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Added 2024-02-13 05:53:41 +0000 UTCTell me your favorite movie, or one of them, and why.
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“McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971) Like many, “favorite film” rotates according to whatever I’m going through in my life at the time. It’s always off a handful of about 4 or 5 rotating films (will list below) but if pressed, I have to say Altman’s “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” is the most consistent. I think because it transports me, puts me in a dream state — the film itself is like a dream. A mythical frontier world. Both miserable and cozy. There’s nothing esoteric in it, but there is a kind of magical (and I always cringe using the following word) poetry to it. The little side stories and asides. The pet drunk, always shivering around looking for a nip, like a stray dog for scraps, whom McCabe takes pity on, handing him his flask, ordering him a shot, — he takes care of him because he is that poor soul. The story of Ida, Bart’s mail order bride. The haunting Reverend who walks around like death. The performances are great. I laugh more at this film than most “comedies.” It’s also possibly the single most unique film I’ve ever seen without feeling like that’s partly what it set out to do. The muddy soundtrack, Leonard Cohen score, milky, realistic photography. If you’ve made it this far, thanks❤️. I could go on and on. The honorable mentions here are “The Last Detail” “Taxi Driver” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Neat” and “The Conversation” Very much enjoyed reading everyone’s choices. Dean
Dean Imperial
2024-02-14 15:16:41 +0000 UTCI have to second "Tampopo" ... it's just such a beautiful, hilarious, tragic experience! And all through food! ... not just Ramen...
Sutil
2024-02-14 07:29:06 +0000 UTCOh my god! Yes... we have to watch "Tampopo" in one of the viewing parties... or DFL needs to do a review on it... PLEASE! Or even if she just talks about Juzo Itami in general... it would be an amazing video!!!! Oh man, I totally forgot "Tampopo" is definitely on my top 10!!! Maybe even top 5!
Sutil
2024-02-14 07:26:31 +0000 UTCGood one
Sutil
2024-02-14 07:23:43 +0000 UTCNice!!!! I had a similar experience... I was 14 when I saw Pulp Fiction... and it was the first film that I've seen that played with time in a non linear way... and that movie made me see cinema as something more than just entertainment ... and I remember when I saw the trailer for "Lost Highway" I said to myself "That looks like something similar that I might also like" and yeah, I was blown away by it... and definitely made my interest grow in exploring more cinema like that... but now a days "Mulholland Drive" is my fave lynch film, but "Lost Highway" has a very special place in my heart...
Sutil
2024-02-14 07:22:49 +0000 UTCLeon is great. Siskel & Ebert were great critics but they really did fuck up on a lot of classics... but we all know how our own opinions change after multiple viewings..
Sutil
2024-02-14 07:14:21 +0000 UTCIt’s so underrated
Herbert Baker
2024-02-14 07:08:10 +0000 UTCOh man... I totally forgot about that film! Saw it when it came out in the 90's !
Sutil
2024-02-14 07:07:10 +0000 UTCSugar hill. A dark and sad tragedy of drugs and the burden of family ties.
Herbert Baker
2024-02-14 06:05:30 +0000 UTCThe Place Beyond the Pines and Igby Goes Down are among my most rewatched films. They’re VERY different from each other but are both about the void of absent fathers and breaking family patterns.
Coyote 87
2024-02-14 04:38:18 +0000 UTCTo add... One thing that I consider as a minus in Leon, is that stolen idea from The Silence of the Lambs, when Leon is pretending to be a policeman (member of a SWAT team to be precise). But, to be honest, it's a tiny scratch, not much relevant to me and it makes sense in terms of the plot. Wink for "Let's play a game" scene.
Oskitello
2024-02-13 20:55:27 +0000 UTCAntonioni’s L’Avventura. Perfect example of inertia through over-satiation. The only thing that makes the characters come alive is starting something new, usually a new relationship, which they will quickly get bored of once they obtain it. After Anna goes missing, Sandro relentlessly pursues her best friend, Claudia. He goes to great lengths to bring Claudia and he together, including putting an ad in the paper saying Anna was seen at a local pharmacy. Claudia has no idea that she and Sandro’s meeting at the pharmacy was contrived by Sandro. An element of danger and the excitement it brings lies behind many of these pursuits. Anna’s prank with the shark is instructive, as is Sandro’s affair with a prostitute and Julia’s affair with a young artist. The famous open-ended ending is heartbreaking to me. If Anna’s disappearance wasn’t an accident, why did she abandon her fiance and her best friend? The men are more at fault than the women. But in the end they’re all guilty of the same sickness. Our hearts ache for each of them.
Matt C
2024-02-13 19:56:43 +0000 UTCNicolas Roeg's "Walkabout." I think it's the most beautiful movie ever made, and it's also one of the most profound as it expresses thematically (in brilliant visual subtext) the divide between nature and human civilization, and how we've lost our connection to the source of all things, and as a result are tragically lost, unfulfilled, anxious, and messed up! Such a masterpiece on every level, and it resonates so deeply as we can all relate to that feeling that something big is missing from our existence; that we've lost something profound and important.
