More good movies we've seen.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light.

Profoundly good. Bleak as hell.

One of my favourite Bergman flicks.

Supposedly Bergman's own favorite among his own films as well.

That doesn't surprise me. It is a harrowing journey but it hits so many nails smack on the head. Very few films have captured the internally huge, yet externally tiny torments of humanity quite as well.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'll never, ever watch it.

[orpheus]

Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light.

Profoundly good. Bleak as hell.

One of my favourite Bergman flicks.

Supposedly Bergman's own favorite among his own films as well.

That doesn't surprise me. It is a harrowing journey but it hits so many nails smack on the head. Very few films have captured the internally huge, yet externally tiny torments of humanity quite as well.

It's odd, because I find so many of his movies beautiful and moving. A few I even rank as my favorite movies of all time: For example, I'll happily pay to watch Wild Strawberries anytime, anyplace. And I think The Seventh Seal is one of the best films ever made - by anyone, ever. But there's something about Winter Light - it stands apart, somehow.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light.

Profoundly good. Bleak as hell.

One of my favourite Bergman flicks.

Supposedly Bergman's own favorite among his own films as well.

That doesn't surprise me. It is a harrowing journey but it hits so many nails smack on the head. Very few films have captured the internally huge, yet externally tiny torments of humanity quite as well.

It's odd, because I find so many of his movies beautiful and moving. A few I even rank as my favorite movies of all time: For example, I'll happily pay to watch Wild Strawberries anytime, anyplace. And I think The Seventh Seal is one of the best films ever made - by anyone, ever. But there's something about Winter Light - it stands apart, somehow.

I really like all of Bergman's "Faith" trilogy - Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence. And I agree with you on Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal. Persona is another of my personal favourites. I need to get hold of more of his films. At his best he was untouchable.

[Ronja]

Just watched Paul for the first time.

Taryn! You're back!

[Animavore]

Looking at the poster of a film whose English title is Elite Squad 2: Enemy Within you might be forgiven for thinking it's a Brazilian Lethal Weapon or similar but it's actually a story of corruption in the police and beaurocracy of Rio which has more in common with TV's The Wire which, if the disclaimer at the beginning of the film is to be believed, reflects the reality of life and politics in Brazil.

On Netflix (US) and highly recommended.

[Animavore]

This film hasn't aged well at all and seems a lot less spectacular than it does in my childhood memories of it. In fact the making-of docu shown before the film when it aired on U(I)TV was more prominent in my mind.
It just doesn't get the returns for the effort put into it and is, I fear, overly ambitious. I read not long ago they were making a sequel to be directed by the awesome Genndy Tartakovsky. I'm usually pretty purist when it comes to cinema but this is definitely a picture that could do with modern production values and CG enhancement.

[Animavore]

Saw The Avengers again last night this time in a brand new cinema in Dublin with a ridiculously massive, mega-HD screen with some friends.
Unfortunately there were only 3D screenings showing and I can confirm my suspicions were true. 3D does nothing for this film. In fact it detracts. It probably lost as much as 10% awesome, and that's a lot for this film. My friends, who hadn't seen it already, were like, Great film but fuck that 3D is annoying.
I already said once I wouldn't watch another 3D film. I mean it this time. It's not worth the bother.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Saw The Avengers again last night this time in a brand new cinema in Dublin with a ridiculously massive, mega-HD screen in Dublin with some friends.
Unfortunately there were only 3D screenings showing and I can confirm my suspicions were true. 3D does nothing for this film. In fact it detracts. It probably lost as much as 10% awesome, and that's a lot for this film. My friends, who hadn't seen it already, were like, Great film but fuck that 3D is annoying.
I already said once I wouldn't watch another 3D film. I mean it this time. It's not worth the bother.

I finally noticed some of the glitches Ani constantly carps about the first time we saw this movie, in 3D. But the second time I didn't see them. It may be the individual projection system that causes this?

And yeah, 3D doesn't help this movie.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Dark Shadows". They tried for the soap opera feel and got it.

[Animavore]

You may recall Loki calling Black Widow a mewling quim. I had to look it up but he basically called her a whining cunt in Victorian English

Huxley would be proud.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You may recall Loki calling Black Widow a mewling quim. I had to look it up but he basically called her a whining cunt in Victorian English

Huxley would be proud.

I'm Merkin and I didn't have to look it up.

[Animavore]

I suspect we shall see this word's re-entry into the common tongue.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I suspect we shall see this word's re-entry into the common tongue.

Some quim's always doing that.