What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

Lilja · 12-29-2018, 01:07 AM

Christmas/New Years is a great time to catch up on films. Back on my war film streak. Two good ones:

"Der Hauptmann" aka "The Captain" aka "Bödeln från Emsland". Great film, really well edited. The use of Black and White just seemed to make it much more stronger, sharper, and memorable. True story about Willy Paul "Willi" Herold[citation needed], also known as "the Executioner of Emsland", a German soldier who at the end of World War II pretended to be a Luftwaffe captain and embarked on the murder of inmates at prison camps.

Another good one:

A running documentary about WWI. Jackson's studio restored the footage beautifully. The footage looks so crisp.

Zhanteimi · 12-29-2018, 02:26 AM

We watched The Godfather last night. It's a Christmas break tradition.

Justthefacts · 12-29-2018, 04:50 PM

Roma

The hype is somewhat validated, but I'm more proud to see that this Mexican film by one of our great Mexican directors is in serious discussion for a Best Picture win. A Spanish film winning best picture would be incredible representation for us beans.

**Frownland** · 12-29-2018, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Justthefacts

Roma

The hype is somewhat validated, but I'm more proud to see that this Mexican film by one of our great Mexican directors is in serious discussion for a Best Picture win.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro

Justthefacts · 12-29-2018, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro

What about him? He's great too, Shape Of Water was really good. But an actual film with just a few lines of English dialogue to perhaps win the biggest award would be bittersweet.

**Frownland** · 12-29-2018, 05:28 PM

He's a director from Mexico and they released the movie with a Spanish dub so same thing basically.

SmokeAndMirrors · 12-29-2018, 07:42 PM

Finally got around to fully watching Interstellar.

It's an awesome movie, but I was way too stoned the first time I tried to watch it. Also, they don't even get into space for the first 42 minutes of the movie (it's damn near 3 hours long). It was good, I liked it, but it honestly took much too long.

While I'm at it, does anybody else have movies about/with black holes in them? I've already got The Black Hole and Event Horizon.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 12-29-2018, 09:23 PM

Took my son to see AquaMan at the theater.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 01-01-2019, 01:36 AM

WWWP · 01-01-2019, 02:00 PM

Keep forgetting to post about The Favourite.

The first of Yorgos Lanthinmos' films which he didn't write himself, the roots of the original screenplay by Deborah Davis date back to the early 1990's. As with most films (and especially Lanthimos') I prefer to go in blind, so all I really knew to expect was Olivia Colman as Queen Anne. Ho-ly shit what a ride! I loooooove Olivia Colman in everything she does but my lord was she fan-fucking-tastic. Rachel Weisz as Sarah Churchill was a standout, so sharp and steely - always steps ahead. Emma Stone was great too, calculating and... ambitious? The three of them together was just *MUAH* great chemistry and so much depth to their relationships. Strong, dynamically written characters, you can never quite decide who to root for.

It was so different from other Lanthimos films, but still contained all the trademark bluntness, the instantaneous switch between absurdist comedy and raw, uncomfortable human experience, the stunning sets and cinematography. So, so good. Can't wait to watch it again.

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Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	We watched The Godfather last night. It's a Christmas break tradition. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	He's a director from Mexico and they released the movie with a Spanish dub so same thing basically. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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SmokeAndMirrors Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: In the Void Posts: 174	Finally got around to fully watching Interstellar. It's an awesome movie, but I was way too stoned the first time I tried to watch it. Also, they don't even get into space for the first 42 minutes of the movie (it's damn near 3 hours long). It was good, I liked it, but it honestly took much too long. While I'm at it, does anybody else have movies about/with black holes in them? I've already got The Black Hole and Event Horizon. __________________ "Like whispers in the dark..."

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Lilja Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 521	Christmas/New Years is a great time to catch up on films. Back on my war film streak. Two good ones: "Der Hauptmann" aka "The Captain" aka "Bödeln från Emsland". Great film, really well edited. The use of Black and White just seemed to make it much more stronger, sharper, and memorable. True story about Willy Paul "Willi" Herold[citation needed], also known as "the Executioner of Emsland", a German soldier who at the end of World War II pretended to be a Luftwaffe captain and embarked on the murder of inmates at prison camps. Another good one: A running documentary about WWI. Jackson's studio restored the footage beautifully. The footage looks so crisp.

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~~[MERIT]~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 4,823	Took my son to see AquaMan at the theater.

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