What is The Last Movie You Watched?

Movies I've watched this week. I watch a lot of movies; don't judge me, lol

French movies

A Bout Portant (Point Blank) - fast-paced, high-intensity, action, cop thriller

Les Petits Mouchoirs (Little White Lies) - friends go on a weekend vacation - strong characters

Delicatessen - finally watched it. The French OWN this visual style of filming

Priceless - light comedy with Audrey Tautou (Amlie fame)

Roman de Gare - great suspense/mystery with Dominique Pinon (Amelie, Delicatessen)




Ryan Gosling movies -

Drive - not what you would expect from the previews. This movie rocked!!! There are only 6 characters. It's filmed in an 80's - not gritty but dark - style, 80's (or 80's-inspired) soundtrack!!!, very little talking, the car chases don't even dominate the movie. Highly highly recommended

Half Nelson - imo, the best Ryan Gosling movie, yet. He plays a crack-addicted high school basketball coach

Blue Valentine - co-stars Michelle Williams. An intense relationship drama. Super Indy feel

Wow Bobby - are you in the business? That's a lot of films and i'm impressed you saw Little White Lies. I didn't realise that had gone on release yet.

Delicatessan is brilliant. Have you seen the equally visually imaginative (But much less good) City Of Lost Children? The director Jean-Pierre Jeunet also directed Amelie and Delicatessan and also another great film A Very long engagement. Great song by Marianne faithful written and arranged by Angelo Badalamenti. (Twin Peaks composer) in City Of Lost Children.

Marianne Faithfull & Angelo Badalamenti - Who Will Take My Dreams Away - YouTube

I share your admiration for Carlos. I watched the whole thing in one sitting when i was ill last year.

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Wow Bobby - are you in the business? That's a lot of films and i'm impressed you saw Little White Lies. I didn't realise that had gone on release yet.

Delicatessan is brilliant. Have you seen the equally visually imaginative (But much less good (City Of Lost Chuldren?

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No, I'm not in the industry; I'm just resourceful. I have OCD for certain things, mainly music & movies.
I prefer French films to any other for a myriad of reasons - content, style, humor, perspective, etc. I also speak the language so that helps.

To be honest, I've watched more movies than I listed but I was choosing to be thematic. Dino's got me watching Asian gore movies. And I recently received 26 Jan Svankmajer shorts...

Yes, I saw City of Lost Children a long long time ago. Ron Pearlman pops up in the most curious films. That movie might merit a revisit. I also own Micmacs, another film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, which I plan on watching this weekend. Cheers!!!

The brand new Svankmajer is good... i saw it last week

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The brand new Svankmajer is good... i saw it last week

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the shorts I received go no further than 1992. Looking into your new info now. THX

Another French film: Carlos. I now realise there is a longer TV version and that may explain why the film suddenly leaps 10 years from 1979 to 1989 with no explanation; for whats worth the tv mini-series must be better than the film.

The film begins with a disclaimer saying that it is fiction, which is apt, as some of it is. Wadi Haddad, portrayed brilliantly by Ahmad Kaabour, formed the military-political group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with George Habbash in 1967, after having set up the Arab National Movement in exile in the 1950s. The difference was that after 1967, the PFLP decided to take the 'struggle' into a new phase of violent confrontation with Israel and its allies, mostly through hijacking aeroplanes, something the PLO and Arafat had actually been opposed to. In the film, Carlos meets Haddad before the Vienna 1974 operation and says 'Habbash is finished' -yet Haddad had been expelled by Habbash from the PFLP at this time. The film also does not point out that Haddad and Habbash had been receiving $1m a month in protection money from European airlines terrified of losing business to hijacking, so that while the PFLP enjoyed protection from Arab regimes, it was financially independent -they also had poor relations with Iraq who sponsored Abi Nidal after the PLO split in 1973. The climax of the film with the seizure of the OPEC Ministers in Vienna does not explain why Sheikh Yamani and Jamshid Amouzegar are not instantly killed as instructed by Haddad. As for Andropov flying in to Baghdad to 'order' the assassination of Sadat...oh dear; Sadat was murdered by Jihadis but there isn't a Jihadi in sight in this film; which is enjoyable as far as it goes, and succeeds to a degree in portraying Carlos as an essentially selfish, pompous individual; but maybe on the basis of his interviews its the problem of director Oliver Assayas dealing with the ghosts of his pseudo-left wing past in the 'Situationist International'...

