Film FlickYouCrew (S.80 Edition)

Started by Dew, Nov 23, 2014, in Entertainment Add to Reading List

  1. Charlie Work
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    Jan 23, 2018
    Australia has been pumping out some dark movies this decade. Hounds of Love, Killing Ground, Snowtown... I think Greg McLean really set that stuff off with Wolf Creek.
     
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  2. Lucy
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    Jan 23, 2018
    Wolf Creek is the first thing to come out of Australia within... any industry that got America's attention lol. I feel like Australia Day will maybe resonate with international people better-than-most Aussie films cause its filled with racial themes.

    but also maybe not cause scary/unsettling stuff is what people want to see/hear about Australia i'm pretty sure.
     
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  3. Charlie Work
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    Hey man, Baz Luhrmann is an auteur's auteur. Australia (2008) was p terrible, but he's had success elsewhere.
     
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    Jan 23, 2018
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    IT WAS GOOD OK!!!
    Didn't actually know he was born in New south wales till you mentioned it. anotha one for the gawds
     
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    Jan 23, 2018
    Hermia & Helena is massive, gonna have to update my list.
     
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    Seen and loved :emoji_heart:
     
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  7. Charlie Work
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    I watched Jackals (2017) as well, but that was hot garbage.
     
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  8. Vahn
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    yall gotta watch The Human Surge and Hermia & Helena

    Argentina on top
     
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    Never heard of it
     
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    Dew سيف الله

    Jan 24, 2018
    lmao I loved mother! Probably a little too much. Blatant balls to the walls from start to finish
     
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  11. Charlie Work
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    @FilmAndWhisky Very concise breakdown. Interested in your reception beyond the literal translations. I was mostly concerned with the "3rd level" of interpretation I guess. The personal subtext.

    "God creates life" -> "Him creates art" -> "Aronofsky creates art"
    "Mother Nature protects the Earth" -> "Mother protects the house" -> "Jennifer protects her privacy"

    So much that happened felt like it directly applied to who Aronofsky and Jennifer are and the circumstances surrounding them. Who else would be vain enough to self-insert as God? What better a role for a victim of nudes leaking, or more generally for a mega celebrity under the thumb of the public, than of a woman whose space is violated? It's incredible how tightly he can translate those biblical events while also tapping into such personal information.
     
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  12. Vahn
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    yall rly wanna make me watch mother! huh
     
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  13. Charlie Work
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    kys for not seeing it in theaters tbh fam
     
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    i know i was overseas :mjsosad:
     
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    Remember II out now
     
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    Jan 25, 2018
    Well, beyond her escaping poverty, I think the film establishes that - the more immersed in his world she is - the more competitive and devoted to maintaining her status she becomes.

    Same - a fair point - though I don't really consider it a flaw. I think Reynolds is a detached, warped person (ultimately most in love with his work and the love of his dead mother.) everything else is transactional, and toxic. For a while, I thibk we were meant to rly question what drives his sexuality.......... (even by the conclusion.... they're locked in this demented relationship that IS romantic.... but likely not in any traditional sense.)

    great movie. way better than mother!
     
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    This is gross, right?
     
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  18. Vahn
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    who wanna see EN SHAMBLE, hit my line
     
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    The lame fear pandering is more gross to me than anything else about it.
     
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    Remember II Review:

    His best film to date, Raz Vahn’s self-made documentary Remember II gleans from Eastern European masters, such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Bela Tarr, to form an austere old-world-religious tone of his estranged homeland Romania. Vahn’s long take form encourages reflective observation of the land which holds dear in his heart. The objects, such as buildings, animals, people, and the city, are shot with great affection, thereby conveying feelings of cherishment and reverie. His philosophy suggests that objects endure despite the fading of memories, and thus inspire remembrance; permanent objects hold memories intrinsic and summon an experience of nostalgia when encountered—it is this phenomenon which lays central to the film’s conceit.

    Beginning with a shot of Jesus on the cross, the film sets a religious tone which is not meant to overbear but to simply provide context for Romanian culture. Subsequent scenes of prayer and art within the Catholic Church don’t merely support this theme, but rather extend into the larger image of memory. By conveying activities of tradition which remain in modern times, Vahn translates history into present and thus transforms the experience of tradition into a meeting of two times: the past meets the present.

    This dialectic of truth and memory persists throughout Vahn’s short piece, but never more resonantly than with his grandmother. As a source of the past, her words reveal more than mere history; they reveal a personal history as well. She shares her experiences of younger days wherein tradition, objects, and history interact. When she speaks, often in a poetical tone, a sense of nostalgia surmounts. Her experience may be clouded but the objects of the land and the activities of tradition persist, thus enduring as a physical memory—a museum of her life.

    A genuine diary film, Remember II shares something in common with the work of Jonas Mekas, in particular his Reminisces to Lithuania (1972), an account of Mekas’ journey back to his homeland. Both of these documentaries share personal history and a remembrance of things past. So too are both shot on a shoestring budget--a handheld camera to intimately capture the journey. To express life bare to the world, in naked honesty and raw cinematic form, is the monument of their poetry.

    The best realizations of this endeavor are Vahn’s moving sequences wielding the kino-eye, Vertov’s philosophy of the camera-eye wherein director as observer allows the camera’s unbiased vision to convey immediately one’s own. A brilliant long take of houses from the vantage point of a train car is one example of Vahn’s kino-eye movement—his subjective point of view becomes the pure image realized on screen. This technique is found in subsequent scenes, such as a voice-over conversation while driving, a cat meandering behind an elderly woman’s walk, and a garden stroll around the innocence of children and flowers. This last sequence, shot in slow motion and finishing with a still (a clear homage to Kiarostami’s Close-Up (1990)), stitches closed the final chapter of a life now lay barren in the soil. But what remains are the traditions and objects, what remains is the remembrance and nostalgia, what remains is the elegy of a voyage—Vahn’s elegy of Romania, of his Grandmother, and of Himself.
     
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