Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

nochexxx

nochexxx

harco pronting
Blind Beast is sitting at home, alongside Horrors of Malformed Men. haven't seen The Bedroom, will
try and track it down. upthread, i recomended Hausu, watch the trailer and see for yourself.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Hausu is definitely one of the maddest films ever made. Love all the not so subtle references to spaghetti westerns and stuff.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
I (think I) like 60s/70s Japanese films. Can one of you give me a list of 10 to watch? (I mean, the ten best, or strangest, or just best looking, or whatever.)
 
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BSquires

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craner said:
I (think I) like 60s/70s Japanese films. Can one of you give me a list of 10 to watch? (I mean, the ten best, or strangest, or just best looking, or whatever.)
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I'm no expert and can't do ten but here are two Seijun Suzuki films that definitely amongst are best/strangest/best looking:

Branded to Kill - Rice-cooker fetish killer in black and white masterpiece.
Tokyo Drifter - We will need/want a powder blue suit after this one...

On the strangest tip various Kaiju Eiga must count, especially:

Godzilla vs The Smog Monster Insane even by Japanese monster movie standards...
 
geiom

geiom

Active member
craner said:
Anyway, I was about to go on about Knife in the Water being my favorite Polanski -- mainly because I've gone right off all the others, apart from possibly Chinatown, although I haven't watched that all the way through in a long time. I've had a dispassionate interest and admiration for his films for years that, actually, when I think about it properly, falls to pieces guite quickly.

Repulsion -- neurotic, quite silly.
Cul-de-sac -- very tedious, just twaddle.
Fearless Vampire Killers -- unwatchable, not even as funny as Lust for a Vampire.
Rosemary's Baby -- pretty gauche and hollow, as becomes clear at the ludicrous conclusion.
Macbeth -- this is still decent, to be fair.
What? -- I retain a soft spot for this, despite itself, but, I mean, it's not good.
Chinatown -- is great, yes.
The Tenant -- about as over-rated as they come, as tedious as Cul-de-sac and pointlessly neurotic as Repulsion
Tess -- almost as boring as Hardy's prose.
Frantic -- super right up until the end which then destroys the whole movie and you never want to watch it again.

And then everything after this, apart from The Pianist, is chewing-your-hands-off stuff. Knife in the Water is the one -- focused, tense, obsessive, stylish. He never bettered it.
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yeah Chinatown is amazing. Not sure about some of his other stuff, didn't rate The Pianist
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
"Branded to Kill - Rice-cooker fetish killer in black and white masterpiece.
Tokyo Drifter - We will need/want a powder blue suit after this one..."
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Branded to Kill has really got something I think - although obviously it makes no sense whatsoever - but I really couldn't handle Tokyo Drifter; after a promising start the singing is just so fucking annoying. His comeback film Princess Raccoon also did my head in.
Another crazy Japanese film is 964 Pinnochio which is, frankly, a bit of a mess but kind of interesting for a scene that was almost certainly borrowed by Miike for Audition. Also has a sequence presumably influenced by the subway scene in Possession where a woman throws up an impossibly large amount of vomit.

Pinocchio 964, lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. He is befriended by a criminally insane, memory-wiped, homeless girl. Meanwhile, the corporate entity who manufactured and sold him plots to kill him because of his malfunction.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0225009/
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Har Har.

Of course I loved the Lady Snowblood and Scorpion films, Hanzo the Razor, and The School of the Holy Beast...but that's about all I've really seen (relatively sober, anyway) despite the best efforts of Badger Gav, so thank you for the leads.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Oh yeah - and what's the other one by the Onibaba guy? It's really similar although slightly inferior but still worth seeing. He did another more realist one as well but I haven't seen it.
 
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BSquires

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craner said:
Har Har.

Of course I loved the Lady Snowblood and Scorpion films, Hanzo the Razor, and The School of the Holy Beast...but that's about all I've really seen (relatively sober, anyway) despite the best efforts of Badger Gav, so thank you for the leads.
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One more I've just thought of:

Black Tight Killers - Sort of like a Suzuki Seijun film but not quite so out there - has some excellent girl assassins attacking with LP records if I remember correctly...
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
IdleRich said:
Oh yeah - and what's the other one by the Onibaba guy? It's really similar although slightly inferior but still worth seeing. He did another more realist one as well but I haven't seen it.
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Hmm, not sure - he seems to have an extensive filmography...not even seen Onibaba yet, but it does have the best cover ever.
 
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Tony Flavourmore

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animal kingdom


thought this was pretty good.
 
bandshell

bandshell

Grand High Witch
I watched Kind Hearts & Coronets this morning. I'd only seen it once before and loved it. Excellent film. Dennis Price and Alec Guiness are both fantastic.
 
slim jenkins

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
Branded To Kill (as mention above)...had it half-watched for months and only dragged myself back to it seeing it mentioned here...read so many great things about it but...found it unwatchable...no wonder they sacked him!
 
nochexxx

nochexxx

harco pronting
anyone watch History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (BBC4)? far from complete, but decent TV i thought. i'm hoping Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be a good as the clip featured. obviously i have a great deal of catching up to do. so what are the greatest horror films? is there anything better than Coffin Joe or Carnival of Souls?
 
bandshell

bandshell

Grand High Witch
nochexxx said:
anyone watch History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (BBC4)? far from complete, but decent TV i thought. i'm hoping Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be a good as the clip featured. obviously i have a great deal of catching up to do. so what are the greatest horror films? is there anything better than Coffin Joe or Carnival of Souls?
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Suspiria
 
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