Feb 4, 2015

Yep I did, Inside Llewyn Davis too. I still love both of those movies, but The Wolf of Wall Street has really held up well for me.

 

Feb 5, 2015

Wow...I liked American Sniper, even though it was executed in an extremely safe manner, but nowhere near the greatest war films of all time. It's a film based on reality, that hides the reality of the main character. Or at least minimalizes it to the point of giving the audience a false sense of who Chris Kyle was, as the man Chris Kyle, not the war hero.

 

Feb 5, 2015

This is fun.

These are some of my favorites of the decade so far. They aren't all necessarily 10/10s.

The Social Network
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Heartbeats
Blue Valentine
The Tree of Life
Drive
Meek's Cutoff
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
The Master
Laurence Anyways
Before Midnight
Spring Breakers
To the Wonder
Boyhood
The Immigrant
Under the Skin

 

Feb 5, 2015

The Tree of Life
The Master
Like Someone in Love
Spring Breakers
The Immigrant
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Post Tenebras Lux
Before Midnight
Drive
Take Shelter
Certified Copy
Blue Valentine
Inherent Vice
Norte, the End of History
Blue Is the Warmest Color



I just picked my top 3 from each year like I saw @Woody did, there isn't any particular order aside from the top 4 or so.

 

Feb 6, 2015

Not all 10/10's, but definitely my favorites

The Social Network
The Tree of Life
The Wolf of Wall Street
Inside Llewyn Davis
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Before Midnight
The Master
The Wind Rises
Django Unchained
Under The Skin
Her
Skyfall
Silver Linings Playbook
Hugo

Those first 5 are definite 10/10's now that I'm thinking about it. I'd argue several of the rest are as well.

 

Feb 6, 2015

Before Midnight
The Grand budapest Hotel
Her
Under the Skin
12 Years a Slave
Midnight in Paris

These are probably the only films I give a 10/10 this decade.

 

Feb 6, 2015

My favorites. No real order.

The Place Beyond the Pines
Under the Skin
The Wolf of Wall Street
Shame
k--- List
The Social Network
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Spring Breakers
The Tree of Life
The Master
Gravity
Before Midnight
Boyhood
Her
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Midnight In Paris

 

Feb 6, 2015

d---, I forgot my favorite film.. smh

 

Feb 6, 2015

Got you covered

 

Feb 6, 2015

tree of life (dir. terrence malick)
spring breakers (dir. harmony korine)
mommy (dir. xavier dolan)
the turin horse (dir. bela tarr)
uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives (dir. apichatpong weerasethakul)
the master (dir. paul thomas anderson)
like someone in love (dir. abbas kiarostami)
post tenebras lux (dir. carlos reygadas)
stray dogs (dir. tsai ming-liang)
tabu (dir. miguel gomes)
before midnight (dir. richard linklater)
holy motors (dir. leos carax)
autrement, la molussie (dir. nicolas rey)
norte, the end of history (dir. lav diaz)
faust (aleksandr sokurov)
two years at sea (dir. ben rivers)
le havre (dir. aki kaurismaki)
house of tolerance (dir. betrand bonello)
museum hours (dir. jem cohen)
poetry (dir. lee chang-dong)
certified copy (dir. abbas kiarostami)
cosmopolis (dir. david cronenberg)

 

Feb 7, 2015

So I saw Hard to Be a God last night...All of the early word I had read about it was basically true, though it had a bit more humor than I was expecting, albeit absolutely perverse.

Shot on location in h---, it's like if Fellini, instead of capturing la dolce vita, decided to point his roving camera towards a s----stained, medieval nightmare (It is indeed disgusting for its entire 170 minutes). The depth of its mise en scene and the scope of its world-building are astounding. One gets the sense while watching it that if the camera were to move indefinitely in any direction, one would still be stuck in this grotesque hellhole that German created. Despite its expansive canvas, German often keeps the camera uncomfortably close to the characters and the environment. When coupled with the characters' frequent tendency to stare directly into the camera and, many times, seemingly address it, it conveys a disconcerting "You are there" sense of immersion, but one in which the viewer is unable to change the world nor turn away from it. In this regard, it puts us in the same shoes as Rumata, the lead character and "God" in the title.

At times, the film can walk the line between grueling and captivating, but I've certainly never seen a film like it and probably won't again for a long, long time.

 

Feb 8, 2015

Watched Nightcrawler last night...wouldn't recommend it to anyone . Horrible movie

 

Feb 8, 2015

Lol

 

Feb 8, 2015

 

Feb 8, 2015

I don't do ratings, but here are some favorites.

2010s

Dogtooth (Didn't expect to already see this tbh)
Take Shelter (or this)
Her
Blue is the Warmest Color
Under the Skin
The Hunt
A Single Man
To The Wonder
Shame
Amour
Frances Ha
Oslo, August 31st
Black Swan (aka The Piano Teacher)
The Master
I Saw The Devil

 

Feb 8, 2015

Watched Joe and The Turning Point today. I have the best life.

 

Feb 8, 2015

That Tye Sheridan was in Tree of Life, Mud, and Joe before he had pubes. Kid is something special.

 

Feb 8, 2015

So Birdman won the DGA and is now probably the frontrunner over Boyhood for Best Picture...which is disappointing.

At Berlin, I've seen really great reviews so far for Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Jafar Panahi's Taxi and Alex Ross Perry's Queen of Earth. Malick's Knight of Cups also just premiered. The initial responses I saw were positive, but I believe reviews might be embargoed.

 

Feb 8, 2015

 

Feb 8, 2015

I know, was thinking the same thing. Pretty impressive lol