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Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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mistersloane
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Just joined Close Up today, the video shop on Brick Lane
http://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/
having exhausted our local video place and the local library. It's a brilliant place, not near me but worth a visit once a week to get three films out. It's 10 quid a month which seemed like great value. Wicked selection of films in there.
http://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/
having exhausted our local video place and the local library. It's a brilliant place, not near me but worth a visit once a week to get three films out. It's 10 quid a month which seemed like great value. Wicked selection of films in there.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I'm a member of The Film Shop on Broadway Market (and Stoke Newington Church St) - I think the selection there is really good although I'm not sure how it compares to the one on Brick Lane, I always think that looks quite impressive but it's a bit too far away for me to go to regularly. I don't think that you have to pay to join The Film Shop though.
http://www.thefilmshop.co.uk/
mistersloane
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Yeah I know the one in Stoke Newington which I've always looked lovingly at. I'm south though so it's always been too far. I don't wanna own DVDs anymore so rent but round here we've literally watched everything, and it's no fun ordering stuff from the library, I like the choosing for mood. If I was in Brick Lane I'd charge for membership as well, otherwise everything would just disappear. I'm quite excited.
bandshell
Grand High Witch
I watched Days of Wine & Roses last night. Mesmerizing piece of work. Jack Lemmon's performance is incredible. Slightly surreal in places and utterly crushing.
Don't watch it expecting an accurate portrayal of alcoholism. It gets very over the top. Nightmarish at times.
Don't watch it expecting an accurate portrayal of alcoholism. It gets very over the top. Nightmarish at times.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I greatly enoyed A Prophet when I saw it the other day. I wasn't gonna bother 'cause I was so disappointed with Mesrine which came out around the same time, from the same country, had vaguely similar subject matter and which garnered a similar amount of praise. However, saw it by accident and it's on a completely different level, more comparable to The Godfather or some other multi-layered epic .
slim jenkins
El Hombre Invisible
nochexxx
harco pronting
yeah, this was great. i liked the fact the boss man looked like antony worrall thompson
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harco pronting
i guess you must have been thinking i recognise that squashed Bee Gee from somewhere
seriously though, this film blew my mind. main actor was sick. i loved the chess moves, especially the endgame check mate. superb.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Again, not a totally and unreserved recommendation but one I reckon that is well worth anyone's time and which most will find some enjoyment in even if it is flawed as a whole piece. I'm talking about a Brazilian film called Macunaima which was a sixties adaptation of the twenties book, brought up to date by being set in (then) modern Brazil. The main character ("Our hero Macunaima") is born fully grown to a woman who is obviously a man (and reminds me of one of those Monty Python types that fight with their handbags) before heading off to the city and being turned white by a magic fountain (which runs out before his brother can get under it, "condemning" him to remain black). In the city he takes up with a revolutionary woman, remaning at home every day while she goes out to make war - until one day she and her baby are blown up by a bomb they've hidden in the baby carriage. Macunaima then devotes the rest of the film to retrieving a magic, luck bringing stone that she was carrying from a giant cannibalistic industrialist who found it after the explosion.
It's a strange one that plays with race, class and Brazilian folk tales and politics (apparently at least - this all went right over my head as I know nothing about the subject). The film is always fun and reminiscent of other sixties psychedelic quest films such as The Holy Mountain although lacking that spiritual dimension. In fact, as most people who don't know Brazilian history won't get a lot of the references and effectively miss at least one of the film's dimensions it comes across more like Head or Candy - fun, colourful, crazy and almost meaningless.
It's a strange one that plays with race, class and Brazilian folk tales and politics (apparently at least - this all went right over my head as I know nothing about the subject). The film is always fun and reminiscent of other sixties psychedelic quest films such as The Holy Mountain although lacking that spiritual dimension. In fact, as most people who don't know Brazilian history won't get a lot of the references and effectively miss at least one of the film's dimensions it comes across more like Head or Candy - fun, colourful, crazy and almost meaningless.
