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Director currently working on: John Carpenter Progress: 1/20 Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Elvis, Someone's Watching Me, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing, Christine, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, Prince of Darkness, Most Recently Watched: They Live I've seen the iconic "skinless faces" with OBEY written under them for a long time, but never knew where it came from. Also "I've come here to kick rear end, and chew bubblegum" is from this movie. There's a 6 minute long fistfight that apparently Carpenter loved rehearsing and filming, and it's absolutely ridiculous and shoehorned in, but still funny. They Live seems to go back and forth between trying to say something, and just being crazy 50's-inspired schlock, and seeing the subliminal message of "THIS IS YOUR GOD" on paper money struck me as 19 year old film-school symbolism, but I still came away glad that I watched it. 3/5 Next Up: Dark Star Quad fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Director currently working on: Richard Linklater Progress: 8/15 Bernie, Me and Orson Welles, The Newton Boys, Most Recently Watched: N/A Next Up: Slacker & It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books. I'm not including shorts or his baseball documentary. I decided to keep It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books since it's on the criterion which I can borrow from my sister. Otherwise I'm just keeping to his theatrical releases. Linklater is one of my favorite directors, so I've been meaning to do this for a while, so this hopefully should go quick once I get a few other movies out of the way that I've rented and borrowed from friends. And hopefully Bernie gets released somewhere close to me too. I have a question on this, should we stay away from a director if we only have a film or two to watch to complete this? Or use it as an excuse to finish off their films?
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Quad posted:Director currently working on: John Carpenter He didn't direct quite a few of those... The only Halloween film he did was the original 1978 one, and the remakes of The Fog and Assault on Precinct 13 were by different directors.
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Director currently working on: Stanley Kubrick Progress: 8/14 Next up: Barry Lyndon I've loved them all so far, although I must say, Eyes Wide Shut was kinda weird, even for Kubrick, but that could be because I just recently watched it. My favorites are Lolita and Dr. Strangelove.
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Nillerz posted:Director currently working on: Stanley Kubrick You should come back to Eyes Wide Shut when you're done. It's become my favorite from him, but it took some time and perspective. And don't cheat! Kubrick directed SIXTEEN movies. Why not be a professional cool guy and watch The Seafarers, Fear and Desire, Day of the Fight, and Flying Padre too? They're easy enough to find and give some insight into his origins.
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Daveski posted:He didn't direct quite a few of those... The only Halloween film he did was the original 1978 one, and the remakes of The Fog and Assault on Precinct 13 were by different directors. Yeah, I was about to say - I think that's his production credits. The list also omits Elvis: The Movie, which really should be included if possible despite being made for TV because it's really good and was Carpenter's first collaboration with Kurt Russell. EDIT: For your benefit, Carpenter's complete directorial ouevre excluding shorts and M4TVs (other than Elvis). 2008 The Ward 2001 Ghosts of Mars 1998 Vampires 1996 Escape from L.A. 1995 Village of the Damned 1994 In the Mouth of Madness 1992 Memoirs of an Invisible Man 1987 Prince of Darkness 1986 Big Trouble in Little China 1984 Starman 1983 Christine 1982 The Thing 1981 Escape from New York 1980 The Fog 1979/I Elvis (TV movie) 1978 Halloween 1976 Assault on Precinct 13 1974 Dark Star You're on 1/19. Jedit fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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Director currently working on: Marcus Nispel Progress: 0/4 Next up: Friday the 13th (2009) There are a lot of people in this thread doing classic directors, so I felt like taking this in a different direction. After I finish Nispel, I'm thinking of moving on to Peter Berg or John Milius--blockbuster-type directors.
