Sep 29, 2015

That's cause Teshigahara is the hardest.

 

Sep 29, 2015

I didn't appreciate the Ikiru shade tbh.

 

Sep 29, 2015

Need a favorite Japanese filmmakers thread next

 

Sep 29, 2015

It's just so heavy handed and melodramatic. I love movies where characters deal with their own mortality and search for meaning in their lives, but I couldn't stand that guy staring off camera in long, geriatric pauses. I gave it the benefit of the doubt as being a cultural artifact, but I no longer think that's the case.

 

Sep 29, 2015

Kenji Mizoguchi is god.

 

Sep 30, 2015

Mizoguchi God, Kurosawa an angel, Ozu a man.
The spirited, the warrior, the humanist

Since no one gives af about Last Movie thread....

(3 of these are from Venice which I just managed to post on LB now)

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  I nostri ragazzi 2014
  ★★★ Watched 27 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 71/100 - THE DINNER (I nostri ragazzi, Ivano De Matteo, Italy)
  
  A socio-political melodrama about justice and hypocrisy, The Dinner tells the story of brothers at odds when their children are the criminals.
  
  Read Full Review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/29/viff-dinner-sense-realism-despite-melodramatic-tone/
  
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  Golden Kingdom 2015
  ★★★★ Watched 27 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 81/100 - GOLDEN KINGDOM
  
  Shot with an acute attention to lighting, Golden Kingdom is a rather minimalist film with a sparse aesthetic design and a tranquil sense of time.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/29/viff-golden-kingdom-thoughtful-meditative-film/
  
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  The Club 2015
  ★★★½ Watched 26 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 77/100 - THE CLUB (Pablo Larrain)
  
  Without heavy handed pandering to the audience, The Club manages to make its points obvious, if only that its points are so common sense that everything else seems ridiculous and even childish.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/29/viff-club-highly-daring-thriller/
  
  No likes
  
  
• Ninth Floor (2015)
  Ninth Floor 2015
  ★★★ Watched 26 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 69/100 - NINTH FLOOR (Mina Shum)
  
  The film is strong and provides some great exposition of a highly important event in Canadian history.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/29/viff-ninth-floor-strong-film-providing-great-exposition/
  
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  Blanka 2015
  ★★★ Watched 07 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  70/100 - Blanka is a well shot, acted, and nuanced film which deeply expresses both feelings of isolation and feelings of togetherness. Though simplistic, it is endearing and honest, and will leave viewers with open hearts.
  
  Read Full Review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/08/venice-blanka-review/
  
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  Baby Bump 2015
  ★★★★ Watched 03 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  80/100 - Baby Bump is not so much a story as it is a tapestry of the disturbing and uncomfortable experience of growing up.
  
  Read Full Review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/06/venice-baby-bump-review/
  
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  The Fits 2015
  ★★★½ Watched 07 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  76/100 - Likely a euphemism for “fitting in”, Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits is a coming of age story which inventively uses a mysterious event to poetically evoke the experience of acceptance.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/07/venice-fits-review/
  
  
  
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  Right Now, Wrong Then 2015
  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Sep, 2015
  
  Published by Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 92/100 - Right Now, Wrong Then
  
  Through this subtle yet powerful manner of storytelling, Sang-soo crafts perhaps his most personal and tender love story, while simultaneously offering perhaps his most lucid philosophical discourse on the matters of time and language.
  
  
  Read Full Review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/29/viff-right-now-wrong-personal-tender-love-story/
  
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• Paradise (2015)
  Paradise 2015
  ★★★½ Watched 25 Sep, 2015
  
  Review Published by Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 73/100 - PARADISE
  
  Though beautifully told, the film appears to constantly loop conversation on the conflict between tradition and modernity, liberty and control, and expression and repression, without ever providing something particularly resourceful or insightful by its end.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/28/viff-paradise-rather-frustrating-film/

 

Sep 30, 2015

Wrote a piece on Will Ferrell for HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-hoglund-/snl-in-review-how-will-fe_b_8221448.html

pls read n love
@Vahn @Twan @irbis @Charlie Strangelove @FilmAndWhisky @CreativeSXN

 

Sep 30, 2015

Robert Bresson is too much for my low IQ, i'm embarrased to say but i lose concetration while watching some of his films. Last one i saw was Au Hasard Balthazar, i liked it and the last 2 minutes are breathtaking but during the film my minds tends go away a lot. The one i appreciated the most is A Man Escaped.

 

Sep 30, 2015

Bresson and his robot army

 

Oct 1, 2015

Movies on my radar for October (pretty big month):

October 2- The Martian (Ridley Scott), Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
October 7-9- The Forbidden Room (Guy Madden & Evan Johnson), Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle), Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
October 16- The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro), Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg), Room (Lenny Abrahamson), Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga), Truth (James Vanderbilt), The Meadowland (Reed Morano), Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
October 21-23- Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson), Tokyo Tribe (Shion Sono)
October 30- Our Brand Is Crisis (David Gordon Green)

 

Oct 1, 2015

The Assassin is my new favourite film of the year. Big Surprise right?

