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I'm sure I'll love it though, it seems like my kind of movie!

Thanks for the recommendations! I only heard of The Lady Eve and Titanic before.

Cool, I loved her in this film, I have to check more of her work out!

You know, I think I agree with a lot of this. And I do think that things get a little rougher, our films will reflect a lot of changes. Take post-World War II cinema in Japan for example, I study Japanese films a lot, and although there are great things going on today, and great things that...

Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder - 10/10 Wow, I love all of these film noir masterpieces. I like how the film is always suspenseful and interesting, even though we know the outcome right from the beginning of the film. As with the best of noir, there are a lot of amazing lines in the...

Thanks for the recommendation! I heard about the sequel but didn't know whether or not to watch it. I'll make sure to give it a watch whenever I can! Pom Pom directed by Joe Cheung; produced by Sammo Hung - 5/10 This is a silly Hong Kong broad comedy film in the vein of the Lucky Stars series...

Yeah, I think there are different kinds of films that appeal to larger audiences. I don't think this means that they are necessarily 'better' though. I watched Vivacious Lady starring James Stewart and Ginger Rogers for a course on marriage films that I took. I didn't think it was a great...

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I'll check both of these films out. I'm very interested in George Stevens' work after seeing one of his films! I'm not much of a Ron Howard fan, but I'll check out The Missing if it has a similar story to The Searchers. I tend to like the originals best but I also like seeing reimaginings...

Haha, yeah I remember you mentioned it once. I respect your opinion on this film as long as you don't try to make unsupported claims about it (like exaggerating/misreading the racist element of the film, or completely ignoring the fact that Ethan Edwards was not the real hero of the film). And I...

Guys, I think it's just that not all films (or types of films) appeal to all people. sfoster also really hated Tokyo Story and Late Spring, and those two are my favorite films of all-time (with Ozu being my favorite director, and I never find his best works boring!). He also gave Ugetsu, a 3/5...

Kids directed by Larry Clark; written by Harmony Korine - 7/10 This is one of those kind of films that's not my cup of tea, it's gritty, it's 'realistic' (although not really), it's raw, and it is controversial. I like how brave Korine and Clark were with this film and how they tried to show a...

Fist Of Fury directed by Lo Wei; starring Bruce Lee - 6/10 Eh, I am very disappointed with Bruce Lee's films. They are not bad but they are very mediocre films that are only saved by the presence of Lee and his fighting style. I prefer The Big Boss because I actually thought the plot was pretty...

It's been a while since I've posted since I haven't had much internet access. I watched a lot of films since my last post and some on the big screen! Lick The Star directed by Sofia Coppola - 6/10 A pretty well-made early short film by Coppola, not very special but not bad at all! Leave Her To...

Thoughts On Bad Boys Okay so I just watched Michael Bay's debut feature film, Bad Boys last night and I have a lot of thoughts about it. First of all, I will mention that I watched this film purely for studying and not for my own pleasure, and also that it is my first time watching a Michael...

Yes, but the thing is that pretty much all modern auteur filmmakers follow that as a rule. Do you suppose that Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yimou, Brad Bird, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Abbas Kiarostami, Wang Bing, Lav Diaz, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Wong Kar-Wai, and even commercial filmmakers like Steven...

Okay, I think you are the one who has a simplified view of my posts, as I even mentioned that I would be open to accepting a different kind of cinematic aesthetic just as vulgar auteurists are trying to promote. You also always seem to think that I am rejecting Bay for the type of films he makes...

You have to speak genuinely though, and that means making films your own. I'm not alone in this view, the auteurist critics and nearly every art filmmaker feels this way. So do commercial filmmakers, Frank Capra always emphasized the fact that filmmakers should make what they WANT to make and...

I think it is pretty much not debatable at all that the vast majority of great silent films tell stories primarily through visuals because they are primarily composed of visuals for the most part. There are much more visual sections of silent films than title cards, and the music and sound...

Meetin' WA directed by Jean-Luc Godard - 6/10 Okay I really don't know what Godard was trying to do here, but I now know that he's either crazy or an asshole. He experiments with a pretty darn interesting interview with Woody Allen and tries to joke about it all the time. I don't think this is a...