What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[buttslinger]

Maybe one of the Brothers will tell us about Black movie theatres and Black funerals. The rules used to be a lot different, I'm not sure about now.

Eating Rauol, and Ciao! Manhattan.

[Ben]

Just about to watch Thank You For Smoking later tonight....

Thank you for Smoking - Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBELC_vxqhI)

[Stavros]

Days of '36 (Theo Angelopoulos, 1972)

Like Reconstruction, based on real events, and like that film containing very little dialogue. Thus, Angelopoulos seeks a form of pure film in which the story is told through its images, this time in colour and in the vicinity of Thessaloniki -panoramic shots of cornfields form a rich background to the events that unfold mostly in a nearby prison where a man accused of assassinating a politician has taken his MP hostage. The power of the state is counterposed to the power of a single man to hold it to ransom. In one telling overhead shot, the officials involved, ranging from the prison governor to the head of the army and the Minister of Justice go for a walk in the fresh air, and like globules of mercury separate and disperse, mostly to light their cigarettes. Dysfunctional, ineffective, when the prisoner asks to hear music they produce a gramophone which plays a bitter love song (foreshadowing a similar scene in The Shawshank Redemption -see the YouTube link below; and note how after the song, there is first the music of protest, and then the music of repression). Visually stunning, with all the feeling drained out, an indication of the direction Angelopoulos was taking to the long slow take without music or anything other than natural sound.
http://www.theoangelopoulos.com/daysof36.htm

Days of 36 (1972) - music in prison - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvh6dmXiIhc)

[philipsfrog]

Last movie I watched was maniac cop what was last week sometime.

Any one got any good movies they could recommend?

[Dino Velvet]

Last movie I watched was maniac cop what was last week sometime.

Any one got any good movies they could recommend?

Maniac Cop 2 & 3
Matt Cordell Lives Forever!!!

http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/movies/wallpapers/maniac-cop.jpg

[HbgDon]

Act of Valor

[south ov da border]

well this past week I've seen Lincoln vampire hunter, prometheus, brave, and madagascar.

Lincoln is going to get a lot of bad reviews, but people want to take it for more than it was- just a fun romp.

[robertlouis]

XXY, a Uruguayan movie about a hermaphrodite teenager who lives as a girl but who is being pressurised by her parents to make a final decision about her gender and her future. Beautifully played by a talented cast, it handles everything sensitively but realistically. If you take the issues that the transsexual/transitional life poses at all seriously, I strongly recommend that you seek out this film. It was on BBC2 last night.

[Jericho]

XXY, a Uruguayan movie about a hermaphrodite teenager who lives as a girl but who is being pressurised by her parents to make a final decision about her gender and her future. Beautifully played by a talented cast, it handles everything sensitively but realistically. If you take the issues that the transsexual/transitional life poses at all seriously, I strongly recommend that you seek out this film. It was on BBC2 last night.

I watched that, too.
Quite touching in places.

XXY (2007) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM2OTI4ODI3OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTk2OTA1Mg@@._ V1._SX100_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTM2OTI4ODI3OF5BM l5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTk2OTA1Mg@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX100@@AMEP ARAM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995829/)

[Stavros]

The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1974-75).
At over four hours, this is the longest film that Angelopoulos made, and tackles one of the most sensitive eras in Greek history, the period between the end of the war and the civil war of 1947-49 in which the mostly Communist (Elas) forces were defeated with its leadership and many members sent into exile (most of the Stalinits to Tashkent, supporters of Tito to Yugoslavia). The film covers the period from 1939 to 1952 and presents the disintegration of a theatre troupe which travels around northern Greece performing a 19th century melodrama, Golfo the Shepherdess. The characters are named after figures from classical Greece (Electra, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Orestes etc), and, as some are married to each other with children and at least one affair, the theme of the 'tragedy of Greece' tearing itself apart is obvious. Not so obvious is that in a way the persistence of the play stands for the persistence and ultimately, core value of art as the witness to history, as well as its saviour: the troupe which had been destroyed is re-built at the end, to carry on the message. I used to think this is one of the best films ever made; I have now seen it about seven times since the 1970s but think it a flawed masterpiece. The music is outstanding.
Angelopoulos sides with the left and thus, while telling a powerful story with superb imagery and virtually no dialogue, chooses to ignore the disaster of the Greek communist movement: the split between Stalin and Tito in 1948 which split the communist movement and led to its defeat. Angelopoulos focuses instead on the betrayal by the British occupying forces under General Scobie whose agreement with Elas to 'decommission their weapons' was used by the neo-fascist and nationalist right to attempt an oblieration of the workers movement and thus created the civil war of 1947-49. Neither Stalin nor Tito make an appearance in the film, but warped politics aside, this is a profound study of a topic so toxic it still creates problems inside and outside Greece today.
http://www.theoangelopoulos.com/travellingplayers.htm

The Travelling Players Part 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFk0YLMBj4)

[buttslinger]

Screamers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNkVKzRlIs)

[Stavros]

The Hunters (Theo Angelopoulos, 1977)
Following on from The Travelling Players, the film explores the legacy of the political conservatives in Greece who benefited from the financial backing of the USA in the 1940s and 1950s which was used for infrastructrual repairs and development, and used to fund the anti-communist campaigns that prevented Greece from 'going communist' be it in alliance with Tito's Yugoslavia or Moscow. The Hunters of the title discover the body of a communist guerilla in the snows of northern Greece, take it back to their hotel and through a variety of tableaux of historical events ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s, expose themselves to a mock trial -all the Hunters are senior figures in politics, business and the military, but for one ex-communist who signed a loyalty declaration at the end of the civil war in 1949 and went on to make millions as a building contractor. All have some form of guilt that is exposed in the film, all decide eventually to bury the corpse in the snow in the hope that a past they cannot own up to will go away. But obviously, when the snows thaw, the body will be re-discovered. Visually stunning, evocative, poetic, profound -one of Angelopoulos' best films, and it includes an auto-erotic orgasm that exposes When Harry Met Sally for the flimsy nonsense it is -the General's wife (played by the enigmatic Eva Kotamanidou) writhes on a dancefloor in full view of the band and the other guests imagining herself having sex with the King...
http://www.theoangelopoulos.com/hunters.htm

[Prospero]

Anatomy Of A Murder, great courtroom drama directed by Otto Preminger with James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben gazzara and George c Scott.

Plus a wonderful score by the late great Duke Ellington.

Duke Ellington - Flirtibird (Anatomy of a Murder) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YQrY_hey3Y)

[Stavros]

Prospero that is one of the most bloated and pointless films I have ever seen, two hours and forty minutes of prolix garbage; if you want a court-room drama then even Witness for the Prosecution is a better film: better dialogue, shorter, better acting. There comes a point in the Preminger film -indeed in most of his films when one shouts SHUT UP out of exasperation at the turgid scripts he worked with. Very poor choice on your part.

[Prospero]

Ha ha - well Stavros, I'm a big Jimmy Stewart fan so anything he is in i will watch - and he is some of my favourite old films, The Philadelphia Story, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence and Harvey to name just three. Plus as I say - I love the Duke Ellington soundtrack. I didn't find it turgid. But then our point of congruence on films is a liking for long and - to many people - dull movies. You like that dull Hungarian (have you seen the Turin Horse yet0 and I like other "dull" films. Never the twain etc....

And yes i do recall that Witness For The Prosecution is a better film.

[Absarokah]

I'm a geek, what can I say...

[runningdownthatdream]

The Hunters (Theo Angelopoulos, 1977)
Following on from The Travelling Players, the film explores the legacy of the political conservatives in Greece who benefited from the financial backing of the USA in the 1940s and 1950s which was used for infrastructrual repairs and development, and used to fund the anti-communist campaigns that prevented Greece from 'going communist' be it in alliance with Tito's Yugoslavia or Moscow. The Hunters of the title discover the body of a communist guerilla in the snows of northern Greece, take it back to their hotel and through a variety of tableaux of historical events ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s, expose themselves to a mock trial -all the Hunters are senior figures in politics, business and the military, but for one ex-communist who signed a loyalty declaration at the end of the civil war in 1949 and went on to make millions as a building contractor. All have some form of guilt that is exposed in the film, all decide eventually to bury the corpse in the snow in the hope that a past they cannot own up to will go away. But obviously, when the snows thaw, the body will be re-discovered. Visually stunning, evocative, poetic, profound -one of Angelopoulos' best films, and it includes an auto-erotic orgasm that exposes When Harry Met Sally for the flimsy nonsense it is -the General's wife (played by the enigmatic Eva Kotamanidou) writhes on a dancefloor in full view of the band and the other guests imagining herself having sex with the King...
http://www.theoangelopoulos.com/hunters.htm

Stavro Stavro Stavro.........somewhere your unkind words are creating ripples:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/26/showbiz/nora-ephron-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

[Stavros]

Stavro Stavro Stavro.........somewhere your unkind words are creating ripples:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/26/showbiz/nora-ephron-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Not unkind at all, When Harry Met Sally is not cinema, its just two very irritating people filmed while chatting for an hour and a half, it would be boring if you had to listen to them when stuck on a long-distance train or aeroplane journey, so why pay to see such things? Also, in The Hunters, the auto-erotic sex scene has depth and significance, and is brilliantly performed by one of Angelopoulos' regular players Eva Kotamanidou. Watch and compare....

[jedthejew]

Spaceballs

[nevada64]

A new documentary on the making of "Wish You Were Here"

[MHarrigan82]

Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengance Nicolas Cage movies keep getting shitter and shitter. I was a fan of the Ghost Rider comic books back in the 90's. This movie is pure shit. Nicolas Cage acting was cringe worthy. This movie makes the first movie look like The Godfather. The worst movie I have ever seen.

