What movie are you viewing at the moment?

[Brecht]

Originally Posted by frakacylon

Fellini's Casanova (1976)

Watched this recently too. Thought Donald Sutherland was quite 'beautifully sinister' in what was quite a mad movie.

Another mad one I am watching is Batman 1989

To think I totally forgot that Prince (RIP) did the soundtrack.

Fellini's creative period can be divided into three phases: his early neorealist work (his best imo), his retreat into a colorful world of irrelevance and the final demise. But I still consider him as one of the great masters of world cinema. La Strada and Il bidone are my favorites but I also like Amarcord from his later movies.

I'm not a fan of the Batman franchise but I loved the first movie with Michael Keaton. It was the first movie I saw in a cinema as a kid and I still like to watch this movie because it reminds me of a good time. I feel good in the company of this flick. Sadly, the soundtrack by Prince was panned by critics upon its release but to hell with them! It's a beautiful piece of talent with such great tracks as Electric Chair, The Arms of Orion or Partyman.

As I grew older, I've come to appreciate Tim Burton's choice for the role of Bruce Wayne. Michael Keaton is neither tall or tough, neither by his physical appearance or temper. He's the perfect disguise. No one would take him for a bored billionaire who jumps from roof to roof dressed in a bat costume.

[tomesing]

The Burbs



Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg7RpL3kTBk


tomesing

[ramolino530]

Whatever Works





A bomb of good humour! In the way i like! (love those grumpy characters!)

Larry David playing the character of Boris Yellnikoff (a perfect Allens´s alter Ego), a hateful physics professor who teaches chess to children and who would have been once "almost nominated" for the Nobel prize!

David maintains a remarkable lack of charm and a facade of self-righteous anger. Everyone else is a "moron", an "imbecile" or an "inchworm".

Allen often addresses the camera directly to David's Boris letting him to rip with whiny injurious, explaining the film's themes.
"As I see it," he says, "it's however you can filch some joy in this indifferent universe, that's what you've got to do. It's whatever works."

The divorced Yellnikoff meets an unlikely southern runaway called Melodie at the stairs to his downtown apartment and he takes her in. She's attractively played by the gourgeous Evan Rachel Wood. The sequence of events then delight us with several priceless quotes from Boris and great bursts of angry sincerities.

As Boris tells Melodie: "What can I offer you but morbid fixations, hypochondriasis and misanthropy?"

Without doubt that´s another nice Woody Allen´s movie.

[Wendigo]

Time to lower the standards I think

Zombie Shark (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4704918/

A Sy-Fy channel offering and thanks to them for merging two of my favourite genres ..... Project Bruce A genetically engineered shark that infects those not killed by its bite.

Of course it is sheer nonsense but what is wrong with escapism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXzoBZ7Mmg

[Hertz]

Dead Birds (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377749/





There is no birds in this movie...

[frakacylon]

I enjoyed it right up to when Jesus literally flew up into the sky Superman CGI style...I kid you not. Stopped watching it after that scene, honestly ruined the movie for me.

Then again, it could have been a star wars prequel with Jesus being the ultimate flying Jedi.

Jesus and Jango in the kanjiklub.

[Brecht]

Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)



Superb directing by Alan Parker, great animation by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe and, of course, fantastic music by Pink Floyd. I just wished the plot was more original.

The main protagonist is a depressed rock star named Pink (Bob Geldof). He seems to spend most of his time watching television in a hotel room like he's in a hypnotic state. We learn that Pink's father fell defending the Anzio bridgehead during World War II and that he grew up with his overprotective mother during the 1950s. Those times were hard on him as he was mocked by other children. We also see him roaming the streets looking for a father figure. In all this emotional disturbance, Pink seems to experience the world in various surrealistic episodes. For instance, his school is shown as an oppressive institution with teachers drilling the children into submissive idiots until they start to riot, carrying one of the teachers away. As a grown man, he gets married but he and his wife grow apart. While on tour in the US, he finds out that his wife's having an affair with a peace activist. Lonely and hurt, Pink hooks up with a groupie, bringing her to his hotel room but he just sits in front of the TV like he usually does until erupting in anger, chasing the girl away. Pink starts to lose every touch with reality as he begins to fantasize that he's the leader of a neo-Nazi group and that his concerts are fascist rallies. His manager (Bob Hoskins) breaks into his room with a medical team, trying to make him fit for the next concert but Pink's reality seems to have shattered for good...

[Sir Honkers]

10 Cloverfield Lane. Kept me guessing right 'til the end. Three thumbs up.

[mungy]

The Hateful Eight (2015)

[Brecht]

Angel Heart (1987)



Movies like Angel Heart cannot be thrown into a category as it crosses into a number of usually unrelated genres. Is it horror, mystery, suspense, noir or perhaps all of it? It's hard to say for sure but it combines the most distinctive elements from all of them. The main protagonist is sent on a nightmarish self-discovery trip, adding to this a touch of psychological thriller. We've seen countless movies about hardboiled detectives but hardly any authentic ones like Alan Parker's screen adaptation of the William Hjortsberg novel Falling Angel from 1978. What provides this movie with its authentic charisma is the carefully picked scenery and the brilliant acting by Mickey Rourke. With the powers of Parker's vision and the cinematography by Michael Seresin, the result is a beautiful and highly atmospheric masterpiece that couldn't have been done better because the original story it's based on does not drip with complexity or any other peculiarities. It's just an unusual blend of genres which serves as its main source of the tension. The music by Trevor Jones is accompanied by Courtney Pine's bluesy saxophonone solos and the entire soundtrack is a mix of modern ambient film music, blues and 1940s/50s crooner songs.

In 1955, Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), a private eye from Brooklyn, gets a call from the lawyer Herman Winesap (Dann Florek) who represents a mysterious foreigner called Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro). They meet in a church in Harlem where Harry Angel gets hired to find the missing crooner Johnny Favorite (real name: Jonathan Liebling) who suffered severe neurological trauma resulting from injuries he received in World War II. Favorite has a contract with Cyphre but disappeared from a hospital many years ago. Harry Angel makes a trip to the hospital which lies in upstate New York where he discovers that Favorite's transfer records were falsified by a doctor named Albert Fowler. After Angel breaks into his house, the doctor, who is addicted to morphine, reveals that he was bribed by a man and a woman to falsify the records. Convinced that the doctor isn't telling the whole truth, Angel locks him in his bedroom while he's off to a diner. Coming back, he finds the doctor dead and it seems like he committed suicide.
Scared that he might become a murder suspect, Angel tries to break his contract with Cyphre but agrees to continue his investigation after he's offered a larger sum of money. His next trail leads him to Favorite's wealthy fiancée Margaret Krusemark (Charlotte Rampling) who resides in New Orleans. Angel also hopes to locate Favorite's love affair, a black woman named Evangeline Proudfoot but is told by her daughter Epiphany (Lisa Bonet) that she died waiting for Johnny Favorite. Not long after Angel's visit, Margaret Krusemark ends up dead too and Angel begins to believe that the murderer is Johnny Favorite who's killing his former associates with whom he was involved in the occult and who helped him cop out from his contract with Louis Cyphre. He has uncovered the truth indeed, just not the way he thought he did...