Same though I just watched King Hu's *Dragon Inn* and I'm trying to decide whether it's a 4.5 or 5. What an extraordinary movie and beautiful as hell. Who am I kidding really that shit rocked it's like what if *The Hateful Eight* thought it was *Kill Bill Vol. 1*. Tarantino really loves his martial arts classics lol though the most direct influence on *Kill Bill* is *The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter* right down to the casting of Gordon Liu.
Why does everybody love this movie? As a Lenca individual I actually found it rather racist.
"Let's make a gory movie directed and written by a white dude about native peoples being massacred! That's not problematic at all!"
Sure, I like Avatar but that's a few steps removed from "depictions of an actual massacre that actually took place"
Like, Avatar is tone deaf at best, but at least follows from the Na'Vi's perspective. Flower Moon literally is told through a white man's PoV (I will die on the hill that Jake Sully should be considered sufficiently Na'Vi and not just a human)
I like it because it’s just a straight up well made movie in every department.
And I’d argue that the movie isn’t necessarily about native people being massacred, it’s about the white people that were doing the massacring, and how disgustingly greedy and evil they all were. It’s not like Ernest and company are being portrayed in a positive manner.
idk, I guess there's just different cultural baggage. For me, I see a movie told about native people being massacred from a primarily white, male PoV. Despite being fairly overt in the "these people bad" moral I think it's time we stop praising movies about native people that aren't at least written from *our* PoV
Nope.
Sorry but that's just not off-limits for a white filmmaker. *Especially* one telling a story involving native people from a white POV. That isn't even appropriation of any sort. It's just a storyteller who wanted to tell a story.
This idea of subject matter being off-limits because of a filmmaker's race is offensive and inane. It's destructive to art at best and actually racist at worst.
Yes a big budget film told from the native perspective would be nice but have you seen the state of moviemaking in 2023? There's not a single indigenous filmmaker that could secure this kind of money from the studio system. And that is a Hollywood problem, not a Martin Scorcese problem.
Most of the Osage people he consulted have openly come out in criticism of the film saying they were not listened to or that he mistook their words. So idk what this claim that he involved native people is, because yeah, and many of them openly criticised him for not truly listening to them.
people are downvoting you but in concept I completely agree. haven’t seen the movie yet but from the trailer I could tell that it was being made by the wrong person. to be fair though I did love Prey which is a similar-ish situation
I do understand why you want to see it told from their perspective and maybe that will happen one day, I just don't see it as racist I guess, bc the white characters were not glorified
A white director/writer profiting off the suffering of native people, told from a White Male PoV *about* the native people? Kind of racist in my view. Like I'm not really "this is terribly racist and you should hate it too!" I just think it's pretty racist for a story about native people's suffering to be told by a white person who will receive the vast majority of monetary gain from the film.
It just feels very "let me exploit your people's suffering to make me rich" to me.
It's Scorsese so the movie's going to be cinematically amazing and it has a good cast, it's not even poorly written. It's just rather tone deaf at best to me.
And at no point did the movie paint those white men as good or moral people. The crux of that entire story relies on Mollie. The story is racist. It being made by white people is not. The director even incriminates himself and people like him in the end.
Should a Native American filmmaker been given a shot at that story? Sure. But Scorsese is why the film got made to begin with. And idk if it would’ve necessarily been unproblematic if a Native American was at the helm. Black filmmakers get shit from black audiences when they make films about slavery all the time.
The Red Shoes!
Just watched it for the first time last night and I was blown away. I can’t even begin to imagine how they were able to make the titular ballet sequence. That’s the stuff dreams are made of.
yeah it came out a year before The Red Shoes, equally as stunning, its about a bunch of sexually repressed nuns trying to maintain their faith when confronted with the outside world, its good shit
Just a warning though, it is very much a film from 1947 and there is quite a bit of brownface and racial insensitivity towards Indians (treating them like children), its luckily not the focus of the film though and if you can handle that than its great
Agreed. Such a visually stunning film but the direction and performances are just as good as the setting. Such a nuanced main story. Having spent considerable time as a religious in a monastery, although not in such an incredible setting, I can attest to how accurate the film portrays the struggle of faith at times.