[Stavros]

Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)

First time I have seen this as I didn't like the idea of women boxing -boxing in general is loathesome, even if there are some great boxing films. I wasn't expecting such a desperately sad ending, and in its own way the film, deliberately or not, raises questions about the so-called sport. The irony is in the title; this may even be one of Eastwood's best films.

[Prospero]

The Rainmaker - Francis Ford Coppola directed adaptation of a John Grisham book. Schmaltzy and sentimental court room film whose only redeeming feature was the way it highlighted the sort of iniquity that the Affordable Health Care Act should prevent in future. (The plot pivots around a US insurance corporation refusing to cover a young man's needed treatment for Leukemia). But a lousy film.

[runningdownthatdream]

Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)

First time I have seen this as I didn't like the idea of women boxing -boxing in general is loathesome, even if there are some great boxing films. I wasn't expecting such a desperately sad ending, and in its own way the film, deliberately or not, raises questions about the so-called sport. The irony is in the title; this may even be one of Eastwood's best films.

Wow - you are bordering on praise for a recent Hollywood production!

I think it's the best film that Eastwood has both acted in and directed. Not overly-wrought and sentimental. Just a brilliant story, acting, directing.

[Stavros]

Praise where praise is due; Eastwood's films are generally better than much of the showy trash the US produces. A lot of my favourite films are American...is there anything good at this year's Toronto Film Festival?

[runningdownthatdream]

Praise where praise is due; Eastwood's films are generally better than much of the showy trash the US produces. A lot of my favourite films are American...is there anything good at this year's Toronto Film Festival?

Not sure about TIFF this year - it's been a long time since I paid attention to what they do. Are you attending?

Last few movies I watched were disappointing. Should have known better than to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (how the hell did that ever win an Academy Award for anything!!?!) and The Long Riders (all James Gang movies were ruined after watching The Assassination of Jesse James....).

In the middle of La Mome/La Vie en Rose which is nice to look at, to hear, and with a sublime performance by Marion Cotillard. I know for you Stavro it is likely over-sentimental rubbish!

[Ts-Martine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5I14qkywyQ

I watched this (Hara-Kiri) yesterday and was massively impressed. Saw the directors "13 assassins" a week earlier, which was good also but this remake is definetly an improvement on the style, and definetly one to see!

Its emotianally charged, beautifull to look at, and has thrilling swordplay scenes - all of which rate high in my book. Plus its a very interesting look at the perverted code of honour that the samurai followed, something i have a great interest in and have been reading lots on lately also.

Plus the red suit of armour is just sooooo lush, and I happened to see the actual article with my own eyes in an exhibition at the leeds armory a few years back, and its visual representation in the movie came very close to the effect of awe it has on you in person.

Cant wait for this to come out this year in 3D, I get the feeling the dojo interiors are going to look astounding with the added visual depth.

9/10

[Stavros]

Not sure about TIFF this year - it's been a long time since I paid attention to what they do. Are you attending?

Last few movies I watched were disappointing. Should have known better than to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (how the hell did that ever win an Academy Award for anything!!?!) and The Long Riders (all James Gang movies were ruined after watching The Assassination of Jesse James....).

In the middle of La Mome/La Vie en Rose which is nice to look at, to hear, and with a sublime performance by Marion Cotillard. I know for you Stavro it is likely over-sentimental rubbish!

If I could I would go to the TIFF, there are usually some interesting films on show and I like Toronto anyway. As for La Vie en Rose, it has a lot of biographical holes, but I Love the film! Marion Cotillard is superb.

[Stavros]

I heard about this book on the radio and thought it was a joke, it is real!

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[Prospero]

http://www.bda.org/your-membership/dentists-in-the-movies.aspx

This is a film festival I'm sorry I missed!

[rockabilly]

Six String Samurai.

[Stavros]

http://www.bda.org/your-membership/dentists-in-the-movies.aspx

This is a film festival I'm sorry I missed!

I thought it was something in the industrial/education and training genre but I am wrong...no...anything to do with dentists is best avoided as far as I am concerned...but is it any more compelling than chickens in the movies?

[Stavros]

The Night of the Generals (Anatole Litvak 1967)
Peter O'Tooole, a fine actor reduced to playing Lawrence of Bavaria in a Nazi uniform; squirming in front of Van Gogh; other fine actors playing solid roles in an allegory on justice set against the July plot of 1944. Unbelievable.

The Night of the Generals Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2UVxede_Xs)

[Prospero]

I remember reading the book by Hans Helmet Kirst on which this film is based. The book was bad enough.

[HbgDon]

Death Race 2000

Hellraiser: Revelations

[Prospero]

Tiny Furniture - written and directed by Lena Dunham at the age of 23. A lame film but a first try-out for the characters later developed in the Girls TV comedy series. Lena Dunham is a talent to watch I think. In some ways there are hints of a young Woody Allen - though less witty. The social observation in Girls seems acute (though its a social milieu of which i know nothing - 20 somethings in contemporary NYC.)

[Jay6966]

LONDON BOULEVARD.

Did you take money offa my Mitchell

[Stavros]

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011)
Emily Bronte's peculiar novel has attracted many film versions, why I do not know. If the book isn't bad enough -relentless hysterics, asthmatic crabbed writing, the films can never decide if Heathcliff is a Gypsy, Black, or even just a 'white man' with flowing black locks of hair. The films usually ignore half the book anyway focusing solely on the doomed relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy.
Andrea Arnold has shot the film with intense beauty, but the style she has been evolving, working with non-actors, minimal script, which sort of worked with Fish Tank, here reduces the story, insofar as there is one, to a lot of meaningful looks. Liberties are taken with the text, such as the young Heathcliff's riposte to the Linton's when they first meet: Fuck off, you cunts. I don't think that's in the book.

Wuthering Heights (2011) - Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUWOCd894-Q)

[buttslinger]

I had a boss like Wally Binghampton once.


Ernest Borgnine Talks "Escape from New York" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWLcvTrjnQU)

[Stavros]

[QUOTE=buttslinger;1167808]I had a boss like Wally Binghampton once.


Thanks for the link Buttslinger -EB was one of those actors who never gave a duff performance and gave weight and depth to the films he was in. He had a good life and made some good films too.

[Jack59]

Men Who Stare At Goats

There's two hours of my life I'll never get back.

[south ov da border]

Bad Ass 2012 FULL MOVIE - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pnTHI3cIEY)

[eccentricBlue]

Charlie Wilson's War

[maxpower]

Charlie Wilson's War


Phillip Seymour Hoffman was great in that.

[gummi baer]

Real movie: "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"
Stupid late-nite movie: "Deep In The Valley"

[Ben]

Last night I watched a troubling documentary entitled The Forgotten Bomb.

The Forgotten Bomb trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCpSebZ1rTU)

[LABiM75&StrF51]

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BRAVE

http://www.animationmagazine.net/2011-movie-guide-images/Brave.jpg



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[Ben]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It's pretty good.
It gets good when the Apes fight back.... The Star of the film is a very smart chimp -- :)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes Movie Trailer 3 Official (HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaK6khs8aMw)

[south ov da border]

savages and ted. Both were worth the time and money...

[Corven Ren]

The King's Speech..excellent movie

[buttslinger]

I'm watching "Taken" again, Liam Neeson just shot the french guy's wife and is still a sympathetic character. This is a B-Movie that's a good watch all because of Liam Neeson.

[Stavros]

You must have been desperate, Buttslinger. I watched on tv Brooklyn's Finest -not out of desperation, but convenience --as a film, not anyone's finest.

[MHarrigan82]

TED a very funny movie.

[LeatherTGirlLover]

Just finished watching We Need To Talk About Kevin, not an easy film to watch, very cold, very disturbing and very depressing but also very interesting.

[Stavros]

L'avventura (Antonioni 1960).

I haven't seen this film for years, and only remember not being impressed with it when I did. Seeing it again confirms my belief that Antonioni's reputation has taken a dive. The sequence of films that runs from Il Grido through L'eclisse to La Notte is a relentless critique of the superficial existence of -well just about everyone. The cynicism in these films may reflect the existential phase that gripped some people in the 1950s and 1960s, assuming they knew what it was, but apart from some trivial contextual stuff about women making their own decisions, yet being regarded by men as sex objects, just as the non-liberated women are looking for a sugar daddy type -no, it doesn't work for me. And allegedly there is some competion between Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman, who films never lose their moral compass.

Criterion Trailer 98: L'Avventura - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JriOH3MdS_w)

[Quiet Reflections]

Red state

[rockabilly]

"L.A. Confidential"

[Baileyluv]

moonrise kingdom is scheduled in a couple nights, but went to see TED wuz fucking great if you get SETH.

also watched The Help last night omg great movie

[Prospero]

Isn't Ted about a teddy bear?

[Dino Velvet]

Isn't Ted about a teddy bear?

He wasn't much for cuddling unless you lay real still.

http://www.caratulas.info/peliculas/T/Ted-Bundy-Frontal-DVD.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

This is good but not as most excellent as the first.

http://www.relyonhorror.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/centipede.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HA8YQZi0ANg/TmkGsyWTPeI/AAAAAAAAOQ8/glqSlJb1JF4/s1600/hc2.jpg

[buttslinger]

Leni Riefenstahl - Olympia 1 PART 1/11 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TI6yIo-tcc)

[qwerty81]

just woke up from falling asleep to 1911 revolution starring jackie chan. i woke up at 5 for a fire drill on the ship today, so i'm not sure if its because the movie was that boring or because i was just tired and not into reading subtitles at the time.

[LibertyHarkness]

watching DELTA FORCE - with the mighty chuck norris

The Delta Force (1986) - Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-UCFBS4a5I)

[Baileyluv]

watching DELTA FORCE - with the mighty chuck norris

The Delta Force (1986) - Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-UCFBS4a5I)

hahahaha you know he doesnt have a chin, just another fist where it should be.

