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M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story - 6.5/10. A decent enough film, though it seemed like two different films were clashing with each other. One's a commercialized Bollywood potboiler and one's an authentic rags-to-riches story. It's way, WAYYYY too long (same problem with Bhaag Milkha Bhaag), the CGI in Mahi's teenage days is absolutely terrible (the way they successfully inserted Sushant into the archival footage of Mahi's matches came as a surprise), Dhoni-Sakshi's relationship is underdeveloped and a lot of scenes are redundant. However, the acting is great for the most part (especially Sushant Singh Rajput and Kumud Mishra), the story uplifting and inspirational, the Kharagpur segment is really good and it accurately captures the excitement, frustration and joy Indians feel while watching a cricket match.

La La Land - 10/10. Refer to my review here

I need to rewatch Les diaboliques. Everyone likes it except me. I found it to be mostly boring. The other two Clouzot films I saw were damn good, though.

I haven't seen Mommie Dearest but re: your comment on Scarwid, I recently saw Psycho III where she definitely made an impact as a lapsed nun who might become the cause of Norman Bates's redemption.

Yes it is! Here's a link to Amazon if interested: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Japanese-Tales-Vintage-International-x/dp/0679761071/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498101308&sr=1-1&keywords=Seven+Japanese+Tales

I'll cheat and go with a recent one, Tehran Taboo. I recommend it for fans of rotoscope animation, but also the people who claim to like world or Iranian cinema. If I had a gun to my head I'd say I don't like Iranian cinema on average, and I speak Persian. What westerners (like me, I'm not your magical Iranian here), usually get force-fed via film festivals are either the sanitized by-product of cinema that is allowed to leak out from under religious censorship, resultingly plagued by sappy melodrama and morality themes (Majidi, Makhmalbaf), or the up-their-own-ass pretentious goose eggs of auteurs whose only real goal is to get noticed in Europe (Kiarostami fits this like a glove). It's only very recently that Iranians have earned foreign press for telling realistic stories again, which myopic as you may want to call it is the only kind of filmmaking I have a real interest in. It better tell a fucking story and it better make me part of it. Your Panahis and Farhadis can do this while chipping away at the system in a way Kirostami is on record saying he had no interest in doing. But I can do better than even them.

Tehran Taboo (2017) does that. It's made entirely outside Iran, so yeah it has that luxury. You'll get your sociopolitical commentary, but you'll get it ingenuously. Like, a mother blowing a taxi driver with her son in the back seat ingenuously, and that's the opening scene. Another great one is Fish & Cat (2014), Iran's first 'horror/thriller'. Cinema can't comment on society if it self-censors, or if it ignores the important questions.

Fish & Cat is extremely hard to find, but Tehran Taboo is able for rent on Amazon right now digitally for a few bucks. I got my pre-ordered DVD last week.

I found the songs and the overall film as well to be quite pedestrian.

Although I concede that as an Indian used to Indian musical films, I may not be the best judge of foreign musicals - which, imo, have far too many songs. This might seem like a funny statement to foreigners coming from an Indian, but it's true - since the 70s the number of songs in India films, on average, has steadily gone down.

Parichay (1972) is a Hindi film directed by Gulzar - one of the masters of Hindi cinema, frankly - which is inspired by TSoM and it is in fact quite a restrained interpretation of the story.

Here's the Hindi equivalent of the "Do Re Mi" song from the original - replacing the Indian - replacing it with "Sa Re Ga Ma" which are the notes used in Indian classical musical scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kTeoaSkek

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I don't like it because it attempts to tell a normal story, but does so in such a slow, outrageously prolonged way that I lost interest. In comparison, The Turin Horse is a mood piece with a very loose story, which means that the slow pace fits that one perfectly.

In Satantango, every shot is so damn long that it quickly loses its poetic resonance. You say that it's true to life, but to me it comes across as very artificial, stilted and awkward, even though I live in Eastern Europe and the images in Tarr's films sometimes correspond to reality in rural areas here.

