Return Of The Film Corner Thread

[jlhoots]

We're a small town (approx. 70 thousand people) but fortunately have & support 4 very good movie theaters. 

[kinuta]

Too Big To Fail - Curtis Hanson (2011)

[kinuta]

Sin Nombre - Cary Joji Fukunaga (2009)

[kinuta]

It Comes At Night - Trey Edward Shults (2017)

Highly misleading title.

I'm afraid it didn't work for me. I get the premise but couldn't connect with it.

[kinuta]

Swimming Pool - Francois Ozon (2003)

[jlhoots]

Menashe

[BillF]

10 hours ago, kinuta said:

Swimming Pool - Francois Ozon (2003)

Ah now, that was good!

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

Ah now, that was good!

Agreed ....

[kinuta]

Jane Eyre - Cary Joji Fukunaga (2011)

[duaneiac]

The movie which introduced the film-going world to Charlton Heston and he burst upon the screen in all his full-blown Hestonness.  A pretty drab story with a ridiculously unlikely plot.  Lizabeth Scott plays a nightclub singer and I believe I've read before that she did her own singing here.  If so, she was pretty good -- not great, but she could handle a tune and add some of her smoky personality to it.  This movie also features future Dragnet stars Jack Webb and Henry/Harry Morgan, but here they are co-workers on the opposite side of the law.

[soulpope]

[BillF]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

A great one! 

[kinuta]

Birdman Of Alacatraz - John Frankenheimer (1962)

3 hours ago, BillF said:

A great one! 

Indeed.

One film I went back and saw again the same week on a big screen in Kabukicho, Shinjuku.

Kabukicho was a great place in the 70's, crowded and sleazy but with an amazing number of cinemas.

All now wiped away by gentrification, leaving an arid , bland nothingness.

 

[kinuta]

A Night To Remember - Roy Ward Baker (1958)

Devil In A Blue Dress - Carl Franklin (1995)

[kinuta]

Dead Pesidents - Albert & Allen Hughes (1995)

One of the best, and overlooked, films of the '90s.

 

 

[kinuta]

Unlocked - Michael Apted (2017)

 

Instantly forgettable slap dash B flic.

Has Orlando Bloom competing for the Dick Van Dyke worst  ' Cor blimey, Gav '  Mockney ever award,

Malkovich, Douglas & Collette slumming it for beer money.

Rapace battles bravely with a dud script.

[jlhoots]

The Hustler

[catesta]

 

Serpintine Shell!

[paul secor]

[jlhoots]

The Oath - film from Iceland

[kinuta]

Richard 3 - Richard Loncraine (1995)

Brilliant. Ian McKellen is outstanding .

[kinuta]

The Big Sick - Michael Showalter (2017)

I liked it.

[BillF]

6 hours ago, kinuta said:

The Big Sick - Michael Showalter (2017)

I liked it.

Haven't seen it, but my daughter and son-in-law (both aged 30) liked it a lot.

[jlhoots]

I liked The Big Sick too & I'm way older than 30.

Harmonium  - Japanese film.

[kinuta]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

Haven't seen it, but my daughter and son-in-law (both aged 30) liked it a lot.

I think you'd like it. It manages to pack a lot of ideas in and the characters are real and easy to relate to. His family become a bit overbearing and that is the main weakness of the plot. Holly Hunter is really good.

Edited September 9, 2017 by kinuta