Excellent film, Dead Man's Cards.
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0455933/
Dino, you might enjoy this one, chance to brush up on yer slang.
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Excellent film, Dead Man's Cards.
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0455933/
Dino, you might enjoy this one, chance to brush up on yer slang.
Stavro wrote: "No thanks -when form becomes content and content becomes form you have cinematic solipsism; you know yourself that in even the austere films of Bela Tarr something happens, there is a story and it is told with a visual style that makes sense in its own context even if it is too extreme for many people. Warhol, by contrast, was a lazy individual with nothing to say, as exhibited by this kind of film and his so-called 'art'."
But Stavros, things do happen. At one point the tower is struck by lighting and the lights go on and off at various points.
Just as in Smile by Yoko Ono the big events are when a fly meanders across the screen (in slow motion because the whole thing is slow mo) and when John Lennon finally smiles - an event stretched to several minutes.
Yeah i know a little more happens in Bela tarr's films. I was somewhat in jest.
Looks decent. Got it confused with Dead Man's Shoes at first. That's another good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFi6FrAV9SE
Fair enough, I don't see it that way, to me Lynch likes dressing up his films with cul-de-sacs because that is his style, and it works if you like watching films with weird people and apparently inexplicable scenes who might be contributing a theme-in essence, Lynch's films are stuffed with this material as a cover for a banal moral view that he hasn't changed for years, I guess if he is comfortable with it and it makes money then so be it. Its not so different from the banality in Tony Morrison's over-rated novels where pseudo-magical realism is a cover for a tedious repetition of America's infatuation with good-triumphs-over-evil stories, Beloved being a typical example. Where, for example, is there any exploration of sexuality in Lynch comparable to the subtlety and anxiety of Bergman's late films, particularly Persona, Hour of the Wolf, The Shame, and Fanny and Alexander? Films that are rich in meaning and visually precise in a manner Lynch cannot even dream of...Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
Yes. That wouldn’t be the first time in history an artist would use this trick, in visual arts, literature nor cinema indeed. I admit it is a bit easy sometimes. Montaigne was already commenting on authors hiding their banality under obscurity almost in the middle of the 16th century...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Also agree that American culture in general and cinema in particular, is dominated by manicheistic themes (and concomitent violence)...Quote:
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I absolutely agree, of course, Stavros. No comparison possible with Bergman, and especially, to my taste, with a movie like Persona which, although somewhat difficult, is a masterpiece, revolving around somewhat the same subject as the lesser Mulholand Dr.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
"Hyde Park On Hudson" a new film about FDR. After seeing the excellent "Lincoln" recently I was hoping this would do justice to one of America's other greatest presidents. far from it. It is a dull and ugly film, poorly directed and written, which offers a cheap take on his irregular amatory behaviour.
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It's a little long and at first,a touch confusing...but thoroughly entertaining if you enjoy violent South Korean movies (and who doesn't?).
It's fucking hilarious!!!!! :dead: I Love It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Expendables 2 Official Trailer #2 (2012) Sylvester Stallone Movie HD - YouTube
Margin Call (2011)
Good ensemble acting, especially from the pemanently reliable Stanley Tucci, the film plays a McGuffin with the financials but otherwise its worth seeing, and should probably rate a 7 out of ten for effort and acting, but lacks any real consequence. The movie on the crash, if there is one, has yet to be made.
Margin Call Trailer - YouTube
Skyfall -I won't bother listing the credits as there is nothing creditable about it except the end, which couldn't come too soon. This film is so hopelessly bad I am aghast at the critical reception it has received. Ok so like every Bond film it is based on a single idea rather than a plot, but you always know when the franchise managers have run out of ideas altogether when the only villain left is 'one of us'. As there is no plot there can be no plot holes, otherwise this would look like a Swiss cheese, without the delicate taste offset by vintage port and a cream cracker. As soon as I saw Albert Finney on the opening credits I sensed disaster, and there he was, the gamekeeper who has lived amidst the heather all his life but has no Scottish accent but some kind of mid-atlantic drawl as shaggy as his phoney beard and wooden acting. Judi Dench, who I saw on stage eons ago in The Winter's Tale; who sang like a bird in The Cherry Orchard (sounds pompous but some of the finest acting I have ever seen in one of the finest plays ever written), and was devastatingly brilliant in Talking to a Stranger has moved beyond parody, its really rather pathetic. And so on. I paid £5 to see this in the local cinema, tickets are so overpriced these days.
That Artsy-Fartsy Hitman movie Killing Them Softly . This movie is best described as The Big Kahuna with Hitmen . It was boring and it totally sucked . It was worse than SKYFALL .
The ending sucked aswell . We get a new M, a new Q ....ok, he was cool & always with the B/S P/C M/C with the new Moneypenny .
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My 81 y/o mother loved this and the original . She lhao when Chuck showed up and Bruce and Arnie at the Airport . She seems to be getting into the shootum ups some of the super hero films .Quote:
Originally Posted by irvin66
The Fourth Kind.
It's bad...very, very bad...Not good bad, bad bad...Fuck, it's bad!
