Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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nochexxx
harco pronting
if you like the sci-fi bacheor pad vibe then seek out Silent Running.
empty mirror
remember the jackalope
DePalma: Blow Out is awesome. It is an American Blow Up, basically, with elements of The Conversation, in the ham-fisted addled style of DePalma. John Travolta, c'mon! Plus it is set in Philadelphia (my home town); I used to take people to the site of its crucial scene in the Wissahickon Valley Gorge (basically the spot where Teddy Pendergrass had the car accident that lead to his paralysis; SPOILER ALERT!the transvestite passenger is a good segue to my next recommendation).
Dressed to Kill. Michael Caine. Body Double pays homage to a critical shower scene in DTK. You can't miss it.
Regarding Walter Hill, my father in law just recommended Extreme Prejudice. I haven't watched it yet, but it looks awesome. I can't wait to watch this one.
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Gregor XIII
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I say Bela Tarr's Turin Horse yesteday. Would definitely recommend that everyone checks it out, if given the chance, it is really extreme. It's incredibly dark, though, wasn't quite prepared for that. But yeah, check it out.
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harco pronting
thanks, good to have you back on this thread! look forward to chasing these tips and also the Plugz one from earlier. intriguing.
yeah definitely these two...i felt like blow out kind of dragged, so i prefer dressed to kill. also sisters.
looks like a lot of other good recommendations in the last page or so, thanks. i've always meant to see silent running cause the screenshots looked so crazy...i'll get on that soon.
empty mirror
remember the jackalope
^ ooh Sisters is good.
I just got my mind blown by Through the Looking Glass mentioned upthread. Now I know what a porno directed by Jodorowsky would look like. Mental. Hats off to anyone who can get a boner watching that one.
I just got my mind blown by Through the Looking Glass mentioned upthread. Now I know what a porno directed by Jodorowsky would look like. Mental. Hats off to anyone who can get a boner watching that one.
just saw nightdreams, and there were some amazing moments - the 3-way to the weird, endless ring of fire cover; western setting with a looming skyline in the background. + the cream of wheat/wonderbread-with-a-sax housewife fantasy was so ridiculous. i laughed out loud. ultimately the lack of plot put it below cafe flesh though.
i wrote this about cafe flesh to a friend earlier:
the post-nuclear coldwar paranoia plotline is fleshed out [pun] enough for it not to feel like you're just watching smut. and the persistent tension and claustrophobia - as well as the persistently demented, campy setting - makes the (SPOILER, kind of) lead actress's ultimate epiphany viscerally satisfying. maybe it's best not to go into it thinking of it as pornography.
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Doing my usual thing of only getting round to seeing a movie years after it was released, I watched Inland Empire last night. Not sure what the boards general feeling about David Lynch is (iirc a few people here have kinda ideological objections to his work, but I might be remembering this wrong) but I thought this film was really, really good. And more to the point, fucking terrifying for large parts of its duration.
slowtrain
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Yeah, I really liked it as well but lots of people I know thought it was kinda rubbish.
I suppose the concept is a bit obvious, but whatshername is a very good actor, and the 'rhythm' of it worked pretty well I think.
Plus, yeah, it was fucking terrifying.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
As a David Lynch fan, saw it in the cinema and hated it (well, got very bored, more to the point). Maybe I should give it another go.
In the menatime, Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Martha are both very, very good.
In the menatime, Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Martha are both very, very good.
bandshell
Grand High Witch
I need to give Inland Empire a second viewing. I wasn't particularly impressed with it when I saw it. It definitely has something though.
I didn't like that it was shot in digital. Made it feel a bit like some sort of aborted TV show.
It felt like sitting in on Laura Dern's nightmare. (This is a good thing. Well, fairly good.)
I didn't like that it was shot in digital. Made it feel a bit like some sort of aborted TV show.
It felt like sitting in on Laura Dern's nightmare. (This is a good thing. Well, fairly good.)
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IdleRich
IdleRich
Surprised that any fan of Lynch's earlier stuff would dislike IE, it seems to take all the things that make his other films good and ramp them up to the max. Up to and beyond their logical conclusion you might say - maybe that's your problem, you think it kind of went so far into Lynchishness that it became self-parody? I guess I thought that watching the extras when they were talking about him saying to the props guys "get me a stone gargoyle, a one legged-dwarf and a blind monkey (or whatever) for the next scene" and when they looked surprised saying "You're working on a Lynch film". Anyway, I loved it - though possibly not as much as The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Society is DePalma isn't it? I can't vouch for it totally as I haven't seen it for 20 years, but I remember thinking it was absolutely brilliant. Lots of great body horror imagery IIRC.
EDIT - no it isn't. Where the fuck did that come from?
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nochexxx
harco pronting
during my fevered illness i watched Equinox (the film that supposedly inspired Evil Dead) and thought it was great, mainly because of the isolated setting and plasticine monsters. i absolutely adore this type of animation. it got me thinking, there must be stacks of these types of forgotten/obscure fantasy monster animated films! any recommendations, especially ones set in outdoor terrain?
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harco pronting
Inland Empire felt to me as if it was made parallel to Mullholland Drive. the only bit that irked me was the end credit dance scene - seemed to ape Kitano's shot in Zatoichi. could have had the the same idea i suppose? i loved that bit where Dern's guts are spilling out, all the while there's talk of geting a bus to Paloma.
This has recently been released on DVD for the first time
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/ Alice Director: Jan Svankmajer
It's very good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/ Alice Director: Jan Svankmajer
It's very good.
slim jenkins
El Hombre Invisible
Re Lynch, Mulholland Drive stands out for me, although there are many moments in Inland Empire that are outstanding - as Rich says, he's often on the brink of self-parody, seemingly, although I take that more as recurring obsessions with certain images and moods therefore, really, he's much like any auteur. Trying to make 'sense' of these films is pointless, but as with all ambiguous artists his work attracts obsessives who love pouring over them and projecting their own philisophical/theoretical interpretations onto them. I don't think Lynch knows half the time why he's constructing certain scenes and images, but that 'go with the flow' Zen/surrealist angle makes him very entertaining and hit & miss, but I like that too, as a change from ultra-polished 'perfection'.