Along_the_Wire Late Night With the Devil
Seconded. Great film
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-si- then reverse corkscrew landed your spitfire on a Friday evening. Tally ho!
Rewatched Assassination of Jesse James yesterday. Vaguely remember watching it more than a decade back, was obviously baked out of my mind, and couldn’t get down with the artsy fartsy look and what felt like a voice over telling me way too much. Like a fine wine though, this has aged beautifully (also maybe a bit of bias with all the movie podcasts telling me it’s actually brilliant but a victim of its release year, competing with No Country and There will be blood). I was actually ready to turn it off after the first hour, but as you move forward it gets more and more compelling. Brad Pitt does paranoia and depression well, Rockwell the bumbling fool and Casey Affleck the slime ball, equally good if not better. The epilogue also feels like a gut punch, where youre not really expecting much. The script is incredibly strong as you’re never exactly sure what Jesse knows and doesnt. Had the afternoon to myself, and it made for a great lazy sunday viewing. Not quite the same class as No Country or TWBB, but damn close. And yup, its wild Roger Deakins did this and No Country the same year.
8 / 10
Munich (2005). There are still Spielberg-films I’ve not seen, and this was one. He’s trying not to pick sides here, but there is a clear message of cause and effect. Also a reminder that when Spielberg wants to be brutal he really can, the violence in this pretty shocking, Saving Private Ryan was not an outlier for him.
Also has all the usual Spielberg-perks, some amazing blocking and camera choices throughout it. And it did not feel nearly three hours long.
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Bring Them Down. It’s difficult to describe it as a revenge thriller, it’s all over the fucking place and doesn’t know what it is. I know what it is. Rubbish. Barry Keoghan being Barry Keoghan and he was also an exec producer - a little over confidence there. 2/10
Along_the_Wire
I lasted 10 mins. It just seemed so depressing right from the start
The Sugarland Express (1974). Spielberg’s theatrical debut popped up in one of my streaming services, so figured I should watch this.
A tonally pretty uneven movie (parts of it are like The Blues Brothers, parts a tragedy) which also exhibits Spielberg’s insane talent even at such a young age. So many cool shots using car’s mirrors, going from one car to another on a highway etc. William Atherton in a rare role where he’s not an asshole, just really dumb.
Flow - really good and well deserving of the best animated movie oscar - I’ve seen nothing like it in movies (except maybe studio Ghibli) but have seen the exact tone and style in games a fuck load of times - think Ico, Shadow of the Collosus & Journey and you’ll know exactly the kind of stripped back world building and story telling it uses. Artistic masterpiece in more ways than one. 9 capybaras / 10
Heat (1995)
Watched this for just the 2nd time today, after my first watch a couple of years ago.
It’s a 10/10 film isn’t it? I’d be interested to hear from anyone who feels otherwise. Story, acting, pacing …..it’s all first class.
Here’s a question. Best actor out of De Niro and Pacino? I’d plump for De Niro personally but it’s close
Wally meant to be ace, apparently animated with a free open source software package too.
Phil-McRackin ‘it is pure cinematic poetry’ - not my words, but the words of one Mark Kermode.
(Yeah, Blender what they used and is an off the shelf 3d modeller. It’s stunning to look at 
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LT42 I think it’s okay, the acting is piss poor for the most part.