Friday, August 12, 2011
I just realised...
...I haven't seen a film in the cinema since True Grit. I like movies, but it seems like more and more I'll just wait for the dvd. There were two films I thought about seeing this year. I was curious about Thor, but it was only available dubbed into French and in 3D. It being in French is okay, but I don't want to see any more films in 3D. The other film was Tree of Life. Days of Heaven is propably my one favourite film, but I've been disappointed in the last two Malick films, Thin Red Line and New World, and based on the trailer, Tree of Life seemed to be more of the same. Beautiful images, "poetic voiceovers" and no story. So I didn't see it. Maybe I'll regret that when I get it on dvd and have to watch it on my tv. What else has there been? Pirates 4, Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens? Sigh... Hollywood used to make movies for adults once. I guess the next film I'm interested in seeing in the cinema is the next Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo which should be out in late December, so I'll just have to start counting the days...
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Did you see Midnight in Paris? I saw it last week, and really enjoyed it. It wasn't on the level of, say, Manhattan or Annie Hall, but I liked it a lot more than his more recent films that I've seen. (Manhattan Murder Mystery is still maybe my favourite of his, along with the two classics above, I think.) In the new one, it was of course fun to see Paris in the 20s and Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein brought to life. I recommend it, if you like Woody Allen that is.
ReplyDeleteI gave up on Woody Allen around Alice and Shadows and Fog. I've seen some later ones like Husbands and Wives and Everyone Says I Love You and really disliked them. But I still like some of the old ones, like Annie Hall, Radio Days and Play It Again Sam, and I've heard from several people that the last one is good, so I'll probably get it on dvd.
ReplyDeleteI forgot: I'm also looking forward to Le Havre, the new Aki Kaurismäki film. I think it should be out before the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteyou gotta see Hesher! it is so refreshing
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXKRKpvv3SU
Have you seen Submarine? It's a UK film, so I was just happy it came to Chicago. It was one of my favorite seen-in-a-cinema movies in a long, long time. It was like reading The Catcher in the Rye for the first time again.
ReplyDeleteBased on the trailer, Hesher seems to be the kind of hip and cool film I can't stand at all. I might be wrong. The trailer for Submarine looks interesting. It's the kind of film I would have checked out 20 years ago. But at some point you just get less curious, I guess. I discovered Hal Hartley 20 years ago, watching Trust in the cinema; He's one of my favourite film makers. If it had come out today I probably wouldn't have seen it.
ReplyDeleteOh, I really loved Submarine! One of the few new movies without insane MTV editing. Good writing and neat artsy style, very charming too. I think you it would appeal to your taste.
ReplyDeleteIt actually reminded me of Delicatessen a bit, I remember you had an early strip about watching it a few times because of the ticket booth lady.
That strip was fiction, but yes, Delicatessen is a great film. Hmm... well, I guess I will have to watch Submarine now!
ReplyDeletein some scenes - even sequences - Hesher is quite opposite to so called hip n cool movie
ReplyDeleteit's crazy and unpredictable but sad and intimate
check out earlier film of that director, a short entitled I Love Sarah Jane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYxs7Y7ulrM
if u will like it than try with Hesher, it's the same kind of cinema :)
Hva med den kommende filmatiseringen av Jo Nesbøs Hodejegerne? Virker som et lovende norsk filmprosjekt, spør du meg.
ReplyDeleteJeg har fortsatt ikke lest noe av Nesbö, men er interessert i aa pröve en av Harry Hole bökene.
ReplyDeleteOh no! I hope the strip about balding wan't fictional, because I can really relate to it... In any case, it's best to be oblivious.
ReplyDeleteHis new-ish film "Micmacs" is pretty good, but nowhere as great as Delicatessen & City of Lost Children.
That strip is, unfortunately, not fiction. Delicatessen is Jeunet and Caro's masterpiece. Of his solo films, Amelie is okay. I have Micmacs on dvd; I've seen the first half but have never gotten around to see the rest. There is something too sugary about his films, a style that seemed wrong for the war scenes in A Very Long Engagement. The ending was touching, though. His Alien film has some good scenes, but as a whole it pretty much sucks.
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