I'm watching " Scream 4 ".

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no this is the second one aliens :) pulserifles and smartguns :) i love aliens i know it word for word and alien :)

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"Word for word", Libby?

As I recall the dialogue was mostly screaming, gurgling, crying and the occasional "FUUUUUUUUUCK!" :dancing:

Lewis Milestone's 1930 film of "All Quiet on the Western Front". Poetic, moving and heartbreaking, it remains for me the yardstick by which every serious war film that has followed should be judged.

You only just saw that? Late developer, eh?

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Lewis Milestone's 1930 film of "All Quiet on the Western Front". Poetic, moving and heartbreaking, it remains for me the yardstick by which every serious war film that has followed should be judged.

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Ho ho ho, yeah, right. It's one of those films that repays watching time and again, not only for its wonderful narrative, but also because it was the first major war epic to use sound, and the scene composition and the tracking shots are so innovative.

Delivered in the flattest of voices with an irish brogue

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Delivered in the flattest of voices with an irish brogue

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Jasus now, what are you sayin' Shamus?

BTW, did you note the centenary of Flann O'Brien/Myles na Gopaleen/Brian O'Nolan last week? At Swim Two Birds is one of the most sublimely funny books ever written, and I also love (and possess) a wonderful anthology of his columns from the Irish Times. Last Thursday's cryptic crossword in The Guardian was all about him and his work and I'm pleased to say that I finished it without having to resort to my bookshelves.

The other guys is a great film

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The other guys is a great film

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It made me laugh more than most of that genre, that's for sure.

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Lisa do you see many Filipino films? I wanted to see a film called Lola by Brillante Mendoza, esp after his earlier film Kinatay won an award at Cannes a few years ago...I can't get hold of The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela...None of these films ever make it to the Uk.

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yes i do watch a lot of Filipino films but the recent trend for me has been more on indie films because they're so raw, sometimes they dont cater to the mainstream too much and the directors are very talented...I wanted to watch "Kinatay" but havent seen a good copy around yet, i love to watch in high quality if not in the theater anyway...LAst Filipino film I watched was an indie " Patayin sa Shokot si Remington - Zombadings" just a couple of weeks ago...:). I dont know how Filipino DVD copies of movies are distributed in different parts of the world but a good place to look for them is probably online? LOL

Thanks Lisa -the short answer is that there is a lot of online stuff from the PI but it seems to be mostly soap operas from tv; and at the moment I am not buying anything online. Also, because of region differences the UK/Europe doesn't get the dvd's that are exported, mostly to the USA. However, I know some Filipino people here and will ask about the Remington film, which presumably is about shaving...

Fried Green TomatoesI think this is one of the best performances I've seen from Kathy Bates and I always love watching Jessica Tandy.:geek:

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Fried Green TomatoesI think this is one of the best performances I've seen from Kathy Bates and I always love watching Jessica Tandy.:geek:

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I actually really like that movie. Last one I watched was I am Number Four

The other night I watched Inarritu's Biutiful -I am a fan of most of his films, particularly Babel- and Biutiful gives an alternative view of Barcelona to the postcard city of Las Ramblas and that hideous squashed-wedding-cake architecture of Gaudi. This is a Barcelona of African and Chinese immigrants working on the margins of society and barely surviving -Javier Bardem plays a dysfunctional dad moving between the immigrants and the law, a middle-man with a conscience: I was moved by his fate. Interesting to compare this aspect of modern city life in Europe with the Woody Allen version in which -even in New York City- there are no blacks, no homosexuals, people dress and shop and live at a level barely even dreamed of by Chinese sweat shop labourers, but I don't suppose anyone ever accused Woody Allen of being realistic. Wonder how Inarritu's Barcelona compares to Allen's, as I didn't see his version of the city.

FIST OF THE WHITE LOTUS.... !! (gordon lui & Lo Lieh)

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turn on CC for english subtitles.
Un Cuento Chino (A Chinese Tale) trailer - English Subbed / SubtÃtulos en inglés - YouTube

Cold Fish - Japanese flick, don't get anywhere near this movie. 2 1/2 hours wasted

Angel-A (2005) - Luc Besson film, exceptional!!! Starring Jamel Debbouze about a street hustler who's at then end of his rope and about to commit suicide when he meets a woman about to do the same. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

A Serbian Film (2010) - a unadulterated, disturbing, raw movie about the filming of a porn which includes pedophilia & necrophilia. I have no idea how this movie was "green lit." It actually got good reviews, just be prepared for hardcore nudity & blood.

