Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Friday, January 23, 2015
They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not in Hollywood ) - #25
This film makes me very excited to be moving to San Diego. I really hope I get the chance to perform a meaningful song and get no applause at all, like what the lead character is looking for. Just to be allowed to finish something in public would be such a blessing.
Friday, December 12, 2014
They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #24
24 is my favorite number.
The Island (2006) - Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
Thank you and God Bless you, Pinar Çoral, for the recommendation. I love you.
Watch it on Tubi for free.
The Island (2006) - Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
Thank you and God Bless you, Pinar Çoral, for the recommendation. I love you.
Watch it on Tubi for free.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
50 Years Ago
I used to watch this film every day. I can still watch it anytime, anywhere.
I especially love when Gene Hackman's FBI Agent gets called "Mr. Anderson" by Willem DeFoe's "Mr. Ward". I wish it would catch on as a meme more than that Matrix asshole.
That's sheer poetry, ladies and gentlemen! The true events that inspired this film happened 50 years ago now. It would be naive and silly to go on about how anything's better now than before. I just really like the film and think everyone should watch it and decide what's what for themselves. So sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
I especially love when Gene Hackman's FBI Agent gets called "Mr. Anderson" by Willem DeFoe's "Mr. Ward". I wish it would catch on as a meme more than that Matrix asshole.
Ward: Just don't lose sight of whose rights are being violated!
Anderson: Don't put me on your perch, Mr. Ward.
Ward: Don't drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson!
Anderson: These people are crawling out of the SEWER, MR. WARD! Maybe the gutter's where we outta be!
That's sheer poetry, ladies and gentlemen! The true events that inspired this film happened 50 years ago now. It would be naive and silly to go on about how anything's better now than before. I just really like the film and think everyone should watch it and decide what's what for themselves. So sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Saturday, January 18, 2014
They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not in Hollywood) - #23
The Act of Killing (2012)
Nominated for Best Documentary? It's sure to win, but that's it? Is that all? Why was this masterpiece not nominated for Best Picture? Why doesn't someone create a new category: Best Film of All Time?
If ever a film could literally save the world, this is it. That's not hyperbole. I mean what I say.
I really wish my best friend, the great filmmaker Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, were still alive to watch this with me.
It is the epitome of what all documentary film, all psychodrama, all humanity should aspire to be.
So Sayeth The King of Funny Faces!
Nominated for Best Documentary? It's sure to win, but that's it? Is that all? Why was this masterpiece not nominated for Best Picture? Why doesn't someone create a new category: Best Film of All Time?
If ever a film could literally save the world, this is it. That's not hyperbole. I mean what I say.
I really wish my best friend, the great filmmaker Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, were still alive to watch this with me.
It is the epitome of what all documentary film, all psychodrama, all humanity should aspire to be.
So Sayeth The King of Funny Faces!
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not in Hollywood) - #20
The Big Picture (2010) - Directed by Eric Lartigu
Excellent! It has been ages since I have seen such a good neo-noir. I am really glad I watched this without knowing anything about it. I highly recommend watching it without even reading the rest of my review. I wouldn't say the synopsis below is a spoiler exactly - watching the two minute trailer definitely is, that is why this is the first time I have not included one in this series - but, as I said, this is a film best seen with as little knowledge about it as possible. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Something bad happens. It is not exactly the protagonist's fault, at first. Under the right circumstances - with the right defense lawyer - it could easily be portrayed as just an accident, but that wouldn't be much of a noir, would it? It wouldn't be much of a story at all.
The darkest shadow of suspicion imaginable soon descends on the protagonist and he seals his own fate doing what appears to him as his only choice. However, in classic Chandleresque fashion, every step he takes with purpose to protect himself and his loved ones backfires, making things worse and worse.
At the end, there was a touching and very appropriate moment of redemption, but the atmosphere, score and acting still make this one of most deliciously dark noir films that I have seen in a long time.
