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moviemosaics · 3 months

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My picks for the best film performances of 2023

Petri Poikolainen as Jaako Järvinen—The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

Clare Perkins as Cleve—Medusa Deluxe

Babetida Sadjo as Marie Cisse—Our Father, The Devil

Gael García Bernal as Saúl Armendáriz/Cassandro—Cassandro

Catalina Saavedra as Vero—Rotting in the Sun

Denis Ménochet as Antoine—The Beasts

Greta Lee as Nora Moon—Past Lives

Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry—May December

Kōji Yakusho as Hirayama—Perfect Days

Souleymane Sy Savane as Father Patrick—Our Father, The Devil

Emma Stone as Bella Baxter—Poor Things

Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison—American Fiction

Rossy de Palma as Masilda—Carmen

Vivian Oparah as Yas—Rye Lane

Teo Yoo as Hae Sung—Past Lives

You can see my full list of 100 favorite performances of 2023 at this link!

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moviescramble · 1 year

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Our Father, The Devil (Mon Père, Le Diable) - Review

There has been many a cinematic protagonist whose past filters into their present. Sometimes, it’s an unexpected visit from a previous lover. Other times, it’s an insidious reminder of what life was once like. And so, who are we when our two selves collide? Should the past be able to remain exactly that? These are just some of the questions that writer-director Ellie Foumbi ponders in her…

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#Babetida Sadjo #drama #Ellie Foumbi #Franck Saurel #French cinema #GFF23 #Glasgow Film Festival #Jennifer Tchiakpe #Maëlle Genet #Martine Amisse #Scottish Premiere #Souleymane Sy Savane

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yasbxxgie · 4 years

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Suicide by Sunlight (Nikyatu, 12/3/19)

Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, is forced to suppress her bloodlust to regain custody of her estranged daughters.

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moviesallday5 · 6 years

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#504 #Keep the Lights On

#Keep the Lights On #Ira Sachs #Mauricio Zacharias #Thure Lindhardt #Zachary Booth #Marilyn Neimark #Paprika Steen #Julianne Nicholson #Sebastian La Cause #Souleymane Sy Savane

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whatsnextmovies · 6 years

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pigballoon · 6 years

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Good Time

(Josh & Benny Safdie, 2017)

Clocking in at just over an hour and a half, Josh and Bennie Safdie’s follow up to their breakthrough effort Heaven Knows What is a, well, I’m not sure I’d call it a good time, it’s pretty harrowing stuff, but it’s certainly a non stop thrill ride from start to finish. A thrill ride very much in the vein of classic crime pictures of days gone by, the sort of movie that might once have been made by an Abel Ferrera, or early era Michael Mann, gritty, lo-fi, quick on its feet, and brutal.

Leading the Safdie’s charge is Robert Pattinson, continuing to build his reputation as king of the indies. It’s testament to his maturity he never seeks to outshine the movie, never seems too starry to convince within the confines of this world. It’s a beautifully subtle turn, his Constantine Nikas a man constantly on edge, with good reason given all that he goes though, and yet keeping it all veiled, brimming just under the surface. He’s a master con man, and the way Pattinson maintains that mask all the way to the end is his master stroke. It’s a less physically interesting performance than some he’s been giving in recent years, but his handle on his emotions showcases a whole new side to his brilliance as a performer.

Alongside him, co-director Benny Safdie proves naturally, effortlessly brilliant too in the sort of role that can easily derail a movie. Like Pattinson there’s plenty of humility in the performance, it’s never about getting himself over, but the character seamlessly fitting into the story with one or two small moments at the beginning and the end where by doing very little he accomplishes an awful lot.

