The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you watched this week. It doesn't have to be a new release, just any film you have seen over the last seven days that you feel is worth talking about. Here are some rules.
1. Check to see if your favourite film of last week has been posted already.
2. Please post your favourite film of last week.
3. NO TV SHOWS!
4. ALWAYS use spoiler tags. Report any comments that spoil recent / little-known films (e.g. The Predator) without using the spoiler tag.
5. Comments that only contain the title of the film will be removed!
Here are some great comments from last week's thread:
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Cries and Whispers (1973) – Dir. Ingmar Bergman. Boy oh boy, where does one start with this film. If you think Bergman other films were bleak, then I don’t know how to describe this one, it’s like bleak on steroids if that makes any sense. It is so incredibly hard to watch and simply to much even graphically that I had to look away. It does not shy away from any graphic content and the mannerisms and dialogue of Bergman’s characters are even more exaggerated than they usually are. They behave in the most non-Swedish way they can, blunt, straightforward with no regards for privacy or personal space. Yet, there’s something that draws me to it. It is quite hard to decipher, and much like Persona I don’t imagine that I’ll have a clear-cut grasp of what it exactly is, but its portrayal of family misery, relationships and overall emotions and death are honest, profound and deeply touching, it makes you think about your own surrounding and relationships in general. I got to see it in theatres and I was very tired and almost sleepy in the beginning but the film managed to keep me interested and invested in the characters and “story”. I’m not sure if it’s my favorite Bergman(I think that honor goes to Winter Light), but I think that it might be his best. 10/10
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The best film I saw this week, by default as it's the only one, is Crazy Rich Asians. And honestly, even if it wasn't the only film I saw this week it would probably have been the best one I saw. A bit of context, I saw that it great in the US, people had good things to say about it on Reddit, it had decent scores across the board. That's what I knew. I knew nothing about the story at all, I hadn't seen a trailer or a synopsis of the plot. And I must say I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't expecting a whole lot, and it delivered above my average expectations and built upon them. Is it clichéd? Yes, easily. However the plot points that they go through are done with style and heart. The characters are definitely a stand out, and are really helped with a good script that allows most of the characters to have a their own personality, and the great acting allows these absolutely strange characters to transition to screen. And whilst yes there are a lot of over the top characters in this film it somehow never got over the top or tiring for me. I wasn't a fan of the main male character at first but did eventually come around to liking him. Without going into spoilers, whilst the plot is full of clichés, I think it does well to avoid some pitfalls of the genre as well. One minor complaint I have is that there is this side story that they cut into occasionally and it was good. But it felt totally inconsequential to the entire film and the film would have been fine without it. I enjoyed my time at the cinema watching this and didn't regret it one bit.
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Searching (2018) dir. Aneesh Chaganty. Re-friended. In Lars von Trier’s film, The Five Obstructions, he challenges a former instructor to remake a short film in multiple ways; each time with a different obstacle (i.e., each shot can only be 15 frames or less and so on). The lesson that emerges from that film, is that while initially daunting and frustrating, obstacles often lead to creative solutions that results in something far better than anything you could’ve ever deliberately planned. I mention this, because this film notably uses a structure similar to the Unfriended movies, where practically the entire film takes place solely through computer, video, or phone screens. This movie didn’t really go for anything innovative in terms of that structural limitation, but it played around a lot with the notion of evoking emotions by the simple act of watching words type across the screen. Seeing little pauses, or furiously writing things out and then quickly deleting them, trashing certain things, or momentarily hovering over clips or images, very easily managed to convey what particular emotions someone was feeling without any spoken dialogue. A big part of that, is because we’ve all spent a lot of time on the computer ourselves, so we've felt a lot of similar things during moments of anger, shame, sadness, or regret. That was a wonderful little touch, and was a limitation that the film managed to adapt into something unique. Another creatively built segment (which will probably remind you a bit of Up) was the opening montage made up of a bunch of cheesily-made, home videos. I’m not going to comment on the various twists and turns of the plot, because a lot of the drama comes from the entire arduous journey that the father, David Kim (played by John Cho), has to go through in his obsessive search for his missing daughter, Margot (played by Michelle La). On a side note, John Cho seems to be in a lot of quality stuff lately, and I don’t know if it’s just coincidental timing, but he’s also part of this sort of “Asian-chic” that’s currently happening, with a lot of high-profile films starring Asians and Asian-Americans all released around the same time. Anyway, he’s solid in his role, as is the daughter Michelle in the limited time she’s given. Also good, is the role of the investigating detective, played by Debra Messing, and David's goof-off, stoner brother, played by Joseph Lee. Perhaps some may question the directions the story eventually takes, but I think for the vast majority of the film, it easily manages to transfix you the entire way, as we gradually learn more and more about the unseen part of Margot’s inner life--whose captured life fragments, remain scattered across the internet like haunted digital artifacts. This probably owes some debt to films like The Searchers and Hardcore, and definitely to the Unfriended series, but it managed to cleverly convey its emotional connections and story through the creative manipulation of its unique, structural limitations, to the extent that it ended up feeling much more like an asset than a hindrance.
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Submitted September 24, 2018 at 02:00AM by GetFreeCash https://ift.tt/2xxOJ1D
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