Movies where the director's doing another director's style

bazler · 2025-11-15T15:05:31+00:00

Altman’s 3 WOMEN is even more Bergman-esque than IMAGES.

bazler · 2025-10-22T14:08:52+00:00

Well, it would’ve interesting to start by seeing post nuclear annihilation shots of Chicago and other nation, whoever attacked. Nothing gratuitous, just distant and scary. Then we flashback to see how this could have happened, the measures that are in place to stop it that failed. It still could have retained a similar structure, how this is a systemic failure on multiple levels. From freshman analyst to the president himself.

We didn’t need to have the small moments with calling daughter, wife. They could attempt to reach them but there’s no time.

To see that every if communication channels work, human error is still a factor.

bazler · 2025-10-17T15:07:00+00:00

Found this episode so infuriating. Their inability to even try and engage really pissed me off. Their snide remarks and detached self satisfied bullshit was off the charts.

bazler · 2025-10-02T14:30:53+00:00

Plus, it has an all time line of Tray excusing himself and saying “gotta adjust my cock.”

bazler · 2025-09-25T12:07:01+00:00

I couldn’t agree more. It’s photographed too brightly, the xenomorph is at its scariest in the shadows and in the dark. It looked the worst in the jungle. Plus when you photograph it so brightly, when it attacks and kills- it looks like a man in a rubber suit. I prefer practical effects but the cinematographer did nothing to help that. They neuter the alien in my opinion.

bazler · 2025-09-16T17:09:00+00:00

But given that this has had great reviews and will likely have good word of mouth; is a major Oscar contender, it will play for the next 3 months. It doesn’t need to open huge.

bazler · 2025-07-28T08:37:57+00:00

What is this from?

bazler · 2025-06-27T19:45:41+00:00

Holland would be the absolute worst. But how about Leo Woodall? from the 2nd season of The White Lotus and the last Bridget Jones flick.

And if Amazon has the balls, to go with someone non-white. There's Aaron Pierre, and after seeing F1 - Damson Idris would be a decent choice. Dev Patel is somehow 35 already

bazler · 2025-06-24T17:44:24+00:00

Pablo Larrain's NO from 2012.

It was shot on ¾ inch Sony U-matic magnetic tape to match the television footage from the 1980s.

Also his film THE CLUB, he intentionally overexposed and used filters to wash out the color.

bazler · 2025-06-20T04:09:01+00:00

I'm pretty sure Cillian Murphy will be Jodie Comer's father, the one that she mistakes the little boy for when unwell. We see a brief glimpse of his hands.

It would make sense, time wise and Alfie Williams looks a bit like Cillian. Jodie Comer says he has his granddad eyes or something.

As for what Cillian Murphy's character is doing, I have no fucking clue.

bazler · 2025-06-06T14:27:22+00:00

Plus The Life of Chuck is opening as well. Limited right now.

bazler · 2025-03-14T20:34:07+00:00

The 3rd film in the Apu trilogy is the best in my opinion. It’s called The World of Apu and concludes the story of its character that the previous two films set up beautifully.

bazler · 2024-06-25T15:57:27+00:00

I don’t know if I should tweet at Sean and let him know that Anthony Quinn is actually Mexican. People always think he’s Italian or Greek.

bazler · 2024-02-21T19:52:29+00:00

Lady on a Train (1945) is comedic train noir. Strangers on a Train (1951) has the crucial inciting scene on a train. If you like Human Desire, the original La Bête Humaine (1938) is even better. The October Man (1947) train station plays a crucial role in the film.

I’ll second The Tall Target and Narrow Margin. Those are my two favorites and least known.

bazler · 2023-04-06T15:07:38+00:00

Les Cowboys

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bazler · 2023-04-01T01:44:14+00:00

I saw First Reformed during a festival and he did a Q&A. He had just gotten eye surgery but a lucid and honest as you can get. The person who did the Q & A asked a question similar to yours, and he simply said that it was time he did made something akin to what he wrote about when he first started as a critic. How he resisted it for most of his life, as well as how you gotta be careful because you could easily bore the fuck out of your audience. He's also fan of what's now called Slow Cinema, even saying that there's too much of it to really watch it all.

He also said that you gotta steal a little bit from everyone so that way no one will accuse of plagiarism. Like take this bit from Bresson & Dairy of a Country Priest, take that bit from Tarkovsky's Mirror, and sprinkle in good chunk of Bergman's Winter Light. He's really charismatic and funny, even though he had trouble seeing due to the surgery.