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Cantskate43 posted:I have a question on this, should we stay away from a director if we only have a film or two to watch to complete this? Or use it as an excuse to finish off their films? I'm of the opinion that this is meant for a director that you've got some work to do. It's meant to be a project using this thread as motivation to watch someone's filmography. Otherwise all this is doing is reminding you to finish off the last 1-2 movies. Both are helpful I suppose. I'm not real sure how to go about updating this, but I'm going to be editing my original post so it's all in one spot on top of adding briefly to the thread. Director currently working on: Martin Scorsese [feature films only] Progress: 11/22 [Who's That Knockin At My Door, Boxcar Bertha, Watched: Mean Streets (04/19/12) Loved it. Just an awesome fun movie and De Niro was brilliant. Scorsese & De Niro are a perfect match, and also Keitel to a lesser extent. The soundtrack also stood out in a big way and set the mood perfectly throughout. So many instances where I almost felt I've seen it before which certainly isn't a bad thing. A very good movie and one I would watch again sooner than later. 5/5 Next Up: The Aviator friendo55 fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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Armyman25 posted:Have you seen Elvis? I might watch that after I finish Friedkin. I've seen about half his output multiple times, but I figure this will be more interesting after I rewatch this stuff. First up is "Off Season" from the Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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Jedit posted:Yeah, I was about to say - I think that's his production credits. The list also omits Elvis: The Movie, which really should be included if possible despite being made for TV because it's really good and was Carpenter's first collaboration with Kurt Russell. Someone's Watching Me!, his 1978 made for TV horror movie, should be included too. It's an interesting premonition of Halloween, his first movie with a female lead, and his first straight horror movie.
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Cantskate43 posted:I have a question on this, should we stay away from a director if we only have a film or two to watch to complete this? Or use it as an excuse to finish off their films? Either way. Personally, I'm going to start by doing directors that I only have a few more to go, then move on to the more daunting ones.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:gently caress it, I'm going to do William Friedkin. Is this an official start? What's your current progress?
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friendo55 posted:I'm not real sure how to go about updating this, but I'm going to be editing my original post so it's all in one spot on top of adding briefly to the thread. While you can do it any way you'd like, my opinion is that it's best to write your reviews in a new post, much like the Shameful thread. If you just update your post on the first page I doubt very many people will see it.
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caiman posted:Is this an official start? What's your current progress? I'm watching "Off Season" right now, next up is that doggone Sonny and Cher movie.
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caiman posted:While you can do it any way you'd like, my opinion is that it's best to write your reviews in a new post, much like the Shameful thread. If you just update your post on the first page I doubt very many people will see it. That makes sense. Going through different directors filmographies has been pretty interesting. I had no idea Abbas Kiarostami has that many films under his belt!
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Off Season dir: William Friedkin TV in the 50's has a certain contour to it that is probably a relic of the studio system, in the same way the ultra cheap westerns and crime films of the Poverty Row studios mimic the look and feel of the "A" pictures. This makes a lot of shows from that era look inert and stagey. Friedkin's take on Bloch's short story is definitely of this style, making some attempt shows energy and a willingness to use unusual camera angles, pans and zooms to keep a typical noir story lively. It's a breezy style that's more competent than impressive, given the constraints of TV directing which is by definition uninteresting. It's no Underworld U.S.A.
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This is a really awesome idea. I love Joe Dante's movies, but I haven't seen many of them besides the big ones from the '80s, and I admire his prolific nature, for better or worse. So I pick Joe Dante - I'll be rewatching the films I've seen of his as well. Director I'm working on: Joe Dante Progress: 6/19 Next Up: Piranha Piranha (1978) The Howling (1981) Explorers (1985) The 'Burbs (1989) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990 Matinee (1993) Runaway Daughters (1994) The Second Civil War (TV Movie) (1997) The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998) Haunted Lighthouse (short) Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) Trapped Ashes (2004) Masters of Horror: Homecoming (2005) Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution (2006) The Greatest Show Ever (TV Movie)(2007) The Hole (2009) Hewlett fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Excellent