[Baileyluv]

Isn't Ted about a teddy bear?

kinda, but alil bit more involved lol

[Dino Velvet]

watching DELTA FORCE - with the mighty chuck norris

The Delta Force (1986) - Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-UCFBS4a5I)

Robert Forster is the best terrorist ever. Could even keep his Michigan accent. Those Golan-Globus characters sure are even handed.

Watch Invasion USA. Russians ruin Christmas in America then shoot off everyone's Johnson.

Libby, who would you say would be considered the British Chuck Norris? Gotta be someone.

Invasion USA Trailer (1985) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IMesJgw3oU)

[HbgDon]

The Dark Knight Rises - Was very underwhelming.

[Jay6966]

BUGSY.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs296PVx01E

[BluegrassCat]

Watched Lockout. Ridiculous and mostly bad with some embarrassing special effects at the start. The weirdest thing is that this is an almost totally British movie with British/European actors pretending to be American. I think there was one actual American in the lot, the rest had terrible accents. And that's what's so puzzling, if you're going to make a cheesy action flick with British actors why force them to speak in weird John Wayne-esque accents, why can't they just be British? Jason Statham does alright in the American market, where's the fear coming from?

[Stavros]

I don't know the film but it does amaze me how many British actors are hired in American films when there are plenty of Americans who can do it, and do it properly. -Brian Cox and Albert Finney not only do it but do it badly -the weakest acting in the Bourne trilogy, for example. Michael Caine's American accent isn't very good either. It hasn't worked well the other way either -Tony Curtis pretending to be Cary Grant in Some Like it Hot, but with Don Cheadle attempting a cockney accent in the Ocean's films I am not sure if that is intended to be an in-joke. Do Australians do American better?

[Prospero]

And the finest of all.... Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

[Dino Velvet]

Michael Caine's American accent isn't very good either.

I kinda liked Secondhand Lions with Robert Duvall. I'll admit Caine's accent wasn't very good but the movie was fun. Haley Joel Osment was creepy like always. Still sees dead people.

Secondhand Lions Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-COMJckISVY)

[Stavros]

And the finest of all.... Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

Wait...you saw Mary Poppins? How many times? I did see it, but in the interests of film criticism and a survey of the musical -in a post-modern context of course.

[Prospero]

I saw it as a kid

[Baileyluv]

Prisilla Queen of the Desert, always a great choice, and fuck me if Guy Rock doesnt look fabulous in that red wig and dress, yes a lil buff but quite tasty

[maxpower]

Zeitgeist. Food for thought.


Zeitgeist Movie Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAkEoE9DAH8)

[HbgDon]

Captain America: The First Avenger

Iron Man 2

[phantom07]

The dark knight rises

[Schimmel]

Red Dog.

[BluegrassCat]

Wrath of the Titans. It had top notch special effects and the action never slowed long enough for you to despair of the wooden acting by the lead. Still, it has Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Bill Nighy as gods of Olympus, chewing up their scenes with a sense of fun. British accents are appropriate here, of course, because it's the ancient world where everyone was British.

[TatianaSummer]

Back to the future lll

[BlackStang724]

Zeitgeist. Food for thought.


Zeitgeist Movie Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAkEoE9DAH8)

Alex Jones also makes some good conspiracy theory documentaries.

[Dino Velvet]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZGz5IexFaWA/T020kqeXnEI/AAAAAAAABpM/Y2pAUqv9VXE/s1600/dawn_of_mummy_poster.jpg

[Stavros]

Django (Corbucci, 1966).

This classic Spaghetti Western was banned in the UK until the 1990s, because of scenes of sadistic violence. The film itself, which spawned 31 sequels (!) marked a departure for the western as a primarily American genre involving cowboys and indians struggling over private property, or some moral tale involving sherriffs and outlaws. Taking Kurosawa's Yojimbo as its model, these films offer no moral high ground, the parties involved, motivated by greed or revenge are as bad as each other. Django is an ex-Union soldier in the badlands between Texas and Mexico where there is no law, and where the pall of defeat has generated some odd affiliations -the ex-Major with his band of followers who wear red masks and scarves, for example. The film brilliantly portrays a defeated society, in a landscape thick with mud and dirt and an all-but deserted town crumbling to pieces. The whores are growing old, fat and ugly and fight among themselves. The film has all the right symbols -the coffin as the repository of death, the gunfight in a cemetary with a revolver balanced on a crucifix -the violence is sadistic and gratuitous but intended to portray a social milieu with no justification other than survival. Django does indeed survive, but he is an anti-hero, unlikeable, crude, selfish. The music is as bad as the dubbing; yet you can see how the Dollars films both built on this film, and also improved it.

Django (1966) - Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Ge2hmSTbo)

[Dino Velvet]

Django (Corbucci, 1966).

This classic Spaghetti Western was banned in the UK until the 1990s, because of scenes of sadistic violence. The film itself, which spawned 31 sequels (!) marked a departure for the western as a primarily American genre involving cowboys and indians struggling over private property, or some moral tale involving sherriffs and outlaws. Taking Kurosawa's Yojimbo as its model, these films offer no moral high ground, the parties involved, motivated by greed or revenge are as bad as each other. Django is an ex-Union soldier in the badlands between Texas and Mexico where there is no law, and where the pall of defeat has generated some odd affiliations -the ex-Major with his band of followers who wear red masks and scarves, for example. The film brilliantly portrays a defeated society, in a landscape thick with mud and dirt and an all-but deserted town crumbling to pieces. The whores are growing old, fat and ugly and fight among themselves. The film has all the right symbols -the coffin as the repository of death, the gunfight in a cemetary with a revolver balanced on a crucifix -the violence is sadistic and gratuitous but intended to portray a social milieu with no justification other than survival. Django does indeed survive, but he is an anti-hero, unlikeable, crude, selfish. The music is as bad as the dubbing; yet you can see how the Dollars films both built on this film, and also improved it.

Django (1966) - Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Ge2hmSTbo)

Good, huh? Nice review. Check this one out. Django but not exactly Django but still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. The style and balls of The Italians.:Bowdown:

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[Stavros]

The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzoi, Corbucci; Nineteen Sixty-Eight)

Another western that broke the mould. The film is allegedly based on a true incident in Snow Hill, Utah, although I couldn't fnd a record of it. It pits a form of good against evil -there is a long-running conflict between Mormon immgrants from the east and a local landowner who has prevented them from settling -by resorting to crime to feed themselves, the community has become criminalised and thus a feast for bounty hunters. At the core of the film is an attempt by Utah state to impose law and order on Snow Hill; and the contest between two bounty hunters: Silence -a Mormon I assume, whose throat was cut when his parents were murdered by bounty hunters so he couldn't describe what happened; and Tigrero (sometimes Loco) who becomes his -and everyone else's, nemesis.

The strengths of the film are the dazzling snowy landscapes (filmed in the Dolomites), and the unusually harsh ending, possibly the bleakest in any kind of western. In this film, Silence may refer to Death, but would be a Christ-like figure were he not so violent himself. Apparently, the Sherriff, played by an American actor called Frank Wolff (who committed suicide sometime after the film) had a ferocious row with Klaus Kinski before the film.

The weakness is the dubbing, which was never a strong point in Italian films, but which gives it a detached feeling, so that one is alienated by sound, as well as by the nihilistic violence. It is particulary hard when Kinski's actual voice was quite different from the dubbed one.

There is a discussion of the film here:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Great_Silence_Review

The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio) Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAJI-UQ4Tak)

[makeawomanofyou]

Beasts of the Southern Wild...
amazing, disturbing, and a tour de force for the first time director Zeitlan

[Prospero]

All Quiet On The Western front. The greatest anti war movie of all time. Watched in connection with research but a pleasure to see it again.

[danthepoetman]

Great one, yes. What about “Johnny got his gun”, from Dalton Trumbo, or “The Paths of Glory”, from Kubrick?

[jamiethewild]

I spy !!!

[Prospero]

Both of those were also good anti-war films Dan... but I still hold All Quiet' to be a pinnacle achievement.

[danthepoetman]

Both of those were also good anti-war films Dan... but I still hold All Quiet' to be a pinnacle achievement.

I remember being very impressed by the Erich Maria Remarque novel, many years ago. I’ve only seen the old Lewis Milestone cinematic version of 1930. I think there was another in the 70s, but I assume you’re talking about the most recent one? the one from this year, by Mimi Leder? Is it that good? I’ll check it out!

[Prospero]

Nope - I'm talking about the Lewis Milestone. Okay it shows its age - and in the end the book is finer - but it is magnificent. But I've not seen the more recent one.
The trouble with modern war films is that - by and large - they cannot resist the sentimental. Look at Finding Private Ryan or Warhorse. The last was nauseatingly sweet. (There are honourable exceptions - The Thin Red line and Platoon for instance).

[danthepoetman]

It is a great movie. It’s remarkable how the unspeakable horror of the trench war has inspired only the little few to express it, and especially in literature, I find, but in such cases so pathetically and vividly (Celine’s “Journey to the end of the night” for instance, or Blaise Cendrars’ “The Cut hand”). And there’s much less historical accounts on it also compared to what was published on WW2. As if the men who had seen it were hardly able to even talk about it…

[Prospero]

There are the great English poets of world war one of course (Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brook, Robert Graves etc) - and many fine novels including Pat Baker's powerful Regeneration trilogy. (Will check out the Cendrars' poem - thanks)

[Stavros]

Fracture (2007)
I saw this on tv last night; the story is great for a film, or would be if it let the killer go loose, just to rub it in. The film is let down by another truly dismal performance from Ryan Gosling, so laid back he falls over his eyelashes, and someone should have told him to stop using his hands in so melodramatic a fashion in the trial scene. What his reputation is based on I do not know. I am not sure if Anthony Hopkins has left Hannibal Lecter behind, his 'evil' persona is by now repetitive and boring. And why a Maori actor is pretending to be American I don't know, his accent was wooden. Major disappointment.

