Magnificent Ambersons fits that bill too I suppose
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Just went to my library's website and put Going In Style on hold.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Was going to mention Nebraska - it's pretty fresh in my mind as a friend showed it to me recently, and while we were incredibly drunk I did find it genuinely affecting. Was surprised to look up the director and see he'd been responsible for a bunch of stuff I either don't like or have no interest in ever seeing.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
Hard Eight
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
Thank u for this thread, clem.
Saw Make Way for Tomorrow last night and it completely wrecked me. And every time I think of the third act it starts wrecking me all over again.
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
thx. I just put a hold on the Criterion copy at my public library.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
"Pa"'s obliviousness to the situation should be infuriating, but the film probably wouldn't be watchable if he were as aware as "Ma" is of the situation that they're in.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 9 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
Last night I was thinking of an inversion of the story: a couple concerned more with each other than their kids, who grow up resentful. Years later, the kids take advantage of the parents' vulnerability to separate them. I'm visualizing something like the ending of Barry Lyndon. It's possible that this is the subtext of Make Way for Tomorrow as it exists, though! I mean, we never see the parents and children in younger days - why and how did they raise a family of ingrates?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 9 December 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
There've been a few the past five years: Michael Haneke's Amour (2012, not sure why I didn't mention it), two or three about Alzheimer's, and The Irishman fits to a degree.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 December 2021 03:13 (two years ago) link
And, in so many of Tommy Lee Jones' ruminations, No Country for Old Men.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 December 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
Would I be an insufferable film pedant (what, like I'm not already?) if I suggested that the indignities of aging are the "real" theme of Bubba Ho-Tep?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
That’s a good oneThe horror film relic fits altho its more about the experience of living with an ageing parent On the tv side twin peaks the return explores this theme in myriad fascinating ways obv
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link