What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Dino Velvet]

The original John Carpenter version is awesome, and the prequel was actually surprisingly pretty good too.

The prequel is alright. I was fine buying the Blu-ray but some might want to wait to see it on HBO. I buy any decent Horror.

Just got Horror Express on Blu-ray and might watch that tonight. I highly recommend this one for the great characters.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/jun11/bluhorrorexb.jpg

[theone1982]

The prequel is alright. I was fine buying the Blu-ray but some might want to wait to see it on HBO. I buy any decent Horror.

Just got Horror Express on Blu-ray and might watch that tonight. I highly recommend this one for the great characters.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/jun11/bluhorrorexb.jpg

Sweet! Is that a Hammer Horror film?

[Dino Velvet]

Sweet! Is that a Hammer Horror film?

It's not. Spanish production. Very Hammer-ish though. Dude who plays the Rasputin-type character almost steals the film. Such a nut. Telly Savalas plays an over-the-top Cossack too. Lee and Cushing are, of course, great together.

[theone1982]

It's not. Spanish production. Very Hammer-ish though. Dude who plays the Rasputin-type character almost steals the film. Such a nut. Telly Savalas plays an over-the-top Cossack too. Lee and Cushing are, of course, great together.

Cool, can't beat Lee and Cushing in the same films!

[Prospero]

Charlize Theron in "Young Adult." She was terrific.

[Stavros]

Drive, with Ryan Gosling. When I read it was about a stunt driver in Hollywood who drives getaway cars in crimes in his spare time, I was expecting something like Walter Hill's classic 1970s noir The Driver, with another Ryan, as in O'Neal. I sat through Drive and at some point instead of getting interesting it descended into incoherence and violence. I think the Ryan Gosling character lives in Echo Park, but in most parts of LA where he went there were no people, no witnesses to call the police, or scream when someone gets stabbed or shot. By the end of the film he seems to be walking around with a noticeably bloodstained jacket that nobody notices, while cool detached songs play on the soundtrack; and there isn't even that much driving. Apart from some seriously stiff nipples (female) in the dressing room of a tity bar, I can't think of any reason to see this film, and for those two minutes I could go elsewhere.

[russtafa]

i have just seen THE GREY what shit ending

[littlenookie]

Finally saw Hangover 2 - go Yasmine Lee!!!! Nice!!! Otherwise the movie was EXACTLY the same as the first one.

[Jpndrum]

I went and saw the re-release of Phantom Menace, Duel of Fates sounded amazing in that theater

[Stavros]

Tyrannosaur -a grim slice of social realism filmed on a run-down estate on the fringes of Leeds in Yorkshire. The truth is that as a film about people without love at the start who find it at the end is predictable, but the writing is so good, and the acting so powerful that it works, and ultimately is a moving film.

Tyrannosaur Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyqXFmV-LI)

[Prospero]

I agree with Stavros about Drive. I'd had it recommended but found it a brutal and unpleasant and rather pointless bit of film making.
Not been able to face Tyrannosaur after reading that it opens with an explicit sequence of the main character kicking his pet dog to death.

[Stavros]

You never actually see any contact between foot and dog, nor later in the film when there is an even more shocking incident with another dog, and it is in some scenes a violent film, but always more realistic than in Drive. Worth seeing nevertheless.

[Prospero]

Okay.. well with trepidation I will see it.

[Danielle 58]

Kill Bill Vol. 1 Watch it every time its on. D

[omni69]

The Grey, I was disappoointed with it... wanted to safehouse but it was sold out last week..

[Stavros]

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Just because it says Winner Palme d'Or Cannes Film Festival 2010 on the dvd box doesn't make this film any better or worse, and I suppose it might have the most loving ghosts in cinema, but while beautiful to look at, this for me is a film with no substance. This director seems to have a different approach to film-making, which doesn't go in for narrative and that's ok, its thematic and I understand what he is trying to do, I just don't think it goes deep enough. The water buffalo stole the show, that's how I saw it. And I don't think he was a relative.

[traLika]

Farewell. A nice little thriller in Russian, French and English!

The DVD cover is misleading, though - Willem Dafoe plays a small role in the film...

[traLika]

I agree with Stavros about Drive.

+1. Definitely overrated. I also didn't like the way that Brian Eno music (An Ending from Apollo) was used three times throughout the film? I know it's a lovely piece, but c'mon guys!

[russtafa]

The Grey, I was disappoointed with it... wanted to safehouse but it was sold out last week..what a have ....i want my money back

[Stavros]

The Conversation, re-released on DVD. I am not a great admirer of Coppola, Godfather I and II are great films, but with too many flaws to be anything other than great. I can't think of any other Coppola films worth watching other than this film, which is as serious as Coppola gets. In spite of the advances surveillance technology has made since the 1970s, the film hasn't dated, and the editing gives it an enduring sense of tension and danger. It is also about a control freak who loses control of his own life, an understated but nevertheless powerful performance from Gene Hackman.

[Prospero]

"Treeless Mountain" - a Korean film which is gentle and very moving.

[buttslinger]

I caught a flic at Dino's crib.......

[buttslinger]

...

HARDCORE reminded me alot of 8MM

[rockabilly]

Watched the Conan remake then Apollo 18, The Departed, Old School and Eurotrip last night.

[LibertyHarkness]

watched the last king of scotland .. was very good indeed

[southern81]

onw of the best movies of all time

[robertlouis]

watched the last king of scotland .. was very good indeed

I was good in that, wasn't I?

[russtafa]

i am hanging out for JOHN CARTER OF MARS

[Dino Velvet]

HARDCORE reminded me alot of 8MM

God I love that film. What kinda smut peddler/pimp calls himself Rataan? My favorite part was George C. Scott attempting to do an amateur sting operation disguised in a Hawaiian shirt with sunglasses and fake mustache. He even hipped up his lingo for the young people too. Make it a George C. Scott Double Bill and watch Exorcist III right after.

[speedking59]

Atlas Shrugged, Part 1. while it was pretty faithful to the novel, it wasn't all that good. will be interesting to see if Part 2 ever gets out.

[buttslinger]

The Academy Awards are on tonight and I haven't seen any of them.
For Porno films, I have to go with Taboo and Taboo II as my favorites. Kay Parker.

I'm still waiting for the movie to be made about the decline and fall of porn legend John Holmes. I read some articles, including the one he wrote, about his descent into the world of crack cocaine, I think it could be made into a fantastic film, but there are several versions of the truth, as seen in WONDERLAND. As a bio of John Holmes, BOOGIE NIGHTS sucked.

Here's (no joke) Velvet Picture's Poolside Ecstacy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKSvZqXI1vc

[Stavros]

Are you serious? What is interesting about a man who was known for having a big dick and a drug habit that killed him? Was he a closet poet? And if Holmes qualifies, does that mean Ron Jeremy should also get his own biopic? Consider the various versions of Linda Lovelace that have been published and ask why bother?

The Oscars are a reward for success rather than merit, The Tree of Life was the best film of 2011, but is probably too serious to merit best picture. As is often the case, films that conform to safe stereotypes get the accolades -Rocky, Driving Miss Daisy etc so expect a relentless sequence of cliches like The Artist to do well.

[buttslinger]

OLDE SCHOOL
http://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/forum/topic.dlt/topic_id=35861/forum_id=7/cat_id=3/35861.htm

[Stavros]

From the link you posted:
Had he been born without the freakish appendage he carried between his legs, John Holmes probably would have never made a porn flick, or had sex with 14,000 women, or smoked a fortune’s worth of cocaine, or died friendless at the ripe young age of 43. His great big dick, the one secretly envied by all men who saw it, fantasized about by all women who dared, was in reality his worst enemy

Envy? What envy? More like pompous rubbish, and not connected to the thread on films. Best thing to do with this drivel is let it die.

[Ben]

God I love that film. What kinda smut peddler/pimp calls himself Rataan? My favorite part was George C. Scott attempting to do an amateur sting operation disguised in a Hawaiian shirt with sunglasses and fake mustache. He even hipped up his lingo for the young people too. Make it a George C. Scott Double Bill and watch Exorcist III right after.

This, too, is too funny:

George C. Scott meets Big Dick Blaque in Hardcore - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toj8nkaPdtA)

[Ben]

Another good George C. Scott movie/film -- albeit a black comedy.

The Hospital (1971) - "Impotence" Monologue - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mey1dXTLdeE)

[Dino Velvet]

This, too, is too funny:

George C. Scott meets Big Dick Blaque in Hardcore - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toj8nkaPdtA)

Thanks buddy. I hope you've seen the film too.

[Ben]

Thanks buddy. I hope you've seen the film too.

Yep, I have. A few years ago.... The film grimly sums up America -- ha ha! :)
And yet another good Mr. Scott film. He did quite a few good films. When they actually made good films -- ha ha! :)

PETULIA (1968) trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfVZWgd8aE)

And, of course, the classic: Dr. Strangelove.

