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I think a fun idea for this forum would be doing a movie of the week, since movie of the month is too infrequent/you don't need 30 days to discuss a single movie. So im going to post a new thread every Tuesday to kick off the week! Most likely I won't watch the movie until Friday anyway, and people can offer up suggestions and ideas for future weeks. For now Im just going to pick movies i havent seen and were probably going to watch regardless. That said, here's the first Staff Pick: Cure (1997)  Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Cinematography by: Noriaki Kikumura IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/ From IMDB: "A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done." From a review by Tom Mes: "Cure is a horror film in the purest sense of the word; its ability to unsettle the viewer is second to none. In it, Kiyoshi Kurosawa unleashes a shadow. It is the shadow of apocalypse, an apocalypse which is not seen or heard, but sensed. And it's creeping ever closer." Sounds creepy! Ill have to turn the lights down for this one! Cure is available on Filmstruck and by googling Cure 1997 Torrent.
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sounds good OP - i will watch it after i have watched a movie by some skandinavian filmmaker that i need to watch to impress a girl on OKcupid. Namaste. e: it was Kaurismäki
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Feb 1, 2017 01:53
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I will try to watch it
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Feb 1, 2017 02:31
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i'm not sure if i'll watch this week but this is a good idea
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Feb 1, 2017 02:39
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Definitely a great idea. I might not be able to watch this one this week but I'll definitely be helping and participating in these in the future, and I'll definitely make sure they get stuck each week.
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Feb 1, 2017 03:42
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discount cathouse posted:sounds good OP - i will watch it after i have watched a movie by some skandinavian filmmaker that i need to watch to impress a girl on OKcupid. Namaste. I hope the girl is impressed. I'll be watching this either Thursday or Saturday most likely.
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Feb 1, 2017 03:49
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im going to watch this movie
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Feb 1, 2017 05:08
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to clarify. not now, but definitely later.
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Feb 1, 2017 05:08
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I'm gonna stop being lazy and finally start up that Filmstruck trial, for this.
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Feb 1, 2017 13:36
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looks dope as hell. I'm pirat...buying it right away and will report back with results!
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Feb 2, 2017 22:35
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Srice posted:I'm gonna stop being lazy and finally start up that Filmstruck trial, for this. Filmstruck has a pretty good selection, and since I only ever used Hulu for criterion's digital catalogue I just swapped subscriptions.
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Feb 2, 2017 22:47
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Watching this now.
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Feb 4, 2017 17:13
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it was really great, and the ending had me thoroughly chilled. ive got a bunch of screengrabs and gifs ill post later once a few more people have watched it, along with some more thoughts on specific scenes. but for now ill say that I loved the way hypnosis is channeled via close ups in this movie, where the drastic cuts from the languid long take handheld work that makes up most of the film really mirror the total break from reality it inflicts on sad japanese people. i also just love close ups of natural elements that can't be directed, like they do with dripping water, flickering flames, billowing cigarette smoke, etc. SHots like that are often lent an otherworldly treatment in the form of slow motion and such, and it was cool that that idea and fascination became a element of the narrative as the movie unfolded.
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I really loved this movie as well. I typically really dislike the use of hypnotism in stories. This is one of the few exceptions to that. This movie really made the hypnotism feel very real and threatening. It felt like it was some kind of infectious idea. I just can't get this film off my mind. X
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Feb 5, 2017 03:41
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Utilizing long takes works so well for this story since handheld long take camera work is an accepted short hand for reality and blending that into hallucinatory scenes makes the viewer so unhinged. It was pretty amazing and I hope more people here watch it! I've got some good screen grabs and gifs to share
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Feb 5, 2017 23:37
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I watched this and really enjoyed it, thanks! I feel like having parts where you don't know if the scene is real or in a character's imagination can turn real corny, but this never went over that point. I got a good laugh when this shot happened, as i had just started thinking of Mamiya a tiny bit like "what if Lecter was actually behind everything in Silence of the Lambs?"
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Feb 6, 2017 05:08
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I probably wont be able to watch the movie this week. Sad!
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Feb 6, 2017 10:17
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This bit in a essay I read today struck out to me because it describes perfectly the central aesthetic choices of Cure:Siegfried Kracauer posted:The familiar. Nor do we perceive the familiar. It is not as if we shrank from it, as we do in the case of refuse; we just take it for granted without giving it a thought. Intimate faces, streets we walk day by day, the house we live - all these things are part of us like our skin, and because we know them by heart we do not know them with the eye ...
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New thread can be found here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3809160
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