I've seen 24 of them, and FWIW, I thought The Social Network was an awful film. Fawning sycophancy that avoided addressing any of the genuinely interesting issues.
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I've seen 24 of them, and FWIW, I thought The Social Network was an awful film. Fawning sycophancy that avoided addressing any of the genuinely interesting issues.
Mmmh. Do you go to the cinema much Noel?Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
Or are you more of an ITV devotee?
:)
Not as much as I'd like. I used to quite like going to arty cinemas in my youth. The local cinema - Cinemac (in Macclesfield) is a delight to attend, but I tend to just watch safe films with the family these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I've probably seen most films on flights in the last 5 years. It means I can watch films without needing to think "will the others like this".
I watch ITV about once a year, normally for sport.
Am I the only weirdo that doesn't like films? They make me sleep. No TV in our household. Been to the cinema about once per girlfriend.
Ok I have exceptions...
The Godfather
Spirited away
probably few more...
Well I don't think any one could die truly contented unless they had seen:Quote:
Originally Posted by millipede
Michelangelo Antonioni Blow-Up
Ingmar Bergman Fanny & Alexander
John Boorman Point Blank
Claude Chabrol Le Boucher
Jean - Luc Godard Pierrot le Fou
Akiri Kurosawa The Seven Samurai
François Truffaut La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night)
Sam Peckinpah Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Luchino Visconti The Leopard
Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons
Billy Wilder Some Like It Hot
I am now preparing myself for heaven.:)
I haven't been to a cinema since I was a teenager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gambatte
Thanks. Will have a look.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Sounds interesting: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10364402/Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Haha I love how people posting on a forum on the internet can somehow describe TV and the cinema as a waste of time :)
I’m a visual person I guess and I like seeing wonderful things.
(And no I don’t consider Eastenders or Cash in the Attic wonderful things - like with music, radio, literature, cinema, video games, theatre, art, sport, the internet, and pretty much everything else in life, there’s an awful lot of crap as well as brilliant stuff to be found)
Criticising great films, just because you’re not interested in them or can’t do something else at the same time while watching them, is much like a non-fell runner criticising the Borrowdale Fell race because they can’t run a great fell race but can umm... listen to the radio and do other things at the same time :)
Watched Hillbilly Elegy on Netflix last night, Glenn Close is incredible, amused Mrs DTR with my inability to speak for about ten minutes at the end :D a very moving film.
Nearly came to blows with my brother last night, at his insistence that the original 1940's Sherlock Holmes films are "crap" and the ones being produced/shown at the moment are really good.
Seen 26 of them.
Memento? Really....irritating for the sake of it.
Towering above all others, so glad to see it recognised, is the wonderous WALL-E!
Will use the remaining list to while away the long dark winter nights!
I was a bit underwhelmed by Wall-e mainly because it seemed to borrow all the sentimentality for a poor lonely robot from Silent Running (which at the time I really loved). My kids loved Wall-e though
Definitely riffed on Silent Running. But I thought it was very brave poke in the eye for the US food industry and the mass scale poisoning of the US population. As well as a well aimed pop at the disposable have it all generation
Ten in no particular order
Close Encounters - queued for ages with my Dad
Fury - a western with tanks, what’s not to like
The house that dripped blood- Pertwee and Pitt :D
Jaws - scared the willies out of me
The Wicker Man - watched it with Robin Hardy and it’s got Ingrid Pitt :D
To kill a mockingbird- Peck and Duvall
Apocalypse now - the whole film is incredible
Forest Gump - Running and Tom Hanks brill
Bladerunner - visually stunning
Excalibur as above
Plus Empire of the Sun
And Life is BeautifulQuote:
Originally Posted by Daletownrunner
Forgot - Bridge of Spies, Mark Rylance what a presence, Wolf Hall as well if it was a filmQuote:
Originally Posted by Daletownrunner
I watch very few films but Bridge of Spies is one I remember as is 1917.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daletownrunner
Daletownrunner, all your faves are from the previous century!
Ha I just had to check, nearly but not all Wheeze :D I’ll add something more recent with ‘The Queens Gambit’ not really a film as it’s a series, I’m not a massive fan of the streaming type box sets normally, I usually zone out by the third episode but this had me hooked, Mrs DTR and I smashed it over two nightsQuote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
It does pull you in doesn't it? Maybe we should start a new thread about Favourite box sets?
Early DoorsQuote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
Pull you in... it has me looking for a Chess set on Amazon :D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
I just play with the one on the ceiling!😂
Hell or High Water. Second time for this, really good.
Ah Stolly - Previously from me on here: I thought Uncut Gems was a very striking film. Engaging, disturbing and memorable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fellbeast
The Daily Tel. film critic has now decided it was the top film of 2020:
"masterpiece
"exploding neutron bomb of nervous energy
"performance of his life
"a hair-raising, daisy-chain of life-or-death predicaments
Well yes, but as I previously said here.:)
I went to see Wonder Woman 1984. I found it formulaic, too long, hackneyed and saccharine. The kids said it was "alright".
