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The Fountain, Magnolia, Double Indemnity, Star Wars, Do The Right Thing, Paddington 2, It's Such A Beautiful Day, The Act of Killing, The Truman Show
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WriterAndrew started following Make Way for Tomorrow, Top Conversation Scenes In Film, Spiritually Significant Films from Female Directors and 6 others
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Top Conversation Scenes In Film
WriterAndrew replied to J.A.A. Purves's topic in Film Awards, Festivals, & Lists
How has nobody mentioned Heat yet? -
2020 Top 100 -- Discussion and Blurbs
WriterAndrew replied to kenmorefield's topic in A&F Top 100 2020
I'd like to write about The Work and Magnolia if those are available. -
Cloud Atlas is one of those films that has improved for me on repeat viewings, as have both the Matrix sequels (I'm now firmly of the opinion that the Wachowskis have never made a truly bad film, only good or great ones). I'm prepared to lobby for both Cloud Atlas and The Matrix Revolutions as "spiritually significant" should the time ever come to hold a qualitative vote.
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Can you set it so it's not required for us to vote in every tie?
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Are you telling me you wouldn't watch 2 hours of this?
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I couldn't find a thread on this masterpiece, so I figured I'd start one. I recently went through all of Miller's filmography, and I found myself blown away by this movie, which I had almost entirely forgotten ever since 11-year-old me had dismissed it as being "worse than the original." From my musings on Letterboxd: Am I crazy for thinking this is even better than Fury Road? Not only does it boast that film's degree of editing and camera craft, it does it all with animal actors, which strikes me as perhaps even more impressive. And while it lacks the original's warmth, it f
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I enjoyed this show, mainly because it's nice to see a big-budget franchise component that isn't afraid of going for long periods of time without dialogue. Also, I found myself really liking the episodic, "adventure-of-the-week" structure. While I like the more serialized, "prestige tv" style of storytelling, there's just so much content out there nowadays that it's nice to have something fun I can watch for 40 minutes without thinking about "how it all connects together" or "how it builds on previous storylines and lore." My main misgiving is that, like most of what Disney has done with
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I watched it today, mainly because I had seen a few people (such as yourself) who were excited by the trailers and I wanted something "unstressful" to watch on a Saturday. Aside from a few jokes I thought were pretty clever, and some sequences that I thought were well-crafted from an animation perspective, I found it rather grating. That's mainly because I wanted more of a traditional Scooby-Doo romp, and the film is more of a broader Hanna-Barbera adventure, which I guess I would have realized if I had paid closer attention to the trailers. If you don't mind that, and you're in the mood
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My +1 is Cloud Atlas (2012)
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Top 100 Recommendations and Lobbying
WriterAndrew replied to kenmorefield's topic in A&F Top 100 2020
My nominations, in alphabetical order, plus some comments on a few that I think are worth more serious consideration than I anticipate they will likely be given otherwise: The Act of Killing (2012) A Hidden Life (2019) A Man For All Seasons (1966) Apocalypse Now (1979) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) -- I think this film is a quite a beautiful allegory for how the new generation should respond to climate change, with a lot of emphasis on cross-generational forgiveness and understanding. It's one of the best modern examples of magical realism out there. Bicycle Thieves (1948) -
I liked it overall, but I didn't find the ending as compelling as the first half. It felt to me like it was building towards something transcendent that it didn't quite reach.
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List submitted. There's definitely some recency bias, simply because I might be younger than a lot of people on this forum, and because I was hesitant to nominate films that I don't have a particularly strong memory of, even if I vaguely recall them being "spiritually significant" to me at the time. My breakdown by decade: 1930s – 2 1940s – 2 1960s – 2 1970s – 1 1980s - 3 1990s – 4 2000s – 2 2010s - 9
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I finally got around to watching this the other night after hearing about it for years from @Gareth Higgins. Wow. What a stunning and beautiful film. When it ended, my girlfriend was in tears of sorrow and anger at how Bark and Lucy's children treated them and the fact that they would likely never see each other again. I was in tears because of the fullness of their love and the desire that I, too, might live a full life. I'm not sure I've ever seen a film that feels both ice cold and incredibly warm at the same time, at least not to this extent.