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Yesterday, 09:14 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread Winter doldrums FILM JOURNAL Jan.-Feb. 2019 in General Film Forum

ARCTIC (Joe Penna 2018) Want to chase your Winter Doldrums with somebody else's winter horrors? Joe Penna is a Brazilian musician who became famous...

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Yesterday, 08:04 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread San Francisco Independent Film Festival 2019 (Forum) in General Film Forum

SF Indiefest 2019: Awards.

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02-13-2019, 06:27 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread The Longest Post On Filmwurld in Favorite Films

Those prizes don't seem to be highlighted at Canes either. In fact I don't think they even have prizes for cinematography and editing.

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02-13-2019, 03:25 PM

cinemabon replied to a thread The Longest Post On Filmwurld in Favorite Films

Shame no one will ever see who won the "Best Cinematography" award as the Academy decided this year NOT to show the award until after its given...

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02-11-2019, 09:30 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread The Longest Post On Filmwurld in Favorite Films

Maybe Agnès Godard is the most known, but there are a dozen more, as you'll see if you Google "women cinematographers." I wonder what awards they...

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02-11-2019, 08:10 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread 45 YEARS (Andrew Haigh 2015) in General Film Forum

Good point: being coy about essential knowledge in a film is a modern thing, no doubt. Wouldn't another one be Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure. Also...

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02-11-2019, 07:22 PM

oscar jubis replied to a thread The Longest Post On Filmwurld in Favorite Films

Agnès Godard for Claire Denis are awesome; good of you to bring them up. I posted on your 45 YEARS (2015) thread. It's been added to my list of 346...

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02-11-2019, 07:18 PM

oscar jubis replied to a thread 45 YEARS (Andrew Haigh 2015) in General Film Forum

I also think it's an instant classic if that means it feels "perfect" right away; it feels masterful and confident. I certainly would not call it...

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02-10-2019, 10:54 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread Oscar Nominated Shorts, 2019 in General Film Forum

Oscar Nominated Shorts, 2019. DOCUMENTARY. This category tends, understandably, to focus for the most part on hot button current issues. The...

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02-10-2019, 01:45 PM

tabuno started a thread THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos 2018) in General Film Forum

Olivia Colman's nomination for Best Actress Oscar is somewhat like a Time MagazinePerson of the Year nomination. These nominations reflect neither...

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02-10-2019, 01:29 PM

tabuno replied to a thread DESTROYER (Karyn Kusama 2018) in General Film Forum

Maybe I need to stop watching movies first and read Chris's commentaries on them before instead. Here we find a luscious commentary about Nicole...

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02-10-2019, 02:35 AM

Chris Knipp started a thread COLD PURSUIT (Hans Petter Moland 2019): What Makes a Remake? in General Film Forum

COLD PURSUIT (Hans Petter Moland 2019): What Makes a Remake? LIAM NEESON IN COLD PURSUIT: A GLEAM OF FORGIVENESS? What goes into a remake? ...

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02-10-2019, 02:03 AM

tabuno replied to a thread A PRIVATE WAR (Matthew Heineman 2018) in General Film Forum

A puzzling Chris commentary in which he appears to both lavish and deride this movie at the same time. He writes that "this is not that wonderful a...

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02-10-2019, 01:25 AM

tabuno replied to a thread MARY POPPINS RETURNS (Rob Marshal 2018) in General Film Forum

Took the time to see the original version of Mary Poppins recently before I saw this sequel. I grew up experiencing Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins as...

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02-10-2019, 01:16 AM

tabuno replied to a thread SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE ( Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey | 2018) in General Film Forum

Breaking new contemporary, mainstream ground, this animated feature film captures the very essence of reading an actual comic book in full living,...

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02-10-2019, 01:08 AM

tabuno replied to a thread FREE SOLO (Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 2018) in General Film Forum

I am in agreement with most of what Chris has described. But his commentary about the movie is more about the amazing man and his singular story...

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02-10-2019, 12:49 AM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread Oscar Nominated Shorts, 2019 in General Film Forum

Oscar Nominated Shorts, 2019. ANIMATION. These are more varied in style and unpredictable in tone perhaps than the live action ones.There also...

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02-09-2019, 07:28 PM

Chris Knipp started a thread Oscar Nominated Shorts, 2019 in General Film Forum

Oscar Nominated Shorts, 2019. LIVE ACTION. All but one of them focuses on children in danger, and they seem aimed to gain our attention by...

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02-09-2019, 12:21 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread San Francisco Independent Film Festival 2019 (Forum) in General Film Forum

WILDLAND (Alex Jablonski, Khalil Hudson 2019) Showing today at 12:30 This documentary about the lives and work of forest fire fighters in...

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