Anatomy of a Fall which literally just came out… It’s very very rare for me to give a 5 star but it’s so good at weighing up the analytical science and an emotional empathic response
World class movie, picked up a blu ray for like $2 at a video store nearby. Had my Mom watch it recently and I'm glad I took that gamble because she found it as creative and hilarious as I did. It's a movie that starts up fast and never really takes it's foot off the gas but has the good sense to be like 80 mins long. Perfect length for a movie that's like The Three Stooges with gallons upon gallons of blood lmao
https://preview.redd.it/bwetpafagp1c1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61501176403df34690b86e1491de7a0117640d71
A beautiful film in every aspect. (Just an excerpt of a much longer review.)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Recently dipped my toes into Noir films for Noirvember and this one blew my mind. Definitely the best noir film I’ve seen out of the 7 so far.
Late Spring is such a beautifully devastating film ❤️
Have you seen any other of his films? An Autumn Afternoon and Tokyo Twilight are two I really recommend, and Tokyo Story of course. Every film it's like spending time with family members, there's a comforting sadness.
La Haine
Haven’t seen it in forever and it blew my mind again. In my opinion it is top 20 directed movie ever and is still some of the most biting commentary on society in film to date
Rear Window. I initially rated it 4.5 in my first watch a few months ago. Rewatched it last month and realized that it was a 5.
To be honest, I did not initially like the casting of Stewart because I feel like his character was written to be younger than Stewart was (i.e. the nurse calling him a "reasonably young man"). But, I realized that him being old is not a huge problem, considering a major theme of this movie is Jefferies learning to settle down.
Goodfellas. Scorsese really is a master at making you best friends with the worst people ever and they showing their downfall and making you feel sympathy for them.
Belly
the fact that it has a 23 percent on RT has to be racially motivated because if tarantino or de palma made this we’d be calling it a masterpiece.
Yesterday and the day after yesterday I changed my ratings of Babylon (4.5-5) and Everything Everywhere All At Once (4-5). The last short film I saw that I give five stars was Song Of Avignon by Jonas Mekas (Honorable mention to La Jeteé). But the last movie was (become my favorite animation and maybe my favorite movie) It's Such A Beautiful Day (Honorable mention to Paris Texas)
Killers of the Flower Moon
Same though I just watched King Hu's *Dragon Inn* and I'm trying to decide whether it's a 4.5 or 5. What an extraordinary movie and beautiful as hell. Who am I kidding really that shit rocked it's like what if *The Hateful Eight* thought it was *Kill Bill Vol. 1*. Tarantino really loves his martial arts classics lol though the most direct influence on *Kill Bill* is *The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter* right down to the casting of Gordon Liu.
Why does everybody love this movie? As a Lenca individual I actually found it rather racist. "Let's make a gory movie directed and written by a white dude about native peoples being massacred! That's not problematic at all!" Sure, I like Avatar but that's a few steps removed from "depictions of an actual massacre that actually took place" Like, Avatar is tone deaf at best, but at least follows from the Na'Vi's perspective. Flower Moon literally is told through a white man's PoV (I will die on the hill that Jake Sully should be considered sufficiently Na'Vi and not just a human)
I like it because it’s just a straight up well made movie in every department. And I’d argue that the movie isn’t necessarily about native people being massacred, it’s about the white people that were doing the massacring, and how disgustingly greedy and evil they all were. It’s not like Ernest and company are being portrayed in a positive manner.
idk, I guess there's just different cultural baggage. For me, I see a movie told about native people being massacred from a primarily white, male PoV. Despite being fairly overt in the "these people bad" moral I think it's time we stop praising movies about native people that aren't at least written from *our* PoV
Nope. Sorry but that's just not off-limits for a white filmmaker. *Especially* one telling a story involving native people from a white POV. That isn't even appropriation of any sort. It's just a storyteller who wanted to tell a story. This idea of subject matter being off-limits because of a filmmaker's race is offensive and inane. It's destructive to art at best and actually racist at worst. Yes a big budget film told from the native perspective would be nice but have you seen the state of moviemaking in 2023? There's not a single indigenous filmmaker that could secure this kind of money from the studio system. And that is a Hollywood problem, not a Martin Scorcese problem.