Fracture (2007) on DVD - Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE1jE_vNqKs)

[Dino Velvet]

The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzoi, Corbucci; Nineteen Sixty-Eight)

Another western that broke the mould. The film is allegedly based on a true incident in Snow Hill, Utah, although I couldn't fnd a record of it. It pits a form of good against evil -there is a long-running conflict between Mormon immgrants from the east and a local landowner who has prevented them from settling -by resorting to crime to feed themselves, the community has become criminalised and thus a feast for bounty hunters. At the core of the film is an attempt by Utah state to impose law and order on Snow Hill; and the contest between two bounty hunters: Silence -a Mormon I assume, whose throat was cut when his parents were murdered by bounty hunters so he couldn't describe what happened; and Tigrero (sometimes Loco) who becomes his -and everyone else's, nemesis.

The strengths of the film are the dazzling snowy landscapes (filmed in the Dolomites), and the unusually harsh ending, possibly the bleakest in any kind of western. In this film, Silence may refer to Death, but would be a Christ-like figure were he not so violent himself. Apparently, the Sherriff, played by an American actor called Frank Wolff (who committed suicide sometime after the film) had a ferocious row with Klaus Kinski before the film.

The weakness is the dubbing, which was never a strong point in Italian films, but which gives it a detached feeling, so that one is alienated by sound, as well as by the nihilistic violence. It is particulary hard when Kinski's actual voice was quite different from the dubbed one.

There is a discussion of the film here:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Great_Silence_Review

The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio) Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAJI-UQ4Tak)

That was some ending, huh?

[thekretch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8E

From Gaspar Noe, who did Irreversible, one of my other favorite flicks.

[Dino Velvet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8E

From Gaspar Noe, who did Irreversible, one of my other favorite flicks.

Have the Blu-ray and still need to see that. Really like Irreversible and I Stand Alone is pretty good too.

[thekretch]

Dino,

I love Irreversible. Enter the Void is on Netflix streaming, or if you need the physical media, I can highly recommend. If I'm wrong, I owe you a shot.

[danthepoetman]

Fracture (2007)
I saw this on tv last night; the story is great for a film, or would be if it let the killer go loose, just to rub it in. The film is let down by another truly dismal performance from Ryan Gosling, so laid back he falls over his eyelashes, and someone should have told him to stop using his hands in so melodramatic a fashion in the trial scene. What his reputation is based on I do not know. I am not sure if Anthony Hopkins has left Hannibal Lecter behind, his 'evil' persona is by now repetitive and boring. And why a Maori actor is pretending to be American I don't know, his accent was wooden. Major disappointment.


Couldn’t agree more. It does have a bit of suspense to it and it could have made a good film. Yet it is disappointing and leaves nonetheless as a whole an irrepressible impression of “déjà vu”… The characters seems like a bunch of unrealistic, ridiculous “show off”, like in so many more films.
A big, artificial, fastidious and bit pretentious movie that misses the target.

[buttslinger]

Don't quote me on this:
One of my teachers from school told us about a Latin phrase that roughly means cheap trick or stunt. It was coined by some ancient Roman Playrights about one of their own who in their eyes cheapened the art of penning plays, which were the old versions of TV and movies. Seems there was a custom in the Military that said when a General lost a battle and many Roman soldiers died the Commander also had to be executed, even if he behaved honorably. The play featured a scene where the General was being led away leaving his young son crying "where is my Father?
Now of course the audience was greatly moved, some to tears, and the writer of the Play was lauded as a genius, which really pissed off the other guys who took their Playwright real serious.
Now every ten years they survey the top 100 important critics and directors and ask them what they consider to be the greatest hits ever in the medium of film-making. This time Vertigo edged out Citizen Kaine. Most all of the movies chosen were pre-1969, except for Tarantino, whose movies were like all in the seventies. Even Bad News Bears!!! I really liked that movie.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vertigo-citizen-kane-greatest-film-of-all-time-357266

[Prospero]

How to Marry A Millionaire - Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall. A goofy old film but great fun.

Also The Millionairess - Peter Sellers and Sophia Lauren. A goofy film and not so much fun. Loren looks terrific.

[danthepoetman]

This beautiful picture of the Golden Gate bridge, posted by Buttslinger, reminded me of a documentary I watched for a second time not too long ago, entitled “The Bridge”. Incredible and chilling at the same time. It’s not without any complaisance, but still very decently done, and quite respectfully. The director, Eric Steel captured a frightening number of suicides in one of the most dramatic film, in its quiet narrative, that I have ever seen. Not for the faint of heart. As I write these lines, I’m questioning myself as to the propriety of even mentioning it on such a public site. Maybe I shouldn’t. That’s how powerful I feel this is…

The Bridge - A Film By Eric Steel - Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ZJ637ep9U)

[buttslinger]

God forbid I bring any class to this forum, but curiosity makes me want to see what Directors consider the best film ever made.

Tokyo story (1953 / Full) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gUIxeEIFw)

[red-cyberman]

Well I watched the Godfather Trilogy simply amazing.

[danthepoetman]

Good one, Buttslinger. Here’s the trailer of another great Japanese film, Masaki Kobayashi’s “Seppuku”. Intense!
切腹 - Harakiri / Seppuku 1962 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfswo9ZClas)

[loren]

The Dark Knight Rises

[Stavros]

God forbid I bring any class to this forum, but curiosity makes me want to see what Directors consider the best film ever made.

Tokyo story (1953 / Full) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gUIxeEIFw)

Not sure if there will be a different presentation in the hard copy of Sight and Sound in September, but there is no separate Directors list on the website.

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/

[wbmando]

Bourne Legacy.

Stupid movie.

[liisawinklergirl]

Dark Knight Rises...

Anne Hathaway's performance paled in comparison to MIchelle Pfeiffer's (and Michael Keaton was wayyy cuter anyway LOL) ...

but this was a great film!

[Dino Velvet]

Not as good as the first but still some fun and bloody Italian Horror.

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

[Dino Velvet]

Everybody watch these.

American.Me.[FULL MOVIE] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAdrV8Np4h8)

Blood In BLood Out FULL MOVIE HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=287k0JYwTO4&feature=related)

[danthepoetman]

I’ve watched again the original “The Mechanic”, by Michael Winner, with Charles Bronson. Much better than the recent remake which, in my opinion, completely misses the mark. This story of a contract killer who just can’t bear the loneliness of his own life anymore. The music, the atmosphere, everything is better than in the remake.
The trailer doesn’t give the right idea of what the movie is. This “Killer of killers” subtitle was never used, to my knowledge, and doesn’t either have much to do with the story line of the film.
The Mechanic/Killer of Killers Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgBo7eWQlHY)

[Stavros]

I had never seen the whole of True Romance before, and was not disappointed. There are weaknesses, the voice over at the start is a steal from Badlands, and not carried over into the rest of the film, and Arquette is not very good. The Tarantino dialogue for the most part fizzes along and the comic book overlay is very well done.

true romance diner scene - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5-CyWvTY-A&feature=fvwrel)

The Ides of March (George Clooney, 2011)
The main problem with this film is that we are no longer shocked to discover that politicians are ruthless; the film turns on an event about which most people would say 'so what'? Or the moment when Stephen tells the Governor that a President can start wars and bankrupt the country, but 'he can't fuck an intern'. Even though this may be true, it is not going to make a film, and as I now think even Ryan Gosling sends himself to sleep the word 'laconic' probably needs re-defining. Clooney does what he does in every film; the female interest is superficial and badly handled; Philip Seymour Hoffman effortless in what he does, but he is also repeating himself these days. The 'ides of March', the date on which Caesar was murdered, is ironic in this context -but it doesn't matter because the film is little better than a one-hour tv drama.

THE IDES OF MARCH - Official Trailer - In Theaters 10/7 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uha0XfGBdMw)

[Dino Velvet]

I had never seen the whole of True Romance before, and was not disappointed. There are weaknesses, the voice over at the start is a steal from Badlands, and not carried over into the rest of the film, and Arquette is not very good. The Tarantino dialogue for the most part fizzes along and the comic book overlay is very well done.

true romance diner scene - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5-CyWvTY-A&feature=fvwrel)


True Romance is a good one. Ever see Killing Zoe? Tarantino was just Executive Producer but it's still a good heist film in Paris. I remember the line, "In Paris it's good to smell like you've been fucking."

Killing Zoe (1993) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM4NTU3NzU2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzQwMTE0MQ@@._ V1._SX100_SY134_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTM4NTU3NzU2N15BM l5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzQwMTE0MQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX100@@AMEP ARAM@@SY134 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110265/)

Killing Zoe (1994) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-FKf4eq8Y)

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/282496.1020.A.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

Great film. Watch if you like too. Wanted to post The Changeling with George C Scott too but couldn't find a good copy.

Burnt Offerings (1976) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuccBKWLe0Y)

[Stavros]

Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)

There have not been many serious and compelling films about sex -rather than films with a lot of sex in them, not the same. This study works because the two main characters seem to have emerged from a disturbed childhood, one is exuberant the other composed to the point of being emotionally arid -both have failed in relationships and engage in casual sex -or rather, the sister does: for him the sex is anything but casual, it is a manic compulsion that he uses to temporarily forget whatever it is that is eating away at him. The use of interiors reinforces the absence of depth in his life -with the one exception of the lush night club where his sister sings a melancholy version of the song New York, New York, and the only moment in the film when her brother shows any emotion and thus, temporarily, connects. Even the choice of Glenn Gould murdering Bach is apt as Gould strips out all the feeling and depth in Bach to impose his own meaningless indifference on the music. Brilliantly done.

SHAME Official UK Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arD1Hmjlqag)

[Prospero]

Shadow Dancer - a new film about the IRA with the wonderful Andrea Risborough. It's a good film but not outstanding. Worth 90 minutes of your time though.

