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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #310 on: November 01, 2017, 10:47:05 AM »
Every time I rewatch Tree of Life, I hope I will like it more. I never do.  :'(

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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #311 on: November 01, 2017, 04:45:40 PM »
Never did this because I didn't feel qualified to answer most of those. I'm slightly closer to that now I suppose. As a disclaimer, I consider "best" and "favorite" to be synonymous here. Also, I could give different answers to most of those on another day.

1. Who is your favorite movie director working today?

The Coen Bros.

2. Who is the greatest movie director of All Time and what is the worst movie by them you've seen?

Akira Kurosawa, and the worst I've seen would be Zoku Sugata Sanshirô.

3. Who is the greatest living movie Actor and Actress?

Gérard Depardieu is the actor I find the most fascinating. He's just always interesting even if the film is mediocre/terrible.

Frances McDormand. I'm very excited for Three Billboards.

4. Who is the greatest movie Actor and Actress of all time?
Actor : Well, still Depardieu but second place would be Robert DeNiro.
Actress : Again, same answer, but second place would be ScarJo even though she's much less consistent.

I'll note here that there is a clear recency bias because I just don't have enough data for many classic stars, and also less of an emotional attachment since I came to classic movies late, for the most part.

5. What is your favorite Overlooked Film?

It might be too high-profile for this, but my first thought is Burn After Reading. I guess that's more underrated than overlooked, but there you go.

6. What film in your Top 100 gives your list personal charm?

I guess I can't say Burn After Reading again, so... I guess Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre ?

7. What is your favorite TV Show of All Time?

The Sopranos. Gets it over The Wire because it actually has a TV structure instead of being essentially a filmed novel.

8. Would you rather own the Complete Box Set for Mad Men, Lost, Breaking Bad or Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Well the one I do own is Breaking Bad, out of those. I love Mad Men and Lost, and like what I've seen of Buffy a lot though.

9. Which year of cinema was better, 1957 or 1974?

1957 very easily, from what I've seen.

10. Which is better Goodfellas or Magnolia?

Goodfellas

11. Die Hard or Back to the Future?

Die Hard

12. Name one film you're ashamed to admit you still haven't watched.

Hm. I guess Cléo de 5 à 7, because now that I've seen plenty of Varda's work, it seems silly that I still haven't seen what's generally considered her best.

13. Name both your Man Crush and your Woman Crush.
Man crush : Mads Mikkelsen
Girl Crush : Alison Brie

14. For each category, list 1 Favorite and 1 you wish more of us would watch:

Musical
The Blues Brothers / 8 femmes

Horror Movie
Dawn of the Dead / Cure

Film Noir
The Third Man / Sweet Smell of Success (not that obscure, especially here, but I'm not exactly a noir expert)

Documentary
Dont Look Back / La glace et le ciel

Animated Film
Mononoke-hime / Louise en hiver

Western
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo aka The Good, The Bad and The Ugly / My Darling Clementine (again, not a Western expert)

James Bond Film
Casino Royale / I've seen, like, five of them and I only like two

Performance by an Actor
Emil Jannings in Der letzte Mann / Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons (Oscar winner but still not that well-known I think)

Performance by an Actress
Frances McDormand in Fargo / Catherine Frot in Marquerite

15. Give the following films a grade/rating (whatever scale you prefer):

The Dark Knight - 7/10
Eraserhead - Haven't seen
Inception - 8/10
Inglourious Basterds - 9/10
A Serious Man - 8/10
Skyfall - 7/10
Tree of Life - Haven't seen
Watchmen - 8/10 (based on my dim memory of it)

16. Give the following directors a grade/rating (whatever scale you prefer):

Woody Allen - 6/10 (seen 6)

Wes Anderson - 8/10 (seen 2)

John Ford – 7/10 (seen 4)

Werner Herzog - 7/10 (seen 6)

Yasujirō Ozu - 7/10 (seen 3)

Steven Soderbergh - Haven't seen enough (2 of the Ocean's, quite some time ago)

Steven Spielberg - 7/10 (seen 13)

