A very early preview! I've got tix - for 22 AugustOnce Upon a Time...in Hollywood. Worth seeing but I'd rather watch Basterds, Pulp or Jackie Browne another five times each before seeing it again.
HMmmm, I thought it went very stupid towards the end, almost like a bad black comedy. Cept it wasn’t.for those that like a tripped out thriller, I really enjoyed 'the perfection' on netflix.
Where did you catch this STC?
I am reading and hearing good things about The Nightingale scotty, have you seen that by any chance?
Yes, enough with the incessant superhero nonsense and endless Transformer sequels.
Korean films are the best! I like these classics:
Memories of Murder (provincial Korean cops trying to solve serial killer mystery - allegory of Korean politics of the 70s)
The Chaser (relentless minder for hookers tries to rescue one from a relentless serial killer of hookers)
Yellow Sea (Korean gangster makes enemy of the boss - violence ensues)
Bittersweet Life (Korean gangster makes enemy of the boss etc etc)
Old Boy (of course, the most accessible of the Vengeance trilogy)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (more arthouse-y than Old Boy)
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (even more arthouse-y)
Super arthouse but great, anything by Kim Ki-Duc - Samaria, 3-Iron, Winter Spring Summer Fall etc etc.
...if you haven't seen it yet check out Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog - fabulous cop movie. Existential, beautifully shot and directed and think it was the first flick to use hidden cams in black markets post atom bomb.
Hidden Fortress what a classic fairytale...also fabulous Red Beard, Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune - clear leader on my all time heroes ladder) and the beautiful and stunning Dersu Uzala. EnjoyThanks Glantone - I've seen Ran, Hidden Fortress, Rashomon and Seven Samurai of course... will check out Stray Dog.
Yeah I'm a real fan. It took a bit to culturally adjust to Japanese or his cinematic story telling sensibilities but once reoreintated holy *smile* what amazing stories. And his sense of composition ... like watching moving post cards. And he always addressed the big issues - life, death, responsibility, honour. What a joy....Kagemusha is meant to be great, one of Kurosawa's late works. Apparently Sergio Leone copied it almost frame by frame for a Fistful of Dollars. So Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven, Hidden Fortress influenced Star Wars... Kurosawa was so influential.
Kagemusha is meant to be great, one of Kurosawa's late works. Apparently Sergio Leone copied it almost frame by frame for a Fistful of Dollars. So Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven, Hidden Fortress influenced Star Wars... Kurosawa was so influential.
A Fistful of Dollars was a copy of Yojimbo. If you want a different side of Kurosawa watch Ikiru.
Saw it last night. Tarantino created a sensational version of 1969. Music was evocative of a simpler time and the ending was brilliant. (Stay till the end of the credits.)Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood. Worth seeing but I'd rather watch Basterds, Pulp or Jackie Browne another five times each before seeing it again.
Agree.Tarantino’s latest is assured but too self-indulgent for mine. Even the violence in the last 20min misses the bar for ‘comedic violence’ set by American Psycho.
Not a patch on earlier, cooler Tarantino