I'm interested that the critics seem unwilling to wade in and say how rubbish it is. Is that because they're feeling sympathetic to a film industry on its knees. Or am I a grumpy old man, and actually it's not that bad.
Graham, stop watching all that arty stuff, and help provide some perspective here. ;)
That sort of film needs to gross $100 million dollars just not to lose money and you don't get that many bums on seats by imitating Michelangelo Antonioni, but you might by aiming for a mental age of 9.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
I have no idea which critics you read but all crtics have to be careful not to bite the industry hand that feeds them. Rather like all the cycling commentators who stayed oddly quiet about Lance Armstrong.
Not every film I see is in Spanish with subtitles (although Pedro Almodovar's are) and one example that is not is Love & Friendship * which I saw immediately on release in a cinema (naturally), because I was interested in the work of Whit Stillman, and which I thought was so absolutely wonderful that I bought the DVD and I bought Stillman's book.
I think if someone asked me to marry them I would first ask if they liked Love & Friendship because if not, then I would have to break another heart.
But having said that: I don't wish to raise your hopes. :)
*Tuesday BBC 2 1.35 pm
I had the utter misfortune to watch Heartbreak Ridge by Clint Eastwood recently, on the recommendation that it was great.
Absolutely terrible.
There is always the off button :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
Normally, I don't watch films that score less than 7.0 on IMDB. This one is a fair way below it (6.4). Maybe a cult classic?Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Travs, I've seen Heartbreak Ridge years ago. I don't remember it being that bad, but again, only 6.9 on IMDB.
The exception of course is Dark Star, but you probably have to be on something to grasp the true magnificence of it.
Ah yes IMBD. DB as in Data Base - compiled by an algorithm?Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
The only serious film journal published in GB, and probably the most prestigious in the world, is the BFI Sight and Sound and the June 2016 issue allocated six pages to Whit Stillman and Love & Friendship plus the cover. What does it know? I wonder what it thought about Dark Star (which I loved)?
Dark Star was made in 1974 but not released in the UK until 1978.
The BFI review (Richard Combs) in February 2018 included:
"entertains magnificently
coolly absurdist
wonderful finale
crisp comedy
great sophistication and sly poetry
ingenuity
neatly and modesty impressive
without the dazzle of Star Wars but superior in the wit of its design
etc etc
The film started as a University project at So.Cal. and cost $60,000. It was written and directed by John Carpenter who then went on to make The Assault on Precinct 13 and much else.
If I wish to know when a film was made I look at IMDB. If I wish to read a perceptive critique I read Sight and Sound.
As for Love & Friendship - well it is so quick-witted it needs to be seen several times and so watching it yet again next Tuesday will be a joy.
I recommend!:)
Oh Sir. You tease!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
I have just worked through CDs of 53 of Etta James' Chess Singles. She may have had a life-long heroin addiction and a chaotic private life; but At Last is sublime and will be played forever.
And now to Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Parsifal Prelude, Rienzi Overture,...
Everybody loves Wagner!
Well that's a statement I can definitely provide a counterexample to. In fact, I would rate Siegfried Idyll as possibly the most ghastly piece of classical music ever written. Wagner initiated a Dark Age of classical music which only a few contemporaries resisted (Dvorak comes to mind), and which only 20th century luminaries like Shostakovich have really dragged it out from.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Thing is, once you've settled down for the night to watch the recommended film, stocked up with all yer quavers and a few tins of Special Brew, you're kind of in it for the duration. If the beginning is iffy, there's a tendency to think. "no. I'll give it a chance' but once you're over half-way through you might as well watch the lot, just in case some iota of cinematic brilliance is held back to the end! As my Derbyshire friend says' we live in Hope but die in Castleton'.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnK
Well that's a little harsh.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonykay
I accept Wagner had his less attractive side but...well I'm now wracked with guilt that I have attended Das Rheingold and Der fliegender Holländer in the Wiener Staatsoper.
Cannot I like the Siegfried Idyll and play "Carnival" Overture, Scherzo Capriccioso, Golden Spinning Wheel, Serenade for Strings, Serenade in D minor, several symphonies? :)
Mmmh. That is an interesting notion: that a film can redeem mediocrity in its second half. I wonder if you can cite an example?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
As a half-hearted subscriber to the politique des auteurs I would argue that a Director who is rubbish in the first half of a movie is unlikely to have a Damascene convertion at the mid-point but hey... I am open to examples?:)
You may have a point there. Although obviously since I argue that films can only be truly seen in a cinema where, one hopes, Special Brew is not allowed, nor entry to the sort of people that drink Special Brew, I cannot commentQuote:
Originally Posted by Marco
No need to feel guilty about having different musical tastes from others, or about liking widely different styles of music. I like Bach's preludes and fugues, and I also like many of Shostakovich's string quartets . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
One of my favourite films, that I had sort of forgotten about, was on television today.
The Heroes of Telemark.
Cracking!