IdleRich

IdleRich
I should perhaps rewatch Gangs of New York, to see if my high opinion of it still stands. It’s likely that I only remember liking it because I liked DDL’s performance. Think Brendan Gleeson was in it too, whom I also admire, but I could be wrong.

Last time I was in London we saw his saw his son in a pub on Hackney Road... it is kinda weird to think that twenty years ago Hackney was a rough area but now you have Hollywood stars popping into the pubs for a pint.
 

woops

is not like other people
Last time I was in London we saw his saw his son in a pub on Hackney Road... it is kinda weird to think that twenty years ago Hackney was a rough area but now you have Hollywood stars popping into the pubs for a pint.
huh kittykat
 

DLaurent

Well-known member
As I've said before I watch a film noir or similar every night and have done for about 3 years now. I'm still finding stuff to watch on YouTube, but most of them are low grade. The last three nights have been an exception, a bit of a purple patch with three great ones in a row.

Somewhere in the Night - There's loads where the protagonist has amnesia, a particular noir trope, but this one's a good one.
City of Fear - The guy is just doomed. He thinks he has a valuable canister of smack but it's actually radioactive poison.
Tight Spot - Good cast with Ginger Rogers and particularly Edward G Robinson in one of his better distinguished roles aside from the most well known ones.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
As I've said before I watch a film noir or similar every night and have done for about 3 years now. I'm still finding stuff to watch on YouTube, but most of them are low grade. The last three nights have been an exception, a bit of a purple patch with three great ones in a row.

Somewhere in the Night - There's loads where the protagonist has amnesia, a particular noir trope, but this one's a good one.
City of Fear - The guy is just doomed. He thinks he has a valuable canister of smack but it's actually radioactive poison.
Tight Spot - Good cast with Ginger Rogers and particularly Edward G Robinson in one of his better distinguished roles aside from the most well known ones.
I just watched Out of the Past for the first time this week, and apparently that is where the

"Cigarette?"

"Smoking."

exchange came from. I know I've heard that elsewhere...
 

william_kent

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Anyone here see Babylon yet? I just saw it yesterday.

I somehow doubt you're talking about the classic and best 1980s UK film about Sound System EVER where Ital Lion take on Jah Shaka?


Babylon - Shaka vs Ital Lion ( 1980 )

if so, yeah, multiple times...

source of many samples on early dubstep tunes


Babylon - Fat Larry ( 1980 )


Horsepower Productions - Fat Larry's Skank ( 2002 )


edit: and later dubstep tunes also plundered the !980 film - I used to play this one on the "free party sound system" - kicks off with a Babylon ( 1980 ) sample


Gorgon Sound - Find Jah Way ( 2012 )
 
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Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I somehow doubt you're talking about the classic and best 1980s UK film about Sound System EVER where Ital Lion take on Jah Shaka?


Babylon - Shaka vs Ital Lion ( 1980 )

if so, yeah, multiple times...

source of many samples on early dubstep tunes


Babylon - Fat Larry ( 1980 )


Horsepower Productions - Fat Larry's Skank ( 2002 )
Yeah I meant the new three-hour Damien Chazelle film. A lot more transgressive than I thought it would be.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I might be bit jaded, but what does it take to be "transgressive" nowadays?

but presuming I shouldn't suggest this film when I visit my mother?
Haha I actually saw it with my parents and their friends, but yes definitely not a family film.

I mean transgressive mostly from a sexually deviant perspective, which in a culturally liberal context isn't that transgressive, I suppose. In a liberal context, really I suspect the main way to be transgressive is to behave in a cancelable fashion.

SPOILER

Babylon had a scene that resembled Dante's descent, but down into an abandoned tunnel/subway system (which the characters called "the asshole of Los Angeles"), with a bunch of gimped-out lepers and deformed figures engaging in sado-masochistic orgies.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
The film also opens with an elephant projectile-shitting on a man's face, soon followed by a teenage girl pissing on a different man's face.
 

william_kent

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Is it? I haven't seen any Anger films yet.

I was referencing his "Hollywood Babylon" books

I think those probably made him more money than his films ever did....

if you like Hollywood "golden age" gossip, then they are essential reads


there was a UK fast food chain called "Arbuckles " which i could never pass by without suppressing a laugh due to the Anger books....
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I was referencing his "Hollywood Babylon" books

Unless he took the name from something prior which also inspired the film

I think those probably made him more money than his films ever did....

I don't think it's even close.


if you like Hollywood "golden age" gossip, then they are essential reads

They're great but there is a big question mark about how much of it is actually true.


there was a UK fast food chain called "Arbuckles " which i could never pass by without suppressing a laugh due to the Anger books....

Didn't it used to be called Fatty Arbuckles?
 

william_kent

Well-known member
They're great but there is a big question mark about how much of it is actually true.

in my world it's all true, but yeah, not sure it can all be verified... but let's not get "truth" in the way of a good story

Didn't it used to be called Fatty Arbuckles?

actually, you're correct - it was called "Fatty Arbuckles"

edit: still had to suppress a chuckle when i saw the name "Arbuckle"

edit: not that i am in any way condoning non-consensual 'bottle sex", I hope everyone understands that....

edit: but seriously, why would you name your fast food franchise after one of the most notorious scenes from the "Hollywood Babylon" series?
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
in my world it's all true, but yeah, not sure it can all be verified... but let's not get "truth" in the way of a good story
True. I want to believe… but there is a strong suspicion that he waited for people to die then made up loads of scurrilous rumours about them when they couldn't sue… isn't there a law that you can't libel the dead or something? I really do want to believe that that woman was eaten by her pet dog but though.
 
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