Posts Tagged ‘Bastards’
January 4, 2015
Number of films seen, excluding shorts: 272
Number of films seen for the first time, excluding shorts: 225
Pre-1920s: 0
1920s: 2 (2 first time viewings)
1930s: 10 (9)
1940s: 9 (8)
1950s: 11 (7)
1960s: 14 (8)
1970s: 17 (8)
1980s: 14 (8)
1990s: 17 (13)
2000s: 12 (6)
2010s: 166 (153) Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in Film, Lists | Tagged 22 Jump Street, 35 Shots of Rhum, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, A Touch of Sin, An Autumn Afternoon, Andrei Rublev, Bag of Rice, Bastards, Birth, Born in Flames, Boyhood, Cape Fear, Cross of Iron, Cul-de-sac, Dead Man, Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street, Destry Rides Again, Edge of Tomorrow, Equinox Flower, Fearless, Film, Fort Apache, Giovanni's Island, Godzilla, Gone Girl, Goodbye to Language, I Believe in Unicorns, I Know Where I'm Going!, Inside Llewyn Davis, Le Bonheur, Lift to the Scaffold, Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, Man's Castle, Manakamana, Mauvais sang, Miami Vice, Mistaken for Strangers, Mr. Turner, Nightcrawler, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paddington, Pickpocket, Record of a Tenement Gentleman, Remember the Night, Sátántangó, Scandal Sheet, Snowpiercer, Sorcerer, Stagecoach, Stranger Than Paradise, Stray Dogs, The Age of Consent, The Babadook, The Doom Generation, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Heartbreak Kid, The Immigrant, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Muppet Movie, The Night Is Young, The Wolf of Wall Street, These Birds Walk, Tokyo Tribe, Tom at the Farm, Touki Bouki, Two Days One Night, Under the Skin, We Are the Best!, What's Up Doc?, Whiplash, Willow and Wind, Wings | Leave a Comment »
March 21, 2014
On the latest episode of Seen Your Video, Chris Ward and I discuss many notable UK releases from the beginning of 2014, including Inside Llewyn Davis, The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Grand Budapest Hotel, her, Nymphomaniac, and Bastards. We also discuss this year’s instalment of the Glasgow Film Festival, as well as Philip Seymour Hoffman’s collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Posted in Film, Podcasts | Tagged 12 Years a Slave, 2013, 2014, American Hustle, Bastards, Chris Ward, Film, Glasgow Film Festival, her, Inside Llewyn Davis, Nymphomaniac, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Seen Your Video, Sorcerer, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Wolf of Wall Street | Leave a Comment »
February 13, 2014
Noir-infused tragedy Bastards sees director Claire Denis back in her more polarising mode as the dark queen of French cinema, with a work of bewitching atmosphere that veers between the sensual and repulsive. Its elliptical narrative concerns a ship captain, Marco (Lindon), returning to land when a series of hardships strike his sister’s family. The abuse of his troubled niece (Créton), the collapse of the family business, and the suicide of his brother-in-law all seem linked to a sinister businessman (Subor)…
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Posted in Film, Reviews | Tagged 2013, Alex Descas, Bastards, Chiara Mastroianni, Claire Denis, Film, Florence Loiret Caille, Grégoire Colin, Julie Bataille, Les salauds, Lola Créton, Michel Subor, Review, The Skinny, Vincent Lindon | Leave a Comment »
February 1, 2014
17 films, 13 first time viewings
Only film I didn’t particularly care for to some degree was All Is Lost.
Best first time viewings
1. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirô Ozu, 1962, Japan)
2. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013, USA)
3. Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013, France/Germany)
4. 35 Shots of Rhum (Claire Denis, 2008, France/Germany)
5. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, 2013, USA/France)
6. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev, 1967, Yugoslavia)
7. Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young, 1948, UK)
8. The Age of Consent (Gregory La Cava, 1932, USA)
9. Wings (William A. Wellman, 1927, USA)
10. Frozen (Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee, 2013, USA) Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in Film, Lists | Tagged 2014, 35 rhums, 35 Shots of Rhum, An Autumn Afternoon, Bastards, Film, Frozen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Les salauds, Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T., Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, My Month in Films, Sanma no aji, The Age of Consent, The Night of the Hunter, The Wolf of Wall Street, Trouble Every Day, Wake in Fright, Wings | Leave a Comment »
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