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I randomly download movies. Probably that's why our dls sync :) Seedbox level-kku innum pogala.
This week it's goodfellas at PVR.
Toy-light saaagaa br dawn part 1 (Ahahn, idhula part 2 vera) op weekend gross 139 mil$ :shock:.
Watched Monsters again.
Pixar flicks never get old. And surprisingly, managed to notice that characters from Nemo, Toy Story II and a ball from their very primitive animated short appear. They amuse us with such stuff in almost every film.
LM- Got links of the recent HTTYD exclusive releases? Two more short films.
Not yet. Bruce Lee padam download pannittu irukken 2 naala :lol:
Did I post watching Ip Man already?
Uncool Kung fu for the first time. First part was neat and entertaining. Second part was like Rocky/ Madarasapattinam. Naansans madhiri pannitaanga, Still can watch once.
Remember seeing you post about IP man. Ingaiya illa FB-yanu gnabagam illa.
'Ides of March' - Disappointing. Clooney loves filming his Male protagonist, doesn't he? Gosling has never looked more charismatic. He creates the part he's given with as much conviction as it's possible & the film has no big ambitions.
Liked the dolly shot as the rain dips & wiper swipes , the shadow half-disguises Gosling breaking down. Indha oru piece pOdhumE, Gosling nalla varuvaan..
The Descendants. Lovely little film. I liked the people in the film, the way they came out alive in more than one dimension, embarrassed themselves when their emotions betrayed them and the way they talked themselves out. Supreme control over the situations and actors by the director (haven't watched his previous outings). Interesting mix of comedy and drama - people and situations. A little slow in it's pace, a lot of empty shots and almost every alternate scene ended way away from where they should have ended, but yet the film managed to hold my interest till the end. I might not be able to jot down that one point this film was built on, but I think that's a characteristic of a good film.
Every actor in this film is good. And George Clooney does a charming act - totally loved him in this.
Hopefully will catch the film which has generated the other Oscar Nomination buzz - for the best actress.
FAST FIVE..
One of the best action film..
The best in FAST series..
Check out his other films "Election", "Sideways".Quote:
Originally Posted by AravindMano
Doc - sure thing.
The X-Men trilogy.
Such brilliant build-up only to end up in a disastrously hollywood-ish half hour of mindless action? :banghead:
CG is simply best of the best. Characters connect, OST is amazing.. what more can you ask for? :clap:
Hope the First Class/ Magneto trilogy makes up for it.
50/50
Liked it a lot. Much better movie in the "feel good" category. Seth rogan was hilarious throughout :rotfl: Gordon levitt was also good.. His selection of movies :thumbsup:. Neat screenplay and direction too.
The Ghost Writer.
Found that TGW was a Polanski film only when the credits started rolling. Happened to watch Pianist about 4 years or so and I never intended to watch a Polanski film since then. Somehow, liked this one.
Puss in Boots. Not as bad as I thought it would be. Not much on humour.
Watched Helvetica (2007).
An insightful documentary about the History and Geography of the typeface, interviews from Major Graphic designers, et al. Beautifully shot!
Documentary suggestions, please. :D
Enna madhiri documentaries?
Till recently, i thought it was a repulsive title (mistook this for 'pus' - adi kidi pattaa varume) :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by groucho070
:lol: Etho oru art film on red necks-nu nenechittinggalO.
Related to Architecture, Graphic Design, Photography or Filmmakers.. anything will do. Those which are very well shot, no subject in particular.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
I don't know if this can be classified under documentaries, but naa paathu maanjupOna oru padam Baraka. Visual spectacle, one of its kind experience.
Venkiraja nice avatar! Recently went to see "the descendents" and friend kept asking if we were seeing the "the despicables" :razz:
Anyways depressing outset from the get go...the bgm...I honestly tried to like it...usu I pride myself on embracing world music...but this just didn't do it for me...Hawaiian folk music just isn't my thing I guess...but the scenery it made me soooo homesick for M'asia....now to the movie at hand...All Eyes on Clooney (he's easy on them too ;) ) what can i say, he carries the movie, the oldest daughter got some fire in her...a deplorable situation indeed but somehow all of it coming together in a kind of safe "let's not make this messier than it is" kind of way...some language thrown in to show the "dysfunction"...