Dr. Strangelove (1964) - War Room Scene - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4)

[buttslinger]

... pompous rubbish, and not connected to the thread on films. Best thing to do with this drivel is let it die.

WELL! Excuse the fuck out of me!!!!:Bowdown:

[Stavros]

WELL! Excuse the fuck out of me!!!!:Bowdown:

You are excused; I would prefer your opinion on the latest films you have seen. Honestly.

[buttslinger]

Honestly, are you a pompous idiot, or are you BRITISH??!!!!
ha ha, Ok mate, you win.

I'm waiting for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to come out on DVD. I thought on the whole this was a crappy year for movies.

[Stavros]

'll admit to an occasional tendency to pomposity, and British, but idiot I think is unfair, there are times when I like winding people up; I should not always be taken seriously. Anyway if you have the choice, the BBC tv series Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy with Alec Guinness (and the sequel series Smiley's People) is vastly superior to the film, which is rubbish. The tv series has the length needed to draw out the main characters and the sub-plots, whereas in the film although there are 4 assumed spooks of whom one is a traitor, only one of them has more than a few lines to speak. It is badly written, badly acted and in all a waste of time and money.

[buttslinger]

That's what my sister in law said-....slow, but my brother liked it. I like Gary Oldman and Alec Guiness? .......Yeah, he was George Smiley.

[maxpower]

That's what my sister in law said-....slow, but my brother liked it. I like Gary Oldman and Alec Guiness? .......Yeah, he was George Smiley.


Jeez...did Patrick Stewart ever have hair?

[Stavros]

Yes, I saw Stewart with hair when he played Ajax in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, I think it was 1968 or 1969. Helen Mirren was Cressida, and yes, she took her clothes even then. I think she has always felt confident about her body.

Unlike the film, the tv series had the time to develop the characters and also it succeeded in making the world of spooks seem believable. The gay character in the film is straight in the tv series; the opening act of treachery in Budapest in the film, is shot outside Prague in the tc series. I have been trying to think of spy films that really work, but I can't think of many. I don't count the Bond films as they are cinema's equivalent of the Big Mac and beyond my comprehension. The Bourne films are outstanding until Brian Cox and Albert Finney appear, The Parallax View is about conspiracy theory rather than spies, any more?

[maxpower]

Yes, I saw Stewart with hair when he played Ajax in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, I think it was 1968 or 1969. Helen Mirren was Cressida, and yes, she took her clothes even then. I think she has always felt confident about her body.

Unlike the film, the tv series had the time to develop the characters and also it succeeded in making the world of spooks seem believable. The gay character in the film is straight in the tv series; the opening act of treachery in Budapest in the film, is shot outside Prague in the tc series. I have been trying to think of spy films that really work, but I can't think of many. I don't count the Bond films as they are cinema's equivalent of the Big Mac and beyond my comprehension. The Bourne films are outstanding until Brian Cox and Albert Finney appear, The Parallax View is about conspiracy theory rather than spies, any more?


There was a good miniseries on the American TNT network a few years ago called The Company. It dealt with the beginnings of the CIA following the end of WW II and the start of the Cold War. Starring Chris O'Donnell, Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Gambon. Robert DeNiro directed, and starred along with Matt Damon, in a film called The Good Shepherd, which covers similar ground about the CIA being created out of the defunct OSS. Breach, starring Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillppe, is based on the true story of the takedown of Robert Hanssen, a CIA operative who had been selling state secrets to the Soviet Union for years before being caught.

[Nicole Dupre]

"Wait Until Dark" w/ Audrey Hepburn. It was pretty dated but really good.

[maxpower]

I just finished watching Moon, which was excellent.

[tsadriana]

the last movie ive watched is called " get me out of here"

[ilikegirls]

i just saw "Drive"
fuck that was good, audio engineer was sick, no wonder he won an Oscar

[Stavros]

There was a good miniseries on the American TNT network a few years ago called The Company. It dealt with the beginnings of the CIA following the end of WW II and the start of the Cold War. Starring Chris O'Donnell, Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Gambon. Robert DeNiro directed, and starred along with Matt Damon, in a film called The Good Shepherd, which covers similar ground about the CIA being created out of the defunct OSS. Breach, starring Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillppe, is based on the true story of the takedown of Robert Hanssen, a CIA operative who had been selling state secrets to the Soviet Union for years before being caught.

Thanks for the tips, I haven't heard of those films, will investigate.

[stephenward]

The Lady Eve (1941) starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, directed by Preston Sturges. A classic, fun, screwball comedy.

[Nicole Dupre]

I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.

It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) - Theatrical Trailer - © Warner Bros. & Seven Arts Productions - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNHtiZu2TU)

[rockabilly]

"American History X"

[Stavros]

I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.

It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) - Theatrical Trailer - © Warner Bros. & Seven Arts Productions - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNHtiZu2TU)

I read Carson McCullers story, and saw the film when it was released in the UK, but I don't recall it being impressive in any way; however I would like to see it again. Its available in box sets of Brando films (in the UK anyway) US probably as a single dvd.

Taylor made two now obscure films in 1968 with Joseph Losey, Boom! was an adaptation of Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Secret Ceremony with Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum was badly mauled by the producers before its release and got an even worse reception than Boom! Mia Farrow is the kiss of death in any film, but Taylor was by this time well into her hysterical diva era -and Losey was a crap director anyway. Nevertheless, attempts at serious film making which might be worth catching up on. Her most obscure film, Il giovane Toscanini was the film Zeffirelli made in 1988 about the conductor Toscanini in Brazil (C Thomas Howell plays the Italian maestro) -Taylor plays an ageing opera singer who married the Emperor of Brazil and lost her career, until Toscanini persuades her to make an inevitably triumphant return to the stage as Aida. I believe the film was so badly received on its release the producers withdrew it although I think its now available on dvd.

[buttslinger]

KISS ME DEADLY

Ralph Meeker stars as Mike Hammer, a streetwise private dick just one notch above the criminals he investigates.


Three Reasons: Kiss Me Deadly - The Criterion Collection - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-6-7fwwnLw&feature=related)

[Gouki]

The Champ (1979)

[Ben]

I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.

It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) - Theatrical Trailer - © Warner Bros. & Seven Arts Productions - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCNHtiZu2TU)

Another classic, as it were, is Robert Redford's The Candidate. I've been meaning to watch it at some point.

[robertlouis]

I need to see this film next. I would almost bet anything it was rated X, and that's because it contained homosexual subject matter.

It has to be the most obscure Elizabeth Taylor film ever. How could a film with her and Marlon Brando, both in their primes, remain so overlooked?



That's because it was a clunker lol.

Elizabeth Taylor was however involved in several film adaptations of Tennessee Williams' plays which dealt with homosexuality however obliquely given the moral climate of the times and the strictures of the Hayes Code. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Paul Newman is the best known example, but it is "Suddenly Last Summer" with Montgomery Clift that sticks more vividly in my mind. Both well worth seeking out, Nicole.

[robertlouis]

I saw the British film "Submarine" on the Singapore - London leg of my homeward flight a couple of weeks ago and thought it was very good indeed. Based on a novel and deals with an adolescent boy's coming of age in a small Welsh seaside town. Funny and touching by turns. I'd recommend it very strongly.

[jerseyboy72]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqqPRAGc_TA

[Cuchulain]

Saw a hilarious flick called 'The Guard' the other night.

The Guard Movie Trailer Official (HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKU_9PlNomk)

[BJ4TS]

The Millenium Series. A Swedish production: 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 2.The Girl That Kicked the Hornet's Nest 3.The Girl Who Played With Fire.

Great books and great movies.


There's a new release of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo with Daniel Craig (007).

[buttslinger]

There was a made for TV movie from Australia called FORTRESS starring Rachel Ward. Some bad men kidnap teacher Rachel and her school children, but the bad guys lose in the end. I'm not endorsing this movie, but I am strangely intrigued by it.

[HbgDon]

http://twitchfilm.com/news/LetMeIn3.jpg

[butcherbaby]

The Skin I live in

Blew me away! And I strongly recommend seeing it!

[HbgDon]

Killer Elite

[buttslinger]

Mt sister worked for the State Dept and all the Secret Service guys dug Bo Hopkin's character in this 1975 movie as the crazy gun nut.

[Ben]

Incident at Oglala...

Clip From "Incident at Oglala" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxXzIYKVOcQ)

[LibertyHarkness]

Just watched Machette :)

[Wolver]

J. Edgar (2011) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTc0NDM4ODU2Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzQ0NTg4Ng@@._ V1._SX91_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTc0NDM4ODU2Nl5BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzQ0NTg4Ng@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX91@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1616195/)

[buttslinger]

Before Miami Vice there was High School Confidential.



High School Confidential! (1958) 1 minute trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPT_O1KsEVc)

[rockabilly]

"PS I Love You"

[buttslinger]

The Asphalt Jungle - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtD99oR42xA)

[Prospero]

Blue Valentine - The movie that Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams did together before their oscar and bafta high flying films this year. Pretty bleak.