idea! Gonna throw my hat in the ring and get down with someone a little controversial with a very unique style and worldview. I'll probably just do full movies he directed though, otherwise it could get a bit messy. Director I'm working on: Spike Lee (no TV shows or musicals) Progress: 6/27 (but I intend to rewatch the ones I've already seen) Next up: Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, She's Gotta Have It, School Daze*, Do The Right Thing*, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers*, Get On The Bus, Girl 6, 4 Little Girls, He Got Game, Freak, Summer of Sam, The Original Kings of Comedy, Bamboozled*, A Huey P. Newton Story, 25th Hour*, Jim Brown: All-American, She Hate Me, Sucker Free City, Inside Man*, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Miracle At St. Anna, Kobe Doin' Work, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise *these are the ones I've seen and will be rewatching If I missed any or someone thinks it's really worth watching any of his other works, please tell me. Single Tight Female fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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Director currently working on: Martin Scorsese Progress 19/31 [Who's that Knocking in My Door; Boxcar Bertha; Just watched: George Harrison: Living in Material World biggest problem is The Beatles, they just shadow most of the documentary, and almost by extension, the man under the spotlight, George Harrison. When it finally leaves The Beatles years, and we get just George Harrison, his spiritual quest, and all of his different projects and passions, it gets a lot more interesting and entertaining to watch. The stuff involving the creation and the reception to Life of Brian was the highlight. I was going to say that they should've compressed all The Beatles stuff, then I remembered that they did that, and it still covered 90 minutes of a three hour long documentary, it's a huge topic, and it was what made George Harrison, but at times it feels like extra stuff from The Beatles Anthology and not really about Harrison. Either way it's pretty good, not really on the level of No Direction Home but once it gets going it's quite something. It also reinforces that George Harrison was really the best of The Beatles, and as a sort of bonus Ringo Starr makes an actual funny joke at the end. Next Up: Italianamerican
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Just finished What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Woody Allen's very silly first film. I'm not quite sure it's fair to say that he directed this, since 99% of the footage is from a Japanese spy film, but the dialogue is all his I guess. There are some very funny moments ("An Oriental!"), but I've seen funnier redubs. The scenes with The Lovin' Spoonful were totally out of place. Most of the time, I was wishing that I was watching the original Japanese film. Director currently working on: Woody Allen (theatrical only) Progress: 16/41 Next up: Another Woman
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Daveski posted:Just finished What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Woody Allen's very silly first film. I'm not quite sure it's fair to say that he directed this, since 99% of the footage is from a Japanese spy film, but the dialogue is all his I guess. There are some very funny moments ("An Oriental!"), but I've seen funnier redubs. The scenes with The Lovin' Spoonful were totally out of place. Most of the time, I was wishing that I was watching the original Japanese film. Have you seen Wild Strawberries? Seeing it first will help you appreciate many of the homages in Another Woman. Not so say it's absolutely required or anything.
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caiman posted:Have you seen Wild Strawberries? Seeing it first will help you appreciate many of the homages in Another Woman. Not so say it's absolutely required or anything. Yes! I'm a big Bergman fan too - I was considering doing him, but chose to start with Woody Allen because I have easy access to bunch of his films.
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I just realized I've been meaning to watch all Michael Haneke's films since I absolutely loved the ones I've seen. Just to make sure - is it okay if I post updates every two/three weeks or so? I have lots of more important stuff to do these days, but I think this is a great idea and I'd love to do it. Director currently working on: Michael Haneke Progress: 4/11 The Seventh Continent, Benny's Video, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, The Castle, Funny Games, Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys, Next Up: The Seventh Continent I'm not counting the TV films (they are almost impossible to track down) and Lumière and Company (40 directors worked on that).
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Quick question - is it worth me holding out to watch the 5 Malicks in chronological order? Only seen Badlands so far and I loved it and I have Tree of Life lying around, but it sounds like the guy has a certain style and if I jump around they might hit me wrong or something.
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YoSaff posted:Quick question - is it worth me holding out to watch the 5 Malicks in chronological order? Only seen Badlands so far and I loved it and I have Tree of Life lying around, but it sounds like the guy has a certain style and if I jump around they might hit me wrong or something.