Shadow Dancer - Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMsH4kLoWCg)

[ATLtslover]

My wife got me to watch "Howard the Duck" with her last night. She is one of the handful of people who somehow enjoy this movie. I didn't think it could possibly be as bad as I had heard it was all these years, but I was wrong. It was MUCH worse than the already low expectations I had for it. This movie is so bad, it makes "Freddy Got Fingered" look like "Citizen Kane" in comparison.

[RallyCola]

my friends and i just completed and alien quadrilogy friday night...all in a row. wow..Alien 3 and 4 sucked compared to the others.

[south ov da border]

Today- king of new York. How much would that cast cost now?

[Dino Velvet]

Today- king of new York. How much would that cast cost now?

Who's gonna boost Tommy Flanagan outta the cooler.

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2002_Undisputed/2002_undisputed_002.jpg

[south ov da border]

Who's gonna boost Tommy Flanagan outta the cooler.

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2002_Undisputed/2002_undisputed_002.jpg

The price just went up another 20 mil

[Dino Velvet]

Too much Comedy in ratio to Horror. Not good. The speakerphone gag was funny.

http://meetinthelobby.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/TheCabinInTheWoods_MoviePoster_Large.jpg

[Nikka]

rock of ages with tom cruise

[Stavros]

Someone gave me a copy of Mongol (2007) a film which claims to tell the early life of one the world's most effective mass murderers, Genghiz Khan. The film is mainly notable as a superb advert for Mongolia, should anyone want to go there on holiday. The story, insofar as there is one, is of no importance. Mind you, at two hours or so, it seems a but much to say 'sit back and enjoy the scenery'. The battle scenes, as usual, are no different from every battle scene shot for films since the silent era, I don't know why anyone bothers to do them.

MONGOL GENGHIS KHAN ENGLISH SUBTITLED PART 2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDFS3o2yUQs&feature=related)

[Baileyluv]

this trailer doesnt even have any of Ben Kingsley in it, but its one of the best movies out..


The Wackness Trailer (HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEjw-OkMv3w)

[Baileyluv]

ok its not out yet, but this trailer has me wanting to see this flik




SINISTER Trailer (2012) [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGjQ7Pwz0dw)

[danthepoetman]

This one is really good.
"Cold Souls" - Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPAkcsqgFo)

[Baileyluv]

This one is really good.
"Cold Souls" - Official Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPAkcsqgFo)

I love PAUL, will be checking this one out soon, thanx DAN for the post

[Wendy Summers]

I watched the original Red Dawn Tuesday Night.

"WOLVERINES!"

Red Dawn Trailer (1984) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc)

[Baileyluv]

I watched the original Red Dawn Tuesday Night.

"WOLVERINES!"

Red Dawn Trailer (1984) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc)

Such a good flik, i miss Patrick

[danthepoetman]

Yes it was a good movie (Red Dawn), with many good young actors. A movie from the end of the Cold War…
Baileyluv, Cold Souls is presented as a comedy in the trailer, which is not false, but it’s much deeper. And yes, Giamatti is great once again!

[Baileyluv]

Yes it was a good movie (Red Dawn), with many good young actors. A movie from the end of the Cold War…
Baileyluv, Cold Souls is presented as a comedy in the trailer, which is not false, but it’s much deeper. And yes, Giamatti is great once again!

Sideways and Lady in the Water, great great flix

[Baron Of Hell]

Superman vs the elite

[south ov da border]

School Daze

"You ain't seen no paaaaarrts of the pussy"

[LibertyHarkness]

TOP Gun last night

[Baileyluv]

TOP Gun last night

its soo sad that the director went and killed himself a week ago :(

[Lovecox]

Battleship Earth

[celticgrafix]

finally just saw hunger games. thought it was great. def worth checking out

[Prospero]

"Take This Waltz" directed by Sarah Polley, the director who made her debut with the hugely moving film"Away From Her." (about Alzheimers) By contrast this rom com cum serious film about marital decay is twee, irritating, shallow and way too long. Michelle Williams is good and so too is Seth Rogen (in a near straight role for a change) but otherwise it is tiresome.

[HbgDon]

Thor

The Avengers

[Stavros]

Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)

I hadn't seen the whole of this film for a very long time, and re-visiting it I am pleasantly surprised at how well it has stood up -I now appreciate it more than I did at the time it was released. The photography is particularly superb and recreates the pristine beauty of the Appalachians into which the ugly side of human life is seen as an intrusion, just as the city boys appear to be intruding on the secret world of the Appalachian folk. It might be considered prejudicial to depict them as inbred weirdoes, but its a plot device to place the city boys in a lawless world and discover, superficially, that can kill or be killed regardless of the law. The key point is that having discovered the 'masculine' thing to do in extreme situations is to kill the one trying to kill you, the first killer -Lewis, spends the last third of the film crippled and incapable, while the other two survivors, instead of 'manning up' and telling the truth to the sherrif, tell as many lies as they can to avoid the due process of law. The film thus presents a subtle argument about man and the wilderness and survival, whereas when I saw it on its release in 1972 I mistook it as just a film about macho men in a hostile environment. The film is famous for the 'duellin' banjos' scene at the beginning of the film, even though this was dubbed, as the banjo on the soundtrack is of a different kind to that played by the boy. Other than a few variations on the banjo melody, there is no music in the film where the sound of the forest and the river dominates, another positive aspect of the film. Brilliant film, worthy of a revisit again and again, and also proves the 1970s was not a dud decade for films.

Deliverance - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwulUkvxbnk&feature=related)

[Dino Velvet]

Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)

I hadn't seen the whole of this film for a very long time, and re-visiting it I am pleasantly surprised at how well it has stood up -I now appreciate it more than I did at the time it was released. The photography is particularly superb and recreates the pristine beauty of the Appalachians into which the ugly side of human life is seen as an intrusion, just as the city boys appear to be intruding on the secret world of the Appalachian folk. It might be considered prejudicial to depict them as inbred weirdoes, but its a plot device to place the city boys in a lawless world and discover, superficially, that can kill or be killed regardless of the law. The key point is that having discovered the 'masculine' thing to do in extreme situations is to kill the one trying to kill you, the first killer -Lewis, spends the last third of the film crippled and incapable, while the other two survivors, instead of 'manning up' and telling the truth to the sherrif, tell as many lies as they can to avoid the due process of law. The film thus presents a subtle argument about man and the wilderness and survival, whereas when I saw it on its release in 1972 I mistook it as just a film about macho men in a hostile environment. The film is famous for the 'duellin' banjos' scene at the beginning of the film, even though this was dubbed, as the banjo on the soundtrack is of a different kind to that played by the boy. Other than a few variations on the banjo melody, there is no music in the film where the sound of the forest and the river dominates, another positive aspect of the film. Brilliant film, worthy of a revisit again and again, and also proves the 1970s was not a dud decade for films.

Deliverance - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwulUkvxbnk&feature=related)

Deliverance is a great film. Not sure if I had mentioned this or you have already seen it but Southern Comfort is worth watching too. Walter Hill directed film about Louisiana National Guard getting stuck and having to find their way out of Cajun Country. Film is more about than just the exact storyline.

Southern Comfort-Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLDsv5Pk40c)

beautiful cajun music in the 1981 film southern comfort. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2NIZexqb4U)

[Stavros]

Dino I haven't seen Southern Comfort since its release, its one of those films I am going to revisit although as I recall it wasn't as tightly woven as either The Warriors or his superb masterpiece, The Driver. But I had moderately negative memories of Deliverance before seeing it again; I think as the years have passed I have become lenient in some cases, harsh in others....I would never have watched a 'Spaghetti western' ten or 20 years ago whereas I now see how subversive they can be, which is something in its own way Deliverance is -would a re-make or a new film handle male rape in the same way? And not just because of its implied bestiality....
Incidentally, 24 Hours retains its magic, and is still Eddie Murphy's best film (not a hard choice considering most of his films are worthless rubbish)...

[Dino Velvet]

Dino I haven't seen Southern Comfort since its release, its one of those films I am going to revisit although as I recall it wasn't as tightly woven as either The Warriors or his superb masterpiece, The Driver. But I had moderately negative memories of Deliverance before seeing it again; I think as the years have passed I have become lenient in some cases, harsh in others....I would never have watched a 'Spaghetti western' ten or 20 years ago whereas I now see how subversive they can be, which is something in its own way Deliverance is -would a re-make or a new film handle male rape in the same way? And not just because of its implied bestiality....
Incidentally, 24 Hours retains its magic, and is still Eddie Murphy's best film (not a hard choice considering most of his films are worthless rubbish)...

Anything directed by Walter Hill before 1990 that you have any kind of interest in I usually find worth seeing. I do admit to not being the biggest fan of The Warriors but The Driver and Hard Times(Bronson, Coburn) are very good. The Long Riders is another one to see that has a lot of Peckinpah-type action sequences. Extreme Predjudice is a battle of the bad-asses(Nick Nolte vs Powers Boothe). I even liked Last Man Standing even though it's another Fistful/Yojimbo remake.

[Prospero]

A trite new comedy called "hope Springs" with Meryl Street and Tommy Lee jones.

HOPE SPRINGS - Official Trailer - In Theaters 8/8 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s22_Mvikl8)

[danthepoetman]

I’m not surprised: the trailer was showing a desperate succession of clichés. The subject itself condemned the movie to mediocrity.

Have you seen the film by Lars von Trier, Prospero, Melancholia? The title reminds suspiciously that of Tarkovsky’s masterpiece, Nostalghia. How is it? Always seem to me Von Trier can do good and then, the worst, terrible melodramas…
(Prospero? Stavros? Dino?)

[Prospero]

I liked Melancholia a lot - but it certainly as not in the Tarkovsky class. Two of my favourite films were Andrei Rublev and Solaris.

