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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Your Top Five Films for This Decade... so far?

Films I loved in the past decade:

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Children of Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kill Bill vol. 1
Chicago

Honorable mention:

V for Vendetta
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Stardust
Batman Begins
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Films I thought were awful yet everyone else seems to love them:

Pan's Labyrinth
The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions
Revenge of the Sith
Crash
The Aviator
 
Some of the movies starting in 2000 that I enjoyed or thought were interesting:

Gladiator
Girl on the Bridge
O Brother Where Art Thou?
In the Mood for Love
Yi-Yi
Memento
A.I.
The Others
Moulin Rouge!
Mulholland Drive
The Man Who Wasn't There
Amelie
Lord of the Rings
Lost in Translation
Master & Commander
The Fog of War
Bad Santa
Black Hawk Down
Minority Report
24-Hour Party People
Spirited Away
The Quiet American
Solaris
Adaptation
Catch Me if You Can
City of God
Songs from the Second Floor
The Barbarian Invasions
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Shawn of the Dead
The Incredibles
Bad Education
2046
Munich
The New World
Cache
Tristram Shandy
 
movies I just adore:

movies I just adore:

Doctor Detroit
Howard The Duck
Action Jackson
In The Army Now
Last American Virgin

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
 
Tom said:
Nesse, can you tell us more about Stellet Licht?
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It's a very slow, contemplative film, about simple people living simple lives. All the dialogue is spoken in a language called Plautdietsch (is this what the Amish in the US speak?). The plot is more or less "borrowed" from Dreyer's "Ordet" (but it's not a very plot driven film). And, the cinematography is fantastic. That opening shot....

If you love the great Malick, there's a good chance you'll love this.

And, I'd love to see what Carlos Reygadas could do with a Red. :)
 
David, are you a fan of Miyazaki's other works, like Porco Rosso, Nausicaa, Mononoke, etc?
 
Nils J. Nesse said:
It's a very slow, contemplative film, about simple people living simple lives. All the dialogue is spoken in a language called Plautdietsch (is this what the Amish in the US speak?). The plot is more or less "borrowed" from Dreyer's "Ordet" (but it's not a very plot driven film). And, the cinematography is fantastic. That opening shot....

If you love the great Malick, there's a good chance you'll love this.

And, I'd love to see what Carlos Reygadas could do with a Red. :)
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Saw 'Stellet Licht' last month at the NYFF. The plot is actually very different from 'Ordet' until the last scene, which basically lifts 'Ordet's' great final scene wholesale, and to little effect. There's no motivation for it in either a narrative or theological sense, and any sense of the miraculous that was crucially built up in 'Ordet' is utterly lacking here.

That said, I really loved it up until the ending, which more or less utterly ruined it. The anamorphic cinematography is fantastic; the sound design is quite lovely and there are a few scenes (such as one of children bathing in a lake) that are as beautiful as anything out there. And, yes, the opening shot is amazing. The casting and the performances are also uniformly strong. Unfortunately, it's hard to describe how completely the ending wrecks the movie.

Still worth watching for the cinematography, though, especially if you can find it playing in 35mm somewhere.
 
haha, well I think In the Mood still qualifies since its US release was 2000.
 
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