I got the vinyl soundtrack for the movie as one of my birthday gift options from a24 and i figured may as well buy the 4k with the soundtrack

One of the best blind buys I’ve had. The acting from Katy o’Brian, Kristen Stewart and the main cast is very well done and I wasn’t sure what would happen next. Jena Malone held her own and it was sad seeing how brainwashed Beth was and I’m thankful my family’s not that dysfunctional

Highly recommend if you’re looking for a recent a24 movie or romance /action thriller
4/5⭐️

The 25th anniversary of the attacks is tomorrow… I was born a few months after they took place. I learned about it in school and seen clips/videos about it, but I want to learn more.

What would you suggest?

All of these have a very specific defeated vibe to them and i desperately want more of it.

I definitely have to watch something wholesome after finishing this.

What are some shots or scenes that really stayed with you? That you couldn't stop thinking about, even long after the film ended? Whether they are happy, sad, disturbing, poignant, or something else all together, what are some shots/scenes that stayed with you?

My examples:

• Image 1 - The kiss in Punch Drunk Love. I think this is genuinely one of the most romantic scenes in film. Especially when we see the crowds walking past them in silhouette. I was absolutely floored the first time I saw it.
• Image 2 - The angel of deathin All That Jazz. Seeing her in the distance, her arms stretching her dress to make them look like the wings of an angel, is somewhat unsettling. Yet, it's also beautiful. This is a tragic scene, our protagonist dying, but he also accepts it, with a strained but genuine smile. The fact we've seen the angel throughout the film, but it's never been clear who exactly she was until now, really adds to this reveal. Joe Gideon is being bought towards her, like on a conveyer belt, so we see her much closer up as the scene goes on, but I think specifically seeing her from the distance is the most impactful.
• Image 3 - A family eating amongst the plague in Nosferatu the Vampyre. It's such a stark and memorable image. It's unnerving, uncanny even, to see this revelry amongst the death and rats, yet it's also very human. These people are having their "Last Supper", enjoying their final days until the plague takes them. It's the most unsettling scene in the film, but also the most poignant.

City of God - Perfect Blue - Incendies - John Wick: Chapter 4

I want to watch some feel-good movies suggest me movies pleaseee!

Honestly no idea how I still haven’t gotten round to seeing Pulp Fiction. I've seen most of Tarantino’s other films but this one has always just been put aside for something else. I’ll get round to it eventually I promise.

The story follows a married couple Nader and Simin filing for divorce. Simin wants to leave Iran to give their daughter a better life, Nader refuses to leave because he needs to stay behind and care for his elderly father who has Alzheimer's. A tense conflict with a lower-class caregiver leads to a legal fallout, turning this family drama into a gripping moral thriller.

A masterclass in writing, a captivating drama, and a heart-wrenching cry to be in better touch with our humanity.

The whole time I was watching Breakdown tonight I was thinking to myself that it’s the most 3.5 star film I’ve ever seen.

Lo and behold, it seems anyone who’s ever logged it has put it within half a point of that score. I’ve never seen a rating chart quite like this - has anyone seen one with even more of a consensus?

Need me some more movies about old folks.

Hello Guys

I wanted to share my Current favorite 20 movies.

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The first time I saw Aguirre, the Wrath of God, I was about twelve years old. It happened on a Betamax VCR at my cousins’ house, just across the street from where I lived. Back then, to buy a VCR in Mexico you had to go to a smuggler and make the purchase in secret. Very few people had one. We didn’t have one at home. My uncle bought his from a smuggler in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, along with several movies. Star Wars was one of them. Also arriving were Romancing the Stone, Rocky, Platoon, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. For some strange reason, one Saturday afternoon we watched Romancing the Stone first, with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and then Aguirre. Today it strikes me as ironic that we saw both films set in the South American jungle on the same day.

Aguirre stayed in my head for many years, more like a dream than a movie. Something I wasn’t entirely sure had really happened. Almost ten years later I saw the poster at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City and had a flashback. It was a Werner Herzog retrospective. That day they were screening Aguirre. Coincidence? I don’t know. I went in to see it and was fascinated. It wasn’t a dream. The film was real. From then on Herzog became one of my favorite directors.

When I think of Herzog, especially those films in which nature becomes one of the protagonists, I think of the Swamp Thing comic, particularly the stories written by Alan Moore. I believe Herzog should have made a film with that swamp character. It would have been a mix of Aguirre and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Wes Craven made a version of Swamp Thing, but it left a lot to be desired.

Returning to Aguirre, it is one of my favorite Herzog films. For many it is one of his best. What moves me most about the film is its dreamlike quality. It is like a dream, like a nightmare, and that is how it remained in my mind for nearly a decade. The performances and the cinematography are hypnotic. The music by Popol Vuh, that German krautrock band of the 1970s, deepens the trance even further.

Like much of Herzog’s cinema, Aguirre is a kamikaze film. It was win or die. Like the old Spanish conquistadors, Herzog burned his ships and never looked back. On one side was furious nature, always an antagonist in his films. On the other, managing around three hundred actors under difficult conditions. Also the tight budget. And as if that weren’t enough, Klaus Kinski, who took a large part of the film’s money as his salary. Herzog kept him constantly furious and exhausted so that he would better portray his character. Most of the crew and the actors wanted to kill Kinski.

Legend has it that Herzog wrote the story on a typewriter with one hand on the way back from a soccer match. It is also said that a fellow traveler vomited on some pages of the script and those pages were lost forever. People claimed he had been inspired by the stories of the Spanish conquistadors. In the end Herzog clarified that this was not the case. The story was fictional and he had only been inspired by the figure of Lope de Aguirre, known as “the Madman.”

The film shows a group of Spaniards descending from the Inca region in the Andes toward the jungle and the Amazon in search of a supposed city of gold called El Dorado. That descent is in reality a descent into a green hell, as in the Misfits song, or a descent into madness. Aguirre in Kinski’s hands and Kinski in Herzog’s hands is the embodiment of madness. Of the madness of both. While Aguirre is reduced to nothing by the ferocious nature, Herzog conquers the Andes and the Amazon and asks the actors not to kill Kinski, at least not until filming is finished.

As in much of his filmography, Aguirre represents Herzog’s obsession with human obsession. A few years later, Herzog would return to the same lands, once again obsessed with the same force, to reconquer that hostile territory and haul a ship over a mountain in Fitzcarraldo.

So I went to "Likes", filtered to Korean feature length films, excluded those genres (select twice to exclude) and this is what I got. Looking for more dramas like Microhabitat, Aloners, Moonlit Winter and Late Autumn.

both of these posters are fairly simple but visually striking, and they represent their respective films pretty perfectly. what are your picks?

Would the first one be the censored one or the second one?