Bangpuss
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Machuca
Speaking of South American cinema, I'd wholeheartedly recommend Machuca by Andres Wood (2004). About a private school in Chile under the socialist rule of Salvador Allende that starts accepting underprivileged kids, who get bullied in the most part by their wealthy brethren. But the protagonist, a sweet young rich kid, befriends one of them. It's a critique of the society that ended up with Pinochet, and the bourgeoisie's (sp?) support for the regime. A real stunner that mixes the personal with the political, tragedy and comedy. As good, I'd say, as Good Bye Lenin, another of my favourites that deals with political change in a similarly personal way.
Speaking of South American cinema, I'd wholeheartedly recommend Machuca by Andres Wood (2004). About a private school in Chile under the socialist rule of Salvador Allende that starts accepting underprivileged kids, who get bullied in the most part by their wealthy brethren. But the protagonist, a sweet young rich kid, befriends one of them. It's a critique of the society that ended up with Pinochet, and the bourgeoisie's (sp?) support for the regime. A real stunner that mixes the personal with the political, tragedy and comedy. As good, I'd say, as Good Bye Lenin, another of my favourites that deals with political change in a similarly personal way.
NEDS
apart from the slightly weird ending, this is one of the best uk films ive seen in a while. and the kid playing the lead character should have won a fucking bafta. really amazing performance. and with so few lines. but its not the bloody kings speech so yknow how it goes....
apart from the slightly weird ending, this is one of the best uk films ive seen in a while. and the kid playing the lead character should have won a fucking bafta. really amazing performance. and with so few lines. but its not the bloody kings speech so yknow how it goes....
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Oh, I thought it was invented and titled specifically to bore me shitless and make me groan audibly any time anyone mentioned it (which many have...why?).
mistersloane
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Seconded. Best British film since 'Naked'. Should win/should have won every award going, Peter Mullan's a fucking genius. I haven't seen a film that's infected my vision for ages, I came out and everything was grainy, the people in the lift at the tube too high contrast, too loud. I thought I was going to cry waiting for the tube at one point.
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naked = mike leighs best film. ive not seen all leighs films (though another year, though good seems a bit overrated - the couple in that were condescending i thought, not warm and lovely like some critics have made out) so i could be wrong but he does seem to like making most of his working class characters seem a bit stupid/harmless/a mess.
i also saw the arbor recently which though a bit bleak (what is it with british directors obsessed with making everything so fucking DOUR) at least based its bleakness on a true story. the story of the asian daughter was so unbelievably depressing and sad i almost cried. but its really cleverly told, with actors speaking the parts from tapes of interviews with the real people. also makes you wonder where all those old british films about more ordinary people in british films have gone to. like, there seems to only be two types of british films now - theres the ones like kings speech about nice well to do people as identified by the US, yknow REAL ENGLAND, and then theres the fucking bleak, grey, ultra stark shit like bullet boy or fish tank or red road or whatever where its arty and everyones lives are fucking depressing and still and slow and no one can say very much cos theyre all so fucking depressed by their GRIM existence and so on and so on. (granted i might have missed out a few, but this is how it seems to look). watched an old leigh short the other day, short and curlies, and actually thought that sort of thing was better. at least it had a bit of humour to it, like sammy and rosie get laid, my beautiful laundrette etc etc.
i also saw the arbor recently which though a bit bleak (what is it with british directors obsessed with making everything so fucking DOUR) at least based its bleakness on a true story. the story of the asian daughter was so unbelievably depressing and sad i almost cried. but its really cleverly told, with actors speaking the parts from tapes of interviews with the real people. also makes you wonder where all those old british films about more ordinary people in british films have gone to. like, there seems to only be two types of british films now - theres the ones like kings speech about nice well to do people as identified by the US, yknow REAL ENGLAND, and then theres the fucking bleak, grey, ultra stark shit like bullet boy or fish tank or red road or whatever where its arty and everyones lives are fucking depressing and still and slow and no one can say very much cos theyre all so fucking depressed by their GRIM existence and so on and so on. (granted i might have missed out a few, but this is how it seems to look). watched an old leigh short the other day, short and curlies, and actually thought that sort of thing was better. at least it had a bit of humour to it, like sammy and rosie get laid, my beautiful laundrette etc etc.
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