Movie Tab II

A Very Long Engagement (2004) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jeunet brings his distinct style to World War I. Didn't think it would work but it pretty much did. Nice little performance from Jodie Foster in this too. +

A Woman is a Woman (1961) - Jean-Luc Godard
Quirky little musical comedy parody. Lots of fun with Godard using every idea he could think of. -

La Notte (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni
Mastroianni is the sort of actor who makes almost anything watchable. Visually excellent too. +

Viridiana (1961) - Luis Bunuel
Excellent, depressing movie that will make you lose faith in human nature ... but in a funny way ...

Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) - Jerzy Kawalerowicz
A beautiful, creepy horror movie. Don't know how else to describe it +

When it Rains (1995) - Charles Burnett
Bluedeed's nomination in the Shorts HoF. First thing I've seen by Burnett and the first nomination of Bluedeed's I didn't really care for unfortunately. Basically I didn't really "get" it

The Old Man & The Sea (1999) - Aleksandr Petrov
Another short. Excellent animation.

The Hustler (1961) - Robert Rossen
Surprised me how dark this movie was. Probably contains Newman's best performance IMO.

All of them are at least decent if not good.

I watched A Woman is a Woman a few days ago too, Sane and I'm giving it ! I love the very ending, in which Anna Karina blinks to the camera! (hope it's not too much of a spoiler xD). Mother Joan of the Angels is a great Kawalerowicz film. Check out Pociąg (Train) as well!

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

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$9.99 (Tatia Rosenthal, 2008)

Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, 2007) -

Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)

Brother Bear (Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker, 2003) +

The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, 2010) +

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The Master (2012), Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson -

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"After all... tomorrow is another day."

This looks really fascinating.

And Mark, how the heck do you watch 20 movies in a day and a half?! (Based on your last two posts.)

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I may go back to hating you. It was more fun.

He doesn't. He posts a given number of films every other period of time, so he already has a lot of films hoarded.

Edit.

Stuck in bed after a stroke with the TV on 24/7. Plus I've got a few subscription services too. That's the real story. Minio has some alternative universe story which isn't true but it's what some people prefer to believe. I can't help it.

Yeah, don't listen to Minio.

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But that's what you said youself.

When you posted two posts one after another with so many films it wouldn't be technically possible to watch 'em in 24 hours you said that you post these films with a lag, because you limit yourself to 20 films per post. I know of your condition and that you watch enormous number of films and your latest posts may be all up-to-date, but that's what I remember from about one year ago.

The backlog was a day or two when I said that. Right now, the backlog is four movies. I post 20 at a time because I watch so many and I'm used to my current format. I guess I could post them in the Last Movie You've Seen thread and get 100 + reps instead of 10 in here. Does anybody really care?

Do you watch shows mark, or just movies?

But I have to wonder if half of these are just movies on in the background. I don't know how you could pay attention to movies for so long straight through.

There are very few TV shows I watch anymore, mostly what my wife and daughter want to watch with me. I do watch some baseball. I will occasionally watch an old show on DVD with the family.
When you're bedridden and only have use of your left hand, you can tell me if it's do-able. True, some movies get more attention than others, but I feel I watch the movie well enough to give it an appropriate rating.

Was there ever a time when you watched TV as much as you watched movies? I've started to get into series recently but I think my priority will always be film.

Besides, it's not that easy to find the time for both.

Well, better to have a hobby then to not.

I'm mostly old school when it comes to TV. I watch most of it when it's on. Ever since college days started (that's 41 years ago), I've preferred crap movies to TV shows. I know the best ones today are movie-quality, but I'm not that interested. I am participating in the TV countdown because I have seen some great ones but they're old and many younger MoFos probably haven't experienced them. Every one I show to my daughter she loves though.

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