Finally getting around to watching the Ghost in the Shell remake. It's not bad, but they really nerfed the soundtrack.

The Handmaiden is spectacular.

Just watched Nocturnal Animals knowing nothing about it other than it had a Michael Shannon performance that many of you were lauding. Glad I went in knowing close to zero. Enjoyed it and completely understand why you guys were raving about Shannon. He has yet to disappoint in any role I've seen him in.

Lawrence of Arabia (70mm) - Third year in a row I've seen it this way. I'd put seeing this in a proper theater in 70mm pretty close to the top of your list if you're a serious film fan. Fantastic film, in my top 5-10, I've written about it once or twice before.

Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 - doc about the LA riots and the decade of police policies and racism leading up to it. I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped but it was decent. Pretty even-handed. New interviews with many of the principal characters, most interestingly a police [captain or whatever] explaining why he basically commanded his officers to pull out of the one major riot intersection and not try to intervene.

Ran across Steven Segal in a film called "The Foreigner".

Can't really describe it because it's a convoluted mess.

Basically Steven doing what Steven does.
Beating up bad guys or shoots them, occasionally setting them on fire.

Began a string of direct-to-video films produced overseas.

Not worth watching at all.

Even the most die-hard Segal fan will be disappointed

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My copy of the new released Bladerunner in HDR/4k is arriving tonight..

Will review

nice

Bound for Glory Biopic of Woody Guthrie. The movie focused on his early life. It was mostly about his experience with the Dust Bowl migration and his involvement with attempts to unionize the migrant farm workers in California. Part of the film profiled his rise as a performer but it was always within the context of his effort to help the workers.

I'm not a huge fan of biopics so I was sort of meh on it. But the story was told well and the movie was interesting, albeit quite slow. Probably worth a watch.

Sweet I might get this.

I was surprised to find out that the version of BR: Final Cut I saw a couple times in the theater was (presumably) not 4K (since they're now advertising this as a new transfer and it's come to theaters also), thought it looked fabulous already.

Ok, I'm not that bright, but how do you hd something that wasn't already hd?

From the master copy I assume?

yeah, 35mm film is 4k or better

Bummer, got early screening passes to It and got there it had already sold out. Got free passes to see it another time so will try to go on Friday night.

im really really no tech-nerd, but i think there is something like fake-4k and real-remastered-4k (this often comes up regarding italo genre movies). mschu might explain this in 2.5oo words.

i watched:
orthodox stance: a young boxer thats talented and also hassidic. follows his way up to the naca (?) title. recommended when you are into boxing. its a documentary.

boxing gym: no comment, no nothing. just pure impressions from a boxing gym in texas (austin?). very unique. cant recommend even if you are into boxing.

the undisputed truth: mike tyson, put in scene by spike lee. tyson tells his autobiography. very witty. lot of n-bombs. ghetto mike and thoughtful mike. not as stupid as you might think mike. some mix between stand-up and scenic reading (without reading). recommended, even if you are not from brooklyn.

Really feel compelled to see IT this weekend.

It's possible that sometimes they try to cheap out and just "upscale" some old transfer from 1k Blu-Ray or like 480i DVD (or whatever that is) to 4k or some nonsense like that.

But yea, as said, 35mm film, which most movies were (it's only gone closer to fully digital in the last few years, but some are still shot on 35mm including Star Wars VII) shot on back to Birth of a Nation and beyond, is really "better" than (or at least equivalent to) 4K resolution, and so even <1920 movies can be transferred to "HD" or "Ultra HD" and there is nothing fake about it.

Same goes for I Love Lucy even.

pretty good list talking about what's real or fake 4k. Some stuff was shot on 35mm but then the master (and special effects) was done on 2k, so unless they took the yuge undertaking of remastering from the 35mm the upscaled 4k release will be fake 4k.

http://realorfake4k.com/list/

Valentine (2017, PTA, 35mm) - 17 minute short film/music video by PTA starring the group Haim. The group is great and I'd never heard them before, would listen to again.

Valley Girl (1983, 35mm) - Fairly typical '80s teen comedy/romance with Nicolas Cage. Some good laughs and nostalgia at 1980s malls, great music, and 1980s California vernacular. No worse than stuff like Sixteen Candles, maybe better. (Still not great and does the stalking-is-romantic thing, directed by a woman though.)

Magnolia (1999, 35mm) - lol. I think I used this phrase recently, but this was embarrassingly sophomoric. In many ways it's skillfully made, so it's understandable to mistake it for something great.

I first saw it in the theater in college and def liked it a lot when first watching and coming out of it.

- Starts off with Ricky Jay narrating about these 3 "amazing coincidence stories" but they're all ****ing stupid urban legends. This sets a bad tone. In 1999, I can see audiences gobbling that up (as I'm sure I did).

- Julianne Moore is horrific, one of the worst performances I can think of in film.

- The game show host/Library Policeman from Seinfeld is often pretty bad as well. The early scene with his daughter is poorly acted and poorly written, and many scenes are like that.

- Most of the other acting is pretty good though.

- It's often edited well with good energy and an exciting score, but there's nothing really behind it or that the montages lead you to and so they leave you empty.

- The Wise Up thing is like, sort of entertaining and "emotional", but again, it's ultimately meaningless nonsense.

It's worth watching once, as an example of a decent filmmaker not quite getting there, and perhaps as a relic of that era of film.

I loved that movie when it was released but I was a teenager and haven't seen it since. I feared it wouldn't hold up well.

i loved it when i saw it for the first time last year. shrug. i'm not any kind of film buff

i think the movie has been debated many times over in this thread

anyway the graduation is on netflix and i really enjoyed it. without giving away too much its basically what is a dad willing to do to help his precious daughter leave their hometown in romania and go to college. idk if i would call it a "masterpiece" like some reviews but it certainly kept my attention

Gtfo, Magnolia is awesome

2046

Japanese guy on a train: check.

All memories are traces of: Tears.

Lulu: stabbed.
Killed? hard to say -- the chronology is unfathomable.

Faye: this time a hotelier's daughter.

We're back with the Chinese dresses: check.

Tony screws it up again? Tony always screws it up.
But? at least he gets to bang the girl this time.

Maggie: 5 seconds of fame in the back seat of a cab.

Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi): breathtaking; intense.

Black Spider: Picks the wrong time to go back to Phnom Penh.

Chestnuts: forever roasting on an open fire.

Tony lets Faye call Japan on Xmas Eve: The closest he's ever come to taking a chance.

Japanese guy: still on the train.

Faye: back from the asylum.
Her Old Man: still pissed.
Faye: now she's an android cabin attendant on the train with the Japanese guy.

Big Screen: seen for the first time.

Big Screen pretty much the same a streaming? No, completely different: different plot; different characters.

My opinion of 2046? Way way up.

Check it out. Check it out on the big screen if possible.

wait, how did you see it on the big screen? I am soooo jealous.

+1M and Julianne Moore was absolutely fantastic