Looking for some inspiration
Ball of Fire. 1941
7 scientists hire a lady to help them catalog slang in their encyclopedia. Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwick.
I really enjoyed The Father, though it was extremely sad.
The Act of Killing. Mind. Blown.
I’m going to be the lesser cinema snob here, but Hot Fuzz lives rent free in my mind.
Definitely the highlight of the corneto trilogy, and a great time. There’s no single minute without a good joke.
I recently watched It Happened One Night for the first time. It is a great movie, even at 92 years old.
I saw Rental Family a few weeks ago. It’s really stuck with me. Excellent movie.
I watched Memories of Murder again last night and that’s maybe my favourite film ever so I guess that counts on a technicality!
Best new (to me) film I’ve watched recently was The Life of Chuck (in October last year). It was a beautiful, life-affirming film that left me feeling very emotional and contemplative for at least a week after I’d seen it. I have been thinking about watching it again this year, perhaps with some other family or friends to see if it impacts them too.
ImDB is enshitified. Try tmdb.org for a change.
Memories of Murder is so fucking good. Probably my favorite Korean language film
Everything everywhere all at once
I remain baffled that someone read the script and apparently said, a kung fu comedy sci fi thriller family drama with infinite timelines and jump cuts across dimensions occurring up to multiple times per second? Yeah, sounds good, this will definitely work, let’s fund this.
I don’t know how the Daniels did it, but whew, I’m glad they did.
I recently watched Rear Window. It was a fantastic movie. For such an old film, it’s aged really well.
It’s hard to describe what this movie is, but it’s damn beautiful and manages to tell an interesting, heart-warming, tear-jerking story without a single line of dialog. Don’t watch the trailer.
- M: Really great acting and camera work
- Atatürk: I was really surprised on the great production since I’ve never really seen a Turkish movie
- Das Boot: Heard so mich about it but never really came around to wazch it until I has a long train ride. I really loved it. Make sure that you watch the series instead of the movie (it’s a longer cut and contains everything that’s in the movie)
- Mr K: Really Kafkaesque. I don’t get why it’s scored so low.
- The menu: Great acting amd cool story
- Late night with the devil: I rellay like films taking place in one confined environment.
- Adam’s Apples: I like Mads Mikkelsen and I like the movies of that director.
- Bullet Train: again a confined place, funny and action driven movie that’s easy to watch.
- The Rocky Horror Picture show: Just saw this at the beginning of this month for the verx first time at a cinema that had a whole participation bag. It was really fun how the audience shouted stuff, threw rice,… Had sometimes a bit trouble to follow the movoe while preparing for the next thing to do (it’s easier if you already know the movie) but still would do it again.
Love Bullet Train! I would also recommend
If you liked the confined space of Late Night with The Devil then you should definitely check out The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant; and The Connection. Also 12 Angry Men if you haven’t. Older movies but they’re so good at this specific thing.
Thank you so much for the suggestions. I will definitely check them out. I also like Clue, which plays in a castle and Murder by Death. More towards horror is Horror Express and The Old Dark House.
Damn I love these old movies with the confined spaces.
I didn’t realise there’s so many horror movies that did this! Definitely will check those out, thanks!
Some of my favourites that are relatively recent (not more than 10 years old):
1917 The Irishmen Project Hail Mary Juror #2 Lee
1917 is definitely my favourite in this list, but each movie was a very pleasent surprise going in blind.
My brain was thinking “wait, 1917 is definitely more than 10 years ago, and The Irishmen was released just a few years ago”
Also TIL there’s a movie called 1917
If it doesn’t matter when it came out then it would be Yi Yi by Edward Yang. It’s a Taiwanese film from 2000 that is so beautiful I cried while watching it twice in the cinema recently during its 4K restoration and 25th anniversary run. Everything about it is pretty much perfect in my opinion (with maybe the murder twist being a bit odd).
It tells the story of three different family members - the father, the daughter, and the son, as they just… deal with life to be honest. Old loves reappear, new ones are formed, things go well, thing go bad. It’s beautifully simple, just a film about people, but the way it’s presented - from the cinematography, to the writing, music, and acting - is done so well that I personally can’t help but feel it’s a must-watch for every human being.
For some fun extras that I won’t opine much also:
- pretty much anything by Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities; Kings of The Road; Paris, Texas; Perfect Days)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (It’s lesbian 12 Angry Men)
- The Connection (it’s jazzy and drug addicted 12 Angry Men)
- The Battle of Algiers
- 8 1/2
- Tokyo Fist
- Strike (yes, from 1925)
- Girlfriends (1978)
- from more recent movies I really loved the comedies Better Off Dead (the Indonesian film) and The Last Viking. Die My Love, The Drama, and Marty Supreme were also excellent.
Recently read an article about Wenders that was disappointing
Damn that really is disappointing 🥲
Damn that’s really disappointing. Fuck.
Crazy Rich Asians is my guilty pleasure
My all time favorite is Tommy Boy
Civil War. Kirsten Dunst is fantastic in it and Jesse Plemons has an unforgettable minor part. It’s pretty bleak and could probably retitled “USA28” by now. But it"s my favourite film of the 2020s so far.
Mike Nick Nick and Alice
Death to Smoochy both very funny and good
