Essential Official Film Room Random Thoughts Thread

[TheGodling]

breh was at his PC sweating like miles teller in Whiplash

Expected waiting time in the queue: 20 minutes

That's roughly 1/3 of the time I spent perfecting my schedule. If even one screening sells out before it's my turn, I'm gonna drop JK Simmons type bombs instead.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

this thread should be stickied

 

[TheGodling]

I did it!

Outside of the unfortunate happenstance that I just had to get a job near my parents instead of Rotterdam, preventing me from visiting the festival midweek, the overall haul over two weekends is stronger than I hoped for.

Over Your Dead Body, good ol' cult horror from the Japanese cult master Takashi Miike.

The World Of Kanako, violently disturbing and relentless Nakashima Tetsuya thriller.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, the much hyped Iranian vampire-western everyone is talking about!

Magical Girl, much hyped Spanish film noir considered front runner to clean out at the Goya Awards in February.

Girlhood, French coming of age drama about a black teenage girl in the Parisian banlieues. (note: not filmed over the course of twelve years)

Man On High Heels, South Korean cop thriller from lesser established semi-arthouse director Jang Jin about a macho cop with one big secret... he feels like a woman trapped in a man's body.

The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness, documentary about the inner workings of the legendary Studio Ghibli during the production of what would become Hayao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises.

When Marnie Was There, the last completed film of Studio Ghibli before last year's announcement regarding the restructure and potential ending of the studio.

The losses, aka the movies I really wanted to see but couldn't fit in:

As The Gods Will, Takashi Miike's other festival movie.

Tokyo Tribe, a Japanese type West Side Story where gangs in Tokyo violently battle each other with HipHop.

Life Itself, the documentary on everyone's favorite critic Roger Ebert.

 

[FlyRy]

Stop They went too far. None of those cats are under him

i just realized i got a 3 day weekend.

ima load up them screeners on monday for wild, IV and big eyes

 

[Xerces]

Brehs, I'm re watching the movie " 2012" and it is terrible. There are some good actors in it but the acting and dialogue is terrible. The computer graphics whatever is laughable. I was cringing at a lot of the exchanges

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

Sony Pictures Classics low key been crankin out dat fire dese past couple years.

 

[the cac mamba]

white men cant jump is on vh1 right now

when sindey hustled billy with the dudes he knew, why the fukk did he put up 1700 against the dudes' 1150


who would do that shyt why wasnt billy like yo why the fukk arent you just bettin 1150

 

[Xerces]

I did it!

Outside of the unfortunate happenstance that I just had to get a job near my parents instead of Rotterdam, preventing me from visiting the festival midweek, the overall haul over two weekends is stronger than I hoped for.

Over Your Dead Body, good ol' cult horror from the Japanese cult master Takashi Miike.

The World Of Kanako, violently disturbing and relentless Nakashima Tetsuya thriller.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, the much hyped Iranian vampire-western everyone is talking about!

Magical Girl, much hyped Spanish film noir considered front runner to clean out at the Goya Awards in February.

Girlhood, French coming of age drama about a black teenage girl in the Parisian banlieues. (note: not filmed over the course of twelve years)

Man On High Heels, South Korean cop thriller from lesser established semi-arthouse director Jang Jin about a macho cop with one big secret... he feels like a woman trapped in a man's body.

The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness, documentary about the inner workings of the legendary Studio Ghibli during the production of what would become Hayao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises.

When Marnie Was There, the last completed film of Studio Ghibli before last year's announcement regarding the restructure and potential ending of the studio.

The losses, aka the movies I really wanted to see but couldn't fit in:

As The Gods Will, Takashi Miike's other festival movie.

Tokyo Tribe, a Japanese type West Side Story where gangs in Tokyo violently battle each other with HipHop.

