Will do, thanks! For me it's À l'intérieur (Inside), but fair warning: it's gnarly. Gotta give a shout out to The Children (2008), too. A far too rare example of a director actually making kids seem frightening on screen.
Anyway, a pretty big name long time movie reviewer is a friend of a friend of the family. Luckily he loves to talk about movies, at least to this lucky pede. We were geeking out about Excalibur one time, and he told me a story about the filming of Hell in the Pacific told to him by John Boorman himself. Mifune was very difficult to work with, and they butted heads the entire production. They got way behind schedule and over budget, and the studio sent some execs to location to replace Boorman. Mifune told them that if they fired Boorman, he'd quit too. Fucking bad ass.
And thought I mentioned this in another comment, but be sure to check out Yôji Yamada's Samurai Trilogy. The first two, especially, are the kinds of films that make me lean forward in order to better absorb the beauty of celluloid.
Yea it's a great movie. Kurosawa's a beast. It's hard to be a cinephile on here since most people hate movies because of hollywood. I don't blame them for that.
It's just the new stuff. I saw somebody commenting earlier that they only let their kids watch cartoons from 80s and 90s when they were much more patriotic and not assclown crazy world. I recommend the same for movies.
I'm living the very rare, but in great taste film references on this site.
Will do, thanks! For me it's À l'intérieur (Inside), but fair warning: it's gnarly. Gotta give a shout out to The Children (2008), too. A far too rare example of a director actually making kids seem frightening on screen.
Anyway, a pretty big name long time movie reviewer is a friend of a friend of the family. Luckily he loves to talk about movies, at least to this lucky pede. We were geeking out about Excalibur one time, and he told me a story about the filming of Hell in the Pacific told to him by John Boorman himself. Mifune was very difficult to work with, and they butted heads the entire production. They got way behind schedule and over budget, and the studio sent some execs to location to replace Boorman. Mifune told them that if they fired Boorman, he'd quit too. Fucking bad ass.
And thought I mentioned this in another comment, but be sure to check out Yôji Yamada's Samurai Trilogy. The first two, especially, are the kinds of films that make me lean forward in order to better absorb the beauty of celluloid.
This is SUCH an appropriate reference. You understand the pedes are the villagers being taught to fight the oppression, right?
Yea it's a great movie. Kurosawa's a beast. It's hard to be a cinephile on here since most people hate movies because of hollywood. I don't blame them for that.
It's just the new stuff. I saw somebody commenting earlier that they only let their kids watch cartoons from 80s and 90s when they were much more patriotic and not assclown crazy world. I recommend the same for movies.
We have the entire Criterion Blu-ray collection of Mifune films. So refreshing to watch vs current pedowood crap.
Takashi Shimura is the real jewel in the crown, as much of a Mifune fanboi as I am.