And if we're talking Peckinpah, add Major Dundee and The Ballad of Cable Hogue.Quote:
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And if we're talking Peckinpah, add Major Dundee and The Ballad of Cable Hogue.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
The Searchers
Excellent movie. Moves at a fairly fast pace and is pretty effective in portraying a particular time and place on the frontier out west. Was a very good way to start my foray into the genre.
Also watched True Grit, the more recent one just out of boredom. I had heard mixed things but I liked it a lot. If I have one complaint it's that Jeff Bridges was almost unintelligible at times. If there had been closed captioning for the movie I would have used it and missed a lot less dialogue.
The Colony.
Survivors of a new ice-age, living underground, are attacked by cannibals.
That's about it, really! :shrug
"Frances Ha" - directed by Noah Baumbach. A meandering tale about a young woman (Greta Gerwig) and her life in New York as a failed dancer. Shit in black and white. Okay.
Frances Ha Official Theatrical Trailer #1 (2013) - Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver Movie HD - YouTube
I finally took the plunge and decided to see the Evil Dead remake. I was hesitant mainly because so many people had told me that it is very graphic. And I'm not talking nudity here. Now I'm a big horror movie fan but when it comes to extreme graphic types, I tend to steer away. And I must tell you that this movie is not for the squeamish. It was far better than the original I have to say though. Original was way to much of a comedy type. This was the complete opposite. None the less, I recommend it if you don't mind all the creepy gore....
Evil Dead (2013) Official Red band Trailer Horror Movie HD - YouTube
I also seen a movie called "Would You Rather" I really liked this movie. Was different than your usual horror movie. And the main villain (Shepperd Lambert) I just loved. He was this creepy yet cool type of character. Check the trailer. I'm sure some of you will get into it, if you're Horror/Thriller fans...
Would You Rather Official Trailer #1 (2012) - Brittany Snow Movie HD - YouTube
Attack from Beneath! This is TRULY a modern B movie and similar to Pacific Rim. Monsters from below the ocean floor attacking cities and being fought by giant robots piloted by humans. I seen better acting in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!!!
http://bmovieshelf.blogspot.com/2013...tack-from.html
Has anyone here seen Before Midnight, the final part of the trilogy of films starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy and directed by Richard Linklater?
I loved the first film because I had virtually the same experience in Paris when I was younger, so identified with Ethan Hawke's character. Only difference was that I slept with the girl on that magical night!
Enjoyed the second, though not so much, so I'm interested to know what others thought about the third film.
Not yet RL.... late last night, unable to sleep, watched "McCullin" a documentary about the great photographer Don McCullin - most famous for recording the horrors of war in an bleak and unfliching way from the conflict in Cyrprus in the 1950s to the war in Biafra. he gazed long into the heart of human darkness. I think it bruised his soul.
After watching this the words that spring to mind are from Conrad. "The horror, the horror."
Here are some of his most iconic images. The last, by contrast, is a character everyone called Snowy who could be seen every day in Cambridge market in the 1970s.
Broken City
Mark Wahlberg/Russel Crowe
Nothing new but alright for what it was. :shrug
Actually, would like to watch this documentary at some point...
This next movie is wicket cool.
Good will Hunting, wicket good!
[Great Movie Scenes] Good Will Hunting - Bar Scene - YouTube
Watch it on Netflix right now, wicket good.
I'm a great fan of McCullin.
Are they likely to show it again?
I have a promotional DVD of it Ananke... but it might get shown again. I think the DVD is commercially available. He also wrote a great autobiography about 20 years ago called "Unreasonable Behaviour."
The Conjuring from kwan...saw,insidious.....cool scary movie,not that scared butt okay!
The Conjuring - Official Teaser Trailer (HD) - YouTube
Saw about half of The Kings of Summer. It was a boring crap of a movie. It's the same teenage angsty movie that you've seen 100 times before. I turned it off and watched Workaholics instead.
Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, 2002)
Samuel Beckett on the Occupied West Bank, a film that has Beckett's humour, the absurd elements of the Israeli occupation, and the pathos of defeat. The scene with the red balloon sums it up. Superb film-making.
Divine Intervention Theatrical Trailer - YouTube
42, The Jackie Robinson story. It was ok.
Actually, a documentary film I want to see:
Blackfish: Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Documentary Movie HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOeH-Oq_1Y
Curiously I was talking about him today to a mutual acquaintance... Don was very damaged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
A friend of mine who has covered many wars in the Middle East has ben hardened by the horror. She says she is no longer horrified by bodies - but human cruelty and accounts of it still affect her deeply. I was in Iraq and Egypt (among other places) a couple of weeks ago and the brutality both these places are experiencing is terrifying. I admire people like McCullin who can square up to it and give us the story.Heaven help the region if an attack on Syria is launched. But this strand is not the place to discuss that...