Life Itself, the documentary on everyone's favorite critic Roger Ebert.

that picture of that movie " a girl walks home alone at night" looks intriguingly creepy

 

[FlyRy]

was Tatum the first Lou Bloom? (while watching Ace in the Hole)

Will johnny depp finally get banished from hollywood after mortdecai is his 4th or 5th flop in a row.

i can't remember this dudes last good movie

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

a most violent year didn't do much for me. well made movie but I wasn't excited or very interested in the story they had to tell. good performances though.

going to see imitation game tonight with my parents for my moms birthday

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

a most violent year didn't do much for me. well made movie but I wasn't excited or very interested in the story they had to tell. good performances though.

going to see imitation game tonight with my parents for my moms birthday

Its my moms birthday too.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Its my moms birthday too.

happy birthday to mom dukes i love my momma brehs

 

[Exit9NJturnpike]

Watching "a walk among tombstones" now shyt is piff

 

[Exit9NJturnpike]

Holy shyt that was ill. Dark and gritty.

 

[TheGodling]

With the first weekend at IFFR over for me, a couple of thoughts on the first four movies.

Over Your Dead Body, good ol' cult horror from the Japanese cult master Takashi Miike.

The World Of Kanako, violently disturbing and relentless Nakashima Tetsuya thriller.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, the much hyped Iranian vampire-western everyone is talking about!

Magical Girl, much hyped Spanish film noir considered front runner to clean out at the Goya Awards in February.

Over Your Dead Body was surprisingly subdued, I expected crazier from Takashi Miike but I forgot he occasionally knows how to hold back as well. It spends most of its time in the rehearsals of a ghost story stage play, but because the play parallels the lives of the main stars (or is it the other way around?) the play starts to feel very, very real. It moves slow while it just builds and builds and builds, and although it doesn't quite live up to its build-up, Miike always delivers a couple of scenes that make it worth it.

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The World Of Kanako earned a spot in my Top 10 about five minutes in, with its relentless opening montage of events that are sprawled all across the story, with the average shot probably not lasting three seconds. It bombards you, and then it crashes into the funkiest opening credits I've seen in a while. An ex-cop's daughter disappears, and as he starts to track her down, finds out she's not exactly an angel. Not that he or the world they live in are any better, because innocence is getting murdered all over the place here. It makes the worlds of Pulp Fiction and Oldboy look sane in comparison. And much like the violence on screen the editing never stops to rest either. It's such madness that time after time I was surprised to still know what was going on, although you'll damn sure have to puzzle to put things into place.

Walked out like

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, I guess I should've figured it out from it being billed as the world's first Iranian vampire western, but this had more humor in it than I expected. Humor that works because it's so dry and absurd. The muslim vampire girl threatens a boy that she'll eat his eyeballs if he doesn't be a good boy, who runs off scared, leaving his skateboard behind. Cue scene of the muslim vampire girl riding a skateboard at night. Add a cat who steals the show even though it's doing absolutely nothing and the most realistic (and therefore, hilarious) depiction of XTC usage in a movie ever and it's about as off-beat as a Wes Anderson flick. Only the really home video cinematography holds it back from greatness, even for a cheaply made low-budget movie it simply looks way too amateurish. There's a scene where the young, handsome gardener gets called up to the room by the daughter of the family he works for to repair her tv, and even though it isn't meant to be a porno setup, it looks exactly like a porno. On second thought in that particular scene it might've been done intentionally, but there's no excuse for the rest of the movie to look like that. Still good fun though.

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Magical Girl, I might have to come back to this one because of right now, I'm not sure what to think of it. That's mostly because of the heavy genre blending that makes for a lot of tonal clashes and thus constantly requires readjusting yourself (to the atmosphere, the switching protagonists, etc.). To fulfill the wish of his anime loving daughter who suffers from leukemia, the dad wants to buy her the anime dress of her favorite Mahou Shoujo, but being single and unemployed, it's far too expensive for him. He comes into contact with an emotionally unstable woman who cheats on her rich husband with him, and he decides to blackmail her for the money he needs to buy the dress. The movie certainly keeps you captivated with very Gone Girl-ish twists and developments as well as similar (dark) humor. But the material gets so dark, so down-beat, that it starts to go from clashing with the early lighthearted tone to the point even the dark humor doesn't feel right. I can't say I hate it because the movie certainly had my full attention all the way, but the way it all ends, I just don't know about this one...

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