Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

[kid charlemagne]

@version have u seen bringing out the dead, the last schrader/scorsese collab? rw last night, still does nothing for me.

 

[version]

@version have u seen bringing out the dead, the last schrader/scorsese collab? rw last night, still does nothing for me.

Yeah, I go back and forth on it. I like the smeared lights and the whole nocturnal thing, the recurring Van Morrison tune and Ving Rhames, but it didn't quite land for me last time I watched it. I found them chasing that mental guy around all night a bit tedious. The performances weren't that great either.

 

[Clinamenic]

I just saw, and would unreseredly recommend, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by Herzog and starring Nic Cage as a savant New Orleans detective addicted to gambling and crack. Its perhaps the most delightfully unhinged Cage performance I've seen. Granted I like him and give him a lot of leeway with his crazy performances, but this one I thought was appropriate, given his character.

 

[version]

I just saw, and would unreseredly recommend, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by Herzog and starring Nic Cage as a savant New Orleans detective addicted to gambling and crack. Its perhaps the most delightfully unhinged Cage performance I've seen. Granted I like him and give him a lot of leeway with his crazy performances, but this one I thought was appropriate, given his character.

You should watch Ferrara's now and see which you prefer. They actually had it on TV here last night, switched it on right at the end when he's groaning on his knees in church then handcuffing the two guys and smoking crack with them.

 

[Clinamenic]

You should watch Ferrara's now and see which you prefer. They actually had it on TV here last night, switched it on right at the end when he's groaning on his knees in church then handcuffing the two guys and smoking crack with them.

Good idea yeah, I haven't seen the Ferrara one yet.

 

[kid charlemagne]

Yeah, I go back and forth on it. I like the smeared lights and the whole nocturnal thing, the recurring Van Morrison tune and Ving Rhames, but it didn't quite land for me last time I watched it. I found them chasing that mental guy around all night a bit tedious and it felt like a fairly generic late 90s thing. The performances aren't that great either.

i hated the whole look of the film actually, tahts the main thing that puts me off

 

[kid charlemagne]

saw the searchers again today... apparently some say it is racist or something, but i think its beautiful

 

[version]

i hated the whole look of the film actually, tahts the main thing that puts me off

The glow? Casino looks like that too.

 

[kid charlemagne]

yea but most of casino takes place in the day time. entirety of BotD is at night with that glare.

 

[version]

BotD reminds me of the Safdies. That hectic, running all over town bumping into oddballs and sleazy side characters thing, but less raw, more cartoonish.

I'll have to watch it again and see how I feel about it, but at the moment my sense is it's a bit all over the place. It's supposed to be this character study of a struggling paramedic, but it feels so outlandish and odd that it doesn't hit as hard as it could and comes off as quite silly.

If he'd made it in the 70s, I think it would have been grittier and possibly better for it.

 

[IdleRich]

You should watch Ferrara's now and see which you prefer. They actually had it on TV here last night, switched it on right at the end when he's groaning on his knees in church then handcuffing the two guys and smoking crack with them.

I rewatched the Cage one a month or two back. Should do the same with the original... well it's not really a direct re-make is it so perhaps I shouldn't call it that but you know what I mean. Probably saw it thirty years ago in fact... more maybe.

It's another one of those "what's the point of watching all those films/reading all those books if - however great they are - you're inevitably gonna forget them in the end?"

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I just saw, and would unreseredly recommend, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by Herzog and starring Nic Cage as a savant New Orleans detective addicted to gambling and crack. Its perhaps the most delightfully unhinged Cage performance I've seen. Granted I like him and give him a lot of leeway with his crazy performances, but this one I thought was appropriate, given his character.

You should check out this other film by Herzog. It's called Lady Ballers.

 

[shakahislop]

saw this obscure underground film do the right thing the other day absolutely brilliant. tried to watch crooklyn a few months ago and had to turn it off coz it was pissing me off and i wondered if spike lee just wasn't my thing and maybe i'd got taken in by some stylistic bullshit the first time i saw do the right thing. but that one is a masterpiece. the emotions it pulls you through are so strangely sequenced.

 

[Clinamenic]

Yeah I've only seen a few of his, but that one stands far above the others.

 

[shakahislop]

i identified with the italian geezer running the pizza shop which i think means i'm officially a man now

reminded me of this bit in nostaghia:

 

[kid charlemagne]

i identified with the italian geezer running the pizza shop which i think means i'm officially a man now

reminded me of this bit in nostaghia:

one of greatest scenes ever lol.

 

[kid charlemagne]

will say with spike, malcolm x is most certainly worth the watch. one of best biopics

 

[luka]

we says the kid is really good looking and 6'4 also rich like hes dad is Getty

 

[luka]

he litetrrally has 7 yachts

 

[Ian Scuffling]

Any of you guys seen The Shooting with Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson, and Millie Perkins? Great borderline psychedelic western. Sparse as a McCarthy novel. Oates in one of his best performances and Millie Perkins a sand-blasted siren.