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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Unusual for someone to tackle the difficult topic of women who do not welcome pregnancy and childbirth, which in this case is sensed early on by her first child, a boy, with catastrophic consequences. And, just as women who don't like giving birth are not much talked about, the family in the film does all it can to avoid discussing its own failings. It is not an overwhelming film, but tightly controlled. The lighting and editing are good, I don't know how it compares to Lionel Shriver's novel. Kevin, played by Ezra Miller, is spookily good. I am the context, he says at one point, dismissing one of his father's pathetic attempts to avoid a confrontation.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Trailer - YouTube
"We bought a zoo" it was even worse than I thought it would be
Incendies, a very powerful French Canadian film about twins from Canada discovering their late mother's horrific and harrowing past in the middle east. The best film I've seen this year by quite a distance.
Was finally able to catch Avengers. Quite fun and the theater was empty so my son and I were able to geek out in privacy.
I watched "the warrior" and let me say I was really suprised by how flawlessly good it was! Was put off watching sumthin about mma and the likes, but a friend insisted, and I could not fault it. Highly recommended :rock2
The Hanging Gale - 4 part miniseries about a bunch of stupid Irish farmers who forgot where they buried thier potatoes and had to flee to America.
Acutally, although it was low-budget it was well written and superbly acted.
Sherlock Holmes...noisy and nasty and no match for the original, as written by Conan Doyle. But I have to admit to liking Robert Downey Jr, there is something demonic about him, something strange and exciting, which is why he unsuited to the role of Holmes, and should probably be a villain.
Sherlock Holmes 2 HD Trailer Guy Ritchie www.downloadfree-sarker.blogspot.com.flv - YouTube
Arthur...the original with Dudley Moore.
Prometheus, interesting movie...
Good call - he should have been Moriarty. Whoever the pudding was that DID play Moriarty was terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
"Act of Valor"
Avengers was my last and I really enjoyed it. Tomorrow I plan to see Prometheus. I have a thing for the original Alien movie (in fact half of my left arm is taken up by a tattoo of the chestburster from that movie). I know this isn't strictly an Alien prequel but I'm looking forward to it anyway.
Man on a Ledge
Star Trek
Chronicle
Pennies From Heaven - with Steve Martin. Great though not as good as the original BBC TV series.
The Grey.
Meh...Had it's moments. :shrug
MalcolmX -A Spike Lee Joint. There are joints and there are Spike Lee films (some of them are even worth watching, Inside Man, for example is a good film but obviously suffers from the rank incompetence of Denzel Washington). On this occasion the effect is flat or even down, rather than high. Poor script, poor concept, poor acting; historically inacurrate, biographically untrue, intellectually superficial, the film goes on too long in an attempt to give the 'epic' treatment to a controversial figure. Where the use of music at times is appropriate to the time and place, in some scenes -notbaly interiors with Malcolm and his wife or close associates, their conversation is drowned in anodyne music that sounds like a cross-between Aaron Copland and Stephen Sondheim.
The dvd was deleted when I read Manning Marable's outstanding biography of Malcolm; this is a new two-set re-issue with extras -unfortunately including a 1972 documentary with a lot of footage of the real Malcolm, a world away from the wooden, almost lifeless pseudo-acting of Denzel Washington -and if that aint a 'slave name' I don't know what is!!).
MALCOLM X - Trailer - (1992) - HQ - YouTube
Quatermass and the Pit - the 1950s TV series (okay not technically a movie) written by Nigel Kneale and shown the BBC. Look past the wooden acting, the wooden acting and the sets and it is actually a very interesting experiment in TV drama. It is possible to see why it was such a sensation when first shown in 1958 - with people talking about never having seen so scared by anything on TV and viewers hurrying home from the pub of wherever to catch it.
Quatermass And The Pit / Complete Series - YouTube
I saw this a couple of years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
I thought there were a couple of episodes missing from that series. Have they found the lost ones, are am i bolloxing on about something else?
I keep waiting for a massive box set of all things Quatermass. Hope Anchor Bay is listening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Last movie I saw. Fun flick but not as good as the first one.
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Did you know Suspiria is being remade? And with Isabelle Huppert too.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
Suspiria (2013) - IMDb
I think you might be right - there are some odd jumps in the narrative.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
I know. Never be as stylish as the original. Such beauty and art in death.Quote:
Originally Posted by runningdownthatdream
Like to see them re-shoot this scene.
Suspiria - Infamous Death Scene - YouTube
Great fucking movie! I wish more people knew about it. I've been trying to show it to everyone I know. I expected it to be funny, which it was, but I was totally surprised (but not displeased) at how super-violent it is. Also a good deal of pathos from and for Rainn Wilson's character. Love this movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falrune
Safe House.
Went to my local cinema to see the National Theatre's production of Frankenstein as adapted and directed by Danny Boyle, with Benedict "Sherlock" Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee "Trainspotting" Miller as the doctor - they alternated the roles during the stage run.
Apart from being a spectacular and quite brilliant production with great performances from all the cast, it was a great way to see a west end production - 20 minutes up the A14, no London hassle - or pricing - and a comfortable seat for about 20% of the theatre ticket.
And - yes, I'm a cinema nazi - no mobile phones, no popcorn, no talking and simply a theatre full of people who had come to enjoy the show. Blissful.
Reconstruction (Theo Angelopoulos, 1970)
Angelopoulos' first full-length feature film, which at 110 minutes is one of his shortest films. There are very few close-ups in this austere film in which the brooding landscape of northern Greece emphasises the contrast between the material and emotional poverty of village life, and the passion which exploded in a case of murder, under investigation by the police. The cinematrography also stresses isolation, the figures often looking lost in a landscape of mountains, streams and forests. There is no attempt to connect to the emotional core of the crime, no sympathy for any of the characters, yet the presentation of these selves in everyday life marks the beginning of an illustrious career in film -I think the film is maybe too artistic, but is worth watching.
http://www.theoangelopoulos.com/reconstruction.htm
Me too. Hate it when people sneak crying babies into R Rated movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
Many years ago I went to see The Devils by Ken Russell at a cinema in Newmarket. For reasons best known to themselves the management left the house lights on throughout the film. people got up and walked around, yelled to each other across the cinema and talked constantly - except in the most violent bits. Then a hush fell over the place.
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.
Just about to watch Thank You For Smoking later tonight....
Thank you for Smoking - Trailer - YouTube
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
Last movie I watched was maniac cop what was last week sometime.
Any one got any good movies they could recommend?
Maniac Cop 2 & 3Quote:
Originally Posted by philipsfrog
Matt Cordell Lives Forever!!!
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Act of Valor
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
Quite touching in places.
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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