What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[trish]

I remember enjoying Little Buddha, though I can’t remember why. I haven’t seen any of Bertolucci’s Italian movies and very few of the ones in English. Last Emperor was a tolerable drag and you’re absolutely right, Stavros, about Last Tango, it’s not worth the time it takes to watch it.

[Jericho]

2013 is the follow-up... have you seen that one yet, Jericho?

I thought I'd skip it and wait for 2014...Apparently, there's a meteor!

[Jericho]

Colombiana.
A bit shite really, but worth a look just for Zoe Saldana in a catsuit!

[Prospero]

Le Weekend. Trite

[broncofan]

Have gotten through watching three Vietnam war movies: Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and Platoon. I liked Platoon best. I know that the sole goal of a movie is not be realistic, but when you're dealing with something as visceral as war, what the director has to say isn't going to be any more relevant or interesting than what happened. I think Platoon provided a very nice slice of that.

I wasn't in Vietnam and so personally I don't know whether it was realistic at all, but watching Platoon was a very intense experience for me. Apocalypse Now was the worst of the three for me because I found it convoluted even if it's considered by some a masterpiece.

[Prospero]

I haven't seen Last Tango in Paris since it first came out. i was going to see it again - but I am not sure, having read the judgements here, that I will bother. I liked Maria Schneider far better in The Passenger.

[Stavros]

About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009)
I saw this on tv last night, a film from the director of A Separation, using some of the actors from that film, except for the amazing Golshifteh Farahani who now lives in exile in Paris. Owing to the limitations imposed on Iranian directors, the films tend to revolve around human relations in confined spaces. Like a Mike Leigh film, Farhadi puts people in a situation for one purpose -in this case a weekend at the seaside- and then throws in something unexpected in order to see how individuals try to negotiate their way through a crisis in the process being forced to lie, confess, obfuscate, and show some decency. The director uses limited resources to great effect and gets utterly believable performances from fine actors. The last shot in the film is a classic statement. But if I get to Iran I think I'll pass on the seaside...

[Prospero]

"Kill Your Darlings" in which Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) gets to have passive anal sex with a man and is given a blow job by a girl while playing a very young Allen Ginsburg. So Hogwarts is in a parallel universe now.

A thin low budget film about the very early and formative yes of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in New York. Watchable but very unsure of it's tone. And why did the first time director John Krokidas decided to take his title from William Faulkner.

[tsmirandameadows]

"Kill Your Darlings" in which Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) gets to have passive anal sex with a man and is given a blow job by a girl while playing a very young Allen Ginsburg. So Hogwarts is in a parallel universe now.

A thin low budget film about the very early and formative yes of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in New York. Watchable but very unsure of it's tone. And why did the first time director John Krokidas decided to take his title from William Faulkner.

I remember hearing about this when Harry Potter was cast for it. Sounded... not good at the time, and your review has done little to encourage me to see it, lol.

Also, why do so many former child actors have such poor taste when it comes to selecting "serious, artistic" projects which will mark their transition from commercial film to art film? Shia LeBeouf did the same thing a few years ago, and thankfully it seems to have brought an end to his career, meaning we can stop having to collectively pretend that he had the stage presence of a leading man or action hero.

[Prospero]

I met Radcliffe at the screening and he assured me that he chose the role because Ginsberg fascinated him - not to somehow break the straitjacket of the Potter image. Nice guy actually - but I do wonder if he'll ever manage to transcend the Potter image. His acting is okay but the film is small. (as he is - a tiny little guy)