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[SonicMan46]

Well, a couple of more BDs from Criterion - half price purchases from the Barnes & Noble sale this month:

 

[SonicMan46]

Snowpiercer (2013) w/ Chris Evans & Jamie Bell - streaming now from Amazon - this watching was prompted by some excellent reviews, such as 94% from the critics on RottenTomatoes; 4*/5 on Amazon w/ some rather negative comments - not sure about this film but does get more interesting as the back of the train people move up front - will report later - Dave

[Drasko]

Solid family/crime drama. Decent cast. Nicely done period (70s).

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel 1915 is not an esp. easy film to "sit back and enjoy" (what do you expect from a former philosophy professor?).  It is a film - like all of his work - that asks some serious questions : about the nature of art, insanity (and their relationship) ; legal rights of those judged insane ; what is 'Christian' in Christianity? ; and perhaps most important the role of women in art and society.  It's unflinching, so many viewers will flinch : interestingly and controversially, Dumont casts the mentally disabled to compare, contrast and interact with Camille who - except for a persecution/paranoiac complex - seems an unlikely asylum inmate.  Ever since the English Patient , I've followed Juliette Binoche's career closely; accomplished as most of her work has been this is likely the role by which film history will remember her, an outstandingly moving and compelling performance that - partly because of her own insight and dramatic talent, partly because of Dumont's minimalistic style - seems documentarily-like genuine. There are moments of intense joy in this film - as when Camille spots something in the landscape or a shadow in a room - that compels her interest and curiosity as a sculptor.  Or the hope (crushed as all but the tiniest glints of human spirit are in this environment) that her brother, Paul Claudel, will release her from imprisonment.  Not the least of Dumont's astonishing achievement here is to have captured those tiny glints.  Bach's Magnificat is used in the soundtrack. 

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[Todd]

The Lego Movie.  The most entertaining commercial I've watched in a good, long while.  Everything is awesome.

[(poco) Sforzando]

and even if you object to the de Vere authorship idea (I do not),

Then if you don't have time for Shapiro's book, you should read this:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_spectator/2011/10/anonymous_a_witless_movie_from_the_stupid_shakespearean_birther_.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/anonymous-by-roland-emmerich-review.html?pagewanted=all

The movie is god-awful, and the history behind it all wrong. Part of the deVere theory is that the author of the plays must have spent time in Italy (because so many of the plays are set in Italy), deVere spent time in Italy, therefore deVere wrote the plays (never mind that many of them were written after deVere died). Of course by this logic the author of the plays must have also spent time in Vienna (Measure for Measure), Scotland (guess), France (All's Well), Cyprus (Othello), Bohemia (Winter's Tale, except that in the play it has a seacoast), Athens (the Dream), ancient Egypt, and of course Denmark. The rest of this nonsense is ably handled by Rosenbaum.

[Bogey]

I really enjoyed Inception.  Last night:


Equilibrium (2002)





Could have been an excellent sci-fi movie, but I tire of the big "fight" scenes for resolution.  Too bad.  Decent look and decent premise.

[George]

I really enjoyed Inception.

One of my favorite movies!

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Watcing 2012 version of les miserables. I say it right now: I like Russell Crowe as Javert. He is one of the best things in this otherwise rather half-assed attempt to put a book that has over 1000 pages to fit in about 2 hours and 15 minutes. Music is of course sublime as well. Even though I loved Russell Crowe's performance I dislike the fact that once again they make Javert look like he is completely obsessed with Valjean. In the book he does his job and nothing more and even forgets about Valjean at one point when he loses him. It is a good thing Crowe still nails Javert's role despite this "flanderization" as tv tropes would call it because Javert is easily the best character in the book.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

And I am Javert!!!

Okay, he wasn't quite so much chewing scenery in the book.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Gribiche, a delightful French silent film by Jacques Feyder (1926).  So good, you won't much miss sound (in case you're one of those who avoids silents).  Lively, touching, and inc: some splendid Parisian scenes.  Superb restoration (second time-around!).  From this set:

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[ibanezmonster]

I really enjoyed Inception. 

I enjoyed it too, but the original movie that this derived from is better:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)

[Mookalafalas]

I watched "her" last night.  I liked it a lot.  Wonderful acting and cinematography, gentle and sensitive look at loneliness and relationships in the Post-post-modern era.
  It's nice to see a movie that doesn't follow the typical (required) plotting structures required for big-budget studio film.   

[Ken B]

And I am Javert!!!

Okay, he wasn't quite so much chewing scenery in the book.

The singing was better in the book too.

[TheGSMoeller]

The singing was better in the book too.

http://www.youtube.com/v/IBYfA3zTxFE

[André]

John Ford's The Searchers. Powerful, beautifully paced. I suspect the end would be different if Clint Eastwood had made that movie.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

The singing was better in the book too.

Yes, it was!   

[Jaakko Keskinen]

I still don't get the hate on russell crowe. He is a fine singer to me, better than most actors in the movie. Although I'd like them do for once les miserables that is not only singing (or, how many feel probably about Russell Crowe, yelling).

[Ken B]

I still don't get the hate on russell crowe. He is a fine singer to me, better than most actors in the movie. Although I'd like them do for once les miserables that is not only singing (or, how many feel probably about Russell Crowe, yelling).

I didn't single out Russell Crowe. Redmayne was Ok, Hathaway did pretty well in one song. Jackman sucked, Borat sucked, most bit parts sucked, and Crowe sucked. They made a musical and decided to trash the music. They even made a mess of master of the house, which is a feat.
The directing, acting, and pacing also sucked, but not nearly as much as the singing sucked.

[TheGSMoeller]

Russell Crowe can sing other types of music much better...

http://www.youtube.com/v/RTcflrnQt74