Films you have seen at the cinema 2023

[Orang Utan]

May well watch it, largely because we have no local cinema but they show the odd film in the town hall and it's a nice venue - and they've got this on next week. Same time, I'm a bit worried about seeing an 80 year old doing action shots, shades of De Niro in The Irishman. Not great.

They do the de-aging in this amazingly well. The shoddy CGI in this is in the scenery and action work. Though I think the younger Indiana must have been mostly played by a stuntman. He doesn’t move like an 80 year old, certainly

 

[Orang Utan]

Who knew there was a special way to watch them....

Expecting things from them that were not intended to be provided is

 

[domestos]

Who knew there was a special way to watch them....

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[Sue]

Expecting things from them that were not intended to be provided is

How to you know what they're intended to provide? It all sounds very complicated.

 

[Orang Utan]

How to you know what they're intended to provide? It all sounds very complicated.

Not really. It’s just nice to look at. It doesn’t have to ‘mean’ much at all. paul mckenna ’s criticism was missing the point as it was pointing out a feature rather than a bug
Style DOES make up for a lack of plot.

 

[Yossarian]

They do the de-aging in this amazingly well. The shoddy CGI in this is in the scenery and action work. Though I think the younger Indiana must have been mostly played by a stuntman. He doesn’t move like an 80 year old, certainly

When I saw the trailer I wondered why they didn't just de-age Ford for 95% of the movie and maybe have a flash-forward to him as an octogenarian

 

[Sue]

Not really. It’s just nice to look at. It doesn’t have to ‘mean’ much at all. paul mckenna ’s criticism was missing the point as it was pointing out a feature rather than a bug
Style DOES make up for a lack of plot.

Style imo certainly doesn't make up for lack of plot and lack of character development. Which is probably why I found AC pretty dull.

And was 'just nice to look at' what Anderson intended? I suspect not but then I can't claim to know what his intentions were.

 

[Maltin]

When I saw the trailer I wondered why they didn't just de-age Ford for 95% of the movie and maybe have a flash-forward to him as an octogenarian

It cost $300 million already!

 

[paul mckenna]

You’re watching Anderson’s films wrong

Dont think so. Absolutely loved his earlier stuff and Grand Budapest is a top 10 film for me. Don't think i'm in the minority

 

[paul mckenna]

Not really. It’s just nice to look at. It doesn’t have to ‘mean’ much at all. paul mckenna ’s criticism was missing the point as it was pointing out a feature rather than a bug
Style DOES make up for a lack of plot.

This some double-reverse logic that bedroom critics can develop

 

[krtek a houby]

In the last month it's been
The Flash
Across the Spiderverse
Indiana Jones

All nostalgic to certain degrees, all entertaining.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Saw “Smoking causes coughing” Smoking Causes Coughing review – one of the funniest films of the year | Comedy films | The Guardian

Enjoyable French absurdism from Dupieux. The thick robot is a great riposte to C3P0.

 

[Pickman's model]

In the last month it's been
The Flash
Across the Spiderverse
Indiana Jones

All nostalgic to certain degrees, all entertaining.

When you start writing haikus of the films you've seen you truly are blending cultures

 

[Hollis]

Just seen this:

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) review – album cover as concept art

If you're a music anorak into the classic rock cannon then you will love it... its a great film in its own right - though not sure Noel Gallagher adds much.

 

[not-bono-ever]

mission impossible. obvs bollocks but yeh, it delivered silly action

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Smoking Causes Coughing was a gloriously pointless ride. Echoes of Buñuel.

 

[Sue]

Smoking Causes Coughing was a gloriously pointless ride. Echoes of Buñuel.

...and way, way more fun than Asteroid City. (I couldn't help but compare the two.)

Notorious. Sigh.

 

[Elpenor]

Not been to the cinema for a few decades years since early 2020 and not seen the film in question for 20 years or so; I have noticed 2001 is on at the nearest Picturehouse in a few weeks time. I should go shouldn’t I?

 

[krtek a houby]

Not been to the cinema for a few decades and not seen the film for 20 years or so; I have noticed 2001 is on at the nearest Picturehouse in a few weeks time. I should go shouldn’t I?

