Films I like

[MK Scarlett]

I saw a few weeks ago a movie however which doesn't seem really known for what I know around me: Take Shelter a 2011 movie starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain and written and directed by Jeff Nichols.

Hereafter a video of the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5U4TtYpKIc

This movie has received critical acclaim with mostly positive reviews and was released in Sundance, Deauville, and others.

Hereafter the synopsis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_ShelterIn Elyria, Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has apocalyptic dreams of being harmed by people close to him, but he keeps them from his wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and their deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart). He focuses on building a storm shelter in his backyard, but the strange behavior strains his relationship with his family. Curtis goes to see a counselor at a free clinic, with whom he talks about his family's psychological history. His mother (Kathy Baker) suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which presented about the same age that Curtis is now.

This film also has been reviewed here:
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,28469.msg354456.html#msg354456

I truly recommend it for many aspects (relevant) of it without wanting tell too much. Is anybody else saw this film?

We saw this movie because I think it was you who talked about it. It is a strange movie, I think very interesting. It is difficult to talk about it without being spoiler.  The actor is very good, the situation is very "now", the final is excellent. Thanks, anyway, for talking in another thread about it.

Thank you for your answer loreta, and glad you apprecied it! 

[caballero reyes]

"EIGHT WOMEN"( HUIT FEMMES) (France) 2002  Dir. François Ozon.  A MASTERPIECE GAY COMEDY.

A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and end up having to solve a murder-mystery -- in this musical-comic homage to studio-era "women's pictures" from acclaimed French director François Ozon. Partly inspired by George Cukor's 1939 classic The Women, 8 Femmes stars Catherine Deneuve as Gaby, a high-society matron just returned to her country house to celebrate Christmas with her husband; mother Mamy (Danielle Darrieux); sister Augustine (Isabelle Huppert); and daughters Suzon (Virginie Ledoyen) and Catharine (Ludivine Sagnier). Not long after they all arrive, however, do they find the man of the house with a knife in his back, whereupon everyone becomes a suspect -- including maids Chanel (Firmine Richard) and Louise (Emmanuelle Béart). The mysterious arrival of Augustine's sister-in-law Pierrette (Fanny Ardant) only complicates matters, as the titular eight women find themselves snowed in by a fierce blizzard, forced to confront the matter of the lifeless husband -- and their long-standing secrets and resentments -- without the aid of the police. Following its immensely successful release in France in early 2002, 8 Women enjoyed much acclaim at the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttPhGfyyWQ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv8_fsEq_j0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLaYD-Ty7Rw&feature=related

[caballero reyes]

"DOLLS" (JAPAN) 2002  Dir. Takeshi Kitano   

Running time   114 min

Dolls (ドールズ Dōruzu?) is a 2002 Japanese film written, edited and directed by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. A highly stylized art film, Dolls is part of Kitano's non-crime film oeuvre, like 1991's A Scene at the Sea, and unlike most of his other films, he does not act in it. The film has been praised for its cinematography (Katsumi Yanagishima) and features costumes by Yohji Yamamoto

The film features three primary sets of characters, each within their own distinct story:
A young man (Matsumoto, played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) who rejects his engagement to his fiancée (Sawako, played by Miho Kanno) to marry the daughter of his company's president. When his former fiancée attempts suicide and ends up in a semi-vegetative state, he takes her out of the hospital and they run away.

Another young man (Nukui, played by Tsutomu Takeshige) is obsessed with the pop-star Haruna (played by Kyoko Fukada); he blinds himself when she is involved in a disfiguring car accident.

An aged yakuza (Hiro, played by Tatsuya Mihashi), who tries to meet a girlfriend from his youth (played by Chieko Matsubara).
These stories do have some incidental visual cross-over with each other in the film, but are mostly separate


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-7eNtLia6o&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA6xh37db0g

[lazyden]

I Like Watching Flims. some time when I am free Then Mostly I would like to watch Hollywood films and my Favorite Hollywood films is "London", .So i like a so much

[Nienna]

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[Goemon_]

Paycheck by John Woo.

Based on a novel from philip k. dick.

Talks about what would happens if we see the future (so it doesn't talk about multiple futurs).

I found this film interesting in regard of "the signs".

Well, difficult to talk about this movie without reveling the end.

[caballero reyes]

Hi, Goemon. I have not seen "PAYCHECK" but I've seen advertised where rent videos. Woo is a very good chinese director of action movie to entertain. "HARD TARGET" with Jean Claude Van Damme is interesting and entertaining.

[loreta]

Caballero reyes, do you know a movie named THE BRIDGE, made by an English director around 1987. I look for this movie since many years and I am unable to find it. I saw this movie in a Festival in Montreal. The story of this movie is very interesting: it is the story of a very famous impressionist English painter from the beginning of the last century. It tells the story of when this painter went to a village and meet this woman and fell in love with her and the Bridge is his last painting of her, on a bridge. It is an exceptional movie because you can feel the beauty of falling in love. And the movie is made like a painting of this epoch. In fact I fell in love with the movie but this movie I am unable to find. I know that you are an expert so that's why I ask you. I hope you don't mind. The problem also is that there is too many movies with the same title so...

Years looking for a movie is like looking for a treasure! Thanks.

[Goemon_]

Maybe that _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_%281992_film%29

[loreta]

Maybe that _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_%281992_film%29

Wow!!!! This is the movie. I am so surprise that maybe I am also a little shame . Was that so simple? I never checked Wikipedia, I don't know how to check with it.

So: THANK YOU. You have find my treasure. I am very grateful. Now I will see if I can find the movie to see it again.

Thank you!

[Goemon_]

I have type that in a research engine (ixquick.com) : film "the bridge" painter

[loreta]

I have type that in a research engine (ixquick.com) : film "the bridge" painter

Thanks for the information.

[caballero reyes]

Hi, Loreta, Here some addition about "THE BRIDGE"  Dir. Sidney mc Cartney from North Ireland, this movie is based in Maggie Hemmingway's novel.

[loreta]

Hi, Loreta, Here some addition about "THE BRIDGE"  Dir. Sidney mc Cartney from North Ireland, this movie is based in Maggie Hemmingway's novel.

Thank you Caballero Reyes, that's another thing that surprised me. I didn't know. Even that, I am unable to find the movie to see it again. It is like this movie is a "perle rare". Like this movie never existed. The book is there, the information of the movie also, the director is known... but the movie is anywhere. It came in a Movie Festival and pouf! disappeared. Why? Some movies have strange destiny. They are not commercial and they are not from America. Some times Americans buy the rights of some movies then buried the movie. The realm of films is like the realm of politics. 

The Bridge is a feast of beautiful images, sensations, the music is extremely beautiful, the colors, the story also is very human...

Thank you anyway. Maybe one day I will find this movie, again. Who knows!

[Goemon_]

It seems there is a VHS in a vieo-club in Brazil... I don't think it will be in english.
That all I could find so far.

EL PUENTE
SYD MACARTNEY
SASKIA REEVES Y JOSS ACKLAND
1992

_http://videoclubdelmirador.espacioblog.com/post/2006/08/25/catalogo-vcdm-al-23-08-06


edit : adding the url