This one is really good.
"Cold Souls" - Official Trailer - YouTube
Printable View
This one is really good.
"Cold Souls" - Official Trailer - YouTube
I love PAUL, will be checking this one out soon, thanx DAN for the postQuote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
I watched the original Red Dawn Tuesday Night.
"WOLVERINES!"
Red Dawn Trailer (1984) - YouTube
Such a good flik, i miss PatrickQuote:
Originally Posted by Wendy Summers
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 flixQuote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
Superman vs the elite
School Daze
"You ain't seen no paaaaarrts of the pussy"
TOP Gun last night
its soo sad that the director went and killed himself a week ago :(Quote:
Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness
Battleship Earth
finally just saw hunger games. thought it was great. def worth checking out
"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.
Thor
The Avengers
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Southern Comfort-Trailer - YouTube
beautiful cajun music in the 1981 film southern comfort. - YouTube
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
A trite new comedy called "hope Springs" with Meryl Street and Tommy Lee jones.
HOPE SPRINGS - Official Trailer - In Theaters 8/8 - YouTube
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?)
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).
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
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
"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
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
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
Never heard of that film. Not that informed about most contemporary latin American cinema except Argentina.
:joke:It's a really good film, but you lose a lot at a second viewing when you know what happens next.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
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)
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.
One of Fulci's best. That little kid was so death worthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/t...FULCILIVES.gif
Classic Pete Walker.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511J7SQ72ML.jpg
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
All I can say is that I paid £3 for it, and that makes it at least £10 overpriced.
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
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by JenniferParisHusband
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
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
Agree on that one.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
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.