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02-04-2025 , 12:42 AM
If I get a chance I'll watch it again. I saw it when it came out and still remember several scenes. My favorite was when she tries to gift Sam to a friend in a bar -- then decides to keep him for herself. Women! I remember it 35 years after I saw it.
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02-04-2025 , 12:43 AM
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COMPANION (2024)
Definitely glad I missed the trailers before seeing this movie.
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02-04-2025 , 04:46 PM
Tonight I'm going to see the 4k restoration of The Third Man. I told my students that if they want to go, I will pay for them.

I hope a few take me up on that offer.

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02-04-2025 , 05:19 PM
Guaranteed they will chuckle at the soundtrack.
Are they already familiar with the actors?
Are you students familiar with the concept of the 'Dutch angle?

If so, tell them to pay attention to the shots and to look for the anchoring line in the framing...



If they pay attention, you can nearly always find a line within the shot that anchors the image to the horizontal and vertical lines of the frame itself... like the horizontal eyes on wells in the shot above. good dutch angle does this, bad dutch angle is like watching an episode of batman.

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02-04-2025 , 05:24 PM
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Guaranteed they will chuckle at the soundtrack.
Are they already familiar with the actors?
God, no. They're young. Most young students know little beyond what they've seen in the last ten years.

There were a couple students in the past, though, who surprised me. One wrote on Godard's King Lear and another did Battle of Algiers.

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02-04-2025 , 05:31 PM
Please have them pay attention to the way that Carol Reed ends the film with his final shot... in that like life, at times, there can be no happiness
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02-04-2025 , 06:06 PM
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Please have them pay attention to the way that Carol Reed ends the film with his final shot... in that like life, at times, there can be no happiness
Parallel lines never meet. Some people remain strangers.

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02-04-2025 , 06:14 PM


I got another import... From Australia, a beautiful HD release of Lars and the Real Girl

Modern adaption of Greek Pygmalion mythos (and by extension Pinocchio's search to become a real boy) where a Cyprus Sculptor creates such a perfect woman from alabaster that he falls in love with it... The artist prays to Aphrodite to feel the warmth of if her Kiss. Aphrodite grants his wish and his perfect female creation returns his kiss... and thusly a metamorphosis.

in Lars and the Real Girl, the metamorphosis that occurs is in Lars and not in the inanimate Love Doll... As his delusional relationship with the Love Doll deteriorates, Lars is slowly shedding his childhood traumas and becoming more Human until he finally finds his true Alabaster Female companion.

this is a truly great film that requires us to invest and understand the nuances of the story being laid out before us...

or, it could be a stupid movie about a looser that falls in love with a plastic doll.
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02-04-2025 , 06:14 PM
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Parallel lines never meet. Some people remain strangers.
god bless you
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02-04-2025 , 06:24 PM
I love Lars and The Real Girl. One of the key elements in Romantic Comedy is the establishment of a real community by the end of the film.

In Lars that happens throughout the film.

And, yes, I think Lars is a Rom-Com. Just imagine if we could all learn acceptance.

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02-04-2025 , 11:11 PM
Great to see The Third Man in a theater. I've watched it quite a few times but never in a theater.

I never paid as much attention as I did tonight. The film is full of suspicious glances throughout.

And why do we feel sympathy for Harry?

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02-04-2025 , 11:33 PM
He is humanized by the two main protagonists for more than an hour and a half before he is hunted down and killed like a rabid dog by the totality of Humanity, which happens to include his best friend.
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02-05-2025 , 01:02 AM
Companion was great. It's not horror at all, it's a thriller that easily could have been an episode of Black Mirror.

To echo the previous poster: don't watch the trailer and definitely don't read the one sentence synopsis on Google. It's terrible how much is spoiled.
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02-05-2025 , 10:50 AM
Bullet Train was on FXM last night. Being on FXM meant commercial interruptions, so I'd watch a few minutes, then flip to something else.

Seemed like mindless fun of a very violent sort.
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02-05-2025 , 12:04 PM
Pure trash that I'll still watch for whatever reason.

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02-05-2025 , 01:14 PM
I am DONE with Dinosaurs and I was NEVER on board with a militant Scarlet Johannson... she's better than that cash grab and completely unbelievable as an operative.

