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Baron Frankenstein: To know death Otto, you have to fuck life... in the gall bladder!
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You Can't Take It with You
Unrated
So Capra-esque your teeth will hurt
and I'm sorry, I don't care if this did win the Academy Award.
Robin Hood is the best film of 1938. Period. (Maybe Angels with Dirty Faces)
Smokey and the Bandit
PG
A funny romp across the highways of the South. The music and Gleason are a hoot!
Mamma Mia!
PG-13
Did I laugh? Yes
Did I enjoy myself? Yes
Is this huge a huge piece of shit? YES!
This film is a failure on almost every level. Camerawork, acting, singing, choreography, direction, writing and ESPECIALLY the editing were all astonishingly bad.
But yet, some how I found myself dancing in my chair. I came out with a smile on my face.
What can I say. It's this generations Xanadu
Also I would totally nail Christine Baranski
Design for Living
Unrated
Very interesting, very funny and very racy comedy is about the creatively beneficial but sexless menage a toi between March, Cooper and Hopkins.
My least favorite Lubitsch so far, but that doesn't mean this still isn't great.
Great double entendres as well
Barry Lyndon
PG
Wow, just wow. This is my third to last Kubrick to see (Fear and Desire and 2001 are left) and man is it good.
The photography is breathtaking, the performance perfect and the humor delightfully dry.
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Once Upon a Time in the West
PG-13
Amazing...so incredibly amazing. The kind of film that makes me want to stop making films because I don't think I could live up to that standard...and the next day the kind of film that makes me want to try twice as hard to do so.
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Killer's Kiss
Unrated
Holy photography this movie is gorgeous. Kubrick is defiantly finding his signature style...but the script with all of the flashbacks is not quite as sharp as it could have been. Well worth seeing in spite of that...oh and the mannequin sequence is amazing.
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The Exorcist
R
The scariest movie i've ever seen. The only movie to keep me up all night. Michael Kermode is right when he called this the best movie ever made.
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Survive Style 5+
Unrated
One of strangest, most profound, silly, touching, surreal, lovable, funny and oddly soothing films I've ever seen. It will be hard to knock this out of my top 10. Just submit to the power of the film and finish it in one sitting. You never know where it's going to go, just know you'll be glad when you do.
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The Dark Knight
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Irma Vep
by El HombreBurned out new wave director, played by one-time Truffaut alter ego Jean-Pierre Léaud, decides to remake Louis Feuillade's french melodrama, Les Vampires, with the Hong Kong starlet Maggie Cheung as the black-latex-clad leader of a gang of jewel thieves.
Amusing behind-the-scenes look at the French film industry that's critical of how it's funded, how it looks upon its' cinematic legacy and how its' complancency, seriousness, self-importance, fighting and jealousies crush any real creativity. Maggie Cheung, who in the film can't understand the french language, is great to watch as she's allowed to be herself and put her own personality into the film, improvising and reacting with surprise and incomprehension to the insanity around her.
If you've considered french films to be pretentious, here's one that allows you to laugh at the making of such.
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The Butcher Boy
by El HombreNeil Jordan's 1997 film The Butcher Boy has striking similarities to Truffaut's The 400 Blows as well as Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, though with much more satire if that's possible. Even if it's nowhere close to being as brilliant as those mentioned, Jordan's film is very good.
Possibly the most cheerful film ever made about abusive childhoods, alienation, sexual abuse, madness and murder and should be noted for the simple fact of being the first film in the renaissance of Irish cinema during the 1990s not to be centered around sectarian violence.
From the director of The Crying Game, The Good Thief and Breakfast On Pluto.
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Hangover Square
by Stellaa great little known gothic thriller with a pretty neat plot device: discordant sounds send a composer into a homicidal trance! with laird cregar, george sanders and linda darnell as the femme fatale. shot in gorgeous noir style with a wonderful score by bernard hermann
please to remember the 5th of november...
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Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier)
by El HombreAn early Jean-Luc Godard film that was made on a shoestring budget about a young revolutionary, Bruno, living in Geneva who is fighting against French involvement in the war in Algeria, only to run into Veronica (Anna Karina).
Shot like a newsreel, much of the film is photographed with a hand-held camera, with sound post-synchronized. A moody, often violent film, complete with sequences of torture modeled after the actions of occupying French forces in Algeria. These scenes resulted in the movie being banned by the French government for some time.
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth 24 frames a second
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Frozen River
by MichaelA gritty independant gem. FROZEN RIVER feels almost like a documentary, with it's shoe-string budget, HD shakey cam photography, and very believeable performances. A gripping story and lush snow-covered locales reminded me a little of Fargo, but there is no dark comedy, or comedy of any kind here! Expect to be saddened and a little depressed, and you may be truely surprised.
Melissa Leo gives easily one of the best performances this year. Lets see if she's remembered come Oscar time.Here's one worth looking for. A great first effort from director Courtney Hunt, featuring one of the year's best performances.
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Come see this movie with me...A loser gets doused with toxic sludge from a cornfield & develops the ability to communicate with "ears" of corn... His first task is to protect the world from the evil Dr. Hoe!
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The Furies
by MichaelThis was such an amazing movie. Barbara Stanwyck was her usual amazing self and Walter Huston was as entertaining as ever--not to mention their obvious chemistry together as also being worth mentioning. Anthony Mann's direction and sweeping landscapes are arguably the real draw here as The Furies carries over some elements from his film noir days. The Furies is an overlooked and almost perfect example of epic storytelling that would echo into movies like Giant and There Will Be Blood. Completely worth the priciness that a Criterion DVD demands. This movie definitely has a few flaws but they're negligible when you look at the big (or whole) picture. And goddamn if that scissors scene didn't get your attention...
Required viewing for all Barbara Stanwyck and Anthony Mann fans!!!
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The Last Wave
by DerekSolid supernatural thriller from one of Australia's finest most imaginative directors.
Hey, you should see this!
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