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Post by julesd68 on Dec 21, 2023 1:29:10 GMT
I watched Maestro on Netflix, released yesterday. I found it to be a beautiful, poignant and very moving film. Deeply melancholic. Will say more about it anon.
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Post by MartinT on Dec 21, 2023 22:21:41 GMT
No review of Maestro can possibly impart how this story is conveyed. A magnificent production with a very convincing Bradley Cooper as the maestro, but the star performance is from Carey Mulligan - possibly the performance of a lifetime and she deserves an Oscar for it. The scenes as Felicia is dying were altogether too much for me to bear.
What it would have been like to have been there for one of his performances of Mahler 2!
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Post by mikeyb on Dec 22, 2023 9:48:03 GMT
Godzilla Minus One, great fun, incredible sound at the local Imax.
Harks back to the Japanese Godzilla movies of old. One of my top 3 movies this year.
Subtitled.
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Post by julesd68 on Dec 22, 2023 12:44:06 GMT
No review of Maestro can possibly impart how this story is conveyed. A magnificent production with a very convincing Bradley Cooper as the maestro, but the star performance is from Carey Mulligan - possibly the performance of a lifetime and she deserves an Oscar for it. The scenes as Felicia is dying were altogether too much for me to bear. What it would have been like to have been there for one of his performances of Mahler 2! I think the two performances are Oscar nomination worthy for sure. Especially in the first part of the film, with the way the dialogue is handled, it gives the impression of a documentary. Remarkable. Here's a very interesting article with the Director of Photography - I think his work is exceptional too in this film. www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-12-20/how-matthew-libatique-found-the-perfect-lensing-for-maestro-the-story-of-an-imperfect-marriage |
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Post by Fro on Dec 22, 2023 14:57:00 GMT
Bunch of my buddies and I had fun watching, "Violent Night"
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 7, 2024 0:59:28 GMT
I watched Saltburn which is now free to watch on Prime. There are lots of good things about this film and it's very nearly a great film - it's still well worth a look and is refreshingly different from most of the dreck peddled at us on Amazon. Some excellent performances. It's only really the denouement that I had issues with but won't post any spoilers here ...
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Post by speedysteve on Jan 17, 2024 9:18:03 GMT
I watched Saltburn which is now free to watch on Prime. There are lots of good things about this film and it's very nearly a great film - it's still well worth a look and is refreshingly different from most of the dreck peddled at us on Amazon. Some excellent performances. It's only really the denouement that I had issues with but won't post any spoilers here ... 2nd all of that. Brideshead revisited, revisited!😂 Spot on with denouement comment. |
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Post by MartinT on Jan 18, 2024 22:08:53 GMT
I'm watching Leave the World Behind with Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke, on Netflix.
Creepy, like an extended Twilight Zone. Very well done with especially good camera work.
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Post by petea on Jan 24, 2024 18:24:10 GMT
We went to see "Poor Things" in the cinema on Monday evening and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 24, 2024 18:38:19 GMT
I have Poor Things down to watch next.
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Post by Tim on Jan 25, 2024 9:54:04 GMT
I have Poor Things down to watch next. I've done 3 screenings of Poor Things!
#movienerd
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Post by MartinT on Jan 25, 2024 10:07:13 GMT
Tim have you tried Leave The World Behind?
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Post by Tim on Jan 25, 2024 11:09:54 GMT
Tim have you tried Leave The World Behind? I have MartinT , it didn't work for me, in fact I got quite bored with it and ended up fast forwarding a lot of it. It didn't pass my current Tim benchmark test of 'would I watch it again' 
Only three films I've seen this year I'd say were good or very good and that's Poor Things, The Boy and the Heron and Society of the Snow. Ferrari is utter drivel and Priscilla was okay, but I was hoping for excellence there. However, I saw that screened on 35mm film and that was fantastic.
The best films of 2023 for me were;
(not in any order, although my favourite film of 2023 by some margin was Past Lives)
The Quiet Girl - Colm Bairéad *
Enys Men - Mark Jenkin
Saint Omer - Alice Diop
TÁR - Todd Field
Close - Lukas Dhont
Rye Lane - Raine Allen Miller
Past Lives - Celine Song
Saltburn - Emerald Fennell
How to Have Sex - Mollie Manning Walker
Oppenheimer - Nolan
Barbie - Gerwig
Afire - Christian Petzold
Passages - Ira Sachs
Killers of the Flower Moon - Scorsese
Anatomy of a Fall - Justine Triet
Fallen Leaves - Aki Kaurismäki
The Eternal Daughter - Joanna Hogg
R.M.N. - Cristian Mungiu
The Beasts - Rodrigo Sorogoyen *
The Eight Mountains - Van Groeningen *
Queendom - Agniia Galdanova
* 2022 initial release.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 25, 2024 11:57:19 GMT
I have yet to see TAR.
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Post by Tim on Jan 25, 2024 15:47:42 GMT
It's very good Martin, despite me not liking his lame excuses (Todd Field) saying it wasn't influenced by Marin Alsop, which it clearly was. But that doesn't stop it from being a good film.
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 25, 2024 15:55:53 GMT
I can't recommend Tar highly enough. So much detail and thought in the film - I watched it twice in quick succession which is unheard of for me. Bought it on Blu-ray and it looks gorgeous.
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 31, 2024 14:25:48 GMT
Wow. You could have put this film in the Drama thread. I found The Lost Leonardo to be utterly engrossing and compelling. A story of greed, ego, tarnished reputations, dirty politics and limitless wealth. The outcomes and ramifications start off macro and end up global - you might say nobody gets out alive.
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Post by MartinT on Feb 15, 2024 20:28:35 GMT
I've just finished watching Oppenheimer. I'm sure I can't add much to what's already been said about it, but I do think it's an extraordinary tour-de-force of ensemble acting, with Cillian Murphy giving the performance of his life.
I am very relieved that it wasn't dumbed down, Nolan was brave to include all the key physics debates and not just gloss over them. I had known Oppenheimer was put through the grille in the aftermath but hadn't realised what a cruel vindictive character Strauss had been.
A magnificent film and a rare 10/10.
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Post by Tim on Feb 15, 2024 20:46:47 GMT
It's an outstanding film Martin. Not many people could pull off a biopic consisting in the main of a lot of people talking in rooms, but Nolan managed it with bells on.
Cillian Murphy for my money deserves the Oscar for his performance, but we'll see? I read the book after seeing the film and Nolan kept it pretty much 100% true to the facts.
Film trivia for you, that scene of the scientists in the room having a moral discussion about the bomb were extras . . . 17 current National Laboratory scientists from Los Alomos. Nolan wanted them involved to ensure he kept the story real.
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Post by julesd68 on Feb 20, 2024 9:11:24 GMT
Past Lives is a dream of a film about childhood friends in South Korea and deserves all the plaudits it received. It's very gentle, funny and so beautifully observed. Some gorgeous analogue photography - shot in film it looks just wonderful in this nostalgic format, instantly transporting us to lost times.and really adding to the poignancy of the story, The OST is fab too, really adding to the idiosyncratic easy going feel of the film.  |
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