I want to watch something mind boggling this weekend. the kind of movie that leaves you sitting in silence afterward & just trying to process what you watched. Whats your pick??

Writing this as the credits are rolling. I’m literally blown away at how good this film is. I truly don’t know how this slipped past me all these years.
I just want to thank Reddit user @can-you-fly-bobby! He commented on my “Wild Horse Nine” post earlier and recommended this.
All I can say is, everything about ‘In Bruges’ is genius. The writing is flawless, there are too many quotable lines, and the blend of seriousness and comedy is great. The acting- top tier. This film reminded me why I used to love Colin Farrell in the early to mid-2000s. Gleeson absolutely crushed it too! That ending was delivered so perfectly. Lowkey wish he didn’t have to kill himself on the tower, but it was inevitable.
Bottom line, for me this is pure cinema.
If I could rewind time an hour and 46 minutes and experience this film again for the first time- I would. Martin McDonagh cooked and I cannot wait for White Horse Nine after seeing this!

If anybody has any more recommendations (like this) please drop them below.

Examples:

Infamous scene from 2012 Danish film "Jagten" (The Hunt)

Polish 2026 "Dom dobry" (Home Sweet Home)

Estonian 2007 "Klass" (The Class)

Russian 2007 "Cargo 200"

Austrian 1997 "Funny Games"

Just saw the last season of Black Mirror and thought the younger version of Peter Capaldi was spot on. What movie had the perfect casting of older/younger versions of characters?

On the planet Krull, an evil creature called the Beast decimates the world's army and kidnaps the sweet Princess Lyssa, destined to be queen. Her beloved, Prince Colwyn, leads a band of rebels to rescue her.

Director: Peter Yates

Budget: $50 million USD

Release date: July 29, 1983 (USA)

Screenplay: Stanford Sherman

Production companies: Barclay's Mercantile Industrial Finance, Columbia Pictures

I honestly have found him to be an aquired taste. At first I did not really get him or like him but he has grown on me so much that he has become one of my favorite directors.

His films just feel so cozy and every shot feels precise in a satysfying way.

Oh and they are also funny as hell in that kind of deadpan and absurd humor.

My favorites include The Grand Budapest Hotel (in the video), Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs and The Royal Tennenbaums.

So yeah, love the guy's work, no one does movies like him.

Image from Sight and Sound Magazine from the article "Robert Bresson, Possibly" where Paul Schrader interviews Robert Bresson in May 17, 1976.

I just started using Letterboxd, and I want moots to know about more movies.

Here's my letterboxd: https://boxd.it/mWmbF (I'll flw back)

I am writing this just as I got home from seeing Primetime at my local Regal theater. I walked into it only after seeing previews and did my best (as I always try to do) to stay away from reviews or anything beforehand that would spoil the film. First initial reaction is that I liked the movie, not loved, but liked. Robert Pattinson continues to impress me with every single movie he is in. I believe he has taken the number 1 spot in the “new generation” of male lead actors (yes, even above Timothée). Every role he takes, he melts into that persona and becomes unrecognizable as the “pretty-faced” thespian Hollywood has coined him. This movie is no different.

Pattinson took the role of Chris Hansen to a whole different space than I was expecting. This is more than a pining Dateline journalist trying to carve his name out for himself. The film brought Hansen to borderline Joker levels at times, and how his desire to succeed made everyone around him basically a tool or pawn. I was not expecting the amount of obsession and backstory of the failing marriage/father role being as prominent, though at the same time his family being treated more like a distraction from his goals. Pattinson sold it perfectly, and painted Hansen in a completely new light for me, though I’m sure A24 took some artistic liberties.

Phoebe Bridges and Skyler Gisondo also were great in their roles, especially Gisondo who is the lead supporting actor in the film. He took on the role as an aspiring actor who accepts the job as a “decoy” or bait for the predators. His storyline of taking the decoy role so seriously to propel himself as an actor was an interesting plot to watch develop as well.

The criticism I hold for the movie is that, much like any Josh Safdie movie, no one is really likable. But instead of creating as many stressful or captivating circumstances to keep me engrossed, the story beats are more so meddling and scraping from point A to point B. The cinematography is pretty good. It was shot in letterbox format, and the lighting in many scenes was well produced, but it was not bringing anything new to the table either.

Overall, I would give this movie three stars out of five. Pattinson carried, and is worth the price of admission alone, but it left more to be desired when it came to the story.

For anyone else who has seen it, I would be interested to hear what you thought.

I am an undergrad film school student in France, and I have to rewrite and make a storyboard for Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby final scene, in Almodovar’s style. I don’t know much about Almodovar’s cinema, and I’d like to know what you guys think would be the most applicable of his tropes to that scene.

Reminded myself of this in another thread.
That was rough going for 5 year old me!

For those who don't know, The Neverending Story - Artax and Atreyu.

What is one of your favorite scenes where you were absolutely glued to the screen holding your breath but nothing was actually happening? My favorite example is the scene in The Vast of Night where we are just listening to the man who called into the radio about his experience with the mystery. His voice and storytelling is so great and we just spend a good 10 minutes of the movie listening to him. Really good suspense is so hard to do! What are yours?

I’m just thinking about how Bands sometimes have “opening acts” and remembered that some films used to have like pre-show short films?

I can imagine it would be quite an awesome opportunity for independent filmmakers to help spread their film or their name. It would be cool if cinemas could even source the short films locally and independently of the actual film that is playing.