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Director currently working on: Lars von Trier Progress: 2/18 (Dogville, The Five Obstructions) Next up: Dancer in the Dark
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Director currently working on: Takeshi "Beat" Kitano Progress: 2/15 Just Watched: Outrage (2010)  You used all my conditioner you son of a bitch! This movie is often hailed as Beat's return to form, and more specifically his return to making yakuza films. So, having read that, and having just watched Sonatine a few days ago, I expected similar fare here. I was wrong. Outrage is vastly different from Sonatine, in almost every imaginable way, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. While Sonatine was a slow-moving character study, Outrage is a violent, action-driven piece that focuses more on the politics and machinations of the Yakuza than any individual character. The plot is pretty simple: the leader of the Yakuza, referred to as "Mr. Chairman", intentionally starts a conflict within his organization, in an attempt to insure his tenuous grasp on his vast power is not lost. Coupled with his position as the leader of the group, and his white outfit, I'm curious if Beat meant this character to reflect Kim Jong-Il in any way.  Even his glasses resemble that of the late Dear Leader's Beat is again the protagonist of his own film, which I have no problem with, as he is equally adept at both acting and directing. My main issues with the film come from the fact that its mostly just a showcase for violence and gunplay, and seems to put Beat's amazing cinematography to the side in favor of a more formulaic gangster film. According to wikipedia, Beat wrote out many different imaginative death scenes before he even wrote a script for the film, and his primary goal in making the film was simply to entertain people. There's nothing wrong with either of those things, but since I just watched the amazing Sonatine, it's a little jarring to see the same director make a completely different type of film. I still greatly enjoyed it, and loved how intricate it was in showing how a criminal organization like the Yakuza really works (or sometime doesn't work, as in the film). Despite the fact that it was much more action-oriented, Beat still threw in some absolutely beautiful shots in here and there.   I particularly like these two shots, because the first one is right before they nearly decapitate a Yakuza member, and the second shot is them leaving the scene of the crime the next day. Two different angles on the same road, at two different times of day, perhaps representing life and death? 4/5 Next Up: Fireworks (1997) Sorry for the relatively low-quality screengrabs, I watched this one on Netflix Instant. I hope to be able to procure a DVD of Fireworks, so future screenshots should look better.
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Director currently working on: Stanley Kubrick Progress: 9/16 Just watched: Barry Lyndon This movie was actually the only one so far that I actively disliked. I realize that it was part of the style to make scenes look flat, however I don't think it was a good idea to extend this to the characters. EDIT: I'm new to CD, so I'm going to expand on the above post. Spoilers ahead. Barry Lyndon is a coming of age tale, primarily. It begins with the protagonist dealing with boyish crushes on his cousin, and in an effort more to prove himself as a man as opposed to him trying to regain relations with his beloved cousin, he gets in a duel with an English officer. After winning the duel he is forced to run away, and after getting robbed he joins the English army to fight in the 7 year war. After running away from the army, then being forced into the Prussian army, he becomes especially gifted at gambling while helping a man he is supposed to be spying on. More stuff happens, and he eventually marries into money. His wifes character is not given much dialogue, and this may be the directors attempt at making us unattached to her in the same way that the protagonist is. There are two sons, one of which is from the wife's previous marriage and one between her and her and the protagonist. The elder of the two despises his new "father", and their relationship ends in a duel, the same way that the protagonist left his family is the same way his step-son leaves his. This serves as something of a climax to the movie, although the way the movie is styled doesn't really allow for a real climax in the classical sense. At this moment, the protagonist is shown to be completely grown-up, a full adult, completely matured and past his previous boyish tendencies. One of my main problems with this movie was the flatness of the characters, they seemed completely unrelatable. The only character to which I could actually relate to was surprisingly the young child of the protagonist. I feel as though the director made him the most relatable so as to give the audience a solid stab when the boy later dies. I feel as though much of the movie is designed to make the audience relate to the world the protagonist lives in in the same way as the protagonist, therefore, almost anyone he deals with is mostly just superficial. The only time a character seems human is when they are going to die. Anyway, that's my spiel. Nillerz fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Nillerz posted:Director currently working on: Stanley Kubrick