Hard Candy (2005) - intense emotional & physical movie about a man (Patrick Wilson from Little Children) who meets a twisted, very underaged teen (Ellen Page - Juno star) over the internet and invites her to his house. The entire movie is set in the house, there are only two actors and the movie managed to keep a good pace. Lots of surprises...

Little Children (2006) - character-based movie starring Kate Winslet & Patrick Wilson about a wife & a husband from 2 different marriages struggling with temptation & vulnerabilities. VERY GOOD!!!

Bobby - you sure see a LOT of films. Little Children I saw when it came out and agree with you. I simply cannot track down A Serbian Film despite many folk praising it to the skies.

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Bobby - you sure see a LOT of films. Little Children I saw when it came out and agree with you. I simply cannot track down A Serbian Film despite many folk praising it to the skies.

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I don't think that A Serbian Film has received classification in the UK yet, Prospero.

Its been on sale in our local HMV for some time.

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Its been on sale in our local HMV for some time.

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I stand corrected.

Stavros, old chap, from what you've said before I had the impression you lived halfway up an Alp in the middle of nowhere and there you are with a local HMV. Maybe head office have closed it but the stagecoach hasn't got there yet.....

Bobby, I think you're right about Angel-A- pretty darn good.

I don't see a lot of movies anymore- gave up TV and video almost 4 years ago- but I go to the theater sometimes- finally saw Colombiana.

Zoe Saldana is gorgeous and lithe. Definitely a movie to view as a big-screen experience. Not much else to recommend it if you don't like action flicks.

Tucker and Dale vs Evil, missed it when it first came out, funny as hell...

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As I posted a week or so ago, the film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is not worth seeing, being a facile parade of stereotypes in search of an assassination and an incoherent plot. I had vague memories of seeing the original 1979 TV series and bought the set, for £7. Because it runs just under 5 hours it allows the key characters to develop, something the film avoids; because of this it also make more sense, although a weakness in Le Carre's overall story is the feeble excuse the traitor gives for working for Moscow. Alec Guinness and the other actors are light years away from the useless clowns in the recent film, particularly Colin Firth and Gary Oldman; the atmosphere is right, the dialogue is right, and as with Smiley's People, which I also watched, there are scenes which last for minutes on end, something the McDonald's generation can't handle. Highly recommended.

Super - starring Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page, directed by James Gunn. Indie film about a meek diner cook whose wife leaves him for a drug dealer. He has a vision shortly afterwards and is compelled to become a superhero to fight crime and save his wife. Rainn is The Crimson Bolt, and Ellen is the comic shop employee who begs him to become his sidekick. It's funny, and also touching and sad at times. It's also super-violent, which I was not expecting. But that's not a bad thing. It's like a twisted, more violent, low-budget indie Kick Ass. And Ellen Page gets really sexy in her costume.

Super Trailer - YouTube

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Al Bartlett interview from Blind Spot documentary - YouTube

Tomboy - new French film. A delicate and touching and funny little film with superb performances coaxed from its young cast by director Céline Sciamma.

TOMBOY UK Trailer - Eng Subs (Peccadillo) - YouTube

I watched Insidious. It sucked balls.

I watched Dogville for the second time, not having seen it for some years. I recall being puzzled by it the first time, whereas I now see the religious symbolism and the argument about love and hate, about morality and justice, punishment and redemption -but the problem with the film is not its transparent set, or even the repetitive playing of Vivaldi although that is bad enough -it is the voice-over narration by John Hurt which overloads a film that tries too hard to make all of its points. Ultimately, I don't even know if this is a film or just a play -the films of Bresson explore similar themes, yet the cruelty people inflict on each other in films like Au Hasard Baltasar, Mouchette, and L'Argent has greater depth than Trier's escapade, more visual flair, and does place Trier in the also-ran of directors, along with Godard, Almodovar and Gus van Sant.

"For what they've done...

... MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY!"

Make Them Die Slowly trailer - YouTube

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Broken Arrow

London Boulevard.
The violence was ok, the rest dragged a bit. :shrug