Looking for some inspiration
Godzilla Minus One
Damn, that was my answer too.
I really enjoyed The Father, though it was extremely sad.
The Act of Killing. Mind. Blown.
I’m going to be the lesser cinema snob here, but Hot Fuzz lives rent free in my mind.
Definitely the highlight of the corneto trilogy, and a great time. There’s no single minute without a good joke.
I didn’t love it the first time I saw it. And now it’s in my top 3 movies of all time. Every time I watch it, I like it more.
Ball of Fire. 1941
7 scientists hire a lady to help them catalog slang in their encyclopedia. Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwick.
I recently watched It Happened One Night for the first time. It is a great movie, even at 92 years old.
I saw Rental Family a few weeks ago. It’s really stuck with me. Excellent movie.
Everything everywhere all at once
I remain baffled that someone read the script and apparently said, a kung fu comedy sci fi thriller family drama with infinite timelines and jump cuts across dimensions occurring up to multiple times per second? Yeah, sounds good, this will definitely work, let’s fund this.
I don’t know how the Daniels did it, but whew, I’m glad they did.
I recently watched Rear Window. It was a fantastic movie. For such an old film, it’s aged really well.
I watched Memories of Murder again last night and that’s maybe my favourite film ever so I guess that counts on a technicality!
Best new (to me) film I’ve watched recently was The Life of Chuck (in October last year). It was a beautiful, life-affirming film that left me feeling very emotional and contemplative for at least a week after I’d seen it. I have been thinking about watching it again this year, perhaps with some other family or friends to see if it impacts them too.
ImDB is enshitified. Try tmdb.org for a change.
Nah, I still prefer IMDb. It’s a lot better for older media, due to its age. You can use browser extensions if you never want to click through to it, though.
Memories of Murder is so fucking good. Probably my favorite Korean language film
It’s hard to describe what this movie is, but it’s damn beautiful and manages to tell an interesting, heart-warming, tear-jerking story without a single line of dialog. Don’t watch the trailer.
- M: Really great acting and camera work
- Atatürk: I was really surprised on the great production since I’ve never really seen a Turkish movie
- Das Boot: Heard so mich about it but never really came around to wazch it until I has a long train ride. I really loved it. Make sure that you watch the series instead of the movie (it’s a longer cut and contains everything that’s in the movie)
- Mr K: Really Kafkaesque. I don’t get why it’s scored so low.
- The menu: Great acting amd cool story
- Late night with the devil: I rellay like films taking place in one confined environment.
- Adam’s Apples: I like Mads Mikkelsen and I like the movies of that director.
- Bullet Train: again a confined place, funny and action driven movie that’s easy to watch.
- The Rocky Horror Picture show: Just saw this at the beginning of this month for the verx first time at a cinema that had a whole participation bag. It was really fun how the audience shouted stuff, threw rice,… Had sometimes a bit trouble to follow the movoe while preparing for the next thing to do (it’s easier if you already know the movie) but still would do it again.
Love Bullet Train! I would also recommend
If you liked the confined space of Late Night with The Devil then you should definitely check out The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant; and The Connection. Also 12 Angry Men if you haven’t. Older movies but they’re so good at this specific thing.
Thank you so much for the suggestions. I will definitely check them out. I also like Clue, which plays in a castle and Murder by Death. More towards horror is Horror Express and The Old Dark House.
Damn I love these old movies with the confined spaces.
I didn’t realise there’s so many horror movies that did this! Definitely will check those out, thanks!
If it doesn’t matter when it came out then it would be Yi Yi by Edward Yang. It’s a Taiwanese film from 2000 that is so beautiful I cried while watching it twice in the cinema recently during its 4K restoration and 25th anniversary run. Everything about it is pretty much perfect in my opinion (with maybe the murder twist being a bit odd).
It tells the story of three different family members - the father, the daughter, and the son, as they just… deal with life to be honest. Old loves reappear, new ones are formed, things go well, thing go bad. It’s beautifully simple, just a film about people, but the way it’s presented - from the cinematography, to the writing, music, and acting - is done so well that I personally can’t help but feel it’s a must-watch for every human being.
For some fun extras that I won’t opine much also:
- pretty much anything by Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities; Kings of The Road; Paris, Texas; Perfect Days)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (It’s lesbian 12 Angry Men)
- The Connection (it’s jazzy and drug addicted 12 Angry Men)
- The Battle of Algiers
- 8 1/2
- Tokyo Fist
- Strike (yes, from 1925)
- Girlfriends (1978)
- from more recent movies I really loved the comedies Better Off Dead (the Indonesian film) and The Last Viking. Die My Love, The Drama, and Marty Supreme were also excellent.
Recently read an article about Wenders that was disappointing
Damn that really is disappointing 🥲
Damn that’s really disappointing. Fuck.
STALKER 1979 based on the sifi novel Roadside Picnic, and was the inspiration for the video game series of the same name. It reminded me of Annihiliation 2018 but less horror/action, and more lamentations on humanity.
To be honest anything by Tarkovsky is a must-watch.
I watched Andrei Rublev recently (also Tarkovsky), it was pretty good. Visually stunning of course.
If I start movies like this past like 4pm, I’m going to fall asleep 100%>
This movie was crazy slow but worked surprisingly well. Especially compared with the book. The book was great but the movie manged to take it all to another level.
