with belabored dry dialog that took too long to go barely anywhere, much less somewhere pleasantly unexpected.
As a whole, I just found the film to be clunky, not even that successful on its own grounds. Tàr was a rather joyless affair lacking in verve. For a film about an expert-level musician it didn't seem to boast much of a genuine love, or even feel for, music. For a film depicting a high-profile person's downfall as a result of grooming/romantic misconduct, there were few "erotic" or even that sensual moments that gave me the impression that Tàr had much of a sex drive at all. The tone just had a tendency to be clinical and drained of affect but not in a way that revealed much we couldn't assume. As a character study, it gained a lot more traction as her life began falling apart, and she started behaving erratically and desperately, but it was rather "meh" at establishing her as a credible larger than life figure.
My family watched it too and didn't care for it either. However, after I gave my mom the film Barbara this last Christmas (also starring Nina Hoss), she watched it and thought it was great. Which it is.
A frustrating film in that it toyed at times with going somewhere more interesting but impeded its own progress on this front. Of reviews I've read by higher profile critics, I think Richard Brody's take might be closest to my own.
Right off the bat, it seemed Cate Blanchett's performance was affected, overly AC-TORly even in a film depicting someone characterized as often full of herself. Whereas bathos can be an unfortunate crutch in contemporary culture, here I think Tàr would've worked better had the filmmakers leaned more toward satire or borderline satire at several junctures. There were tastes of it to be sure, but the way the film played out, there were just too many scenes with belabored dry dialog that took too long to go barely anywhere, much less somewhere pleasantly unexpected.
As a whole, I just found the film to be clunky, not even that successful on its own grounds. Tàr was a rather joyless affair lacking in verve. For a film about an expert-level musician it didn't seem to boast much of a genuine love, or even feel for, music. For a film depicting a high-profile person's downfall as a result of grooming/romantic misconduct, there were few "erotic" or even that sensual moments that gave me the impression that Tàr had much of a sex drive at all. The tone just had a tendency to be clinical and drained of affect but not in a way that revealed much we couldn't assume. As a character study, it gained a lot more traction as her life began falling apart, and she started behaving erratically and desperately, but it was rather "meh" at establishing her as a credible larger than life figure.
My family watched it too and didn't care for it either. However, after I gave my mom the film Barbara this last Christmas (also starring Nina Hoss), she watched it and thought it was great. Which it is.
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309I suspect this isn't one that folks on PRF are going to flock to see, but anyway I will report on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (kid's choice).
Paul Rudd was occasionally funny. Michelle Pfeiffer still looks good. One of the main villains made me think of Doctor Eggman and his floating vehicle from Sonic the Hedgehog.
It was bad.
Paul Rudd was occasionally funny. Michelle Pfeiffer still looks good. One of the main villains made me think of Doctor Eggman and his floating vehicle from Sonic the Hedgehog.
It was bad.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)
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310Went to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at a theater last night. I don't know if it was the 4k restoration they've been talking about, but it still looks good.
I love how they tease the main musical theme throughout the film and then bring it in completely, with Yo-Yo Ma's deeply evocative cello, only at the very end when the story comes to its tragic conclusion.
Also, when I first saw it I was 33 and Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi were quite appealing to me. This time, the first time Jade Fox appears I kind of gasped. She is played by Cheng Pei Pei, whom I subsequently read is thought to have been the world's first all-out female action hero. Doing the math, I realized that she was 54 when she filmed Crouching Tiger, which is the age of my girlfriend right now, and the movie she is most associated with came out in 1966, the year of my birth.
Maybe it was the Rumplemintz talking, but I found all of that to be pretty cool.
I love how they tease the main musical theme throughout the film and then bring it in completely, with Yo-Yo Ma's deeply evocative cello, only at the very end when the story comes to its tragic conclusion.
Also, when I first saw it I was 33 and Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi were quite appealing to me. This time, the first time Jade Fox appears I kind of gasped. She is played by Cheng Pei Pei, whom I subsequently read is thought to have been the world's first all-out female action hero. Doing the math, I realized that she was 54 when she filmed Crouching Tiger, which is the age of my girlfriend right now, and the movie she is most associated with came out in 1966, the year of my birth.
Maybe it was the Rumplemintz talking, but I found all of that to be pretty cool.
"And the light, it burns your skin...in a language you don't understand."