Z is very good, with an excellent feel for crowds and mass violence. Nothing else has really impressed me.
What say you?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)
I have actually never seen anything by Costa-Gavras
― Eyewona (admrl), Monday, 16 August 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)
Z really is great, but "Amen." was terrible. Haven't felt like seeing anything else.
― albino python on cocaine (corey), Monday, 16 August 2010 21:43 (fifteen years ago)
Both State of Siege and Missing are pretty good.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 16 August 2010 21:52 (fifteen years ago)
Mad City perhaps unintentionally hilarious if the previews any indication.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 16 August 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)
The Confession looks magnificent – one of the best restorations Criterion's ever done.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 14:44 (eight years ago)
Looks like a must.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 20:56 (eight years ago)
by coincidence I saw it and Wadja's last back to back: twin portraits of Cold War-era Communist intransigence.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 22:17 (eight years ago)
It's amazing how context changes things. Missing was sappy twenty-five years ago; now its cold, clear look at bodies piled up on stairwells while Jack Lemmon walks among the American-assisted mass murder is rather shocking for Oscar bait.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 September 2019 02:01 (six years ago)
Z was great; i've always wanted to see it.
the general being asked by a journalist, "are you another dreyfus?" and shouting back "dreyfus was guilty!" was LOL funny
― budo jeru, Saturday, 19 August 2023 14:54 (two years ago)
The Ax is absolutely wonderful. I love droll, dark comedies that have strong undercurrents of vitriol like this and A Shock to the System (1990)
Coincidentally, I just saw Costa-Gavras’ cousin Penelope Spheeris last night at the Academy Museum
― beamish13, Saturday, 19 August 2023 22:49 (two years ago)