IdleRich
IdleRich
Must have been that you'd think
Films you've seen recently and would recommend WITH reservations
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IdleRich
IdleRich
Is this the robot kid one...? Wonder if that is still at cinemas here?
shiels
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I loved it. Best thing I watched last year, simple and beautiful. I’d be interested in your take
As for banshees I agree the fecks and cliches were annoying as fuck. playing into the tropes to commodify Ireland for international consumption much like fontaines dc. But the strangeness spite and pettiness of rural Ireland was spot on at times. Padraig is right in it feeling like a play in its direction and dialogue. I liked it overall though, it held my attention, a few funny moments. The allegorical aspect was only a little interesting, and I was trying to spot links after, severed fingers as counties? Etc
Have you seen Calm with horses? based on a Colin Barrett short story, On Netflix, Brendan keoghan is very good in it
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
An Cailín Ciúin has an ending which will riff on your hearts strings
Restraint, graceful but unsparing when it needs to be
Restraint, graceful but unsparing when it needs to be
I really like that actor, Brendan keoghan. Love him in that yorgos one with Nicole kidman, killing of a sacred deer (another one that's less good on a second viewing).
I imagine him and Colin have had a few japes.
The bit I liked a lot about Banshees is when padraic goes evil. Bit of character development. And I'm sympathetic with the donkey situation nowadays.
I imagine him and Colin have had a few japes.
The bit I liked a lot about Banshees is when padraic goes evil. Bit of character development. And I'm sympathetic with the donkey situation nowadays.
shiels
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It had the whole cinema in tears. If you told someone what happened it’s nothing big, but the way it builds with restraint towards that moment and then releases… masterful stuff
IdleRich
IdleRich
In Bruges in on telly right now, gonna watch it while bearing in mind the criticisms and other comments made in this thread.
My first thought though is just how boorish Colin Farrell's character is. I get that he's meant to be an uncultured lout who is totally uninterested in churches, old buildings and any kind of sightseeing, but why doesn't he do what anyone - certainly anyone from the British Isles - does when they are at a loose end in a new foreign city (or any city for that matter), go to all the bars and have a few drinks, meet some people etc he's not exactly shy.
Of course the joke of the whole film is how much he hates the place he's been sent to to cheer him up, and he's supposed to be really annoying to his companion - but as happens quite often in films I find, when someone is meant to be annoying they end up just irritating the fuck out of you the viewer.
Anyway, what's this director got with midgets - intrinsically funny? - and homophobic characters?
It has its moments though I guess, Ralph Fiennes is good strangely enough, his character does kick it up a gear when he turns up - though I bet most of you lot think the opposite.
My first thought though is just how boorish Colin Farrell's character is. I get that he's meant to be an uncultured lout who is totally uninterested in churches, old buildings and any kind of sightseeing, but why doesn't he do what anyone - certainly anyone from the British Isles - does when they are at a loose end in a new foreign city (or any city for that matter), go to all the bars and have a few drinks, meet some people etc he's not exactly shy.
Of course the joke of the whole film is how much he hates the place he's been sent to to cheer him up, and he's supposed to be really annoying to his companion - but as happens quite often in films I find, when someone is meant to be annoying they end up just irritating the fuck out of you the viewer.
Anyway, what's this director got with midgets - intrinsically funny? - and homophobic characters?
It has its moments though I guess, Ralph Fiennes is good strangely enough, his character does kick it up a gear when he turns up - though I bet most of you lot think the opposite.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I've been meaning to rewatch In Bruges. I like Fiennes.
IdleRich
IdleRich
The Banshees of Inisherin’s Writer-Director Has Made a Career of “Irishness.” It’s All a Load of Blarney.
Does Martin McDonagh understand Ireland at all?slate.com
An irishman rages at Inisherin
Never knew McDonagh wasn't Irish!
As an aside, Brendan Gleeson' son Domhnall is also an actor, this guy
When we were in London last year we saw him in a pub on a Hackney Road - an event which rivals the display of East European film posters in showing how much Hackney Pubs have changed.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Tonight I watched Casablanca for the fourth time and Singin' in the Rain for the third time.
Anyone else here love either of these films? I'd say the former cracks my top 50 favorite films, and the latter cracks my top 10.
For context, I've seen around 1,650 films.
Anyone else here love either of these films? I'd say the former cracks my top 50 favorite films, and the latter cracks my top 10.
For context, I've seen around 1,650 films.
Seen both but only once, never that into either.
Your tastes are in line with revered UK film critic Barry Norman.
From memory, both of those 2 are in his top 100. His book was one of the first film books I got, I think i got it in a charity shop when I was a teenager and went through as many of the top 100 as possible.
You should see what else was on his list and track down if you've not seen already
Your tastes are in line with revered UK film critic Barry Norman.
From memory, both of those 2 are in his top 100. His book was one of the first film books I got, I think i got it in a charity shop when I was a teenager and went through as many of the top 100 as possible.
You should see what else was on his list and track down if you've not seen already
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Cool, I've seen 64 of those 100. You're right, very aligned.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I just watched To Be or Not to Be actually, and I found it rather forgettable.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Both great films yeah. Well Singing in the Rain is a lot better than I expected with more to it than I'd assumed before I saw it. As discussed it's a big influence on Babylon, though I think the people I saw it with didn't realize the parallels until it was made explicit at the end. I think it's no longer a touchstone which people instantly recognize in the way it was once. No longer part of the vocabulary of film that you can just assume everyone is aware of - my friend actually studied film I think but he didn't know that it was about the advent of talkies, and so when the chorus sang Singing in the Rain he didn't see immediately that it was directly relevant to what was happening in Babylon as one was supposed to.
I love Casablanca and I think that that IS still part of, quite literally, the vocabulary of cinema in that it is stuffed with all these very famous and quotable lines (and one of the most famous misquotes in "play it again Sam") that everyone knows even if they haven't seen the film. This sometimes works to the detriment of the film as you're constantly being distracted from the actual dialogue by quotes you've seen plucked out of the script and highlighted or cast in bronze. They are like statues and so it's hard to put them back and see them as parts of a living conversation.
Stan, did you see me talking about a film - I think it was actually just called Havana - which felt as though it were almost a remake of Casablanca but moved to the Cuban party town on the eve of revolution. Robert Redford plays a gambler who gets mixed up with a woman who has to choose between him and a revolutionary hero.
One might say that it's not the plot that makes Casablanca good but rather the acting, the dialogue, the setting etc so what's the point of throwing out the baby and keeping the bathwater, and it's a valid question, but the unofficial remake is ok in its own right.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Haven’t heard of Havana, but there was also another one based on a Hemingway novel I believe, with Bogart and Bacall, set in the context of some Caribbean civil war. Forget the name, but that reminded me of Casablanca too.
For me Casablanca has great writing, with a decent plot, and what to me is an intriguing romantic premise, IE Bogart is really just a side lover for Bergman here, and he comes around to reckoning with that. Claude Rains gives maybe one of my favorite performances here, and so much of the dialogue, even just by featured characters, is sharp and amusing.
And I was also thinking about how Bogart isn’t an especially great actor, but is an excellent leading man. Seen twelve of his films now, and I think he’s a classic example of that kind of actor.