Completing the quartet of star turns are Buddy Duress, reteaming with the brothers after his work in Heaven Knows What, managing yet another balancing act, keeping a character who in the wrong hands could be intensely unbearable given how heavily he features, and how much he talks in the second half of the film, on the right side of the divide by going for laughs. He’s undeniably a scumbag, but by amping up the ridicule in everything he says he turns his work into something of a blackly comic masterclass. Lastly there is Taliah Webster, the closest thing in the movie to ordinarily human, you could call her audience surrogate to some degree, yet the writing is good enough that it doesn’t make her either simple or innocent, and Webster’s performance quietly plays the shrewdness, the smarts, as well as the naivety without letting any one element overwhelmingly define her, keeping her every bit as human as the more experienced performers around her manage.

Speaking of said experienced performers, the film employs and totally wastes Academy Award nominees Barkhad Abdi, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and blink and you’ll miss should be Academy Award winner Souleymane Sy Savane.

Beyond the performers, the moodiness communicated via the photography is first class in a way it, much like those movies of days gone by, manages via the claustrophobia of its framing, and the nightmare evoking use of colour to be every bit as interesting visually as it is in any other way. It’s a good thing that it is too, because the score is probably by this point a little over wrought, and done before after so many years now of movies going for that retro vibe, and the writing... I mean it’s fine, it’s not without points of interest, but it doesn’t quite do that much overall to match up to the very precise skill within, and level of the filmmaking that houses it, and brings it to life. One sequence narrated by Ray in the back of a car could amount to nothing but actorly posturing, but in the hands of the Safdie’s it turns into a slickly edited, stylish, sort of funny, kind of cool example of massively energetic cinematic storytelling at its finest.

The scene is like the film in microcosm, the writing elevated by the craft, but Good Time is ultimately at its most special when focused on the man at the centre of it. The thrill ride keeps you watching, but I think it really works best as a character study, and thanks to the nuance of Pattinson’s turn it proves a damn fine one.

#good time #josh safdie #benny safdie #robert pattinson #barkhad abdi #jennifer jason leigh #souleymane sy savane #taliah webster #buddy duress #josh and benny safdie #the safdie brothers #the safdies #safdies #2017 #reviews #film #films #movie #movies

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gael-garcia · 7 years

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Goodbye Solo (2008), dir. Ramin Bahrani

An optimistic Senegalese taxi driver forges an improbable friendship with his passenger.

#goodbye solo #ramin bahrani #filmedit #souleymane sy savane #red west #screencaps #post #fave bahrani film i think

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genevieveetguy · 7 years

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Don't be confused, it's just gonna make it worse for me.

Good Time, Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie (2017)

#Ben Safdie #Joshua Safdie #Ronald Bronstein #Robert Pattinson #Taliah Webster #Jennifer Jason Leigh #Barkhad Abdi #Necro #Peter Verby #Buddy Duress #Lucas Elliot Eberl #Phil Cappadora #Souleymane Sy Savane #Mahadeo Shivraj #Sean Price Williams #Daniel Lopatin #2017 #cannes film festival

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 5 years

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KILLERMAN (2019)

Starring Liam Hemsworth, Emory Cohen, Diane Guerrero, Suraj Sharma, Zlatko Buric, Nickola Shreli, Mike Moh, John Cenatiempo, Souleymane Sy Savane, Stivi Paskoski, Richie Ng, Reza Nader, Julia Vasi, Coletrane Williams, Ellis Cox-McAllister, Richard Goteri, Michael Mili, Tony Guerrero, Jay Huguley, Omar Bader, Jimmie Cummings and Malik Bader.

Screenplay by Malik Bader.

Directed by Malik Bader.

Distributed by Blue Fox Entertainment. 112 minutes. Rated R.

To give you an idea of the lack of subtlety in this violent urban drug tale, the title Killerman does not refer to someone’s occupation or nickname. It is supposed to be the given last name of one of the characters. And yes, Killerman does end up killing more than one man.

Adding to the dearth of craftiness on display, Killerman uses the old overused trope of having the main character get amnesia in a massive car crash. Therefore, he spends much of the film not knowing who he is or the kind of a massive shitstorm he in which he is stuck right in the middle. He just appears to drop right into the middle of a massive drug war involving gangsters and dirty cops, but he seems to land on his feet and stay on top of the fray, surviving (and causing some of) a series of fatalities by gunshot, fire, torture and hungry dog.