[russtafa]

warrior=rocks,best film i have seen in a long time ,best fight scenes and great acting

[Dino Velvet]

warrior=rocks,best film i have seen in a long time ,best fight scenes and great acting

I need to see that. Did you see Bronson, Russ? Forgot if I've ever asked you.

Bronson - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKC-FKGMeCY)

You already know I'm a big Chopper fan.

Chopper The Movie Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RysM6z256j8)

[Dino Velvet]

Saw Schramm last night. Very uplifting German film.

Schramm - 1993 - Official Trailer - Geman Horror Movie - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AtK2K1YPnQ)

[RallyCola]

i saw bronson...it is available on netflix streaming. it was ok.

I renew that i'm not a fan of warrior...at least i really don't think it was amazing as others do.

the last movie i saw, just last night, was x-men first class. it was a good reboot of the franchise.

[buttslinger]

1) In REAL life, a police car blowing up is VERY exciting.
2) In REAL life, if you fall hopelessly in love, it's Chinatown, Jake, it's Chinatown.


The Shower - Psycho (5/12) Movie CLIP (1960) HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtDmbr9xyY)

[Ben]

Bad Teacher. Quite funny. And Cameron Diaz is pretty good in it.

Bad Teacher Movie Trailer Official (HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VihlsPKMh4U)

[buttslinger]

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - Comic Interlude - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKfaPbzTgSM)

[buttslinger]

DRUGSTORE COWBOY - Trailer ( 1989 ) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Rs8c08hM8)

[pantybulge69]

at the theater: JOHN CARTER of Mars (ok decent movie, good action in some scene spots but way too much dragging dialogue that slow down film in too many spots. it doesn't move at fast enough pace because of that.) at home: FULL METAL JACKET! one of the top five all time best Military war movies ever made, IMO

[russtafa]

I need to see that. Did you see Bronson, Russ? Forgot if I've ever asked you.

Bronson - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKC-FKGMeCY)

You already know I'm a big Chopper fan.

Chopper The Movie Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RysM6z256j8)yeah a really weird film

[russtafa]

:nervous::nervous:hey Dino years ago i had a run in with one of Choppers mates when i asked him and his friends to drink up he took his teeth out and wanted to fight me out side but it was all smoothed over when i found out he worked for the same company:nervous::nervous::nervous:

[jedthejew]

Pan's Labyrinth. Awesome movie!

[buttslinger]

La Belle et Le Bete (Beauty and the Beast) 1946

[HbgDon]

http://www.impawards.com/2011/posters/captain_america_the_first_avenger.jpg

[GurlyCockLover]

just watched Immortals

worst movie i've seen in years!

[EvonRose]

Big cocks in tight asian asses 4....

[Stavros]

Henry's Crime, a film so low on budget it makes Buffalo look like a dump; and a film even lower on fizz although it once again proves what an underused jewel James Caan has been over the years. Instead of the bank heist framing a deeper examination of the relationships, it seems almost irrelevant, which is a feat given that the love story, played out through a distortion of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, complete with an hysterical-and-bearded-of-course Russian director (deliciously over-the-top from Peter Stormare) is tepid. This is inevitable if Keanu Reeves is asked to play a lead role, or rather, stand still and not move a muscle, although his lips moves and at one point in the film he even smiles. Is this man an earthling, or from another planet and not yet used to our ways? Does anyone here understand Keanu Reeves? Am I missing something? Vera Farmiga almost as good as Caan.

Henry's Crime Movie Trailer Official (HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rceVFIrLCg)

[LibertyHarkness]

the bang bang club

The Bang Bang Club OFFICIAL US TRAILER - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM_3-WG3XOg)

[buttslinger]

Night of the Hunter (1955)

[Dino Velvet]

Saw this for about the 30th time.

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp292/jordancoles/Bluray/SDC10694.jpg

http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/taxidriver.jpg

[BreeTexas]

Extract. Like a lot of Mike Judge creations, this film is populated almost entirely of people who are some combination of lazy, stupid, dishonest, and abrasive. I like Jason Bateman but I felt depressed after watching this movie.

It bothered me too that the amazingly talented Kristen Wiig was not given much opportunity to shine... her character is not interesting or funny.

[Stavros]

To Live and Die in L.A.
William Friedkin directed this in 1985 with William Petersen whose career seems to have veered into TV rather than film. The film is about a counterfeiter and the Special Agent trying to nail him. The two are the central focus of the film which is marred by the dismal new partner to the Agent -he is supposed to lack the same need for adrenaline and danger and rule-breaking as his seasoned partner, and I understand how he nearly falls apart in a car chase -but the actor playing the role is so out of his depth he lets down what would otherwise be an interesting film about people who don't really know themselves, or know themselves so well they create an alter-ego to hide someone they don't really like -a counterfeit identity. Friedkin apparently cut several scenes which may explain why at the end the film burns itself out. But worth watching nevertheless.

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwOTc0OTQ3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDIwNjAwMQ@@._ V1._SX100_SY128_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTQwOTc0OTQ3NV5BM l5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDIwNjAwMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX100@@AMEP ARAM@@SY128 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090180/)

[RallyCola]

i saw mirror mirror and the hunger games yesterday.

the hunger games: 100% predictable and takes too long to get going. C- at best.

mirror mirror: 10 min in, I leaned over and told my wife it was shit. F all the way. that movie was terrible. The only good part was that lily collins was damn cute.

stay away from both.

[HbgDon]

Watchmen

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

The Dead

Happy Gilmore

[Ben]

I AM - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhKmlIXE2Xs)

[Marie Thorne]

Big cocks in tight asian asses 4....

Hey, that's not a real movie!



also, Tropic Thunder.

[qwerty94]

Flipped. its a super cute movie about 2 kids who meet when they're like 7 and shows their relationship as it progresses.

[Stavros]

Run, Lola Run! (Lola Rennt, in German). I have been aware of this film for years but only just got around to seeing it; it is brilliantly filmed in the more photogenic parts of Berlin, one of my favourite cities. The story itself is slight, but the film should be seen as a merger between cartoons and reality, where one can play with the impossible while the other presents us, every day, with choices that have consequences me might not know in advance. The acting throughout is excellent.

RUN LOLA RUN TRAILER - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta1Sn6MtC9w)

[Prospero]

Did you get to see The Turin Horse yet, Stavros?

The Turin Horse - opening scene - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32n4lCG0OA)

[Marie Thorne]

Flipped. its a super cute movie about 2 kids who meet when they're like 7 and shows their relationship as it progresses.

But if you watch it backwards, it's about 2 friends who age in reverse and slowly grow apart.

[Prospero]

Alice in Wonderland directed by Jonathan Miller. A remarkable film made for the BBC in 1966.

Alice in Wonderland (1966) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrlN8rrmOVU)

[LibertyHarkness]

Man Bites Dog

Criterion Trailer 165: Man Bites Dog - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPhaieTg4o)

[peter_tsfan]

Control (2007) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNTEzOTYwMTcxN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTgyNjI1MQ@@._ V1._SX95_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BNTEzOTYwMTcxN15BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTgyNjI1MQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX95@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/) ...

joy division rules !

[RallyCola]

was bored last night so i fired up netflix and lost 4 hours of my life.

1....buried. 2 hrs of ryan reynolds in a box. what a depressing ending. what was the point of all that?

2....skyline. part independence day...part cloverfield...100% pointless. it takes shots directly from cloverfield and independence day...there is nothing new here.

do yourself a favor and don't watch either.

[LibertyHarkness]

going to watch my wonderful warhammer 40k film - ultramarines tonight while webcamming :)

ULTRAMARINES Movie - Trailer2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vF_VLZotWc)


For the Emperor !

[Stavros]

Did you get to see The Turin Horse yet, Stavros?

The Turin Horse - opening scene - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32n4lCG0OA)

No, not yet but I am hoping to get my copy along with the three boxes of Angelopoulos in time to watch them over the Easter weekend although I think Angelopoulos is the priority. For some reason I seem to be re-tracing the years -I haven't seen The Travelling Players complete now for 30 years or so, and recently watched Jansco's Red Psalm -again a film I hadn't seen since Goerge Hoellering put it on at the Academy in Oxford St along with all those other brilliant Eastern European films, as they seemed at the time -can't fault Jancso's style, but the content is a bit dated.

You might like to know that Krasznahorkai's book Satantango, translated by George Szirtes is published next month; and that a phrase from the novel War and War seems to describe Tarr's films aptly: reality examined to the point of madness.

Satantango has been published in the US, here is a review:
http://www.full-stop.net/2012/03/14/reviews/scott-beauchamp/satantango-laszlo-krasznahorkai/

An impressive article on Krasznahorkai that compares him to Beckett and Thomas Bernhard (whose work I detest) is here:

http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2011-07-04#folio=071

And on top of that I bought a box of Bergman films I haven't seen in years (Shame, Passion of Anna, Serpent's Egg -have seen Hour of the Wolf recently, its also in the box).

