What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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These are movies meant to entertain not a movie to see who wins the next Nobel peace prize. What would a vampire movie be without the blood sucking vampire killer who must be destroyed in the end.
Give the people what they want lol. Who would see it otherwise.
Finally watched it yesterday and i have mixed feelings about it, first half was really good, the gothic ambiance worked really well and the rythm and photography were really great.
At some point, it didn't flow as well.
It would have been a great movie in 90/100 minutes, a 2h and somthing flick is a bit too long.
Overall good movie but not on top of my list
Still need to watch Heretic, A24 productions are always interesting and, at least different from the rest.
Also watched AD vitam on Netflix, very watchable, not the best Canet but good entertainment.
didn't know there was another version. i know than "let me in" is a remake of "Let the right one in" but not speak no evil, do you have the original title i'm curious?
From what comes out these days in theatres it's pretty decent. Nothing else playing remotely interests me.
quite right! But the beauty of movies is there a gazillion older movies that i haven't watched so i don't feel the need to only focus on new releases
It's speak no evil as well (or at least something similar). The original let the right one in was so much better than the remake, I had forgotten about that movie I want to watch it again
Watched it this week, mixed feelings as well.
I really want to like Robert Eggers' films ... they're very stylish, artsy, inventive, original, and incredibly atmospheric, and their look is unmistakably his own, but they can also be quite lugubrious.
Familiar genre elements (especially if you've seen the '22 Murnau) really help tie-down the plotting of this one to something tangible, otherwise his films for me tend to fly off into the ether.
He's really working at the level of myth rather than character, though Lily-Rose Depp is quite good as the beautiful object of desire.
Undeniably, in his favour generally, is to be able to rescue the discomforting, strangeness & disgustingly horrific in folkloric tales that have otherwise become overly familiar to us. And he certainly accomplishes that here ....
Apparently he's got a werewolf film planned for 2026 ...
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apparently he is going through the whole Universal bestiary
Which is exactly what Hammer had done! Some have wondered why Hammer rarely if ever dipped into uniquely English folkloric traditions ... but almost everything, I think, came via the monsters established by Universal in the '30s.apparently he is going through the whole Universal bestiary
The 2025 Oscar nominations:
The "video Club" section on the Konbini channel is the most interesting part of the channel, it's shot in one of the last video club in Paris. Lots of French actors/directors of course, but sometimes you also have directors from other country, usually when they're promoting their new movies. Always fascinated by their passion. Christopher Nolan also went there.
Never heard of a radio station but the fact that i'm not listening to radio probably doesn't help
Maybe the name is used by different medias
Here's the link for the Video Club section
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Here's another strange one The Damned by Thordur Palsson, an icelandic director (movie is in English and most actors are from Great Britain except the lead actress)
It's a 6.0 on IMDB and it's usually not a good sign for a movie but, to be honest, it deserves probably a little bit more than that.
It's a very cold movie in every sense of the word, a bit contemplative as well and probably a bit too slow.
The mood is set very early but there's not much happening but it's not that big of a problem since it's not a very long movie.
So it's the opposite of Nosferatu, not too long but a bit too uneventful.
I think the harsh notation could be explained by the ending which could be a bit confusing/disappointing.
Anyway, it's a nice movie if you have an hour and a half to spare and enjoy movies with an ambiance, i would still recommend it.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4684113/?ref_=ls_t_36
Amazingly, a new one just dropped with a certain Montrealer ... references the importance of La Boite Noire at the start:
Finally took the time to watch it yesterday and it's very good, Hugh Grant is uber impressive, didn't know he could play those kind of roles.
The connection with "Martyrs" is pretty obvious at least in the story even if Martyrs was more provocative and clearly more disturbing.
But great idea, great movie, it leads to a lot of different interpretations and reflexions around faith and religion.
i recommend it too like the Doc
Very interesting interview indeed, few (not really useful) takeaways from this.
I wasn't familiar with the guy and realized i already watched 3 of his 4 films.... i'm getting old.
For some reasons i don't particularly think he's a nice guy
His knowledge of eastern europe old obscure movies is super impressive
He's one of the first cinephile directors who doesn't seem to have any interest in French cinema, especially Nouvelle vague.
He's a very interesting guy to listen to.
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