Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:58 pm
by Nordic
My favorite Mamet films, by far, are "Things Change" (hardly anyone seems to have watched it), which is a really charming wonderful movie (yes, a charming movie by Mamet), and "House of Games." I've watched "House of Games" quite a few times. It's so good. "Spanish Prisoner" I thought was terrible, it's like he was ripping himself off, trying to make another "House of Games" but failing miserably.
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 3:06 pm
by Luther Blissett
Nordic » Mon Mar 07, 2016 6:08 pm wrote:I've been seriously let down by some vaunted Indie films lately. For example the other night I decided to watch "Dope" only to realize I had already watched it, and forgotten that I had. (I must have been very tired the first time). That was a first.
However the other day I watched "The Overnight" and found it a great funny ride. Really well directed and acted. And wonderfully outrageous.
Wait, you liked a Duplass Brothers film? I can't believe it!
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Nordic » Mon Mar 07, 2016 6:08 pm wrote:I've been seriously let down by some vaunted Indie films lately. For example the other night I decided to watch "Dope" only to realize I had already watched it, and forgotten that I had. (I must have been very tired the first time). That was a first.
However the other day I watched "The Overnight" and found it a great funny ride. Really well directed and acted. And wonderfully outrageous.
Wait, you liked a Duplass Brothers film? I can't believe it!
They only produced it.
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 4:18 pm
by Luther Blissett
I should've known, since it was pretty good.
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:18 pm
by Cordelia
Nordic » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:58 pm wrote:My favorite Mamet films, by far, are "Things Change" (hardly anyone seems to have watched it), which is a really charming wonderful movie (yes, a charming movie by Mamet), and "House of Games." I've watched "House of Games" quite a few times. It's so good. "Spanish Prisoner" I thought was terrible, it's like he was ripping himself off, trying to make another "House of Games" but failing miserably.
Probably why I liked it; I never get tired of sophisticated con-game themed films.
I tried to order 'Things Change' on Netflix, but it's on their increasingly endless list of 'saved but unavailable' films.
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Nordic » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:58 pm wrote:My favorite Mamet films, by far, are "Things Change" (hardly anyone seems to have watched it), which is a really charming wonderful movie (yes, a charming movie by Mamet), and "House of Games." I've watched "House of Games" quite a few times. It's so good. "Spanish Prisoner" I thought was terrible, it's like he was ripping himself off, trying to make another "House of Games" but failing miserably.
Probably why I liked it; I never get tired of sophisticated con-game themed films.
I tried to order 'Things Change' on Netflix, but it's on their increasingly endless list of 'saved but unavailable' films.
Bummer. I tried finding it somewhere a while back, probably to show my stepdaughter. She really liked House of a Games and wanted to see more Mamet movies. And she went to grade school with one of his kids. But we couldn't find it then either. Maybe it's in some legal limbo. I can't find True Lies anywhere online either. Fwiw.
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:15 pm
by Wombaticus Rex
Indeed, the endless borg archives of the Information Age have not lived up to the hype.
I maintain a foolishly doomed side quest trying to keep great films alive online, but I love romantically dumb side quests.
Nobody really cares about Uncle Boonmee anymore. That is perhaps a good thing; Pixar does such great work I don't think we really need those old movies anyway.
I wonder if anyone in Hollywood is developing a Canticle for Leibowitz adaptation...
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
saw the doc Searching for Vivian Maier on NetFlix last night.
Great doc
this photographer beats Arbus ,Steigletz, Frank, Cartier Bresson hands down, eyes shut. Only discovered after she died and that by a miracle. http://www.findingvivianmaier.com/
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:44 pm
by kelley
Late to the party, but wow . . 'Ex Machina' is tremendous. Wears its Kubrick influences on its sleeve yet way more than a terrestrial retelling of 2001' or a claustrophobic nod to 'The Shining', and at its best when it acknowledges those films in ways almost purely visual (the staging in the bunker hallway at the film's denouement is both subtle and shocking). One of the first great films of the 21st century. Am curious how the framing of its subtexts read to those unfamiliar with the themes upon which this narrative is structured.
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:32 pm
by Nordic
kelley » Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:44 am wrote:Late to the party, but wow . . 'Ex Machina' is tremendous. Wears its Kubrick influences on its sleeve yet way more than a terrestrial retelling of 2001' or a claustrophobic nod to 'The Shining', and at its best when it acknowledges those films in ways almost purely visual (the staging in the bunker hallway at the film's denouement is both subtle and shocking). One of the first great films of the 21st century. Am curious how the framing of its subtexts read to those unfamiliar with the themes upon which this narrative is structured.
I was amazed at how good it became as I was watching it. I almost didn't stick with it. By the end I was pretty shaken but exhilarated and pleased at how it turned out. I spent days thinking about it. And not just it, but other machines we've created (like out economic system).
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:27 pm
by brekin
Best 20 second short film eva
Re: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: films of a certain quality
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:08 am
by Cordelia
Costa-Gavras film about the days leading up to and following the 1973 U.S. backed military coup in Chile, as seen through the eyes of a missing American's family :
