(06-20-2017, 10:28 PM)Mikey Wrote: Lou Gehrig loved Babe Ruth when he first joined the Yankees and then ended up hating him probably as much as it's humanely possible to hate someone
my dvr was getting on for 80% full so I've decided to dispassionately work through from the oldest unwatched films onwards. This has meant a lot of subtitles; often movies i've expected to be good tbf but didn't have the energy to devote three hours to properly. I also got to try and remember what convinved me to record half these movies.
black god white devil - some brazilian film about a guy who shifts from religious cult to revolutionary army and on and on. I guess you need to know more about brazil in the 50s. Anyway, reminded me of jodorowsky's, which is to say it's probably far too clever to be understood by anyone. For those interested, I recorded it as I had been given it on dvd as a xmas present on a work's night out and naturally lost it.
Wadjda - Saudi Arabian film about a young girl who wants to save enough money to buy a bike so she can race the boys. Meanwhile she's worried about growing up and the expectations placed upon a woman is saudi culture and is also concerned that her dad is going to, totally legally and culturally acceptable, get a new wife and start a new family as her mum hasn't given him a son. A really powerful and transgressive movie. I recorded it because someone - scorsese? - bigged it up at the baftas a few years back.
Ordette - Danish film from the 50s set in a rural village. One of the family's sons thinks he's christ, another wants to get married to a girl from a different christian sect and the third has a wife who's having a difficult pregnancy. All three issues converge at the critical moment and there's lots of talk of miracles. Really beautifully shot and I was happy to suspend my disbelief and take in a miracle. Fuck knows why I recorded this.
Trance - Pish. McAvoy is doing some annoying ewan mcgregor accent which ensures a low mark no matter what, but the film sets out to be confusing far too quickly and is there's never a consideration it'll be anything but so you don't let yourself engage with the characters and therefore struggle to care to follow the twists. Anyway, mcavoy plays a auctioneer who does an inside job to steal a painting and loses his memory in the heist so has to visit a quack to unlock the memory. It's pish.
The Warlords - It's about the taiping rebellion. There was fighting and jet li and stuff. Meh.
I also managed 15 mins of the tree of life but wasn't feeling it whatsoever.