aaron
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Post by aaron on May 19, 2019 0:06:50 GMT
I just watched The Ballad of Narayama (dir. Shōhei Imamura) and can't recommend it highly enough. Beautiful, moving, and with an overall atmosphere unlike anything else I've ever seen. There's extensive use of (obvious) backdrops in a way that gives the film a felt artificiality, as if it's not quite of this world. This is accentuated by the use of sudden lighting changes. And the story itself is wrenching: it's set in a small village with a custom of carrying their elders up a mountain and leaving them to die when they turn 70. It centers an old woman about to make this journey to Narayama, and her son who struggles with the burden of having to let go of her. Just a wonderful, wonderful film.
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Post by Mātōnya on May 19, 2019 0:22:06 GMT
Thanks for the recommendation! That sounds like something I'd really enjoy.
I don't remember the last new film that I watched. However, I recommend Excalibur for a great film even though it's pretty old now.
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aaron
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Post by aaron on May 19, 2019 0:36:18 GMT
Yes, I think you'd like it. I added some screenshots to the OP, which I had meant to do initially.
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Post by somestingray on May 21, 2019 1:04:28 GMT
John Wick 3 on Saturday. I loved it. Definitely better than John Wick 2, probably as good as the first movie. Fantastic fight choreography.
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Post by teprw on May 24, 2019 3:35:24 GMT
The Ballad of Narayama is the only one of Imamura's movies I've seen so far. I'm curious to see whether his others are similarly stylized.
I went to go see Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind on Tuesday. It's the second time I've seen it, but the first time must have been over ten years ago. I really liked it. I never realized how alien and desolate it looks compared to Miyazaki's other movies, in a good way. It's much more focused than I remembered too; for a long time I thought of it as sort of a broad environmental/anti-war parable, but this time I took it to be making more specific connections between military action and the environment.
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Post by aaron on May 24, 2019 14:42:46 GMT
It's actually directed by Keisuke Kinoshita; not sure how I made that error. There's a bunch of his films on the Criterion Channel, so I might watch more. At first glance, though, they don't look like they're all so stylized.
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Post by teprw on May 24, 2019 16:16:34 GMT
There are two films called The Ballad of Narayama, the other one is by Imamura. The one I saw was Kinoshita's, but I still get them mixed up sometimes.
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Post by aaron on May 24, 2019 16:44:01 GMT
Ah, that would explain it. Yes, I also saw the Kinoshita.
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