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Contemporary Japanese Movies to watch
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Continental Catalogue
Favs/dislikes: 2:1. Brazilian DVD Distributor of classic, art-house and trash movies -
Coq Rouge (a.k.a. Jan Guillou's Hamilton)
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. This is a list of all movie and TV adaptations involving the legendary Swedish agent Carl Hamilton (code name Coq Rouge), created by Swedish author Jan Guillou. Unfortunately, the original books have not been filmed in chronological order or even adapted individually. Thus my recommendation is to ignore the release year completely. Watch the movies and TV series in the order listed below for the most chronologically correct experience! The 6 episode TV miniseries "Kvällspressen" (1992) involves him rather indirectly since it deals more with other aspects of the storylines surrounding Hamilton prior to "Vendetta". The movie "Vendetta" (1995) was broadcast on Swedish television as an extended miniseries version the same year, and the movie "Hamilton" (1998) was extended in a similar fashion in 2001. For some reason "Vendetta" has only one IMDb entry while "Hamilton" has two. Catch the extended versions if possible. To confuse things further... "Hamilton: I nationens intresse" (2012) does not adapt the story from the book with same name, but tells a new story much later in Hamilton's life with the intent to converge his storyline with the spin-off series about his ex-wife; Ewa Tanguy. This is subsequently done in "Hamilton: Men inte om det gäller din dotter" (2012) which actually is a book adaptation. "Hamilton 3: I hennes majestäts tjänst" (2016) was canceled. No plans to revive the project are known. A new TV series titled simply "Hamilton" seems to be in the making for a possible 2019 release. No details available yet (as of march 2018). -
CorreCamara's The Other Top 100 Mexican films
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A list by critic Raúl Miranda López that extends the SOMOS Top 100 Mexican films list. -
Cosmopolitan's The 38 Best Romantic Comedies Every Woman Needs in Her Life
Favs/dislikes: 2:1. This list was published in 2020. -
Coursera: The Language of Hollywood
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Movies on the syllabus for "The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color" taught by Scott Higgins of Wesleyan University, offered at Coursera.com -
Crave's Best Political Movies
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A nation divided. A war of ideals. It sounds a lot like reality and it sounds a lot like a movie. Indeed, the history of cinema is fertile with motion pictures with political storylines and lofty social ambitions. Ever since we discovered that the moving image has a distinct power over the masses, artists and governments have been using films to convey their message… for better and often for worse. Compiling a list of the best political movies in history is a daunting task. We had to allow for films that espouse ideas and ideals that don’t necessarily match our own. We had to consider a film’s quality as a political document and/or statement as a separate entity from its overall quality (the so-called “best movie ever made” only ranks at #49 on this list for that very reason). And we had to cast a wide net, so this Big List was voted upon and written by a half dozen film critics: Crave‘s William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold, The Wrap‘s Alonso Duralde, Linoleum Knife‘s Dave White, Blumhouse‘s Alyse Wax and Collider‘s Brian Formo. They each nominated 50 films, ranked from #1-50, and we tabulated those votes to come up with the following Top 50 Best Political Movies Ever. (Stick around at the end, when we’ll reveal our 50 runners-up as well.) -
Creepy Catalog's 50+ Best Movies About Cults
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. This list of the best movies about cults will have you questioning the groups you’re apart of while wondering— if you were in a cult, would you recognize it? Movies have explored every aspect of these strange groups — the manipulation and brainwashing by human beings, occultism and the Devil, political and doomsday groups — you name it. So what’s scarier: another person controlling your fate, or a group with no physical leader to take down? Here are 50+ horror movies to help you find out. Last updated: 04/19/22 -
Crime (series & mini-series)
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Cristian Sanchez Movies
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Criterion Channel: 80s Horror
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Criterion Channel's October 2022 lineup: 80s Horror -
Criterion Channel Expiring October 2023
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Criterion Collection iTunes / Amazon Instant Exclusives
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Films that that have not appeared in the collection as a feature or as an extra for another feature. These also are not available streaming on the Criterion Collection Hulu Channel. Note: Currently iTunes and Amazon Instant have the exact same exclusive offerings. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Amour Fou
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. At Criterion, we’re as fond of a good romance as anybody. But it’s the twisted, obsessive ones that really set our hearts ablaze. Love will make you do the damnedest things—just take it from the adulterous, ultimately murderous couple in Oshima’s Empire of Passion; the runaway lonely-hearts lovers in The Honeymoon Killers; the snakeskin-jacketed Marlon Brando and unleashed Anna Magnani in The Fugitive Kind; or Alida Valli’s countess, operatically mad for Farley Granger’s tight-trousered lieutenant in Senso. These are heedless, self-destructive affairs to remember. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Animals!
