Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)|||||7
Think I prefer the crazy 2nd half.
La vallée close (Rousseau, 1995)|||||6
Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950)|||||7
Frozen (Buck & Lee, 2013)|||||4.5
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (McKay, 2013)|||||3
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962)|||||8
Apocalypse Now Redux (Coppola, 1979)|||||7
The reincorporated long scenes are very good (the plantation scene maybe something monumental)... the smaller restructuring and smaller reinstatements/alterations irk, making the original version somewhat preferable. Then watch the long scenes separately.
* Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)|||||7
Slugs (Simón, 1988)|||||2
Resident Evil: Extinction (Mulcahy, 2007)|||||3
Paranormal Activity 4 (Joost and Schulman, 2012)|||||3
Damn. Promising start, more cleverness and crispness from Joost and Schulman, but zero payoffs in the scare department plummet this in the latter half, and the denouement is a devolution into bullshit demon-face-chasing-you crap. That is some DTV, Grave Encounters shit. Not that the uber-commercial PA franchise is anything much loftier, but it's a super uninspired way to take the PA tale absolutely nowhere.
River of No Return (Preminger, 1954)|||||5.5
Twixt (Coppola, 2011)|||||6
My Soul to Take (Craven, 2010)|||||4.5
Wes Craven's weirdo, quirky horror/magical-realism stylings. Craven's usual brand of wonky humanism is fully present, a strangely affirming retort to Scream's nihilism - portraying a messy and in-fighting, but deeply courageous, teenage world of born heroes - in this, his YA rendition of Scream.
Computer Chess (Bujalski, 2013)|||||7
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)|||||7
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lawrence, 2013)|||||3.5
