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I’ve see 5 Bloods, half of Small Axe (it’s sort of like a movie anthology) and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Five Bloods is outstanding. Small Axe is great so far but doesn’t feel like a singular movie. Ma Rainey was ok. Felt way too stagey though.Awards season time. Obviously a strange year...includes all movies including streamed. I haven't seen a single one of these.The National Society of Film Critics (picked Parasite last year):
Saw Llewyn Davis for first time a few weeks ago. Liked it but do not think I'll need to rewatch.
The Cincinnati Kid is entertaining and has a great cast including Ann Margret looking her finest
It was actually pretty good. It's an indie Canadian movie about a couple dealing with coming clean and their struggles and going the opposite ways with their recovery. Nothing groundbreaking, but I liked how it was shot and it sucked me in. It was just one that stuck out as I was scanning.
I also rewatched Hard Eight.
HERE is the link to imdb's Werewolf page.It was actually pretty good. It's an indie Canadian movie about a couple dealing with coming clean and their struggles and going the opposite ways with their recovery. Nothing groundbreaking, but I liked how it was shot and it sucked me in. It was just one that stuck out as I was scanning.
Last night the edibles were kicking in and I finally watched The Last Waltz, so I need to add that to my ongoing list.
Poker journalism, and perhaps games journalism, began when the legendary Mike Caro soiled nine pages of a 1980s startup industry rag with an impassioned & exacting explanation of how the climactic hand of The Cincinnati Kid would and could never be played as shown. I can't revisit the film, as i recently did after a long hiatus, without that seminal diatribe echoing in my head, but it is my favorite McQueen (non)performance and Ann Margret is the Greek goddess of things that'll knock you off your game.The Cincinnati Kid is entertaining and has a great cast including Ann Margret looking her finest
Loved it. Managed to be very entertaining while essentially being a discussion of very heavy race related topics impacting the Black community.
And did a great job translating those issues that were so prevalent in the early 60s into equally relevant (sadly) 2021. The more I think on the movie, the more the writing really stands out. And full credit to the director for allowing the writing and acting to take center stage...they could have messed this up by trying to do too much.
Agreed on the issues but it did it without being forced. Obviously this isn’t a literal conversation/event that happened. They wouldn’t have likely interacted in such a direct manner. Brown, Ali, Cooke and Malcolm are larger than life characters through which these ideas can be expressed. Yet somehow it still felt personal and intimate. The man who wrote this 1 act play and script also wrote Soul which is supposed to be fantastic. Heck of a year for Kemp Powers.
Yeah...it was taking these mythological people and allowing us to see their intimate humanity and closeness with each other (true or not...doesn't matter to me).
Gets down to what it's all about, doesn't it? Making the wrong move at the right time.
Kaufman's like a 60s bebop master who becomes so obsessed with groundbreaking that he forgets the whole point of his art is to swing first, ask questions later. if it don't swing, it aint jazz -Ilov80s said:
Yeah I was reading he didn’t really like Adaptation (which I thought was genius) because he felt it explained too much of what was going on and he wanted to make sure to avoid that it again. This newest one is is like being handed an unmarked box of puzzle pieces. I think I can make out what it is but I’ll never be sure if the pieces even were all meant to together.
I haven't seen a ton of these yet. Nomadland is at top of my list but not streaming anywhere last I checked. Of those listed above, I've seen:Awards season time. Obviously a strange year...includes all movies including streamed. I haven't seen a single one of these.
I was just coming in to post that I watched this one last night, and echo basically all you wrote. Exactly like you said - 4 Month, etc.. was a harder watch and I would say a little better movie. That said I was glued to the screen here for such a simple movie (simple in the basic plot over the course of a couple days, not the emotions of the movie). Mostly because of the lead actress doing a fantastic job of always being in the background and not showing much emotion, and then making the scene where the title comes from that much more of a gut punch. There are reasons she is as guarded as she is.
Great post. I agree with everything you said. I’m glad you saw and appreciated the movie. I might have been wrong about men not getting it entirely, since you seem to have!
I haven't seen many of these, but would say Riz Ahmed was fantastic in Sound of Metal, which was easily the best 2020 movie for me and is streaming on Prime now.Awards season time. Obviously a strange year...includes all movies including streamed. I haven't seen a single one of these.
There's just one problem in appreciating this sure-to-be-Oscar-nominated film: How the heck, if we weren't able to catch it at a prestigious film festival before everything shut down due to a dang pandemic, are we able to see it? Finally, we have our answer. Per Variety, Searchlight Pictures will debut the film in theaters on February 19, 2021 (after a brief IMAX run), with a simultaneous day-one Hulu release
I was going to watch this one last night, but only saw it available as a Showtime add-on to Hulu or Prime. Where did you watch?
Showtime. My wife and I share accounts with 2 other couples so between us all we basically have every major streaming service without having to pay for all of them.
I think I’ll check that out this weekend. I went with an older Antonio Banderas/Pedro Almodovar movie last night (Matador) and it was awful.
Interested if you like this one as much as I did. After you watch, I might PM about the plot point I alluded to.
I have not seen that one. I’ll look it up. I just edited post. Ended up with the new Bill & Ted — meh.
Palm Springs is great and I think the wife would like it. Mine did and she's also very picky. One has to like Andy Samberg obviously but it is funny, romantic, unique.
Great movie and just an incredible heater Bogdanovich and Polly Platt were on to start their film making careers. It’s also very easy to see how Bogdanovich fell for Cybill Shepherd.
I’m almost up to La Dolce Vita in the Fellini set. Looking forward to that one a re-watch.
I watched 8 1/2 the next day. I was a little mentally distracted so maybe that clouded it but I walked away like LDV more than 8.5. I had only seen each 1x prior and my opinion was reversed. I didn’t quite feel the magic of 8.5 the second time where LDV made more sense and felt much more cohesive on a 2nd viewing.
I'm interested to see how both hold up for me.
