Last movie you watched......

The Conversation, Coppola/Hackman from 1974. Easy to watch, very much if its era in terms of pace and plot. Hackman might be my all time favourite.

 

Strange Darling. LOVED it.

 

La Belle Noiseuse

The greatest movie ever made about art and the making of art; artists and the making of artists.

And their unmaking.

 

I dunno, I really enjoyed it. Could be because I was in the mood for a popcorn flick I didn’t have to think too hard about. It was fast paced with snappy dialogue, a healthy amount of laughs and Damon and Affleck Jr have gobs of chemistry.

 

We watched American Hustle last night — never had seen it. Fantastic movie — tour de force by Bale.

 

Saw "Society of the Snow," about the 1972 crash in the Andes and the survival of 16 of 45 people on a plane carrying the Uruguay rugby team last night on Netflix.

Whew! So harrowing, but a truly good movie, which was based on the book of the same name.

 

I really enjoyed that, but it doesn’t seem to have left an impression. I’ve heard it suggested that Wolf of Wall Street (which I haven’t seen) swallowed up the same cultural space.

Bale is great, so are Cooper and Lawrence, and even CK.

 

Rugby players revel in the quote “"If we had been soccer players, we would have died.". It’s too good to fact check.

 

Way better than Wolf of Wall Street which was a long, repetitive bore.

 

One of my favorites of the decade

 

Leo and Hill are great in that movie, which has the cache of being a Marty movie and some memeable content. But it was a bloated movie which should have been an hour shorter.

 

A more recent companion to which is Never Look Away, the Von Donnersmarck not-a-biopic biopic of Gerhardt Richter.