2015 masterpieces now includes
The Assassin
The Forbidden Room
Right Now, Wrong Then
Room
Mad Max

Bresson is goat. A Man Escaped his most accessible film. Country Priest the tops. And Four Nights (check out the avy)

Lost and Beautiful like a poor man's Au Hasard Balthazar.
Kaili Blues a surprise gem
Sorrentino's Youth a small step backwards, but great cinematography

 

Oct 1, 2015

Mad Max is a masterpiece? @FilmAndWhisky

 

Oct 1, 2015

• ^YUP!
  
  
  
  The Forbidden Room 2015
  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 95/100 - THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin)
  
  It is uproarious, and there is no other film like it. This is cinema as a form of thought—cinema as consciousness.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/30/viff-forbidden-room-utterly-mesmerizing/
  
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  Beeba Boys 2015
  ★ Watched 27 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 35/100 - BEEBA BOYS (Deepa Mehta)
  
  Put candidly, Beeba Boys is a joke of a film, only marginally redeemed by its capacity to amuse.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/30/viff-beeba-boys-shiny-outside-completely-empty-within/
  
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  ^YUP!
  
  
  
• ^
  Sleeping Giant 2015
  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Sep, 2015
  
  Review published at Next Projection
  
  [REVIEW] 86/100 - THE SLEEPING GIANT (Andrew Cividino)
  
  Sleeping Giant is deeply personal, and its genuine spirit is palpably found in every shot.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/09/30/viff-sleeping-giant-deeply-personal/

 

Oct 1, 2015

For anyone that pays attention to my ratings... I've shifted it to make /100 translate to 5 star system better.

New system:

90-100 pts. = Amazing/Masterful ★★★★★
85-89 pts. = Excellent = ★★★★½
80-84 pts. = Great= ★★★★
75-79 pts. = Very Good = ★★★½
65-74 pts. = Good = ★★★
60-64pts. = Decent = ★★½
50-59pts. = Mediocre = ★★
40-49 = Bad = ★½
20-39 = Awful = ★
0-19 pts. = Unbearable = ½

Now gonna go back and change all those 75-79 films into 3 star boys.

 

Oct 1, 2015

Blackhat is a masterpiece.

 

Oct 1, 2015

Blackhat d--- close brother, d--- close.

 

Oct 1, 2015

its a masterpiece don't try me plehboi

 

Oct 1, 2015

and f--- a decimal

 

Oct 1, 2015

The visit flames

 

Oct 2, 2015

• Never Steady, Never Still (2015)
  Never Steady, Never Still 2015
  ★★★ Watched 01 Oct, 2015
  
  Intriguing, well shot short. Seen at VIFF15 in the Coping Mechanisms program.
  
  65/100
  
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  Room 2015
  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Sep, 2015
  
  [Review] 91/100 - Room (Lenny Abrahamson, Canada/Ireland)
  
  A thrilling and highly captivating film, Room tells the unique, highly intriguing story of a boy born and raised in a single room finally seeing the world. Told from his perspective, the film genuinely captures the frightening yet euphoric experience of discovery.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/10/01/viff-room-thrilling-highly-captivating/
  
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  A Matter of Interpretation 2014
  ★★★ Watched 28 Sep, 2015
  
  [REVIEW] 65/100 - Matter of Interpretation (Kwangkuk Lee, South Korea)
  
  A protégé of Hong Sang-soo, Lee Kwang-Kuk shares in his master’s whimsy and prose, but lacks severely his charm and depth. Though as lighthearted as a Sang-soo film, Matter of Interpretation does not have the underlying philosophical motive or deep character resonance which makes the former’s films so brilliant. Instead, A Matter of Interpretation is rather childish, despite its obvious sincerity.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/10/01/viff-matter-interpretation-rather-childish/
  
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  Louder Than Bombs 2015
  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Sep, 2015
  
  [REVIEW] LOUDER THAN BOMBS (Joachim Trier, Norway)
  
  The film is genuine and refined with an understated narrative arc which authentically portrays the characters in question.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/10/01/viff-louder-bombs-exceptionally-cinematic/
  
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  Topophilia 2015
  ★★★½ Watched 28 Sep, 2015
  
  [Review] 75/100 - TOPOPHILIA (Peter Bo Rappmund, USA)
  
  Topophilia undoubtedly has much to offer; it is certainly a fascinating example of observational cinema.
  
  Read full review:
  nextprojection.com/2015/10/01/viff-topophilia-fascinating-example-observational-cinema/