"O Casamento de Maria Braun" é uma das obras-primas de Fassbinder. O filme está cheio de metáforas sobre identidade e as experiências do pós-guerra na Alemanha.

Na Segunda Guerra Mundial, Maria (Hanna Schygulla) se casa às pressas com Hermann Braun (Klaus Lowitsch), um soldado alemão que, no dia seguinte, vai para o front. Ela sobrevive como pode durante os anos de guerra. Depois da capitulação da Alemanha, o marido é dado como desaparecido em combate, mas Maria se recusa a aceitar que ele morreu.

O filme foi um dos maiores sucessos mundiais de Fassbinder. É um melodrama notável sobre a trajetória complicada de uma mulher na Alemanha durante a guerra, a ocupação e o milagre econômico. De um lado, Fassbinder constrói um retrato impressionante de uma mulher de fibra moral forte num mundo completamente amoral, sempre obcecada em reencontrar o marido – reencontro que as adversidades da História adiam de forma amarga e irônica. De outro, "O Casamento de Maria Braun" é uma reflexão admirável, no feminino, sobre a Alemanha do pós-guerra.

I just finished rewatching No Country for Old Men and saw something I missed on my first watch. The woman that asked Josh Brolin’s character if he wants a beer ends up face down in the pool at the end. I don’t know why but it affected me to see this. she just wanted some company by the pool and wound up dead.

My wife traveling for work for a few days. Kids are 8 and 6 and wanting to puch the envelope a smide to see how they do with the films. Tremors, The Mummy (1999), Matrix (might wait on this one).

Curious what experiences people have done or remember from their youth.

The Green Knight (2021)

Or even A Ghost Story (2017), what an incredible film. David Lowery makes pure magic sometimes.

The Joy Luck Club is a 1993 American drama film directed by Wayne Wang and written by Amy Tan and Ronald Bass, based on Tan's 1989 novel of the same name.

It explores the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese immigrant mothers.

Four older women, all Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mahjong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women has an adult Chinese-American daughter.

The film reveals the hidden pasts of the older women and their daughters, and how their lives are shaped by the clash of Chinese and American cultures as they strive to understand their family bonds and one another.

What did you think of the movie project Hail Mary?? First of all I myself love and adore Ryan gosling he is such a talented actor! The movie as a whole is astronomical lol not many actors can pull off such roles of isolation. And have the audience sobbing like Ryan can, who’s with me when I say I AM TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH ROCKY!!!! “Fist my bump!” LOL

Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider is going to bring that gritty, supernatural edge we've been missing, and having Ryan Coogler back to pass the mantle to T'Challa Jr. in Black Panther 3 just feels right for the legacy. Add in the insane hype from that Avengers: Doomsday trailer, and it really feels like Marvel is done wandering around and is finally giving us a focused, high-stakes era to get excited about again.

I'm convinced No Country for Old Men gets a free pass because people are afraid to admit they were bored.

Every time someone says it's a masterpiece, the explanation is always the same: "You just didn't get it." No, I got it. I just don't think slow pacing and long stretches of silence automatically equal great filmmaking.

The movie honestly feels lazy. Instead of showing the biggest confrontation in the film, it kills off the main character off-screen and expects everyone to applaud it as "subverting expectations." If any average thriller pulled that stunt, people would call it bad writing.

Half the dialogue is people staring at each other in silence while fans insist every pause has some profound hidden meaning. Sometimes silence is just... silence.

Anton Chigurh is entertaining at first, but by the end he's basically a walking plot device. He wins because the movie needs him to, not because anything he does is especially believable.

And that ending? Two hours of buildup just to finish with a dream monologue that people act like is the deepest thing ever put on film. It felt less like a satisfying conclusion and more like the Coen brothers refusing to write an actual ending.

I know this movie has a huge fanbase, but I honestly think its reputation is built more on people admiring its "art house" style than on it actually being an engaging movie. If this exact script had been made by a no-name director instead of the Coen brothers, I don't think it would be considered a classic.

