No intermission in my showing. I will say it goes by quickly as the movie is a gripping triumph, but I did have to use the bathroom about an hour and a half into the film so I spent about two hours holding it.
It’s excellent. It’s long. It’s excellent and long.
You’re missing out on some great films then. Not everything he’s made is my favourite but he has had an excellent career. Some really fantastic films, especially his contribution to the what is effectively the American New Wave.
I’ve seen Shutter Island which I thought was great, Hugo which I enjoyed well enough but didn’t find it anything exceptional and Wolf of Wall Street which I know I enjoyed at the time but can’t actually remember anything about. All of them I saw well after release and with people who basically made me watch them.
I’m sure he has other good films, but I’m simply not interested in the majority of the subjects he appears to make films about; eg gangsters in America. Many of his films appear to be heavily American-centric, which also doesn’t interest me.
So maybe I’m missing out on “great films” from a technical perspective, but if it’s not something I’m interested in I’m not going to go out of my way to see it unless the trailers really grab me, which none have.
I’m sure there are plenty of non-Austrians who would have no interest is seeing The Castle despite it being one of the greatest films ever.
Completely fair.
Their loss!
What do people read for TV/Film analysis? I have long visited AV club but their management has just run that place into the dirt.
Some I read semi-frequently, and even used to subscribe to when I was still working on my own academic research:
Cinephile: The University of British Columbia’s Film Journal
Canadian Journal of Film Studies : (utpjournals.press)
Film Comment Magazine
Screen | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
SCMS has a nice comprehensive list of links to various film journals if you want to explore further:
Film/Media Journals: A-F (cmstudies.org)
Nothing, honestly. I like to make up my own mind and discuss movies with family/ friends. Perhaps it’s a hold over from art school, but I find it all gets a bit too la-dee-da.
Punisher: War Zone (2008) - IMDb favorite movie! and have rewatched too many times
Also love watching the following shows
-All the Chicago Shows
-recently got into CSI
-and everything Masterpiececs on WTTW
Do you use some feed to make these websites a bit more user friendly?
We watched Ghostbusters 1 and 2 and even 2016; those were nice. I like when they bust the Ghosts
But I guess the season for that kind of thing is now…OCTOVER
And we watched the Nightmare Before Christmas…though, my colleague said she watched that at Christmas. I guess it could go either way
I watched a fair number of spooky movies for Halloween season, including some classic slashers (finally getting around to those for the first time) and a lineup of Universal monsters (most of those for the first time too).
Halloween — The best of the “big three,” well-directed and foundational for the genre. The opening and ending are both perfect, though I’d say the middle dragged a bit. Mike Meyers isn’t as memorable to me as other killers, but all in all a solid horror and a hint of great things (or singular Thing) to come from the director.
Friday the 13th — On one hand this is the slasher genre at its cheesiest and most basic (to the point it feels repetitive), but the reveal toward the end makes this IMO. An odd case of a series’ legacy obscuring the twist of the original entry in a way that took me by pleasant surprise.
Nightmare on Elm Street — Probably my favorite of these conceptually (I’m a sucker for “dream world” scenarios), and Freddy is certainly a memorable killer. I thought things got a bit too silly toward the end though (Home Alone shenanigans lol), and the final scene was a bit of a letdown.
For the Universal monsters (1930s-40s), I watched Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man. I’d say Dracula and the two Frankensteins are worth a watch for movie history’s sake, but I found myself pretty bored with Wolf Man and Mummy. The hidden gem of the bunch though goes to Invisible Man, which took me by surprise for both its cinematography tricks and the lead actor’s performance. Great film that holds up.
I also watched The Exorcist, which was a very wild time, and The Exorcist III, which was great as a follow-up. (Was told to not bother with II.) These were probably the best movies I watched for October, actually. Really dark and moody stuff, never sure what these possessing demons are gonna do next.
I’ll be honest I’m either searching through journals for specific topics or just reading the latest journal issues when they are released. It’s arguably a little less conventional than mainstream film critique because it’s coming from film journals which originate in academia.
For more audience friendly reviews of films currently in cinemas I used to like The New Yorker. Otherwise I just seek out writers I enjoy.
Just finished our nth rewatching of Shingeki no Kyojin, getting ready for the premiere of the hopefully final part of the final part of the final episode of the final season this Saturday.
@Nelemania, you may be interested in this if you’d like to extend your comic reading to DC.
I’d say all the titles in the article are worth checking out.
Thank You! I will look into that.
Just finished watching Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. I had seen it before but when I was a out 15 or so, so much of it went over my head. Now, I can really appreciate just how clever the film is.
Part 1984, part Monty Python, part Vogons for Hitchhiker’s Guide, working in a job that involves a lot of contracts, this really made me smile.
I think it was probably 30-40 minutes too long and some parts were a tad indulgent but the ending is brilliant and all the performances were great. Such a shame it wasn’t a success on release.
I just had to share this.
I watched Priscilla. My impression is that its aim is to create an accurate depiction of Priscilla and Elvis’ relationship instead of the rose-colored version that we get in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. I think it succeeds in that regard creating a doomed romance with grooming at its core. Both Elvis and Priscilla come across as fully fleshed out people instead of Elvis being wholly evil and Priscilla being wholly correct. The story is constantly evolving and the film is interesting throughout.
Jacob Elordi gives an inconsistent performance which is a shame since he is so core to the film. Cailee Spaeny, on the other hand, is great!
The Elvis estate refused to allow Elvis’ music to be featured in the film which sucks as Elvis’ music is a driving force for the film thematically. It would’ve emphasized Priscilla’s conflict.
All in all, I recommend it if you are a Sofia Coppola stan or you are interested in the story.
7/10
Watched the final episode of AoT/SNK. No one liked the manga ending apparently. I actually liked the anime ending but I didn’t dislike the manga ending in the first place. And some people cried during the whole second half of it.
All in all, a fairly decent ending to the series I’d say.
Gotta be honest; this doesn’t excite me at all. 