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Post by scoots on Oct 1, 2024 12:28:05 GMT -6
Denver Film Fest schedule came out - here's some of the ones I'm considering:
Blitz
Chainsaws Were Singing
The Girl w/ the Needle
Dead Talent Society
The Room Next Door
La Cocina
Emilia Perez
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts
All We Imagine As Light
Caught by the Tides
Soundtrack to a Coup D'etat
Need to narrow this down to 5. Fun!
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Post by thebosma on Oct 1, 2024 12:42:27 GMT -6
Were I in your shoes I would prioritize Caught by the Tides, The Room Next Door, Emilia Perez, and Blitz in that order.
However if you can make it to The Brutalist or Oh Canada I would probably prioritize those over the last two at a bare minimum and probably The Brutalist over all of them that aren’t Caught by the Tides if it’s being presented on 35
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Post by doso on Oct 1, 2024 13:04:43 GMT -6
Denver Film Fest schedule came out - here's some of the ones I'm considering: La Cocina Costanza’s long-lost off-off-Broadway comedy about a Mexican chef is a must-see. |
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Post by zircona1 on Oct 1, 2024 14:26:00 GMT -6
Blitz Chainsaws Were Singing The Girl w/ the Needle Dead Talent Society The Room Next Door La Cocina Emilia Perez Christmas Eve in Miller's Point Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts All We Imagine As Light Caught by the Tides Soundtrack to a Coup D'etat Half of these sound like Godspeed You! Black Emperor song titles. |
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Post by doso on Oct 5, 2024 13:18:54 GMT -6
Caught a screening of Louder Than You Think: The Lo-Fi Story of Gary Young and Pavement at our neighborhood theatre on Thursday night. Very enjoyable indie documentary focused, of course, on Pavement's early years. With a weird/interesting twist on using marionettes for b-roll to recreate scenes when no archival footage was available. It was sometimes a little hard to watch, because Young was in bad physical shape towards the end of his life and at time it almost felt exploitive, but he also clearly loved being the subject of a movie. If you're into Pavement at all, I'd recommend it and it was fun to see in a mostly-full theatre full of fans. No showtimes in Chicago yet, but hopefully Music Box will have a screening: www.factorytwentyfive.com/louder-than-you-thinkThere was a 20- or 30-minute Q&A with the director and Mark Ibold afterwards which was also enlightening. The director talked about the choice to use marionettes and said they originally planned to use Muppet-style puppets, but after screen-testing, they went a different direction because they felt the Muppets couldn't portray the full range of emotions they needed. Ibold got momentarily choked up during the Q&A talking about how it felt like a significant week for Pavement with this screening, the Pavements screening at the NY Film Fest, and the show at Sony Hall. Combined with Nastanovich's comments at the end of the show on Tuesday, it made me think that it will be a long dormant period before the band reunites again, if ever. There's a late (and pricey) screening of Pavements at BAM on Monday night. Think I might bite the bullet and see that one, too. |
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Post by kb on Oct 17, 2024 14:51:54 GMT -6
ok so I've never seen hocus pocus - is it kid-friendly?? for some reason the wee one is intent on watching it this year lol. not even sure how she knows about "the funny witches"
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Post by scoots on Oct 17, 2024 15:31:52 GMT -6
Yeah it's fine. My kids watched it last weekend and it's pretty inoffensive. It's a bad movie and I do not get the amount of adults watching it, but whatever.
My 4-year old watched Nightmare Before Christmas and has been confidently walking around saying how it wasn't scary at all, so that's a good option, too. I figured Oogie Boogie would freak him out a bit.
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Post by kb on Oct 17, 2024 15:34:06 GMT -6
sounds like he's trying to talk himself into not being scared.
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Post by scoots on Oct 17, 2024 15:36:44 GMT -6
He's just proud of himself. We had prepped him that he might be a little scared, but he loves the soundtrack.
I've seen the kid freaked out before, and he wasn't during this movie.
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Post by kb on Oct 17, 2024 15:39:42 GMT -6
two years ago we took ours to see sesame street live, and she was terrified by big bird. but in the weeks after she kept saying big bird made her "so angry." kids, man!
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Post by Tweet on Oct 22, 2024 11:11:04 GMT -6
Criterion sale is live if anyone is into that
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Post by Kamera on Oct 24, 2024 19:30:46 GMT -6
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Post by munkivelli on Oct 25, 2024 12:30:08 GMT -6
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Post by zircona1 on Oct 28, 2024 10:12:38 GMT -6
Woman of the Hour on Netflix is pretty good. Props to Anna K. for keeping it less than 100 minutes.
