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Grendels Dad posted:A Serious Man, a Different Man and a Man on Fire walk into a bar The bartender Better Man asks "what are you having?"
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Oh poo poo Fincher's Zodiac back on the big screen tonightm
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I worked out today was 25 years to the date since I first watched a rented VHS copy of The Matrix on a tiny portable TV at my birthday party (the bigger TV was being used to play video games), so in honour of that I rewatched my 4K Blu-ray disc on a slightly larger 55 inch TV. It's still one of my favourite movies ever, and one of the best 4K discs - when I think of all the DNR and other bullshit James Cameron or David Fincher uses on their movies, it's so good to see visible grain, and also to see how well the CGI creatures and the Nebuchadnezzar hold up.
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Jan 9, 2025 00:42
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I've somehow managed to see a few films in otherwise entirely empty theatres - A Clockwork Orange, Barbie when it had its IMAX rerelease, and Rebel Moon: Part 2 (ok that last one was not so surprising).
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Jan 9, 2025 23:59
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Rewatched Mulholland Drive tonight. I've shamefully never seen Twin Peaks though, so I'm looking at getting the box set to rectify that, looks like I would still need to buy Fire Walk With Me separately though.
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Jan 17, 2025 02:59
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I spent yesterday evening crying over the news, and today I've teared reading every new remembrance from a friend or collaborator of Lynch's. Truly, how many artists have we had whose name is a shorthand in itself for a style of art, across so many different mediums? And how many are still with us?
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Jan 17, 2025 23:58
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Despite so many great films coming out last year, that's gotta be some of the worst Oscar nomination choices in years.
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Jan 23, 2025 14:51
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I don't think that's a career nomination for Demi, she would be a good best actress winner for her performance in that film.Nazzadan posted:Every time I think it's out of my head I read a post like yours and I start going "penis to vaginaaaaaaaa" all over again "I see, I see, I seeee" Wolfsheim posted:emilia perez seems like it was made by someone who has heard of trans people, mexico, drug cartels, and musicals in passing but has no direct experience with any of them and didn't investigate further before making a movie about all of them Also why actual Mexican and trans people have criticised it so harshly. I just can't believe it got two best original song nominations when every song I've heard from it is absolute dog poo poo - from lyrics to delivery to staging in the film itself.
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Jan 23, 2025 18:06
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Coaaab posted:I know you meant eeaao, but it is amusing to imagine rick and morty oppenheimer "Look at me Morty, I've turned myself into Death, Destroyer of Worlds!"
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Jan 23, 2025 18:40
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Grendels Dad posted:I know chat has moved on from Emilia Perez and I haven't seen the movie, but it feels noteworthy that it is probably the last hail mary of movies dealing with those themes, what with the political and cultural climate being what it is. It's a shame that it apparently sucks, but it might be the last "woke" movie winning anything any time soon. If the Academy was really keen on honouring a "woke" film then I Saw The TV Glow was right there, and better in all the categories it could have been nominated in.
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Jan 23, 2025 20:16
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Rewatched The Brutalist, this time on IMAX rather than 70mm, and I think I really did get more out of it this time, certain parts of the plot made more sense to me (interpretively speaking). I still got excited by that score (I was tapping my foot like I was hearing the Nirvana needle drops in Queer) and seeing some of the shots that got used in the marketing still made me go "wow". The IMAX DCP was very "scratchy" though, I'm sure the 70mm print was cleaner - or I was able to ignore it more as I knew I was watching a film print. And the Intermission was great for picking up a bag of popcorn, more films should have one (when it's appropriate for the film, and there's not many films released today like The Brutalist). Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Today I realized that I hate Toby Jones. I think he can only act one way. I feel bad for hating such a pleasant and gentle man. You should get help for that. If I see Tony Jones in the cast of a movie, I'm going to watch it. Even if I've gotten them mixed up again and it's actually Jason Watkins, I'm still going to watch it.
