Movie Recommendations for You -- August 2024 (Stream)
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In this livestream, I discuss:
-- great stuff on the Criterion Channel
-- upcoming movies you might enjoy
-- what you might want to watch that's leaving the Criterion Channel, Amazon Prime, and Netflix.
-- and the usual recommendations and nonsense!
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James Woods gave a great performance in Once Upon a Time in America. The Morricone score is transcendent.
I am also not a big musical fan.
But I love The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Only musical that I've watched multiple times.
I love Tarkovsky but I was disappointed by The Long Day Closes. I guess I'm not a big fan of the British historical movies. To me the whole movie felt quite worn out and unnecessarily old fashioned in tone, but that is expected for a historical drama.
Still I appreciate it for its visual style.
A rewatch might help.
I finally watched Ikiru. I'm trying to complete Kurosawa's vast magnificent filmography. Utterly in awe. How he does this every time to me as a cinema viewer. He is the Master.
It’s so good. Just watched High and Low and it’s crazy how versatile Kurosawa is.
Movies to recommend on Criterion - Leave Her To Heaven (1945 film noir), The Savages (2009 comedy drama with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney), Smoke (smart indie movie from 1995 with Harvey Keitel and William Hurt)
On musicals - If you think you can't dislike The Ladykillers, how can you dislike Singin in The Rain? - possibly the most joyous movie ever made, what I like to call the Citizen Kane of musicals for all the cinematic ideas, so much to enjoy apart from the song and dance numbers (and they're massively enjoyable). It's the one musical that is a true representative case of a lost art.
And Nashville must be a musical (if you count All That Jazz as a musical) mainly because the song performances are not diversions but very much part of the narrative (even if it's sprawling) or part of Altman's commentary on America
@LearningaboutMovies , if it helps, I'd say There Will Be Blood is about entrepreneurship and the cut-throat lust for power. The context of shyster charismatic religion and oil moguls is just the context. When I saw it, I thought it was really good. Will have to watch again.
If I haven't mentioned, @Reformedlibertarians links you on their resources page. You have many secret fans. Keep up the great work!
I would be interested in seeing you make a video on good movies about/for elderly individuals, given how cinema and movie youtube cater towards younger audiences. Could be a good topic for thinking about a demographic and set of experiences that are often “put down” as less cinematic, particularly one this applicable to pretty much everyone in how they interact with seniors close to home.
_The Silent Partner,_ great suspense.
_There Will be Blood,_ great acting by Daniel Day Lewis.
_The Lady from Shanghai,_ Orson Welles, suspenseful film. Be careful about following your passion!
Psychological horror? You mean like _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?_ or _Gaslight_ or _Bunny Lake is Missing._
My favorite Coen Brothers is _The Man Who Wasn't There._
A good musical is _White Christmas,_ if your in the Christmas mood.
As always, Dr. Matthews, I enjoy your recommendations and will definitely check out "The Long Day Closes." "The Silent Partner" is another film to watch before it leaves Criterion. Great premise and a truly terrifying performance by Christopher ("The Sound of Music") Plummer as a murderous psychopath intent on retrieving the $48,000 he didn't steal from a bank. Won top honors including best film and best director from Canada's version of the Oscars.
Look at at Box Office statistics for the last 10-15 years. Its bad. I'm working in the industry and I'm worried that Film business does not know how to attract young audience with new fresh stories/products. Instead they pander to oldies with like you say old IP rehashes. There's always been remakes of stories that work well but what is there ini the Cinemas that teenagers and YA people want to get off the sofa+phone or computer+game to spend their time and money on? And its probably the younger people they need to catch to get BO numbers up again. Older people don't (didn't) go to the cinema as much as younger people, I'm guessing.
But I have a feeling there's just no fresh ideas or management that knows what to do now. They're flailing.
Just a phrase you said..."they pander". That's the problem. Their idea of what you would like is based on what you bought before. That's not _creating art._ It's _commercial,_ not _artistic._
New ideas aren't in short supply, they are just unappreciated, neglected, and ignored.
At least Knives Out, Smile, Black Phone, Five Nights at Freddys, and M3gan are doing sequels to films that are of our generation. Though I don't know if it's an issue that 4/5 of those are horror films.
@@llamasarus1 My young teenager likes horror films and games at the moment. It started with watching World War Z I think. He also refuses to watch anything older than himself. I think he wants it fresh seeming and sharp visuals. I try to persuade him to watch older films, like Stand By Me or Gladiator, but its not always successful. We liked M3gan although it was a bit a of let down after the fun trailer. It peaked at the murderous dance down that corridor. We've seen Dune 2 and Twisters in the cinema this year.