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Predators, prey, objects of study, companions: The lives of the other creatures with which we share the planet are so interwoven with our own that it’s only natural they would put in appearances in our cinema from time to time. Some of the animals in the Criterion menagerie are documentary subjects (Koko: A Talking Gorilla); others operate almost purely as metaphor (Au hasard Balthazar). All reward visitors. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Compare and Contrast
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. For some of our releases, one take is not enough. A number of Criterion titles feature as supplements some kind of alternate version of the main event, whether it’s a different cut (Terry Gilliam’s Brazil includes the infamous, unreleased, studio-edited “Love Conquers All” version of the film); an iteration in a different language for foreign audiences (as with our editions of Visconti’s Senso and The Leopard, in which you can see and hear their American stars delivering their lines in English); an original short that was the basis for the feature (Bottle Rocket); earlier or later versions of the same story by entirely different filmmakers (the mammoth 1980 Berlin Alexanderplatz comes with the ninety-minute 1931 adaptation of the source novel); the original book or novella in its entirety (The Earrings of Madame de . . .’s source novel, Madame de, by Louise de Vilmorin, in the release booklet); or a radio adaptation (My Man Godfrey, The 39 Steps). -
Criterion Collection Themes - Food on Film
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. http://www.criterion.com/explore/101-food-on-film -
Criterion Collection Themes - Great Performances
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. When you’re talking about great performances in the collection, acting is naturally the first thing that comes to mind. But there are plenty of other kinds of shows on our shelves deserving of the spotlight, whether concerts by rock icons (the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix), modern dance by the regal Martha Graham, or Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, as staged and captured in all its beauty by none other than Ingmar Bergman. We are proud to present a selection of spellbinding music and dance, Criterion-style. Please hold your applause until the intermission. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Independent American Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. In a national cinema dominated by behemoth Hollywood studios, independently produced films have always made for refreshing alternatives. There’s a great, diverse history of autonomous moviemaking in the United States, by artists whose intensely personal visions and ideas would have been unlikely to see a green light from, say, MGM or Universal. This selection of American films from the collection—narrative, documentary, experimental—got made without studio financing, whether by choice or necessity. The titles below come from raw, rough, and ready directors of nearly every period, including the silent era (Body and Soul, directed by African-American pioneer Oscar Micheaux), World War II (Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land), the radical sixties (the fiercely idiosyncratic films of John Cassavetes and William Greaves), and the indie waves of the eighties (Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant’s daring early works) and nineties (the debuts of Whit Stillman and Wes Anderson). Whether exposés on disenfranchised subcultures, character studies heavy or hilarious, or microbudgeted horror flicks, these are some of the most uncompromised films ever made. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Made During WWII
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. World War II naturally created many constraints for filmmakers in the countries involved in it. Nevertheless, despite censorship, propaganda demands, battle devastation, and diminished resources, filmmakers on both sides of the conflict were able to make films—even, in some cases, personal statements. As the titles listed below show, some of the world’s great directors did some of the finest work during difficult times. Clouzot even brought Le corbeau to fruition in Nazi-occupied France. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Melodrama
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. One aim of art has always been to evoke intense feelings; for melodramatic cinema, that is its unabashed and overt raison d’etre. With themes of love, suffering, betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption, melodrama puts its audiences through the emotional wringer. Various national cinemas have made contributions to the genre—from Japan, we have Mikio Naruse’s dramas of steadfast women trapped in quiet domestic anguish; from France, Max Ophuls’s luxurious tragic romances; from Italy, Luchino Visconti’s opulent tales of amour fou and Raffaello Matarazzo’s contorted, epic expressions of thwarted desire. Historically, the Hollywood work of the German émigré Douglas Sirk has been considered the expressionistic epitome of the movie melodrama; his All That Heaven Allows, Magnificent Obsession, and Written on the Wind used the form to comment on 1950s America with a sophisticated mix of irony and forthright emotion. In the ’70s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a fan of Hollywood melodrama, provocatively remade All That Heaven Allows as the heartbreaking interracial romance Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Samurai Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Samurai cinema, which includes both chanbara (action-oriented sword-fight films) and the historical jidai-geki film, focuses on the nationally mythologized samurai warriors of the twelfth to sixteenth century. Like the American western, the samurai film lends itself to tales of loyalty, revenge, romance, fighting prowess, and the decline of a traditional way of life. Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films have arguably been the most influential both in Japan and around the world; certainly the range of his approaches—from Seven Samurai’s epic scope to Yojimbo’s acidic black humor to Ran’s poetic despair—established the genre’s creative possibilities, influencing generations of filmmakers, including George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino. Key works of the genre, in its more traditional form, also include Masaki Kobayashi’s Samurai Rebellion, Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, and Hiroshi Inagaki’s Musashi Miyamoto, the first part of his epic “Samurai Trilogy.” -
Criterion Collection Themes - Tearjerkers
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. There is a genre of classic films that, finely crafted as they are, we remember first and foremost for their ability to wring tears from us. Can one even think of Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow or Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. without immediately recalling their beyond poignant ultimate scenes? And what would Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru or Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory be without those final waterworks (the characters’ and ours)? From Ozu family sagas to Sirk melodramas, we have a large selection of titles for those looking for a little cinematic catharsis. So come and cry along with Criterion. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Virtually Reality
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Who needs silly, circumscribed categories like “fiction” or “documentary”? From such classic examples as Robert Flaherty’s original almost-ethnography Nanook of the North and Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land—about violations of civil liberties in everyday America—to contemporary hybrids by living artists like Abbas Kiarostami (Close-up) and Pedro Costa (In Vanda’s Room), these works blur the lines with panache. -
Criterion Collection Themes: Yakuza!
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. We have a killer selection of Japanese gangster films—or yakuza pictures—in the Criterion Collection, all from the genre’s heyday in the fifties and sixties. Tales of the criminal underworld marked as much by themes of honor and loyalty as by images of shocking, manic violence, they explore the codes and rituals of a society simmering right underneath “civilized” culture. Directors like Takumi Furukawa, Takashi Nomura, and especially Seijun Suzuki depict this bloody world of heists, double crosses, and rivalries with stylish excess, imitating their subjects’ freewheeling daredevilishness—Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport and Suzuki’s Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter stand as some of the most visually inventive Japanese films of all time. And as proven by recent films from Takeshi Kitano and Takashi Miike, the genre doesn’t seem to be going out of fashion.
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