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Post by dij22 on Oct 28, 2024 10:19:37 GMT -6
Woman of the Hour on Netflix is pretty good. Props to Anna K. for keeping it less than 100 minutes. We watched this last night. I thought it was fine but not great. Very watchable but ultimately meaningless. |
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Post by scoots on Oct 28, 2024 10:20:43 GMT -6
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Post by llamaoftime on Oct 28, 2024 10:45:49 GMT -6
I watched Rebel Ridge and generally liked it but I feel like it didn't really need the whole "uncover the conspiracy" scenes in the middle? I thought those scenes were not only weak themselves but hurt the pacing, I think it'd work better just being more straight forward with the revenge plot |
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Post by scoots on Nov 4, 2024 12:15:19 GMT -6
I saw 4 movies at the Denver Film Festival this weekend:
La Cocina - Pretty big swing and a miss, although I think I might have been one of the few in a sold out theater to dislike it. Sound mixing was incredibly bad, and filmmakers clearly had some set pieces decided upon before trying to connect how they'd actually get to said set piece (the trailer shows the kitchen flooded and they decided to get to this scene via a leaky Cherry Coke dispenser that was unattended for maybe 30 seconds). Just a really frustrating waste of some good performances.
Gloria - Apparently the fest had a good connection with Gena Rowlands. They reached out to her shortly after Cassavetes passed away and wanted to hand out an annual award in his honor, and she went on to be involved with the selection process of the eventual award recipient. Anyway, the festival had a 35mm print of Gloria and hopefully it's not the case that a film from 1981 is the standout of the fest for me, but it was that good.
Caught by the Tides - This improved as it went on, but I was kind of confused initially about why we're supposed to care about how these two main characters end up - not much of a connection is emphasized early on. Just felt like an excuse to combine some footage. The 2006 and 2022 portions of the film were beautifully shot.
Dead Talent Society - Arrived in the theater a bit late and ended up with a bad spot way too close to the screen. Would love to see this again. It was kind of hard to keep up with the subtitles with how quick the dialogue was, but I still really liked this movie.
There's a few more I'll be seeing later this week.
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Post by llamaoftime on Nov 4, 2024 12:33:38 GMT -6
I thought Trap was a ton of fun and after really liking both that and Knock at the Cabin I'm kind of tempted to go back through some Shyamalan stuff. I know some of it is considered really bad, but of the ones I've actually seen (Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, Last Airbender, Split, Cabin, and Trap) only The Last Airbender was an actual miss. The rest have all been really good or fun. Though if I'm going off reviews sounds like the 2006 to 2013 run was very bad and possibly to be avoided. But starting to wonder if this guy is overall unfairly maligned
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Post by thebosma on Nov 4, 2024 13:18:48 GMT -6
Unfairly maligned. Lady in the Water is his finest work. Trap is a modern masterpiece. After Earth is good also
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Post by scoots on Nov 4, 2024 13:48:40 GMT -6
Trap was kind of screwed over by the marketing.
Only Shyamalan movie I've actively hated was The Village, and even that one I'm sure I'd probably have a different opinion after 20 years.
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Post by irvred on Nov 4, 2024 14:51:49 GMT -6
He is appropriately maligned. The Happening is very fun though.
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Post by dij22 on Nov 7, 2024 12:50:19 GMT -6
I'm 37 years late on this but Angel Heart absolutely sucks. Mickey Rourke rules in it though.
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Post by Kamera on Nov 8, 2024 22:15:03 GMT -6
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Post by dij22 on Nov 9, 2024 11:15:34 GMT -6
We saw Memoir of a Snail and Conclave last night at the Davis.
The former was good but probably should have been a short film. Awesome claymation and worth seeing, but it gets repetitive and hits you over the head with its message.
The latter was really good. Beautifully shot and terrific acting. Some real greasy Catholic shit.
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Post by zircona1 on Nov 9, 2024 11:24:13 GMT -6
hits you over the head with its message This was one of the problems I had with Barbie. We watched Garden State last night. Wife wanted to watch something light, and we were looking around for stuff on Max. I had seen it when it came out, she had not. It's still just ok. Slides by on some good visual gags and funny lines in the first half. The last 15 minutes are kind of a chore, though. |
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Post by munkivelli on Nov 9, 2024 17:51:52 GMT -6
Saw Anora and Conclave today and both were great.
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Post by dij22 on Nov 16, 2024 15:15:04 GMT -6
A Real Pain was really good. Both Eisenberg and Culkin were great.
Interesting choice to make it only 90 minutes since I thought it could have easily been 2+ hours.
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Post by scoots on Nov 22, 2024 16:09:34 GMT -6
There’s an indie movie theater across the street from my hotel in Philly. Should I see Conclave, Anora or Heretic tomorrow?
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Post by munkivelli on Nov 22, 2024 16:18:36 GMT -6
There’s an indie movie theater across the street from my hotel in Philly. Should I see Conclave, Anora or Heretic tomorrow? As someone who saw the same three movies on a work trip two weekends ago, I'd rank them as follows: 1. Anora 2. Conclave 3. Heretic All three were solid though |
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