sexton said:

La vie d'Adèle / Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) - Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.



The girls' relationship was portrayed very passionately. 1/2

In interviews the girls do not seem very happy with the experience or the director. May be a great film, but with their discontent, the sexual explicitness and because of their age, it seems mighty creepy to me.

I saw Gravity last weekend. Loved it!

Nice to see a movie that isn't too long and doesn't go on and on about irrelivant things. I liked how it was straight to the point. Well acted and very well done.

V10LETBLUES said:

sexton said:

La vie d'Adèle / Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) - Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

The girls' relationship was portrayed very passionately. 1/2

In interviews the girls do not seem very happy with the experience or the director. May be a great film, but with their discontent, the sexual explicitness and because of their age, it seems mighty creepy to me.

Yes, the way the director treated the young actresses during filming was disturbing.

Yes, it's a great film.

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) - The story of Texas electrician Ron Woodroof and his battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies after being diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986.

Excellent performances by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.

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Brendan said:

namepeace said:

To Rome With Love (2012)
Well acted movie; plotlines weren't Allen's best but still a worthy addition to the canon.

Absolutely! Well said.

La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) - A chronicle of the trial of Jeanne d'Arc on charges of heresy, and the efforts of her ecclesiastical jurists to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

There is a beautiful intimacy established with the viewer via the constant closeups.

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Andy Warhol's Dracula (aka blood for dracula or young dracula)

3.5/5 - I liked the camp elements, & I always like watching udo kier - i'm not sure if the class commentary was meant to be taken seriously.

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12 Years a Slave (2013) - In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Captain Phillips (2013) - The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Tom Hanks earned an Oscar nomination with the final scene.

I enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for Aubrey Plaza.

Ace said:

I enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for Aubrey Plaza.

I liked that movie a lot too. When I first watched it, I slightly turned my nose up at the ending, but I made my peace with it the 2nd time through.

This Is Not a Film - 4/5

damosuzuki said:

Ace said:

I enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for Aubrey Plaza.

I liked that movie a lot too. When I first watched it, I slightly turned my nose up at the ending, but I made my peace with it the 2nd time through.

I hear ya.

Are these threads still going?

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M by Fritz Lang

I am currently obsessed with this movie.

i watched "Clear History" today. a mildly amusing comedy.

i mainly watched it because Larry David plays the lead and

he's always amusing, to me. but as a whole, i'd rate it 3 or

2.5 out of 5 stars.

IstenSzek said:

i watched "Clear History" today. a mildly amusing comedy.

i mainly watched it because Larry David plays the lead and

he's always amusing, to me. but as a whole, i'd rate it 3 or

2.5 out of 5 stars.

I love LD! Haven't seen Clear History (my mom, also an LD fan, said it was disappointing). I"ll probably check it out, at some point.

loving this one, four stars

heartbeatocean said:

Are these threads still going?

LOL yes, because Sexton has watched every single movie ever made!

I always feel inferior when I read what he's watched, versus what I've watched.

Ace said:

IstenSzek said:

i watched "Clear History" today. a mildly amusing comedy.

i mainly watched it because Larry David plays the lead and

he's always amusing, to me. but as a whole, i'd rate it 3 or

2.5 out of 5 stars.

I love LD! Haven't seen Clear History (my mom, also an LD fan, said it was disappointing). I"ll probably check it out, at some point.

it's typical larry david stuff. lots of arguments and commentary

a few people from "Curb" turn up in this film too.

but it's nowhere near as funny or endearing as "whatever works"

IstenSzek said:

Ace said:

I love LD! Haven't seen Clear History (my mom, also an LD fan, said it was disappointing). I"ll probably check it out, at some point.

it's typical larry david stuff. lots of arguments and commentary

a few people from "Curb" turn up in this film too.

but it's nowhere near as funny or endearing as "whatever works"

Love that movie!

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Monday on TCM was Robert Ryan Day and they aired this film.

RodeoSchro said:

heartbeatocean said:

Are these threads still going?

LOL yes, because Sexton has watched every single movie ever made!

I always feel inferior when I read what he's watched, versus what I've watched.

I had to look back and see if I felt inferior. I've seen 5 out of 15 of Sexton's films. I used to be a film buff, but Sexton has surpassed.

Frances Ha - 4/5 - I'm a little surprised at just how much I enjoyed this. It treads over a lot of things that could seem like generic indie film cliches (Woody-isms, aimless kooky twenty-somethings, mumbling bearded hipsters), but I thought it was fun & funny & completely enjoyable.

King kelly 3.5/5

damosuzuki said:

Frances Ha - 4/5 - I'm a little surprised at just how much I enjoyed this. It treads over a lot of things that could seem like generic indie film cliches (Woody-isms, aimless kooky twenty-somethings, mumbling bearded hipsters), but I thought it was fun & funny & completely enjoyable.

Hey, Damo!

There were a lot of things I dug about it, but I have a low tolerance for womanchild protagonists (or manchild protagonists, for that matter).

About Schmidt (2/3 of it and unfortunately had to stop it lol)

7.5/10 so far

Two movies:

MUSCLE SHOALS about the Swampers and Producer Rick Hall in this small Alabama town where the royality of the music world cam to record in the 1960s and 1970s and beyond. Like the Funk Brothers movie, but the Swampers were white boys who could play the "greasy funk" as Aretha Franklin called it. With interviews with Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jerry Wexler, Steve Winwood, Bono, Gregg Allman and many more. The Swampers were mentioned in the song "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. 4 stars out of 5.

MOOD INDIGO by Michel Gondry, the director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Starts off wild and crazy and bright and cheerful, and then goes dark, but not depressing, strangely. Tons of visual gags done with stop-motion animation, puppetry, photographic effects, and a touch of CGI. With Audrey Tatou and other French actors. 4 stars out of 5.

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Ewan McGregor and Eva Green star in this 2011 depressing end of world scenario.

An epidemic causes the population to lose their senses one by one, but there's still time for romance!

Simplistic and Scotland sure looks dreary

2.5/5

Swiss sci-fi from 2009

I liked it! Sufficiently odd and lots edge-of-seat stuff here to keep me interested.

I was soooooo happy it wasn't like Alien with extra-terrestrial hitch-hikers - this was FAR more interesting.

4/5

Ace said:

damosuzuki said:

Frances Ha - 4/5 - I'm a little surprised at just how much I enjoyed this. It treads over a lot of things that could seem like generic indie film cliches (Woody-isms, aimless kooky twenty-somethings, mumbling bearded hipsters), but I thought it was fun & funny & completely enjoyable.

Hey, Damo!

There were a lot of things I dug about it, but I have a low tolerance for womanchild protagonists (or manchild protagonists, for that matter).

I have a farily low tolerance for those things myself, which is partly why I was so surprised by how much I enjoyed it.