Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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I suggest you get hold of the Raro Video DVD release, currently £18 at Amazon (it was going for £999 two weeks ago!), right now.
Can see yr a giallo fan...WERD! You might wanna check out DEATH LAID and EGG and THE FIFTH CHORD, two giallo that stick to the Dissensus 'body-without organs' paradigm or whatever..
I can extremely highly recoomed to this board
THE NOUVELLE VIE - PHILLIPE GRANDRIEUX
Aronofsky's "The Fountain"...beautiful, haunting and breath-taking (possibly redundant, but it's difficult to find enough superlatives for this). One of the best things I've seen in a theatre for years. Absolutely hypnotic with an assured circular storyline and not a single wasted moment in its hour and a half run time. Can't recommend this highly enough.
craner
Beast of Burden
Can see yr a giallo fan...WERD!
Quite. The Fifth Cord is one of my favorite films. I love Franco Nero in that one ("You peese of sheet! I keel you!!!"). Fabulous film.
Death Laid An Egg I've never seen, but always admired the title. I got Death Walks At Midnight which put me off the whole Death Does Something Something franchise for good, though I'll buy any Italo flick on recommendation.
Next year Severin have got Lucio Fulci's giallo One on Top of the Other coming out in a new deluxe uncut etc etc edition and that's big exciting news, because it hasn't been available before.
Quite. The Fifth Cord is one of my favorite films. I love Franco Nero in that one ("You peese of sheet! I keel you!!!"). Fabulous film.
Death Laid An Egg I've never seen, but always admired the title. I got Death Walks At Midnight which put me off the whole Death Does Something Something franchise for good, though I'll buy any Italo flick on recommendation.
Next year Severin have got Lucio Fulci's giallo One on Top of the Other coming out in a new deluxe uncut etc etc edition and that's big exciting news, because it hasn't been available before.
'Odd Man Out' by Carol Reed, top James Mason action, this film is set in Belfast but some of the external street scenes were filmed on Broadway Market for all you east end history buffs, the dvd includes a brilliant documentary about James Masons' roots in Huddersfield called 'Home James' made for Granada TV in 72, it's well hauntalogical !!!!!
The new bond aint bad either, I reckon it's one for you Craner deffo..............
The new bond aint bad either, I reckon it's one for you Craner deffo..............
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i'll trust anyone's film recommendations who calls himself "withnail", because that might be my all-time favorite movie It was heartbreaking to hear that the real "Withnail" on whom the character is based killed himself in the end. Although I've never confirmed this, so maybe it's not true?
people who like arthouse docs, godard and his groupies, and/or hauntology might want to check out Chris Marker's "Sans Soleil." don't know if it's even on DVD, though. university libraries should have it in some form.
It was heartbreaking to hear that the real "Withnail" on whom the character is based killed himself in the end. Although I've never confirmed this, so maybe it's not true?people who like arthouse docs, godard and his groupies, and/or hauntology might want to check out Chris Marker's "Sans Soleil." don't know if it's even on DVD, though. university libraries should have it in some form.
aka 'Deadly Is The Female', some film noir that everyone should see at least once, it's CRAZY
ooh, film noir... l dig Gun Crazy, but to me it falls into that campish noir category, w/ films like "Kiss Me Deadly", where when you see them in the theatres, too many people are giggling and shit... don't get me wrong, i dig both films, but i prefer my Noir a little more serious...
3 i always recommend to people:
The Killers ...ava gardner as the femme fatale and burt lancaster as the doomed man...
not THAT great a film, but Richard Widmark "chews up the scenary" as they say, in his first role...
he makes cagney's charector in White Heat seem like a reasonable well adjiusted guy... his charector is a loose collection of nervous tics and malevolent laughter who revels in throwing a woman in a wheelchair down a flight of chairs... i mean, this is in 1947... people just didn't act like that...
this movie reminds me what i love of about film noir, the sense that the charectors are doomed, that misfortune is inevitable, and the little guy can't win... mitchum manages to project this sense of fatalism, while looking really fucking cool...
Bright Future
Caught up with this 2002 Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie on DVD over the wkend
and after watching it , checking out the 1 1/2 hr long Extras and watching again,
found it was an interesting piece of POV on a certain Japanese and esp. Tokyo-ite mind set and generational divide.
Tada Asano's presence , most of the cast and Michiko Kitamura's clothes-costume design all made for a more interesting experience than K K's tech horror fare.
And the red jellyfish gets a 'best supporting role' !
Caught up with this 2002 Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie on DVD over the wkend
and after watching it , checking out the 1 1/2 hr long Extras and watching again,
found it was an interesting piece of POV on a certain Japanese and esp. Tokyo-ite mind set and generational divide.
Tada Asano's presence , most of the cast and Michiko Kitamura's clothes-costume design all made for a more interesting experience than K K's tech horror fare.
And the red jellyfish gets a 'best supporting role' !
I saw Red Road yesterday night. My hopes were high, not really because of any reviews, but just because of the intruiging trailer and concept. Set around the Red Road tower blocks in Glasgow, a CCTV operator basically stalks someone with a connection to her past, through the CCTV cameras. She then tracks him down and confronts him in real life.
The way it's shot really reminds me of Morvern Callar. The silence of the lead character and the changes in light are the main points of similarity I think (there are only two bits of music in the whole film, not counting the credits. One is Ch-Ching by Lady Sov, so that should appeal to Dissensians).
It was a great film, let down by the last five minutes and credit music, which I found overly sentimental after a very dark and tense main body. Infact, if I was to show this to a friend on DVD I would almost certainly cut off the last couple of minutes, as it very nearly retrospectively spoilt the rest of the film.
Overall though, well worth a trip to the cinema.
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Got to a preview screening of Pan's Labyrinth on Sunday and it's marvellous. Real labour of love stuff, brilliant acting, great idea, beautifully shot. A higher Spanish Civil War to fantasy ratio than i thought... Even good acting by a kid, nothing overly precious or precocious about her. Totally recommend it.
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Death Laid An Egg is very good, completely bonkers.
craner
Beast of Burden
I watched this again recently. Great film. Startling, bleak satire & etc. I'm sure you know what I mean if you've seen it too. I take this film quite seriously, as it goes.
Has anyone got anything to say about Cannibal Holocaust? Did Alan and Faye deserve it?
Has anyone got anything to say about Cannibal Holocaust? Did Alan and Faye deserve it?
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Indigo
Wild Horses
My Recent Films
Dogfight --
saw this via NetFlix starring River Phoenix and
Lili Taylor. This is a great film about a GI's last night out before
going to Vietnam
The Science of Sleep --
inventive and funny (might still be in theaters)
The Fountain --
an unexpect treat for the eyes and mind.
Dogfight --
saw this via NetFlix starring River Phoenix and
Lili Taylor. This is a great film about a GI's last night out before
going to Vietnam
The Science of Sleep --
inventive and funny (might still be in theaters)
The Fountain --
an unexpect treat for the eyes and mind.