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Redford movies are really good, but it needs suitable audiences. Some noted Films are : Out of Africa, A bridge too far, All the preseident's men, Downhill Racer, 3 days of condor, Indecent proposal ....
Try to watch Redford's "Last Castle" (Virumandi prison break was inspired from this movie ... )
Sting is also Redford-Newman.
oru maadhiri sumaara nallaavE irukkum. Best ever-laam three much.
Zombieland - Funny,
Every character Emma stone, Eisenberg, Harrelson and the little girl were funny. It's a good idea that they made a comedy film out of zombies.
Apocalypto.
Excellent and Disturbing !
Have you seen Shaun of the Dead ?Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Illainga
Paathadhu illa. Why is it from the same director?.
Thanks Stan. Great pix. Great era. Great stars. They don't make 'em like that no more...:sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Ju Dou
Just saw it today. Gave 8 upon 10 in IMDb. This movie discusses relationship and how perception of good or bad changes from person to person. It even says there is nothing called good or bad. The characters, screenplay, story everything is brilliant. Gradual transitions and character changes are shown very subtly. Visuals are breathtaking and the director has used the premise and its colors to evoke so many moods. Indians can relate to this movie more than the westerners because culture plays a huge role here.
BC&SK thaan matter. Meedhi ellam summa salpi matter only.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
The way it ended it made it even more disturbing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Roshan
We think their culture is violent and savage, but the worst is just waiting in Ships on the shoreline... A Time of Ethnic Cleansing, Religious Persecution and Genocide waits the Indigenous Population of the Continent...
One good movie that didn't get the recognition that it deserved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roshan
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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
same kinda film... Comedy Zombie flick...
From the same guys who did "Hot Fuzz" and "Paul"
Check it out, it's defiantly worth a watch...
Chinatown.
Dagaar.
unmayileye idhai ellam vechikkita 70s unbeatable-nu ellam sandai poduraainga? 90s is vaaipillamai, any day.
Possibly the best non-black&white noir of all-time..Quote:
Originally Posted by VENKIRAJA
Movie Marathon in Cinemax yesterday.
From Here to Eternity.(1953)
For most part I was figuring out whether Sinatra has already start wearing wigs. He had. Lancaster's performance seemed two decades out of style. Montgomery Clift is as usual, stunning.
The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)
Intha mathiri padam ellam inime yarachum eduppanggala? No way! Nobody can do it again. Guiness & Holden, casting made in heaven.
War of the World1953
I won't say original is better, but it still had that smell of fear. The terror, the paranoia. Spielberg's becomes a chase movie in the middle, and then a monster movie. Is this better? Nah, I say read the book.
The StingThe year the bloke who will one day go with the username groucho070 was born.
It's still holds up. Pity Newman and Redford didn't do more films together, they make such a great couple.
2001: A Space Odyssey1968
To see it in pan and scan mode is criminal.
Hmm.. correct. And yes the ending was disturbing. k_g had a good point elsewhere in the hub on this and I agree with him;Quote:
Originally Posted by Stiglitz
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It's almost like Mel's pitching how the Christian mercenaries (the white beacon, at the very end of the film you see the ship approaching) would reform these Mayan half-animals! I'd not be wrong if I suspect Mel's being extremely insincere here.
What are the better Noir movies of the colorless era? (Maltese Falcon? Oh! Please!)Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
This ine, felt very much like Casablanca, ending twist or whatever very disappointing. If not for Nicholson (Even Dunaway was just average) its a very ordinary movie.
Hereafter
Another underrated movie from 2010. I hate when people don't see that such a perspective movie has taken an objective view of the point it is talking about. What Hereafter is dealing with is something which hasn't been proven or explained so the chances of it getting on a side was very easy but it was Eastwood who was directing and walking on such a thin line is child's play for him. The central characters are of a school boy, a french journalist woman and a Psychic. All three characters have been etched and played with extreme fineness. Though some visuals for the so called Hereafter but what the heck it is after all an american movie. :P
Down By Law
Jarmusch has been a director who I have been wanting to check for a very long time and only the day before yesterday I did. After hearing (almost always reading) so much about him I did have expectations and the genre which he says DBT to be under itself fascinated me. The genre is neo-beat-noir-comedy . I so wanted to check the fusion of neo-noir and beat generation and comedy. And what did that turn into? A compelling drama about three convicts. I enjoyed this movie from the very first scene itself. The support Jarmusch gets from his actors is just incredible especially Benigni, there are so many funny scenes and the subtle ones from jack and zack are too good.
If you are a fan of neo-noir and some weirdness I say "GO FOR IT". Brilliant movie.
Comparing this ending to Casablanca's is a crime. :lol:
Chinatown.
I see noir when I see most of the main characters are doomed. Either pyshically or psychologically. Chinatown has it. Jake is sleazy, money grubbing private dick, but he had a little heart and that is not enough to save him from getting washed up by rising tide, literally in this film. The film boasts one of the most greatest villain ever, played by one of the greatest director ever. The adultery revealed in this film was pretty shocking for his time. "my sister, my daughter, my sister, my daughter..." Haunting!
It's powerful drama, plain and simple. Another brilliant script analysed by master scriptwriter, William Goldman, in his first memoir. Robert Towne was once a god, and this was his master creation. And yes, the 70s was awesome. :smokesmile:
Hey, I even like the much disliked sequel.
SEeena town is a very good philum. Liked both nicholson and dunaway in the film.
Venki appadi enna 90'sla irukku?
