Comments | motorway: My Week in Films: 13th August

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My Week in Films: 13th August - 19th August, 2007

Aug 20, 2007 21:21

Smultronstället [Wild Strawberries] (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) - 9.5/10
Höstsonaten [Autumn Sonata] (Ingmar Bergman, 1978) - 9/10
The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman, 2007) - 8/10
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) - rewatch - 11/10
Footloose (Herbert Ross, 1984) - rewatch - 10/10 (I just can't give it an 11 - which for me means "an absolute favourite" in ( Read more... )

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shehaditcoming August 20 2007, 11:47:05 UTC

i still can't believe i haven't got footloose on dvd yet. i'm disappointed in myself. isn't lori singer the worst? i quite liked her in 'fame' because she played the cello (my dad plays the cello) and she was totally obnoxious and rich and up herself. quite like she is in footloose. i used to love when they made her sing in 'fame' cos she was TERRIBLE at it. isn't sarah jessica parker the cutest thing?

motorway August 20 2007, 11:57:15 UTC

i wish sarah jessica parker was the female lead, but only if she had better hair, haha. she was adorable.

there's a new ~special amazing~ footloose dvd coming out here next month, which has an audio commentary with KEVIN BACON HIMSELF!!! i've told my youngest sister that she can have the old bare bones dvd when i get the new one. i recommended it to her when she asked me for something to watch, but ended up getting sucked into it and watching it again as well. my heart pretty much swelled when after the movie finished she skipped back to the scene where Ren teachers Willard how to dance (with "Let's Hear It For the Boy") haha.

pop_pony August 20 2007, 12:45:32 UTC

ah wild strawberries.
when i was in year 10 we had a rebel english teacher show it to us and everyone was like "wtf is this crazy black and white old man crap"

I remember just being mesmerised and going omg movies mean so much. It was my second moment like that after Rebel Without a Cause. Between the two of them they created a monster.

I havent watched nearly enough bergman, so many pieces but so few films. I am always floored by his work, so its a pity.

yay for abstract and evasive future plans. God speed the reality. It gives me hope to see that someone has an idea... lol.

I thought the simpsons movie was a 6 at best. so stale... but then its the simpsons, I cant be a hater. Try die hard 4 for a pure action crack 10, it was gold.

motorway August 20 2007, 12:58:16 UTC

I'm feeling really guilty for leaving it until after his death to get into his work, because everything I've watched has been completely amazing. I'm more than a bit in love with Liv Ullmann too, she's so beautiful and subtle.

I laughed - a lot - at the Simpsons movie, but yeah, it's nowhere near their best work. I think I upped the scale a bit because of Ralph singing over the 20th Century Fox credits before the very start of the movie because I DO EXACTLY THAT ALL THE TIME. It killed me.

I've just borrowed the Bourne films from work on the recommendation of a trustworthy action-cinema-loving customer (this was after an indepth conversation about how badass Mark Wahlberg is in Shooter) but yeah, it's totally time to take a break from this European art cinema and get into some massive explosions. Hah.

pop_pony August 20 2007, 13:03:23 UTC

the bourne films are gold... i am hanging so bad for thursday!
i was trying to hold of seeing die hard and marathon it with bourne but had no will power.
I love action films because you can smell the money. That and the crazy thoughts of "who writes this" moments that pervade. I love a really bland lead actor an eccentric villan and a snippy sidekick. so much hoyay and foeyay potential and many many gun metaphors. Makes for the lolz.

i have been meaning to get to a videoshop since the 16th to get shooter out. The release date has been etched in my brain for months.

(gala is lame)