What movies are you watching?

[Chris_H_2]

i have the house to myself this weekend. i can watch 2 of these movies. which ones should i watch?

nightmare alley
belfast
the power of the dog

why only 2?

He has to save SOME time for the babysitter

and i have a short attention span

[Chris_H_2]

Haven't seen Belfast. The Power of the Dog was far better than Nightmare Alley imo, but they're both worth watching.

thanks mickey

[Anders]

A Night At The Opera

[The Argonaut]

Bergman Island, a little marvel, indeed

I think I'll do a re-watch of Persona soon. Not that I think they're similar, but I suspect that if there were riffs I missed it was on Persona. Plus, Persona is just truly great and deserves revisiting

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i have the house to myself this weekend. i can watch 2 of these movies. which ones should i watch?

nightmare alley
belfast
the power of the dog

why only 2?

He has to save SOME time for the babysitter

and i have a short attention span

Me too!

[Malloy]

Bergman Island, a little marvel, indeed

I think I'll do a re-watch of Persona soon. Not that I think they're similar, but I suspect that if there were riffs I missed it was on Persona. Plus, Persona is just truly great and deserves revisiting

glad you dug. it stayed on my brain for a while

[The Argonaut]

Bergman Island, a little marvel, indeed

I think I'll do a re-watch of Persona soon. Not that I think they're similar, but I suspect that if there were riffs I missed it was on Persona. Plus, Persona is just truly great and deserves revisiting

glad you dug. it stayed on my brain for a while

What is it about that stuck with you? I think I just appreciated that it told kind of a small story about feelings and emotions, not great drama and destruction, but did it in a playful, cinematic way

[Malloy]

Bergman Island, a little marvel, indeed

I think I'll do a re-watch of Persona soon. Not that I think they're similar, but I suspect that if there were riffs I missed it was on Persona. Plus, Persona is just truly great and deserves revisiting

glad you dug. it stayed on my brain for a while

What is it about that stuck with you? I think I just appreciated that it told kind of a small story about feelings and emotions, not great drama and destruction, but did it in a playful, cinematic way

how it rendered time & perception in modest but interesting ways

[The Argonaut]

well put

[Malloy]

also i like any artwork that’s like, “what’s the central feature of my form” and disguises itself as something else while going about pushing up against the limits of the answer to the question.

[The Argonaut]

It definitely surprised me at multiple points (by never doing what I expected it to do) and it definitively answers its own question "is this a movie?"

[Malloy]

It definitely surprised me at multiple points (by never doing what I expected it to do) and it definitively answers its own question "is this a movie?"

yes!

[Anders]

M (1931)

[Mickey]

Kimi

Not good!

[Anders]

Pandora’s Box (1929)

[Anders]

That was interesting. Incredible the strength and artistic depth of German movies at this time, considering WW2 was just a few years away.

[Anders]

Black Narcissus

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Farmer John]

The 3h 42m runtime always seemed daunting, but today's the day I finally tackle Lawrence of Arabia.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

The 3h 42m runtime always seemed daunting, but today's the day I finally tackle Lawrence of Arabia.

Godspeed, good Farmer. I watched it like 12 years ago, but can’t remember if I split it up.