Yes

 

[Orang Utan]

Not been to the cinema for a few decades years since early 2029 and not seen the film in question for 20 years or so; I have noticed 2001 is on at the nearest Picturehouse in a few weeks time. I should go shouldn’t I?

Absolutely. See my post about The Shining upthread. Some films need to viewed at the cinema for the whole experience and Kubrick’s films tend to be rather dull affairs when viewed on the box.

 

[Elpenor]

Righto, I will book. It looks like it’s being re-released at various Picturehouse cinemas as part of the Sight & Sound top 10 should anyone else be interested

 

[Orang Utan]

Righto, I will book. It looks like it’s being re-released at various Picturehouse cinemas as part of the Sight & Sound top 10 should anyone else be interested

Will look out for it.
My local screened The Shining to promote this book:

The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting - Edited by Craig Oldham

THE SHINING: A VISUAL AND CULTURAL HAUNTING is an immersive, multi-dimensional examination of one of the most infamous films in cinematic history. This loose-leafed and beautifully boxed book—disguised as the ‘writing project’ Jack is typing throughout the course of the film—explores the film’s...

roughtradebooks.com

It might be part of the same BFI programme too though.
Would love to see Barry Lyndon and AI in a cinema too

 

[Idris2002]

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac are small-town ballet teachers in provincial France. Then romance comes to town, in the form of two travelling motorcycle salesmen. This is a romantic musical comedy which also stars ultimate hoofer Gene Kelly. Deneuve and Dorleac - who was CD's sister in real life - must have seen Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and thought "we'll show those American girls how it's done." And they do it too. This being France, there's a lot of allusions to high culture - not just ballet, but also the drama of Corneille, whoever he was. The visual pallet is very very 1960s and a big contrast with the war years.

Anyway, if you ever get the chance to see it on a big screen, grab that chance with both hands. This had been selected for showing at the Irish Film Institute in honour of the impending release of the Barbie movie (I know right). I didn't tell Mrs Idris how the colleague I had a crush on resembled the famous plastic doll. I don't think she would have seen the funny side. But she fully agrees that LDDR is one of the best films ever.

Choreography was by a woman from Ballymena of all places.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The visual pallet is very very 1960s and a big contrast with the war years.

I'm thinking quite orange

 

[Idris2002]

Pas de tout

 

[Cloo]

Saw the new Indiana Jones at weekend... gsv wasn't sure what he thought as he is so emotionally attached to the series he felt he was just evaluating the whole way though, but he definitely didn't think it was very bad, and certainly very tonally different from the others. I thought it was entertaining and rather sweet - cunningly got around Ford's age by having a (very well de-aged) beginning sequence in WWII, and obviously using Phoebe W-B to do most of the 'actioning' in the later section. Lots of good call-backs to other films, and a lot of heart.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Anyone seen a film on on a ScreenX cinema [where they have an extended 270 degree screen], thinking of going to see the new Mission Impossible one and they have the option.
Only parts of the film use it which I think I might find annoying plus it looks like the screen is split into three rather than a smooth curved view [ETA actually having a look at the picture on that wiki page it looks like they just project the side bits onto the theatre walls].

ScreenX - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Sue]

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Snappy Fritz Lang noir (his last American film) about a writer who goes to great lengths to discredit the death penalty. Of course it all goes wrong. (It is a noir after all.)

Medusa. Brazilian Evangelicals go back to basics with vigilante attacks against unbelievers until the female protagonists start to see the light. (Not the religious light light, more that there's more to life than acting like a 1950's housewife.) I'd never heard of the director (Anita Rocha da Silveira) before -- this is her second feature -- but one to watch I reckon. Might see if I can find her debut.

 

[krtek a houby]

Mission Impossible, crazily enjoyable behemoth of a movie. A few nods to other franchises, am thinking the Roger Moore Bond era...

Slightly nodded off at the beginning. Nothing to do with the film, this has been happening recently at the pictures.

 

[dogboy_hackney]

Absolutely. See my post about The Shining upthread. Some films need to viewed at the cinema for the whole experience and Kubrick’s films tend to be rather dull affairs when viewed on the box.

Yeah, I love revisiting older movies on the big screen. The Shining was amazing, though 2001 never clicked with me.