What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[wojt]

That reminds me of Teshigahara’s first full length feature film whose title gets translated into English as “Pitfall “.

I haven’t seen it years but it’s available for streaming on Criterion. It’s worth it for the Takemitsu Toru score alone. I think Takemitsu’s best work came on these type of low budget films where he had plenty of artistic freedom but couldn’t squeeze a lot of instrumentation into the tiny budgets.

I don't know this director, will check him out thanks!

 

[patrick_b]

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Conan the Barbarian . John Milius , 1982 .

what a ******* movie . featuring a bevy of professional athletes ( read : non-professional actors ) including schwarzenegger , dancer sandahl bergman , pipeline surfer gerry lopez , sven ole-thorsen , and ben davidson . and anchored by thespians james earl jones , max von sydow , and mako . incredible .


the film recounts conan's early adventures , from cimmerian youth to slave gladiator to avenger-for-hire . also : unlike much of schwarzenegger's ouevre this is a pretty sensual flick ! recommend !

I was 11 or 12 when that came out. My buddy and I convinced his mom to take us. As is typical in our country she was fine with the beheadings, skull crushing and carnage but b00bies were just too much for our young minds.

 

[barutanseijin]

I don't know this director, will check him out thanks!

Woman in the Dunes is his most well known. Back in my student days it was an art house and college cinema staple along with the usual stuff like Antonioni, Fellini, Fassbinder, Kurosawa, Ozu etc.. It’s a surrealist take on bureaucracy with a battle royale of the sexes, again with a fantastic score by Takemitsu Toru. The music sometimes makes me squirm— just like some of the the scenes in the film.

Teshigahara’s Pitfall is a ghost story set in a coal mining town in Kyushu. The 1950s/1960s labor struggles in the region are part of the plot. Not sure what is being said exactly.

 

[SixOhNine]

Oliver Stone is an irrelevant d0uchebag hack and he needs to f*ck all the way off.

Oliver Stone Says Ryan Gosling Is “Wasting His Time” Making Films Like ‘Barbie’ That Contribute To “Infantilization Of Hollywood”; Says He “Fell Asleep” Watching ‘John Wick’

Oliver Stone has a lot of opinions about the current film industry and says movies like Barbie are contributing to the "infantilization of Hollywood."

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[brokencycle]

Oliver Stone is an irrelevant d0uchebag hack and he needs to f*ck all the way off.

Oliver Stone Says Ryan Gosling Is “Wasting His Time” Making Films Like ‘Barbie’ That Contribute To “Infantilization Of Hollywood”; Says He “Fell Asleep” Watching ‘John Wick’

Oliver Stone has a lot of opinions about the current film industry and says movies like Barbie are contributing to the "infantilization of Hollywood."

deadline.com

Yes, he should stop 'wasting his time' making 8 figures for a few months of work.

 

[SixOhNine]

Oopsie!

Oliver Stone Apologizes for ‘Ignorantly’ Judging ‘Barbie’ Before Seeing It, Says He ‘Appreciated the Film for Its Originality’

"I wish Greta and the entire 'Barbie' team good fortune at the Oscars," the director says The post Oliver Stone Apologizes for ‘Ignorantly’ Judging ‘Barbie’ Before Seeing It, Says He ‘Appreciated the Film for Its Originality’ appeared first on TheWrap.

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Assh0le.

 

[hpreston]

Damn, between this with Stone and Scorsese critiquing superhero films as "not cinema" maybe its time for a changing of the guard.....

In other news (and apropos of the above) wife and I watched Killers for the Flower Moon this past weekend

Spoiler: Spoilers

Overall I liked it, but man, per conceived notions: I went in thinking De Niro or Dicaprio (or both) were the "heros" not the villians. Parts of it were really hard to watch...

Eye opening film. Great perfomances, cinetography etc. as one would expect.

 

[barutanseijin]

Damn, between this with Stone and Scorsese critiquing superhero films as "not cinema" maybe its time for a changing of the guard.....

Scorsese and Stone won’t be making that many more movies. There will be a changing of the guard. However, that doesn’t invalidate their criticism.

Aesthetic criticisms aside, what may put an end to the glut of superhero movies is that Hollywood isn’t selling in China. The studios may decide they need to try something else.

 

[Oswald Cornelius]

I'm ready superhero movies to be done. The last one I saw as the Ironman with Mickey Rourke. Can't stand that ****. I 'get' it, but it's sucking all the talent out of the world and I'm over it.

I understand some actor thinking, "Yeah, $4mill for a movie, get a franchise, I'm rich..." Then, there's nothing left and 20 years of cinema (and his career) -- gone. SO glad it's ending.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Quite simply a remarkable film can clearly see why it picked up the Palme d’Or. Highly recommended.

 

[hpreston]

👍👍

 

[NorCal]

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Meh. Was not blown away.

Saw Kingdom of Heaven the other day. One of the movies where stuff just happens. Dude is in the Holy Land for like a day and the princess is throwing ass at him. The king decides he's "The best dude ever and should get all the good things" after knowing him like a month. Some OK hack and slash but I was unimpressed.

 

[wojt]

Watchable, but did not make a lot of sense even for a Bond movie.

Tropical tux and Lea Seydoux were possibly best things about this movie. Not great not terrible.

 

[jcman311]

Watchable, but did not make a lot of sense even for a Bond movie.

Tropical tux and Lea Seydoux were possibly best things about this movie. Not great not terrible.

Spectre and QoS were the duds of DC Bond. Neither of them is terrible, but they really don’t fit. Luckily, No Time to Die was a nice close to the era because at the rate they were going we’d get another meh movie before an enjoyable one next.

 

[zissou]

Poor Things. One of the strangest and most amazing movies I’ve seen. If Emma Stone doesn’t win the Best Actress Oscar, I’ll be sorely disappointed.