enframed wrote:

gaetano dimita wrote: Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:21 pm

enframed wrote: Some other Italian film about a woman who befriends her neighbor, talking about lemon trees they have on their terraces. The older neighbor ends up with Alzheimer's. It's rather sad. Appropriately, I can't recall or even find the name on-line, something about lemon.

Perhaps it's the movie "Limoni d'inverno" (which translates as "Lemons in winter")?
I'm definitely going to watch that, and Resurrection too, thanks for the recommendation.

Yes! That was it.

Glad I could be of assistance

Anatomy of a Fall is a truly gripping legal drama, highly recommended.

Also Priscilla by Sofia Coppola, very good movie featuring two great leads.

andyman wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:42 am Wim Wenders' new film Perfect Days, which is set in Tokyo and features the lead from Cure, is truly wonderful. It's a moving meditation on the beauty of small everyday moments and human interactions. It's wonderfully filmed too. Might be my film of the year.


Also, The Holdovers was great. The story's kind of been done already (think Dead Poet's Society crossed with Scent of a Woman). The aesthetic, soundtrack (it feels like it was filmed in the 70s) and, more than anything, performances really push it over the top though. Giamatti deserves the oscar for it.

I need to see Perfect Days, if it is half as good as Anselm I need to make time asap.

Iranian judoka Leila is competing for the gold medal at the Olympics. When it becomes evident she might be facing an Israeli opponent, her government asks her to fake an injury and leave the tournament, threatening to kill her husband and child if she does not comply.

Tatami (2023) is the most powerful sports drama. I got out of the movie theatre buzzing.

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Yeah that's a lovely film - a bit clunky in its plot mechanics but the heart of it is pure and compassionate. Still unsure of the ending, which could be read two ways.

Inspired by Teorema. Hook me up.

Civil War. Strange cut-and-shut movie: 3/4 is a sympathetic portrayal of the job of (war) reporting, using the neat device of switching the foreign for the domestic (although with the clunky device of introducing a naïve new reporter). The politics here is irrelevant, and it's basically a road movie. ... and then there's the final section which seems like the complete reverse of everything I just said.

It's like someone came in and said "yeah, it's all very complicated isn't it? Anyway how about [spoiler] we lose the dowdy middle-aged chick and have the reporters execute Trump? [/spoiler] And get them to say something cool, ok?" I'm not opposed to that per se, but I have whiplash.

Edit: sorry, no spoiler tag support hence the tiny text - is that better?

Is Civil War any good? The idea of Texas and California teaming up is preposterous. Had this British dude never heard of Alabama or South Carolina?

It's got some really great moments, but it's not a great film. Still liked it. The origin of the alliance is not really discussed and largely irrelevant, although it is mentioned that they will probably fall out later.

Civil War is pretty good.

Just finished watching Come and See (1985), which narrates nazi atrocities in Belarus during WW2.
It has the most beautiful cinematography I have ever seen, all in service of terribly violent imagery.
The pacing is purposefully slow, gradually luring you into the finale, which is a sudden and vicious assault on the senses. Yet the movie never revels in its blood, on the contrary, it appeals to the higher self of its audience.
It's free to watch on youtube, and I humbly recommend it.