What was the best film you watched this week? (12/02/2018 - 18/02/2018)

The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you watched this week. It doesn’t have to be a new release, just any film you have seen over the last seven days that you feel is worth talking about. Here are some rules.1. Check to see if your favourite film of last week has been posted already.2. Please post your favourite film of last week.3. NO TV SHOWS!4. ALWAYS use spoiler tags. Report any comments that spoil recent / little-known films without using the spoiler tag.5. Comments that only contain the title of the film will be removed!Here are some great comments from last week’s thread:The Exterminating Angel (1962) - In the confines of a single room, 20 members of Spain’s upper class find themselves strangely unable to leave the parlor and return home. Left to their own devices, they descend into a ravenous hypocricy and each of them brings forth their innermost darkness in Luis Buñuel’s sharp, surreal satire which, for all its fleeting fantastical elements, remains a grounded, scathing deconstruction of the high society. The thing that most surprised me about The Exterminating Angel is how it deals with the one obvious natural weakness of its premise. Surely seeing all of these characters, no matter how well-developed they are, remain trapped in a single small room for days on end would become incredibly boring, but The Exterminating Angel realizes that the environments of the wealthy and oblivious are inextricably linked to their own lives, symbolic of their profuse levels of vanity and self-absorption. As the guests grow weary and restless, their surroundings become more disheveled and it works to keep the story dynamic counter to the static setting. Joyously tongue-in-cheek about its portrayal of these people and their hypocrisies, The Exterminating Angel builds upon the characters’ stress levels with increasingly long and bizarre stints of madness, enough to satiate the most committed of interpreters, but the overall message is one that is not particularly difficult to comprehend. Success in the terms of making such an experience visually interesting is a resounding plus, but in the incredibly subversive conclusion lies the film’s bleakest and most biting satirical element, and while The Exterminating Angel is still good aside from that, one masterful swoop of a socially conscious mind makes it ever more worth the while.Code Unknown (2000) - Directed by Michael Haneke. I watched this two days ago and i haven’t finished thinking about it. An often harsh but fair look at the failing multi-ethnic society of western Europe, the movie examines social, linguistic and economic barriers. The ideas of miscommunication, inherent and involuntary prejudice shape the entire film. The film is also rich with lots of other ideas and themes that i have to watch again to fully entangle. I have yet to decode all the themes and ideas, i still cant cant decide if the film was pessimistic or ended on a sliver of hope. The movie starts with one of the most fantastically shot one take scenes on a street of Paris , introducing all the major characters via an argument on the street. This scene is infact the kernel of the entire film where the central thesis of the piece is stated in very clear terms. The entire film then proceeds to examine and expound n the core ideas introduced in the scene as we get to know the characters more intimately. The movie has 50 or so scenes with majority being shot in a single take. A couple of scenes which i really loved: the opening shot (really the second scene of the film) on a street of Paris, a lovely scene in a restaurant where a young teenage couple are on a date which really displays the charisma of the young actor, the scnene inside a Paris metro where a major character undergoes verbal sexual harassment by two young males. But in true Haneke fashion the scene has a lot of other themes shaping it which solidify the arc of the one of the main character. I feel truly blessed to have discovered Haneke for myself. I just cannot wait to watch all of his moviesFor All Mankind - This is a documentary, but it feels much more like a epic from the stars. This is a movie by Al Reinert, who surprisingly had a writing credit on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within along other space related subjects, but this movie is pretty much a masterpiece of editing and sound. None of the movie is original footage shot by Al, but he ended up going through over a million feet of film to put together an incredible 80 minutes of footage that it pure awe inspiring. And the film really makes the interesting decision to not include the names of who is speaking over the soundtrack, making it feel at if it is simply just human kinds words and voices expressing the unmitigated wonder at the moment of it all. You get the sense that most of Terrence Malick’s recent work is very much inspired by the way this movie is structured as well. But the images that are shown are just utterly incredible. The launch of the first Apollo rocket into space has such power and force and the images are so crisp and well shot from tracking shots of the entire rocket to this incredible overhead shot from underneath the Apollo rocket just making its journey into the atmosphere and it just holds there and you get to sense just what kind f undertaking is occurring. And then you get to when they make the final punch into space and they just get there and then you realize that all these guys will literally be remembered forever. They’re the first to walk on the moon. The first songs are Buck Owens and Frank Sinatra played in space. All monumental firsts that will never be in human kind. Utterly incredible. highly recommended.For further expansion of the rules, please read this link.Have fun and play nice! via /r/movies http://ift.tt/2EApZHz

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