Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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luka
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I'm from Europe. So is Wiley, DJ Hype, Rembrant, Cezanne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goya, Rimbaud, Dem 2, Danny Weed, Nasty Crew, Michealangelo, Giotto, Dante, JH Prynne....
kid charlemagne
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yes
kid charlemagne
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im writing all of these names down
IdleRich
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Is Russia not in Europe though? All the Russians I know divide it into the European part up to the Urals and the Asian part beyond. That's geographically and I guess culturally but maybe not politically. But where I'd it then?
IdleRich
IdleRich
Picasso, Sophocles... there are several in fact.
kid charlemagne
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alright fine idlerich you got me, i will give tarkovsky the edge over cale in 7 games....
kid charlemagne
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sophocles said "to never have been born, may be the greatest boon of all"
IdleRich
IdleRich
I agree with this
hmg
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Azor was great, just finished watching it. I'm fascinated by both the Swiss and the Argentinians, and the early 1980s, so this delivered.Azor (2021)
Really unsettling. A Swiss private banker heads to Argentina during The Dirty War in an effort to hang onto his clients after his business partner disappears.
The whole thing's drenched in paranoia. Everything's happening beneath the surface. Everyone's watching and being watched. Imagine Eyes Wide Shut or the first season of True Detective, but it's about international finance and you never see the cult or its victims, people just disappear.
It looks great too. A lot of it takes place in hotels and mansions, beside swimming pools, in restaurants, and everyone's immaculately dressed.
IdleRich
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Finally got round to Anora and - although I've seen it get a bit of stick here - I really like it, totally different tone to his other films, basically farcical but pretty funny. Reminds me quite a lot of Balabanov's Zhmurki with the inept hitmen/enforcer types which is really worth a watch.
DLaurent
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I was thinking about old hollywood screwball comedy films and it's been years since I watched Marx Bros films, having to be really in the mood for the quickfire dialogue. Same as a Hawks films. If I don't concentrate it goes over my head. I watched His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby and thought that were good, but then I've researched the genre a bit more.
I've come across Frank Capra and remember I saw Mr Smith Goes To Washington years ago and liked it. Decided to watch IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and it turns out it's seminal. So cleanly cut for a 1934 film. Funny and smart.
I've come across Frank Capra and remember I saw Mr Smith Goes To Washington years ago and liked it. Decided to watch IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and it turns out it's seminal. So cleanly cut for a 1934 film. Funny and smart.
The worst film I've saw in probably five years, if not more. I remember a certain vibe in the 2000s where pitchfork reading twee cunts would make you watch mumblecore films or juno or faux gregg araki surreal shite
Or you'd go to a festival and be roped into watching Devendra Barnhart with a deeply earnest couple who you had to jettison from the travelling pack at the nearest opportunity
Well it felt like those people became non-binary, watched Twin Peaks and began to misinterpret the direction and intent
Absolute shite. No offence
Or you'd go to a festival and be roped into watching Devendra Barnhart with a deeply earnest couple who you had to jettison from the travelling pack at the nearest opportunity
Well it felt like those people became non-binary, watched Twin Peaks and began to misinterpret the direction and intent
Absolute shite. No offence
shakahislop
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saw children of men again for the first time since it came out it's still pretty brilliant although a film set in 2027 where they're rounding up and deporting migrants feels a bit on the nose. he managed to capture the countryside morning light somehow despite being mexican
shakahislop
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The people in cages at the train station and the overwhelming greyness of the whole thing are my lasting memories of it; funny hearing 'Anti-War Dub' playing at one point too.
shakahislop
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kind of a racist film by today's standards or at least you can see why the twitter bombardment in response to hackneyed slightly off representation things has had good consequences
shakahislop
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yeah i hadn't seen it since the first time i saw it in 2012 and i remembered all of that too, was waiting for it
shakahislop
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the bit where they go through all those sort of stillage things to get into the refugee camp reminds me so much of the border into the west bank from jordan that it can't have been accidental actually the whole camp had a lot of palestine in it