General Movie (Film for snobs) News Thread

[TheBurningRed]

https://www.nme.com/news/film/bradley-cooper-is-directing-a-film-about-john-bishops-life-written-by-will-arnett-3859634

[Bellenda Carlisle]

On 4/29/2025 at 8:52 PM, Devon Malcolm said:

Cinéma.

How about Takashi Miike's Bad Lieutenant 3 with Liv Morgan?

I fancy a bit of that. Nic Cage Bad Lieutenant is one of my favorite films ever, not that they'll be anything alike, pretty cool movie series it's turned into though.

[Devon Malcolm]

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Edited May 9, 2025 by Devon Malcolm
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[Devon Malcolm]

I've already waited too long to see this and I only found out about it 5 minutes ago.

[Merzbow]

More body horror from Julia?

 

[SaitoRyo]

Might be of interest to some people on here. 

I've got a whole bunch of these in a box somewhere at my parent's place and used to love randomly finding them in various shops. I've got a lot of time for the likes of Peking Opera Blues, A Chinese Ghost Story and the earlier John Woo films. Great fun.

[WyattSheepMask]

As with a lot of recent Arrow releases, I look forward to it not working properly and receiving a replacement disc three months after purchase 

[cobra_gordo]

Thought this was the most suitable thread for it but last night I really fancied watching the second half of Titanic. I've seen that film a lot and I've watched it like that before, cut out all the romantic build up and start from them hitting the iceberg. Infuriatingly it wasn't on any of the streaming services I pay for and after searching it on Amazon Prime I exited back to the main menu where the first film suggested to me was........ Failure To Launch. Spent that long laughing I had to watch it in the end.

So, are there any other good ironic film pairings?

[SuperBacon]

1 hour ago, cobra_gordo said:

So, are there any other good ironic film pairings?

When they were first released My Neighbour Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies were often paired together in a double screening, which while isn't quite what you're looking for, is jarring. 

 

[WyattSheepMask]

The wife & I were trying to think of the most jarring Double Feature you could sit through. We settled on A Serbian Film being paired with Paddington 2

[organizedkaos]

Trying to think one that's more about whiplash due to the connection to the films rather than just two complete opposites. Like the context of one makes things in the other one impossible to deal with. Performances that lodge in your brain paired with each other stuff lke that. Someone plays a vile rapist and then love interest.

Like, a TV example, would be pairing Friday Night Lights with Breaking Bad season 5. Sweet lovable Landry becomes psychopathic Meth Damon.

Or any of episode of Monk where his saintly departed wife is played by Melora Hardin and the dinner party episode of the Office. Suddenly Monk's devotion to his dead wife feels more like he might be the product of an abusive relationship and lucky she died.

Maybe Straight Story paired with Wild at Heart. Straight Story still has Lynch's tone, it's just in the background and made nice and fluffy. If you watched another darker film Lynch film beforehand you'd constantly be expecting Straight Story to turn because you're brain would notice the tone more and how he fluctuates between light and dark. (I saw Straight Story with a live performed soundtrack that really highlighted the Lynchian stuff, remove most of the dialogue and add dark ambient industrial electronica and it doesn't half feel different)

[SuperBacon]

Scum and a Bet365 advert.

[Hannibal Scorch]

On 6/10/2025 at 11:20 AM, WyattSheepMask said:

The wife & I were trying to think of the most jarring Double Feature you could sit through. We settled on A Serbian Film being paired with Paddington 2

Not as extreme but, last year I did a cinema double bill of Paddington in Peru and Anora. I laughed more during Anora.

Edited June 11, 2025 by Hannibal Scorch
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[Merzbow]

Mubi have finally become the bad guys after being the good streamers for so long, taking funding from people that also directly fund Israeli defence while some of the investors are on stolen land themselves and defending the action.  I'm not gonna force anyone to boycott but personally think they can get fucked, I won't be using them any longer.

[Lorne Malvo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn41yddj4m1o

Denis Villeneuve is directing the next James Bond film.

I'm in two minds, really. I like him as a director for the most part but I'm not as high on the Dune films as most (they're good, just not great in my eyes) and, as much as I liked the Daniel Craig films, I did want this Bond to be a more traditional old-school back-to-basics offering and I don't think Villeneuve will provide that.

Edited June 26, 2025 by Lorne Malvo