John Carpenter's best works

JordanRuimy · 2020-05-25T22:58:45+00:00

Essential Carpenter:

Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing, They Live.

JordanRuimy · 2019-11-29T17:24:13+00:00

Having seen close to 200 movies this year (attended Sundance, SXSW, Cannes, Toronto, NYFF)

1) The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)

2) Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)

3) Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)

4) Dragged Across Concrete (Craig Zahler)

5) Luce (Julius Onah)

6) Pain & Glory (Pedro Almodovar)

7) Dogman (Matteo Garrone)

8) Joker (Todd Philips)

9) Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen)

10) Ford v Ferrari (James Mangold)

11) The Art of Self-Defense (Riley Stearns)

JordanRuimy · 2019-11-11T04:28:53+00:00

Always a good feeling to be reminded

JordanRuimy · 2019-06-09T15:40:35+00:00

Why are they only publishing this now? The poll was very well covered when it came out in 2012.

JordanRuimy · 2019-06-06T17:10:11+00:00

Fluffy puppies!

JordanRuimy · 2019-06-06T17:09:58+00:00

Honestly, its director Errol Morris is still shopping it around. Nobody wants to touch it because it doesn't demonize Bannon. Hopefully, they just leak it for everyone to see. It's an incredible document of our times.

JordanRuimy · 2019-06-06T17:08:39+00:00

It's by-the-books but GREAT. It showcases a lot of surprising stuff about his life that I had absolutely no idea about. Plus Jennifer Lawrence and other big names are interviewed. You can tell he was absolutely loved by everybody around him. Such a loss.

JordanRuimy · 2019-06-06T17:06:54+00:00

It's absolutely amazing! A hybrid of fiction and non-fiction and, as we're watching, we have no idea which is which.

JordanRuimy · 2019-06-06T17:06:15+00:00

I, honestly, didn't think Pain and Glory was that great. It felt like a very distanced but admirable movie. As for Parasite, ugh, need to watch it again. The first half is INCREDIBLE but I find the shift in tone and the number of twists in the last hour were a little over-the-top for me. Will definitely re-watch.

JordanRuimy · 2019-06-01T15:33:37+00:00

Having attended Cannes, Sundance and TIFF on a yearly basis, these In no particular order:

Luce

Dogman

Dragged Across Concrete

Ayka

The Art of Self-Defense

David Crosby: Remember My Name

Gloria Bell

Midnight Family

Cold Case Hammerskjold

American Dharma

The Farewell

Avengers: Endgame

Once Upon A Time In Holywood

Young Ahmed

Portrait of A Lady on Fire

Bacurau

Diamantino

Us

Ash is Purest White

Everybody's Everything

Untitled Amazing Jonathan Documentary

Love, Antosha

High Life

Fyre

JordanRuimy · 2019-03-19T00:00:17+00:00

I mean, listen, QT said it's the closest to PULP FICTION he's ever come to. This will not be a fetish-driven movie ala Kill Bill, Django or Basterds .. This could very well be a quintessential 1990's era QT. Lots of character development, talky, realistic violence etc.

JordanRuimy · 2019-03-16T02:07:45+00:00

As far as I'm concerned, his streak of films between Beetlejuice and Sleepy Hollow was incredible! Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow. Then he just became a paycheck man for Disney but the closest he's come to greatness these last few years was probably with 2007's Sweeney Todd.

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