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The first episode of the second season of Master of None is kind of amazing. It's black and white, takes place in Italy and is a homage to the movie Bicycle Thieves. At the beginning of the episode, we can see a stack of classic Italian movie discs: Bicycle Thieves, La Notte, L'Avventura, La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, and 8½. Thanks to my obsession with watching classics last year, I know all of these to some extent, whereas a couple of years ago that stack wouldn't have meant much to me. I'm now hesitating to look up whether the rest of the season is all modeled after those movies in the stack. Anyway, I'll probably watch the whole season tonight and next week.

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I'm trying to learn video making, my problem is I don't really have many good ideas for storyboards for micro length films. This time I accidentally stumbled upon some birds flying and a cat and tried to conjured something up in editing...

I actually enjoyed the second episode more than the first one, and supposedly it could get interesting starting from the 3rd or 4th one, although I personally don't remember where in the book the tension started rising.

Ah, found it by searching this very thread. That series is Love and it has a second season that I haven't seen. But I remember so little of it that maybe I should watch from the start again... Also with Fargo continuing, and some by now classic series I haven't seen and other current ones, I think I could have quite busy evenings for a while... actually I kind of like the idea of watching less movies for a while and catching up with series.

BTW. After watching the AG pilot yesterday I somehow felt like getting into series again (I haven't watched any for almost a year) and I think The Handmaid's Tale will be really good. At least the first episode was really full of tension, and Elisabeth Moss is really strong as the lead. Also I noticed You're the Worst has a 3rd season, which I'm now watching as well, and am 2 episodes in. After some absence from it, I'm now thinking that maybe it isn't quite the "best thing on TV" I thought it was when I binged through the first two seasons, but it's still really good and different in several ways. Also, watching You're the Worst made me think of another romantic comedy series that I liked, but I can't remember the title. It was about a guy and a girl who had both just broken up with their partners, I think, and kind of accidentally got together. The girl worked in Hollywood, as a teacher to some child star or something... Or maybe that was the guy.

Just watched the pilot and wasn't terribly impressed. I remember liking the book a lot, but I must have read it more than 10 years ago and now I'm wondering whether I'd still think it's cool if I read it again. It looks great visually, though.

I think I'm almost done with Ingmar Bergman. I've seen 16 of his 63* films. God damn, how did he make that many while also making some of the best films ever? I think seeing them all would be too much, and currently I've seen mostly the highest rated ones and there are about 3 more I want to see: The Passion of Anna, Face to Face, The Magician. So far I can say that he is one of my favourite directors and maybe one of the best directors when it comes to exploring the human psyche. As I've heard, his work might be best read in the context of religious life in early 20th century Sweden. That I don't really know anything about, but even without understanding that layer, the topics of his movies almost always penetrate the screen and touch me in some way. My favourites are Persona, The Silence, Scenes from a Marriage, Through a Glass Darkly, The Seventh Seal, and some others, I could keep going for a bit... His mastery of the art of cinema hardly needs to be mentioned, although some of his movies are stronger than others. When it comes to visuals, I think I prefer Antonioni, Fellini and Tarkovsky from among the classic European masters. Why I think I'm almost done with Bergman is that I think I've seen most of his best work already, and I think I've seen some kind of pattern in his work, although I find it hard to describe - maybe I would say his films are very theater-like compared to his contemporaries, but maybe I'm wrong here as I don't know much about theater. Certainly they seem to me less cinematic, but peering more deeply into the human condition. It's kind of weird seeing the same few actors pop up again and again in his work. It's almost like seeing Jean-Pierre Leaud in every second or third French New Wave movie and starting to confound the personalities of the characters from different movies. Of course, the actors were brilliant, so I don't mind that much. Anyway, Bergman was a great director with an unbelievable amount of strong movies behind his belt and I think any movie buff should see at least Persona and Scenes from a Marriage, and then at least one of the god's silence trilogy (or all of them) and perhaps Fanny & Alexander. ----- * according to Letterboxd, probably contains some non-feature films also.

Well, slightly more than I year ago, I had seen zero Bergman movies. What a catch-up time the last year and a half has been. I'm actually somewhat looking forward to getting tired of watching so many movies, though. It would be nice to put more time into other hobbies, but right now I'm still quite addicted and still have a long watchlist + goal of seeing one movie from each country this year (I've been lazy with that, though, as it gets progressively harder to find good movies to watch). simonster, followed you back.