I also watched The Transporter last night, and a one-hour film on Schubert in which Simon Russell Beale looks uncannily like the portraits of the composer Poor film in a way; Transporter is wildly entertaining nonsense.

[rockabilly]

Saw the Hunger Games with family.

Gonna watch Battle Royale tonight.

[Marie Thorne]

going to watch my wonderful warhammer 40k film - ultramarines tonight while webcamming :)

ULTRAMARINES Movie - Trailer2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vF_VLZotWc)


For the Emperor !

ultramarines = worst marines

[RallyCola]

Saw the Hunger Games with family.

Gonna watch Battle Royale tonight.

so you are watching the same movie twice?

[rockabilly]

so you are watching the same movie twice?

exactly

[LibertyHarkness]

i am all for the Luna Wolves :) Marie ... UM are ok legion they were probably the biggest in number .. but their primarch was/is a dick :) disbanding the legions in favour of chapters grrrrr

[RallyCola]

There is a sneak preview for Lockout tomorrow night in manhattan (and other cities too). I signed up but it is first come first serve. if i get in...i'll post a review. if i don't get there in time, i'll see american reunion and post a review of that.

[Dino Velvet]

Saw the Hunger Games with family.

Gonna watch Battle Royale tonight.


so you are watching the same movie twice?


exactly

I was wondering how similar they were too. Don't know much about Hunger Games but I've seen Battle Royale a bunch of times. Kitano always rules.

BATTLE ROYALE trailer -- Coming soon to blu-ray & dvd! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIuRjqcpuGQ)

[fred41]

"Goon"...sweet comedy.

Done quite well.

[buttslinger]

Special 50 year props for To Kill a Mockingbird. Easily one of the best book adaptations ever made. In the scene below Jem and Truman Capote were having a real life spat with Scout. They pushed her straight into a truck offscreen.

[tskitana]

I was wondering how similar they were too. Don't know much about Hunger Games but I've seen Battle Royale a bunch of times. Kitano always rules.

BATTLE ROYALE trailer -- Coming soon to blu-ray & dvd! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIuRjqcpuGQ)



i love battle royale !wtf s hunger games anyways?!
Can you believe this is the movie that Chiaki Kuriyama was discovered by quentin to play Gogo. ?
I actually have it in my collection.

On another note. My lastest movie was "Wrath of the titanss". Way better than the first one i think! :D
happy easter wekeend everyone!

[RallyCola]

a review of the last 3 movies i saw.

1. 21 Jump Street.....surprisingly funny and a good time. it plays out almost exactly like it should but watching johnny depp get shot in the throat was fun.

2. american reunion...wow...that sucked. the issue here is that it relied so heavily on referencing old gags and fulfilling character stereotypes

3. lockout...stay away. it is an awful movie. the effects were poor and story was not interesting.

[Wolver]

City of Ember Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSFsbv6eUg)

[Jimmy W]

I wanted to love this movie but it was essentially another crappy biopic along the lines of Ray and Walk The Line but without the music. Michelle Williams transcended the movie and was wonderful but the kid who was her romantic interest was a dullard whose mouth somehow made him look like a burn victim. Nothing about it was believable or engaging and ultimately I couldnt care less.

[Jackal]

Hunger Games---very entertaining and capturing of the book's spirit.

[Prospero]

"The Pirates. In an adventure with scientists." (released in the US as "The Pirates:Band of Misfits - the new animation from Aardman. Very disappointing. Misses the target widely and lacks any of the charm of their Wallace and Gromit films.

Interesting article here speculating on why the name changed for the US (so the Christian right in the south would not be out off by a film referencing scientists?)

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1302069/the_james_clayton_column_when_movie_titles_change_ around_the_world.html

[Stavros]

Nader and Simin: A Separation.

A delicately observed film about the breakdown of a marriage which leads to unforeseen conseqeunces -a superbly written and acted film which uses the limitations imposed on film-making in Iran to good effect: there is a subtle use of glass/windows/spectacles/mirrors in the film; the insight into everyday aspects of life in Iran will be familiar to anyone who knows the Middle East, completely odd to others -such as a court-room in which people come and go, the 'judge' deals with more than one case at a time, etc. The daughter, played by the director's own daughter, crowns the climax with a moment of sudden emotional intensity that is quite overwhelming: family problems, it seems, are the same all over the world. Highly recommended.

A Separation trailer - in cinemas 1 July 2011 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjTkXGRhy9w)

[Stavros]

Jeanne La Pucelle I: Les Batailles
Jeanne La Pucelle II: Les Prisons

I have mixed feelings for Jacques Rivette -Celine et Julie vont en Bateau is one of my favourite films, L'Amour Fou a film I would gladly never ever see again; La Belle Noiseuse is an over-extended homage to the body of Emanuelle Beart and nothing much else, with the over-rated Michel Piccoli and the inexcusably dire Jane Birkin.

Jeanne d'Arc is one of the most fascinating figures in history, but instead of one 3 hour film Rivette insists on two in which cover Jeanne's growth within the ragged French forces trying to prevent an English takeover of France; the second part deals with the victory at and coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, but not the trials that took place when Jeanne was abducted by the English a year or so after that. The restrained style is reminiscent of Bresson -whose own film is for me the finest account of the trials but is disliked by many. Sandrine Bonnaire as Jeanne as superb, much of the support acting is too, and the battle scenes are at least original in not being a copy of the regulation battle scenes that can be found in every Hollywood film from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer to Jackson utterly putrid Lord of the Rings tripe.

But the film has no soul, a major failing in two films dedicated to a teenage girl whose soul was an inspiration that historians still cannot adequately explain.

[Ben]

The Candidate. It's interesting. And says a lot about the political system, its structure.

Robert Redford　『The Candidate� - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K78U6XsHsg)

[Jericho]

Zombieland...Again

[udontkno]

I saw Lockout last week and it was quite entertaining. Wasn't the best movie i've been but it was punch line after punch line and I was able to sneak in a few laughs

[buttslinger]

Goonland.


Goonland (1938) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceArz6lRI5c)

[robertlouis]

The Candidate. It's interesting. And says a lot about the political system, its structure.


I agree, Ben. And what's most striking, in the 40 years since it was made, is how the cult of personality that it picks up on is now more than 50% of the focus in any election. The issues, and the policies to resolve them, frankly, can go to hell.

BTW, Robert Redford is coming to the UK next week for the very first Sundance Festival London - hoping to get down there.

[buttslinger]

The Pledge

[Prospero]

Damsels in Disttess - the first new film from Wilt Stillman in 20 years. He produced a brilliant triogy of films Metropolitan, Barcelona and the Last Days Of Disco and then vanished for reasons unclear. Perhaps the studios didn't like his offbeat films. With this new film you can begin to understand why. It is a very strange beast indeed. Set on a campus somewhere in middle America, with its central characters a group of odd young women. In a sense it is a comedy and yet a baffling one for it seems to inhabit a world that is only distantly connected to any contemporary reality. All of the girls are, in their own ways, fakes and the young men are each and everyone of them a douffous (or as the girls argue Duffi or douffouses). Oddly appealing but bizarre.

[fred41]

"The Guard"....loved it...well written, well acted....very funny.

[runningdownthatdream]

Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'. Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams could have been playing Woody and Diane Keating playing the same parts. I thought it was funny, offbeat, and in the usual Woody way gives you something to think about without actually trying too hard to make you think.

On the other hand.......I tried to watch Tree of Life. Made the first 15 minutes or so but got completely disgusted by the stereotypical 'art' film approach. The overbearing music. The woe-begone expressions of everyone. The 'deep' soliloquies. How many shots of blue skies and falling water and open meadows can one filmmaker have in a movie? And in how many movies do you get away with it? According to Terence Malick, as often as you can.

[Stavros]

Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'. Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams could have been playing Woody and Diane Keating playing the same parts. I thought it was funny, offbeat, and in the usual Woody way gives you something to think about without actually trying too hard to make you think.

On the other hand.......I tried to watch Tree of Life. Made the first 15 minutes or so but got completely disgusted by the stereotypical 'art' film approach. The overbearing music. The woe-begone expressions of everyone. The 'deep' soliloquies. How many shots of blue skies and falling water and open meadows can one filmmaker have in a movie? And in how many movies do you get away with it? According to Terence Malick, as often as you can.

Two quite different directors, one whose work will not stand the test of time because of its superficial, inconsequential pretence that is about everyday reality, and Malick, whose films are crafted in a personal way that often seems to be indifferent to the viewing public -but whose films, to me, are visually stunning and profound. I think there are a lot of loose ends in his films, thats the way he films, but there aren't many Americans who make films like that. The Tree of Life is also quite a religious film so if you don't have an understanding of the way of nature and the way of grace a lot will pass you by. I guess its just not the kind of film you like.

On a different level, this evening I watched Sidney Lumet's Because the Devil Knows You're Dead -excellent acting from Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman -two guys decide to rob a small jewelery store and it goes wrong and everything spirals out of control. Great story, great acting but it just didn't have an emotional core, it was not overwhelming.

