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Johnny test

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I went to see Nosferatu a few days ago and I was pretty impressed, I assumed that it was a remake of the 70s one directed by Werner Herzog (which is still my favorite adaptation), but it was a remake of the 1920's film.
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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
 
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This past weekend i watched three new movies that i enjoyed very much: Heretic, Speak No Evil & Ad Vitam.

Heretic (2024)
Horror/thriller starring Hugh Grant. Kindly old man who lets two young missionary girls looking to inform & recruit new members in their church (Mormons) discover that he’s not as normal & kind as he appears to be. I really enjoyed this movie. I give it 4/5 stars & recommemd it.

Speak No Evil (2024)
Psychological/thriller/horror movie starring James McVavoy as a charmimgly eccentric family man who invites a family he meets during an italian vacation to spend a few days with his own family with them in England. Soon after arriving the American couple realize that the longer they stay the more likely their lives will become a nightmare. Loved it! I give it 4/5 stars. By the way it’s a remake of a Danish movie from 2022 that has the same name. I recommend it!

Ad Vitam (2025)
This movie surprised me at how much i enjoyed it! It’s a French action thriller directed by Rodolphe Lauga & starring Guillaume Canet. It’s a movie that begins with a man & pregnant woman being attacked by a special forces-type team im regards to something that the main character may have done in his past while working for such a team. The movie has many flashbacks which explain how things got to be how they are in the present. Tons of action, loved the story, i love french movies so this one made my day! Very well made & i recommend it. I give it 4/5 stars. I’d definitely watch it again!
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.
 

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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
From what comes out these days in theatres it's pretty decent. Nothing else playing remotely interests me.
 

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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?
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
 
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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
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.
 

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Robert Eggers goes to a cult-movie video store ....

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.
 

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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.

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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.
Amazingly, a new one just dropped with a certain Montrealer ... references the importance of La Boite Noire at the start:

 

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Heretic (2024)
Horror/thriller starring Hugh Grant. Kindly old man who lets two young missionary girls looking to inform & recruit new members in their church (Mormons) discover that he’s not as normal & kind as he appears to be. I really enjoyed this movie. I give it 4/5 stars & recommemd it.
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 :)
 
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Robert Eggers goes to a cult-movie video store ....

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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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.
Artsy types can be among the most obtuse, self-involved & obnoxious people you'll ever meet. But mostly he just seems obsessed with his art. Laser-focused, especially on an amalgam of folk traditions and horror. Nevertheless, he's far more interesting than Nolan, Villeneuve and even Cronenberg, who all mostly stick to rather obvious stuff in their talks.

For esoteric French horror, I think of Jean Epstein's silent classic, La chute de la maison Usher ... plus any number of soft-core but oddly poetic Jean Rollin films from the 1970s, especislly La rose de fer ... and Season 1 of Les revenants.

Recently ... rewatched PCW's Stoker, maybe not his best but still pretty good ... saw a 35 mm screening of Heat in Dolby Surround, which was just incredible, maybe the greatest crime film of all time ... and caught up with the new Mike Leigh movie, Hard Truths, which is grimly funny but undeniably moving, like much of his work.
 
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Yeah, for sure! Lee, Park and Bong ... the holy triumverate of South Korean cinema.

I first saw Memories of Murder as a blind walk-in twenty years ago at Fantasia. Knew nothing about it. But it blew me away. Still does. It was at Cinema Moderne here in Montreal for several screenings at around the time of its Criterion double-disc release a few years back. Also played Parc recently.

I'm absolutely convinced Fincher was using the Bong film as inspiration for his equally great Zodiac, which was made a couple of years afterwards. Not just in the similarity of real-life subject matter. But in the psychologically damaging, obsessive effect suffered by characters attempting to find a serial killer who ultimately remains elusive.

To this end, both films are very philosophical in that they leave the viewer pondering just what it is we think we know, and not just about the serial killer of each film, but about anything, ourselves included.

I guess at some level all knowledge is provisional ...

And that epilogue, so hauntingly beautiful in all its ambiguity ...

I finally watched this movie last night. I enjoyed it very much but not a fan of the ambiguity at the ending. Then i read that the movie was based on a true story of South Korea’s first serial killer investigation. So thinking of the movie this morning i wondered why there was no mention of whether or not the murders continued? Anyways the two first cops investigating the case were so infuriating at times with their blatant incompetence & especially their arrogance. And how corrupt they could be in order to pin the case on their main suspect(s) in order to close the case & get credit for finding the serial killer. Anyways i’m glad i found this movie & have this site to thank for or else i never would have heard or seen this.
 
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