Paul Todisco
2024-02-13 17:33:47 +0000 UTCDavid Fincher’s “The Social Network”. I can’t believe that a movie about starting a website is one of the most engaging and interesting films I’ve ever seen. The screenplay by Aaron Sorkin is fantastic, it features career best performances from Jessie Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, and the score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is one of my favourites. I can watch it over and over again and never get bored.
Gornay
2024-02-13 17:15:25 +0000 UTCLeon (1994) First of all, I disagree with Siskel & Ebert review. No substance?! Fake emotions?! For example, How can anyone say something like that referring to Leon & Mathilda relationship? They also used words like "annoying", "boring", "phony" while describing certain aspects of the film. Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. Ebert said "phony" about brilliant sequence with SWAT team. Hiding in the ceiling and shooting at SWAT members while being upside down is a smart & unorthodox strategic maneuver. Not to mention it's captivating from cinematic perspective and fits to American title of the film. For me, everything comes together in terms of story, cinematography, direction, music, etc. I can relate - to a degree - to characters played by Jean Reno and Natalie Portman on personal level. I recorded this movie on VHS and watched it many times during my childhood. A masterpiece. Highly recommend Extended Version. It's funny...If The Fifth Element could have been made earlier, Leon probably wouldn't exist, not in current shape anyway. PS: Look at the opening scene (aside from the credits), close-ups to show Leon and Tony, reflect their mutual connection and the fact that a matter which they're talking about is top secret, face to face only. As a digression, I can say that I saw Argylle which has majority of terrible reviews, and I had a lot of fun in theater. So, never take movie critics opinion as an ultimate factor deciding that you'll see a movie or not. Find out for yourself.
Oskitello
2024-02-13 16:57:09 +0000 UTCMy favourite movie is David Lynch's 1997 film "Lost Highway". It was the first movie I saw with a non-linear narrative structure, and it completely blew my 14-year-old mind at the time. What I found particularly interesting was how the sound in some of the early scenes could create a tense atmosphere in a seemingly uneventful static shot of a living room. I believe it's safe to say that this film single-handedly changed my perspective on cinema and also contributed to my growing interest in exploring sound and unconventional music to this day.
Jerome Faria
2024-02-13 15:07:49 +0000 UTCSpike Jonze's Her completely surprised me with how much I loved it after seeing it for the first time a few months ago. As someone who used to struggle with self esteem issues because of wanting and constantly failing to have a relationship with a woman, this film spoke to me more personally than almost any film I've ever seen. I could relate to Theodore and his feelings as if I was looking at a past version of myself. The scene where his blind date called him creepy definitely hit home for me. Plus, the film was ahead of its time with the idea of romancing an AI and becoming further disconnected communication wise as a society as we now have AI boyfriend and girlfriend apps while marriage rates and long term relationships are historically at an all time low. Also, Scarlett Johansson who has been trapped by the Disney Marvel machine for years surpasses herself with a pitch perfect voice acting performance as Samantha and creates a complete three dimensional character despite being just a voice on a computer. Her chemistry with Joaquin Phoenix is impeccable and the finale where they have to part ways hit me in the feels so hard in a way that only my favorite films are capable of doing. This is a great movie.
Wolfman Brandon
2024-02-13 13:17:03 +0000 UTCI’ll be honest, if every movie was erased from history except Tampopo (1985), I think we’d be ok. I leave the movie perfectly satisfied, and a second later I think, “Man I can’t wait to watch Tampopo again”. The film about eating ramen literally uses the act of eating a bowl of ramen as a metaphor for experiencing the film itself! It’s the best! Itami gave us a cinematic gift that is funny, sexy, delicious, thrilling, weird, joyful and beautifully bonkers from start to finish.
Jared Angcanan
2024-02-13 08:36:29 +0000 UTCAlien (1979). It's a very simple movie but so effective and you really feel for every character being slowly offed by one of the greatest creatures ever designed! Sure it's not a perfect movie, but it's like a comforting meal when I put it on. I saw it when I was 10 and 17 years later can still say I love it as much as that first watch!
The Trail We Banana
2024-02-13 08:11:34 +0000 UTCDefinitely not my number 1 , it is just too hard to choose... but this is on my top 10 that I haven't seen you talk about... and damn, by now you're probably tired of hearing from it... but I'll choose 1995's Emir Kusturica's Masterpiece "Underground" ... it's just one of those films that I enjoy every scene, every frame of it... sometimes there's a lot going on the screen like animals and people running and playing music and stuff like that, that sometimes reminds me a little bit of Santa Sangre in how it looks... but it's tone is totally different... well, tones... the film can be the funniest film ever and the most tragic at the same time .... but what I love the most is the music... just non stop madness when it comes to the scenes that involves music... just mmmuak *chef's kiss* ... but also the crazy characters and it's political message although mostly foreign to western audiences I find very powerful... but really it's just the energy on screen, surreal visuals and music that make this piece of art one of my all time favorites...
Sutil
2024-02-13 06:02:56 +0000 UTC