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD Theatrical Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jhrxn7QVDc)

[Prospero]

I thought before The Devil Knows You're Dead was a dreadful film - badly scripted and wholly ludicrous.

And I think you miss the point of Woody Allen - which is he has been and can be very funny.

[Stavros]

Ok Devil is not a great film, but the script wasn't that bad, and the acting was good, although I dont know why Albert Finney gets so many roles playing Americans.

Woody Allen funny? On Planet Earth? Rich people in Paris, rich people in New York, rich people in Barcelona. I never knew rich people could be so funny. He can't even do satire. How many films has he set in New York City that have no black or gay characters -in New York City!! I tried and tried with this meretricious pasticheur, but in the end his films are one thing only: a waste of money.

[runningdownthatdream]

Two quite different directors, one whose work will not stand the test of time because of its superficial, inconsequential pretence that is about everyday reality, and Malick, whose films are crafted in a personal way that often seems to be indifferent to the viewing public -but whose films, to me, are visually stunning and profound. I think there are a lot of loose ends in his films, thats the way he films, but there aren't many Americans who make films like that. The Tree of Life is also quite a religious film so if you don't have an understanding of the way of nature and the way of grace a lot will pass you by. I guess its just not the kind of film you like.

On a different level, this evening I watched Sidney Lumet's Because the Devil Knows You're Dead -excellent acting from Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman -two guys decide to rob a small jewelery store and it goes wrong and everything spirals out of control. Great story, great acting but it just didn't have an emotional core, it was not overwhelming.

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD Theatrical Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jhrxn7QVDc)

Stavros Stavros Stavros :smh

Woody is indeed limited in his outlook but at least he's entertaining and somewhat amusing in his elitist New York fashion and he knows how to deliver his message without too much deep thinking involved. He's an entertainer after all. Terence Malick on the other hand does make visually beautiful films.........but I would argue he's far more overbearing and pretentious than Woody Allen and without the benefit of humour to boot. I guess he's Jackson Pollack to Woody Allen's Jacques Louis David IMHO.

Singling out Before the Devil Knows You're Dead for mention is somewhat like when you singled out Gerry and The (fucking) Pacemakers as musical influence peddlers from the 60s! Totally surprising but definitely shows your propensity for whimsical thought ;)

[GrimFusion]

I just watched "God Bless America".
Written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait... the guy from Police Academy. It's definitely worth a rental, but some of the character dialogue gets really preachy (and that's putting it kindly). It's about a guy who lives in a shitty apartment and can't stand his neighbors. He gets fired, realizes his kid is nothing like him, and gets completely fed up... then he decides to do something about it. There's a lot more to the plot, but I don't want to spoil it.

[Nivek]

The Collector.. This movie is insane!!

[Stavros]

Stavros Stavros Stavros :smh

Woody is indeed limited in his outlook but at least he's entertaining and somewhat amusing in his elitist New York fashion and he knows how to deliver his message without too much deep thinking involved. He's an entertainer after all. Terence Malick on the other hand does make visually beautiful films.........but I would argue he's far more overbearing and pretentious than Woody Allen and without the benefit of humour to boot. I guess he's Jackson Pollack to Woody Allen's Jacques Louis David IMHO.

Singling out Before the Devil Knows You're Dead for mention is somewhat like when you singled out Gerry and The (fucking) Pacemakers as musical influence peddlers from the 60s! Totally surprising but definitely shows your propensity for whimsical thought ;)

Gerry and the Pacemakers were part of the 'Mersey Sound', they were not influential like the Beatles I am not sure if that was what I intended to say -Cilla Black was also part of the 'Mersey Sound' but had no musical influence on the 60s in spite of being part of it. Yet the song You'll Never Walk Alone is in effect the anthem of Liverpool Football Club, one of the most successful English clubs and supported all over the world -the Beatles never had a hit like that. As for Allen and Malick -the comparison is bizarre, maybe Allen's Doonesbury to Malick's Caravaggio would be closer (David was ideological on behalf of the Revolution in a way that Malick is not in the context of America). Allen's films are not funny to me, what he has to say about modern America or NYC is partisan, superficial, and uninteresting; Malick's films about America are often about people on the margins whose only rules are the ones they make for themselves, bringing them into a confrontation with the law/authority: Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line. Few film-makers have tried to tell a story (not THE story) of colonisation and the impact of European Christian culture on the first nations, The New World, for all its faults, does have a go and is better if less brutal than the 'classic westerns' like The Searchers which present the first nations as a 'problem' that has to be 'dealt with' -the moral economy replaced by a market economy, for example. And when did you see a black cowboy, even though most cowboys were black slaves?

Malick's films have the beauty and depth that Allen does not aspire to, but couldn't make anyway. I have seen so many gay and and black people in the real NYC, but not in an Allen film, which is one reason to dismiss him as phoney. BUT its a matter of taste and I can be whimsical -which must be a good thing as we should always be able to 'lighten up' at times. Because the Devil Knows You're Dead is not a great film, but I have seen worse.

[buttslinger]

Here's one I saw yesterday about WWIII, but this one is real. Robert McNamara spills.

Clips from the Fog of War - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPwR00HXM0)

[Prospero]

Stavros - isn't humour one of the most subjective of things? Recently while in the US I saw a comedian called Lewis Black. I found him to be dismal - shouting insults and making obvious right-on remarks. The people I went with had promised me he was one of the funniest men in the US today. Most of the audience loved it. Was i right or wrong to not find him funny?

The same is surely true of your distaste for Woody Allen. It's a subjective thing. Comparing Malick to Allen is comparing apples and cod fillets. Wen it comes to serious film making - ie Interiors by Allen - then Malick has him beat. But I've yet to see a comedy by Terence Malick.

[Nicole Dupre]

I saw "Legends of the Fall" a few nights ago and really enjoyed it.

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4e7b6f6969bedd095f00003d-590/around-the-same-time-he-is-also-rumored-to-have-had-a-fling-with-his-legends-of-the-fall-co-star-julia-ormond.jpg

[irvin66]

I saw an old classic the other day, Deliverance from 1972! :dancing:

[Stavros]

Stavros - isn't humour one of the most subjective of things? Recently while in the US I saw a comedian called Lewis Black. I found him to be dismal - shouting insults and making obvious right-on remarks. The people I went with had promised me he was one of the funniest men in the US today. Most of the audience loved it. Was i right or wrong to not find him funny?

The same is surely true of your distaste for Woody Allen. It's a subjective thing. Comparing Malick to Allen is comparing apples and cod fillets. Wen it comes to serious film making - ie Interiors by Allen - then Malick has him beat. But I've yet to see a comedy by Terence Malick.

Yes reactions to humour vary greatly, I find Jackie Mason hilarious, for example; I have watched Morecombe and Wise waiting for something to make me laugh but its impossible yet they are treated like gods in British comedy. Woody Allen doesn't make me laugh, but more than that I have already described his films as I see them. Malick hasn't yet made a comedy, neither did Tarkovsky, does that diminish Tarkovsky's reputation? But Malick makes films about the American experience, mostly -what does Allen make films about? Himself? I don't know what it is his reputation rests on.

[runningdownthatdream]

Yes reactions to humour vary greatly, I find Jackie Mason hilarious, for example; I have watched Morecombe and Wise waiting for something to make me laugh but its impossible yet they are treated like gods in British comedy. Woody Allen doesn't make me laugh, but more than that I have already described his films as I see them. Malick hasn't yet made a comedy, neither did Tarkovsky, does that diminish Tarkovsky's reputation? But Malick makes films about the American experience, mostly -what does Allen make films about? Himself? I don't know what it is his reputation rests on.

But does Malick have to be so ponderous and pompous!? Occasionally Woody could be more thoughtful but generally his films aren't to be taken seriously.

My bizarre comparison earlier was just based on my gut feeling - Woody's films are like David's art (at least from my perspective) because both aspire to be deep although both (again for me) are just simply nice to look at and makes you feel good after viewing. With Malick and Pollack the vision is complicated, requires deep thought, and might leave you confused afterwards wondering what the hell you spent hours looking at!

Anyways........................sometimes you need to lighten up Stavros. Look at a thing for exactly how it is presented to you and not try to read anything more into it!

[BellaBellucci]

Gamechange.

SARAH PALIN 2016 BITCHEZ!!!

~BB~

[Stavros]

Anyways........................sometimes you need to lighten up Stavros. Look at a thing for exactly how it is presented to you and not try to read anything more into it!

Indeed, I am working my way through the box set of Herge's Adventures of Tin-Tin when I am on my exercise bike: lightening more than just my intellect, I hope!

[phillyguy21]

The last movie I saw in theaters was The Hunger Games. The last movie I watched for the first time in its entirety was Inception, which I caught on HBO. I know I am super late on that one, but I am not the biggest movie buff out there.

