What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Bobby Domino]

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

[Prospero]

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.



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

[Bobby Domino]

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?

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!!!

[Prospero]

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

[Bobby Domino]

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

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

[Stavros]

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'...

[rockabilly]

I'm watching " Scream 4 ".

[robertlouis]

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

"Word for word", Libby?

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

[robertlouis]

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.

[Prospero]

You only just saw that? Late developer, eh?