Niels Arestrup, the mob boss from A Prophet, plays a non-criminal, yet equally menacing authoritative figure in this film. Fans of this film will also like "The Square," directed by Nash Edgerton.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Excellent! It has been ages since I have seen such a good neo-noir. I am really glad I watched this without knowing anything about it. I highly recommend watching it without even reading the rest of my review. I wouldn't say the synopsis below is a spoiler exactly - watching the two minute trailer definitely is, that is why this is the first time I have not included one in this series - but, as I said, this is a film best seen with as little knowledge about it as possible. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Something bad happens. It is not exactly the protagonist's fault, at first. Under the right circumstances - with the right defense lawyer - it could easily be portrayed as just an accident, but that wouldn't be much of a noir, would it? It wouldn't be much of a story at all.
The darkest shadow of suspicion imaginable soon descends on the protagonist and he seals his own fate doing what appears to him as his only choice. However, in classic Chandleresque fashion, every step he takes with purpose to protect himself and his loved ones backfires, making things worse and worse.
At the end, there was a touching and very appropriate moment of redemption, but the atmosphere, score and acting still make this one of most deliciously dark noir films that I have seen in a long time.
Niels Arestrup, the mob boss from A Prophet, plays a non-criminal, yet equally menacing authoritative figure in this film. Fans of this film will also like "The Square," directed by Nash Edgerton.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not in Hollywood) - #18
Unfinished Sky
I can't get enough of these Australian crime dramas.
This trailer seems to have a couple of spoilers. I feel bad posting it, but as a caveat I will recommend just jumping right in to the film without doing too much research. You will not regret it.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
I can't get enough of these Australian crime dramas.
This trailer seems to have a couple of spoilers. I feel bad posting it, but as a caveat I will recommend just jumping right in to the film without doing too much research. You will not regret it.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Friday, June 1, 2012
They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #15
Norway's a good place they make films. Submarino, for example.
I love finding new directors.
This film has a Jim Jarmusch/Quentin Tarantino influence to it, in that the stories unfold in overlapping flashbacks similar to Mystery Train and Pulp Fiction.
There really isn't any comedy in this film, though. It's all tragedy. Some may call it slow, but I call it just beautiful.
I can't wait to see Mads Mikkelsen in Vinterberg's latest "The Hunt."
So sayeth the King of Funny Faces.
I love finding new directors.
This film has a Jim Jarmusch/Quentin Tarantino influence to it, in that the stories unfold in overlapping flashbacks similar to Mystery Train and Pulp Fiction.
There really isn't any comedy in this film, though. It's all tragedy. Some may call it slow, but I call it just beautiful.
I can't wait to see Mads Mikkelsen in Vinterberg's latest "The Hunt."
So sayeth the King of Funny Faces.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #13
I just posted this review on Netflix. Hopefully, it will be posted soon.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Move over Mongol. Red Hill is officially now my favorite movie of ALL TIME! Jimmy Conway is one of the most iconic characters in all of film. He's scary as hell like Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, but without the quirky haircut and the one liners. The plot is pretty much the exact opposite of High Noon. It's every bit as iconic. The whole thing is bloody perfect. It's glorious. I'm definitely going to buy the DVD and I want to buy a copy for all my friends. I just might do that for somebody I know who's having a birthday next month. Never mind the bollocks in some of the other reviews. Watch this movie. You won't regret it.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #10
My name is Khan.
I am not a terrorist.
I am the Post-9/11 Forrest Gump.
He's also an Aspie.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
I am not a terrorist.
I am the Post-9/11 Forrest Gump.
He's also an Aspie.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Judgment at Nuremberg Verdict
Spoiler Warning - don't watch if you don't want to know the end of the movie
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - 8
Example #8: The Secret In Their Eyes
A Great Combination of Several Genres, this film has it all: Mystery, Romance, Political Intrigue
It doesn't get much better than this.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Saturday, December 4, 2010
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