Jan 25, 2016

I like their Best Of the Worst stuff and watch these reviews because I've grown attached to their personalities, but I don't often find their critique very insightful. Definitely better than Stuckman, Schmoes, and Jahns though Mark Kermode is the best mainstream Youtube reviewer in my opinion.

 

Jan 26, 2016

@Rowjay Stan I need Phillipe Garrel ranked

 

Jan 26, 2016

The fact that I ever downplayed the brilliance of 12 Years a Slave is a shame I will never live down. Impeccable filmmaking. So much to unpack. The emotional impact has not lessened. I'll have more to say soon I'm sure.

 

Jan 28, 2016

So I guess this was real. RIP

 

Jan 28, 2016

now i'm sad. post, people!

Loved Its Such a Beautiful Day. That's two films/two masterpieces from Hertzfeldt (for me). I'm now going to binge all his shorts.

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  It’s Such a Beautiful Day 2012
  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Jan, 2016
  
  Such candid observation and comprehensive inquiry into the bittersweet truths of existence never so potently realized as in this most sophisticated of simple elegies. An animated spiritual equal to the likes of Tarkovsky's Mirror, Malick's Tree of Life, and Sokurov's Elegy of a Voyage.
  
  96/100 - Masterful.
  

 

Jan 28, 2016

I'm still around, just haven't had much time to post anything. Glad you were a fan! I've seen and loved the same two as you, so I also have to check out Hertzfeldt's other shorts.

This also reminds me that I really need to get to Elegy of a Voyage.

 

Jan 28, 2016

w8 wat is @Vahn's problem?

 

Jan 28, 2016

I compared it to those 3 because all these films are visual poems with voiceover narration guiding us on a stream of poetic conscience about existence and the experiencing of being alive. This is my favourite kind of film.

He wants to rid himself of the burdens of social media etc. He went off facebook and everything else as well. Trying to be more in the world and away from distractions I suppose. I think Rowjay has done the same.

 

Jan 28, 2016

they both seem rly weird lol.

i think you and @Twan should post more

 

Feb 1, 2016

Movies on my radar this month (a little bit more to look forward to)...

February 5- The Club (Pablo Larrain), Hail, Caesar! (The Coen Brothers)
February 12- Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke), Remember (Atom Egoyan), A War (Tobias Lindholm)
February 17-19- Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra), The Witch (Robert Eggers)
February 26- Triple 9 (John Hillcoat)

 

Feb 1, 2016

rowjay still posting

 

Feb 2, 2016

Some good films here. I'm interested in your views on Mountains, The Club, and Remember. Embrace of the Serpent is my Oscar pick though it won't win against Son of Saul.

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  Vulgar Fractions 2011
  ★★★ Watched 01 Feb, 2016
  
  Ice flowing downstream is captivating. Always beautiful how his technique retains contiguity and apparent fluidity when water is the subject. Attention to non-movement/time as significant as movement/time--though often mundane.
  
  70/100 - Good.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Psychohydrography 2010
  ★★★ Watched 01 Feb, 2016
  
  Rappmund's single-frame time-lapse technique doesn't suit me, the rhythm is interruptive, but those last 10 minutes!
  
  73/100 - Good.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Harold and Maude 1971
  ★★★ Watched 30 Jan, 2016
  
  Well scripted, though not particularly funny nor thoughtful, due to wearing its affectations and ends on its contrived sleeve.
  
  66/100 - Decent.
  
  1 like
  
  
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  Rebels of the Neon God 1992
  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jan, 2016
  
  Brilliantly soft spoken and immensely intriguing. a wonderful debut from both Lee Kang Sheng and Tsai Ming Liang.
  
  88/100 - Excellent.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  The Arrival 1998
  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jan, 2016
  
  A lamentation of a lost medium, whose physical nature and ability to tarnish but not die is testament to its resilience and immortality. Always alive, becoming, emerging, arriving anew.
  
  82/100 - Great.
  

 

Feb 2, 2016

I got to see Mountains early at NYFF...overall I was slightly underwhelmed. Its three-part structure is rather uneven in quality, with the final Australian-set, English language section being the most problematic. Generation spanning narratives often resonate strongly with me, but my reaction here was very much muted. Zhangke is still Zhangke so it does frequently work in moments, but it didn't quite come together for me as a whole.

To be honest, I probably will only have time to see one out of The Club, Remember, and Embrace the Serpent. Would you say Embrace is a must-see?

 

Feb 3, 2016

Pretty much how I felt about Mountains. I would say Embrace is a must-see, almost masterpiece, and I ranked it around 11th for the year. Remember is great, though I think I'm a little biased towards its subject matter (memory) and was more fond of its twists than some people seem to have been. The Club is very good, at times brilliant, but pretty uneven and highly divisive, pulling me in both directions of love and detest.

 

Feb 3, 2016

 

Feb 3, 2016

i missed youuuuu (i don't know how to do faces)

 

Feb 3, 2016

also this. Having a go at silent films today. Might do one more.

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  True Heart Susie 1919
  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Feb, 2016
  
  When she touches her bare ring finger! And collapses into the bushes! an emotionally powerful though simple and idealist film, only slighted by a naive, one-dimensional, cardboard male protagonist who does nothing to match the purity of spirit of his female counterpart.
  
  87/100 - Excellent.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Cat Listening to Music 1988
  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Feb, 2016
  
  the sweetest short. so many rewatches
  
  1 like
  
  
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  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1920
  ★★★★ Watched 02 Feb, 2016
  
  Efficiently paced with a booming score and hauntingly dramatic turn from John Barrymore.
  
  83/100 - Great.
  

 

Feb 3, 2016

 

Feb 3, 2016

deleted my garrel list friend

 

Feb 3, 2016

sad face