Why ? Because it has trees, paved roads, nice wooden houses and is full of White People ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
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Originally Posted by Cecil Rhodes
Yes Cecil, that's the reason! :rolleyes:
So, you've been to Nome i see ? Nome has none of that .Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
I am a fan of the Bourne trilogy, and this is not bad, it has a particularly good if occasionally cliche-ridden chase through Manila, a city whose chaotic traffic and gridlock has to be experienced at least once in your life -well, not really. But there aren't many ways to get through it except the way Jeremy Renner does. The downside was that I had to have the subtitles on a lot at the beginning as I could not understand what the characters were saying, and then it didn't matter much anyway. There is a lack of depth in the film, and although Renner makes a believable assassin, Rachel Weisz was a waste of space and, as usual, this kind of character has to be a woman. I think 6 out 10 for entertainment value. In spite of its ending, I think this should probably end the Bourne franchise.
The Bourne Legacy Official Trailer #2 (2012) Jeremy Renner Movie HD - YouTube
Red Dawn .... The remake. I enjoyed it.
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises -well, I got about two-thirds into it but then fell asleep so strictly speaking I haven't watched it. I will get through the rest of it today but I have to keep turning on the subtitles because I can't understand what Bane is saying, and then it doesn't matter anyway. The film has no story as far as I can make out except a nasty man wants to do nasty things. It might have looked ok in an Imax cinema, but on my flat screen its just, well, flat...
I agree Stavros. A dreary, overlong and pointless film.
Just about to watch this documentary on the Koch brothers:
Robert Greenwald's "Koch Brothers Exposed" (Full) - YouTube
Kon-Tiki - The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947.
http://youtu.be/a8RID64X218
Berberian Sound Studio - a very creepy little film that achieves maximum effect by showing nothing. It's about a sound effects engineer working on a shlocky Italian horror film. A must for anyone working in the sound side of the TV or film industry. Very original.
Berberian Sound Studio official trailer - in cinemas 31 August - YouTube
If the person is a character who likes schlocky Italian horror films would you recommend that film to him? Sounds interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Yes - I think you'd find it interesting (and technically it is pretty accurate)
Sold. Gonna drive over to Amazon and see if the store's open yet. That Blu-ray is mine. They hardly ever make Italian Horror films anymore so anything similar interests me. Time to fasten my bathrobe, grab the slippers, and off I go...Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AmQfY5oMSs...BSS+poster.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKG63WoOFGI
Amazon sells the soundtrack but not the film here. Just checked.
It's a pretty new film. Only jus released in the UK. Might not be out in the US yet.
In the age of immediate gratification that never crossed my mind for some reason. My Tivo is so advanced on the TV I believe I can see the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Ninja Assassin.
Seen worse! :shrug
"After Porn Ends"..documentary from 2010.
Interesting just to see what happened to some of the folks you recognize from porn as they got older (such as Seka).
That's pretty much it.
pretty much the last three Batman movies were filmed very dark ...often making it difficult to discern the action sequences (lots of mumbling too)....on my old set I could barely make anything out. On my new set The Dark Knight Rises had plenty of "pop" though...I think it depends on how well you're TV does contrast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The Escapist.
An absorbing little film with a sneaky plot twist at the end.
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Before Christmas I saw two films worth mentioning, and one that has been a flop since its release...
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan 1997)
The finest film from this erratic Canadian director, superior to all his other films, so I guess he had one great film to make -compared to the others which veer from the awful (Family Viewing, The Adjustor) to the mistaken (Ararat).
Sweet Hereafter Trailer - YouTube
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
As with Egoyan, this is Bertolucci's finest film, and stands up well as I saw it in the 1970s not long after its release and in the 1980s but not for a while before last week; in her time Dominique Sanda (who now lives in Argentina) was an awessome beauty (it hasn't lasted), but the films has layers of meaning (which can be unraveled through the dvd commentary) and is only marred, as are all Italian films, by the pointless hiring of non-Italian actors whose voices are dubbed. A visual great.
The Conformist (1970) - YouTube
Revolution (Hugh Hudson, 1985)
The director's cut makes no difference to this indifferent film about the American Revolution seen from 'below'. Although it succeeds in depicting the chaotic reality of revolutionary war, Al Pacino's character is lacking in credibility -he is a fur trader who claims he has no understanding of 'liberty', and in spite of the fact that he has been trading in the interior with first nations and bringing his goods to markets on the East Coast has no idea what the revolution is about. When he encounters first the Iroquois and then the Huron, with whom he forms a bond, there is no instant recognition or rapport even though he must have had relations with them in the past -the Huron he meets is anyway half-French. The accents may be realistic, the landscapes, filmed in and near King's Lynn in Norfolk, and Devon, are supposed to double for the state of New York. The extra on the dvd featuring a conversation between Pacino and Hudson is self-congratulatory for no other reason than -I assume- that Hudson has time on his hands- the film may have matterd to them but it just isnt good enough. The appearance of Ricky from Eastenders as the first version son of Pacino in his first film suggests this actor's career went sharply downhill thereafter. The film just isn't interesting, it says nothing substantial about 1776 and all that, and suffers from a poorly conceived script and the usual wooden acting from Donald Sutherland who nevertheless did at least make one good film (Don't Look Now) in spite of his weird cranky voice, not nearly as bad in this film as his Irish accent in The Eagle Has Landed.
Revolution (1985) - trailer - YouTube
Watched this movie last night, pretty good. Well wriitten, a twist, and moves along at a good pace.
The opening scene...
Beyond (2011) Movie Clips - YouTube
Wanting to watch this -- at some point.... Looks interesting.
BRONSON - Theatrical Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJ1c3qxOWc
Get the DVD. It's real good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Okay.... Looks quite interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet