20th Century Luc Besson

Not sure what this means, if it was directed at my post.

not sure, but maybe this?

Watched Spirited Away again tonight, but this time with my ten year old granddaughter. She loved it. As did I once again.

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John- not surprising since Miyazaki is the GOAT.

nice

Quality grandpa itt.

New Acquisition.

Hitchcock has begun to hit the 4k UHD market... thank god. I patiently await ROPE.



Screen cap from my cell phone.

Rear Window leet on so many levels. Plus Perry Mason.

Ghibli put up 50 stills from some of its pix for public use:

http://www.ghibli.jp/works/chihiro/#frame

Tom Hardy as the new Bond is good news if true.

American Factory A documentary about a Chinese company that invests in a defunct GM plant in Ohio and the culture clash that occurs as American workers work in a Chinese run factory in the US.

The main message I got out of it though is how unhappy capitalism makes everyone. The American workers are slaving at a boring job for $12.80/hr (later they get a $2/hr raise before a failed vote to unionize). The Chinese workers and managers have been sent 3000 miles from home to live in a foreign country and can't see their family or friends. The mid level managers are being pressured by upper management to increase productivity and cut costs. The Chinese workers in the factories in China are working 65 hrs a week for pittance and can barely even see their own families. Then at the top is the CEO who says that he himself is unhappy and misses his innocent childhood.

They should've called the movie "Capitalism makes people unhappy." What value does an enterprise add like this to the world? It is ruining everyone's lives, taking up all their time, exhausting them physically and emotionally and the end result is a bunch of car windows. The one scene of happy people is one of the Chinese workers who had his family move to America and he is spending time with them.

Great film but depressing.

wow... those are Magnificent.

I feel like 5 years ago I would have been more excited for this, but I don't know if Hardy is the right pick now.

Ron Howard made this movie years ago. It wasn’t very good.

Re-watched Blazing Saddles (30 anniversary CD edition). I saw this when it first came out all those years ago. It stands up very well indeed and all the cast were magnificent:

A Bond reboot should be an origin story. Like they did with Star Trek.

in an alternate universe/timeline...

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What about if they did an origin story based in a historical period... the 1950's-1960's.

Just watched In The Mood For Love for about the thirtieth time. I almost know every shot, but somehow I'm surprised by something new every time I watch it.

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I watch both once a year

The Gentleman was a good time. I’m exclusively calling weed “bush” from now on.

The Wrong Missy is exactly what you’d expect. Pretty bad. Lapkus and Spade are funny people tho.

It's was headed for a theatrical re-release in a high-def restoration. I don't know it's current plague-year status, though.

I also just got some spam about theatrical re-releases of Akira and Spirited Away. Usually they do that when they're about to release a sequel.

Akira is getting the 4k UHD rework done. It should be released in a month or two which is why it's getting the theatrical run.

keep forgetting to return to this community! lol

Nomadland is the best movie I've seen this year, and yes I've seen Tenet! =p McDormand is aces as always, but I became a Zhao fan boy after The Rider.

Lapsis - Put this sci-fi on your radar. Saw this via Fantasia Film Fest. Super cool movie about people working their asses off for a large corporation while trying to escape a hellish cycle of work work work and consumerism. take 1 step forward, 2 back kinda deal. the lead is a first-time actor and you'd never guess it.

so it's a documentary about America?