Board 8 > Looking for movie recommendations

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Though lockdown measures are slowly being lifted over in Europe, we're still encouraged to stay at home.
Over the past few months, on weekends I've been working through a chunk of my backlog of films I've been meaning to see for a bit.

Some of them were really good, some were interesting but didn't quite hold up, some were just weird but still worth a look.
But I'm always looking to add new stuff on the backlog as long as I find it interesting enough.

American:

Ace in the Hole
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Hustler
Midnight Cowboy
The Lighthouse
Toy Story 4
Angels with Dirty Faces

European:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Z
Forbidden Games

Asian:

Silenced
The Magic Hour
Linda Linda Linda
Love Exposure
Funeral Parade of Roses
A Brighter Summer Day
A City of Sadness

So mostly a mix of US and Asian stuff, but it's just to give an idea of what I've been going for lately.
Next up I've got my eye on a couple of Korean action thrillers and maybe a Russian film, but I could certainly do with some suggestions to add to for future weeks.

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voltch posted...

Arsenic and Old Lace

Great 40s comedy. There's a reason it gets done to death by community theatres.

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It's a good black comedy.

I liked what I saw out of it, not used to seeing this type of Cary Grant performance either.

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They wanted Boris Karloff to play Jonathan in the film, but he was too busy playing the role on Broadway.

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I keep holding off on the Lighthouse, could just be because Im a coward when it comes to horror but I like the idea of doing a back to back with it and the Witch.

Portrait is very good and Toy Story was underwhelming imo

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Portrait and The Lighthouse were both very highly rater which is part of why I checked them out.

Portrait was as good as advertised, but The Lighthouse, although I liked the performances, I didn't enjoy as much.


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Some good ones I watched this year

Midsommar
A Bittersweet Life

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The Handmaiden is a great Korean film.

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Oh ya The Handmaiden is one of my fav Koreans.

A bittersweet life is a lot of fun too, Korea films in my experience always go harder on the big emotional scenes.

Sometimes it's a little over the top, but it's a style I do enjoy right now.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire was great, last thing I saw in theaters before they shut down
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The Platform
Charade
The Guilty
Bacurau
Color Out Of Space

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Yeah, Charade is pretty cool.
It's one of my favourite Hitchcock style films, that wasn't made by him.

Anything I haven't seen, I'm checking out the synopsis just to see if it looks interesting or not.

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Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
The Raid
The Raid 2

Have some Indonesian films!

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