And yes the movie was a desperate parade of cliches. 'd no idea what it was about (it hasn't opened or been reviewed in the UK yet. I see many new films early, especially at this time of the year, a judge in two major awards events).

[danthepoetman]

Despite good intentions, a touching subject and a moving storyline, this one is a mix between melodrama, Walt Disney fairy tales and Steven Spielberg family movies. So much sweets you could get diabetes. It’s the story of a boy who’s father dies in the World Trade Center. He thinks he was left with a key and starts searching in New York what it can open... It’s enormous! not credible for a moment and utterly ridiculous. Two hours of my time lost to nothingness…
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_quK9SEGYE)

[danthepoetman]

Just watched 1981, Lucio Fulci’s “The House by the Cemetery”. So terrible it’s adorable! Everything is awful in that movie, the acting, the music, the set, the direction: it’s a masterpiece in mediocrity. I simply loved it!
House By The Cemetery (Lucio Fulci) Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbIiJeCpCgY)

[Prospero]

"Combat Girl" (Kriegerin) a German film about neo-Nazis. A very powerful bit of film making about the tragic outcome of ignorance and race hate.
Kriegerin HD Trailer deutsch/german (2011) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCWqSHr2QU0)
and "A Royal Affair", Danish movie about the true life romance, in 18th century Denmark, between the English born queen of a mad monarch and an idealistic German doctor who utilises his growing influence to introduce a wide range of enlightenment inspired reforms. The conflict between this couple and the forces of Conservatism, married to a love story, is beautifully told - and pertinent.

A Royal Affair Trailer (2012) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiHnVMHk6YU)

[jennylicious]

Tony Manero - Difficult to watch and impossible to stop.

I'm not really up on Chilean politics to really appreciate the underlying commentary, but watching a mans obsession take him over was unnerving and compelling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaX2bavetsA

[Prospero]

Never heard of that film. Not that informed about most contemporary latin American cinema except Argentina.

[jennylicious]

:joke:
Never heard of that film. Not that informed about most contemporary latin American cinema except Argentina.

It's a really good film, but you lose a lot at a second viewing when you know what happens next.

I know Argentinia is supposed to have a reasonable film industry, and I think I saw a film once, but it could have been from anywhere in South America.

I will probably watch the "The Secret in their eyes" hollywood remake. (Because I'm rubbish like that)

[Lovecox]

The Long Goodbye with Elliot Gould. I don't particularly care for Robert Altman films but this one was really great. Elliot Gould is in his prime. He's completely natural and looks fantastic in his inimitable dishevelled style. I love the juxtaposition of the 40s and the 70s. I love the way he tries to lie to his cat the same way he is lied to throughout the film. I love the lone man with moral scruples in a world that has none. I loved it and want to watch it again right now.
You can watch it instantly on Netflix.

[Dino Velvet]

Just watched 1981, Lucio Fulci’s “The House by the Cemetery”. So terrible it’s adorable! Everything is awful in that movie, the acting, the music, the set, the direction: it’s a masterpiece in mediocrity. I simply loved it!
House By The Cemetery (Lucio Fulci) Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbIiJeCpCgY)

One of Fulci's best. That little kid was so death worthy.

http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt221/My_Farts_Cause_Global_Warming/FULCILIVES.gif

[Dino Velvet]

Classic Pete Walker.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511J7SQ72ML.jpg

[Stavros]

I haven't read anything by Philip K Dick although I know his stories have been made into films (eg Blade Runner); and I read imdb that this film is about 25% of the story...

The Adjustment Bureau

'The Adjustment Bureau' Trailer HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJ0TP4nTaE)

All I can say is that I paid £3 for it, and that makes it at least £10 overpriced.

[danthepoetman]

Just watched “Apollo 18” with my girlfriend. Absolutely terrible, and not in any good way. Not pleasant, not funny, not scary, not bloody, with very little fx. The set is nice, but that’s it.
I fell asleep! Do not invest an hour and a half of your time in this...
Apollo 18 - Official Trailer 2 [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSb6vP7pBls&feature=relmfu)

[JenniferParisHusband]

Just watched an older French movie called "The Bride Wore Black." About a woman who's husband was murdered as they were walking out of the church on their wedding day, and takes revenge on them. Great movie!

The Bride Wore Black (1968) Theatrical Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbb7LBLJvoc)

[danthepoetman]

Just watched an older French movie called "The Bride Wore Black." About a woman who's husband was murdered as they were walking out of the church on their wedding day, and takes revenge on them. Great movie!

The Bride Wore Black (1968) Theatrical Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbb7LBLJvoc)
Yes, JPH, a good Truffaut film! I find that Truffaut is often too literary in his approach. It’s often as if he was almost reading a story to you. But this one is good, you’re right.

[JenniferParisHusband]

Yes, JPH, a good Truffaut film! I find that Truffaut is often too literary in his approach. It’s often as if he was almost reading a story to you. But this one is good, you’re right.

Yeah, some like Wild Child are way to literary. But as a kid I grew up watching strange French films on A&E after midnight on Fridays, and this was always a favorite. You can see a lot of future movies like La Femme Nikita and Kill Bill taking their cues from this.

[Prospero]

A French film released in the UK this weekend called "Intouchables' which is about a wealthy Quadraplegic who hire an unemployed and slightly criminal Senegalese guy to be his nurse. Funny and the character of the Senegalese is endearing. It has however been slated by some US reviewers as racially stereotyped - a Rousseauesque notion of the innocent savage who is civilised by his contact with a sophisticated white guy who, in turn, is liberated from his cultural and literal locked-in-ness by contact with the wilder and uninhibited and "natural" African. Based on an true story though.

The Intouchables - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPHXVnt27g)

[betts]

Moonrise Kingdom - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOI3AamSm8)

[youngblood61]

Just watched “Apollo 18” with my girlfriend. Absolutely terrible, and not in any good way. Not pleasant, not funny, not scary, not bloody, with very little fx. The set is nice, but that’s it.
I fell asleep! Do not invest an hour and a half of your time in this...
Apollo 18 - Official Trailer 2 [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSb6vP7pBls&feature=relmfu)Agree on that one.:)

[Dino Velvet]

Research...

http://www.silverdisc.com/images/00/024543267560.jpg

[be2378]

If you like mindless viloence, ultra slow-mo shots of bullets going thru CG faces, not a real writing, and Karl Urban acting like a robot with a lot of one-lines and laconic phrases then Dredd 3D is your movies.

[GrimFusion]

Something from Nothing! The Art Of Rap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWne2qjeeJg

Pretty chill documentary. It's hosted by IceT and it includes interviews with BunB, B-Real, Afrika Bambaataa, Busy Bee, Joe Budden, Grandmaster Caz, Common, Treach, Ice Cube, Chuck D, Royce Da 59, Dana Dane, Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Lord Finesse, Doug E. Fresh, Lord Jamar, Salt from Salt 'n' Pepper, Big Daddy Kane, Ras Kass, Kool Keith, KRS-One, MC Lyte, Marley Marl, Darryl McDaniels, Melle Mel, Nas, DJ Premier, Q-Tip, Raekwon, Rakim, Redman, Puerto Rico, Joseph Simmons, Immortal Technique, WC, Kanye West, Chino XL, and Xzibit.

The first half of the documentary covers the origins of hip-hop and interviews with it's founding artists and early artists who redeveloped hip-hop as they pay homage to the originals. The second half of the documentary focuses mainly on rap artists and how gangsta rap emerged from hip-hop to become mainstream.

The only thing I didn't really like about The Art of Rap is how most of the artists seem to really convolute their processes with very, very abstract notions that don't mean much of anything when they're analyzed. Otherwise, a very awesome documentary if you dig classic hip-hop like I do.

[HbgDon]

The Hunger Games

The Cabin in the Woods

[moondust]

Cabin in the Woods
Total Recall
The Avengers

[Lovecox]

Drive

[danthepoetman]

“Drive” is an amazingly well shot movie, Lovecox, in my opinion. I loved it. I saw it a second time on a movie network lately, and it was censored; totally spoiled my fun.
This Nicolas Winding Refn, the director, should be someone to watch in the future, now that he will (or should) get bigger budgets.

[Prospero]

"Ruby Sparks" written by and starring Zoe Kazan, grand daughter of the great Elia Kazan. Its a witty and charmng post-modern Pygmalion . A nurdy writer starts to dream about a girl, then tarts to write a novel about her 9after several years of writer's block) and suddeny the said girl emerges into real lie and they become lovers. It's by the same directing team who made "Little Miss Sunshine about five years ago. Not as funny as that, but nevertheless a pretty good film.

[subrob11]

'Clue' just popped up on Netflix and I watched that again last night. Laughed all the way through it

"Flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths... Heathing..."

:D

[danthepoetman]

Watched David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method”, yesterday, an account of the relation between Freud and Carl Jung and the beginning of the century (20th). Very thin! Really not much substance in this one. I haven’t read the novel it is based on, but I sure hope it’s a little heavier. Freud is presented as a very rational, scientific mind and a model of morality as the leader of the young psychoanalytic movement, as opposed to a rather immoral and quite indecisive Carl Jung, who has an affair with one of his patients. We know very well today that Freud himself had affairs with some of his female patients and that not all of freudism is based either on science or even on clinical observations of conclusive results. It is known indeed that none of Freud’s early patients, whom he presents as examples of his findings in his books, have been psychologically relieved by the therapeutic process (one has even ended his days in a clinic).
I was also expecting much more of the movie itself. Cronenberg has directed some good and some very entertaining movies over the years, usually with a lot of originality, “The Dead Zone”, “The Fly”, “Dead Ringers”, “Naked Lunch”, “Crash”, etc. “A Dangerous Method” is flat and boring and, as I said, doesn’t even have the merit of being the slightest bit informative. In the same genre, I preferred by far (the Grand Canyon) John Huston’s “Freud”, largely written by Jean-Paul Sartre (who insisted his name be taken off the generics), beautifully directed and shot, and very eloquent on Freud first explorations of subconsciousness.
A Dangerous Method - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=664eq7BXQcM)

[Prospero]

I agree. Saw that film a year ago and thought it mediocre and unfair to Jung. I tend to be a Jungian.

