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finally saw midsommar. cool little flick but i have no interest in seeing it a second time. A24 is the king of making movies that you respect but barely enjoy, LOL
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TheNatureBoy
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Still making my way through movies I've had saved in my queue for a while. Finally got around to watching If Beale Street Could Talk on Hulu. In a lot of ways the film is beautiful to look at and features great performances all around, but is difficult to watch. Just seeing what the main couple has to grow through in the film 
, not to mention their family. The movie really is a reflection of the famous James Baldwin quote
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
It did remind me of how dope an actor Stephan James is. I remember being impressed by him in Homecoming and his performance in this movie reminded me of his talent.
, not to mention their family. The movie really is a reflection of the famous James Baldwin quote"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
It did remind me of how dope an actor Stephan James is. I remember being impressed by him in Homecoming and his performance in this movie reminded me of his talent.
Not even big on rom coms but this I really liked. All the characters had depth and in a rare move, they just let the movie be romantic and didn't try and make up bullshyt to part them. It's really fukking good yo.
10 / 10
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TheNatureBoy
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Favorite performance from Gugu that I've seen. Still need to get around to watching Fast Color. This scene always stays in my memory
I liked. Unexpectedly good.
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
Next batch of IFFR films (for obvious reasons I won't speak on the competition films I'm judging until after the festival is over).
Pretty great film from Justin Kurzel (Fassbender's MacBeth) about Ned Kelly, which btw is far from the 'true history' as the film even acknowledges in the opening. It features very sharp writing but also values style over substance so it balances somewhere between Tombstone and a Guy Ritchie flick but with more arthouse sensibilities. It also features a lot of great character acting with a small but very hilarious role by Russell Crowe. I can see people not feel this flick at all because you definitely got to feel the style of the film but I had a blast with it.
Polish powerhouse movie (also Oscar nominated) about a young man who in juvenile detention finds religion. Upon release he travels to the other side of the country to work in a sawmill, but after a joke he's mistaken for an actual priest and gets to run a local church. His unique methods quickly make him popular, but he also is confronted by an immense amount of pain and anger over a recent tragedy. The first part makes it an enjoyable and sometimes funny movie, while the latter part takes the film to its true excellence as it carefully speaks on how people deal with pain and anger, justified or not, and how it certainly is not something easily forgiven or forgotten.
Venezuelan film about an aging alcoholic who is thrown out of his parents' house and moves into the jungle to rebuild an old cabin that belongs to the family. There he meets old friends who have delved into the business of gold mining, and he quickly joins in. But of course the jungle is not kind to man and instead of overcoming his demons he starts to battle more. Particularly impressive about the film is that the lead character is played by the director's father, who based the film on his stories. You wouldn't be able to tell the man is essentially an amateur actor because he gives an intense performance the likes of 70s era Clint Eastwood.
Love's Twisting Path is a retro-style samurai film with every cliché in the genre. So a burnt out samurai who no longer wants to battle but is forced to pick up his sword again because trouble finds him. Its respective of its influences but really needed to pick up some modernization in the fights. Back in the 50s/60s it's obvious why there's not a lot of blood in samurai films, but showing a swordfight in 2020 where you don't see cuts or blood is just a bad move because it automatically makes the fights look fake as hell.
It wouldn't be IFFR without a Takashi Miike film and it wouldn't be a Takashi Miike film if it wasn't a fukkery filled film. A young boxer hears he has a brain tumor and fearless of death ends up protecting a girl from an attacker. Except the girl is a forced prostitute who has drug induced hallucinations and the man chasing her is a corrupt cop who is working together with a Yakuza kid to steal a lot of drugs from the Yakuza and blame it on the Chinese triads. Add a bunch of other completely crazy characters and it's not long before everyone is fighting everyone. It's Takashi Miike in all his glory and although some characters could've had better story pay-offs, in the end you know you're here for the fukkery and it delivers tenfold.
Bring Me Home is the debut film of South Korean director Kim Seung-Woo starring Lee Yeong-Ae (Sympathy For Lady Vengeance) in her first role since that film. Here she plays a mother determined to find her son who disappeared years ago, a search becoming much harder when her husband tragically dies in an accident. The news of the accident however reaches a small town cop who thinks a local boy working for a family at a fishing ground might be her son, but the police sergeant is good friends with the family and tells him to cut it out. What quickly becomes clear though is that the boy is definitely not the family's kid and they exploit and abuse him in every way imaginable. As the mother attempts to find him, the family and sergeant grow more fearsome of the consequences if she does with increasingly horrid results. How horrid? Let's just say this film is so goddamn grim it makes I Saw The Devil look like a Disney movie in comparison. Yup, think about that for a moment. A comparison also worth mentioning btw because the director of photography of I Saw The Devil also did the cinematography here, so like all Korean thrillers, it's not only visceral and violent but also impeccably shot.
