{"id":14157,"date":"2025-04-20T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14157"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T17:26:08","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14157","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched another 6 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0038574\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-2-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Great Expectations\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-2-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-2.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062480\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2-2-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"Weekend\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2-2-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2-2.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044982\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-2-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-2-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-2.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Not to over-sell it or anything, but David Lean&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0038574\/\">Great Expectations<\/a> may be the best literary adaptation ever.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I just don&#8217;t think Goddard films are for me. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062480\/\">Weekend<\/a> is certainly interesting, and I can respect what I think it&#8217;s trying to do and say, but Goddard&#8217;s films have almost always left me cold. &#8220;There are some other strange things,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/weekend-1968\">wrote Roger Ebert<\/a> in his own review, and that&#8217;s about all I can say for it.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I loved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044982\/\">The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice<\/a>. It&#8217;s so simple, so natural\u2014even if the camerawork is almost flashy by Ozu standards\u2014and while <em>Tokyo Story<\/em> is probably still my favorite Ozu, this was just lovely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065895\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-2-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Machine Gun McCain\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-2-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-2-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-2-768x1168.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-2-1010x1536.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-2-1346x2048.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4-2-scaled.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050634\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5-2-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Cranes Are Flying\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5-2-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5-2-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5-2-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26584495\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-2-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Companion\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-2-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-2-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-2-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-2-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6-2-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065895\/\">Machine Gun McCain<\/a> isn&#8217;t very good, largely dull and poorly dubbed, but there are some moments, particularly the brief performances by Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands, that almost shine.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050634\/\">The Cranes Are Flying<\/a> is a remarkable movie, genuinely beautiful and heartbreaking, full of incredible shots and compelling performances.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26584495\/\">Companion<\/a> would probably be better if it didn&#8217;t give away its central twist in every single bit of its marketing (including, spoiler warning, that poster), but that twist isn&#8217;t exactly groundbreaking, so maybe it&#8217;s fine. The movie isn&#8217;t wildly original, but it does some fun things and offers some good performances all around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074285\/\">Carrie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057449\/\">The Raven<\/a>, two very different movies, but both of which are still pretty great. (For the record, <em>Carrie<\/em> is a lot better, but <em>The Raven<\/em> is very charmingly silly.)<br \/>\n`<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched another 6 movies last week: Not to over-sell it or anything, but David Lean&#8217;s Great Expectations may be the best literary adaptation ever. I just don&#8217;t think Goddard films are for me. Weekend is certainly interesting, and I can respect what I think it&#8217;s trying to do and say, but Goddard&#8217;s films have &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14157\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14158,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}