films that i have seen

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The Post of Steven Spielberg, edited by Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn, seen with wife in The Movies. Nice sequences of setting the letters (?) of the newspaper. I had never seen that. For the rest, well, not boring, but nothing else too.

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I, Tonya of Graig Gillespie, edited by Tatiana S. Riegel, seen with daughter in the Sneak Preview Kriterion. Great film and great performances. The mother, played by Allison Janney and and Shawn, played by Paul Walter Hauser, they are just like copies of the real persons. Very sharp scenes with mother and daughter. Enjoyed this one.

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The square of Ruben Ostlund, edited by Jacob Secher Schulsinger and Ruben Ostlund, seen in De Balie right after The End of Fear, but with wife and daughter. Totally sold out, so nice and crowded. The story is practically the same as Turist, the previous film i saw from this director. Very decent film

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The end of fear is a documentary of Barbara Visser, seen in De Balie alone. Well not entirely alone, because it was quite crowded. The films  tells the story of the attack on “who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue III’ of Barnett Newman in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and has an interesting way of telling the story. With most films on art though, they are too shallow for anyone interested in art and other people don’t care about films on art, but they still make them for this non existent broad audience.

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Nina of Olga Chajdas, edited by Kasia Adamik, a polish film at IFFR, seen as live stream in Eye with wife and daughter. The film couldn’t captivate me. I also made a mistake with the time and thought it was an hour shorter. But the idea of live streaming IFFR is really great. Saves a trip to Rotterdam.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) of Martin McDonagh with Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell and Zeljko Ivanek. Edited by John Gregory as Jon Gregory (..nice..) with wife in the morning in De Filmhallen. Already in the second scene i started feeling my eyes getting wet. What great performances of Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. This is probably (and it is still January) one of  the best films of 2018. We’ll go again next week and bring the daughter. All the main characters combine sympathy and antipathy, there hearts are small and big consequently, the shitty lives of man. Don’t be surprised if this one wins the oscar.

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You Were Never Really Here of Lynne Ramsey, edited by Joe Bini (Grizzly Man) is almost perfect. Forget it’s about a hero, forget the violence (it is surely not extremely violent, almost not violent at all, so don’t let you keep that from seeing it), it’s about politicians and voters, metaphorically that is, at least that is what i think. I thought the end could have been different, but I don’t want to spoil things in case you haven’t seen it yet. Could be an interesting discussion though.

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All the Money in the World from Ridley Scott in the sneak Kriterion with wife and daughter. Edited by Claire Simpson. Based on the true story of the abduction of  Jean Paul Getty’s grandson, but take that with some salt. It’s not a high flyer, but with some nice scenery. I was kind of curious to see the film again with Kevin Spacey as Paul Getty. Not that Christopher Plummer wasn’t any good, certainly with the amount of time that he had, but with House of Cards in mind I think Kevin Spacey would have added some interesting villainesk angles.

I’ve been away way too long, sorry for that. Of course I’ve seen lots of films in the meantime, I just couldn’t keep up. I will try my best to keep up from now on.  I really hoped the first new entry would have been a better film, but 2017 wasn’t a very good year, even Michael Haneke’s film Happy End wasn’t in the top league. Only The killing of a sacred deer and Sieranevada were the highlights of 2017. With two films for 2017 that’s really meager.

update: I forgot Paterson and I didn’t mention a dutch documentary The Mattheaus Mission of Reinbert de Leeuw and Mother! of Darren Aronofsky just didn’t make it.

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Freaky Friday of Mark Waters with wife and daughter. If you live with teenagers this might calm you down for a couple of days.

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Ghost of Jerry Zucker. I watched it in the cinema back in the early 90's. Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore aren't the best actors and being directed by Jerry Zucker surely doesn't make things better, but when Walter Murch is editing a film all that doesn't really matter. He's the master. Amazing.

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Party Down Season 1.

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Crash (1996) of David Cronenberg. Forgot to blog this one too. Not his best one. Videodrome and eXistenZ are his best ones so far, if you ask me.

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The Spectacular Now of James Ponsoldt. I thought it would be a straightforward high school film, but I was in for a surprise. It sort of starts of like that and that is a bit boring, but the film changes slowly into some unpredictable thing else. Well, you can predict the end of course, but I wan't sure of that during watching. And watching Shailene Woodley play Aimee already makes this film worth watching.

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Yesterday in Cinecenter we watched Ida of Pawel Pawlikowski. This film won a lot of prizes, but apart from the beautiful cinematography I don't know why. But my wife didn't agree with me.

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Saturday me and my wife watched Blue Ruin of Jeremy Saulnier in Eye Filminstitute. Pretty decent. 

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Another one I forgot: Yves Saint Laurent of Jalil Lespert in The Movies. With wife and daughter.

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The Good Wife season 5, almost forgot we finished that too last week. What a shock it was to see Will die and leave the series. I didn't like the fight with Alicia that much, but he didn't have to get shot for that. Alicia definitely needs a new lover.