'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar (and previously won Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2018). The latter in particular, I cannot recommend highly enough.
I second this. It was my favorite foreign-language film of last year (and there were a number of them that I really liked).
No movie today, but I did do some work on a spreadsheet of top 10 grossing films (US or NA) years 1970-present. Why? oh I love a list and have been accused of having giant holes in my movie watching of "mainstream" movies. I do not think I really have such massive gaps, but am doing the list regardless to see how things fall out. I've seen 84/174 thus far.
So anyone I sent a link to the list to already, you can also check out the new tab and feel free to leave recs of things you think I should absolutely see or avoid, or whatever.
Thanks for the Hulu tip, Vonnie! I just added both to my watchlist.
I love a list and have been accused of having giant holes in my movie watching of "mainstream" movies.
Oh, I have giant holes in my "mainstream" movie watching and mostly they are intentional.
Tonight's movie is M*A*S*H.
I saw M*A*S*H at a drive in theater with my boyfriend when I was in high school. It was a double feature with Patton. I loved the movie, but after we watched them back to back (ya know between drive-in stuff), we both knew that Patton was going to get the awards that year. Still MASH was awesome.
Pop culture is such an odd thing. H and I still refer to "the Pros from Dover,"--sometimes *we* are the pros from Dover. Or "finest kind." Our vernacular is so mortared and spackled with movie lines it's difficult sometimes to recall where we first encountered a particular line or turn of phrase.
Saw Captain Marvel. Loved it. LOVED the post credits scene.
Now watching Howard's End.
Movie Watch continues. Just finished Howard's End which was nominated for Best Picture in 1993.
Howard's End
A Few Good Men
The Crying Game
Scent of a Woman
Unforgiven - winner
Directed by James Ivory (A Room With a View, The Remains of the Day), starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Vanessa Redgrave.
I thought that maybe I had seen this before, but I don't think so. What an infuriating entitled bunch of 1%ers. Maybe not the best thing to watch when you are seething for some full blown class-warfare. Good performances all around, the reservation of all of it was astounding - the manners, the formality, the protocol just for everyday life.
Movie watch continued tonight with Juno, nominated for Best Picture in 2008.
Juno
Atonement
No Country for Old Men - winner
Michael Clayton
There will be Blood
I still have a couple of these to see, so we will be revisiting this list again.
Directed by Jason Reitman - his second feature. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, JK Simmons, and Allison Janney.
I think this is one of those films that EVERYONE was talking about and I had not seen it and then the more it became a thing, the less I wanted to see it. I always have some undefined expectations for things like that (tv, movies, music, people) that they can never live up to because I was always expecting more. I enjoyed it.