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Cat fish. Would not recommend
Jar City, a brilliant and dark Icelandic murder mystery. Recommended.
Just watched "The Rock" with Sean Connery on BluRay. Good action flick. And Connery is one of the best imports from the U.K. I've never seen a bad Conney movie yet.
Check out Zardoz or Shalako! :hide-1:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ineeda SM
LMAO. Yeah I forgot about Zardoz. That was a bit off the wall for Connery. Never saw Shalako though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
That's probably a blessing! :yayo:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ineeda SM
A few of the most recent I've watched and enjoyed tremendously:
4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days
Uzak
In the Mood for Love
I've Loved You so Long
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Cache
I Am Love (Oh Tilda how I love thee!)
And isn't it amazing too that whether he's playing an American, a Russian or an Irishman, they all have broad Edinburgh accents?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ineeda SM
But it doesn't matter - it's Sean Connery, innit?
I've Loved You So Long has the best female performance of last year. How Kristin Scott-Thomas doesn't win awards by the bucketful is beyond me. Maybe because she does so few English language films these daysQuote:
Originally Posted by runningdownthatdream
A company I worked for some years back had a particularly thick receptionist. We got back from lunch one day and she announced: "There's some geezer called Sean Connery phoned for you/" Strewth....
My last film was "Pina", three D documentary about the German choreographer Pina Bausch directed by Wim Wenders. Rather avant garde and only recommended if you like contemporary dance.
Watched salt & narc. Salt was an ok popcorn movie. Narc was pretty crap
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Originally Posted by robertlouis
Waiting for her most recent movie, Leaving, to drop through the letterbox from LoveFilm.
I've Loved you So Long - totally agree. Hugely moving and the french girl who played her sister was really first class also.
Very rarely watch any of the crash bang wallop crap from Hollywood that passes for movies these days, for years in fact. French, Spanish, German, Korean, new European and Japanese mostly. I'm lucky that the Arts Cinema in Cambridge has a proud tradition of concentrating on world cinema, otherwise I'd only see films on DVD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
And I forgot Latin American cinema too. The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina is the best film I've seen so far this year.
Late night screenings at the Arts Cinema was my early education in great filmmaking. Glad to hear it is still going strong. Sadly these days I DO watch most of my movies on DVD. Awaiting arrival of a box of some fifty new European films from the EFA real soon. My onerous task is helping choose best european film of the year.
Onerous? Lucky bastard, more like. Need any help???Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
If it's strictly 2011, my pick would be Potiche which I saw last week.
If it's the last twelve months, then I'd go for Julia's Eyes.
Not that I'm trying to influence you in any way, old chap.
Yet to see Potiche.... a great flm, if it's finally released here, is The Double Hour. And a wonderful european documentary Armadillo which follows a Danish unit in Helmand province. Compelling for grim.
Ghobi Ghat
Tell us about Dhobi Ghat?
After Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or for The Tree of Life I realised I had only seen Badlands, and that was on its release. So I decided to buy the available films, all of them except for his early short film from 1969, Lanton Mills, which I can't find. I watched them out of sequence but am now re-watching them in the sequence in which they were made -Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven(1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), and The New World (2005). Obviously I haven't seen The Tree of Life and don't know when it will be available in the UK. Apparently people either love or hate Malick, he is either a crushing bore or profound -I am not going to comment until I have watched them all at least twice, but I am an enthusiast.
Of the Europeans, I have been very impressed with Jacques Audiard -A Prophet, See How They Fall and The Beat That My Heart Skipped (a remake of Fingers); and although I detest Funny Games and The Piano Teacher, Michael Haneke's other films are outstanding -Code Inconnu in particular, but that's also because Juliette Binoche is at the top of the range -yes, Scott-Thomas was awesome in I've Love You So Long, but she didn't need an award to be recognised for it -Oscars and other gewgaws have no meaning or value, other than the extra cash they generate....
... and the wider audience
With you on KST - I was a believer since I saw the English Patient. A remarkable actress like so many other actors out of the UK. Quite surprised at some of the less famous ones like those in:Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
Benny & the Bull
Somers Town
The Big I Am
London Boulevard
London to Brighton
Tamara Drewe
I just finished watching Julia's Eyes which I enjoyed particularly the last 3rd of the movie. While stylish, I thought the story was a little weak and if not for the cinematography and the performance by the lead actress and the killer it would have been a bit of a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
Haneke is unpredictable I find - some great stuff like The White Ribbon and then some crap like Time of the Wolf. Really liked The Prophet which I found understated but powerful, like Gomorrah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
have watched Gomorrah twice, bleak but brilliant, and another reason to avoid Naples at all times...even if I did have some hair-raising sometimes successful encounters with the ts hookers near the railway station (but not since the mid-1980s)...
For some reason those damn emoticons appear when I type numbers -Days of Heaven was released in 1978 and The Thin Red Line in 1998...
transporter 2 lastnight and it was more like a comedy lol
Just watched "McHales Navy" the movie version (DVD) with Tom Arnold. Not many people like Tom, but I think he's funny. I recently saw one of his uncensored concerts, and I was rolling on the floor laughing.
Just saw Takers again...fuckin' love that movie...
Risky Business was on last night, not seen in years "sometimes you just have to say 'what the fuck'" good advice....
battle of Las Angeles with my girl a real ripper of a film
Quantum Of Solace. Not very impressed.
Green Lantern and it sucked!
Does this give you a hint???:wiggle:
Super 8: great fun and full of homages to earlier Lucas films.
Midnight in Paris: I adored it. Artfully cartoonish vignettes with a very little twist of inception.
Aussie film, Alexandra's Project.
Jeez, it was like wading through the Minge Chronicles, though kinda worth it, Helen Buday does have nice norks! :shrug
Taken.
The Quiet American was on the BBC last night, a different version from the 1958 Joseph Mankiewicz version, and one that apparently is more faithful to the book by Graham Greene, not much of a recommendation in my view. Greene's initially 'amoral' Times Correspondent (Thomas Fowler, played by Michael Caine -an invention as Fowler did not exist in real life) is eventually so disgusted by the lies he has been told by an 'Aid' worker who actually works for the CIA (Brendan Fraser) that he colludes in his murder, not sure where the morals went there. A dreary film with no depth, rather like Graham Greene's dreary books...
Battle of Los Angels:rock2