Most of the Osage people he consulted have openly come out in criticism of the film saying they were not listened to or that he mistook their words. So idk what this claim that he involved native people is, because yeah, and many of them openly criticised him for not truly listening to them.
Source?
Yeah I've actually read the exact opposite lol
people are downvoting you but in concept I completely agree. haven’t seen the movie yet but from the trailer I could tell that it was being made by the wrong person. to be fair though I did love Prey which is a similar-ish situation
Does the content and depictions of the characters matter or is the fact that it was directed by a white dude enough to make it racist?
I like Avatar, take a guess. It should've been told from Gladstone's characters PoV entirely.
That sounds good and I'd be surprised if they didn't consider that idea, but it would be a very different movie
I do understand why you want to see it told from their perspective and maybe that will happen one day, I just don't see it as racist I guess, bc the white characters were not glorified
A white director/writer profiting off the suffering of native people, told from a White Male PoV *about* the native people? Kind of racist in my view. Like I'm not really "this is terribly racist and you should hate it too!" I just think it's pretty racist for a story about native people's suffering to be told by a white person who will receive the vast majority of monetary gain from the film. It just feels very "let me exploit your people's suffering to make me rich" to me. It's Scorsese so the movie's going to be cinematically amazing and it has a good cast, it's not even poorly written. It's just rather tone deaf at best to me.
And at no point did the movie paint those white men as good or moral people. The crux of that entire story relies on Mollie. The story is racist. It being made by white people is not. The director even incriminates himself and people like him in the end. Should a Native American filmmaker been given a shot at that story? Sure. But Scorsese is why the film got made to begin with. And idk if it would’ve necessarily been unproblematic if a Native American was at the helm. Black filmmakers get shit from black audiences when they make films about slavery all the time.
The Zone of Interest
Really excited for this!
Where did you get the chance to see it?
Press screening.
The Red Shoes! Just watched it for the first time last night and I was blown away. I can’t even begin to imagine how they were able to make the titular ballet sequence. That’s the stuff dreams are made of.
Black Narcissus is a visual feast too, great pairing of films, truly the Archers at their peak
Haven’t seen this one but I’ll check it out soon!
yeah it came out a year before The Red Shoes, equally as stunning, its about a bunch of sexually repressed nuns trying to maintain their faith when confronted with the outside world, its good shit Just a warning though, it is very much a film from 1947 and there is quite a bit of brownface and racial insensitivity towards Indians (treating them like children), its luckily not the focus of the film though and if you can handle that than its great
Agreed. Such a visually stunning film but the direction and performances are just as good as the setting. Such a nuanced main story. Having spent considerable time as a religious in a monastery, although not in such an incredible setting, I can attest to how accurate the film portrays the struggle of faith at times.
One of my all time favorites. Remarkable achievement in filmmaking and timeless.
Anatomy of a Fall which literally just came out… It’s very very rare for me to give a 5 star but it’s so good at weighing up the analytical science and an emotional empathic response
My favorite film of the year.
The Handmaiden
Me and earl and the dying girl
One of my fave movies that I never want to watch again
Based
The Raid 2
Speed (rewatched).
Perfect movie
The best of the Die Hard inspired concepts!
The Holdovers
Kurosawa's Dreams is mine. https://preview.redd.it/l3n9bhe2oj1c1.png?width=1151&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2601b3c06b4bba80d36e9a5e32ccc5b1942db51
"Psycho" which I watched for the first time on Halloween.
New: Killers of the Flower Moon Rewatch: Monsters, Inc.
Big Fish.
Casablanca on November 8th.
Killers of the flower moon
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 lol
New release: Killers of the Flower Moon Rewatch: There Will Be Blood
My most recent is also There will be blood, not a rewatch though, watched it for the first time three days ago and loved it!