Baraka is a great non-narrative piece of filmmaking. As is Koyaanasqatsi. On a slightly lesser pedestal, Chronos & Powaqqatsi. Aforementioned would fall in line with 'no subject in particular'. So don't curse us! :lol: And especially for you Venki, they're available in Blu-ray/HD rip formats.
The documentaries that are more than just lip-service but also concerned with form, that it's so intimately tied to the content. The ones that get the dialectic right to my eyes, Triumph of the Will. Night and Fog. Man with the movie camera. Salesman. The Sorrow and the Pity. The Hour of the Furnaces. Battle of Chile. Of Time and the City. All predominantly Black and white, save for sparse usage of color to contrast the 'present', are essential viewing. The documentaries of one Chris Marker, together with Asian filmmakers (Wang Bing, Jia Zhang-ke, Kore-eda & Kazuo to name some), the non-narrative experimental stuff of Brakhage, James Benning expand the horizon more.
The problem in suggesting these documentaries is when you're faced with 'rejetted' posts. :lol:
So to save the trouble, suggesting works of Adam Curtis like 'Power of nightmares' might be the way to go. Instructive (I say that with all humility) documentaries like Hearts and Minds, Woodstock, Century of the self, Manufacturing Consent, Manufctred Landscapes, The God Delusion, Taxi to the dark side, Exit thro' the gift shop, Iraq in fragments, War Photographer, Crumb, Capturing the Friedmans wouldn't go wrong. There are inspired photography & flourishes in some of these documentaries as well. But they are not really medium-defining IMHO. Educational documentary mini-series like Cosmos, How Art made the world, Human Body, Planet Earth, World at War, Atheism tapes are like daily fodder.
You would find only parts in youtube. The aforementioned are all available in mvgroup http://forums.mvgroup.org
Not quite sure they still allow registration. Alternatively, you could get their uploads using torrents. In fact, I'd suggest checking out most of their uploads. Part of my curriculum, until couple of years back when I switched to TV series, was to collect their latest release. They eat up your real-estate, but you could afford those GBs if you're really desperate like me to hog as much stuff as you could. Some I haven't even got around to. I look forward to, in near future. In particular the PBS works of Ferederick Wiseman (who is considered a master). One thing for sure. You're packed for life, even if the internet loses its autonomy & we, the pirates, have no seas to coast through.
Documentaries on film is a whole new genre in itself. Godard's History of Cinema, Hell on Earth (RIP Ken Russell), Heart of darkness, Burden of dreams, Pervert's guide to cinema, Chris Marker's documentary on Tarkovsky (This OTOH transcends to something else, see below), Voyage to Italy, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies. Ranging from Godard's bazin-esque historical panache to Scorsese's Popeye-esque spinach to cinema.
Couple of German filmmakers like Herzog & Wim Wenders make documentaries that fall in line thematically with their fictional films. You might want to check out their stuff if you dig their films. They've both recently made 3D documentaries ('Pina' perhaps qualifies as non-fiction). I also consider Scorsese's documentary Italianamerican & American Boy very instructive & integral to his films. Marker's docu on Tarkovsky is again integral to Tarkovsky's oeuvre & filmmaking. It's a tribute that embodies the subject of its tribute & therefore truly eulogizes (in visual terms) the art of Tarkovsky.
Sports documentaries is a HUGE (& seperate) genre as well. Youtube should have 'When we were kings', 'Wrestling with Shadows' to 'Magic of Bird', 'Mane Garrincha'. It's the recent releases that face copyright issues. You don't have Arsenal's season review videos. Or the much recent 'Senna' by Asif Kapadia, which is very good btw!