Pretty great film from Justin Kurzel (Fassbender's MacBeth) about Ned Kelly, which btw is far from the 'true history' as the film even acknowledges in the opening. It features very sharp writing but also values style over substance so it balances somewhere between Tombstone and a Guy Ritchie flick but with more arthouse sensibilities. It also features a lot of great character acting with a small but very hilarious role by Russell Crowe. I can see people not feel this flick at all because you definitely got to feel the style of the film but I had a blast with it.
Polish powerhouse movie (also Oscar nominated) about a young man who in juvenile detention finds religion. Upon release he travels to the other side of the country to work in a sawmill, but after a joke he's mistaken for an actual priest and gets to run a local church. His unique methods quickly make him popular, but he also is confronted by an immense amount of pain and anger over a recent tragedy. The first part makes it an enjoyable and sometimes funny movie, while the latter part takes the film to its true excellence as it carefully speaks on how people deal with pain and anger, justified or not, and how it certainly is not something easily forgiven or forgotten.
Venezuelan film about an aging alcoholic who is thrown out of his parents' house and moves into the jungle to rebuild an old cabin that belongs to the family. There he meets old friends who have delved into the business of gold mining, and he quickly joins in. But of course the jungle is not kind to man and instead of overcoming his demons he starts to battle more. Particularly impressive about the film is that the lead character is played by the director's father, who based the film on his stories. You wouldn't be able to tell the man is essentially an amateur actor because he gives an intense performance the likes of 70s era Clint Eastwood.
Love's Twisting Path is a retro-style samurai film with every cliché in the genre. So a burnt out samurai who no longer wants to battle but is forced to pick up his sword again because trouble finds him. Its respective of its influences but really needed to pick up some modernization in the fights. Back in the 50s/60s it's obvious why there's not a lot of blood in samurai films, but showing a swordfight in 2020 where you don't see cuts or blood is just a bad move because it automatically makes the fights look fake as hell.
It wouldn't be IFFR without a Takashi Miike film and it wouldn't be a Takashi Miike film if it wasn't a fukkery filled film. A young boxer hears he has a brain tumor and fearless of death ends up protecting a girl from an attacker. Except the girl is a forced prostitute who has drug induced hallucinations and the man chasing her is a corrupt cop who is working together with a Yakuza kid to steal a lot of drugs from the Yakuza and blame it on the Chinese triads. Add a bunch of other completely crazy characters and it's not long before everyone is fighting everyone. It's Takashi Miike in all his glory and although some characters could've had better story pay-offs, in the end you know you're here for the fukkery and it delivers tenfold.
Bring Me Home is the debut film of South Korean director Kim Seung-Woo starring Lee Yeong-Ae (Sympathy For Lady Vengeance) in her first role since that film. Here she plays a mother determined to find her son who disappeared years ago, a search becoming much harder when her husband tragically dies in an accident. The news of the accident however reaches a small town cop who thinks a local boy working for a family at a fishing ground might be her son, but the police sergeant is good friends with the family and tells him to cut it out. What quickly becomes clear though is that the boy is definitely not the family's kid and they exploit and abuse him in every way imaginable. As the mother attempts to find him, the family and sergeant grow more fearsome of the consequences if she does with increasingly horrid results. How horrid? Let's just say this film is so goddamn grim it makes I Saw The Devil look like a Disney movie in comparison. Yup, think about that for a moment. A comparison also worth mentioning btw because the director of photography of I Saw The Devil also did the cinematography here, so like all Korean thrillers, it's not only visceral and violent but also impeccably shot.
sjankis630
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I have watched a few episodes of The World According to Jeff Goldblum and it has made me realize something. (sneakers, BBQ and pools)
Even though I am a fan of his, he is a touching people without their permission type brotha. How has this not gotten him in trouble before?
He is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Even though I am a fan of his, he is a touching people without their permission type brotha. How has this not gotten him in trouble before?
He is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