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penismightier posted:Director currently working on: Edgar G. Ulmer  Director currently working on: Edgar G. Ulmer Progress 19/48 Next up: The Light Ahead, probably I combed the IMDb list and after cutting out the uncredited and unconfirmed titles, it comes to 48, not 53. I pulled everything the least bit suspect because IMDb was crediting him for a movie released 30 years after he loving died. So here's where we're at - I watched two Edgar Ulmer films today, one feature and one short. Goodbye, Mr. Germ was the short, and it's a passable little health film about the dangers of TB. Not very different from a lot of the movies in my Ephemeral Films thread, it's stilted and brief but has a weird sorta hypnotic stillness. TB is represented by a cartoon germ living in a lung, and it's a surprisingly dark representation. He's a cruel devil who gloats over death. The narrator is James Kirkwood, who once appeared in some of DW Griffith's early shorts. It's always weird and often depressing to see where those guys all wound up. This one's for completists only, but that's me, and it's an interesting enough twist on many of his major themes - Senses of Cinema sorta astutely called the comparison to his Yiddish films and early explorations of threatened cultures. Tomorrow We Live, the feature, is a really interesting turning point for Ulmer. It's the film that hooked him up with PRC, the Poverty Row studio he would work at (reign over) for much of the 1940s when he made some of his most discussed work, including his touchstone Detour. It's about a criminal called The Ghost who's blackmailing and old ex-con and his hot daughter. Slow start, but a lot of really classic Ulmer themes are introduced right off the bat - people are haunted by their criminal pasts, hounded out of living a normal life. Opulence and poverty are contrasted, the bad guys as usual wearing tuxedos. There's a common exterior shot of a gas pump which feels right out of Hopper. Around the halfway point it picks up and there's a pretty exceptional gunfight near the end. The bad guy unravels and his frightened rage is really well done - he's at once pathetic and frightening. The final shot, a powerful low angle of our heroine, feels very Russian and unusually triumphant for the morose Ulmer. Seems like he got more and more pessimistic as he went on, culminating in the grim The Cavern. This is a low/mid level Ulmer, not quite as good as The Naked Venus but better than Daughter of Dr. Jekyll. Glad I've got it under my belt, but unless y'all like Poverty Row noir, there's no rush here. penismightier fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Director currently working on: Elia Kazan Progress: 4/19 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | The Sea of Grass | Boomerang! | Gentleman's Agreement | Pinky | Panic in the Streets | Just watched: It'd be easy to dismiss Splendor in the Grass as an overblown melodrama, but that would be misplaced criticism. A lot can get lost in translation here: it's a film about sex and youth, made in 1961, that takes place in 1928. You can guess how aged it all feels now, and as a modern audience, there is a mental adjustment to make on the fly, but at the core of the film everything still rings true. It's exaggerated sure, but that's half the point. Everything is a tragedy when you're a teenager, especially within the sexual realm. I've already known that Kazan is a superb director of the melodrama. His films feel like stage plays (whether they're adapted or not), but they aren't restricted in any sense. This holds true for this film. Kazan also knows how to get a great performance, and here we get one from Natalie Wood. She acts with the exaggerated emotion that the film calls for, but she manages to give the character great depth and subtlety when needed. It's through her that the film truly works on all the levels: the frustration, anxiety, and (especially) the sensationalism of being young (and of growing up). For a film dealing with teenage sexual frustration in the 1920s seen through the lens of the late 50s and the early 60s, it's remarkably relevant today. It was one of the two stone-cold classics of Kazan's on my list to watch (the other being East of Eden), and I would say it certainly earns it's place there, even if it's not an outright masterpiece. Next up: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Director currently working on: The Coen Brothers Progress: 8/15 Just watched: I'd previously seen most of the Coen Brothers' comedies but only one of their dramas (well, only one of their straightforward dramas, Barton Fink and Fargo aren't exactly comedies either), that being Miller's Crossing, so I went into Blood Simple without really knowing what to expect, especially considering the fact that it was their debut. What impressed me most about it was how fully formed it was. The setting, the characters, the dialog, everything was completely believable. It felt real, and that feeling of reality made it possible to sympathize with, and ultimately even identify with, characters that are frankly morally repellant, which is quite an accomplishment to say the least. A Very impressive film. Next up: I'm rewatching Raising Arizona stereobreadsticks fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Apr 25, 2012 |
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Director currently working on: John Carpenter Progress: 2/20 Dark Star, Most Recently Watched: Assault on Precinct 13 Ahh, I love a good zombie movie. Just enough setup to make us care if the survivors make it through alive, but not enough to make us angry if they don't. The dialogue and acting starts off extremely wooden, 15 minutes in I was dreading listening to a whole movie of it, but then something changes. As soon as the characters are in peril, there's no more badly shoehorned exposition, or comments on juvenile deliquency. The characters stop being stereotypes and start being archetypes, things 'kick in'; I tend to shy away from action flicks because I always feel let down, but there was real tension in this movie, even if (what I assume to be) JC's Trademarks are also there in spades. (Cliche dialogue, overly long/badly edited action scenes, "symbolism" that is literally just stating the meaning of itself on the screen).  "And I say the cellar is the safest place!"  Haha, because, look, the convict is holding up the sign! Clever, right? Guys? Guys wait up!  "Anybody got a smoke?" Next Up: Maybe Halloween or The Thing, I dunno
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That's not the first time I've seen Assault on Precinct 13 called a zombie movie.