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Jan 26, 2025 23:52
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Watched The Substance again at a sold out screening, and going off some of the reactions most of my fellow audience members hadn't seen it. When you know what's coming up, it's very fun (I burst out laughing again at "shoot the monster!" and that first geyser of blood). And then I followed that up with a sold out screening of Titane, which I've been wanting to rewatch since I saw it in an almost empty theatre on its original release. Someone audibly went "oof" at that car crash right at the beginning of the film - buddy, you've got no idea what you've got yourself into. People were going "oh no" when they realised what was going to happen in that scene in the bathroom we all applauded when the credits rolled
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Feb 1, 2025 00:33
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Se7en in 4K UHD looks fantastic. Apparently Fincher oversaw the project
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Feb 15, 2025 18:15
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I don't think we should be putting grammer on a pedal stool.
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Mar 1, 2025 19:30
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Finally managed to get to a screening of I'm Still Here, and pretty much from the start the projector was dropping frames - I thought maybe it was a stylistic choice to show the imperfection of memory or something, but then it kept happening. People went out to complain but it wasn't getting fixed - until with 40 minutes left, the image totally froze up. Just waiting to see if they can fix it in time for the Jeanne Dielman screening, otherwise that's a wasted Sunday afternoon.
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Mar 9, 2025 14:26
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They fixed the projector in time for Jeanne Dielman, which I enjoyed. It felt long, but it didn't drag - one of those films whose rhythm you need to get into, like Satantango. I was a bit stressed how she kept compulsively turning those lights switches off, and never actually did any knitting,, but was also annoyed that the film cut away after sure only peeled two of those potatoes - I was waiting for ages for that scene to come up!
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Mar 9, 2025 19:50
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therattle posted:In the UK one of his songs (Angels) is HUGE and I absolutely hate it. It was played at a wedding I attended recently where the bride and her friends were all singing along to it. It was painful. I'm not a fan of it either, but I cried at the way it's used in Better Man.
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Mar 12, 2025 11:24
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FreudianSlippers posted:the janitor looks directly into the camera and says "I don't remember this happening at all" and the movie pauses for the narrator to let you know the janitor is played by the actual Howard Devoto and that this scene actually didn't happen in real life. They do this a few times in Better Man as well.
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Mar 13, 2025 13:20
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I get the impression it somehow manages to be actually pretty good and also so-bad-its-good at the same time. No, it's just a good movie.
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Mar 14, 2025 12:23
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Time for a Crash and Dead Ringers double bill, introduced by David Cronenberg and Howard Shore.
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Mar 22, 2025 10:38
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I've seen David Cronenberg and Howard Shore tell the same anecdotes a couple of times more, as I also went to their discussion at the Royal Festival Hall. Shore was looking rather frail, I wonder if he might retire soon.
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Mar 22, 2025 17:46
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Escobarbarian posted:u better have been nice to my old colleagues I always am! I'm liking the new cafe at the IMAX, looks like they're actually BFI employees as well, and it's not just another outsourced Benugo-run thing (which means the prices for a sandwich are actually reasonable).
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Mar 22, 2025 18:20
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Howard Shore introducing The Lord of the Rings at the BFI IMAX, the theatrical versions thank god. Unlike the time I went to an extended edition all-nighter last year, I didn't want to die by the middle of RotK, so I cried a lot at all of the emotional bits - and going by the sniffling around me I wasn't the only one. I think the theatrical cuts in daytime is definitely the way to do it.
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Mar 24, 2025 01:17
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Oh I forgot - we were watching the official IMAX DCP remaster of LotR, and it was striking how bad certain scenes looked, like they'd been really badly upscaled. Some scenes were very digitally grainy, while others had faces in the background that looked like bad AI upscales. I think it was mainly affecting scenes with composited effects - you could also easily see the outlines around the hobbits when they were pasted into a scene containing humans. Others looked great though, like closeups of just a face, or the scene where Frost drops the ring in the snow.