The Fantastic Four trailer is better than that garbage... and I hate the MCU.
at least the F4 has much better color grading and period design. and that score is not really all that bad and very well put together



yeah... I wont be watching this either, but I might buy that soundtrack
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02-05-2025 , 01:35 PM
here is a small example of the 'anchoring' of scenes from The Third Man that use The Dutch Angle...

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02-05-2025 , 02:41 PM
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I am DONE with Dinosaurs and I was NEVER on board with a militant Scarlet Johannson... she's better than that cash grab and completely unbelievable as an operative.

The Fantastic Four trailer is better than that garbage... and I hate the MCU.
at least the F4 has much better color grading and period design. and that score is not really all that bad and very well put together


yeah... I wont be watching this either, but I might buy that soundtrack
Agree the F4 trailer looks better and I'm way more of a JP fan than I am of F4, even though I enjoy the MCU.

What irks me the most is it's been 32 years since the original JP and we still can't get dinosaurs that look remotely as good as they did back then.
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02-05-2025 , 02:42 PM
Retro futurism will always be cool.
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02-05-2025 , 03:08 PM
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What irks me the most is it's been 32 years since the original JP and we still can't get dinosaurs that look remotely as good as they did back then.
I attribute that view less to the fact that they can't get the illustration and color grading correct and more to the way that the animated characters move.

movement based in a Newtonian world is MUCH DIFFERENT than the way that they move in a modern commercial movie... and subconsciously our brain knows the difference.

if anyone thinks a 100 ton mass of flesh can jump like a fluffy kitty cat, I have a bridge to nowhere I would like to sell you.

it's the same with modern fight sequences and the incessant need to montage every punch with camera cuts that kills any feeling of continuity.

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02-05-2025 , 03:15 PM



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And who would that be?
In a related matter to usage of overly frequent camera cutting and the fact that it kills continuity... I posted this clip by Steven Spielberg from his very first film.

this 'Single' tracking shot is actually a good 20-30 seconds longer than in the video here...

It's a truly magnificent shot with amazing colors on screen.
for some reason the sound was lowered... probably my new phone case killed the cell microphone.
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02-05-2025 , 07:16 PM
Kill Bill Vol 1 - What can I say that hasn't been said already? I wanted to watch a clip from Vol 2 then I was like welp, guess I gotta watch 'em both all the way through. Kinda boggles my mind this is Tarantino's 4th film. I love the chapter format and love the way it moves. One of my takeaways of watching early QT films is there's a rhythm and pace I can't put my finger on, but it feels like Sally Menke allows the viewer just the right amount of time to draw maximum emotions in every scene.
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02-05-2025 , 08:29 PM
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In a related matter to usage of overly frequent camera cutting and the fact that it kills continuity... I posted this clip by Steven Spielberg from his very first film.

this 'Single' tracking shot is actually a good 20-30 seconds longer than in the video here...

It's a truly magnificent shot with amazing colors on screen.
for some reason the sound was lowered... probably my new phone case killed the cell microphone.
I have only seen a tiny bit of that film.

I always use canted frame rather than Dutch angle. I don't know why but I like it better. Those are nice shots from The Third Man. Even though it's not named after the film, a popular misconception, The Third Man cologne was my choice last night. In French, it's Le 3e Homme by Caron. It was Caron's third man's cologne.

The only cologne I know of that's named after a film is Mr. Hulot's Holiday.

I have the Midnight in Paris cologne but it's not named after the Woody Allen film.

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02-05-2025 , 09:23 PM
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Kill Bill Vol 1 - What can I say that hasn't been said already? I wanted to watch a clip from Vol 2 then I was like welp, guess I gotta watch 'em both all the way through. Kinda boggles my mind this is Tarantino's 4th film. I love the chapter format and love the way it moves. One of my takeaways of watching early QT films is there's a rhythm and pace I can't put my finger on, but it feels like Sally Menke allows the viewer just the right amount of time to draw maximum emotions in every scene.
I just rewatched them both also because they were just released by Lionsgate in 4k uhd...



QT is the master of pacing... and frankly, modern action sequences.
The Hannah and Thurman mobile home fight is one for the ages... just pure brilliance. Tasteful Montage, strategic pauses, building musical crescendo and ultimately the surprise 'kill shot' ending.
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02-05-2025 , 09:32 PM
I hate cell phone typing... it makes it very difficult to get complete thoughts out with any coherence.
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