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Holy shit. What a masterpiece.

This movie is based on the real life disappearance of 3 civil rights workers, and the search that followed for them.

Everything about this movie is about as perfect as it could be. Gene Hackman and William Dafoe (and the rest of the cast) give impeccable performances. The pacing is god damned perfection, and the writing is excellent. The music and cinematography are also top notch.

I don't want to spoil a single thing about this movie, but I can tell you enthusiastically that you will not regret watching it.

After seeing the movie, you could also check out some interesting background info on the events from the period itself, such as contemporary reporting on the event from CBS, and the documentary Summer in Mississippi from 1965.

This is apparently a seminal classic, but I've only just come across it.

It has surprisingly good pacing, acting, and writing for the time. Interestingly, it was directed by John Huston, who I personally knew from voicing Gandalf in the 1977 Ralph Bakshi animated Lord of The Rings movie, so that was a fun surprise!

The direction this one goes surprised me a few times, and I'm glad I saw it. Would recommend.

First watched this one ages ago and got reminded by a meme post about insurance claims with superheroes. This one is actually based on a true story.

The 'hidden gem' comedy as featured on the YT channel Hats Off Entertainment:
https://youtu.be/Pl5CDLeKvoU

This is a sort of comedy western, based around a high stakes poker game. I saw it years ago and loved it. Truth be told, I can't remember a great deal more about it, and don't want to spoil it for myself by looking it up, but I definitely remember enjoying it a lot.

The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285861

A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a 1969 American science fiction comedy film starring Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn and William Schallert. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution Company. It was one of several films made by Disney using the setting of Medfield College, first used in the 1961 Disney film The Absent-Minded Professor and its sequel Son of Flubber. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is the first film for the series Dexter Riley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Wore_Tennis_Shoes

Dreamscape is a 1984 American sci-fi horror-adventure film directed by Joseph Ruben from a story by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell, Loughery, and Ruben co-writing. It stars Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer and David Patrick Kelly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamscape_(1984_film)

The New Legend of Shaolin (Chinese: 洪熙官之少林五祖; pinyin: Hóng Xīguān Zhī Shàolín Wǔ Zǔ; released in the United Kingdom as Legend of the Red Dragon and in the Philippines as Once Upon a Time in China-4) is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Wong Jing and Corey Yuen. The film stars and is produced by Jet Li.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Legend_of_Shaolin

I watched this for the first time the other day, and thought it was absolutely awesome.

While it's a comedy film, it surprisingly touched on a lot of areas seen in David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' concept, 14 years earlier.

Well acted, supremely funny and well written, and a particular joy to anyone who's worked in an office, or had a family member who did. There's not really any low or slow point in the film, it's steadily excellent the whole way through.

The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient. After being handed full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

movie links:

• vimeo: https://vimeo.com/584593423
• archive: https://archive.org/details/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970

In Cage's hands, cartoonish moments are imbued with real emotion and real emotions become cartoons. Everything – from individual scenes down to single lines of dialogue – feel like they have been embraced as opportunities for creation. Cage is usually interesting even when his films are not.

dialogue in the bar at about 1 hours in, they're both impressive but cage is enchanting when he changes rhythm. He's a genius in that pitiful form

In a 2020 interview, Cage revealed that the released version of the film was recut by Bob Weinstein without Charles' permission and that the latter's original version remains unreleased. In 2024, Charles released his original cut of the film onto his YouTube channel, which runs over an hour longer.

Suspiria is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror art film directed by Dario Argento, who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi, partially based on Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis. The film stars Jessica Harper as an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious European dance academy. It also features Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Alida Valli, Udo Kier, and Joan Bennett, in her final film role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria

Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin. The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once transported a disassembled steamboat over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo

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Where's the Money is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Scott Zabielski and written by Ted Sperling and Benjamin Sutor. The film stars Andrew Bachelor, Kat Graham, Logan Paul, Terry Crews, Mike Epps, Method Man, and Josh Brener. The film had a limited release in theaters by Lionsgate on October 20, 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_the_Money

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Wikipedia Article of the movie.

This movie is chock full of excellent acting, witty dialog, and superb cinematography. It touches on so many aspects of history around the worker movement of the 1910's, including the IWW, famous Anarchists, and the troubles it faced.

It's quite unique in that it includes interviews with surviving people who knew John Reed and Louise interspersed with different parts of the movie, making it almost like a docu-drama, but with an incredibly high 32 million dollar budget (equivalent to 112 million today).

If you have any interest in unions, the early socialist movement in the United states, and a particularly well done romance, then I highly, highly recommend giving this a watch.

But be sure to have a good chunk of time to set aside, as the movie is 3 hours long!

EDIT: Hah, forgot I posted this here a year ago. Well, hopefully some new members will be able to see it ^^

Wiki Article of the film.

As someone who wasn't particularly a fan of westerns, I specifically sought this movie out a few years ago after reading an old western from a now forgotten series, Fargo. I was blown away by how good it was, and discovered that this film, and specifically Lee Marvin's character, basically rips off the Fargo series wholesale. So I figured, eh, let's have a go, then.

When the movie was over, I was absolutely floored with how good it was, and how well it captured the vibe of the Fargo book, like seeing everything that was in my head pop out onto the screen.

This movie is quite different compared to most westerns of its era, feeling more a like a modern rendition than one from 1966. The pacing is excellent, the actors and acting superb, and the action and story are extremely well done, with very little suspension of disbelief needed.

I would rate this quite highly in my personal top 10 movies, right up there with 3 Days of The Condor and Where Eagles Dare.

Joe Hill (Movie) is a 1971 biopic of the Swedish-American labor activist. It was written, directed and edited by Bo Widerberg. It stars Thommy Berggren, Ania Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Evert Anderson, Cathy Smith and Hasse Persson. The movie won the Jury Prize at the 1971 Cannes Film

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(film)

The Celestine Prophecy is a 2006 American film directed by Armand Mastroianni and starring Matthew Settle, Thomas Kretschmann, and Sarah Wayne Callies. The f...