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Mar 24, 2025 15:42
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The Matrix 4K Blu-ray looks great and the size on disc is 62GB, so watching a rip you're going to lose some of that video detail.
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Mar 25, 2025 22:00
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Gaaaah what a lovely little film this is. Takes a premise of ghosts having to scare people in order to not disappear and spins it into a story about what it means to "be seen". So it's a live action remake of Monsters Inc.?
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Mar 29, 2025 15:25
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Yeah that's exactly the best description for it. And Rachel Brosnahan is the most dead wife a dead wife character has ever dead wifed. Malek's character being so poo poo at being the tough guy never really amounts to much as he ends up two steps ahead of them bad guys anyway.. What was the point of Jon Bernthal's character, he was set up as being the guy to be the brawn to Malek's brain but after giving him an ominous warning in that bar he just disappeared. And are we supposed to be cheering for the CIA clearing house at the end? Are we supposed to believe the new director is actually going to make wide sweeping changes?
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Apr 14, 2025 22:43
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I chose between The Amateur and Drop for my Friday night new release choice, and after 30 minutes was wishing I'd chosen the latter (especially after I read Bear McCreary did the score. However I watched it on Saturday evening instead and while it had some nice touches the ending and a few stupid contrivances spoiled it a bit stupid unnecessary action sequence where the lead character drives a thirty minute route in five, in someone else's car. And that decompressive skyscraper window was also very stupid, they were only about 30 stories up.
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Apr 14, 2025 23:42
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I've got a ticket to a preview screening on Wednesday evening but it's on a lovely screen and I'd already got a ticket for Warfare on the only day it's on IMAX screens in the UK. I've heard good things about it though, planning to see it this weekend on a proper 1.43 (digital) IMAX screen.
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Apr 15, 2025 00:39
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This is the full list of 15/70 and digital 1.43 locations. (the only theatre outside North America with a film print is the BFI IMAX, but railway engineering works means I can't make it this weekend.)
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Apr 15, 2025 01:00
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Lobster Henry posted:Re: Tinker Tailor If you haven't already, check out the BBC TV adaptations starring Alec Guinness. I've only ever seen the follow up one, Smiley's People, which is a more melancholic vibe. Also stars a younger Patrick Stewart.
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Apr 15, 2025 18:59
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I think it's prohibiting talking poo poo about another nominee, not the film you worked on.
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Apr 22, 2025 19:54
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Bought Michael Clayton on Blu-ray at the weekend, haven't seen it for a good few years and it's such a good film and full of great character actor performances. I should probably check out Tony Gilroy's Andor, especially as I paid to import the 4K steel book and still haven't watched it yet.
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Apr 25, 2025 01:12
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NYSM: 2 has some even stupider bits like Woody Harrelson's evil twin brother's ability to use actual and instantaneous hypnosis.
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Apr 29, 2025 22:04
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Spoilers for Her and Lucy: Scarlett Johansson's character arcs in both films have basically the same ending.
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Apr 30, 2025 14:44
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I've seen for the first time Satantango and Jeanne Dielman in the last twelve months, both at the cinema, and neither felt that long. I might have struggled with them at home, but with a well-paced film, and locked in a theatre with no ability to look at my phone I enjoyed the experience of watching them.
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Apr 30, 2025 18:25
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CelticPredator posted:Nolan’s new film will have someone poop in IMAX. How does one poo poo when undergoing the reversed entropy a la Tenet?
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Apr 30, 2025 23:39
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"From A Director of Fargo and No Country for Old Men" is pretty funny to see on a Cohen Brother film, you usually get that for Blumhouse horrors.
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May 7, 2025 19:54
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They Came Together Wet Hot American Summer Basically thinking of David Wain movies since his new one got announced.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:https://www.thecut.com/article/nicole-kidman-says-her-divorce-photos-are-not-real.html Didn't some people work out she wasn't filming on the date in question?
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