I love searching the web for an unknown little gem of a movie. This list is for people like me, so hopefully you'd find here one movie - just one movie would be enough - that sparks your interest.
1. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach / Coming of Age)
It's a film about growing up (the pain of coming of age) and becoming distant with someone you really love (a bit Queer-ish). Also about being in a shitty place of your life, but you somehow manage to... you know, go on. With Frances you feel: Hey I've been there too! Hang in there, baby!
2. A Most Violent Year (2014, J. C. Chandor / Business-Drama-Thriller-ish?)
This movie is so fucking awesome. Poe Dameron owns a small Oil Company, but in the year he's about to expand, all his life seems ready to explode. Super intense movie, like a business drama but at the same time with a certain realistic quality to it? An honest man - Or is it? Or is it?- trying to make his way through all the intricacies of business world.
Jessica Chastise is fine too, in the role of the cold hearted bitch Waifu (a bit redundant really, all of them are! all of them are fine)
3. Only Lovers left Alive (2013, Jim Jarnusch / Vampirism? )
Another fucking vampire movie! But it's the opposite to things like Twilight... the premise is: What would a couple of vampires do with an eternity of time? And of course the answer: being awesome creative people. Drink no-aids blood from popsickles. Read a lot and invent some Tesla shit
4. Trumbo (2015, Jay Roach / Biopic)
A biopic about Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter with communist affiliations during the blacklist period. In a perfect world Bryan Cranston should have been given an Oscar. Anyway ... " that small, worthless golden statue is covered with the blood of my friends"
(Well I guess they didn't want to give it to the portray of a commie, right?) It makes you want to know more about Trumbo and the blacklist, it has that feel that you are watching that moment in time...
5. Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve / Psychological weird, existential drama?)
Mindfucking movie. The movie wants to fuck with your mind. I'm forever scared by this movie.
I already said all I wanted to say about this on a previous entry. HERE!
6. Jagten / The Hunt (2012, Thomas Vinterberg / Drama)
In a little town Mads Mikelsen is unfairly accused - Or is it? Or is it? - of being a paedophile, so it becomes the ultimate nightmare for him.
7. Starlet (2012, Sean Baker, independent? if that's a genre)
Explores the relationship between an 85 year old woman and a 21 porn actress (I think she was a porn actress? She looks like it, or a Whore at least. But there're no like explicit porn actressing scenes... If there were, I'd remember it and this would be like my favourite fucking movie of all time. Dree Hemingway is like the great granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway or something, the guy that wrote
"I drink to make other people more interesting" second only to my favourite quote of him: "I write to buy more booze" - (I think he said that...)
And finally, she's been the first non nude playmate, Miss March 2016 (Isn't like really sexist to still call them by the month they appeared on the magazine? And regarding that, Isn't like the most stupid thing ever when Playboy announced they wouldn't portray nude women pictures any more? So funny: it lasted like a month or so?)
Sorry but I just can't stop, cause all of this is super interesting (essential to cinema understanding I'd say): She's a second generation playmate!!! Can you believe that? Her fucking aunt Margaux Hemingway was also on playboy!
(But she was all Bush in. It was like a thing in those days: au natural. I was going to post a Picture of Margaux nude with a George Bush face covering her vagina, but then I felt it would be disrespectful cause she's dead: a sad story really, she was like a super model, and was abused or something as a child, and then became addicted to crack and then die of overdose) she was an actress too, in an erotic thriller: My Inner Sanctuary (I'll just stop reading this shit, cause I'm sure I'd find something else and this would go on, and on, and on...)
8. Vi är bäst / We Are the Best (2013, Lukas Moodysson / Teens Comedy-Drama-ish?)
Back in the 80's three tweenies decide to form their own Punk Rock Band. You gotta love these girls: they're so full of life and positivity. They're not cynics yet. And they never will, cause they're just characters in a movie.) They haven't known the shadows of alcoholism, yet... or obesity, "horrible morbid obesity"... (High five if you get that reference)
9. A Most Wanted Man (2014, Anton Corbijn, Spy-ish)
Final role for Phillip Senior Hoffman (like señor Spielbergo). Well, if you think Synechdoche or something was the greatest piece of shit ever, you have my right! Cause I fucking hated that movie. But this is nothing like that. Phillip Hofman is the director of a German Counter terrorist unit; so he brings his trademark acting: being absolutely pathetic in a character that you imagine or expect to be cool... His character is an alcoholic, and probably Phillip was back on heroin at the time, so the whole thing is kind of creepy too... He was the king of losers (characters I mean) and the most gifted actor of his generation (Rest in peace Mr)
And honorable mention (cause is not as good):
10. I'll See You in My Dreams (2015, Brett Haley / Third Age Comedy?)
Third Age Woman in search for a fuck. Yeah cuz you know 3rd age people still like to have some... They're alive and have blood running through their withered sexual organs.
You know: there's a rat in the house, and you are drinking too much wine, and you start looking to the pool boy with lust in your eyes...
You know: there's a rat in the house, and you are drinking too much wine, and you start looking to the pool boy with lust in your eyes...
That's just the way it is, as Malcolm so eloquently put it, life find it's way... I'm all for it! And it's not like she's gonna kill her male partners by having sex with them, right?
Ok. Enjoy!
(By Pelida77)
