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
What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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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.
If we are talking to recent times then i would love to say the name > John Wick: Chapter 4
This is my favorite movie off all time! Really I love this move like Titanic, Avatar, or Train to Busan..
This is my favorite movie off all time! Really I love this move like Titanic, Avatar, or Train to Busan..
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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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.
Hey, glad you liked it!
According to Wiki, they only positively identified the guy in 2019, many years after the making of the movie, when he was already serving a life sentence for the rape & murder of his sister-in-law. I'm not sure, now that you mention it, but I thought it was implied by the present-day post-script that this very localized series of murders had stopped and remained a mystery.
It does seem similar to the Zodiac serial killings that also ended quite frustratingly for investigators in that the guy was never caught, the prime suspect dying many years later, but positively ID'd through DNA, as I recall. Some even think the Zodiac killer was two people ...
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So yesterday was a complicated movie day #1stworldproblems
I started watching Kalki 2898 and stopped after 20 minutes wasn't super convinced by the actors or the story, it's an interesting effort in terms of sci fi but it didn't really worked for me.
I then switched to Emilia Perez cause evereybody's talking about it and it seems the mexicans are super pissed by the movie. Thing is i didn't know it's a musical and i so hate musicals, so agin, dropped the movie after 20 minutes.
And the i watched Hunt a Korean movie sets in the 80's that tackles different topics of the time check this section of wikipedia that explained the background.
I wished i had checked the articles before cause it gives you some background cause the movie tend to assume you're familiar with that portion of South Korean history and i wasn't.
The movie is pretty good, rythm is fast especially since i was lacking the necessary background but there are a lot of interesting twists that i didn't see coming
I would definitely recommend Hunt
I don't hate musicals but found myself really disliking Emila Perez, which surprised me, as I pretty much love everything else by its director, Jacques Audiard. He specializes in gritty, street-level realism; whereas musicals, for me, need a heightened level of visual artifice to match the inherent unreality of people breaking into song. So this just didn't work for me ....View attachment 87486View attachment 87487View attachment 87488
So yesterday was a complicated movie day #1stworldproblems
I started watching Kalki 2898 and stopped after 20 minutes wasn't super convinced by the actors or the story, it's an interesting effort in terms of sci fi but it didn't really worked for me.
I then switched to Emilia Perez cause evereybody's talking about it and it seems the mexicans are super pissed by the movie. Thing is i didn't know it's a musical and i so hate musicals, so agin, dropped the movie after 20 minutes.
And the i watched Hunt a Korean movie sets in the 80's that tackles different topics of the time check this section of wikipedia that explained the background.
I wished i had checked the articles before cause it gives you some background cause the movie tend to assume you're familiar with that portion of South Korean history and i wasn't.
The movie is pretty good, rythm is fast especially since i was lacking the necessary background but there are a lot of interesting twists that i didn't see coming
I would definitely recommend Hunt
I wasn't aware of the others, but if you're interested in espionage, though it's more drama/suspense than action, I highly recommend the recent-ish HBO-style French series 'Le Bureau des légendes,' aka The Bureau on English streaming services. Great writing, amazing cast, very contemporary ... but probably you're already aware of it.
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Thanks, as a matter of fact i mentioned this tv show in another thread, i missed it after i left France and rediscovered it recently since it's easier to find now because of the US remake "the Agency" (exact same story). It's an exceptional TV show in my opinion and the ending disturbed me a lot, funny story the last episodes were written end some even directed by Jacques Audiard who was much more inspired clearly.
I know you mentioned "les revenants" in an earlier post and it's also a very good show, much better in my opinion than the movie that came before (same title)
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