[loren]

watched Open Range last night

[Prospero]

Yes reactions to humour vary greatly, I find Jackie Mason hilarious, for example; I have watched Morecombe and Wise waiting for something to make me laugh but its impossible yet they are treated like gods in British comedy. Woody Allen doesn't make me laugh, but more than that I have already described his films as I see them. Malick hasn't yet made a comedy, neither did Tarkovsky, does that diminish Tarkovsky's reputation? But Malick makes films about the American experience, mostly -what does Allen make films about? Himself? I don't know what it is his reputation rests on.


Exactly. Your opening sentences prove my point perfectly. But the fact that Terence Malick or Tarkovsky have never made comedies doesn't in any way diminish their achievement. They make film which explore, in depth, issues of the human condition. In the case of Takovsky this has prouced some masterpieces. Woody Allen's comedies, by contrast, are funny (in the casse of the best - he had a 15 year period of making utterly dismal films) which are primarily about the Jewish New York experience. I don't try or expect to extrapolate something universal about the human condition from them. But at his best his films repay regular reviewing. Radio Days is my favourite and the magnificent opening to Manhattan.

I think one of the difficulties here is that "film" is a medium which embraces the most cynical pieces of profit making product - mass entertainment - and films which aspire to the condition of high art.

[Stavros]

Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966)

The English painter JMW Turner once remarked I paint what I see, not what is there. The philosophical ruminations on photography that have exercised minds has tended to focus precisely on whether or not photography is more truthful/realistic than painting, and nobody can decide conclusively, especially when it turns out famous photos may have been staged, others doctored, and so on. So the idea of what is real and important is central to Antonioni's film set in 'Swinging London'. A professional photographer idles into a park, takes some random shots then realises he has shot something he didn't at first see, and which he isn't sure is there. He confirms what he saw, loses the photographs, then the evidence: it is there, it isn't there. There is a record, there isn't a record. Antonioni's tedious, pseudo-Marxist critique of 'bourgeois society' that began with the trilogy of the 1960s (L'avventura, La Notte, L'eclisse) has by 1966 dissolved into nihilism. He cannot decide what is important, and seems to conclude that nothing is. I can't decide if this film is clever, artistic and subtle, or if it is just empty. The 1960s fashion doesn't look out of date, the colour is rich and vibrant, and it features one of the greatest ever guitarists, Jeff Beck who was instructed by Antonioni to smash his guitar (the director had wanted The Who but they were in the US I think). The broken guitar frame becomes instantly symbolic: the crowd fight over it as if it were precious: the photographer walks off with it, then throws it away on Oxford St. Another man picks it up, and also throws it away.
The more Antonioni I revisit over the years the less I think of his films -by contrast, Bergman, Ozu and Bresson improve with age.

Blow-Up Trailer (1966) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu0-keZ4KKY)

[jamesedwards]

Battleship that was off the chain!!!! I also saw Contraband, and Underworld.

[HbgDon]

Justice League: Doom
Thor
The Muppets

[robertlouis]

Beautiful Lies (De vrais mensonges), an inconsequential but genuinely funny light comedy which the French seem to do so well.

Stavros, a question, if I may: The Arts Cinema in Cambridge - one of the increasingly few civilised venues to see movies in - is about to show Bela Tarr's The Turin Horse. Is it worth my folding, plus fuel and the exorbitant parking costs in Lion Yard?

[Psuman80]

AVENGERS - won tickets to an advanced screening last Wednesday.

No spoilers I promise - but it will live up to the hype. It is an incredible movie - well done, not too many cliche moments and each character has the right amount of screen time for that balance of not too much/not too little. Also - they spend ALOT of time fighting each other at first.

[Prospero]

Beautiful Lies (De vrais mensonges), an inconsequential but genuinely funny light comedy which the French seem to do so well.

Stavros, a question, if I may: The Arts Cinema in Cambridge - one of the increasingly few civilised venues to see movies in - is about to show Bela Tarr's The Turin Horse. Is it worth my folding, plus fuel and the exorbitant parking costs in Lion Yard?

It will help you sleep! I have a DVD of it that you are very welcome to.

[Stavros]

Beautiful Lies (De vrais mensonges), an inconsequential but genuinely funny light comedy which the French seem to do so well.

Stavros, a question, if I may: The Arts Cinema in Cambridge - one of the increasingly few civilised venues to see movies in - is about to show Bela Tarr's The Turin Horse. Is it worth my folding, plus fuel and the exorbitant parking costs in Lion Yard?


You might want to take up Prospero's offer: I am a fan of Tarr so I am biased, but Nietszche's concept of the Eternal Return when used in film has been described as reality extended to the point of madness, and I would not want to play a role in your unexpected admission to the funny farm, although I am sure they will let you take your guitar..

I though that cinema had closed, pleased to hear its still open.

[Prospero]

I love the Arts Cinema in Cambridge. I spent many, many happy evenings there during my time in the city.

[bassman2546]

Shame - and it was a big letdown.

[buttslinger]

I like Killer Chicks.

[Dino Velvet]

God Bless the Germans for this.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516Zs0VZOvL.jpg

'' Cannibal '' 2006 Trailer by Sickest Movies from the world - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfSfMBwyYB4)

Rammstein - Mein Teil HQ - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqNMeWfPOY&feature=fvst)

[TatianaSummer]

I like Killer Chicks.

I love "The Professional" movie!


Just Saw "Fast Five" mmmmmmmm

[Cecil Rhodes]

Safe

[nos4ag]

Yep....."Leon The Proffessional" is my favourite film of all time...PERIOD!

Might go and watch it now actually.

Oh, last film I watched........FREQUENCY with Jim Caviezal and Dennis Quaid :) Great film!

[hada]

The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMzI1MjI5MDQyOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzE4Mjg3NA@@._ V1._SX93_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMzI1MjI5MDQyOV5BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzE4Mjg3NA@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX93@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/)

[Prospero]

The US movie remake of the BBC TV series "State of Play". Too compressed but decent enough thriller.

[jimbo1974]

I watched a film called Anal Games III

Lots of spunk in it, not to mention bottoms

[robertlouis]

The US movie remake of the BBC TV series "State of Play". Too compressed but decent enough thriller.

It's ok, but Russell Crowe will never be as good as John Simm, and Helen Mirren doesn't get the opportunity to do with her role what Bill Nighy did in the BBC serial. It was one of the most gripping things on TV for a long time when it first appeared. Paul Abbott is quite a writer.

[JayCon2006]

Contraband with Mark Wahlberg
It was
meh

[runningdownthatdream]

Shame by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender:

Shame (2011): trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62nelnMXW3M)

Great job by Fassbender and a really good story but left me feeling a little uncomfortable. Should give many in a place like this something to think about.

[maxpower]

George Harrison: Living in the Material World. It's an in-depth and very interesting documentary about the former Beatle, directed by Martin Scorsese. It doesn't just cover the Beatle years, but also his childhood and his post-Beatle career, as well as his lifelong spiritual quest. Aired on HBO last fall, and released on DVD here in the States on Tuesday. I definitely recommend it.


George Harrison: Living In The Material World - Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKqe_8tryJo)

[Prospero]

[QUOTE=maxpower;1134797]George Harrison: Living in the Material World. It's an in-depth and very interesting documentary about the former Beatle, directed by Martin Scorsese. It doesn't just cover the Beatle years, but also his childhood and his post-Beatle career, as well as his lifelong spiritual quest. Aired on HBO last fall, and released on DVD here in the States on Tuesday. I definitely recommend it.

I agree. it's interesting how Scorsese has got into music documentaries. He did a good film on Dylan a couple of years ago and a Stones in concert film. But this is the best.

[maxpower]

I agree. it's interesting how Scorsese has got into music documentaries. He did a good film on Dylan a couple of years ago and a Stones in concert film. But this is the best.


Yeah, he does seem to be into music subjects lately, but music has always been a part of his work. I think he's just a big fan. He made The Last Waltz 30+ years ago, and has used rock/pop music to great effect in a number of his movies (Mean Streets, Goodfellas). Shine A Light, the Rolling Stones concert film you mentioned, is the shit. That might be the best concert film I've ever seen. I'll have to check out the Dylan film.

[Prospero]

Darn I forgot the Last Waltz. That was terrific too.

[HbgDon]

http://movies.inquirer.net/files/2011/12/The_Avengers_All.jpg

[Quiet Reflections]

just watched Avengers too. I thought it was just ok. So many thing could have been better but then all comic book movies fall prey to artistic license for the benefit of people that never read comic books. At least I knew that going in. It was pretty long too

[bluesoul]

Shame by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender:

Shame (2011): trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62nelnMXW3M)

Great job by Fassbender and a really good story but left me feeling a little uncomfortable. Should give many in a place like this something to think about.

i have this film in my queue. i've been following mr. mcqueen's work and very interested to seeing how this measured up. thanks for the (short) review.

[loren]

Transporter 2 :rock2

[maxpower]

The Avengers. Awesomeness.