Here's my review of the film. Also check out this FSR article, which is similar to my review, albeit a bit less critical.

I too was an atheist when I saw The Last Temptation of Christ (I've since become agnostic). This is no normal biblical movie though. The film is rife with both blasphemous and dark hallucinogenic imagery; the film was very controversial when it was released. There are even some subtle suggestions in the film that Jesus Christ was suffering from mental illness. At the end of the day the film stimulated me spiritually and emotionally, it has interesting thematic material, a great cast (even David Bowie has a small part as a Roman) profound images and some great on-location sets and scenery. The film is quite violent too but this is Scorsese after all. The film just has this raw quality about it and I love it a lot. It's the second-best film about Jesus Christ after Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' in my mind.

On a seperate note I just made a list with my Scorsese film rankings, it has been fun exploring his work: https://letterboxd.com/klop_gob/list/the-films-of-martin-scorsese-ranked/

Coincidentally I was in the process of solidifying a top 25 Science Fiction Film list the last few days, now that I'm transferring over to Letterboxd. I was going to make a post here, but it seems redundant now.

Here's the list, and here it is with notes, if anyone's interesting in reading them. Feedback appreciated.

Hello and welcome back, my good man! I've seen Kubo and the Two Strings as well. Did you know Matthew McConaughey is in it? Is that not dope or what, brah?

Out of my films last week I'd like to call to attention only one:

• IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Kraftidioten)(Norway, 2014), featuring Stellan Skarsgård. It is a MUST SEE! It's funny, entertaining, thought provoking, hip, and has excellent production design and wardrobe. It very well may be one of my top films of the decade.

I have to give a shout hout to that urban hipster Orsom cat who recommended this joint to me. He's something of my WINGMAN on Scandinavian cinema.

Here's a link: https://letterboxd.com/film/in-order-of-disappearance/

I haven't seen any of those yet. Tbh only the last two interest me since there are so few films made on Russia's role in WWII.

> Why do chess movies always fail?

I guess because for most people, watching chess is even less thrilling than watching golf. Are there many of these out there? The only one I remember now is Knight Moves.

The Asphalt Jungle is my #1 among all heist films. A blaxploitation remake is not something I was expecting, but it might turn out to be time-pass.

Both adaptations of Of Mice and Men - 1939 and 1992 - are equally good. I daresay that Malkovich is not a patch on how truly terrific Lon Chaney jr. is, but Sinise does a better job than Burgess Meredith.

I am going to read Rosemary's Baby soon. I did not think all that much of Polanski's film.

The Stepford Wives went through a lot or reshoots after test audience did not approve of the original ending. Maybe they are also to blame for the stupidity of the final product. Also, if they built that whole town for scratch it must have cost a small fortune.

Of the three Campion films I have seen I liked Holy Smoke the most and even that had narrative and logic problems.

I saw a total of 2 movies last month, I'm not sure if I can list them all. Just too many movies man.

1. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) - 7/10
2. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) - 4 or 5/10

Sure. Literally anything; you can't go wrong. I do think Du Maurier is most accessible through her longer short stories, though, novella-length. There are many collections out there. I'd recommend the two hardbacks from Virago. The Birds and Other Stories, and Don't Look Now and Other Stories. Really nice job they did and acid-free paper.

West wrote both fiction and non-fiction, though she's more famous for the latter. Journalism, biography, memoir, essays. She's best known for Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, a semi-fictionalized historical travelogue through former Yugoslavia just before the second world war. Even if you disagree with her conclusions, none of which she's very firm on, it's a joy to read. The English language is putty in her hands.

This review (https://letterboxd.com/lordcookie/film/extremely-loud-incredibly-close/) describes very well how I feel about the movie.

Tbh, I saw "Forrest Gump" more than 10 years ago and since then, my tastes drastically altered. I'm not sure if I find it as good now as I did back then.