So, no, you are not going to be surprised often by Killerman. Which does not necessarily make it a bad movie – many very fine films are rather predictable as far as storytelling. It’s okay to tell a formula story, as long as it is a good formula.

Is Killerman good formula? Not so much. It has some good moments, but not enough to make it stick out as anything more than what it is, a cheesy and extremely bloody action-adventure about drug-dealers killing each other and corrupt policemen, with the occasional pregnant girlfriend getting caught in the crossfire.

That dead girlfriend (and baby) is the motivation of Moe Diamond (played by Liam Hemsworth), a money-launderer who inadvertently gets caught up in a rather poorly planned drug deal by his reckless gangster buddy Skunk (Emory Cohen). This leads to a car crash causing Moe to be concussed and lose his memory.

Of course, the loss of the fiancée and child would have probably seemed more tragic if he could even remember who she was ten minutes earlier, but hey… amnesia sucks. Still, the loss of his forgotten girlfriend sets Moe on the course of a bloody revenge plot, planning to basically singlehandedly take down both crews involved in the deal, as well as the dirty cops.

The problem is Moe is a pretty inscrutable guy, even when he still has his memory. He’s obviously familiar with the dark side, but he does seem to be relatively reasonable – or at least has a sane sense of survival – until he lets his buddy talk him into getting into the colossally stupid drug deal. Even if it didn’t go blooey and they didn’t run afoul of the dirty cops, Moe argued sensibly that it was a fatally impulsive, irresponsible and even unnecessary plan. The fact that he would let his buddy talk him into it anyway – though he seems to be trying to protect the guy – makes you wonder about Moe.

Of course, his buddy isn’t the only asshole on display here. Honestly, most of the characters here on both sides of the law seem to be horribly unlikeable. In fact, the head dirty cop (played with style by Nikola Shreli) is the only charismatic character in the movie. He’s a homicidal maniac, a dirty cop and completely reprehensible, but he is the only guy in the film that seems to have any sense of fun and a personality that isn’t surly.

And who is Killerman? I won’t spoil that, for it is one of the few minor surprises in the film.

Killerman has some exciting action sequences and would work in a pinch if you are feeling the jones for a low budget underworld thriller. It’s the type of movie that you might stumble upon on cable or Netflix and have a relatively painless couple of hours of entertainment. Not the best film you’ll find, but not the worst either.

Jay S. Jacobs

#Killerman #2019 #Movie Review #Liam Hemsworth #Jay S. Jacobs

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etc-eterablog · 5 years

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etc-etera review: Jonathan

The dark mirror in Jonathan: http://bit.ly/2PRolpS

#jonathan #bill oliver #ansel elgort #patricia clarkson #suki waterhouse #matt bomer #douglas hodge #souleymane sy savane #shunori ramanathan #film #review

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moviemosaics · 4 months

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Our Father, The Devil

directed by Ellie Foumbi, 2021

#Our Father the Devil #Mon père le diable #Ellie Foumbi #movie mosaics #Babetida Sadjo #Souleymane Sy Savane #Jennifer Tchiakpe #Franck Saurel #Martine Amisse

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mantaypeli · 6 years

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Good Time

Irritante ejercicio de estilo a cargo de los muy independientes directores Ben y Joshua Safdie, Good Time es la particular Jo, ¡qué noche! de Robert Pattinson. Y que conste que el actor londinense es lo mejor del reparto de esta inverosímil peripecia urbana. Película incómoda por su estilo deliberadamente sucio y sus constantes primerísimos primeros planos, que buscan imbuir al espectador de toda…

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dear-indies · 6 years

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Hi there i was hoping you have some fc recommendations for Kingsley Shacklebolt from the harry potter series? thank you so very much!

Nkem Owoh (59) Nigerian.

Peter Mensah (58) Ghanaian.

Richard Mofe-Damijo (56)Nigerian.

