Return Of The Film Corner Thread

[kinuta]

Shutter Island - Martin Scorsese (2010)

[kinuta]

Room - Lenny Abrahamson (2015)

Great. Just as powerful as the first viewing a year ago.

[kinuta]

Zelig - Woody Allen (1983) BR

Rewatching some Woody Allen classics in Blu Ray.

[BillF]

It's Only the End of the World

Very disappointing. The brilliant Xavier Dolan - I loved Mommy - has made the mistake in moving from Canada to the French film industry of choosing a stage play as the basis of his film, and a pretty absurdist one at that: dialogue 100%, locations 0%, plot 0%.

[jlhoots]

Get Out

[kinuta]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

It's Only the End of the World

Very disappointing. The brilliant Xavier Dolan - I loved Mommy - has made the mistake in moving from Canada to the French film industry of choosing a stage play as the basis of his film, and a pretty absurdist one at that: dialogue 100%, locations 0%, plot 0%.

Right. I thought it was a load of rubbish, so much so that I didn't bother posting about it.

How could two greats like Cassel and Cotillard  be involved in this nonsense.

[jlhoots]

The Daughter - modern day adaptation of Ibsen's The Wild Duck. Pretty good.

[BillF]

10 hours ago, kinuta said:

Right. I thought it was a load of rubbish, so much so that I didn't bother posting about it.

How could two greats like Cassel and Cotillard  be involved in this nonsense.

Bradshaw reported: "The film won the Grand Prix at Cannes, but the critics received it icily." For once, I'm with the critics.

3 hours ago, jlhoots said:

The Daughter - modern day adaptation of Ibsen's The Wild Duck. Pretty good.

Yes, I saw it. It was OK.

Edited February 25, 2017 by BillF

[duaneiac]

A run-of -the-mill potbolier which never reaches the boiling point.  Vitorio Gassman plays a Hungarian refugee who stows away on a boat to NYC after WW2.  Since he is a stowaway, he can't enter the country legally, but if he can prove that he helped the Allied forces in the war, he can gain entry.  He had helped an American GI escape capture, but all he knew about the man was that he was named Tom and was a clarinet player who said he just wanted to get back to his job in Times Square.  So, Mr. Gassman's character jumps ship and makes his way through NYC trying to find this "Tom" chap (played by future Rob & Laura Petrie neighbor, Jerry Paris).  He helps a tough, down on her luck girl (played by Gloria Grahame) out of a jam and she in turn helps him in his quest.  Jack Teagarden has one line.  Shelly Manne is seen as the drummer in Big T's band.

Also on the DVD was

another 1953 Columbia pic.  I could not make it very far into this one, though.  Charlton Heston's scenery chewing was just too much.  Not even the usually watchable Lizabeth Scott could keep me watching this one.  Once they reached the obligatory scene where the two characters express how much each infuriates the other and then they end up in a passionate kiss, I turned it off.  But hey -- "Ghost Surgeon"!!!  Now that's a movie I really want to see!!!

Also on the DVD is an episode from a TV series called "All-Star Theater" starring Howard Duff and Janet Blair.  It's actually a pretty good rehash of a Sam Spade type story in which Mr. Duff's character, Johnny Abel, gets mixed up in some case by an attractive, mysterious dame, gets knocked unconscious a couple of times and then solves the case.

[kinuta]

Night Moves - Arthur Penn (1975)

[Jazzmoose]

Finally saw this one.  I have to admit, for a superhero movie, this one was pretty good.  But is it just me?  This CGI stuff they use today hits similar to the way static on an old AM radio does.  Seriously, my brain won't process this stuff-at times it just looks like noise.  It works fine in an animated feature, but in live action, it just doesn't work.

[GA Russell]

I never noticed Night Moves being at the theatres, but I saw it a few years later on TV and really enjoyed it.  My thought at the time was, Why haven't I heard of this before?

[kinuta]

The Pledge - Sean Penn (2001)

[BillF]

Very much enjoyed this when I saw it on release a couple of years ago. Didn't stand up to rewatching as well as I'd expected.

[kinuta]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

Very much enjoyed this when I saw it on release a couple of years ago. Didn't stand up to rewatching as well as I'd expected.

Didn't impress me on my first, and only, viewing. Couldn't see what all the fuss was about.

Monsieur Hire - Patrice Leconte (1989)

[jlhoots]

Everybody Loves Somebody

[duaneiac]

If there is a category of "coming of age" movies, I guess this might fit into the category of "going of age" movies since it looks at the other end of the lifespan.  It deals with the lives of some of the residents of a retirement home without being overly sentimental or depressing.  Pretty good.

[kinuta]

Little Men - Ira Sachs (2016)

Good little film. Two young lads in Brooklyn become best friends. Ones mother rents a shop from the others parents, who want to raise her rent. The seamstress is well acted by Paulina Garcia,  who played ' Gloria,' and her son is a force of nature, played by a kid called Michael Barbieri, who bursts on the screen like a tiny DeNiro/Pacino. The rest of the cast are all great too.  I liked it.

Interiors - Woody Allen (1978) BR

It's stood the test of time quite well, and doesn't sound quite as forced as it once did, imho.

 

Edited February 27, 2017 by kinuta

[kinuta]

My Fair Lady - George Cucor (1964) BR

 

As Roger Ebert said in his review, ' They can't make them like this any more'.

True then and even truer now.

[duaneiac]

7 hours ago, kinuta said:

My Fair Lady - George Cucor (1964) BR

 

As Roger Ebert said in his review, ' They can't make them like this any more'.

True then and even truer now.

But they could have made it better by having Julie Andrews star in it!

[kinuta]

5 hours ago, duaneiac said:

But they could have made it better by having Julie Andrews star in it!

You may well be right, especially regarding her singing, but I can't imagine anyone other than Audrey Hepburn playing that part.

 

[paul secor]

Frank and Ollie

A fascinating look at the lives and careers Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of the original Disney animators who were lifelong friends.

Edited February 28, 2017 by paul secor

[kinuta]

Running On Empty - Sidney Lumet (1988)

I'd forgotten how good this was.

[kinuta]

Christine - Antonio Campos  (2016)

 

An amazing performance by Rebecca Hall is the main reason to watch.

I must be one of the few people who didn't know the story, which was pretty depressing.

 

[BillF]

14 hours ago, kinuta said:

Running On Empty - Sidney Lumet (1988)

I'd forgotten how good this was.

Yes, long time since I saw it, but I haven't forgotten.