it's, i think, the best spelling it could get out of google from "i will fuck you up" in afrikaans. it's, apparently, a common insult there, though it sounds to me more like a threat than an insult proper. anyway i'm not making threats, the phrase just came up in my brain when i read you hadn't seen down by law. THAT MOVIE IS AWESOME. it's his best movie of the XX century and probably ever.

No way! It's easily one of my favorite films of all time. Daniel Day Lewis is just brilliant all the way through, well you could say the whole cast is tbh.

Because I am 101% ALL MAN, I have no problem fully-admitting that it made me cry.

I've had to tell many a sensitive soul "it's the most well-done documentary that I've seen in ages and you should never watch it".

My stomach just flipped thinking about Bobby's rolled-up sleeves.

I have seen Discreet Charm but only once, a long time ago. It didn't leave much of an impression on me, though. I should probably watch it again to see if I can get more out of it this time. As I said, it's frustrating because Bunuel is a filmmaker I have masses of respect for, far more than a number of directors whose films I actually prefer.

Bunuel is the second greatest director of all time because nothing he made totally sucked. Ever. It seems like a statistical impossibility, but there you go.

Aguirre Wrath of God...again.


everytime I watch it I want to set off on a raft and die slowly.

i sometimes walk around for days unable to forget that pan flute melody they play

I showed that flick to my wife and she got so depressed.

all the movies I love (aguirre, glenngarry glennross, bridge on river kwai, etc.) she finds soul-crushing.

women... ;)

Dark Horse

One of those films where about twenty seconds in I knew I wasn't gonna like it. I watched it to the end anyway, but only because it's pretty short. Christ knows how it got such good reviews.

beasts of the southern wild.

i really really liked it.

Ingmar Bergman. I really think he's one of the very few filmmakers who centuries from now will be held in as much esteem as the other truly great artists of the 20th century (Stravinsky, Picasso, Joyce, etc.)

Yeah, he used the cinema to pose the deepest, most eternal questions a human can ask.

Yeah, he made more masterpieces than I can count.

Yeah, his technical prowess is peerless. I mean, he's a DIRECTOR. Every shot means something, and every frame is loaded with information delivered as economically and inventively as possible. He's unquestionably a master at the craft.

But for me it's all about the mood. That's it. There's a mood to Bergman's films that no other filmmaker's works can evoke in me. However dour, brutal and humorless his world can sometimes be, it's an oddly comfortable world for me to inhabit.

Yes, I hated the end.

5.5/10

1. The Master- probably the film of the year...Writer-director Paul Thoms Anderson has made the father-son relationship complex a recurring theme in many of his films, whether subjugated within his multi-storyline narrative ("Magnolia") or tangentially within genre ("Hard Eight", "Boogie Nights"), but this latest film may be his most pointed and raw effort yet. From the first time stunted, angry seaman Freddy Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) and learned doctor Lancaster Dodd (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) meet, the overtures of the father-son relationship are overt and tense in the way Dodd says "alright..." in that fatherly tone of a man siting behind a large desk, patiently accepting his sulking son's presence either good or bad. And from there, "The Master" gels into a sublime series of scenes where father and prodigal son connect, disconnect, argue, love and work through repressed emotions caused by post-war stress. For those that have called "The Master" pointless, I humbly disagree. Not only is it probably one of the most touching examinations of the push-and-pull that separates and joins people, but it reigns as a subtle miracle of the three act structure, revealing everything in small glances and a technical cinematic prowess that feels unmatched in current cinema. I could go on all day about this....

2. Nazi Love Camp 27- ehh I love Nazisploitation, but this is one terrible movie.

3. Killer Joe- fantastic, ugly and brutally funny

4. Kill List- another fave of the year so far. Director Ben Wheatley's cocktail mix of a film tries its hand at three different genres, each one more terrifying and disturbing than the next, and establishes him as a great talent to watch. The less one knows about this film, the better.

5. For old times sake.... purchased the Blu-Ray of "All the President's Men", Fuck, now that's a great film!

I've not seen The Master yet but the father-son thing does seem to be a recurring theme with PTA. The only film that doesn't seem to deal with it at all is Punch-Drunk Love.

Has anyone been to see Holy Motors? Hoping to see it on Saturday. It could be an interesting one that's for sure.

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