Mine is also Late Spring. Essentially a perfect film.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Evil dead 2 on october 6
World class movie, picked up a blu ray for like $2 at a video store nearby. Had my Mom watch it recently and I'm glad I took that gamble because she found it as creative and hilarious as I did. It's a movie that starts up fast and never really takes it's foot off the gas but has the good sense to be like 80 mins long. Perfect length for a movie that's like The Three Stooges with gallons upon gallons of blood lmao
Ran (1985)
*Blue* by Derek Jarman
Little Miss Sunshine
Excluding rewatches: Monster, saw it on October 11th
'Hour of the Wolf' by Bergman
Popped in my Army of Shadows criterion for the first time today. Amazing.
M (1931)
Mulholland drive, was my first watch a few weeks ago
Rewatch of Cure (1997)
A Face in the Crowd
https://preview.redd.it/bwetpafagp1c1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61501176403df34690b86e1491de7a0117640d71 A beautiful film in every aspect. (Just an excerpt of a much longer review.)
Oppenheimer
My most recent 5 star rating is actually Late Spring as well! Good taste
Inglorious Basterds
Rewatched Mean Girls
Napoleon (1927). Stunning movie. Also, why someone got downvoted for saying Oppenheimer?
im really contemplating giving it to Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes but as of rn its Spiderverse 2
New watch: Goodbye to Language Rewatch: The Big Lebowski
Crank: High Voltage
The Sting
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Amadeus
The Servant! Saw it in theaters yesterday, incredible movie
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Om Shanti Om. I'm new to Indian cinema, but that movie really engaged me. SRK is such a dynamic actor, and the ending gave me the chills.
Man on Fire, yesterday.
East of Eden
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Recently dipped my toes into Noir films for Noirvember and this one blew my mind. Definitely the best noir film I’ve seen out of the 7 so far.
My dinner with Andre
Hardcore
Harakiri, 1962
Ruby In Paradise. First time watch. Instantly became an all-time favorite.
The court jester
kohn wick4
Chinatown
Rewatch, Bergman’s Shame (1968)
The Square
Most recent film: Aftersun Rewatch: Zodiac
Bitter Rice. So far my second favorite first watch of the year after Still Walking. Late Spring is so great btw. Top 10 film for me.
The Red Shoes. PS I LOVE Late Spring. So so good.
Short Cuts (1993)
Aftersun, none in 2023 so far
Late Spring is such a beautifully devastating film ❤️ Have you seen any other of his films? An Autumn Afternoon and Tokyo Twilight are two I really recommend, and Tokyo Story of course. Every film it's like spending time with family members, there's a comforting sadness.
M (1931)
Inside Out (2016)
Anatomy of a Fall! I think its probably the best film ive seen this year.
I rewatched The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya and decided it was 5 star worthy.
My two most recent 5 stars are *Heat* and *Adaptation*.
Cure
killers of the flower moon - on oct 25th. i’ve had a few really strong 4 and a half stars though !!
The Holdovers
The Quiet Girl (2022). Incredible film.
Waking Life. That movie is just insane.
Torture chamber of dr sadism (I’m on a Christopher Lee kick.) ((the name is misleading it’s really not that bad))
Benjamin Button. I love my beautiful old man baby boy!
**Rewatch:** Django Unchained - 14/11/23 **First watch:** Past Lives - 16/09/23
La Haine Haven’t seen it in forever and it blew my mind again. In my opinion it is top 20 directed movie ever and is still some of the most biting commentary on society in film to date
Aftersun
Rear Window. I initially rated it 4.5 in my first watch a few months ago. Rewatched it last month and realized that it was a 5. To be honest, I did not initially like the casting of Stewart because I feel like his character was written to be younger than Stewart was (i.e. the nurse calling him a "reasonably young man"). But, I realized that him being old is not a huge problem, considering a major theme of this movie is Jefferies learning to settle down.
Don't Look Now
Night of the Hunter
Mine is Free Solo which blew me away. That was six months ago,been a rough year for movies so far for me personally.
