Films you've seen recently and would recommend WITH reservations

catalog

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Yeah I saw it and loved it. Whimsical. I love that bit where they had a song about what was going on. Reminded me of "o lucky man". I watched one of her earlier films after and it's just as good.
 

Ian Scuffling

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Rohrwacher really is on another level. The third act is so devastating and baffling as to feel like the kind of dream in which a message is palpable yet not fully legible nor lost to the oversimplification of a narrative structure. The Wonders is fantastic as well.
 

Corpsey

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I watched this film Robot Dreams the other night

It's a dialogue-free animated film about a lonely dog living in an anthropomorphic animal populated NYC who buys a robot to be his friend and then (for reasons I won't spoil) is separated from said robot for a year.

It was a bit too long, it dragged in the middle, but was also a weirdly moving and ultimately uplifting (though bittersweet-style) film about loneliness, friendship, love, the inevitable need to move on past important relationships etc.

It was very on the nose for me cos I was watching on boxing day in ill isolation in my dark flat and the film opens with the depressed ass dog sitting there in his dark flat joylessly watching TV and eating his ready meal for one
 

IdleRich

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Yeah i remember that came out and there was a load of fuss about it but when I got round to watching I guess I was expecting too much cos I found it really underwhelming.
 

vershy versh

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Yeah i remember that came out and there was a load of fuss about it but when I got round to watching I guess I was expecting too much cos I found it really underwhelming.

Apparently it barely made a dent in the UK, but was a big deal in the US and kicked off his career over there. It's got something, but it's clunky, takes itself too seriously and the story starts making leaps it can't sell.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I don't remember it well at all but I remember it being hyped as a kind of underground, sleeper type success.
 

vershy versh

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It's Mike Hodges who did Get Carter and it has that sort of feel. I got a bit of Mona Lisa from it too. That small-scale, drab crime drama thing the UK does. He did another with Owen that sounds similar to Get Carter.

 

ghost

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Bunnylovr. Sorta accidentally fetishizes animal abuse and is generally underdeveloped and doesn't say much, but somehow charming regardless.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Watched a film called Smooth Talk with Laura Dern, based on a story by Joyce Carol Oates which in turn is based on a real life serial killer guy, though the film has no killings or anything. It's basically a slow to almost boring coming of age tale which involves teenagers particular Dern hanging around burger joints and trying to pull and then arguing with her mother. Then it finally develops a bit of urgency when this creepy older guy who is obviously a Morrissey fan (or maybe James Dean) turns up and starts pursuing her and then... well it's not clear even at the end. A film in which nothing happens slowly, or maybe it does. And there is just enough there to intrigue, but not enough to recommend with no reservations. Think it won some awards or something.
 

vershy versh

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Watched a weird one on Tubi last night called 2:22 about a crew robbing a hotel on NYE. The entire budget seemed to have gone on getting Val Kilmer and Gabriel Byrne to appear for about five minutes between them. One of the cheapest looking films I've ever seen. Also, the main guy's Mick Rossi, the rhythm guitarist from Slaughter & the Dogs. How did he end up playing a gangster in a Canadian heist film? Despite all this, I did kind of enjoy it.

 

DLaurent

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Prince of Darkness. Even if the film is a bit kooky, it's like the Paris, Texas of 80s synth scores in that it's so emotive and integral to the film, even compared to other John Carpenter films.
 

ghost

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Notebook on Clothes and Cities

Wim Wenders, 1989, documentary about Yohji Yamamoto. Half of it filmed on Super 8. Navel-gazey at times but also incredible in some ways. Wenders keeps re-recording the Super 8 shots playing on tiny little Sony Watchman units with a 35mm camera as he drives around Paris, bizarre cinematography. Incredibly compelling but weirdly vigorous score. Yohji says insane shit repeatedly. Truly bizarre movie.
 
Bring them down * * * *

A sheep argument. When I was about 15 my dog chased some sheep into a lake and they drowned. I couldn’t get him back on the lead. The farmer who owned them caught sight of what happened and was screaming at me across a lake from his car. My da had to go to him and offer him money but he wouldn’t take ‘blood money’. This is what the film is about. Barry Keoghan doing more Barry Keoghan. I could watch him all day. Dead Man’s shoes meets Calm with horses

Conclave * * *

A beautifully contained and surprisingly funny look at the daftness of a pope vote ruined by an unnecessarily woke ta-da rug pull ending

Nosferatu * * *

Stylistically impressive but didn’t go far enough, could have been more gruesome or more horny. Depp was great in her hysteria but messy plot. Should have invested more in the connection between her and the vampire. Nicholas Hoult is boring. Vampire wasn’t scary or sexy enough.

A real pain * * * *

I loved this, I think its just because I like Kieran culkin a lot, it’s roman roy in another setting

We live in time * * *

I cried my eyes out at this, some of the dialogue was corny as fuck and they really over played the whole vulnerable men ambitious women thing but I was a mess. Got me at the right time in the deep lonely winter
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I loved this, I think its just because I like Kieran culkin a lot, it’s roman roy in another setting

Did you see that film he made years ago, in that he played pretty much the young Roman Roy.

Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr. is a misanthropic 17-year-old boy, rebelling against the oppressive world of his strict East Coast "old money" family. Igby fears that he will eventually suffer a mental breakdown like his schizophrenic father, Jason, who has been committed to an institution. His mother, Mimi, is self-absorbed and distant and tends to drink heavily. Igby mockingly describes his ambitious older brother Ollie as a fascist or a Young Republican who studies "neo-fascism" (economics) at Columbia University.
 
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