[Stavros]

Hmmm Freud and Jung, the egg and bacon of modern psychology...only of course there were so many others. Freud is actually a misunderstood thinker and vastly superior to Jung, who cannot be taken seriously even as a psychologist, but might be remembered -should anyone bother to remember him- as an amateur anthropologist with some unoriginal and poorly stated ideas about the language and imagery of cultures and what they share, although Levi-Strauss did a better job of exposing the structural similarities that bind human societies together. The idea that this would make a good film doesn't make sense to me, not in cinematic terms; neither would a film about Sartre and Camus, Churchill and Lloyd-George and so on. If Cronenberg was a good enough director, he might actually devise an original story of his own, something which almost never seems to happen in cinema these days. The Freud museum in Vienna is fascinating, incidentally, much more cramped than I expected from the photos

[Ben]

Curious to see this film now -- :)

Worst Movie Death Scene Ever? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8D5uvhc3M&feature=plcp)

And recommending: They Live by John Carpenter.... Actually, almost anything by Carpenter.
His best films, of course, were done in the 70s and 80s. Later films don't have the same edge/depth/filmic fright -- :)

They live (1988) The sunglasses "Obey" "This is your god" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFo8n3sZFT0)

[danthepoetman]

Loved “They Lived”, Ben! a lovely anti Regan era type of capitalism metaphor. Not very deep but of course funny, entertaining and efficient, eloquent!

[HbgDon]

The Avengers

Desperado

[Jack59]

The Avengers

[Prospero]

"Iron Sky" - a Finnish made film, in English, which is one of the worst films I've seen in years. Quite unbelievably inept. The idea is that an American space mission disdovers a Nazi colony on the dark side of the moon - preparing to invade earth. Conceptually it could be funny or even thrilling. In the event it bungles every possibility - bad acting, bad writing, siily effects. Utterly inane.

Iron Sky Official Theatrical Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc)

[Prospero]

"Looper" - a sci fi film that has excited most critics. It's about time travel and borrows from lots of other films. The trouble is that though it has some intiguing ideas it is done in a ham-fisted shoot-em-up fashion. None of the characters are more than cardboard cut-outs to allow special affects and mayhem to take centre stage. I yearn for good sci fi that treats us a adults - exploring the genuinely intriguing ideas of time travel with real people you could care about and believe in. They do exist but they are as rare as hen's teeth.

[youngblood61]

The Avengers. Pretty good flick!:)

[trish]

Just saw The Master with Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. An excruciating look into the character of an alcoholic and a somewhat askance look into the life and character of an fringe-religious cult leader. Yes the acting is superb...but beyond that, can anyone tell me what all the fuss is about???

[GoddessAthena85]

well this has been a weekend of movies, really glad I have all my coworkers here with me or it would be a miserable boring weekend as I have a sprained ankle :(.
I watched:
Girl in Progress last night
&
about to put on
Labyrinth

[Lovecox]

well this has been a weekend of movies, really glad I have all my coworkers here with me or it would be a miserable boring weekend as I have a sprained ankle :(.
I watched:
Girl in Progress last night
&
about to put on
Labyrinth

I LOVE Labyrinth.

[Lovecox]

David Cronenberg's RABID with the beautiful Marilyn Chambers. She was considered a porn star in her day although she appeared in only three or four porn films in her entire career, fewer than many actresses today shoot in one day.

[Stavros]

Speed (Roger Spottiswode, 1994)

I saw this on tv this evening for the first time. I guess you could say it has enough plot holes to drive a bus through....but hugely enjoyable film of its kind. Biggest let down is the lack of sparkling dialogue that could have been done better; Hopper mad as usual. Did he ever play normal people?

Speed(1994) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Ser5Bcdy0)

[Jericho]

Speed (Roger Spottiswode, 1994)

I saw this on tv this evening for the first time. I guess you could say it has enough plot holes to drive a bus through....but hugely enjoyable film of its kind. Biggest let down is the lack of sparkling dialogue that could have been done better; Hopper mad as usual. Did he ever play normal people?


Hah...I've just been watching that.
Give the sequel a wide berth! :shrug

[broncofan]

Speed (Roger Spottiswode, 1994)

Hopper mad as usual. Did he ever play normal people?



I thought he was fairly well adjusted in Blue Velvet. But reasonable people can disagree:).

I saw Roman Polanski's version of Macbeth the other day. I have not seen any other versions of it and I thought it brought the play to life for me. One problem was that he changed a few things in ways that added nothing and may have detracted a bit. The tomorrow soliloquoy was not spoken aloud and in the end scene where Macduff cut his head off Polanski did something to the sequencing of the dialogue that was baffling.

[Dino Velvet]

David Cronenberg's RABID with the beautiful Marilyn Chambers. She was considered a porn star in her day although she appeared in only three or four porn films in her entire career, fewer than many actresses today shoot in one day.

Great choice. Love the early Montreal Cronenberg(Shivers, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners).

[RallyCola]

on the recommendation of my idiot friend who told me looper was as good as inception, i caught looper last night.

1. not a bad movie but has alot of flaws
2. i generally don't like time travel movies because its impossible to time travel
3. with having heard it was as good as inception, a movie that is now one of my favorites of all time, it was bound to disappoint.

if you like a bit of plausibility in your movies AND you don't like something to be 100% predictable, you might want to pass on this.

[EvonRose]

I just saw legally blonde 1 and 2 on HBO....

Such a great movie almost as good as Titanic. lol.

[jamiethewild]

The Bourne Legacy 2012

Can't wait to see the second part!!!

[Dino Velvet]

Torture Porn isn't just for breakfast anymore. Have at it.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdjFcoe2950)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) Full Movie [Eng] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMcgNZqg6tw)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI0MjgzNzMyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDM0MzU1MQ@@._ V1._SX100_SY137_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTI0MjgzNzMyOF5BM l5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDM0MzU1MQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX100@@AMEP ARAM@@SY137 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010271/)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmubtctS9X1qzyw6so1_500.jpg

[Prospero]

Once Upon A Time in Anatolia... nearly three hours most of it shot at night out on the plains of Turkey. Dull, dull, dull.

[Dino Velvet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCyL1mjZsk

[Dino Velvet]

Never understood the hate for this. No Silence Of The Lambs perhaps but it still gets the blood flowing to the right places.

Murder Set Pieces Official (UNCUT) Red Band Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVIq9UkY0s)

[Dino Velvet]

Schizophreniac AMV - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xml5jpCfKnQ)

[Dino Velvet]

Der Todesking - 1989 - Offizieller deutscher Trailer - Made in Germany - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZWl4pSrfM)

"�ėŗ Ţøđėśķıņġ" :. [ENG SUB] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBfavYjB9o)

Der Todesking (1990) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI5MDE1OTEyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDA3ODQyMQ@@._ V1._SX86_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTI5MDE1OTEyNV5BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDA3ODQyMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX86@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098486/)

http://stubenhockerei.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/todes.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

Schramm Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgk-gBoa54o)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKm2RXI_J2k

Schramm (1994) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTUyMzA2MjgyNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzAzOTkzMQ@@._ V1._SX98_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTUyMzA2MjgyNl5BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzAzOTkzMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX98@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108053/)

http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/iC3WuVITFkjSkNshNwBWwaSx0zj.jpg

[Rolando]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvN0B_0jz5w

[Dino Velvet]

Nekromantik 1987 - Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8iyMxTeB2Y)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gM9PVRvbf8

Corpse Fucking Art - The Making of Nekromantik (1987) Gore-Terror - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TetxXfoMUJo)

Nekromantik (1987) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093608/)

http://www.mankind666.com/Poster/Image/Nekromantik_ver1.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

Masters of Horror - Imprint - trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGlQ_pkujwA)

Masters Of Horror - Imprint - Takashi Miike - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C248DmRYbqU)

http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/u3L5f3HSBjGFm5MiZxLpAwNbaTL.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

More Takashi Miike (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Takashi+Miike%2C+long&lclk=long/a)

http://ro-mashka.ru/photo_t/Takashi-Miike-20-14.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

The Untold Story 1993 Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqs5IeyID-s)

The Untold Story (1992) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCdt4Am9YDA)

Bat sin fan dim ji yan yuk cha siu bau (1993) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjA4NTMyNjk0M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzE3NjAyMQ@@._ V1._SX98_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMjA4NTMyNjk0M15BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzE3NjAyMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX98@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103743/)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4iZrL-ngZRk/TZ7OPmcwD2I/AAAAAAAAPwk/S41j4tv0fBE/s1200/untstor.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

Ebola Syndrome Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHLoNLzbe8)

Ebola Syndrome 1996 UNCUT - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqIMjHpxJes)

Yi boh lai beng duk (1996) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk3ODY4MzkwN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTc1MjUxMQ@@._ V1._SX86_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTk3ODY4MzkwN15BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTc1MjUxMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX86@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116163/)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AQ%2BiJyXhL.jpg

[reformedcharacter]

The Darjeeling Limited

[Dino Velvet]

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9TQkh6F4ZU)

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALqnSUMHPrA&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1)

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (1920) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwMzE0NTU5N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDQwMTUyMQ@@._ V1._SX99_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTQwMzE0NTU5N15BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDQwMTUyMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX99@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/)

http://www.gotterdammerung.org/film/collection/c/00000322.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

This came out after Night Of The Living Dead but before Dawn Of The Dead. Spanish production directed by Jorge Grau filmed in English in the UK. Lots of creeps and suspense and gore as well.

