seeing that at MoMA in 2 weeks w/ director q&a
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 January 2016 03:26 (eight years ago) link
finally caught The Lobster, which turned out to be essentially Animal Farm meets OKCupid. Considerably funnier and less oppressive than I was expecting
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Sunday, 3 January 2016 05:33 (eight years ago) link
should we have a 2016 thread?
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 January 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
Sissako's Timbuktu is certainly worth seiing, but i don't find the filmmaking as forceful as it should be at times. The violence only does upsets once or twice.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 16, 2015 1:57
Finally saw this and also saw it on some year-end top lists (Bob Mondello, NPR & others). Worth seeing but main characters still didn't seem fleshed out enough.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
that gunshot in the marsh though
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 January 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
terrible and heartbreaking even if one saw it coming. People buried in sand and stoned was pretty upsetting too.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35220419
The US National Society of Film Critics has named Spotlight the best film of 2015.
Timbuktu, by Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, won best foreign language film.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
I've never seen Sissako's earlier effort: "Bamako", mentioned below--
http://www.alternet.org/culture/2015-years-best-movies-classic-screen-romance-ghosts-auschwitz-delusional-tv-stardom
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon Yes, African director Abderrahmane Sissako’s wry, rich, tragic and spectacular tale of life under the rule of Islamic militants in northern Mali’s legendary “library city” was nominated for the foreign-language Oscar last year. (It didn’t win, but I don’t begrudge “Ida” the prize.) That’s because the academy’s rules make no sense; “Timbuktu” did not play anywhere in the United States until late January of 2015. I have previously argued that a confluence of talent and circumstance have rendered Sissako — who was born in Mauritania, raised in Mali, educated in Russia and now lives in France — a figure of unique cultural importance. Far more to the point, he’s a great artist: Watch “Timbuktu” and then “Bamako,” his outrageous Brechtian assault against the Western banks and financial powers, and find out how his films speak to the mind, the heart and the spirit all at once.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
I saw Tale of Tales yesterday and it's pretty amazing. So many beautiful shots. And it has a nice light touch when it comes to any interconnections between the different stories.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link