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Watched Lion and Fences this weekend. Now I have seen all 9 Best Picture nominated films. All deserving to be there. I'll rank them later tonight as if I were a voter.
Looks like a Burbank AMC is getting Silence on Friday, so that and Fences are up next.
That review reads like you don't like musicals.
That review reads like you don't like musicals.
Just got around to Paterson, and speaking as a longtime Jarmusch fan this still managed to blow me away. Easily his best since at least Ghost Dog... but maybe more like since Mystery Train or Stranger Than Paradise. Really one of his best.
Glad you two enjoyed it. I saw it again today and I would be fine with a life mission of hunting down every Academy member who ignored it and subjecting them to some of the trials found in the film.
The other large bias is against Asian actors, and I think the ones in Silence are superlative. Critics groups and SAG love to hand out awards for Best Ensemble, and this one was about as good as it gets. When you're thrown into this small village of peasants, you can feel the sense of secret community. When its two local religious leaders Ichizo and Mokichi sacrifice themselves as "hostages" to save the villagers, it's powerfully moving, culminating in the scene where Mokichi gives the cross he made to Rodrigues. The shot of them on their knees facing each other with Garrpe in the background, who is blocked when the two touch heads, is out of this world.
On the other side the actors are just as good: Issey Ogata received a lot of great press for his Inquisitor, and rightfully so (his shading makes him more than the mere cackling villain he seems on the surface), but I also loved Tadanobu Asano as the Interpreter, who alternates between sensible advice and cruelty, much like his counterpart.
And of course in the middle is the recurring apostate Kichijiro (played by Yosuke Kubozuka), who is arguably the most sympathetic in the film. A man who doesn't have the courage to die for his faith, but also can't seem to let it go. He's the example by which Rodrigues (via his narration) truly learns the meaning of his calling--to help those in the most need.
I already mentioned the brilliance of the film's epilogue, a section I could watch over and over again, and what likely puts this in the cinematic pantheon, but the climax of the filmis absolutely perfect, with Scorsese applying slow motion in a non-gratutituous way that amplifies and draws out the emotion of the moment but also gives us some great imagery (there's a shot of the Interpreter raising his hand to signal the raising of the people in the pits as the flames shoot up beside him) heightened by the sound totally dropping out for about a minute.where Rodrigues finally capitulates and apostatizes
This is one for the ages.
Assuming you still haven't seen it yet?
It was an enjoyable movie. Not "let's give ol' Mer another nom" enjoyable, but enjotable. I'm glad they made a movie of her story - I've always loved that FFJ was a thing that happened.I don't know how to feel about how much I enjoyed Florence Foster Jenkins
I don't know, I thought she was brilliant. You would be a person I would imagine can appreciate how hard it must have been for her to sing that poorly.It was an enjoyable movie. Not "let's give ol' Mer another nom" enjoyable, but enjotable. I'm glad they made a movie of her story - I've always loved that FFJ was a thing that happened.