The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (1974) TRAILER - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzqYAS-0Dbw)

The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (1974) FULL MOVIE - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMfM2qzBwEs)

Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (1974) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjE3MzkyNTcxMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzc0OTM0MQ@@._ V1._SX99_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMjE3MzkyNTcxMV5BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzc0OTM0MQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX99@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071431/)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bJnFHr4tu0s/T9-e7x8wUgI/AAAAAAAADew/qNDZ3Eqx40Q/s1600/No+profanar+el+sue%C3%B1o+de+los+muertos+-+cartel+10+the+living+dead+at+manchester+morgue+01 .jpg

[Dino Velvet]

Now this one was before Night Of The Living Dead. A Hammer Films Production from 1966. Zombies are slaves like in White Zombie as opposed to instinctive flesh eaters like the Living Dead formula.

Plaque of the Zombies (1966) Trailer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPstKu5XcM)

Plague of the Zombies (1966) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxYy30dv0Fs)

The Plague of the Zombies (1966) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQyMDY0NTEwMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTMzMzgxMQ@@._ V1._SX98_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTQyMDY0NTEwMl5BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTMzMzgxMQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX98@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060841/)

http://www.hammerfilms.com/uploads/00001/00001274.jpg?v=1

[betts]

VHS - Official Trailer 2 [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UKyI-Irzhc)

[theone1982]

The Master. Amazing film.

[danthepoetman]

Just saw “Contraband”, by Baltasar Kormakur, with Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones and Kate Beckinsale. A classic good bad guy suspense. A former smuggler has to make one pass to save his brother in law. Of course, nothing deep here. But well made, with good action, and you don’t guess what’s going to happen, like in so many Hollywood flicks. All in all, I liked this one. Not a masterpiece, but it does what it promises.
CONTRABAND Trailer 2012 - Official [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOBpZcJh1M)

[Prospero]

I share David Denby's disquiet...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/whatever-happened-to-movies-for-grown-ups.html

[Prospero]

The last movie I saw was the re-released Beatles 1967 film "Magical Mystery Tour." The BBC showed it a couple of nights ago. Total self indulgent meandering twaddle whose only redeeming feature was some good songs.

[LibertyHarkness]

WRATH OF THE TITANS

It was utter Shit .....

[RallyCola]

saw Taken 2 this weekend.

where the first was original and interesting and you felt like brian mills was just a bad ass...here he is fucking superman. plus he uses the jedi mind trick to kill the last guy so its kinda crap.

[GoddessAthena85]

Still sick.stuck in bed, so I'm having a nightmare on elm street marathon

[RallyCola]

Still sick.stuck in bed, so I'm having a nightmare on elm street marathon

that's not a bad set of movies to watch. are you including the new remake or just the original set?

[GoddessAthena85]

that's not a bad set of movies to watch. are you including the new remake or just the original set?

Nope just the Wes craven ones. I may only watch 1 2 and 3 i never cared much for 4

[Dino Velvet]

Nope just the Wes craven ones. I may only watch 1 2 and 3 i never cared much for 4

Ever see the Bollywood version?
Nightmare On Mullet Street http://www.freddyinspace.com/2009/07/mahakaal-bollywoods-mullet-haired.html

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n34/mortis45/mah2.jpg

[GoddessAthena85]

If that's real Dino i may need to watch it just for laughs

[Dino Velvet]

If that's real Dino i may need to watch it just for laughs

Fast-forward through the song and dance numbers. The film is 2 1/2 hours.

If you like Horror you and me will be great friends. You like weed too, right?

I have a grading scale for these types of films. One to five Whiskey bottles, the lowest score being the best 'cuz you don't have to drink as much to make it through the film. Henry2: Mask of Sanity gets 5 bottles and The Exorcist gets 1/2 a bottle.

http://i.imgur.com/R2cZG.jpg

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[GroobyKrissy]

Pitch Perfect... do not see.
Iron Sky... do not rent.

You've been warned on both accounts.

[RallyCola]

anyone see the mechanic with jason statham. i dvr'ed it last night so i think i will watch it later on

[GoddessAthena85]

Fast-forward through the song and dance numbers. The film is 2 1/2 hours.

If you like Horror you and me will be great friends. You like weed too, right?

I have a grading scale for these types of films. One to five Whiskey bottles, the lowest score being the best 'cuz you don't have to drink as much to make it through the film. Henry2: Mask of Sanity gets 5 bottles and The Exorcist gets 1/2 a bottle.

http://i.imgur.com/R2cZG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/R2cZG.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/R2cZG.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/R2cZG.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/R2cZG.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/R2cZG.jpg
I love horror and weed, i only drink beer, red Headed sluts, or Jameson. Mainly just Jameson. So great scoring system. I'm replying from my phone, i sent my computer with a coworker since I'm not working later. So I'll note n watch that clip later :). Its hard to find weed when wer in a new city like every month. :(

[Dino Velvet]

I love horror and weed, i only drink beer, red Headed sluts, or Jameson. Mainly just Jameson. So great scoring system. I'm replying from my phone, i sent my computer with a coworker since I'm not working later. So I'll note n watch that clip later :). Its hard to find weed when wer in a new city like every month. :(

Jameson works just fine with me. Whiskey and weed is a great combination.

Just missing one thing...

Hank Williams III - Whiskey, Weed, & Women - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VoU5kmqasY)

Mahakaal - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC0Ey6p2_Rw&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1)

[Dima73]

Arbitrage

Arbitrage (2012) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODU5ODYyNzM1MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDEwNTQwOA@@._ V1._SX94_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BODU5ODYyNzM1MF5BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDEwNTQwOA@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX94@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764183/)

[GoddessAthena85]

Cigarettes?

[Winkle]

Prometheus and the extra scenes, i hope they make a sequel.

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/prometheus-engineer-image.jpg

[danthepoetman]

Cigarettes?
Did you see “Coffee and Cigarettes”, by Jim Jarmush, Athena. Jarmush always make lovely, original, very special movies. This one was no exception.
Coffee and Cigarettes (Trailer) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYRsqkRS_k)
Tom Waits & Iggy Pop - Coffee and Cigarettes - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPxyTFwOW0Y&feature=fvwrel)

[RallyCola]

Prometheus and the extra scenes, i hope they make a sequel.

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/prometheus-engineer-image.jpg



did you fall and hit your head? that movie is one of the worst movies and probably is the worst reboot/prequel i have ever seen

[Chaos]

The last movie I saw was Apollo 18. Loved it!

[Prospero]

In Darkness - a very powerful film by the gifted director Agnieszka Holland about how a Polish thief helps a group of Jews in Nazi occupied Lvov hide in the cellars. Chilling and a true story. (Not a film for those who have no sympathy or compassion for others though.)

IN DARKNESS official trailer in HD! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb2TyPfxaQU)

[Winkle]

did you fall and hit your head? that movie is one of the worst movies and probably is the worst reboot/prequel i have ever seen

This film wasn't supposed to be a prequel, it's more a stand alone hence it raised more questions than answers, which opens the door for 1 or more films. Which I'm glad for as I'm a bit of an Aliens enthusiast. Having watched it again, and seen the extra bits the story overall is much more coherent and I give it a 7/10. Where as before I gave it a 6/10. Calling it one of the worst movies you've ever seen is extremely harsh IMO

[bluesoul]

did you fall and hit your head? that movie is one of the worst movies and probably is the worst reboot/prequel i have ever seen

i have to agree. possibly the worst film i've seen this year

[trish]

Just saw Moonrise Kingdom. What a wonderful experience! I have to put in my list of lifetime favorites.

[GoddessAthena85]

Did you see “Coffee and Cigarettes”, by Jim Jarmush, Athena. Jarmush always make lovely, original, very special movies. This one was no exception.
Coffee and Cigarettes (Trailer) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYRsqkRS_k)
Tom Waits & Iggy Pop - Coffee and Cigarettes - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPxyTFwOW0Y&feature=fvwrel)
never seen it. The Cigs Comment was to Dino. I should have quoted the conversation to keep things in context . We where discussing horror movies and he said there was only one thing missing ...

[Dino Velvet]

never seen it. The Cigs Comment was to Dino. I should have quoted the conversation to keep things in context . We where discussing horror movies and he said there was only one thing missing ...

If you run outta smokes I got some good smoke for you. Let's get wasted out of our minds and watch some Dario Argento.

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

Sleep: Dopesmoker †remastered †- YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZFH2M_9VY)

[GoddessAthena85]

If you run outta smokes I got some good smoke for you. Let's get wasted out of our minds and watch some Dario Argento.

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

Sleep: Dopesmoker †remastered †- YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZFH2M_9VY)

Ok I don't know if I call that horror. I call that art <3.... now horror that's what i call politics.

[Chaos]

Just watched DIE. Now THAT was better than the last few SAW movies!!

[Dino Velvet]

Ok I don't know if I call that horror. I call that art <3.... now horror that's what i call politics.

Here's something you might consider Horror then. I like messing with religion.

Trailer - The Omen III:The Final Conflict(1981) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGJ5mk9Wgk)

http://st-listas.20minutos.es/images/2009-04/93264/1094756_640px.jpg?1239092887

[GoddessAthena85]

Here's something you might consider Horror then. I like messing with religion.

Trailer - The Omen III:The Final Conflict(1981) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGJ5mk9Wgk)

http://st-listas.20minutos.es/images/2009-04/93264/1094756_640px.jpg?1239092887
I would watch both, I'll bring the whiskey

[djblu]

UNREAL beauty pacing and story!

This Must Be The Place (2011) - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ryRwKkKI4)

EVENTUALLY it we get here in the states. U can find it online in some places ;)

[Chaos]

The Omen isn't horror ....It's the story of my birth!!! :D