Citizen Kane. On big screen. :notworthy:
Still a relatively poor transfer. :twisted: But the accentuated DOF of Welles-Toland makes up for it. No matter what kind of Hi-Def TV or blu-ray player you hold, it deserves to be seen in big screen. :notworthy:
KG
It shouldn't be :shock: -ing but still.... :notworthy:
Enakku kuduttvaikkala. Vonly small screen, athuvum antha kAlattula vAngguna VCD.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
KG, :clap: thanks for that truck load of recos!
btw, where did you get to see CK on big screen? Special screening edhaachu irundhucha?
venki, some kosuru: music related docus is again a vast subset. If you like (or at least can tolerate) rock/metal, check out Flight666 (Iron Maiden's) and Some kinda monster (Metallica).
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Pics from deivam's still photography years. I've never seen this set before, some superb captures.
http://english.mashkulture.net/2011/11/30/stanley-kubricks-photos-of-1940s-new-york/
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FVR'la parthEn. Missed Taxi Driver (print was worst-u it seems), Goodfellas (print was okay I heard).
Music-related documentaries is a genre I haven't done much, save for 'Woodstock' (which turns out to be a portrait of the era), 'Gimme Shelter', 'Joy Division' (which turns out to be a portrait of the city!)* & educational stuff like 'The Blues' (Wenders, Eastwood, Scorsese have all contributed). 'Wild man Blues' is available in youtube, for WA fans but here he is a clarinet player.
* - in this regard a work like 'Los Angeles plays itself' is going to be influential. Thorn Anderson cares about realistic, authentic portrayal of LA in film, but even more he sets out to rectify/instruct some misrepresentations (like Chinatown, for eg.). Someone ought to make a 'Chennai plays itself' for TFI.
Second pix, the guy in the background. That's him. I bet he was arrested after that for appearing freaky in other people's mirror.
There are some Kubrick documentaries like 'Kubrick's boxes', 'SK: A life in pictures', & a Charlie Rose discussion about the documentary with Scorsese, Mrs Kubrick & Jan Harlan. They're all worth watching, of course.
@grouch: :lol: had that been a sudden appearance, that lady'd have certainly creeped out and fainted. What a sinister gaze, bleddy!
kg, i downloaded a box-set collection of him sometime back (has a scratchy copy of fear&desire, and also an audio recording of an interview, where he sounds extremely reluctant and withdrawn, quite expected though) and I think it has one of these docus, inime dhaan paakanum.
Check if it has dvd extras of Dr.Strangelove, Shining & FMJ. In DR.SL, they discuss alternate ending (the pie fight), Shining has SK tormenting Shelly & Crothers (sense of family superficially partaking in his process as his mom visit the shoot & his daughter Vivian shoots the docu, despite SK being watchful & maintains a distance. Not wanting her to spoil his cast & crew), second unit director directing Danny, Nicholson can't help but be charismatic (that it could be mistaken for flirtation with Miss Kubrick), FMJ has bits & pieces of the on-location shoot.
Annan Sid_316 paarthaar I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Documentary suggestions-ku thaniya oru :clap: ellam podanum. Viriva nanri solren :notworthy:
:) Thanks. If you haven't check out all the three cool mini-movies that came out with Despicable Me bluray/rips.Quote:
Originally Posted by QUERIDA
I dread if you guys would start :hammer: -ing me, inevitably disappointed after all the extended eulogy I've given to these films. But it's a risk worth taking. These films deserve engagement, all it needs is the audience. It'd fail to some, it'd work for others.
Frnd wanted to see in time instead of taxi driver. Missed it :twisted:Quote:
Originally Posted by VENKIRAJA
K-G..any links to PBS American Masters docus? in look out for "A Letter to Elia" stuck at 40%..no seeds :banghead:
PBS website
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/category/video/
Both the parts worked for me. But I'm getting error now (at office). Hurry, they might restrict access.
doesn't work for me..been trying it for ages..have you seen it?