#Gran Cinema

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday David 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

April 10,1975

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

10 Aprile 1975

[hydravns]

If you miss a line in the game, you reset. You miss it on the track, you could die.

GRAN TURISMO (2023) Dir. Neill Blomkamp

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The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann

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Palacio de la Música, Gran Vía

Cinema (now gone) with giant, hand-painted 'now playing' movie posters

Madrid, Spain -- 4/10/04

[waiting4kraven]

Riding the edge.

requested by @colin-colin-colin

[neovallense]

Gran Turismo (id., 2023)

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Keyhole, Villa del Priorato di Malta, Rome, Italy VS Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A space odissey, 1968

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[filmap]

Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades Isaki Lacuesta. 2014

Room Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Rambla, 51-59, 08002 Barcelona See in map

See in imdb

[dornonthecob]

Hands down the most insane theater standee I’ve ever seen. Just a whole-ass movie review on a standee. Gamers deserve better

[pygartheangel]

"Black Journal" (Gran Bollito) -1977

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Clint 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Clinton Eastwood Jr

May 31,1930

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

31 Maggio 1930

[stevecooganfan]

Steve on set in Gran Canaria filming 'The Penguin Lessons' ❤️

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[mylifeincinema]

My Week(s) in Reviews: November 26, 2023

Got a bunch of 'em for y'all, this week...

Napoleon (Ridley Scott, 2023)

Okay. I don't get it. What's with all the bad reviews!?! It's in no way perfect, but I kinda loved how Scott celebrates Napoleon's strategically brilliant military mind while simultaneously poking fun at how big of a whining brat he was. The battle sequences are breathtaking and the humor almost always works. Phoenix fully understands Scott's approach and the contrary nature of Napoleon's character and brings both men to life with an entitlement, desperation and ego that completely reexamines the historical figure. It's as impressive as it is jarringly weird. Vanessa Kirby is fantastic when her performance isn't being butchered by the film's editing, and while there's no standouts within the rest of the cast, there's no necessarily weak links, either. But, again, this is by no means a perfect film. The battle scenes are magnificent and Scott's approach is fresh and funny, but the editing outside of those battle sequences is awkwardly inconsistent and the script is at once over-stuffed and too briskly paced, making much of the rest of the film a bit of a structural mess. - 8/10

The Killer (David Fincher, 2023)

Technically impressive, emotionally freezing, and darkly funny. Fassbender is fantastic as the disciplined yet fumbling titular assassin. I love that the only actual evidence we're ever given that he's good at his job is his inner-monologue. All of the events that unfold throughout the film decidedly point to the opposite. He's a well-prepared killer with shit natural instincts and unbelievably good luck. And Fincher's approach to exploring his method and madness understands the character's strengths and weaknesses so well that it blurs the line between the serious and the absurd to bring us a revenge story as unpredictable as the character himself. It's far from Fincher's best work - and those opening credits were atrocious - but the patience and attention to detail Fincher brings paired with Baxter's flawless editing, the rest of the stunning technical work on display, Fassbender's delusional performance, and Swinton's brief but magnificent turn all make this one an impressively odd success. - 8.5/10

Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, 2023)

Coppola understands this kind of life, and through her richly empathetic screenplay and the masterclass in blocking that is her direction, she brings this life to the screen with an understanding that makes its subtle yet crystal clear damnation hit home all the more effectively. Cailee Spaeny is perfection, and brings Priscilla to life with a longing and naïveté that evolve and wither as her fairy tale becomes a nightmare. - 8.5/10

The Marvels (Nia DaCosta, 2023)

Get over it, this was A LOT of fun.

Sure, the villain is weak - especially considering just how big a threat they apparently are - and yeah, Captain Marvel herself is still absurdly overpowered, but Larson seems to have finally found a good balance in the character, and teaming her up with Parris and the fantastic Vellani is exactly what her character needed. All the character swapping is the right kind of crazy for these characters, and builds their relationships in an effectively creative manner. All of the Flerken stuff was amazing, and I'd be perfectly okay with them getting their own film, or even their own cinematic universe. The FCU... get it done, Marvel/Disney. Anyway, yeah, I had a blast with this, and refuse to take anyone who didn't seriously. They very obviously went in already hating it, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned out they didn't even go see the movie before ranting about how bad it was. Nonsense. - 7.5/10

Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023)

A little too emotionally detached for its own good. I know that's the point, and we're supposed to be little more than observers in the court, but it still knocked me out of the story a little too often. That being said, pretty much everything else worked wonders. From the performances to the cinéma vérité style of filming; from the way it reveals the details of the case (the fight is utter perfection) to the shift of focus between mother and son, throughout. It's an examination of the role that the truth has in law and life that's as pragmatic as it is astute. - 7.5/10

Strays (Josh Greenbaum, 2023)

Overflowing with a silly, immature brand of humor that I was apparently in the exact right mood for. It did its job. I laughed a lot. - 7/10

Gran Turismo (Neill Blomkamp, 2023)

This isn't necessarily a great film, but the racing scenes are well filmed, David Harbour is surprisingly strong, and I love a good underdog story, so it is a successful one. - 6.5/10

Enjoy!

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

[willowfey]

just saw gran turismo (which was rly good btw) and afterwards we were talking to the manager to get help with a movie club points thing and we asked him if he’d seen it yet and he said “no, i haven’t seen a movie of any kind”

[the-celluloid-correspondent]

Gran Turismo Movie Review

A professional gamer of the video game, Gran Turismo, is given the opportunity to race for Nissan and become an real-life professional race car driver.

Gran Turismo was a film that I didn't have a lot of expectations for. It's August release date as well as a boring trailer only lowered my expectations. Yet, by some miracle Gran Turismo is was a pleasant surprise. If not, the biggest surprise of 2023 so far.

The first stroke of brilliance for Gran Turismo was making it a sports movie, rather than a video game movie. They took a real life success story from the Gran Turismo Academy (GT Academy) and brought it to life in a biopic. Doing this caused them to focus on the story they are telling rather than the video game itself. The story is relatively simple as it is the classic underdog tale with all the tropes and beats associated with it. Gran Turismo executes this standard story well but does not bring anything new to the table.

However, within this standard story we see a loving relationship between master and apprentice between Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe) and Jack Salter (David Harbour). We watch the pair clash over racing strategies and guts into an almost father son relationship. Madekwe and Harbour have fantastic chemistry together as they bounce off one another. From Madekwe wide eye awe of the racing world, to Harbour being a natural father figure, they were great to watch on screen.

As for the racing elements of the film, Gran Turismo does not fail to deliver. The racing sequences are spectacular to watch. Through out each one you are on the edge of your seat as you feel the gravity and heat of bring in a 200 MPH racing car. The scenes are masterfully sown and shot together under Neill Blomkamp's direction. Blomkamp proves that he is a good director when given the correct material. Furthermore, these scenes cleverly use the mechanics of the Gran Turismo game to show the thoughts and actions of our drivers while they are racing. However, the editing was distracting and too flashy at some points during the race sequences, but was still an exhilarating ride to watch.

Overall, Gran Turismo was a pleasant surprise. It executes it's simple, underdog story incredibly well. While being filled with thrilling race sequences that will keep you on the edge of you seat. If you are a fan of the game, this might not be the movie that you expected, but you never knew wanted.

My Rating: B+