[HbgDon]

The Avengers again

The Sitter

Haywire

[runningdownthatdream]

The Next Three Days - good story concept with some good scenes but I don't like Russell Crowe in the lead. Action sequences are formulaic IMO. Wouldn't recommend unless you really want something that doesn't require much thought.
The Next Three Days Movie Trailer Official (HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lti0vfCPZns)

The Devil's Double - story is predictable (supposed double of Uday Hussein spills the beans on his depravity) but the lead actor playing both Uday and the double is inconsistent. Accent all over the place although he does a pretty good job with the double character. His portrayal of Uday seems cliched. Some really nice cinematography though. Again don't recommend unless you want a time waster.
The Devil's Double Trailer 2011 HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlQOg9abRk)

[Helvis2012]

Key Largo.

[Dino Velvet]

A Bruno Mattei Classic

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[Absarokah]

Good movie, but different plot than I had expected

[Jericho]

Different for girls

Different for Girls (1996) Part 1 of 10 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9kJFBHxNVs)

[Ben]

Horrible Bosses. The movie wasn't horrible -- :) But I expected more. But it's watchable. And has a few laughs. The best scenes are with Jennifer Aniston.

'Horrible Bosses' Trailer HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzIA-yu268)

[Stavros]

District 9. Even when I can think of something intelligent to say about this worthless drivel I will still not bother. Luckily I bought it second hand for £1.50, which is more than what it is worth.

[Prospero]

The two Swedish follow ups to The Girl With The Dragoon Tattoo - The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest. The original film was better than the US remake but all are overly long and lack any real dramatic energy. Lisbeth Salander is an intriguing and original character well played by Noomi Rapace (in the Swedish films) and by Rooney Mara in the US film (and in forthcoming versions of the other two books) but the actor cast as Mikael Blomkvist lacks any charisma (and i'm told in the books the opposite is the case) and is better played in the US remake.

[Hardbodyshemale]

Saw titantic again forgot how good of a movie it was

[Stavros]

Did you see it in the 3D version? I thought it looked handsome, but its still a dreary film to my eyes. I kept wondering if, when di Caprio is drawing Kate Winslet in the nude and the camera is behind his shoulder and his drawing book covering her nether regions, if I stood up would I be able to see the full show? I was too embarrassed to try it in the cinema, but I mean, it is 3D after all...

[Prospero]

The ONLY decent bit of Titanic was where Di Caprio finally drowns. I suffered through it on a transatlantic flight back when they used to project the films onto a big screen on the bulkhead.

[Wendy Summers]

Marx Brothers, A Day at the Races is playing right now on my laptop.

[Wolver]

John Carter and i love it!!

[runningdownthatdream]

Rampart - Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver and, Robin Wright did the best they could given the sometimes ridiculous dialogue and unnecessarily complicated, somewhat pointless script. But what do I know - I'm just a viewer. Maybe it was clever. I'd recommend watching it just for the performances of those three though.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - clearly a propaganda piece meant for Europeans :) who buy into the Jesse James as Robin Hood story. Acting was good by all although sometimes Casey Afleck as Robert Ford was overbearing and silly. But the narrative was good, the cinematography was great, and sometimes deep thought was involved.

[robertlouis]

Marx Brothers, A Day at the Races is playing right now on my laptop.

You are definitely a girl after my own heart, Ms Summers.

Bellboy, take two dozen red roses up to Suite 33 and write "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill."

Timeless.

[Willie Escalade]

Leonard, Part 6. Don't ask me why I popped it in, I just did. ??

[buttslinger]

Earth Vs Flying Saucers, Invaders from Mars, Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, The Thing, Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[kukm4]

The Woman In Black

[BellaBellucci]

Margin Call. It's a GREAT movie if you're into business dramas, and it's from Zachary Quinto if you're into sci-fi and that helps you give it a chance.

And no, he doesn't play Sylar... although that would have been spectacular! ;)

~BB~

[Prospero]

Bella - I agree that is truly a terrific film..... and tells it like it is as far as i can tell.

You might want to try a documentary on the same topic An Inside job if you can find it

[buttslinger]

Turner Classic Movies has some great WWII flicks for Memorial day: Bridge over the River Kwai, The Great Escape, Guns of Navarone, and Where Eagles Dare.

[Stavros]

Ichi the Killer (Japan/Takashi Miike, 2001)

Don't be fooled by the blood and the gore, this is a profound film, as good as Audition -maybe even better. In Miike's films the Yakuza gang is a substitute for a family, and usually, someone for reasons of spite, revenge, financial greed, does something which destroys the inner cohesion of the gang. In this film, a rival engineers a dispute which breaks up the Anjo gang in Kabuchi-ko, a sleazy quarter in Tokyo, using a psycopath called Ichi who may or may not have been brainwashed into reacting with exceptional violence when witnessing a vulnerable female being abused by a man. This sets the scene, not so much for the violence, as the discourse on men who can only achieve sexual satisfaction through physical abuse, represented by the errant gang member kakihara, and men who beliebve that violence is a form of catharsis for otherwise irresolvable trauma, represented by Ichi.
There are few films that treat sexual deviance with the seriousness that it deserves, this is one of them. As someone once said, Love hurts...Highly recommended.

ICHI THE KILLER trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coiVr5Pl4-s)

[Stavros]

Dune -David Lynch

This 1984 film has now been re-issued, and it is as daft as it was in 1984. I can't quite work out the symbolism of a film set in a desert on a planet called Dune (aka errakis aka Iraq is) where there is a precious substance called oil -woops, I mean spice- and where the locals are pledged to wage Shihad -or should that be Jihad- against various invaders, if only the one would come to guide them, who, it turns out, is Paul Moabit (no relation to Moab, obviously). I haven't read Frank Herbert's book, but I can't say the film inspires me to do that. As usual, the music, which consists of three notes played ad nauseam, is a burden to a film already burdened by confusing symbols and too many characters.

Dune Trailer Remastered - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9zFPzcNug)

[buttslinger]

Fresh - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gs34X5rU1c)

[Baileyluv]

to sir with love

silkwood

blue velvet

[fred41]

"The Last Circus"..

It veered into unsuspected territory...but was still quite interesting.

[fred41]

..Oh yeah...saw the last Men In Black film too...I thought Josh Brolin's portrayal of Tommy Lee Jones was excellent (unless some type of dubbing was involved...I'm not gonna google that to find out...lol)...good ending too.

[runningdownthatdream]

Dune -David Lynch

This 1984 film has now been re-issued, and it is as daft as it was in 1984. I can't quite work out the symbolism of a film set in a desert on a planet called Dune (aka errakis aka Iraq is) where there is a precious substance called oil -woops, I mean spice- and where the locals are pledged to wage Shihad -or should that be Jihad- against various invaders, if only the one would come to guide them, who, it turns out, is Paul Moabit (no relation to Moab, obviously). I haven't read Frank Herbert's book, but I can't say the film inspires me to do that. As usual, the music, which consists of three notes played ad nauseam, is a burden to a film already burdened by confusing symbols and too many characters.

Dune Trailer Remastered - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9zFPzcNug)

Overthinking again...........................

[runningdownthatdream]

Watched The Awakening recently. Enjoyed it very much - everything a gothic suspense/horror should be. Story was great, scenes flowed well, cinematography was beautiful and performances by all stellar. Highly recommend if you're into movies like The Others, The Woman in Black, etc. And it doesn't hurt that Rebecca Hall is stunning..........

The Awakening Trailer Official [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB8UAuGBJGM)

[fred41]

Overthinking again...........................

yeah..I read a couple of the "Dune" books in my youth, but to me, Herbert's writing style was as dry as the planet he was writing about...and I could only get so far.

...but I never really equated 'spice" with oil.

...I equated it with an opiate.

..my stoner symbolism during that time only got so far.

[runningdownthatdream]

yeah..I read a couple of the "Dune" books in my youth, but to me, Herbert's writing style was as dry as the planet he was writing about...and I could only get so far.

...but I never really equated 'spice" with oil.

...I equated it with an opiate.

..my stoner symbolism during that time only got so far.

I read fiction to escape from reality so try to avoid falling into the game of analogies. Each piece should stand on it's merits (is it a good tale, does it flow well, does it create an alternate reality) rather than be viewed symbolically. Why try and equate anything in a work of fiction with anything we know? Just detracts from the work IMO.

[Baileyluv]

HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE, love the gurl in the bear costume

[Stavros]

I read fiction to escape from reality so try to avoid falling into the game of analogies. Each piece should stand on it's merits (is it a good tale, does it flow well, does it create an alternate reality) rather than be viewed symbolically. Why try and equate anything in a work of fiction with anything we know? Just detracts from the work IMO.

To some extent I agree with you, but when words like Shihad are used to describe violent reactions to invading forces, when the myth of the saviour is so central to the plot, and Dune is also known as Erakis, or Irakis or however it is spelled, analogies do rather suggest themselves.

[ValerieNelson]

Prometheus.