> Are you just against using 9/11 as a backdrop for a film?

Not at all. However, the way it was done here...

My Top 10 for 2017:

1. Call Me by Your Name

2. Blade Runner 2049

3. Phantom Thread

4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

5. The Florida Project

6. The Shape of Water

7. A Ghost Story

8. The Killing of a Scared Deer

9. Good Time

10. Dunkirk

my full list here: https://letterboxd.com/this_is_parsa/list/2017-ranked-best-to-worst/

Full list here

1. A Ghost Story
2. Tehran Taboo
3. I, Tonya
4. The Square
5. The Breadwinner

I gave 37/103 films an 8+.

Still have 20 films on my watchlist from the year.

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I don't dislike Sleepaway Camp as much as you do but yes, it's quite bad and gets so much hype only because of its ending. I loved Cinema Snob's commentary on it, especially his jibes at the creepy mother.

I thought Be Kind Rewind was very funny. All the Sweding scenes were gold.

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I feel the yearning to watch Trainspotting, partly because I want to catch the sequel and also because I burned Danny Boyle's first five films to DVD last week.

My first impression was that it was good but not as harrowing as the novel; they upped the comedy ante too much for my liking. Then again, had they stayed true to the novel through and through, it might have become more arty and less palatable to most audience and not led to the cult following of today.

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Zodiac is a favourite of mine as well.

I am not as enamoured of Chinatown as many others but I like it. There was a pretty interesting remake of it in India, Manorama Six Feet Under (2007) with some extra twists and a modified ending too. Check it out.

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I haven't seen any of those yet but several are in my watchlist.

Sin City is made in exactly the same style as the graphic novels, the first of which incidentally came out the same year as Europa.

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You ought to watch Polanski's Macbeth. It's brutal and visually fantastic also.

I liked Equilibrium when I saw it some years ago but maybe today I will feel differently about it. I started having second thoughts about my first opinion after I saw Film Brain's commentary on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEGy08Cc4wk

Pity about The Beguiled remake. Haven't seen the original yet but it's in my watchlist.

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I doubt you will like Erin Brockovich more than Traffic; it's not a bad film but quite a predictable underdog story. I liked Julia Roberts a lot, however; she got too much flak for her Oscar win.

I have an Uncle Rico t-shirt so I'm voting ND.

https://www.amazon.com/Napoleon-Dynamite-Uncle-Graphic-T-Shirt/dp/B01MY9AJDH

Also have the mini illustrated Napoleon Dynamite: How to Improve Your Skills So You Don't Look Like an Idiot

https://www.amazon.com/Napoleon-Dynamite-Improve-Skills-Idiot/dp/0740767895

ND is another one of those films that usually doesn't click on the first viewing.

Dr. Strangelove, however, is fierce competition.

As I said in the other thread, I think 2017 was great and generated more +8's than maybe any other year in the decade for me. Only 2014 would compete.

But the big reason why is I saw more films that year than other years, so it's a guess at best.

Don't misunderstand, though, I hated so many 2017 films. There was wheat but there was also chaff, and then chaff with birdshit on it.

Year ratings

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Maybe my views on Stiles's performance were negatively coloured by how awful the overall film was. Let's agree to disagree upon it for now.

I'll definitely check out Shakespeare Uncovered sometime.

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Hi Galactus.

Haven't seen any of those.

I might watch xXx sequel just for completism's sake, I have seen the first two films.

Man in the Wilderness (1971) is the first film based on Hugh Glass. I am waiting to acquire that so I might watch both together.

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I hated House of 1000 Corpses. The Devil's Rejects was slightly better because of William Forsythe's awesomery. Neither film is anywhere as entertaining as the grindhouse cheapies of the 70s it aims to emulate.

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Don't forget Willem Dafoe. He had a reputation for freaky and scary long before Cage. And he is far more effective at it than Cage can even dream of.

