Who says kids can’t enjoy bleak R rated movies? Check out this awesome Bleak Movies Coloring Book. I loved this page for Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream!
Are you a masochistic film junkie? You’re going to love these.
If you’re like me, and you enjoy watching films that are difficult to sit through, you’re going to love Flavorwire’s list of 25 Incredibly Tough Movies for Extreme Viewers.
Of the films I have seen from this list, I would highly recommend Michael Haneke’s Funny Games and The Piano Teacher, Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, and Stanley Kubrik’s A Clockwork Orange. It’s funny because there are few films here that I didn’t find too difficult to watch (Seven, Oldboy, even A Serbian Film), and a few films I felt like were missing (Dogtooth, Dario Argento films, Cache) on this list.
Do you agree with Flavorwire’s list or should they make room for a few others?
A little perspective on the Oscars
Don’t get me wrong – I love the Oscars. But I saw this on the Sydney Film Festival Facebook feed and couldn’t NOT share it.
Movies R Fun: For Mature Kids Only
Josh Cooley – a storyboard artist at Pixar – has put together a not-so-innocent children’s book of famous scenes from R rated movies. The little ones may not pick up on all of the famous film references, but their parents will definitely appreciate them. Check out a couple of my favorites picked out from the Buzzfeed article here:
Happy Valentines Day
Happy Valentines Day everyone! I also found out that today also doubles as the day Gandalf returned from the dead as Gandalf the White. So Happy Gandalf Day too!
Whether you’re cherishing your long-time partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, mate, lover, crush or Netflix, I hope you are spreading lots of love and letting these special beings know that you love them.
Love,
TheFilmKid
This couple break up using just movie titles
An afterthought on Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death
On February 2nd, 2014, I got a text message, which prompted a Google search, and the first headline that came up confirmed that Philip Seymour Hoffman had indeed been found dead in his apartment in West Village. I remember staring out the window and thinking that’s not too far from our apartment here in New York City.
In the days following, I saw shared news stories on my Facebook feed. Fifty Bags of Heroin found in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Apartment. I saw links reblogged on Tumblr. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Saves 10 Lives. People were dealing with the shock by connecting with fellow social media users, strangers, and anonymous fans of the actor.
The headlines weren’t really enough for me to follow through with a click of my mouse, but I did read one article by A.O.Scott. After reading the article, I wanted to watch Philip Seymour Hoffman’s work. As a kid I had seen him in Twister and Patch Adams, as a teen I saw him in The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Big Lebowski, Punch Drunk Love, Almost Famous, and more recently, I had seen him in The Master. And yet, I felt like I was missing out on a plethora of Philip Seymour Hoffman characters.
I guess I felt a compulsion to see his earlier work, because I felt like this might be the best way to honor deceased artists. They continue to live on in what they leave behind. And I really believe Philip Seymour Hoffman left us with immortalized performances.
Films From 2013 Condensed
This is why I love film.
Someone has gone ahead and spliced together scenes from 300 films this year into one condensed 7 minute film. The result is absolutely mesmerizing. The effort this person must have put into editing this work is pretty impressive, but what’s more impressive, is their ability to show us the themes and ideas that hold all of these disparate films together. It reminds us why we go to see movies in the first place, and why we’re so addicted to their pull.
Cronos (1993)
“Suo tempore.”
★★★★
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Written by: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook
Inside a gold contraption that can fit into the palm of your hand, there are cogs and wheels turning to the rhythm of eternal life. This little ticking toy takes some of your blood, mixes it within the body of a poor slave-driven insect, and injects you with a few more living years. But like most fascinating machines, this one comes with a manual. And for those who don’t use the device with caution, they could end up chewing off more than they can swallow.
Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, Cronos captures the imagination with a magnetic sense of horror. As we are drawn to the gold giver of life with as much curiosity and desire as the film’s protagonist, Jesus Gris (Luppi), Guillermo del Toro unwinds a beautifully crafted story of a man who has immortality thrust upon him. With wonderfully theatrical scenes of color design and a heartbreaking relationship between Jesus and his granddaughter, Guillermo del Toro fashions a uniquely impressive horror story that ticks to its own style of suspense, black humor, and beauty.
Event Horizon (1997)
“Who knows where it’s been, what it’s seen. Or what it’s brought back with it.”
★★
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Written by: Philip Eisner
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan
Set in the year 2047, Paul Anderson’s Event Horizon takes a space rescue team out to Neptune, where they recover a deep space exploration ship that disappeared some seven years ago. The ship, named ‘Event Horizon’, was part of a secret mission to enter a gateway to another universe. How the ship returned, and what it brought back with it, is a mystery. That is, until the rescue team is lured into the evil that caused Event Horizon’s previous shipmates to turn into human pâté.
While Event Horizon has the look of a well-oiled space horror film, it doesn’t quite pull off its blend of supernatural elements and science fiction fear. The crew is made up of likable and intriguing characters, but as their personal demons – including traumatic past experiences and family members – take the place of the flesh eating aliens that we’re used to, Event Horizon fails to lift its psychological scares out of the shock value orbit.
In the end, Event Horizon leaves it up to the explosions and the bloody gore to tie up loose ends in the plot’s logic and major fear factor. With a set and ensemble cast ready for take-off, Event Horizon lacks the suspense or the psychological depth that it needs to be an out-of-this-world space thriller.
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