That's one of my favourite movies. Robin Williams is great in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadily
watched In The house recently - great french film. very smart.
"Now You See Me"
Can anyone explain the ending to me please?
The bit where they are sitting in Paris, looking down at a padlock and says one more secret, then it cuts to a flashback of the crash on the bridge.
WTF?:confused::confused:
World War Z I enjoyed the movie.
Watched "Samsara"....incredible visuals.
If you have a decent picture on your T.V. and some weed on hand....this is the film for you. If you're the average person like me who doesn't really travel much...then movies like this let you experience things you don't always realize exist ..from interesting to breathtakingly beautiful...often showing poetry in wonders both natural and man-made.
Food for the senses.
..to me anyways.
..Oh yeah,almost forgot - there are some Ladyboys too...lol.
"What Maisie Knew" an adaptationo of the Henry James novel, originally set in late Victorian England but now transposed to modern Manhattan. It is a valid transposition. The film is Hollywood, but in many respects as true to james as is possible ithout being able to replicate the inner voice of Maisie.. And actually very moving. You are aware you are being emotionally manipulated but what the hell. Brilliant lead performances by Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan and Ornata Aprile as the six year old Maisie.
What Maisie Knew OFFICIAL Trailer (2012) - YouTube
Last night, I watched "Reservoir Dogs."
We're The Millers - Exceeded my expectations for a comedy flick. I recommend it.
I agree that this is a stunning film, but I don't know why it isn't available on DVD only as a download.Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
I compared the two versions of Solaris -I avoided watching the Steven Soderbergh version of Stanislaw Lem's novel from 2002 because Tarkovsky (1972) is one of my favourite directors even though he wasn't satisfied with the film. Soderbergh has filleted out the key element of Lem's book which fascinated Tarkovsky -what happens if humans are given extraordinary powers? In Solaris the impact of a distant planet on the consciousness can resurrect the dead, or give scientists the power to realise something previously beyond their ability -it drives the scientists on the space station to madness or a non-productive stasis -the psychologist who arrives to decide if the station should be shut down re-encounters a wife dead for ten years; ultimately he dispenses with her, but she re-appears, and at the end it isn't clear if Kelvin ever made it back to Earth...by contrast, Soderbergh is only interested in the love story of a man who re-discovers his wife and can't let her go. A superficial neutering of a story about absolute power. Tarkovsky returned to this theme with greater success in Stalker.
The Double Life of Veronique (Kiezlowski, 1991)
Superb film-making; Kiezlowski's death was a terrible loss.
La double vie de Veronique - YouTube
Stavros...Two of my favourite films.... and i agree Soderberg's version of Solaris was a travesty.
I just watched The Gladiator again last night. God damn I love the first scene!
The Best Offer (2013) Official Trailer - YouTube
"The Best Offer" a new Italian film (in English) directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, best known for "Cinema Paradiso`' It stars Geoffrey Rush as an ageing art dealer who becomes embroiled with a mysterious and reclusive young woman. Quite an original and arresting film, but overlong. Not yet released in the UK.
Another flick I'm curious to see:
Errol Morris's New Documentary on Donald Rumsfeld (Sneak Peek) - YouTube
Silver Linings Playbook
Though it may have a conventional Hollywood ending -or does it?- the script is great the acting is great and I enjoyed this more than most of the American films I have seen recently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj5_FhLaaQQ
Not a lot of films that come out of Hollywood are worth watching. Every once in a while there's a good one. I also liked Silver Linings Playbook.
Just saw the Lady From Shanghai by Orson Welles. It held my attention but I didn't like it as much as I should have given the acclaim it's gotten (imdb rating mostly). It seemed to me that Orson Welles' character just sort of sat there in the crosshairs while things happened to him, only to find out what and then not do much about it. I don't think I've ever seen such a fatalistic protagonist in my life.
Borgman A dutch, Belgian and Danish co-production. This is a deeply chilling portrait of evil - a horror film with no real gore. It probes into deep and almost mythic fears with references to shapeshifters and succubi. I've not seen such a haunting and dark film in a long time.
Borgman - Van Warmerdam - Trailer (subtitled) - Cannes Golden Palm Nomination 2013 - YouTube
"Blue Jasmine", the newest Woody Allen movie with a quite wonderful performance by its leading lady Cate Blanchett. Surely a serious contender for an Oscar. This has to be the first film I've seen by Allen that is not recognisable as a Woody Allen film. There is no character who is Woody by any other name. You forget his directorial style and ticks. But it is scarcely a comedy. It is I suppose, at best, a tragi-comedy about a woman destroyed by mishaps in her life.
Surely inspired by he aftermath of the Bernie Madoff affair and the plight of his wife, (though Woody denies it) this really is a very moving film.
Blue Jasmine - Official Trailer (HD) Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin - YouTube