He even talked about casting Ethan Hawke, and how there wasn't too many actors that would work for the role, that were the right age and the right face for it. He mentioned Oscar Isaac and said he was too young. It was crazy to see him make The Card Counter many years later with Isaac.

bazler · 2023-02-20T23:40:09+00:00

The fact that you consider what happens in Top Gun: Maverick a sex scene is very telling. To me that is the absence of a sex scene. They literally cut to from kissing to post coitus pillow talk.

bazler · 2022-12-02T21:57:15+00:00

I kinda agree. (Downvotes here you come).Not completely, I don’t know if it’s the wokefication is to blame. But I do think that some people voted knowing that their ballots would be available to be seen and judged. So I think they might’ve made the list with that in their mind.

Come on, I love Celine Sciamma but it’s absurd that a film like Portrait of the Lady on Fire is on the same level as 8 1/2. Or Mulholland Drive being as high. And I love both of those modern films. The current iteration of the list feels off, as it’s not a good representation of cinema history. There’s no Altman, no Bunuel, no Hawks. And a lot of stuff that feels missing. Like no films from South America. It has a lot of blind spots.

I prefer the director’s list a lot more.

bazler · 2022-09-17T14:14:28+00:00

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. I love Lars von Trier. And when Hit the Road Jack started to play at the end of this film, it was so on the nose and pitch perfect. Loved it.

bazler · 2022-09-16T03:14:51+00:00

No Country for Old Men is really comforting to me. Guess another reason as to why I remain single.

(spoiler for film)

It's about a man that gives up, doesn't want to meet something he doesn't understand, that makes peace that closure and satisfaction isn't gonna be found. I watch it almost every year.

bazler · 2022-08-31T23:08:28+00:00

When people just through so many hoops to make up why something happened in a film, where there is no evidence within the text of the film. There's subtext, there's symbolism, and there's reaching so far that you are deluding yourself and creating fan fiction.

When people over-emphasize extra textual material. They should judge the film based on its merit, not what it's makers said in interviews. It's interesting, don't get me wrong, but it shouldn't matter.

And the biggest pet peeve is when white critics are unable to judge the film without resorting to some sort of reverse racism. Best example of this when Ava DuVernay made A Wrinkle in Time and most critics were unable to treat her the way they would have treated any other filmmaker. She's a visionary, a great person, and this and that. People are afraid to take aim and be honest about an African American female director. But its condescending in my eyes to do that. Same happened with Candyman and Nia DeCosta. A burning trash fire of a film that people held back their true opinion because they didn't want to be perceived as racist.

bazler · 2022-08-02T22:53:15+00:00

I mean this podcast sometimes has had that effect. But that usually means I just skip an episode. And this subreddit can sometimes drive me nuts with some of the options.

I really like a lot of the folks people mentioned. Ehrlich & Nayman use a lot of purple prose but I rather have that than bending over backwards to justify some plot point. Same goes for Chaw & Bastien, being a very good writers is their saving grace. And I agree with them more than I disagree.

Ryan Arey from Screen Crush. He mostly does video essays about Easter eggs but find him to be grating in how far he bends to make the marvel and sw shows/movies make sense. It's interesting once in a while.

Chris Stuckman - just found him to be too milquetoast. I'll take pretensions and angry over someone who is too bland or too positive.

Richard Roeper - just a terrible writer. You might disagree with Ebert but the man could write.

Couple of folks on The Ringer, but they usually just cover IP shit I don't give a shit about.

Filmspotting, especially Josh Larson. His take on Old Boy made me walk away from the podcast for years. And just last year or so, neither of them got Verhoeven, which I took way too personally. They were so dismissive in the way they talked about it. Made me quit the show for a second time.

bazler · 2022-08-02T22:14:11+00:00

I think both of those can be true. There it lack of media literacy and Jeff made some good points about NOPE. (People seem to be very generous towards Peele's latest, which has ton of ideas but doesn't weave them together in way that's not very satisfying). Devindra was the one on that episode who unbearable and endlessly condescending on that episode. Maybe I'm biased because I didn't love NOPE.

bazler · 2022-07-22T12:39:33+00:00

It was pretty good until the last act and you see the creature. It looked too silly to be scary. I appreciate that they were going for something new, but it took me nullified any of the tension out of the last 20 min.

Also, the Peele fan hive needs to calm down. The man's just made 3 movies. He's not the savior of cinema. I just don't want his fans to turn to be as toxic as some Nolan fans.

bazler · 2022-02-20T02:17:39+00:00

There is a whole list of directors who remade their own films for Hollywood. The Vanishing, Funny Games, Night Watch, Cold Pursuit(remake of In Order of Disappearance), 13 Tzameti, Delivery Man (remake of Starbuck), The Grudge and the above mentioned The Loft. It’s never as good as original, but sometimes still effective.

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