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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I also need to see the 'Budapest Hotel' film I think.....
Most films cause my attention to wander towards worrying about which colour dustbin to put out for collection. Zero bins for this one!
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Originally posted by Belgrove View PostI saw this the other evening for the first time. Plenty of fun, but quirkily amusing rather than outright funny, and it seemed pretty conventional after Birdman (then again, what wouldn't be?). Ralph Feinnes is the best thing in it, despite its being littered with 'stars'.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI also need to see the 'Budapest Hotel' film I think.....
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Originally posted by Flosshilde View PostWhat about it? Have you seen it? Is it any good?
According to our mutual friend, kleines c, " ... Leviathan charts the conflict between a family living in remote northern Russia and a corrupt mayor planning a coastal resort. Immense, relevant, darkly comic and frighteningly convincing, it boasts the sardonic tonal complexity of a Shostakovich symphony and vivid characterisations reminiscent of classic Russian literature."
BBC News reports that Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel lead Oscars race, although Leviathan (or Ida) could yet win best foreign film. Tonight, Fortitude gets a preview in NFT1.
BFI -TV Preview: Fortitude + Q&A.
If film and television have such a powerful champion in the BFI, what about radio, and BBC Radio 3 in particular? Does it need a champion?Last edited by Guest; 15-01-15, 17:52.
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post#161 & #162: I really need to see this, Messrs B & c. - thank you for your confirmation!
I also need to see the 'Budapest Hotel' film I think.....
'Birdman' and 'Budapest' seem to be the most favoured by the Academy Awards nomination panel too.... for what that's worth"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Damien Chazelle uses the pupil/teacher relationship as the turbo-charged motor of his film Whiplash, which belongs to that tiny genre of dramatic movies about music making. J K Simmons is the Svengali-bully conductor who abuses Miles Teller in order to provoke him into greater and more extraordinary feats of drumming in a New York conservatoire Big Band. Simmons is like the foul mouthed drill-sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, and yet displays a tender side (or does he?) that makes the band members want to excel for him. As a drama it is hugely OTT, but compelling nevertheless. The finale to the film is unconventional, unexpected and exhilarating. Both leads give wonderful performances and clearly know something about music making (much of the cast are musicians rather than actors). Given that Birdman has not been nominated for the Oscar for Editing, this film must be in with a strong chance in that category. The cutting, which indeed has a whiplash quality to it, really gives that thrill of being in the presence of live music making.
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Originally posted by Belgrove View PostDamien Chazelle uses the pupil/teacher relationship as the turbo-charged motor of his film Whiplash, which belongs to that tiny genre of dramatic movies about music making. J K Simmons is the Svengali-bully conductor who abuses Miles Teller in order to provoke him into greater and more extraordinary feats of drumming in a New York conservatoire Big Band. Simmons is like the foul mouthed drill-sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, and yet displays a tender side (or does he?) that makes the band members want to excel for him. As a drama it is hugely OTT, but compelling nevertheless. The finale to the film is unconventional, unexpected and exhilarating. Both leads give wonderful performances and clearly know something about music making (much of the cast are musicians rather than actors). Given that Birdman has not been nominated for the Oscar for Editing, this film must be in with a strong chance in that category. The cutting, which indeed has a whiplash quality to it, really gives that thrill of being in the presence of live music making.
Mrs C and I went to see 'Wild' tonight. Based on a true story of Cheryl Strayed who decides to walk the Pacific Coast Trail to try to rediscover her life. You talk editing Belgrove - I thought the editing really great in this film - they made what could have turned into a travel movie into a fine exploration of her life. Reece Witherspoon was very good indeed as the main character..
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You are spot on about the trailer for Whiplash john - I had similar reservations. Likewise it struck me that the trailer for Wild only served to obscure a better film than portrayed. I remember the trailer for The Others, which looked like a trashy overblown horror film from the trailer. It was only my fawning over Nicole Kidman that compelled me to attend, and it turned out to be a subtle and effective chiller.
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I saw Boyhood last week and thought it was tremendously accomplished and ambitious. It's difficult to think of anything comparable being attempted in the history of cinema. Much of the focus was understandably on Ellar Coltrane who plays the child-turning-into-adult over 12 years, but I thought the performance of his fictional sister (played by Lorelei Linklater, the director's daughter) was just as impressive. She, apparently, had wanted to stop being involved at one point in the filming. The interesting thing was that neither of the children saw their screen selves at any point during the gestation of the film until it was completed:
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Honoured Guest
Last night I strode out in high anticipation to see Stephen Daldry's new release Trash which has three charismatic kid leads and is very entertaining and engaging, a fairytale in a favela and street Rio setting.
But I was the only person in the cinema (Bargain Tuesday, later of the two evening screenings) and I see that it came 19th in last weekend's UK box office takings on its opening weekend.
So you'd better rush to your local cinema by tomorrow to be sure of catching this.
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI thought the trailer for Whiplash looked terrible but everything I've read since then makes me want to go see it...
I've been to more films, mostly British in the last 6 months than for a year or 2. The Imitation Game, Mr Turner, Theory of Everything, Testament of Youth.
Very enjoyable,as long as I can keep away from those who have to rustle their food wrappings....... Now Trash to be added to the list, and yes, to be seen soon.
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I share the views above about the trailer to "Whiplash" which I still don't want to see as my need for drumming on a film soundtrack has been satisfied by "Birdman".. no, not that Bird....which has a random ( apparently) drummer not involved with the plot gently grooving away and contrasting with " Radio 3 Breakfast" type pops e.g. Adagietto during the relatively few sequences that have musical accompaniment. The performances also involve big big egos such as that of the tutor drummer in "Whiplash". I prefer my drummers to be crisp and as light as a feather.
"Electricity" was O.K.
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Whiplash is ostensibly about a young jazz drummer learning and making it in the last few frames ... i found it an extremely perverse acceptance of the psychopathic bullying style of teaching of a pupil who wanted to be Buddy Rich ... it is both morally defective and a paean to an altogether unpleasant man [Buddy Rich] ... a horrible piece of work all round
it is also all male and white like the Oscars this year ...According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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