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Nanook (1992)
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Mind blown
Liked it, except for the lead actress and kid
Elizabeth's (non-)smoking and an odd resemblance
RIP Phil Lesh
At least four couples left my showing tonight, heh. NO SPOILERS
S18E01 dropped on YT!
This *is* a movie forum, correct?
S02E03 question. SPOILERS obviously
Farewell and adieu...
What? No love for S03 yet?
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Mighty wide brush you're painting with, friend... Best I can do is a handful of my 9/10s from each with fewer than 50K IMDb votes...
Red Beard (1965) - possibly my favorite Kurosawa
A Man for All Seasons (1966) - I am neither a history buff nor particularly religious, but this film enthralls me every time
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
I Am Cuba (1964)
Adauchi [Revenge] (1964) - a chanbara that should be more widely known
Nashville (1975)
The China Syndrome (1979)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
The Black Stallion (1979)
Hadn't even heard of that, so that might get watched soon. Thanks!
This one hurts. Mulholland Dr. is a top ten for me, and every thing he did I liked a lot at the least. RIP legend.
Coincidentally, I just watched The Grey Fox (1982) for the first time three days ago, and there was a scene where Richard Farnsworth mentions he's traveling on foot a long distance to see his sick brother. Made me think of The Straight Story.
He had the best hair, too:
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My point was Russell is a very good actress who can convey all those emotions with acting alone. She is not a smoker, however, so not only was the smoking not necessary, her unfamiliarity of how to hold and smoke a cigarette naturally detracted from her performance.
It's like making a character a juggler, but the actor can't juggle. Extreme example, I know, but along the same lines...
Okay, show me a male actor *with the same resumé and "star power"* who gets paid more than her. I'll wait...
I say this as one who ranks Peep Show and The Office as top-tier Brit-coms and loves Yorgos Lanthimos; I even liked The Night Manger and Locke, but ask a random person on the streets of London, and maybe one out of ten will have heard of her, forget about the rest of the world. When I typed in "Olivia" in the IMDb cast/crew search field, she was the *seventh* Olivia to auto-complete. Get over yourself. I'm glad Mark jilted you. :D
A damn shame, but even with the studio meddling, I still rate it a 9/10.
Sorry to be Captain Obvious but Orson Welles wrote, directed, produced and starred in Citizen Kane in 1941, and did all that but star in The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942. All in his mid-twenties, to boot.
Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal were both released in 1957.
And John Carpenter did Escape from New York in 1981 and The Thing the next year.
I'd "read the room" first, but if the vibe feels right and I'm interested enough in the subject, I'd politely interject, ready to excuse myself if received poorly. Many fine conversations have been had, and even a few friendships made, one including generous access to a little pied-à-terre in Paris.
Like yourself, I score very introverted on the Myers-Briggs scale, but can be quite gregarious if the stars are aligned just right.
Nope. Eggers has a style and sticks to it. Luckily I can appreciate the performances and mises en scène, but each of his films leaves me frustrated and unfulfilled as a horror [or even just a film] fan. My favorite of his is The Lighthouse, but I can't even tell the people who found it boring that they're wrong.
The only things in theaters I have seen and can recommend are The Substance and Smile 2. Heretic wasn't bad.
I checked out Letterboxd when it was "the new thing" and again when IMDb shut down its forums, and both times didn't see a way to import my years of IMDb ratings, so forgot about it. Now it seems you can import iMDb ratings, but LB doesn't have TV shows/episodes.
Like many here I assume, I used IMDb to keep track of my ratings, its quite flexible advanced search function and the forums; still do for the former two reasons. If there was a browser extension/userscript/site that would automatically keep ratings in sync between the two, I'd consider joining LB to keep up with a few irl movie friends. Haven't found one yet. Please do lmk if anyone knows of one.
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