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PDMChubby posted:Next up: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn That's a great one. Wild River is, too, and Panic in the Streets is a lot of fun.
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Director currently working on: Martin Scorsese Progress 24/35 [ Just watched: Italianamerican is a short but very sweet documentary, capturing a pleasant evening with Charles and Catherine Scorsese, the parents of Martin Scorsese. They are not the most interesting people in the world, but they are quite charming and can fill 50 minutes with some nice stories and jokes. Also after years and years of watching American sitcoms, I grew to believe that old couples who dressed their couches in plastic was just one big myth, watching the real deal blew my mind. Added and watched Scorsese's early shorts too. What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, It's Not Just You, Murray! and The Big Shave, all three are odd and experimental, you can notice the nouvelle vague and some Fellini influences very clearly in the first two. Those two are actually kinda funny too. The Big Shave is a metaphor for Vietnam or something, I'm not sure it actually works, but if the point is to make you cringe and never shave again, it works very well on that level. To round up, also watched The Key to Reserva, another short, this one based on a lost Alfred Hitchcock script of a film he never did, titled The Key to Reserva, in which only three pages survive to this day. So Martin Scorsese sets to the task of preserving this film, by filming the only three pages of script, and make it look like it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It's actually an add for wine, but it's very funny. Especially for Scorsese's "character", also try to count how many references he makes to Alfred Hitchcock in the space of 5 minutes. It's crazy. Next Up: Shine a Light I do believe that now, I actually counted all the shorts and documentaries easily available.
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Quad posted:Most Recently Watched: Assault on Precinct 13 I just watched this a few weeks ago, and the zombie movie thing didn't occur to me then, but you're absolutely right. Many zombie flicks focus so much on the gore and special effects that they forget to be tense or interesting - this one went in the complete opposite direction and ditched the zombies altogether.
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Sporadic posted:John Frankenheimer Get your hands on Seconds asap, it's crazy cool.
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[blahblah] Finished Wes Anderson 6/6, Quentin Tarantino 7/7 & Robert Rodriguez (non-kids) 8/8. SO CLOSE to finishing Aronofsky, Nolan, PT Anderson, Del Toro, Fincher, Singer, The Coens & David Lynch. Just mentioning that because this thread will help me power through & complete all these guys. Also I wanted to start a debate on whether saying I have collected Robert Rodriguez even though I haven't seen (& never will see) Spy Kids 4 is wrong. [/blahblah]  Director currently working on: Terry Gilliam Progress: 6/16 2011 The Wholly Family [Short] 2010 The Legend of Hallowdega [Short] 2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2005 Tideland 2005 The Brothers Grimm 1998 1995 1991 The Fisher King 1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1985 1983 1981 1977 Jabberwocky 1975 1974 The Miracle of Flight [Short] 1968 Storyline [Short] I've always been a little scared of Gilliam's most recent career because the word of mouth ultimately sucks, this is as good an excuse to try it out than any whilst catching up with Baron Munchausen & Jabberwocky which any self-respecting Gilliam fan ought to have seen by now. Next Up: The Brothers Grimm The Hausu Usher fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Quad posted:overly long/badly edited action scenes, I suppose they're a little unpolished, but I think they're a far cry from badly edited. The sequence where Ethan is trying to get the weapons out of the locked chest is masterfully tense stuff, and when he tosses that shotgun to Wilson right as the bad guys are coming through the window...whew. That right there is why I love Carpenter. And you didn't even mention the soundtrack!
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