Djimon Hounsou (53) Beninese.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (50) Yoruba Nigerian.

Ozwald Boateng (50) Ghanaian.

Ntare Mwine (50) Ugandan.

Morris Chestnut (48)

Ger Duany (39) Sudanese.

David Gyasi (37) Ghanaian.

Mohamed Dione (31) Guinean, Senegalese.

Souleymane Sy Savane (?) Ivorian.

Hey, George Harris was the original actor but here are some alternative suggestions! According to harrypotter.wikia “Kingsley was a tall black wizard and was described as broad shouldered. He was bald, and wore a single gold hoop earring” so here are some suggestions based on that! -C

#a: fc #fc help #rph #harry potter fc #Kingsley Shacklebolt #Anonymous

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whatsnextmovies · 7 years

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#Good Time #movies #movie trailer #crime #drama #Joshua Safdie #Ben Safdie #Jennifer Jason Leigh #Robert Pattinson #Barkhad Abdi #Lucas Elliot Eberl #Phil Cappadora #Buddy Duress #Marcos A. Gonzalez #Cliff Moylan #Souleymane Sy Savane

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artwalktv · 4 years

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Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, is forced to suppress her bloodlust to regain custody of her estranged daughters. 2019 | NYC Cast// Valentina – Natalie Paul Langston – Motell Foster Kira – Alexis Nichole Smith Pastor – Souleymane Sy Savane Faith – Madison Spicer Hope – Juniah Williams-West Micah – Destin Khari Micah’s Mom – Ellie Foumbi Dr. Khadir – Teren Carter Crew// Director – Nikyatu Jusu Writers – Nikyatu Jusu + Robin Shanea Williams Producer – Nikkia Moulterie Executive Producer – Terence Nance Casting Directors – Emily Fleischer + Susan Shopmaker Cinematographer – Daisy Zhou Production Designer – Alison Melillo Editors – Kristan Sprague + Marina Katz Costume Designer – Sarah Williams Assistant Key Hair and Make up / SFX Artist – Risha Rox Hair Composer – Omar Ferrer Sound Services – Sound on Set Sound Design + Sound Mixer – Jose Villaman Visual Effects by – Wild Union Visual Effects Colorist – Kath Raisch Festivals// Sundance Blackstar FF BFI London FF AFI Fest Atlant FF Denver FF Bushwick FF New Orleans FF Rooftop FF BAM CinemaFest Brooklyn Horror FF African FF NY Overlook FF American Black FF Drunken Oakland FF Indie Memphis FF

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whileiamdying · 4 years

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Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, is forced to suppress her bloodlust to regain custody of her estranged daughters. 2019 | NYC Cast// Valentina – Natalie Paul Langston – Motell Foster Kira – Alexis Nichole Smith Pastor – Souleymane Sy Savane Faith – Madison Spicer Hope �� Juniah Williams-West Micah – Destin Khari Micah’s Mom – Ellie Foumbi Dr. Khadir – Teren Carter Crew// Director – Nikyatu Jusu Writers – Nikyatu Jusu + Robin Shanea Williams Producer – Nikkia Moulterie Executive Producer – Terence Nance Casting Directors – Emily Fleischer + Susan Shopmaker Cinematographer – Daisy Zhou Production Designer – Alison Melillo Editors – Kristan Sprague + Marina Katz Costume Designer – Sarah Williams Assistant Key Hair and Make up / SFX Artist – Risha Rox Hair Composer – Omar Ferrer Sound Services – Sound on Set Sound Design + Sound Mixer – Jose Villaman Visual Effects by – Wild Union Visual Effects Colorist – Kath Raisch Festivals// Sundance Blackstar FF BFI London FF AFI Fest Atlant FF Denver FF Bushwick FF New Orleans FF Rooftop FF BAM CinemaFest Brooklyn Horror FF African FF NY Overlook FF American Black FF Drunken Oakland FF Indie Memphis FF

#IFTTT #Vimeo

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