Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

sufi

sufi

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Shutka Book of Records

this was on the box recently - charming and fantastic, i'd heartily recommend...
the rivalry between the 2 camps of champion turkish music cassette connoisseurs reminded me of this place :D

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trailer here
http://en.dtrailer.com/movies/watch/knjiga-rekorda-sutke
 
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polystyle

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Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul

This was on Cable the other night, what I saw was quite good.
Some inspired performances, deeper than surface investigation of what's been on in Istanbul.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Bridge:_The_Sound_of_Istanbul
Didn't realize it was Alex from ENB until end credits !
Recommended ...

Also, if I didn't mention earlier - the movie Intacto.
Shot partly on Canary Islands, there are some sharp and clear elements presented here that were mesmerizing.
Dug the chilly single note piano on the soundtrack too.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
I watched Gone Baby Gone yesterday having assumed it would be totally rubbish because Ben Affleck had so much creative input but I'm not afraid to admit that I was wrong. I thought that the rough bits of Boston were very well realised and the story and acting were nice and gritty. The plot had some good twists although maybe one too many and Casey Affleck and Ed Harris were both good. On the downside, the female lead was a bit underused though, she sort of faded out as the film went on. As an aside, it's weird how much the missing girl looked like "Maddie" - or is it just that any girl of that age with blond hair looks pretty much the same?
 
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crackerjack

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IdleRich said:
I watched Gone Baby Gone yesterday having assumed it would be totally rubbish because Ben Affleck had so much creative input but I'm not afraid to admit that I was wrong. I thought that the rough bits of Boston were very well realised and the story and acting were nice and gritty. The plot had some good twists although maybe one too many and Casey Affleck and Ed Harris were both good. On the downside, the female lead was a bit underused though, she sort of faded out as the film went on. As an aside, it's weird how much the missing girl looked like "Maddie" - or is it just that any girl of that age with blond hair looks pretty much the same?
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saw a screening of this a few weeks back and agree there was at least one twist too many, although i liked the moral dilemma it set up and any doubts were assuaged the final scene between CA and Amy Ryan, which was just brilliant
 
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petergunn

plywood violin
i am going to bring down the level of discourse and say the new Indiana Jones movie was great and anyone who says otherwise is an asshole...
 
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mms

sometimes
i saw charles burnett - 'killer of sheep' tonight and by god it was lovely, fantastic film about a watts family in the 70's made while he was still at ucla.

black and white - 'naturalistic' employing lots of people from watts, beautifully, tenderly shot.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I just saw This Is England, which one of my housemates had rented out. Thought it was pretty good, although at the very end Combo's sudden flip from happy stoned multiculturalist to brutal racist thug in all of twenty seconds was a bit unconvincing, I thought.

The little kid in it is fantastic, he single-handedly (almost) makes up for the entire adolescent cast of the Harry Potter series. :)
 
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crackerjack

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Mr. Tea said:
I just saw This Is England, which one of my housemates had rented out. Thought it was pretty good, although at the very end Combo's sudden flip from happy stoned multiculturalist to brutal racist thug in all of twenty seconds was a bit unconvincing, I thought.
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it was more of a flip from brutal racist thug into stoned happy multiculturalist and then back again. But yeah, I found Combo's motivation (fucked up family, crap shag) and the film's only real weakness, that and the fact that a load of people from one northern town all had distinctly different northern accents.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
crackerjack said:
it was more of a flip from brutal racist thug into stoned happy multiculturalist and then back again.
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Well yes, of course, that's what I meant.

crackerjack said:
But yeah, I found Combo's motivation (fucked up family, crap shag) and the film's only real weakness, that and the fact that a load of people from one northern town all had distinctly different northern accents.
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And half of them sounded like they were from suburban London! Not to mention the seemingly Eton-educated 'Paki' shop owner. :rolleyes:

Good film on the whole, though. I especially liked the young kid's emotional search for a surrogate dad after his was killed in the Falklands - seems to resonate strongly with a lot of stuff people are saying about urban gangs at the moment.
 
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Gabba Flamenco Crossover

High Sierra Skullfuck
I watched Wall E last night and it rocked unbelievably. Massively recommended. The robot character is so appealing - they manage to get this real loneliness and emotional dislocation into him. Especially the first 20 minutes when he's all on his own pottering about. The second half of the film is more standard pixar, some class gags though.

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And then after that we watched THX1138, which I saw once ages ago but good to see it again. Love the way it's druggy as fuck, real acid paranoia film. Lots of it is just audio montages of meaningless technobabble. Ace.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
I've got this at home to watch which would seem to fit nicely with the dystopian robot movie films you've been watching Gabba

http://www.monsterpants.net/automatons/

Didn't have a chance to watch it at the weekend but I've got high hopes for it so I'll include it here (then again I always have high hopes).
 
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crackerjack

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Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. Can't believe I never got round to seeing this before. As great as i expected, even if Peckinpah is responsible for inventing that 'it ain't over til the fat lady dies in a hail of slow motion machine-gun fire' shtick that besmirches so many recent thrillers.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
"Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. Can't believe I never got round to seeing this before. As great as i expected, even if Peckinpah is responsible for inventing that 'it ain't over til the fat lady dies in a hail of slow motion machine-gun fire' shtick that besmirches so many recent thrillers."
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I thought that the ending was just a bit too stupid really. Spoiled what had gone before for me a little.
I watched Happy Go Lucky at the weekend which was ok I guess, exactly what I expected really. The first few scenes were really poor and I thought "I was wrong, he's surprised me by making a film that's much worse than I was expecting" but it did pick up. It was always watchable and gave us something to talk about afterwards but I didn't really feel that there was much to it or that it needed to be made.
 
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crackerjack

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IdleRich said:
I thought that the ending was just a bit too stupid really. Spoiled what had gone before for me a little.
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I hear you, though it'd be interesting to see how it appeared at the time. Peckinpah was (at least in his own head) quite genuine about demonstrating the uncontrollable nature of violence. Instead the next generation saw his films and went "guns, cool!" which is why some of it now looks quite hackneyed.
 
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UFO over easy

online mahjong
I wouldn't unreservedly recommend it but I watched the king of marvin gardens the other night and really enjoyed it. Strange feel to it. But familiarly strange. Felt extremely of its time, every scene quite disjointed and disassociated from the next.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
"Looks good!"
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And it was good in fact - laughable fx and ropey acting aside the plot held it together and they overcame those obstacles by having the bad actors never really interacting with anyone else. Plus, I liked the moomins style fx, it had a lovely fifties bleepy sci-fi look, sound and feel to it and it was always watchable - plus it had a (barely disguised) attack on US foreign and home policy rumbling along in the background all the way through. The ending was a little over the top and, irritatingly, there was something wrong with the dvd so that the final scene kept jumping (why does this happen - it was a new dvd and I opened the packet myself?) and I don't know exactly what happened at the end or whether the protagonist said anything memorable as the final, terrible truth dawned on her but overall well worth checking out.
 
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