Anything Else
This wasn't anywhere near as bad as i expected. The whole cast was good even Biggs, he fit into the Woody Allen role well Woody himself was great and i always like Ricci. I would say this is the weakest of the fourteen Allen films i've seen but only marginally and not for the reasons i expected. Mostly i'd say it has the weakest script of all the ones i've seen it wasn't that funny (Woody was actually but some of the jokes bombed) and it felt so familiar, Amanda reminded me of Annie Hall and while i like Ricci she can't compare to Diane Keaton. Overall mediocre, definitely think its low quality is over exaggerated most likely due to the dude from American Pie playing the lead role. Saying that i'm definitely curious why Tarantino likes it so much.
Through The Olive Trees
Think i made a mistake watching this before Life and Nothing More. I got this and The Wind Will Carry Us mixed up thinking the latter was the last part of The Koker Trilogy. Realized early on but thought it wasn't a big deal as it's supposed to be a loosely connected thematic trilogy. This had references to Where Is My Friends Home? and featured the actors from it and it's about the production of Life Is Nothing More..., oh well it just makes me want to see that more. Loved it anyway and same as Taste of Cherry and Where Is My Friends House? it went up the more i thought about it, Kiarostami is the best. The last shot was outstanding.
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Fat City
Had never heard of this before and it was very good. It's kind of a misery fest yet not in the usual way. None of the characters suffer great tragedy or anything, the great tragedy is that they have such depressing lives that they want to improve and nothing changes. I wouldn't say there's any actual hope in this film only changes the characters attempt to make thinking it could lead to something then...nah. While this is overall a bummer it's also funny and has good performances, Jeff Bridges was who i was looking forward to and i'd actually say he was the weakest out of the three main characters, both performance and character wise my favourite was Susan Tyrrell. She has such a torturous voice which was perfect as i've never seen such a perfect depiction of a human train wreck, and funnily enough in the end she is the one who comes closest to happiness; her situation is just as bad as the other two but she seems to be content with it. Good film.
Logan Lucky
Solid heist film. It was just very enjoyable with a great cast. Daniel Craig was really great if you had told me what sort of role he was playing before this i'd think there was no way he'd pull it off but he really did, Adam Driver too i loved his character. Liked everyone else except Seth Macfarlane thought he was awful. Don't love this but it was solid fun.
Secret Agent
Wasn't bad, just a boring Hitch film. Love Hitch of course but there was nothing that stood out about this. Weakest Hitch for me so far, i've seen 22 of his films now and there's a few i'm not a fan of but i can usually find something i like about them, there was nothing in this one for me.
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Also been watching Buster Keaton shorts. Definitely understand why he's Swans favourite actor he is so great to watch and his films are incredible. Was thinking at one point that i preferred Chaplin but i'm starting to think i prefer Buster. Still not seen much from either what i have i'd say Chaplin is better at emotion, they are about equally funny but Keatons are just so much more impressive from a technical standpoint, the stunts, his performance of them (as well as his facial reactions to everything) and the construction of them are unreal. I'm also a massive Looney Tunes fan and Keaton's influence on that is obvious.
The Play House
The start of this is fantastic but it goes rapidly downhill, understand the blackface was a thing then so i can forgive that but it became dull anyway.
The Haunted House
Lots of fun. There were two things that held this back from being truly great though, first while i enjoyed it the first half is just one big glue joke that i doubt would work a second time, then in the second half there was this shot that was used two seperate times of a guy shooting at Buster while he was running away that looked terrible; it was the exact same shot both times which were a few minutes apart and it took me out of it because it was impossible to accept that guy shooting was part of the same scene as Buster it just didn't fit at all, understand that this was made almost 100 years ago but still there was no need to even have it in the film it didn't add much. The second half was really fun though great physical gags from Buster.
One Week
This was his second directed short and his first with himself as an actor; the first he directed starred Fatty Arbuckle. This short is incredible, the stunts are unreal the spinning house damn. It was also very funny, my favourite moment was when they first finish the house and it looks ridiculous Buster is standing there looking at it as if 'wait is that right?', he's so great. Or maybe it was the part the guy chases him and Buster opens a door leading to the guy running outside into a fence, i dunno it was full of great moments.