What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[buttslinger]

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.

[Ben]

Just about to watch Thank You For Smoking later tonight....

[Stavros]

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

[philipsfrog]

Last movie I watched was maniac cop what was last week sometime.

Any one got any good movies they could recommend?

[Dino Velvet]

Last movie I watched was maniac cop what was last week sometime.

Any one got any good movies they could recommend?

Maniac Cop 2 & 3
Matt Cordell Lives Forever!!!

[HbgDon]

Act of Valor

[south ov da border]

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.

[robertlouis]

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.

[Jericho]

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.
Quite touching in places.

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[Stavros]

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