JohnFilmfreak's Watchlist
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- DirectorJoe MaggioStarsDennis FarinaMatt DeCaroMeredith DroegerJoe May is an aging hustler clinging to the belief that he's one scam away from his big score. With his health failing and resources dwindling, Joe is presented with one last shot at redemption."I can't remember a better film. Best holliday film ever." - See on iPad
- DirectorSam MendesStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletChristopher FitzgeraldA young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children."A beautiful, well-crafted Masterpiece. One of the best of the decade" "In a class of its own!" Tom also recommends it.
- DirectorMiguel Ángel VivasStarsMatthew FoxJeffrey DonovanQuinn McColganAnd suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.Sub-Zero Horror!... At Its Best! - A return to the core of the genre
- DirectorKen SanzelStarsRyan KwantenFreida PintoCarolina GómezFollows the journey of John and Colt, gunfighters and sometimes lovers, on parallel but very different journeys through an underground dueling culture.Mickey Rourke in a movie about people having gun duels
- DirectorThomas Cappelen MallingStarsMads OusdalJon ØigardenTrond-Viggo TorgersenThe true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War.
- DirectorRodney AscherStarsNicole BosworthStephen JosephEstrella CristinaA look at a frightening condition that plagues thousands; sleep paralysis.Sleep paralasys
- DirectorValerie VeatchStarsCarol FooxCaitlin MehnerAlexis RheeThe story of a South Korean couple, who were immersed in an online game called Prius Online, while their baby named, Sarang, died of malnutrition.About korean couple who lost their kid because they were busy playing a game
- DirectorErin Lee CarrStarsGary AllenViolet BlueJames A. CohenA probing look into the potential future of "thought policing" through the headline-making case of the NYPD "Cannibal Cop," who was charged with conspiring to kidnap and eat women.The Case of the Cannibal Cop - A New York City police officer who was convicted of conspiring to kidnap, torture and eat a series of women, before that conviction was overturned on appeal, is used not so much for its own lurid sake as to ask the question: at what point does thinking/fantasizing about a crime become itself a crime? The film pulls us first to one side then the other, and then snapping to a another interviewee or another piece of evidence that has us swinging to the contrary side. And additionally there's an intense discomfort about the nature of online identity, how much our internet search histories might reveal about ourselves, and how open those revelations might be to (mis)interpretation. It's a story contained in the fascinating detail that while Valle's google history revealed horrors like "how do I make chloroform" and "the best way to abduct a woman," his wife, who was the one to have him arrested, was keying in "my husband doesn't love me anymore."
- DirectorStevan RileyStarsMarlon BrandoStella AdlerBernardo BertolucciA documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.An impeccably constructed, oddly profound confessional that feels as close to autobiography as possible, considering it was made more than a decade after its subject's death, Stevan Riley's remarkable film sets a new standard in insight for the biographical documentary. Of all possible subjects, Marlon Brando has such a carefully cultivated mythos even to this day that it's hard not to be blinded by his image till the contours of the man become indiscernible, like when you stare directly at the sun. But Riley locates his film in the one place where Brando's reputation does not dazzle the eyes: within the man himself. Using his unprecedented access to hundreds of hours of tapes that Brando himself recorded, some of them rambling reminiscences, some of them attempts at self-hypnosis, along with interviews and occasional film excerpts, Riley ensures that Brando's is almost the only voice we ever hear. And the result is fascinating: a cleverly shaped, formally rigorous impression of a man who was entirely complicit in the creation of his own brand of glamor until that brand took on a life of its own, cutting him off from ordinary life and forcing a retreat into a desperately unhealthy form of self-regarding solipsism. The many salacious events of Brando's later life, especially involving his children —murder, incarceration, addiction, suicide— are treated exactly right: each is emphasized for the formative and devastating incidents they were but are not exploited. Never resorting to genre staples like voiceover or talking heads, Riley provides the barest minimum of outside detail, just enough to contextualize Brando's musings, so it feels truly like spending a couple of hours in his company —and considering the reclusive, intensely private and tragic figure Brando ultimately became, that's a privilege indeed.
- DirectorDru BrownStarsSteve MouzakisLeon CainJoss McWilliamA suicidal man hires a demented killer to assist him in suicide, but for some reason, miraculously survives each attempt on his life.Exceptional independent film - MUST SEEE!!!
- DirectorBruno BozzettoStarsMaurizio NichettiMaurizio MicheliMarialuisa GiovanniniAn enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he's kept locked in a dungeon. Several different classical pieces are animated, while the animator plots his escape.Something of a Fantasia for adults - Simply perfect - An Overlooked Classical Masterpiece of Sight and Sound
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsBasil RadfordJoan GreenwoodCatherine LaceyScottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.One of the funniest british movie ever
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsVivian WuEwan McGregorYoshi OidaA woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.Peter Greenway (Cook, thief...)
Strange, Surreal, Sensual and Intoxicating! A great film! - DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBernard HillJoan PlowrightJuliet StevensonThree generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it."My favorite Greenaway film... an underrated masterpiece!"
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsCarole LaurePierre ClémentiAnna PrucnalAfter winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.SWEET Jesus, what a brilliant MOVIE!
- DirectorPål ØieStarsKristoffer JonerCecilie A. MosliBjarte HjelmelandPainful memories arise when Kai Koss goes back to his childhood home after 19 years and inherits his dead mother's house.Pål Øie - "Bedre enn villmark"
- DirectorMartin RosenJohn HubleyStarsJohn HurtRichard BriersRalph RichardsonHoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.Animated film NOT for kids
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.This movie is highly recommended. Go see it!. It is really, that good.
- DirectorKurt KuenneStarsT.J. ThynePaula RhodesChris StoneA man begins to experience his life out of order: each time he falls asleep, he wakes up on a different day of his life, at a different age, and he never knows where or when he will be "tomorrow."Highly rated film by the guy who made Dear Zachary / Validation - See on iPad
- DirectorFabrice du WelzStarsLaurent LucasBrigitte LahaieGigi CoursignyMarc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitants.Dark comedy - See on iPad
- DirectorYeon Sang-hoStarsYang Ik-joonOh Jung-seKim Hye-naJong-suk and Kyung-min meet up to talk about their high school past, it's been 15 years since they last talked. It brings up all kinds of memories.In 2011, the South Korean movie, The King of Pigs, hit theaters with the force of a sledgehammer. The movie is an ultra-violent piece of pop energy
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsBrontis JodorowskyPamela FloresJeremias HerskovitsIn a little Chilean town, the son of an uprooted couple formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.Siste til Jodorovsky (Holy Mountain)
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJulianne MooreMia WasikowskaRobert PattinsonA tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.Cronenberg
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsJoaquin PhoenixJosh BrolinOwen WilsonIn 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.New from Paul Thomas Anderson - Drug comedy
- DirectorSean McGinlyStarsAdam ScottKarl WiedergottMark PhinneyPaul Miller has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood style, he's hired a film crew to chronicle his last moments.Surprisingly funny(?) - See on iPad