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Forum: Movie Reviews 23 hours ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
On the long list of titles that came up on best...

On the long list of titles that came up on best noirs that I didn't get to. I'll bump this one up towards the front of the queue if it's in that vein.

ETA: looks like it's not readily streamable...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown

My predictions for top 5 order (I like that we all are just in agreement as to what the top 5 are):

1. Chinatown
2. L.A. Confidential
3. Taxi Driver
4. Blade Runner
5. The Long Goodbye
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown

For a reveal.

My #17 is Repeat Performance. I randomly saw it in one of the various noir collections that have shown up on Criterion every month since November (someone there really leaned into...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown

Looking over my ballot for another reveal, I'm pretty sure my #25 is making the list. A lot of the next unrevealed on my lists probably won't make it, but some of the ones that I'm pretty sure won't...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown

I don't have a good answer for why I didn't include Se7en on my ballot other than I haven't watched it since... the late 90s? I think I also had an internal pushback against putting movies from the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
*cough* In a Lonely Place is on my ballot...

*cough*

In a Lonely Place is on my ballot at... *doesn't need to check ballot*, it's my #1.
I'll mostly echo Holden. Noir to me is the darkness of the human spirit. And this is the one feels like...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Some catch-ups: #14 The Night of the Hunter:...

Some catch-ups:

#14 The Night of the Hunter: My #11. I don't know what to say about this, since I like it, I recall the night time pursuit scenes on the river struck me as the most noir, but this...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
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Doing some catch-up since I haven't been active for, like, a week.

13-7
13) Blue Velvet: My #6. I prefer Lynch's more surreal movie (not that this doesn't aspects of it), but those movies often...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 40
Should the use of AI be allowed for film restoration?
Posted By Little Ash
Re-reading the flow of conversation with...

Re-reading the flow of conversation with crumbsroom, I will say, I'll stake out a different position. As TVs support higher resolutions, it isn't surprising that there'll be releases of movies at...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 40
Should the use of AI be allowed for film restoration?
Posted By Little Ash
That's an on-going challenge. Unless the director...

That's an on-going challenge. Unless the director or someone is involved who is consciously trying to alter the movie (see Lucas, Scott, Coppola), it's usually done to emulate what they think the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown

Miller's Crossing was #5 on my ballot. I think any contemplation I had of leaving retro-noirs off of a neo-noir ballot got erased when this one came into play.

Reservoir Dogs - It's actually...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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Should the use of AI be allowed for film restoration?
Posted By Little Ash
So, trying to think through this analogy, which...

So, trying to think through this analogy, which movies were shot on digital, originally at the PQ of a DVD?


My mind keeps going to back to films actually shot on celluloid. It seemed like a lot...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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Should the use of AI be allowed for film restoration?
Posted By Little Ash
I guess I go with the, there's going to be a lot...

I guess I go with the, there's going to be a lot more crap cases than good cases, but let me at least try to think of how the good cases could shake out, in some sort of solipsistic exercise that...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown

I've seen both Jackie Brown and Blow Out, voted for neither. No strong opinion on their presence here. I guess Blow Out feels more political thriller to me (which isn't out of place with the rest of...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown

I didn't around to The Big Heat (it was somewhere on the Watchlist) before the countdown.

I don't know if I saw Strangers on a Train growing up or just knew the high level premise (thanks, Throw...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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Should the use of AI be allowed for film restoration?
Posted By Little Ash
Crumbs munged his terms a bit, but there was a...

Crumbs munged his terms a bit, but there was a comparison to motion smoothing at the end, which captures the issue that's been present in every re-mastering to date. A.I. is just on everyone's mind...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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Anything that gets a sequel is now a franchise
Posted By Little Ash
Well, I think the OP's issue is with the usage of...

Well, I think the OP's issue is with the usage of the term. Which now becomes an subject of etymology, which, if we start referring to things as a "film franchise" at a later date, we might start...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 2,032
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
I haven't seen a lot of Gyllenhaal's...

I haven't seen a lot of Gyllenhaal's performances, and Nightcrawler might have actually been the first one. I will say, the face, and especially the pitch of his voice doesn't match the general...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 2,032
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
High and Low - I do not particularly care for...

High and Low - I do not particularly care for Kurosawa, so unsurprisingly this did not make my ballot. I will say, the parts of Kurosawa films I usually dislike the most are when people are talking,...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 2,032
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Sounds about where I landed. There's certain...

Sounds about where I landed. There's certain prompts that can cause them jump up to mind as particular examples of something, with Body Heat being a bit more prevalent just because I watched it last...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Ace in the Hole was, checks list, #4 on my...

Ace in the Hole was, checks list, #4 on my ballot. Dark melodrama noir did well on my ballot. I look at the literal circus in the movie and think, "I guess this is an example of satire that doesn't...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
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The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By Little Ash
Killer's Kiss?

Killer's Kiss?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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The curious case of movie run time disparities
Posted By Little Ash
https://twitter.com/DavidLeninhawk/status/17655274...

https://twitter.com/DavidLeninhawk/status/1765527442796503280


Ah, there we go. Originally found it embedded in a politically oriented tweet, so I didn't want to share it originally given the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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The curious case of movie run time disparities
Posted By Little Ash
Though I was just googling something else related...

Though I was just googling something else related to Tubi and saw someone claiming on X that Tubi is asking content producers to start editing versions of their movies/etc.
But it's X, so who knows.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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The curious case of movie run time disparities
Posted By Little Ash
I usually attribute these type of things to being...

I usually attribute these type of things to being slightly different cuts/versions of the film. This seems more likely as an explanation in my mind because of going to 35mm & 16mm screenings of...

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