Red Mosquito

More festival films I've seen in the last few days.

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"Una Familia Gay". Thoroughly entertaining and well-made docufiction. A lot of fun, if sometimes a little on-the-nose.


"A World Not Ours". Quietly powerful film with some humor sprinkled throughout. Loved it.


"Historias Extraordinarias". I've actually already seen this movie several times before. It's one of my favorite Argentine films, so I was very happy to hear it was playing at the festival. A wonderful piece of work.


"A Hijacking". Staggering. Pretty sure this film gave me secondhand PTSD. But I loved it.


"Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts". Fun little doc about a writer I'd always been curious about.


"The Day He Arrives". Really loved this. Reminded me of early Cassavetes at times.


"Animals". Incredible. Haunting, darkly humorous, amazing soundtrack. Probably my favorite festival film so far. Hung out with the director afterwards and he's a such a talented guy. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a big Hollywood career eventually.


"I Used to Be Darker". Strangely enough, this film reminded me of the PJ song "Dissident". Emotional but grounded.


"Il Futuro". Can't say I was too sold on this one. The whole time I felt like I knew where it was going, and I was just in a hurry for it to get there. Really well made, but it just didn't connect with me.


"Shut Up and Play the Hits". Amazing documentary about LCD Soundsystem's final show. Great music, interesting insights, gorgeous shots of New York, and strangely emotional. I saw this last night at midnight and came home incredibly happy.

Best two?

durdencommatyler wrote:Best two?

So far... "Animals" and "Romance Joe" (posted about it a couple pages back).

theplatypus wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Best two?

So far... "Animals" and "Romance Joe" (posted about it a couple pages back).

Malloy wrote:what are your thoughts about 2046 compared to wong kar-wai's other movies?

I havent seen it yet, always keep forgeting about that one...and i was madly in love with In the mood for love...i dont know why i still havent seen that one.

Malloy wrote:what are your thoughts about 2046 compared to wong kar-wai's other movies?

Love this movie. Just thinking about it puts me in a weird mood.

Hey Nate, seek out this film. You'll like it.

Cool, I will.

Miss Bala was an interesting movie. It was almost too dark and depressing for me to like it but it was done so incredibly well. The lead and the guy who plays the main drug lord we're both fantastic, and some of the action sequences were the best I've seen in a while. But goddamn if it isn't depressing.

thanks fellas. jorge, care to opine on 2046?

Malloy wrote:thanks fellas. jorge, care to opine on 2046?

I remember liking it. It's been about 7 years since I saw it, but I remember really liking the setpieces and train photography. I can't remember much about the actual story, to be honest.

Jack Reacher.

I havent read the book, but that was really fun. Love Richard Jenkins and Herzog, that was weird!

Book fans seem to hate it. Or maybe just the few book fans that I know.

durdencommatyler wrote:Book fans seem to hate it. Or maybe just the few book fans that I know.

yeah, seems the main character is different in the books. Anyway, the movie was really fun.

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Book fans seem to hate it. Or maybe just the few book fans that I know.

yeah, seems the main character is different in the books. Anyway, the movie was really fun.

Good to hear.

I fucking hate shitty movies.

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Book fans seem to hate it. Or maybe just the few book fans that I know.

yeah, seems the main character is different in the books. Anyway, the movie was really fun.

Good to hear.

I fucking hate shitty movies.

We all do, we all do.

Except....well i have a long list of shitty movies i adore..

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Book fans seem to hate it. Or maybe just the few book fans that I know.

yeah, seems the main character is different in the books. Anyway, the movie was really fun.

Good to hear.

I fucking hate shitty movies.

We all do, we all do.

Except....well i have a long list of shitty movies i adore..

Right. But I know you know what I mean, ya know?

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Book fans seem to hate it. Or maybe just the few book fans that I know.

yeah, seems the main character is different in the books. Anyway, the movie was really fun.

Good to hear.

I fucking hate shitty movies.

We all do, we all do.

Except....well i have a long list of shitty movies i adore..

Right. But I know you know what I mean, ya know?

Example: cant believe they are not making another Jack Reacher movie, but we have two G.I.JOE movies and a third one coming.

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Book fans seem to hate it. Or maybe just the few book fans that I know.

yeah, seems the main character is different in the books. Anyway, the movie was really fun.

Good to hear.

I fucking hate shitty movies.

We all do, we all do.

Except....well i have a long list of shitty movies i adore..

Right. But I know you know what I mean, ya know?

Example: cant believe they are not making another Jack Reacher movie, but we have two G.I.JOE movies and a third one coming.

The Rise of Cobra is so, so bad. So bad. And not the good kind. The bad kind. Not Michael Jackson bad, throat cancer bad.

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Book fans seem to hate it. Or maybe just the few book fans that I know.

yeah, seems the main character is different in the books. Anyway, the movie was really fun.

Good to hear.

I fucking hate shitty movies.

We all do, we all do.

Except....well i have a long list of shitty movies i adore..

Right. But I know you know what I mean, ya know?

Example: cant believe they are not making another Jack Reacher movie, but we have two G.I.JOE movies and a third one coming.

The Rise of Cobra is so, so bad. So bad. And not the good kind. The bad kind. Not Michael Jackson bad, throat cancer bad.

Exactly.

Im watching House of bamboo tomorrow.

Oblivion. It was a movie. Why do I bother with this shit anymore?