The Last Movie You Saw?

[JulieTao]

Umberto D. - an Italian Neorealist film (I'm in a film theory class and I'm studying for my final.)

 

[gius]

Louise en hiver. 2016 at the animation film festival

 

[Phuel]

American Honey.

This film instantly reminded me of Larry Clark’s Kids. It has that brand of casual, candid tone that’s also impressive in just how beautifully captured the frames are: Part Apple advert, part music festival grunge. The kids in this story are like a pack of lost wild pups— eager to please and desperate to belong, from impoverished rural, middle-America, exploited by a matriarch that’s repulsive and enchanting— and her age also seems elusive. At times she’s a supportive cheerleader and just one of the guys of her gang, and at other times when she looms menacingly over those that have displeased her like a dominatrix. Either case, she’s gangster.

Sasha Lane is the star of the story (although Caul Lombardi is the runaway scene-stealer— what a body…). She’s riveting to watch. She’s the very strong, and silent type: Part Lolita-tease, part festival-kid, part streetkid, and a genuine innocent-at-heart but definitely no angel from the very start. I was fed up with her at times, and protective of her character at others. She has that genuine brash and still gentle attitude— much like Chloe’s Jenny from Kids.

The soundtrack is another star of the show. The sly manner it’s used, as a narrative rather than just to invoke tone or mood, is so impressive— progressing from all hip-hop swagger that the kids chant to like a tribal war cry to the final country track “American Honey”— that all the kids seemed to get lost to, gently revealing them all as just children swaying along to a simple siren song for a longing for a home. It’s a gorgeous finale to all the bravado from the start.

American Honey, Closet Monster and Nocturnal Animals are my top 3 films of 2016. (Hoping to add Rogue One to the list LOOOL)

 

[Sweet rus]

Nocturnal Animals - strong, beautiful and painfully dramatic movie. I saw Grace Coddington there as well, yey, lolink:

Jackie - good acting, but it just felt really stale, wish they would show a bit more of dynamics and choose a longer time span to show in the movie.

Last Tango in Paris - heartbreaking, very progressive for its time, but definitely feels overrated.

Indignation - one of the best dramatic movies I have watched for a while, quite unique, heartbreaking and makes me so furious about how much people are affected by society

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ When I saw Last Tango in Paris some years ago, it made me feel a bit ill, put me off butter, and made me wonder what exactly all the fuss was about.

 

[cestmagique]

Nocturnal Animals and frankly, I thought it was terrible. I started laughing in the middle of the movie because it was so ridiculous...

La La Land-- this I really liked. A well done, modern Hollywood musical

 

[Sheeam]

Rouge One... I quite liked it.

 

[jexxica]

Finding Dory. I think I liked it better than Finding Nemo

 

[Sweet rus]

^ When I saw Last Tango in Paris some years ago, it made me feel a bit ill, put me off butter, and made me wonder what exactly all the fuss was about.

it didn't even hit me at first it was butter, as I had to read subtitles and was constantly distracted by it.


8.5 by Fellini - watched half of it with subtitles (that's how they do it in the US, shock for me ) and a half - with a voice over, definitely an interesting experience, quirky, bizarre (not in an annoying way though), chaotic, something you think about and have to be prepared to watch. Now I am reading the reviews to make sure I got it right and that's what Fellini was trying to say

 

[SouthernVogue]

The Polar Express

 

[milk_x_honey.]

lion.

 

[jexxica]

Just watched Arrival, again.

 

[RedSmokeRise]

Finally saw Nocturnal Animals. Definitely an extra 10 minutes too long, but still captivating.

 

[cloudyshambles]

The End of the Tour - quite dialogue heavy between two people, I really enjoyed it now I wanna read David Foster Wallace's books...

 

[Nymphaea]

Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley, the BBC version with Colin Firth was better.

 

[BaBorrow]

Rouge One: I enjoyed it.

 

[milk_x_honey.]

hunt for the wilderpeople

 

[Oxymore]

Finally saw Nocturnal Animals. Definitely an extra 10 minutes too long, but still captivating.

If you liked it, watch this and you will like it even more:

 

[jexxica]

Why him? It wasn't as bad as I expected. I had fun.

 

[cocogirl]

High crimes.