list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Doubt

Beautifully shot & acted; effectively a two-hander between Philip Seymour Hoffman (modernising priest who may or may not have a shady past) and Meryl Streep's staunchly traditional, bitter & twisted nun who will do anything to prove her suspicions correct.

A definite 5 star.

You'll not be disappointed - it's very nearly a perfect film

I'm watching Lost in Translation again and this time I'm finding it to be awesome.

I've watched a lot of other stuff, but I'm not staying up until 5am to write about each. I'm rating (sometimes precociously)  every thing I see on IMDb nowadays.

Recent films I really liked: Le gamin au vélo, the Iranian movie A Separation and, why not, The Artist. It'll do, compared to the bunch - mostly referring to the Globes/BAFTA/Oscars lists, which I'm surveying this time around as usual. Overall, even the better films are not what I would call special, memorable.

I've also enjoyed the adaptation of le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Classy and poignant.

Oldies:
Persona, with a provisional, too-soon-and-too-few-times-seen(-uhm-just-once-!!!!)-to-tell 8/10. Technically my first Bergman, although I now know that I've caught a bit of Shame on TV a few months ago. I didn't knew what it was, but I somehow sensed it has to be a Bergman, and I liked the fragment I saw a lot.
Oh, if anyone knows what the music during the opener [Persona] is, please let me know.

Aand Jean Eustache's La Maman et la Putain. PLUSLONG.

Edited by Ricochet - February 16 2012 at 19:00

mmno

Not oustandingly, now that I've quite made my mind which are the year's finest, but yes, I've certainly liked it, and quite more for the art than the entertainment or the indeed gone overboard action.

i like it m'kay ()

Anonymous

Reasonably satisfying period piece based around the dark fantasy that William Shakespeare was a pen name for one or more writers who generated plays designed to stir-up revolutionary feelings in 16th century England.  Great cast and script in a style partaking of the Bard himself, though midway it starts pacing slow and lacks the spark, riveting drama and music of an Amadeus.  A very good bit of work that just doesn't engage as much as it should have.

The T wrote: The Artist - a fantastic movie that pays homage to classics of the silent era and Singing in the Rain, in my view the best movie of the year 10/10

Arriving here in theaters, I read that signs have been put up warning people that the movie is silent and in black 'n' white.

^^

Actually,

Doubt

Intimate and meticulously detailed slice of life at a parochial school in 1964 with a script full of tension, suggestion, foreboding, painstakingly real dialog and human drama, Doubt both addresses and dances around several taboo issues and asks many compelling questions the viewer must answer on his own.  Funny at times, uncomfortable just as often, we can almost smell and feel the heavy air of a religious institution; the stress, sweat, flatulence, bad food, subdued colors and tragic lives; as it wears on these poor people.