Quentin Tarantino - 9/10 (seen 9)

Johnnie To - Haven't seen enough (1)

Lars von Trier - Haven't seen enough (1)

7/10 is both my "good" and "sometimes great sometimes bad" rating I guess.
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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #312 on: November 01, 2017, 06:35:59 PM »
I was going to update this at the two year anniversary of my being here,

Forget your answers, somehow it just doesn't seem right that you have only been here for just over 2 years...
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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #313 on: November 01, 2017, 07:00:44 PM »
I know, who the hell was in charge of dumb puns before I got here?
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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #314 on: November 02, 2017, 05:40:22 AM »
1. Who is your favorite movie director working today?

The Coen Bros.

2. Who is the greatest movie director of All Time and what is the worst movie by them you've seen?

Akira Kurosawa, and the worst I've seen would be Zoku Sugata Sanshirô.

13. Name both your Man Crush and your Woman Crush.
Man crush : Mads Mikkelsen
Girl Crush : Alison Brie

These are all correct. I would love to see Brie do more film work.

3. Who is the greatest living movie Actor and Actress?

Gérard Depardieu is the actor I find the most fascinating. He's just always interesting even if the film is mediocre/terrible.

Frances McDormand. I'm very excited for Three Billboards.

4. Who is the greatest movie Actor and Actress of all time?
Actor : Well, still Depardieu but second place would be Robert DeNiro.
Actress : Again, same answer, but second place would be ScarJo even though she's much less consistent.

I'll note here that there is a clear recency bias because I just don't have enough data for many classic stars, and also less of an emotional attachment since I came to classic movies late, for the most part.

This is pretty crazy. Could you list your favourite performances by Depardieu and McDormand? Depardieu in particular, I cannot think of a movie where I really liked his work. McDormand is always great, but she doesn't have a very large body of work.

*in the audience, chuckles as people look back at my Best Actor pick*

I would say ScarJo is more consistent than the movies she's in. More of a material problem.

10. Which is better Goodfellas or Magnolia?

Goodfellas

No.

Louise en Hiver, La Glace et le Ciel, Cure, Marguerite ; never heard of any of them, so I suppose that makes them good picks. Really like 8 femmes though.

It's always weird to me that you have blindspots like Soderbergh but do Varda-like marathons all the time. Your mission this month should be to watch more Wes Anderson.
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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #315 on: November 02, 2017, 06:11:13 AM »
I think Depardieu is great in literally everything he's in (that I've seen anyway), but Cyrano de Bergerac is probably my favorite performance of his.

McDormand doesn't have a huge body of work, true, but she's not Marie Falconetti either, I feel like she's done enough to qualify.

I almost went with Tout en haut du monde for the animated one, but I've recommended that already on here. Louise en hiver is a lovely film about growing old. It's very pretty, too.

La glace et le ciel is a documentary about Claude Lorius, who's a scientist who studied Antarctica and found the first signs of global warming there in the 70s. It's more about the wonder/thrill of humanity (and science) facing these extreme conditions though.

Marguerite is Florence Foster Jenkins but good.

Cure, well, I'll direct you the to the 90's Far East Bracket.

As for marathons, I live by Adam & Sam/Matty/Josh's blindspots I suppose, which makes me skip over more obvious ones like Soderbergh and the Andersons (I've only seen 3 PTA). Fine by me though, I'll get to those when I'll get to them. Also I've actually seen 3 by Wes Anderson, forgot about Fantastic Mr. Fox.
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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #316 on: November 02, 2017, 06:28:41 AM »
forgot about Fantastic Mr. Fox.

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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #318 on: November 02, 2017, 03:59:31 PM »
When I first saw the trailer for Suburbicon, I thought someone had remade Burn After Reading.

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Re: Highlights of the Board: Questions For Members New and Old
« Reply #319 on: November 02, 2017, 04:03:35 PM »
When I first saw the trailer for Suburbicon, I thought someone had remade Burn After Reading.

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Incidentally, it was my most anticipated film of this fall. Not so much now, but I'll still be seeing it for sure.
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