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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 14:34:16 GMT
Ok will do. Wow I've got to get back to see Late Night again next week. In the meantime though will rent Talk To Me hopefully today.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 6, 2024 1:31:23 GMT
Boiling Point
A one uninterrupted take 90 minute film starring Stephen Graham about a night at a restaurant he is running. I found it difficult to look away the entire time. I've worked in 5 restaurants. It's a terrible situation for everybody involved most of all for the owner because he is at the mercy of his revolving door of employees. I saw a million things and constant patterns while working at restaurants but what speaks to me the most is that not one restaurant I worked at is in business 10 years later, ages before covid, and nobody that I know is still working in that profession.
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Post by Tim on Apr 8, 2024 19:51:17 GMT
Opus -
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Painful, deeply moving, gloriously beautiful and achingly sad to watch, with a purity seldom seen on film . . . . I absolutely adored every single minute.
5/5
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 9, 2024 8:36:51 GMT
Boiling Point A one uninterrupted take 90 minute film starring Stephen Graham about a night at a restaurant he is running. I found it difficult to look away the entire time. I've worked in 5 restaurants. It's a terrible situation for everybody involved most of all for the owner because he is at the mercy of his revolving door of employees. I saw a million things and constant patterns while working at restaurants but what speaks to me the most is that not one restaurant I worked at is in business 10 years later, ages before covid, and nobody that I know is still working in that profession. When I were a lad... I sold refrigeration for 3 years and saw many restaurants, pubs and other eateries from the other side A few posh ones in the mix Good, bad and indifferent One phrase that always stuck with me from owners "I'll just get a manager in" Hahahaha Here comes a painful end to that business except for a very few |
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 9, 2024 23:34:44 GMT
Incendies (2010)
This harrowing Denis Villeneuve film set in a Middle Eastern war zone is almost too much to take in but really needs to be seen. It somehow feels so real, which makes it all the more harrowing. Currently a 99p rental on Amazon Prime.
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Post by Tim on Apr 10, 2024 17:08:36 GMT
Incendies (2010) This harrowing Denis Villeneuve film set in a Middle Eastern war zone is almost too much to take in but really needs to be seen. It somehow feels so real, which makes it all the more harrowing. Currently a 99p rental on Amazon Prime. So glad you got to see it Jules, an absolute triumph of a film - you've eloquently highlighted one of my biggest issues with a lot of mainstream cinema too . . . reality. If they don't look real, feel real or if the actors are 'acting', you'll normally see me heading for the door!
I think it's Villeneuve's best film, certainly near the top of the pile anyway, as it's often hard to single out just one.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 10, 2024 18:02:30 GMT
Incendies (2010) This harrowing Denis Villeneuve film set in a Middle Eastern war zone is almost too much to take in but really needs to be seen. It somehow feels so real, which makes it all the more harrowing. Currently a 99p rental on Amazon Prime. So glad you got to see it Jules, an absolute triumph of a film - you've eloquently highlighted one of my biggest issues with a lot of mainstream cinema too . . . reality. If they don't look real, feel real or if the actors are 'acting', you'll normally see me heading for the door!
I think it's Villeneuve's best film, certainly near the top of the pile anyway, as it's often hard to single out just one.
Well I appreciate the recommendation on this one Tim, we all found it absolutely gripping, including my mum! |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 10, 2024 20:18:53 GMT
Sicario was harrowing. I have Incendies down to watch soon.
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Post by Tim on Apr 17, 2024 11:22:27 GMT
Civil War Alex Garland - A24
I wasn't initially going to bother with this one, but I'm so glad I changed my mind and I saw it for the second time yesterday. It's a very powerful film, quite shocking in places and certainly very brave of A24 to put it out. It's their biggest budget film to date ($50 million) and that so far seems to be a gamble that's paying off, as it was their biggest opening weekend ever and also the first time an A24 film has topped the box office.
