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What's the music like? I like some OpnI liked it.
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What's the music like? I like some OpnI liked it.
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pawel pawlikowski - ida
i love almost everything about this film, especially how it is meandering calmly and unobtrusively through its story, just like the central character, ida, an orphaned young woman who is about to become a nun in the early 1960s communist polish people's republic.
it's also a road trip coz ida is told to visit her outgoing aunt, the only living relative, before her vows, and both women shortly afterwards embark on the trip to find out more about the fate of ida's family under german occupation during ww2.
ida's spirit does not belong anywhere, she is completely free of any restrictive traditions, free to make her own decisions and find out whether the life, people and history she encounters outside the convent might suit her at all. she is a true introvert and thus the film is graciously leaving out all artificial emotions and strained attention-seeking.
... instead it offers a lot of "dead space" coz when it comes to pictures, less is always more.
i liked it more than jacques rivette's "the nun" with anna karina, even though it is also a great film, but it's more about suffering and victimization and not about unrestrained freedom.
I thought this was me Urbanus posting that but it wasn't though I agree. But I can watch a movie like that with critical eyes.Polish movie about Jews during WWII. Done million times over and how stupid do you have to be not recognizing the agenda behind it.
Re: tell us about the last Film you saw.
Blowup
it was great, glad i finally got around to watching it
maybe ill buy a camera too
spike lee - clockers
kinda entertaining in a symphonic way, i must say, but not a really good film.
clockers, as one should know, are drug dealers working 24/7. location is a new york residential area mainly for black people called the project. the drug scene's very active and so are police and the homo-cide detectives.
story's kinda interesting but not really original, mostly stock characters from urban jungle crime films. the black protective mama, the promising kid gettin into trouble, harrassing white cops and the few white cops helpin the good black fellas, an army of hopeless drug addicts.
i liked the long camera movements accompanied by jazz or classical music which added a soft touch to the gritty murder scenes, like in silence of the lambs.
acting was pretty amateurish, especially among some of the black folks, the urban slang often sounding like a charicature of itself, which it probably is anyway. so lee added lotsa violin playin as a backdrop to the dialogues to distract the viewers attention from the novice acting.
a so-so film.
3/6 lanterns
what an awful british television production by the bbc from 1984.
pretty sure margaret thatcher loved watching all those working-class peeps being incinerated, left alone, starving and slowly dying of radiation. problem solved. the children watching it on tv for ever traumatized.
as life goes on coronation-street-like in sheffield at the beginning of the film, all tediously boring like on a never-ending sunday, the super powers are fighting their proxy wars in distant regions of the world, when suddenly several nuclear bombs hit britain. the film follows several members of two families who were brought together bc of a wedding of lower middle-class and pregnant ruth and working-class jimmy. jimmy dies on the spot and pregnant ruth makes it into the tenth year after the attack, in a britain that has regressed into the medieval times if not the stone age.
the film shows the social, medical, political, environmental and economic effects of a nuclear attack in cadaverous detail. this is informative and interesting, but you just wonder why there is no global perspective in this scenario, as if sheffield was the world.
what really pissed me off was the very lengthy depiction of the blind mass panic after the attacks with women dutifully wailing and wailing non-stop and then, inevitably it seems, being reamed out by the men commandingly shouting at them to shut up ffs, which made them wail even louder, and so forth. this was nerve-racking and simply too much. there were absolutely no characters showing some crisis management or leadership skills, just what what can be expected from the working-classes.
i remember how these hopeless desaster films presenting more or less realistic horror scenarios depressed me in the 1980s. and i am pretty sure now, that this was their first and only intention. they were kind of negative counter narratives to the marxist or socialist utopian visions of a better and fairer world.
haven't discovered this one yet. has it been released recently?
This was filmed in 1934. A great film, just for these times. It's in Mubi.com
haven't discovered this one yet. has it been released recently?
Looks like the full film is on youtube, at least in the UK. I'll watch it.It's available in my country at Mobi.com. it finishes today at midnight. I wish I knew how to record it for you. You have to watch it thinking about it was filmed almost a century ago.
The three are Joseph Losey films.