[HbgDon]

The Punisher

[danoblue]

Prometheus

[Stavros]

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Unusual for someone to tackle the difficult topic of women who do not welcome pregnancy and childbirth, which in this case is sensed early on by her first child, a boy, with catastrophic consequences. And, just as women who don't like giving birth are not much talked about, the family in the film does all it can to avoid discussing its own failings. It is not an overwhelming film, but tightly controlled. The lighting and editing are good, I don't know how it compares to Lionel Shriver's novel. Kevin, played by Ezra Miller, is spookily good. I am the context, he says at one point, dismissing one of his father's pathetic attempts to avoid a confrontation.

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLRgAe2jLaw)

[Quiet Reflections]

"We bought a zoo" it was even worse than I thought it would be

[robertlouis]

Incendies, a very powerful French Canadian film about twins from Canada discovering their late mother's horrific and harrowing past in the middle east. The best film I've seen this year by quite a distance.

[eddymunster90]

Was finally able to catch Avengers. Quite fun and the theater was empty so my son and I were able to geek out in privacy.

[Ts-Martine]

I watched "the warrior" and let me say I was really suprised by how flawlessly good it was! Was put off watching sumthin about mma and the likes, but a friend insisted, and I could not fault it. Highly recommended :rock2

[hard4janira]

The Hanging Gale - 4 part miniseries about a bunch of stupid Irish farmers who forgot where they buried thier potatoes and had to flee to America.

Acutally, although it was low-budget it was well written and superbly acted.

[Stavros]

Sherlock Holmes...noisy and nasty and no match for the original, as written by Conan Doyle. But I have to admit to liking Robert Downey Jr, there is something demonic about him, something strange and exciting, which is why he unsuited to the role of Holmes, and should probably be a villain.

Sherlock Holmes 2 HD Trailer Guy Ritchie www.downloadfree-sarker.blogspot.com.flv - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQOqofpwPg)

[Token Williams-Black]

Arthur...the original with Dudley Moore.

[ptyseminole]

Prometheus, interesting movie...

[runningdownthatdream]

Sherlock Holmes...noisy and nasty and no match for the original, as written by Conan Doyle. But I have to admit to liking Robert Downey Jr, there is something demonic about him, something strange and exciting, which is why he unsuited to the role of Holmes, and should probably be a villain.

Sherlock Holmes 2 HD Trailer Guy Ritchie www.downloadfree-sarker.blogspot.com.flv - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQOqofpwPg)

Good call - he should have been Moriarty. Whoever the pudding was that DID play Moriarty was terrible.

[CORVETTEDUDE]

"Act of Valor"

[Kulver]

Avengers was my last and I really enjoyed it. Tomorrow I plan to see Prometheus. I have a thing for the original Alien movie (in fact half of my left arm is taken up by a tattoo of the chestburster from that movie). I know this isn't strictly an Alien prequel but I'm looking forward to it anyway.

[HbgDon]

Man on a Ledge
Star Trek
Chronicle

[Prospero]

Pennies From Heaven - with Steve Martin. Great though not as good as the original BBC TV series.

[Jericho]

The Grey.
Meh...Had it's moments. :shrug

[Stavros]

MalcolmX -A Spike Lee Joint. There are joints and there are Spike Lee films (some of them are even worth watching, Inside Man, for example is a good film but obviously suffers from the rank incompetence of Denzel Washington). On this occasion the effect is flat or even down, rather than high. Poor script, poor concept, poor acting; historically inacurrate, biographically untrue, intellectually superficial, the film goes on too long in an attempt to give the 'epic' treatment to a controversial figure. Where the use of music at times is appropriate to the time and place, in some scenes -notbaly interiors with Malcolm and his wife or close associates, their conversation is drowned in anodyne music that sounds like a cross-between Aaron Copland and Stephen Sondheim.
The dvd was deleted when I read Manning Marable's outstanding biography of Malcolm; this is a new two-set re-issue with extras -unfortunately including a 1972 documentary with a lot of footage of the real Malcolm, a world away from the wooden, almost lifeless pseudo-acting of Denzel Washington -and if that aint a 'slave name' I don't know what is!!).

MALCOLM X - Trailer - (1992) - HQ - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7wxOU8lNx8)

[Prospero]

Quatermass and the Pit - the 1950s TV series (okay not technically a movie) written by Nigel Kneale and shown the BBC. Look past the wooden acting, the wooden acting and the sets and it is actually a very interesting experiment in TV drama. It is possible to see why it was such a sensation when first shown in 1958 - with people talking about never having seen so scared by anything on TV and viewers hurrying home from the pub of wherever to catch it.

Quatermass And The Pit / Complete Series - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h21H_uTbujo)

[Falrune]

Super

James Gunn's SUPER Clip - Ellen Page is Boltie! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWZM4rAP1wo)

[Jericho]

Quatermass and the Pit - the 1950s TV series (okay not technically a movie) written by Nigel Kneale and shown the BBC. Look past the wooden acting, the wooden acting and the sets and it is actually a very interesting experiment in TV drama. It is possible to see why it was such a sensation when first shown in 1958 - with people talking about never having seen so scared by anything on TV and viewers hurrying home from the pub of wherever to catch it.

Quatermass And The Pit / Complete Series - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h21H_uTbujo)

I saw this a couple of years ago.
I thought there were a couple of episodes missing from that series. Have they found the lost ones, are am i bolloxing on about something else?

[Dino Velvet]

Quatermass and the Pit - the 1950s TV series (okay not technically a movie) written by Nigel Kneale and shown the BBC. Look past the wooden acting, the wooden acting and the sets and it is actually a very interesting experiment in TV drama. It is possible to see why it was such a sensation when first shown in 1958 - with people talking about never having seen so scared by anything on TV and viewers hurrying home from the pub of wherever to catch it.

Quatermass And The Pit / Complete Series - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h21H_uTbujo)

I keep waiting for a massive box set of all things Quatermass. Hope Anchor Bay is listening.

Last movie I saw. Fun flick but not as good as the first one.

http://eatbrie.com/large_posters_files/Demons2.jpg

[runningdownthatdream]

I keep waiting for a massive box set of all things Quatermass. Hope Anchor Bay is listening.

Last movie I saw. Fun flick but not as good as the first one.

http://eatbrie.com/large_posters_files/Demons2.jpg

Did you know Suspiria is being remade? And with Isabelle Huppert too.......

Suspiria (2013) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034415/)

[Prospero]

I saw this a couple of years ago.
I thought there were a couple of episodes missing from that series. Have they found the lost ones, are am i bolloxing on about something else?

I think you might be right - there are some odd jumps in the narrative.

[Dino Velvet]

Did you know Suspiria is being remade? And with Isabelle Huppert too.......

Suspiria (2013) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034415/)

I know. Never be as stylish as the original. Such beauty and art in death.

Like to see them re-shoot this scene.

Suspiria - Infamous Death Scene - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRG2qpEwl4)

[maxpower]

Super

James Gunn's SUPER Clip - Ellen Page is Boltie! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWZM4rAP1wo)

Great fucking movie! I wish more people knew about it. I've been trying to show it to everyone I know. I expected it to be funny, which it was, but I was totally surprised (but not displeased) at how super-violent it is. Also a good deal of pathos from and for Rainn Wilson's character. Love this movie.

[ValerieNelson]

Safe House.

[robertlouis]

Went to my local cinema to see the National Theatre's production of Frankenstein as adapted and directed by Danny Boyle, with Benedict "Sherlock" Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee "Trainspotting" Miller as the doctor - they alternated the roles during the stage run.

Apart from being a spectacular and quite brilliant production with great performances from all the cast, it was a great way to see a west end production - 20 minutes up the A14, no London hassle - or pricing - and a comfortable seat for about 20% of the theatre ticket.

And - yes, I'm a cinema nazi - no mobile phones, no popcorn, no talking and simply a theatre full of people who had come to enjoy the show. Blissful.

[Stavros]

Reconstruction (Theo Angelopoulos, 1970)
Angelopoulos' first full-length feature film, which at 110 minutes is one of his shortest films. There are very few close-ups in this austere film in which the brooding landscape of northern Greece emphasises the contrast between the material and emotional poverty of village life, and the passion which exploded in a case of murder, under investigation by the police. The cinematrography also stresses isolation, the figures often looking lost in a landscape of mountains, streams and forests. There is no attempt to connect to the emotional core of the crime, no sympathy for any of the characters, yet the presentation of these selves in everyday life marks the beginning of an illustrious career in film -I think the film is maybe too artistic, but is worth watching.
http://www.theoangelopoulos.com/reconstruction.htm

[Dino Velvet]

And - yes, I'm a cinema nazi - no mobile phones, no popcorn, no talking and simply a theatre full of people who had come to enjoy the show. Blissful.

Me too. Hate it when people sneak crying babies into R Rated movies.

[Prospero]

Many years ago I went to see The Devils by Ken Russell at a cinema in Newmarket. For reasons best known to themselves the management left the house lights on throughout the film. people got up and walked around, yelled to each other across the cinema and talked constantly - except in the most violent bits. Then a hush fell over the place.