Schrader's best is long past him. He was doing fine till the late 90s but there is not much point in pursuing his recent filmography. Forget DED, take a look at The Canyons, the Brett Easton Ellis-penned film he did which exists solely to showcase Lindsay Lohan and James Deen's assets. Embarrassing to say the least.

Christine is a decent, workmanlike job from Carpenter. The actors were super-annoying, though. Do check out King's novel; it's not among his best works but it can be a decent read if you're able to swallow some major league insanity. > Nice try Rain Wilson, but you're not Jack Black.

In all honesty, who wants to even be him? I felt like cheering when he got machine-gunned in The Jackal.

I have seen both theatrical and extended cuts of Kingdom of Heaven and I did not like it even then. The story is full of illogic, contrivances, hammerhead symbolism etc. Plus the usual Hollywood liberal trap of Muslim appeasement by portraying Christians to be almost barbarian in their fanaticism and Muslims as noble humanitarians. I guess US needs ten more WTC-level attacks to get the point through.

I am restarting my truncated Stephen King reading quest in October. After that I have promised myself that I'll proceed with Michael Crichton and finish his bibliography once and for all. Then I will see what Rising Sun has in store.

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I will concede that there are certain similarities between the two films. However, I am also firm on the coincidental factor.

The success of The Boss Baby surprised me. I knew nothing of the story then and I still don't. Going only by the poster, it looked something similar to that Nine Lives movie where Kevin Spacey turns into a cat.

That's weird. Why don't you try messaging him on his Letterboxd and ask where it can be purchased in the UK? This seems to be his profile.

You're both from Wales (I think I read that about him), maybe he can accomodate.

Merry Christmas!

I need to get around the James Bond films. I've seen only Casino Royale (2006) and Skyfall.

Also need to check out The Hateful Eight and The Lobster.

I loved The Last Jedi. It's easily my third favourite Star Wars film. Here's my review.

Hey Ibuk. Nice to see you back as the host.

I watched only one film this week, and that was Cars 3, which also acted as the concluding film to my Pixarathon. I thought that it was surprisingly good and I would give it 7.5/10. Here's my full review/write-up.

My Top 400: https://letterboxd.com/klop_gob/list/my-top-400-favourite-horror-films/

My Top 10:

1. Alien (1979)
2. The Shining (1980)
3. The Wicker Man (1973)
4. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
5. The Thing (1982)
6. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
7. Onibaba (1964)
8. Kwaidan (1964)
9. Antichrist (2009)
10. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

> Also, is The Neon Demon really more of an vampire flick than Planet?

It is deliberately ambiguous, and certainly metaphorical more than anything. There is a fixation with blood, though. I guess you've got to grant a lot of leeway with horror subgenres in general.

It's great that people still love the original Nosferatu, but I don't feel like sitting through it again. It was fun enough to revisit in the context of Shadow of the Vampire, if you know what I mean.

I did some thumbnail write-ups of these if you were interested. It's missing Afflicted, though.

My list of anime I've seen

The first 40-45 from it are highly recommended. Keep in note some of the films are sequels or recaps of their corresponding series.

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Haven't seen any of those yet.

However, I did finish my Hal Ashby collection recently, so I am looking forward to seeing them in the future. I have the highest expectations from Bound for Glory (1976).

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I only knew of the 80s parody movie of Dragnet. Did not know a straight movie also existed.

Want to see The Electric Horseman someday just for that lighted electric suit.

I like Guy Ritchie's first two films but using the same style in different settings is a bad move. his former producing partner Matthew Vaughn also seems to have fallen into the same trap.

Welcome!

Yes, it's a great overlooked western. It's based on a Elmore Leonard short story, back when he was writing westerns and not the crime comedies that he later became famous for.

Ford's casting was against type because he usually played good guys. It turned out to be a good decision.

I haven't seen him in many films but Fritz Lang's The Big Heat is a spectacularly entertaining film. It's a prototype for all the "rogue cop goes against a crime syndicate" films that followed. Ford is very credible as the tough cop here and the standout performance comes from the villain Lee Marvin.

