Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

shakahislop

shakahislop

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raljax said:
Saw Andrea Arnold's 'Bird'. Was worrying about the Burial score and as someone said "a bit like Skellig" but loved it. Everything about it. Looser Burial trying kinda trip hop beats. Agreed on Arnold but I have 'Red Road' as her best along with this.
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saw this, thought it was brilliant, she's one of the best i think. a film about angels. there's a particular humaneness to the films she makes.
 
shiels

shiels

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Certain directors get a free pass and are too big to challenge. Too much money invested and deadlines to hit, people to be paid, show must go on, can’t stop it …. Total muck, failed satire, awful writing, hammy overegged acting, all kinds of unresolved threads, tonally jarring, piss piss piss
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I've heard it's not good, which disappointed me cos yes parasite, the host, mother, memories of murder all near masterpieces

I've never watched any of his English language ones actually - okja and snow piercer
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Mickey 17 struck me as one of those movies you go to for the ambiance/vibe, i.e. mostly the production design and the screen presences and the overall tone associated with the director. I enjoyed the wacky performances, and the film overall, but I agree there was little of substance there to appreciate.

Very similar to Hateful 8 in that respect, and the French Dispatch. Directors who are too cult to fail.
 
ghost

ghost

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i thought it was fun even though the writing was bad and the plot was beyond stupid. nice visuals, robert pattinson is good at acting.
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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Clinamenic said:
Mickey 17 struck me as one of those movies you go to for the ambiance/vibe, i.e. mostly the production design and the screen presences and the overall tone associated with the director. I enjoyed the wacky performances, and the film overall, but I agree there was little of substance there to appreciate.

Very similar to Hateful 8 in that respect, and the French Dispatch. Directors who are too cult to fail.
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there's loads of films that i get now that i've been to these massive cinemas with huge leather chairs that go all the way back with a place to put a barrel of popcorn that you drop all over your chest and all over the floor with a screen as big as a ferry. american movegoing culture is quite a thing. you get a sort of copy of it in england but it's not the same we don't know how to act. we are more polite and sit upright paying attention trying not to rustle our snacks
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Just updated my favorite 100 films!

Added:

Phantom Thread (2017), The Yellow Submarine (1968), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), Amateur (1994), Crimes of the Future (2022), One from the Heart (1982), Crossing Delancey (1988), The Navigator (1924)

Removed:

Jojo Rabbit (2019), 8 1/2 (1963), Stalker (1979), Holy Motors (2012), Brazil (1985), Poor Things (2023), Slacker (1990), The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

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Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Oh dear, I've made a critical error. I hastily removed Munchausen thinking it was the Terry Gilliam one, but actually its the Karel Zeman one...
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
pattycakes_ said:
Was about to quip that it's a tough day for Gilliam but then saw the year

Stalker, though?
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Yeah Stalker is one that ranks much higher in terms of what I find impressive, versus this list of what I find enjoyable. I'd say the overlap of my 25 favorite films, with that I'd say are the 25 most impressive films I've seen, would maybe be 3 or 4 films.
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I now have 1,981 films logged, all of which are ranked. And I have the most recent 183 tracked chronologically in terms of the date I watched them.
 
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