Chorus.Fm Weekly Movie Club • Page 25

When he pulls out from the club and the street looks like this

wow

 

Watching Harikari now. The credits have already won me over

 

it rules, gonna re-watch tomorrow

 

@cshadows2887 is up!

Next week is @OhTheWater

 

I think I'll go with one that I haven't seen yet so we're all discovering.

Let's do The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwit Ghatak, 1960). It's on Criterion Channel.

I loved the other movie I've seen from him, so hopefully this one is good too!

 

1 hour left on The Cloud-Capped Star will try and finish it tonight

 

@OhTheWater is up!

My pick will finish off the round next week.

 

Sorry for being a bad member. I need to play a little catch up since school is starting back up this week. I’m going to go with something I just watched for the first time last week.

My pick is Amos Poe’s 1984 film Alphabet City, available on the Criterion Channel. Poe is mainly known for his No-wave movie The Blank Generation. If I have time, I’m going to check that and Subway Riders out as well.

 

Here's the full movie on youtube. I'll wait on my thoughts for other people to check it out, but this one has really stuck with me over the past week. I might cop the Fun City blu ray

 

My pick is The Battle of Algiers (1966). Ive been getting into Italian neorealism this year.

"The director and his coscreenwriter, Franco Solinas, wanted to commemorate the popular uprising that had succeeded in ousting the French from Algeria in July 1962. That event triggered a seismic wave of anticolonial movements across the Third World, serving both as a millennial image of freedom and a more practical lesson in the violent means deemed necessary to win it. The Battle of Algiers would itself help to galvanize those struggles by uniting the revolutionary prerequisites of a cool head and a blazing heart. No other political movie of the past fifty years bears the same power to lift you from your seat with the incandescent fervor of its commitment. And none before or since has anchored that passion in so lucid a diagnosis of the fault lines separating exploiter and exploited."