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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Oh my god that looks like the best thing ever.
There’s no word on when it’ll come out, but we’re assured that Gutterdammerung is "coming to a Hell near you soon".
Awesome!
So I saw two excellent movies last night.
Ida is a black-and-white film shot in a square aspect ration, about a young Polish nun in the early 1960s, who is sent to meet with a relative she never knew, and what she finds out. It's also a road trip film. And a movie about WWII and its Soviet-controlled aftermath in Poland. Brilliant, so well acted, and just gorgeously and creatively shot. Highly recommended.
I also watched What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary about Nina Simone. It has a ton of archival footage, both of performances and interviews, as well as interviews with her daughter, ex-husband, band-mates, and so forth. Really well done, saddening, but with some electrifying performances that prove why she was such an important figure.
I went to Trainwreck as well and totally enjoyed it. Schumer is excellent and Bill Hader is SO dang adorable.
We watched The Great Escape over two days with the kids (thank goodness for old movies with intermissions!) and at the risk of stating the obvious, that is one damn fine film. Aeryn mostly didn't get it, but Dylan not only followed the plot, but remembered way more of the characters' names than I ever have, and I've seen this movie probably a dozen times. (Mainly because I almost never remember character names if I know the actor, it's just not something my brain ever bothers to keep ahold of.) Next up: Chicken Run and that episode of The Simpsons.
that episode of The Simpsons.
A Streetcar Named Marge?
I also watched What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary about Nina Simone. It has a ton of archival footage, both of performances and interviews, as well as interviews with her daughter, ex-husband, band-mates, and so forth. Really well done, saddening, but with some electrifying performances that prove why she was such an important figure.
I thought it was terrific
Oh, I want to see Ida now, and I'd never heard of it before! I go to Buffistas for all my obscure movie recommendations.
I just realized, I've never actually seen A Streetcar Named Desire. Should I watch it, or be content with the knowledge ganked from the minds of others?
Ida was nominated for multiple Oscars. It's gorgeous. If you are looking for other obscure movies, I also recently chose it as one of my ten favorites of 2014.