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Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 11:38 am
by scrotescape
dead man with johnny depp
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 3:28 pm
by DaveA
Announced today: 4k transfer of
Le Cercle Rouge coming out on Criterion early next year.
Had heard there was a new DCP of this playing places in the past year and was wondering if/when it would surface for home use and, if it was still going to be on Criterion, whether they would retain the excellent Art Chantry cover art. They wisely have! There was a blu-ray--of the original transfer, I believe--available for a limited time, but after it went out of print it was selling on eBay/etc. for absurd amounts of money, more than any "normal" person would/should pay for a movie disc. Glad this has all been rectified.
If you haven't seen it,
Le Cercle Rouge is one of the most watchable, well paced crime movies out there. It's honestly kind of hard to say where it falls on the spectrum between genre/crime cinema, on the one hand, and arthouse cinema, on the other. This unspoken ambiguity, the movie seemingly playing by its own style rules, is part of what makes it great.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 3:49 pm
by seby
Titane was a waste of time
Ghostbusters Afterlife was fucking great!
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:56 pm
by sparky
I must watch this - thanks for sharing it.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:58 pm
by zircona1
DaveA wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 3:28 pm
Announced today: 4k transfer of
Le Cercle Rouge coming out on Criterion early next year.
Had heard there was a new DCP of this playing places in the past year and was wondering if/when it would surface for home use and, if it was still going to be on Criterion, whether they would retain the excellent Art Chantry cover art. They wisely have! There was a blu-ray--of the original transfer, I believe--available for a limited time, but after it went out of print it was selling on eBay/etc. for absurd amounts of money, more than any "normal" person would/should pay for a movie disc. Glad this has all been rectified.
If you haven't seen it,
Le Cercle Rouge is one of the most watchable, well paced crime movies out there. It's honestly kind of hard to say where it falls on the spectrum between genre/crime cinema, on the one hand, and arthouse cinema, on the other. This unspoken ambiguity, the movie seemingly playing by its own style rules, is part of what makes it great.
I have the original Criterion 2-disc set of this - bought it long ago when it was in print - and yes, highly recommended for any fan of crime movies.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:23 pm
by DaveA
Yes, got that too, have watched it a bunch, and will still hold onto it. But while a nice presentation for the time, the movie was in need of an upgrade. Am happy they didn't sleep on this too long.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:40 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries
Quo Vadis, Aida? was very good, as recommended by a friend. Cut the last half of the final sequence and it's approaching a classic, but Euros gonna Euro.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:46 am
by scrotescape
Titus
Anthony Hopkins in a Shakespearean tragedy; can't stop thinking about it
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 7:50 pm
by seby
jason from volo wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 7:48 pm
jason from volo wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:02 pm
seby wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 3:49 pm
Ghostbusters Afterlife was fucking great!
Thanks for the reminder!! I had forgotten about this. Will bring my daughters.
Just got back from seeing this. It *was* great! Am now watching the original at home.
Ha! We did the very same thing
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:31 am
by DaveA
Got a reasonably priced blu-ray of The Fugitive and let my folks watch it the other night. The film gets a Not Crap from me.
Compared to Cliffhanger, a pretty bad movie I also liked in the early nineties and revisited during the pandemic, The Fugitive approaches Powell & Pressburger in its narrative economy/lack of cheese.
Score could be stronger, at times, but I've heard worse.
I like its cynical take on Big Pharma.
Decent Chicago movie.
You also gotta love that Julianne Moore has a part in it, from before she became a huge star.
Minor reservations: the b&w flashbacks to the murder are formally lazy/ham-fisted (not the best opening volley) and it's a movie with a course of events that could have only transpired pre-CCTV/surveillance state/smart device ubiquity.