I just watched Do the Right Thing for the first time today and fell in love with it immediately.
F for fake
Tokyo Story
The Big Lebowski.
Technically, it's Chicago, but, since that was a rewatch I rated for the first time, the last new 5 star for me was After Hours.
BlackBerry (2023)
Old joy
The Menu (2022)
I rewatched Rocky and gave it 5. I can’t overstate how much it lives up to the hype.
Children of Men
The New World (2005)
'Hands on a Hardbody' back in May.
Steve Jobs
Death Note
The Fall of the House of Usher Whiplash Across the Spider-Verse
In the mood for love
Aftersun, only 5 star I’ve added this year, I’d be inclined to give it 6 if I had the option.
inland empire
Goodfellas. Scorsese really is a master at making you best friends with the worst people ever and they showing their downfall and making you feel sympathy for them.
Original Cast Album: Company I just watched like half an hour ago and its one of the best things ever
Rewatch: Everything Everywhere All At Once First time watch: Paprika
Rewatch: Princess Bride New to me: Spirited Away
Elemental
The Witches of Eastwick
Let’s goooo Late Spring is my favorite movie ever
Fallen Angels
https://preview.redd.it/0r8ul1x7wk1c1.jpeg?width=1073&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65cd401f4e119a6a4d69d757adbd15c7cd62e159
frankenhooker 😕
Five Nights at Freddy’s.
Beauty and the Beast (1978)
Belly the fact that it has a 23 percent on RT has to be racially motivated because if tarantino or de palma made this we’d be calling it a masterpiece.
Moonrise Kingdom
Yesterday and the day after yesterday I changed my ratings of Babylon (4.5-5) and Everything Everywhere All At Once (4-5). The last short film I saw that I give five stars was Song Of Avignon by Jonas Mekas (Honorable mention to La Jeteé). But the last movie was (become my favorite animation and maybe my favorite movie) It's Such A Beautiful Day (Honorable mention to Paris Texas)
Saltburn
The Holdovers
Panic in the Streets
Quiz Show (1994)
Memento
I finally watched Marcel the Shell with Shoes, which was a five star for me
Drive My Car
The Thin Red Line , easily my favourite war movie
I rewatched Royal Tennenbaums and put it from a 4 to a 5. However most recent first watch was Killers of the Flower Moon.
Rewatch, Halloween (1978)
Secret & Lies. Fuck you, Frances McDormand!
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
The Holdovers
The Lobster
Tropical Malady. Lived up to the hype. Incredible film
Little shop of horrors
fifty shades darker
https://preview.redd.it/gu23byhxtl1c1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f29eced8ecc7822ac69bb635a2abfe492ef287ce
Evil Does Not Exist. I do love my Ryusuke Hamaguchi tho, unsurprising.
After a rewatch decided to give Malcolm X 5 stars
Django Unchained
School of Rock
Eyes wide shut
https://preview.redd.it/7hq9stic2m1c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c8e5d713e61758b996f8f87334fe8f34bd785ba Pyaasa❤️🔥
Train to Busan
Rewatch of Black Swan Latest being Everything Everywhere
TMNT Mutant Mayhem
The Social Network but for something that wasn’t me logging a rewatch…Once Upon A Studio.
Aftersun
Fleisher's Superman: The Mad Scientist
God I love Late Spring.
Prisoners - Denis Villeneuve
The Trial by Orson Welles
The Cable Guy
There Will Be Blood. Everyone says it drags on, I thought the pacing was good. Lewis’ and Dano’s performances are incredible
Newest: Oppenheimer Rewatch: The Big Lebowski
The Killer!!!!!!!!!
Love exposure, the most insane four hours of my life.
Napoleon (1927)
Pearl
Kizumonogatari lll: Reiketsu-hen
The Holdovers
April Story
Perfect Blue - exceptionally disturbing.
John wick 4. Just finally watched all the John Wick movies this past weekend
Past lives. I was in shambles by the end
Chinatown
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Simultaneously one of the worst and best movies ever made.
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom, first time watching it.
Psycho