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I saw Escape from Tomorrow and it was weird. The whole movie somehow seems as a strange dream, visually and aurally and plot wise, and I actually got a fever while watching it (although I don't rule out that something in the physical world also contributed). Not the best movie ever, but I would recommend seeing the first half at least. The movie was filmed secretly (AFAIK) in Disneyland.

Really good movie, but I agree with the criticisim in the spoilers by mikemariano and Patrick. I don't have much to add to that, but I'll just repeat a thing to emphasize that this one point really felt like a gaping plot hole:

Skip it. The premise is pretty awful and not realistic to me. It's basically a some kind of male fantasy in which the female main character's personality appears so unlogically twisted that it doesn't make sense in any level nor does the director even attempt to really explain it.

I just saw it last week or so! Liked it. Now I'm on a John Cassavetes streak, and then only two or three movies to go from 2012 Sigth & Sound Director's Poll (one is Shoah, though).

Why the new healthcare plan would be called Trumpcare and not Trumpscare is beyond me.

Another fun list, semi-obscure movies which have the same titles as more famous movies https://letterboxd.com/sternwise/list/wrong-fucking-movie/ I don't know why, but for some reason I find these hilarious. It's not like you'd actually start watching the wrong one by mistake, though... I tried to play a joke on people by talking about the 2011 movie "The Dark Knight", but it didn't turn out as funny as I hoped because nobody understood of course. Another favourite is the 1955 "The Fast and the Furious". Well, those are the too I've seen, plus the 1998 Avengers, but that's not very obscure.

It would have been if the other one was also called Moonlight. And why not?

I also tried it offline with some people, with similar results.

I think you misquoted me in time. "... As I recall I think we saw another one" And I said "well that's Some Like It Hot"

Can I burst your bubble a bit by saying the ones starting with "The " don't really scan well due to where you put the emphasis (BREAK-fast at TIF-fa-ny's) and KO-yaa-ni-SQUAT-si is missing a syllable?

Since I can, added it to my watchlist. Actually I've been watching quite a few movies from the 30s to the 60s lately. During the last couple of weeks I've focused on working through unseen movies on the Sight & Sound Critics Poll list. I have only a few films from the top 100 left (Shoah and Satantango are still there unfortunately) and most I've seen lately were from the mentioned decades, from Hollywood, France and Italy. I've watched Some Like it Hot, Touch of Evil, Pierrot le fou, Pickpocket, The Leopard, Children of Paradise, The Wild Bunch, Grand Illusion, Imitation of Life, A Matter of Life and Death, The Earrings of Madame de .... All of them excellent movies, but definitely more from the back end of the Top 100. I think I would only compare The Leopard and Imitation of Life to the very best, maybe The Earrings... as well. Since I'm also seeing modern movies at the same time, I'm now realizing how hard it is to actually rate all movies on the same scale. Like, I just noticed I wanted to give Pickpocket 3 and a half stars, since I liked it less than the ones I gave 4 stars to, but then again I had just given that many to the comparatively simple new Spanish movie La reconquista. If I change either, that may cause further discrepancies in comparative ratings... bah... but for some reason I like creating some kind of personal ranking of all movies I've seen even if it's not very precise.

Yep, I don't know the exact amount, but they do put quite a lot of taxes on alcohol - but not as much as nordic countries so we get some Finns coming here just to buy liquor.

I've forgotten if this is the right thread for it, but... guys... I've found a miracle. A rum that tastes so good that I'm able to drink it neat (or which just a few drops of lime at least). I've never been able to drink hard liquors neat, and even on the rocks is challenging. Well, I guess it's also thanks to practicing with rums a bit, but man... this one is just an explosion of tastes, first in the nose, then in the mouth, and has a really pleasant aftertaste of caramel & spice... and doesn't burn that much. I'm talking about the Ron Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva. This is the first time I bought such an expensive rum (it was about 50€), to celebrate after a milestone with a new product at work. So far I didn't really imagine that rums could be this good. Once I gifted someone a similarly expensive one, Ron Zacapa Solero 23 or something, and I just couldn't drink it at all. But at that time I had less practice and was forced to try it neat without anything. It's supposedly actually very similar to the Diplomatico, so I wonder if I should give it another try if opportunity presents. BTW. Chip Dykstra is the man who I turn to whenever I decide what rum to buy next https://therumhowlerblog.com/rum-reviews/. Rarely I've been disappointed with his recommendations (only with that Ron Zacapa).

I love the first one!