It's for sure going to be divisive, especially in the US, but Garland is a challenging film maker. I think it's extremely good and the last 10 minutes or so is really visceral - definitely worth seeing in a cinema as it packs a punch.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 17, 2024 11:59:02 GMT
The Midnight Sky is a nice slow well-written SF film on Netflix starring and directed by George Clooney. Some of the events are cliched but it does leave a nice big question in the mind for future thinking: could a man and a woman (who is pregnant and therefore fertile) build up humanity again? It would be touch and go but I guess it may be possible even in the face of in-breeding and all the issues it could create. I watched The Midnight Sky again last night, and still consider it to be a lovingly made film about the end of humanity. No dysfunctiional characters or bizarre behaviours, just grinding inevitability. Try it, it's a film to lap up the detail and provoke the thinking. |
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Post by Slinger on Apr 17, 2024 15:02:50 GMT
Is anybody else a huge fan of "The Dish"?   |
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 17, 2024 16:07:43 GMT
Great film, enjoyed it a lot at the time but not seen since.
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Post by petea on Apr 17, 2024 17:25:13 GMT
Most certainly am. Fabulous film. I hadn't seen that second 'poster' before.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 18, 2024 19:44:03 GMT
Civil War
Unbelievable. From director Alex Garland who also directed Annihilation and Ex-Machina.
It's like seeing a director reach a new level of putting a vision into a screen. It's impossible to look away until the credits hit you and wake you from the spell.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 18, 2024 20:38:54 GMT
You've reminded me I need to see it. Have booked for Saturday morning...
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Post by Tim on Apr 19, 2024 7:58:44 GMT
Civil War Unbelievable. From director Alex Garland who also directed Annihilation and Ex-Machina. It's like seeing a director reach a new level of putting a vision into a screen. It's impossible to look away until the credits hit you and wake you from the spell. It's quite a film isn't it . . . I'm very tempted to go a third time 
It's not perfect, as I'm not keen on Cailee Spaeny and I thought her character was the weakest, but that could just be me as I'm not a fan. Overall though it's a riveting film, Jesse Plemons is fantastic and he's not even credited!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 19, 2024 8:12:00 GMT
From director Alex Garland who also directed Annihilation and Ex-Machina. Two excellent films and a great reference. I'm going to have to see Civil War. |
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Post by Tim on Apr 19, 2024 11:38:20 GMT
Over recent weeks I've watched all of Alex Garland's films, some for the second or third time, including all the films he's been the writer for (apart from Dredd . . . we won't talk about that one and I think Alex doesn't like to either!). For me Civil War is his best film to date, which previously had been Ex Machina.
There's a lot to unpack in Civil War and even though on face value it doesn't directly imply individual characters, it doesn't take much imagination to understand the message behind the narrative. I like that as with most of Garland's films he trusts his audience and treats them like an adult, with minimal exposition and often no specific backstory or conclusive ending - he's a true artist. For me this is a film about the nature of modern journalism, the nature of war and of divided societies and what we are living through at this very moment. It's a very powerful statement and almost a challenge for us to 'get our shit together' before it's too late.
If it's something people think they might be interested in, I strongly recommend seeing it in a cinema as the sound is a very important part of the film's impact, which you won't get at home on a TV.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 20, 2024 12:05:11 GMT
It's as if the world is moving in slow motion around me and the streets are full of lunatics. That's the strange feeling I am left with driving home in a muted haze after being hit in the face with a sledgehammer by Civil War.
The sheer visceral onslaught is insane. The pounding audio, sound FX and use of music is shocking. I won't forget De La Soul's "Say No Go" here. The incredible depth of texture and quality of every shot puts you right on the scene with the roving photographers.
This film is near perfect and demands to be seen at the cinema. End of transmission.
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Post by Tim on Apr 21, 2024 18:05:51 GMT
This film is near perfect and demands to be seen at the cinema. Absolutely agree, I've seen it 3 times now and it still packs a punch. I would also describe it as near perfect and it's gets a 4.5/5 as I just can't warm to Cailee Spaeny. I don't know if it's the characters she plays, or her. But I didn't think she was particularly good in Priscilla - so I think it's her I can't warm to. Which likely means Alien: Romulus is going to fail for me too, but I don't plan on seeing that at the moment, we'll see?
However 4.5/5 is not to be sniffed at, out of the hundreds of films I see in a year, very few get a perfect 5.
So far everyone who's seen at the cinema I volunteer at has come out saying it's outstanding, yet to have anyone say they didn't like it. That's quite rare |
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