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megan walker - Aug 06, 2019 5:00:24 pm PDT #2195 of 3461
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Powell and Pressburger! YES YES. Black Narcissus and Red Shes are probably the most striking, but really all of their films look so amazing. GOSH I LOVE THEM *gibbers in excitement*

Right? I was so very excited when I saw the Criterion Channel add a Powell and Pressburger collection to their line-up that I immediately began to wonder which I should watch first! And then I had to remind myself that I owned most of them and could actually WATCH THEM AT ANY TIME.

Calli - Aug 06, 2019 5:17:45 pm PDT #2196 of 3461
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

What movies do you find visually striking?

Pacific Rim and Sleepy Hollow come to my mind.

Atropa - Aug 06, 2019 7:35:09 pm PDT #2197 of 3461
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Crimson Peak

Beetlejuice

Coppola's Dracula

Midsommar

Fred Pete - Aug 07, 2019 2:54:51 am PDT #2198 of 3461
Ann, that's a ferret.

A few older movies:

2001: A Space Odyssey

Lawrence of Arabia

Doctor Zhivago

The Fall of Atlanta scenes in Gone With the Wind

The opening scene of The Sound of Music

Amy - Aug 07, 2019 4:30:46 am PDT #2199 of 3461
Because books.

Crimson Peak

The Cell

Bram Stoker's Dracula

The Age of Innocence

Sin City

The Artist

Down With Love

I know there are more, but I'm not caffeinated enough yet. ( knew I forgot an obvious one.)

Tom Scola - Aug 07, 2019 4:33:10 am PDT #2200 of 3461
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Detective Pikachu

Jessica - Aug 07, 2019 4:42:34 am PDT #2201 of 3461
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

relatively satisfying as these things go.

I was dissappointed by The Kitchen. It felt very over-worked - weird cuts all over the place, TERRIBLE sound editing, bizarre jumps in the plot that felt like they just forgot to tell some parts? Also, and this might be spoilery, I wanted everything to be harder. The three leads talked CONSTANTLY about their struggles and how difficult it was to be a woman in this environment, but in general, it looked like they mostly got everything they wanted just by asking for it? The money-counting montage happens like fifteen minutes in! They keep almost having consequences but then it winds up working out! It was shot like a gritty dark gangster movie but written with sitcom-level stakes.

Jessica - Aug 07, 2019 4:53:06 am PDT #2202 of 3461
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Visually striking:

  • Any Tim Burton movie
  • Any Baz Luhrman movie
  • Any Guillermo del Toro movie
  • Any Wes Anderson movie

Amy - Aug 07, 2019 5:08:19 am PDT #2203 of 3461
Because books.

The Fifth Element

Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 07, 2019 6:02:20 am PDT #2204 of 3461
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Visually striking films:

  • Amélie
  • What Dreams May Come
  • Alien
  • Legend
  • The Cell
  • 300 (despite my loathing of Zack Snyder, I must admit he has a great eye for visuals)

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