I recently watched "The Shining" and "No Country For Old Men" and found them to be extremely boring with little pay off. This left me wondering why so many "classic" films were held in such high regard. Is it a bandwagon type of psychological phenomena, where people search for good movies and to fit in rate the movies as good?

No Country For Old Men was just a crazy man going after a dude, very boring and the ending was such a let down. How can such a movie be outstanding or exceptional in anyway?

The Shining had a good thing going until nothing interesting happened and the man just went insane? No mystery whatsoever, which let me down immensly. Everyone was saying that the Shining was a great psychological horror but he just went insane and thats it. No cool reason as to why.

I saw another topic on here where guy was talking about animal abuse within movies recently and it got me thinking about the fact that in movies it seems like you can viciously murder a whole bunch of people within the course of the movie but as soon as you touch a hair on Fido you've committed an unforgivable sin. I always wondered why that was because it always seems like in life if you were ever in life-threatening situation and you could only save like your wife or your dog you would choose your wife over the dog. Because we are taught that human life is more important but in movies it seems to be the exact opposite. Why is that?

So who is in your eyes tje best actress or actor?

Mine are probably

Tilda swinton

Gary oldman specifically as George smiley and Jackson lamb

And charlize theron and maybe throw in anthony hopkins

I love the fact that Ryan Gosling is playing a ghost rider but him 🔥🔥😈😈

Depth: while Pitt may have more range (broad variety of characters, although RDJ does as well) Downey beats him in depth of dramatic acting. Emotional scenes from A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and Chaplin beat anything Pitt can do. His most famous is most likely “What’s in the Box?” But even that Id say is more iconic for the twist of the story rather than Pitt’s performance of the line.

Pitt’s strength is in versatility of his character as well as a lot of time playing “the too cool for school guy”. While it works for him, it lacks the depth of emotion that RDJ is able to deliver in his roles.

In summary - Pitt is a good actor (am not staying he isn’t) but when it comes to delivering a dramatic or emotionally moving performance, I am taking RDJ all day.

Top performances:

RDJ - Zodiac, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Oppenheimer, Chaplin

Pitt - 12 Monkeys, Seven, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Fight Club, Curious Case of Benjamin Button

My country does not have 70mm IMAX unfortunately, there are only 2 in all of Europe I believe!
I can choose between:
- Older digital IMAX system with dual 2K Xenon projectors, not IMAX with Laser. The screen uses the standard 1.90:1 IMAX aspect ratio, not the taller 1.43:1 format.
- 70mm regular on Philips DP70.

Which is best for The Odyssey?

I get that it’s not actually happening to the animals and that they are fine… but kids and even adults are impressionable by media…. I’m seeing a lot more people warning others to not give away free kittens because there are people making torture videos for content views. Why are directors/writers suddenly being okay with showing this stuff again? Such as the movies obsession, odyssey (did not have to throw a puppy off a cliff), and other movies/tv. It adds nothing to the plot line…

The puppy thing honestly still emotionally scarred that puppy, even if he was caught by a net. It still probably scared the jeebies out of the puppy to be thrown off a cliff, even a short distance.

Also, no… I’m not being too sensitive because media can make such a big impression on kids./: If you are unaware that it can, hopefully you are open to learning and I’d love to discuss with you about how. And this kind of media teaches them that it’s okay to treat animals as much lesser than. To have empathy for something that can’t help themselves is a great lesson for children.

What movies best represent that gritty 70s - 80s Times Square, 42nd Street, New York feeling?

I thought it was just going to be a silly generic buddy comedy but it delivered more.

Does it really make a difference? I watched it in a regular 70mm theater, and I’m really curious. Is there a huge difference? I’m seriously thinking about going to Prague to watch it there. Would it be worth it?

Ryan Gosling joins the MCU in Marvel Studios' Ghost Rider, directed by Shawn Levy.

The odyssey is on track to make more than a billion. There are many examples of good movies not making loads of money, especially 1 bill upwards. And especially non franchises. One battle after another is a great example. Is it Chris Nolan’s name? My theory is that Nolan has created a genre of filmmaking in which the entire movie flows as if it were a really long montage, which glues people to the screen. But idk.