Finally got around to watching Moonage Daydream (Bowie doco)… I was entertained and all and the old footage was great, but…
It
Would
Not
End….
Got way too long in the tooth by the end and there was a bit of a messianic thing going on I could’ve done without.
3 stars (using the standard 5 star system).
The Berlin era stuff was cool and it would’ve been nice to see more of that
Takeaways;
- young Bowie looked not unlike a young David Attenborough
- he smoked a shitload of cigarettes
- he came across (to me at least) as a very isolated person… but seemingly happy
- film woulda been an editing nightmare!
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2024 12:17 pm
by rsmurphy
Been trying to watch Beau Is Afraid over the past few days but my friend's Epson projector keeps crapping on me. I've only gotten to the animated forest sequence and there's like 10 more hours to go
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2024 5:47 pm
by jfv
Iancee wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 7:24 am
Finally got around to watching Moonage Daydream (Bowie doco)…
I also just watched this on my flight to Asia and your review is pretty much spot on. I’ll add:
- I realize that it’s nearly impossible to cover his career in less than 2 hours but it did seem to focus heavily on the good and not the bad
- Was sort of mixed on the lack of a narrator. I guess I’m not smart enough.
I did enjoy it though.
I also watched Civil War and about the first 30 minutes of 20 Days in Mariupol. Kirsten Dunst is beautiful and was great in the film, but otherwise meh. And I couldn’t make it through the Mariupol documentary. It was really well-done, but very difficult to watch. Every world leader should be forced to watch it A Clockwork Orange-style.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:11 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries
andyman wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:54 am
Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher
I've seen most of Haneke's work by now and think he's a master director. This is one of his most straightforward films and yet his saddest and most disturbing, which is really saying something.
Huppert was legitimately incredible. I can't stop thinking about the ending sequence in the hall, her facial expression.
The best female lead performance in all of cinema. Fucking staggering.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 10:35 am
by The Yeoman Ghost
andyman wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:54 am
Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher
I've seen most of Haneke's work by now and think he's a master director. This is one of his most straightforward films and yet his saddest and most disturbing, which is really saying something.
Huppert was legitimately incredible. I can't stop thinking about the ending sequence in the hall, her facial expression.
My least favorite movie I’ve ever seen, and the movie during which I came closest to walking out of the theater (and ultimately ended up wishing I had).
This is not at all to say it’s bad. In fact, I suspect my reaction to it was precisely what the filmmaker intended. Maybe, to paraphrase Buddy Rich, “That thing … it just ain’t my kind of thing.”
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 6:34 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries
andyman wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 5:17 am
Since I got a projector, I'm slowly making my way through a bunch of classics I never got around to watching.
Last night it was The Conversation.
I expected to be slightly bored by it, but It's actually kind of a perfect film. More than the really simple, but intelligently written noir plot, and the as-to-be-expected great editing and cinematography, the mood of the film is what really struck me. The surprisingly great jazz soundtrack paired with Caul's sense of isolation and loneliness (the sets like the huge empty warehouse in which he works, how alone he is in every scene) evokes a mood I can't quite put my finger on.
It's a great example of stripping everything away until you're left with brilliant, economical story-telling.
Except maybe the dream sequence. I would have cut that part.
It's an absolute treat, right the way through. Wouldn't change a thing.
Now get yourself a bottle in and settle down with Scarecrow.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 9:57 am
by Wood Goblin
The Conversation is an all-time top ten for me.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2024 1:10 pm
by Gramsci
andyman wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:58 amFantasic Planet: a batshit French sci-fi that won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Imagine Scavengers Reign crossed with the art styles of Terry Gilliam and Hieronymus Bosch or the Codex Seraphinianus. Superb,
Also the theme of the concept album by Failure of the same name. The album also references heroin a lot
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 3:21 pm
by jfv
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Some great scenes, genuine LOL moments.
But a real hot mess of a film.
Good soundtrack.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:15 am
by zircona1
jfv wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 3:21 pmBeetlejuice Beetlejuice
Some great scenes, genuine LOL moments.
But a real hot mess of a film.
Good soundtrack.
Think I'm gonna wait until it streams to watch it.
I saw the original in a theater when I was 10. Loved it then, still love it now.