The remake of 3:10 to Yuma has its fans but I thought it was overblown crap. Although I do concede that Bale was very good as the rancher in debt. He portrayed the right amount of vulnerability, world-weariness and determination that needed to show. So maybe if you are a die-hard completist fan, check it out.

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So far I have only seen the feature film adaptations of Hamlet. I might watch the filmed plays sometime later on. The Richard Burton version is available on Youtube, I believe.

I am afraid I am no fan of Kill Bill films - or Tarantino for that matter - but I am curious about Lady Snowblood.

Sorry for the call-out included here, but there are also cases like this, who hate on the film almost out of sheer principle of hating anything mainstream or Hollywood: https://rateyourmusic.com/~sargassum_cinereum Makes you wonder why they watched the film, if they even bothered to watch it at all.

Lots of Indian films but you won't be interested in most of them.

Chakra: 9/10. Excellent depiction of slum life. 95 votes.

Mandi: 9/10. Bittersweet black comedy about the occupants of a brothel. 514 votes.

I might be flamed for this but I prefer it over Jaws 3-D.

Both are awful films, but Revenge has a few extra things going for it.

First: Michael Caine. He just oozes coolness and self-assuredness from every pore which is probably why even sea water does not wet his shirt.

Second: The little girl played by Judith Barsi. She was very cute, had a little brattiness in her but not too much that it would make her unbearable. She might have had a long career had there not been the tragedy that befell her soon after. It's the kind of thing that is enough to make you ask whether there is any higher power above us. May she R.I.P.

Third: The general weirdness around. The premise is outlandish enough on its own. Then there is the strange sadomasochistic lust between the elder Brody son and his nubile wife who are both apparently turned on by... welding torches? The psychic contact between Ellen Brody and shark is yet another. I am sure I am missing out on some. Oh yes, there is already blood in the water before the shark attacks the younger Brody son. I guess people just start spontaneously bleeding when the shark is around, even if they are unaware of its presence.

Eraserhead gets better with each viewing.

I haven't seen any others but several are in my watchlist. I'll probably get to Das Boot first.

If you liked Sholay you might want to give China Gate a go.

Both films are inspired by Seven Samurai. However, Sholay is very much a typical Bollywood film, a mish-mash of action, melodrama, comic relief and romance. China Gate is much more focussed on the central story without superfluous subplots. It also has a stellar cast of character actors and not stars. Some recognizable names in the cast include Om Puri, Amrish Puri and Naseeruddin Shah.

I need to watch Lean on Me in Avildsen's memory. What happened to the dedicated teacher subgenre? In the 80s and 90s it was popular but has all but disappeared now. Or is it?

Can't agree on that, man. An agency that officially does not exist. A subway action scene which is essentially the same as MIB II. Even more elements which I cannot remember now.

I hated One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It didn't move me at all. But it needs a rewatch.

Okay.

I was rather indifferent to Raging Bull for the first two acts. I was like, "well, not bad but I don't see what most people rave about. Doesn't look all that different from most boxing movies." But then it moved into LaMotta's retirement phase and that was what the movie had saved its best for. That scene where he reconciles (sort of) with Joey... I had a lump in my throat.

The Maltese Falcon is a good example of textbook detective work. I don't find it very rewatchable because the story is not very interesting and I did not care enough for Spade's relationship with Brigid O'Shaughnessy to get all choked up about their outcome.

There is a 1931 version also which is decent fun on its own and the portrayal of Spade is in fact slightly closer to its novel counterpart.

Cyborg is dumb disposable fun. I love the scene where Van Damme takes down bad guys in the sewer while doing splits. Albert Pyun's best film, however, is Nemesis: an all-out bonkers action extravaganza that combines Blade Runner and Hong Kong gun fu flicks.

Dear Zindagi looks like a typically vacuous yuppie film that has no connection to reality outside the 0.0000002% of India's population.

