Our fav. movies

[golem09]

I just watched Dragonball Evolution.
My my, what a crappy movie, but at least you can laugh about it xD

[merman]

This is easily one of the best scenes I've seen in a movie; I stumbled upon it while browsing my YouTube favorites.
Anyway - it's an ending scene, but since the movie doesn't have a real plot (girl breaks up with a guy-gets to know another one-they get together-then never meet again), and mainly a plot is the last thing that's important in it, it's not a real spoiler, and thrown out of context like this has a different effect anyway.

L'eclisse ending (M. Antonioni, 1962)

[Osiris12345]

Originally Posted by golem09

I just watched Dragonball Evolution.
My my, what a crappy movie, but at least you can laugh about it xD

I hope you didn't pay money to see it!

I heard other people saying that it was so bad it was practically unwatchable. But I really can't see how it could be much worse than Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li. Now that was god awful. It was so horrible it made me wonder if the director hated Chun-Li because nothing about that movie made me proud to be a Chun-Li fan. I even preferred the Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia version to that one, if that tells you anything. At least that one is good for some laughs. Legend of Chun-Li is just.... ugh.... a complete waste of time and money. For both parties involved.

Also, speaking of video games/movies, the Dragonball Evolution video game looks hilarious.

[ShinjiPG]

It's not like I understood anything, but it was sure visually/audibly compelling

[merman]

Originally Posted by ShinjiPG

It's not like I understood anything, but it was sure visually/audibly compelling

Again, I'm actually not spoiling but I'll rather put this in white text
The context of the scene is a failed meeting - the place shown is where the two lovers always met, but at the end, they agree to meet again, however neither comes. No explanation to that, it's just up to your interpretation. (I think if you open the video on YouTube it's in the description as well)
There's also a very fun trick on the audience, when you see the blond woman walking, with her back to the camera, she has the same haircut as the protagonist, so initially you're tricked to think she DID come at last - and then she turns around.

[so_cold]

I've just seen Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961) at the National Film Theatre. I'm lucky to live a bus ride from there. It follows a beautiful singer in real time over 90 minutes.

The film starts with a tarot card reading which prefigures the people she meets over the course of the film [mild spoiler in white text]. You then meet the people in her life, from her maid/friend who loves her but maybe keeps her too cossetted to a young soldier she meets in a park who becomes her first friend from outside of her world. At all times she is haunted by the impending diagnosis of an illness that might be cancer.

I disagree with the IMDB reviewer, this movie isn't slow at all. It's only 90 minutes and I was hooked from the beginning. It's also divided into 13 chapters a few minutes in length. Someone's uploaded the film with English subtitles on YouTube here (I checked each part were in the Related Links). There is also this photo trailer, like the "Eclipse" clip it's lovely to look at visually:

Cléo from 5 to 7 trailer

[merman]

oooh I want to see this movie. I should still have a list of Nouvelle Vague and European 60s cinema recommendations SOMEWHERE around... Varda was on there. I'm open to any if you'd suggest something
BTW I find the films of this era to generally have a slower pace than my generation is used to, but that's just being deformed by Hollywood. Most of the time patience is very rewarding with these gems, though, and once you get used to that it even contributes to the overall feeling (although Breathless was far from slow and the influence on Tarantino was obvious)

[so_cold]

I don't know tbh! Not seen any French New Wave in a while, went to see a few Godard films a while back partly because I fancied Anna Karina! I remember Alphaville most because I wrote an essay about it, and I remember enjoying A Band Apart. I like the style though and really want to see more Agnes Varda now. What are your recommendations?

I really didn't find this film to be slow at all, if anything Hollywood's been making films really portentious and long of late (e.g. Watchmen, although I was taken to see that by a fan of the comics and can't compare to that). They should cut, cut, cut until it's down to 90 minutes and really tight to watch! It so happens a friend is taking me to see Let the Right One In today so I'll have seen most of the films discussed on EMF of late ... just need to see the Chun Li film, she was my character on Street Fighter Turbo...

[justriiingo]

^ It's funny how you mentioned 90minutes. Wong Kar Wai's philosophy to make movies no longer than 90minutes. He always cuts them down to 90 minutes which is why he takes forever to edit his films. But the result is always a film that's tight and well paced.

I wonder when the next WKW movie is coming out.

[merman]

Oh really? But 2046 was something like 2 hours long, wasn't it? All others I've seen and can think of were around the 90 minutes, so that's certainly interesting (and makes sense). I'd say we'll have to wait for a new WKW, he likes to take his time. Speaking of 2046, I think that one took some 5 years to make, but I'd gladly wait that long for something as good.

so_cold, I'm going to sound like a broken record, but if you don't mind movies that might be harder to swallow (or sit through for some), I can't recommend Antonioni's "L'avventura" (The Adventure) and "Il Deserto Rosso" (Red Desert) enough. They're very slow-paced, even sluggish, and there's no real plot to speak of, but I couldn't shake them off for the longest time after seeing them. In fact L'avventura made me re-evaluate what I'm looking for in a film. They're definitely very rich as far as symbols go and just make you think and interpret things, and I've already seen both like 4 times XD and if you like hot European 60's women, Monica Vitti is the protagonist in both and she's one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, and that comes from a gay guy. Great actress as well.
As for Godard I've only seen Breathless ("A bout de souffle") but LOVED it. Definitely recommended as a starting piece to this era, it's what kickstarted Nouvelle Vague.
I have to catch up with Truffaut as well, but I've seen Jules and Jim and it was a nice movie, though the first half is far more better than the second. More light-hearted, which I preferred to the moodier turn later on. But it's worth seeing.
I can't name more from the top of my head (I'm a bit tired, lol), and this is already long enough, but feel free to drop me a PM if you wish