One other aspect of Noir is "Everything is not as it seems"! And this is exactly how you'd describe the universe of Chinatown. By the same token as Kim Novak of Vertigo, the Dunaway character isn't a femme fatale as we're led to believe until the final third, she's a tragic figure. Much like Scottie, Jake creates a whole lot of danger than good as he's being lured into this delusive cesspool where morality is as blind as Funaway's shot-out eye in its denouement. I'm sure there are many more treasures to be found in this 70's masterpiece.
Among the best decades of Hollywood, 90's isn't one of its richest. 70's at least stakes a claim!
In fact, Asian cinema has caught up with Holly in 90's and 00's.
Excellent, Thilak.
Film Noir:
Doomed characters.
(as per Thilak's definition) Everything is not as it seems.
Protagonist who gets bounced like a bloody ping pong ball.
Feeling of being trapped (use of bars, fence, gate shadow falling on characters)
basically living in a rotten world.
Behind the already shrunken protagonist lies bigger, evil scheme that he's helpless to do anything about.
Helpless is the key word here.
Crime does not pay, especially if the protagonists involved in it.
There's lots of hate going on (re. some of Robert Mitchum's stuff)
Protagonist is not a happy dude at the climax. Leave that to the westerns.
Athe....one of the worst's decade ever. And I was heavy movie watching during this decade.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
I have seen much less than a handful of films in this genre.Double Indemnity, The Third Man...avvaLavu yEn 'even' Big Sleep கூட ஒரு மாதிரி சுமாரா புடிக்கின்.
But not a big fan of Chinatavin.
this is perhaps as close to the possible reason why I think the film didn't work. I had 'eh?' reaction to the 'revelation'. Why Nicholson goes 'out of the way' on this case to begin with, their louss.....these didn't work for me at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid_glove
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Originally Posted by groucho070
Even without going to its Noir conventions & subversion (that they end up calling it neo-noir), it's a fine, fine film.
P_R,
'lous' happen in a very 'plausible' manner, and not 'out of the way' at all. After the tumultuous encounter, the sexual intimacy is born out of the moment (& that's how it's shown). It's also part driven by vulnerability (characteristic soft-center of hard-boiled noir.) as Jakes slightly opens up to her (even while keeping it to 'sex' with the just-widow), she first uses this to surreptitiously dodge his advances to dig the actual truth as it's far too disgusting & painfull to reveal. And the audience, like Jakes, isn't quite assured too. Only later would we, by the way of Jakes, trail, peak, & dig it up. Both Nicholson & Dunaway play the characters as they should, each wanting to "read" each other. But neither is thinly drawn out to trust one another. Look at all their encounters until the tirade of slaps..
I guess it's one of those films/books that you first ought to know the 'regular' movies of, so you appreciate when it is kinda 'turned on its head' etc.
It's one of my 'to revisit' list, not sure when I will.They keep showing it on UTV Waeld movies, I watch a few scenes and leave it: somehow never drawn in.
It's a thoroughly entertaining watch. You should revisit it in one full sitting! :)
Chinatown is excellent but 70s is not the best decade for sure. Don't ask me which is, I don't know :lol2:
127 hours - Good. The flashback scenes could have been written well. May be thats what happened in his life but they were sort of bland. The only thing which worked was his monologue of his life. But all the present scenes (incl the one with the ladees) were very well shot. The amputation scene was OK, but him sinking his face on a dirty pool of water made me cringe, not to the extent of the Trainspotting face sink followed by the swim. Rahman's score was brilliant in the last 20 mins starting with the continuum piece (Acid Darbari?) Franco was excellent. Boyle seems to be a totally different film maker based on his last 2 films.
Overall a good watch.
Transsiberian - Sundance findings. Woody Harelson and Ben Kingsley
Not the, nerd, it's one of the best decades. It's what, as Rajini would put it, Hollywood's "tarrning point".Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerd
horror thread is missing. ok
house on haunted hill by the legend (of the genre) William Castle. very good. Vincent Price is another well known face in b-grade horror history.
it's sad that a perfectly good movie like this get butchered in the name of remake. the only good thing about the remake was xenia ona.. sorry, Famke Janssen.. she's awesome.
As Good As It Gets..
Lovely :thumbsup:
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt :clap:
Greg Kinnear was also good !
Watched Schindler's List for the first time. I mainly resisted watching it so far for the really chilling and grim theme but have to give in eventually. Probably one of the best holocaust movies ever made. Very touching and all the more heartening to know it was a true story.
The documentary style and b/w worked very much in favor of the impact meant to be created for the viewers. Loved the background score and never felt it was too loud or intrusive but rather very apt. A lot of scenes still remain etched in memory, to name a few - the little girl with the red coat hiding herself, the gas chamber scene, RalphFiennes trying to execute the Rabbi but the gun won't work, climax scene where Neeson lets out his emotions. An unforgettable movie for me.
8 Mile (2002) - Rapper Eminem's film.
Very Good. I am an absolute Zero in American Contemporary Music(Adhula mattum dhaana nnu kekka padadhu) but this film was well shot well directed and well acted. Eminem for sure can be a good actor. Detroit-ae nerula paatha madhiriae irundhadhu.
Never back down - padaththavida BGM pramaadhamaa irukku :thumbsup:
Shade - hope venkatprabhu photocopied this one as Mangatha :D
Sarna,
'Movies Now'ai vittu nagarradhilla pola irukku?
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inga oru tamil channel'um var'radhilla :(
Madeo - South Korean
Awesome movie! :)