There Will Be Blood looks rather comical to me. Day-Lewis is in the ruddy-faced shouty mode again after Gangs of New York. I have been wanting to use the "DRAIINAAAGE!" line whenever there is plumbing work scheduled in my house.

Baahubali 2 should have been subtitled The Concussion. But then again, most Indians are shitheads anyway so a concussion would not matter.

Suspiria (1977) is pretty cool for its colours, score and atmosphere but the story could have used more fine-tuning. After reading this piece I am actually looking forward to the remake: http://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3428851/okay-suspiria-remake-wont-colorful/

Fantastic Mr. Fox is OK for one watch but not as memorable or streamlined as the Roald Dahl novel. The main problem with it is that it is never clear if the humans understand that animals are more sentient than they believe or not. It's strange and not in a good way.

Till date, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is the best adaptation of a Roald Dahl work. The changes Dahl made to the novel (the entire Arthur Slugworth subplot) work for the better. In the novel, Charlie simply strolls through the factory and is rewarded for his obedience and compliance, which means Wonka merely wants a puppet. In the film, he does think for himself and showcases his honesty too.

If you ask me what's the second best Dahl adaptation, I would say Matilda.

White Lightning looks like fun. That will probably be next for me.

Haven't seen any of yours but thinking about downloading Cross of Iron next.

Halloween is a total boss film. Needs a rewatch. The blu-ray release has seemingly deleted the scene where a committee tells Loomis that Michael is to be transferred to a minimum security institution till he turns 18.

> Have you seen Death Takes a Holiday (1934)? Supposedly it was remade as Meet Joe Black (1998).

I am unfamiliar with both those movies. Are either of them good?

I am a big fan of Born on the Fourth of July too. Probably the best acting Tom Cruise ever did. Check out Coming Home also, another film inspired by Kovic.

Evil Dead II is more or less a remake of the first film but Army of Darkness is quite different in story and tone.

I like early van Sant a lot - Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho are big favourites of mine.

Dark Star is almost a masterpiece, it is so thoroughly entertaining. So many great moments and scenes here: the diary entries, the philosophical discussion with the bomb, the ending... it's unforgettable to say the least. Carpenter may have made better films later but he never made something so far out there.

I haven't seen Unforgiven yet. It is said to be the ultimate anti-western to end all anti-westerns. if that is so, I need to watch at least a few earlier anti-westerns that started the trend, including the first western Eastwood directed, High Plains Drifter. So far I have seen The Wild Bunch but that's about it.

Haven't seen All About Eve, either. In fact I haven't seen a single Bette Davis vehicle. I am planning on watching Pocketful of Miracles, though.

I haven't seen any of those yet but the first four are in my watchlist. In fact I am planning on watching Deathtrap soon since Levin wrote the original play.

I just could not see anything remotely resembling good acting in TBfB. It was just put-on-accents and overacting and shouting. The last act was sluggish like molasses.

Heat was good but rather overlong I thought. The serial killer subplot wasn't necessary. I don't remember a lot from it though, so it needs a rewatch.

Despite watching most other slashers from that decade I somehow missed Prom Night. Maybe I will get around to it someday.

If you want to read Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep which was the first Philip Marlowe novel, I can mail it to you. It is an absolute must-read. The dialogue alone is incredible.

If you want to see a good ripoff of IHON, I would suggest Chori Chori. Honestly, how can Aamir and Half-comatose Pooja Bhatt compare with the divine pair of Raj Kapoor and Nargis?

I am afraid I will have to pass - I already have several films on my schedule and a number of them will certainly turn out to be bad. I am watching A Kiss Before Dying (1991) (in short bursts) these days and so far it has been gaggingly terrible.

But good luck for your clubbing endeavour!

I was surprised when I liked Umberto D. more than the more popular Bicycle Thieves. I also liked After the Fox which I saw mainly for Sellers and Neil Simon but de Sica did a good job there in a different genre.

