Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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crackerjack
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Watch Cannibal Holocaust and the entire works of Tarkovsky for absolution.
padraig (u.s.)
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this may be old hat for you Europeans given that it won the Palme d'Or, but I saw The Class (aka Entre Les Murs) yesterday and it completely blew me away. Absolutely stunning. I cannot recommend it highly enough, one of the best films I've ever seen.
Has anyone else seen it? I'd be interested to hear some reactions, particularly from any French Dissensians.
Has anyone else seen it? I'd be interested to hear some reactions, particularly from any French Dissensians.
i was completely impressed. can not imagine a project of this magnitude being carried out with more integrity -- style, language, action, etc -- as "historicall accurate" as is possible i imagine... has there been any archeological beef about it? and absent of didactic preachy bullshit (but people can read anything into anything can't they)
whatever Gibson's faults, i am pretty much floored by this one (and i avoided it for so long!)
I can only imagine it was more a feat of Mel's violent, febrile imagination than one of archaeological extrapolation.
But what the hey!
My 6 year old daughter poked her round the sitting room door during one of the scenes that rove through the Mayan capital. I moved very fast; hard to imagine anything I would less like her to see, prone as she is to nightmares.
But what the hey!
My 6 year old daughter poked her round the sitting room door during one of the scenes that rove through the Mayan capital. I moved very fast; hard to imagine anything I would less like her to see, prone as she is to nightmares.
I checked out Happy-Go-Lucky to see what the fuss was about and enjoyed it.
I'm not sure what movie Mike Leigh is talking about. The main middle class character is cheerful, yes, but but she's also manipulative and deluded (and simply annoying). I think the first thing she says in the film at bookshop is something like "Reality? Who wants to go there?" The dancing classes imo contrast her spinelessness with the Spanish teacher's nerve (is that the right word?). Similarly the scenes with her alone with her best friend have a lot more sexual tension the sex scene with the guy she picked up at the school.
And the driving lesson scenes are really tense.. I certainly didn't come out of the film feeling more up-lifted with the world.
I'm not sure what movie Mike Leigh is talking about. The main middle class character is cheerful, yes, but but she's also manipulative and deluded (and simply annoying). I think the first thing she says in the film at bookshop is something like "Reality? Who wants to go there?" The dancing classes imo contrast her spinelessness with the Spanish teacher's nerve (is that the right word?). Similarly the scenes with her alone with her best friend have a lot more sexual tension the sex scene with the guy she picked up at the school.
And the driving lesson scenes are really tense.. I certainly didn't come out of the film feeling more up-lifted with the world.
vimothy
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I watched it, at the missus' request (it being Valentines day and all) -- never heard of it, didn't hate it, wouldn't recommend it though.
In other news, I saw No Country for Old Men, which was good, and Naked, which was better. Man, it was a laugh a minute film sesh! (If only the central characters could meet, I feel sure that they'd cancel each other out, somehow).
Also got hold of Waltz with Bashir and Al Jazeera's 15 part epic The War for Lebanon -- set them aside for the next time I feel like having some fun.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
so no one's seen The Class? or they have don't have any comments on it? not to go on, just it's a fantastic movie & one I really think would appeal to many Dissensus folk.
oh & on another note I just saw Rockers for the first time the other night. which I imagine a lot of people have seen but hell i'll recommend it anyway. even better than I thought it'd be, some absolutely killer moments; the montage of dreads striding tall to "Stepping Razor", the scene that produced the sample for Splash - "Babylon", pretty much every scene with Gregory Isaacs.
oh & on another note I just saw Rockers for the first time the other night. which I imagine a lot of people have seen but hell i'll recommend it anyway. even better than I thought it'd be, some absolutely killer moments; the montage of dreads striding tall to "Stepping Razor", the scene that produced the sample for Splash - "Babylon", pretty much every scene with Gregory Isaacs.
chimpybits
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OK, that's all I need: 1 ringing endorsement. I loved a previous film by this director - TIme Out. Based on the setup/description, The Class seems to have a lot of possibility to suck, but I'll now give it a go.
I'm part way through The Rockers as it turns out, and it's naturalistic style is giving a nice sense of time and place so far.
Hey hasn't anyone seen Notorious yet (and no jokers I'm not referring to the Hitch film which is peerless)?
crackerjack
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chimpybits
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Well, how is it? Any other thoughts? Would you at least reservedly recommend it ('scuse my non-conformance to this thread's purpose)?
crackerjack
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Pardon my twattishness, I wsa just in the mood.
I'd recommend it if you're a biggie fan and don't have enormous expectations. I am and didn't, and consequently enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The music clips are good, performances mostly OK and if you can stomach the general whitewashing (particularly of Puffy, who co-produced the film and, coincidentally, comes out of it looking almost saintly) it's OK.
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chimpybits
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I'm mostly interested in getting a sense of the local culture within a particular time and place. Generally, I don't think much of biopics except for this element. The whitewashing obviously takes away from this (as well as the credibility of it as a realistic biopic). The tone of you're slight twatishness was lost on me - sorely lacking a wink emoticon.
crackerjack
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You get some of that - street rhyme battles, dealing etc. But they' went with a bit list of important events in Big's life they felt obliged to put in and everything else is just strung around them.
chimpybits
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Yep the problem with biopics - filling in all the blanks that comprise the played out history of a star. Still I'll see it.