Return Of The Film Corner Thread

[kinuta]

City Hall - Harold Becker (1096)

Personal Shopper - Olivier Assayas (2016)

 

[BillF]

10 hours ago, kinuta said:

 

 

Personal Shopper - Olivier Assayas (2016)

 

[kinuta]

The Kindergarten Teacher - Sara Colangelo (2018)

[kinuta]

You Were Never Really Here - Lynne Ramsay (2017)

Watched it the first time and was impressed.

Watched it the second time and was blown away.

The extraordinary soundtrack should be heard on headphones.

Annihilation - Alex Garland (2018)

 

[kinuta]

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins (2016)

[Brad]

[kinuta]

The Mule - Clint Eastwood (2018)

Really enjoyed it.

[jlhoots]

Gloria Bell

[duaneiac]

This is about the only worthwhile thing to be found in this film, so you can spare yourself an hour and a half of bad acting, choppy editing, hack dialogue and all-over-the-place dircecting:

 

[Brad]

Saw that when I was a teenager.  For some reason, I still remember it. 

[kinuta]

Peterloo - Mike Leigh (2018)

Events leading up the the murderous repression of a meeting to demand voting rights.

Big scale production with a huge, impressive cast.

Lots and lots of talking and then even more talking sets the stage for the final massacre.

Mike Leigh proves he can work on a big canvas just as well as he does with his small domestic dramas.

 

 

[kinuta]

The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley - Alex Gibley (2019)

I knew little about this and found it all very interesting.

I'll read the book too, it's next on my reading list.

[Brad]

2 hours ago, kinuta said:

The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley - Alex Gibley (2019)

I knew little about this and found it all very interesting.

I'll read the book too, it's next on my reading list.

She is the lowest of the low, committing out and out fraud. It's amazing how many people she hoodwinked. 

[kinuta]

9 hours ago, Brad said:

She is the lowest of the low, committing out and out fraud. It's amazing how many people she hoodwinked. 

After watching the film I wondered why the poster had a question mark after the word fraud.

There's no doubt in my mind that she was one, big time.

She certainly has the gift of the gab, conning a whole string of heavyweight characters and countless consumers.

Coming from outside the US and only having scant knowledge of her story made it all the more gobsmacking.

The financial fraud is bad enough but peddling highly dubious and inaccurate medical data is a different level of callousness. 

 

Last night -

Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me  - Olivia Lichtenstein (2018)

Always loved his voice and appreciated the documentary, even though it might have delved deeper into one or two crucial happenings.

Edited March 22, 2019 by kinuta

[JSngry]

YEAH!

[kinuta]

Dragged Across Concrete - S. Craig Zahler (2018)

 

Sub par Tarantinoesque, bad taste in the mouth dumb cop frolic.

Can't really think of anything positive to say about it .

The title sums it up.

[jlhoots]

Us

[porcy62]

 

Never saw it before, with soundtrack of John Lewis, quite a solid noir movie.

Not surprisingly the liberal Robert Ryan, with his grim face, played a racist villain, he spent some time after the realease to discuss with press "the problems of an actor like me playing the kind of character that in real life he finds totally despicable."

Edited March 24, 2019 by porcy62

[Brad]

There’s a new film streaming service called Ovid.tv

Here's an article in the New Yorker about it. Ovid Film Service

According to the article, 

“OVID.tv does not offer the entire catalogue of each participating company, but it’s nonetheless a cornucopia of international movies and documentaries, short- and medium-length films and features, recent ones as well as classics. It’s far better for recent movies than FilmStruck ever was, and its spectrum of new movies is far more substantial than that of Netflix, wider-ranging than that of Amazon Prime.”

[kinuta]

Kursk - Thomas Vinterberg  (2018)

Retelling of the submarine catastrophe .

Strong direction, sets and cast.

Definitely worth watching.

[porcy62]

10 hours ago, kinuta said:

Kursk - Thomas Vinterberg  (2018)

Retelling of the submarine catastrophe .

Strong direction, sets and cast.

Definitely worth watching.

I am glad of it, I confess my secret pleasure: I love movies about submarines.

[jlhoots]

Woman At War

[kinuta]

The Wizard Of Lies - Barry Levinson (2017)

Michelle Pfeiffer gives one of her best performances.

I've added the book to my reading list.

[jlhoots]

To Dust

[Brad]

Translated as "He's Back." It's a strange movie, funny in parts, but also basically unsettling, which I think is the whole point.  It's on Netflix for those interested in seeing it. 

Translated as "He's Back." It's a strange movie, funny in parts, but also basically unsettling, which I think is the whole point.  It's on Netflix for those interested in seeing it.