I thought you’d say that!
I just rewatched Charade and also watched it again with the audio commentary, which is both interesting and hilarious because the director and writer bicker with each other most of the time. Just great.
I agree about Nuremberg. They made it a little too Hollywood, which I wish they hadn’t done with a real historical event. Apparently the woman journalist was completely invented.
I’ll bite — what’s the #1 Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock didn’t make?
I agree about Nuremberg. I also like Richard E. Grant in everything. But they made it a little too Hollywood, which I wish they hadn’t done with a real historical event. Apparently the woman journalist was completely invented.
I thought Eephus had the single funniest line of the year. I think it was: “That’s why I don’t want to have nieces.”
Someday I have to see Naked again. A really challenging and uncomfortable movie.
I keep hearing good things about The Queen of Chess. I need to see it.
Yeah, The Voice of Hind Rajab was absolutely the best movie I saw last year. Emotionally overwhelming, though. I don’t think I could see it twice.
Kathleen was asked by a coworker about how they could learn more about the ASL Interpreters Union, which is organizing workers who serve Deaf people making phone calls. Kathleen's manager overheard. Two days later, she was fired.
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Jodie Foster in the very good French film A Very Long Engagement. When I saw it, I thought, gosh, that French actress looks so much like Jodie Foster!
First Reformed was headed somewhere interesting and could have ended a number of meaningful ways, but just didn’t. A disappointing cop-out by Paul Schrader.
This week I started just keeping a list of what I saw instead of rating them right away on the #letterboxdfriday app, which was good because I enjoyed them instead of evaluating in my head while watching.
First Reformed ***1/2
To a Land Unknown ****
Ilana Glazer ***1/2
A Private Life ***1/2
That's funny.
Worth watching.
Something I have had reason to post numerous times: Conditions don't matter in concentration camps.
Something I have had reason to post numerous times: Conditions don't matter in concentration camps.
Least surprising thing ever.
I went to a conference on Gaza, and somebody said something like the following: America isn't going to be the first to change, it's going to be the last to change. It's true of our politicians most of all, and that's what I wanted to say to people in 2024. Kamala Harris isn't going to change first.
Kamala had no good choices and would have alienated people no matter what. Her solution was to give some carefully worded answers and think she had made the issue go away, which she had not. I think she failed to take a moral stand, but it would have been a shocking personality change if she had.
"in what appears to be a midair collision" — they go so far out of their way to avoid saying "midair collision" it's almost comical.
That’s obscure all right — it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. I think I want to see it.
Interesting, thanks!
I just watched it recently. It feels like a spoof but (according to Wikipedia) it shows a lot of what really happened.
SLAM, prize winner at Sundance and Cannes, kind of forgotten today.
PEPPERMINT CANDY, brilliant Korean movie told backwards.
THE NASTY GIRL, true story of a German girl who writes an essay on “my town in the third reich.”
MEN WITH GUNS, lesser known & great John Sayles film.
First 2 on Kanopy.
After Life is so good.
I really like it. I think about it often. Possibly one of the best films ever made — I have to watch it again and see if I think so.
Insane that they just remade Kind Hearts and Coronets as a schlocky Hollywood movie. Terrible idea. Great original.
That’s a really good movie.
Oh, no, the evidence is super duper pinkie classified.
