Love this one too. Just watched it the other night after seeing it mentioned in this thread and It's now one of my favorites that I've seen in the past few years. I was expecting something different going in as well; like more blood and **** but the clash of cultures and mindsets is what really crushed in the movie. So many great lines and scenes throughout.

Watched Parajanov's Visual Masterpiece:The Color of Pomegranates as promised on Criterion. It is also available for free in both versions (choose the longest) of it on youtube, btw for anybody else. It greatly helped to also view a great explanation of it at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v83F0WgRH8s
Anybody who is a lover of artistic imagery, ethnography, or Armenia will enjoy it. It is the loose presentation of the life and times of great Armenian songster Sayat Nova in eight chapters: childhood, attraction to a Princess, the hunt, monkhood, old age, traveler, funeral, apotheotic. It is not a long movie and I quietly enjoyed the the vibrant colors and striking moving images as if in meditation. Afterwards, I had this urge to munch on a juicy pomegranate. It is about as far over on the spectrum from Bullet Train or Top Gun as you can get. But those movies fail to include a donkey (shown at about minute 47:35 ) which lately I've seen a lot of.

Mi Breaky

Good job. I'm not sure others will watch this, but it is a visual treat. I liked the focus on earth, water, fire throughout and how the costumes seemed to mirror those elements. That final image of the woman as nature is stunning.

I'm now down to two movies to see the Sight and Sound top 100. I will need to rent The Leopard.

I like donkey movies, too. Banshees and EO are the latest I've seen.

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wow, only two to go....very cool

Someone gave me a copy of Histoire(s) du Cinema a few years ago, and that one is hard to see. If you can find it, it's terrific, but eight hours long. Basically, that's no worse than binging a Netflix series.

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I watched some of it a few years ago

So I just found out today that Michael Mann wrote a 'Heat 2' novel, and he is now apparently adapting that into a movie.

That has fail written all over it.
He should just write a 'serpico... the later years' screen play.

I agree, but I'm definitely curious. The book was very well-received at least..I can't believe I hadn't heard of it before now.

Has anybody read it?

Ridley Scott is doing a Gladiator sequel as well. Sure hope these bastards know what they’re doing.

I am SURE these C0cksuckers know how to make a movie, and I am also quite sure the peckers in control of funding know that a built in consumer base gives one a leg up on box office returns.

If this douche bag were to guess, I would assume these projects are COMMISSIONED, as opposed to being works of passion.

Is that a bad thing... not necessarily, but it doesn't help.

For me, the project died with McCauley... I didn't agree with that ending.

Hadn't seen Madagascar in over a decade i believe. Life had become quite serious and solemn recently so i decided to get silly last night. Madagascar was my choice and it still cracks me up. My favorite animated movie of all time.

This doesn't sound like a typical MSchu post. You must be really pissed off.

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that is normal for this Japanese/German Curmudgeon...

Shu's curse pattern of binary fashion is 1-1-0-0. Douchebag is borderline, but creates symmetry.

Translation: it pisses shu off but the zen is strong in him.

Very consistent with eastern philosophy infused with German intensity.

Story checks out.

"Youre a **********" - crash davis to home plate umpire in bull Durham, highly recommend, but im a former catcher.

I watched this last night. I had never seen it before, but thought I had. I had it confused with the movie where the kids pass each other on the trains.

The cinematography was stunning. It was so beautiful that I didn't want the movie to end. He used a lot of stationary camera stuff that was sorta like Ozu, but not just on interior shots -- everywhere.

A great movie and unlike anything else I have seen from Kore-eda. Subdued, masterful storytelling. Perfect.

yes, "stunning" is right. I should have praised it more. It never stops. Every scene, no matter how ordinary, is shot with a specific purpose, composition, lighting, angle, shadow, and framing. And he doesn't overly-linger on a shot. There must be 100 great ones. You can't take your eyes away.

Looking back. I think we are supposed experience the emotions and sensations exhibited in each scene separately rather than be trying to solve the one unsolvable mystery event in the film like I did. Live in the present.

The Menu (2022) was a bit of a mess. A few good laughs but that was about it. 5/10

I'm a HUGE fan of animated movies especially ones about animals and Madagascar is right near the top of that list.
Madagascar 2 is also fantastic and 3 is very fun and has an awesome cast (martin short absolutely steals the movie) but it gets overly ridiculous at times (yes I know I'm complaining about an animated movie being ridiculous which is far more ridiculous but if you watch it you'll understand my complaint) but it's still very fun and worth watching just for martin short and the penguins.

not gonna clog the thread anymore but if you're interested in some other fantastic animated movies (imo obv) PM me and I'll be happy to send you a list some of them in my opinion are must watches and I'm not just talking about for the animated genre but in terms of all movies.

I'm always hesitant to watch an animated movie. Not sure why because I've enjoyed most of the ones I've seen. We recently watched Inside Out which is phenomenal. Really clever.

This is not your typical animated film, but at a little over 16 minutes, it was one of my favorite films in 2015.



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that looks great when and where will it stream?

Not sure how I missed this when it came out, but watched Lion last night. Phenomenal. The cinematography was outstanding. The first half was captivating. Just a great watch.

Far and away better than any movie I watched out of this year's crop.