Thanks Ebbywebby & Armoreska finally got around to watching this in the proper version today. The NFB is one of the best film sites on the internet actually; I will probably go through all their shorts eventually and would have gotten around to this again eventually.
greenhorg: best comment I've read yet anywhere on this site, although your prejudice is showing given that you don't mention anywhere the great puppy-kitten war of 1979.
Not just the best new film I've seen this year - one of the best of the decade so far, and the best musical in English since I-don't-know-when. Maybe the 1950s, honestly. Absolutely entrancing from start to finish, a magnificent mix of comedy and very real pathos.
Gotta disagree with greenhorg; certainly some of these films may be extremely difficult to find, and heck a few might be "impossible" unless one happens to work at the particular archive where the single copy is kept or whatever - but that's the joy of the hunt! And stuff keeps re-appearing all the time, from out of the dustbins of history.
I really don't know why folks bother talking about IMDb ratings, the IMDb Top 250, etc, so much. I'm a regular IMDb forum user and have followed the top 250 with some regularity for about 5 years and - well, it's just a joke. For every great film that gets on there, somehow - and this looks like one of 'em if the one Farhadi film I've seen is any indication - there are 5 flash-in-the-pans that get heavy votes from mostly kids/fanboys. Sock-puppet voting is and always has been rampant, and there are dozens of examples of generally regarded world masterpieces (typically non-English-language) that have shown up on the list only to get flurries of "1" votes and get bumped off forever.
It's really great that a film from one of the absolute top countries for cinema over the past 25 years is getting recognition - but I don't see how putting it on the same page as "The Dark Knight" and "A Beautiful Mind" is very meaningful at all.
I'll echo the last couple of positive comments; I would imagine that very few people outside of S. Korea would have seen many of these films - or even heard of most of them - but if anything that makes the list all the more valuable, for pointing those of us interested in finding out something about early Korean cinema in some kind of direction. There's plenty of information about stuff from the last 15 years out there already.
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Movie comment on Paris, le Pont-Neuf
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Gershwin's link is actually for "Scaphandrier" (1896). KirarinSnow's link is correct.Movie comment on Les ordres
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GREAT comment 3rdman, and being an American living through the current administration, this couldn't be more timely.I would replace the last word of your post with "humans" though.
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Mercifully shortMovie comment on Monsieur Pointu
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Thanks Ebbywebby & Armoreska finally got around to watching this in the proper version today. The NFB is one of the best film sites on the internet actually; I will probably go through all their shorts eventually and would have gotten around to this again eventually.Movie comment on Au bout du fil
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13-to-1 dislike to favorite ratio? Wow. I guess I'm on a different path.Movie comment on Gone in Sixty Seconds
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Makes most of the Fast and Furious flicks look like absolute masterpieces in comparison.Movie comment on The Private Life of a Cat
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greenhorg: best comment I've read yet anywhere on this site, although your prejudice is showing given that you don't mention anywhere the great puppy-kitten war of 1979.Movie comment on La La Land
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Not just the best new film I've seen this year - one of the best of the decade so far, and the best musical in English since I-don't-know-when. Maybe the 1950s, honestly. Absolutely entrancing from start to finish, a magnificent mix of comedy and very real pathos.Movie comment on Where to Invade Next
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Agreed.Toplist comment on Anthology Film Archives's Essential Cinema
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Gotta disagree with greenhorg; certainly some of these films may be extremely difficult to find, and heck a few might be "impossible" unless one happens to work at the particular archive where the single copy is kept or whatever - but that's the joy of the hunt! And stuff keeps re-appearing all the time, from out of the dustbins of history.Movie comment on Flatlife
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Absolutely hilarious.Movie comment on Winter's Tale
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Oh, much worse than Battlefield Earth I think. In fact, likely the worst film I've ever paid to see on the big screen.Movie comment on The Two Mrs. Carrolls
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Couldn't agree more. One of the worst films I've seen with Bogart or Stanwyck.Movie comment on A Beautiful Mind
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My God, what a great story, and what a horrible film. Ron Howard - the Michael Bay of "adult dramas".Movie comment on Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
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32 dislikes? Wow, lots of Popeye-haters around here!Movie comment on Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
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I really don't know why folks bother talking about IMDb ratings, the IMDb Top 250, etc, so much. I'm a regular IMDb forum user and have followed the top 250 with some regularity for about 5 years and - well, it's just a joke. For every great film that gets on there, somehow - and this looks like one of 'em if the one Farhadi film I've seen is any indication - there are 5 flash-in-the-pans that get heavy votes from mostly kids/fanboys. Sock-puppet voting is and always has been rampant, and there are dozens of examples of generally regarded world masterpieces (typically non-English-language) that have shown up on the list only to get flurries of "1" votes and get bumped off forever.It's really great that a film from one of the absolute top countries for cinema over the past 25 years is getting recognition - but I don't see how putting it on the same page as "The Dark Knight" and "A Beautiful Mind" is very meaningful at all.
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I'll echo the last couple of positive comments; I would imagine that very few people outside of S. Korea would have seen many of these films - or even heard of most of them - but if anything that makes the list all the more valuable, for pointing those of us interested in finding out something about early Korean cinema in some kind of direction. There's plenty of information about stuff from the last 15 years out there already.Showing items 51 – 67 of 67