The Indian film Do Bigha Zamin/Two Acres of land was inspired by Bicycle Thieves and neorealist movement. I watched it recently and it has remained as powerful as it was when I saw it in my childhood.

May I ask what your IMDb username was/is?

I haven't seen any of those yet but Van Helsing and Deadpool looks positively dreadful to me.

I was commenting on the more standard taste of youngsters nowadays in summertime: watching giant metal dildos hurling themselves at each other mid-air at top speed. If there are teens who can appreciate a more deliberately paced film, it's good to know.

Haven't seen any of those titles yet. I am curious only about Captain Fantastic because I read somewhere that it was a rare indie that did decent business in theatres.

DVDs in general are getting rarer and expensive, so I do value all the physical I have, since I prefer it. I have some rare ones I doubt many others would appreciate, a few director's cuts, I'm sure we all do.

I don't do much in the way of collectibles. There's my Criterions, ~90 of them including box sets. A few other box sets. My Heather's locker, which came with a T-shirt and magnets, and the DVD. That's about it apart from the ordinary.

The Garden is on my watchlist. I'm strongly considering getting this newly released Blu-Ray box set of his work: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Derek-Jarman-One-Limited-Blu-ray/dp/B076M46LKS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524567255&sr=8-1&keywords=derek+jarman

Yeah "other means" lol. I couldn't wait any longer. The film is only available on Blu-Ray in France I believe.

Here's the product page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voyage-time-Blu-ray-FR/dp/B0717B7HHN/ref=sr_1_1_twi_blu_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521559976&sr=8-1&keywords=voyage+of+time

EDIT: Looks like it's available in Germany as well, you could import it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voyage-of-Time-BD/dp/B0784ZTWQP/ref=pd_cp_74_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6N4F1329FASP9GYX9DKG

No, I've not seen that, and after going through his credits, I just realized that The Man Who Knew Infinity is the first anything I've seen him in which is pretty crazy considering how much his name is constantly being tossed around.

In many cases I can certainly agree. The obvious comparison here might be the Frost/Nixon interviews, which were arranged around promotion of Nixon's memoirs just like these people were promoting their book or film. Nixon didn't deserve a pass from Frost simply because his questions went against the intentions of their agents who set up the interview, and historically-speaking it's damn good Frost broke the rules.

But if anyone made the claim that should apply to every celebrity, that's a problem. Maybe if someone really, truly, believed and had compelling evidence that Tarantino's films have led to an increase in real-world violence somewhere, they might feel obligated to treat him as a hostile interview - but I'm not buying it. It's a much shorter interview than Nixon's, it's only being shown on one show on one channel as an entertainment spot that routinely calls people on to plug their creative projects, and even Frost didn't just keep asking the same question eleven times until their time ran out.

I guess it comes down to how much the audience wants to see your subject squirm. I would have rather heard about insights into the film or Richard's book, which I'm interested to read now and looks like it might even comment on his behavior in the interview.

Yeah, I've seen better likenesses of Russell on the same toy, I think the particular one I bought is kinda middle of the road. The same Groot comes with Baby Groot and the little dancing seedling from the first movie, but both of those are so tiny I just like the full-grown one better, and Rocket comes with yet another Baby Groot in Ravager uniform...

And I wish! I actually checked Amazon for the Keaton Batman and it's like 200 fucking dollars for some reason...: https://www.amazon.ca/Neca-Batman-Figure-Michael-Version/dp/B00BJAGP90/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys&ie=UTF8&qid=1504477982&sr=1-2&keywords=batman+1989+neca

> https://www.amazon.com/Terrence-Malick-Rehearsing-Carlo-Hintermann/dp/0571234569/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1486820563&sr=8-1

That book sounds very interesting. Does it elaborate much on Malick's 20 year gap between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line? I always wondered why it took so long for Malick to make another film. I know he spent a lot of his time in France, worked on numerous screenplays and didn't completely isolate himself from the business, but it still fascinates me.