Classic Films on Youtube
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
it's in parts rather than whole and I can't seem to embed it, but....
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
@Rich, it's the 'lost' Australian film, with standout creepiness from Donald Pleasance. Also known as Outback.
Rollerball seems to be very iconic. I watched the last bit, and it's certainly dramatic....
Rollerball seems to be very iconic. I watched the last bit, and it's certainly dramatic....
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Have loads but embed isn't working for me...
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
not heard of Under the Volcano.... Wake in Fright - great film, yep, the atmosphere is hellish.
IdleRich
IdleRich
This is the thing I mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_volcano
Also The Lost Weekend to some extent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_volcano
Also The Lost Weekend to some extent.
Bangpuss
Well-known member
The Documentarian
If it's documentaries you're after, check out this site, run by a guy I know:
http://thedocumentarian.tumblr.com/
In particular, I'd highly recommend Marjoe, an expose of a former child preacher in the US, and the film about Michael Alig, whatever that's called. But most of the stuff on here is first-rate.
He also does a site called the Essayist, which is similarly engrossing:
essayist.tumblr.com
If it's documentaries you're after, check out this site, run by a guy I know:
http://thedocumentarian.tumblr.com/
In particular, I'd highly recommend Marjoe, an expose of a former child preacher in the US, and the film about Michael Alig, whatever that's called. But most of the stuff on here is first-rate.
He also does a site called the Essayist, which is similarly engrossing:
essayist.tumblr.com
I love this film. Found it in a Poundland in Edinburgh a few years back, definatly recommend it.
Bangpuss
Well-known member
The Last Broadcast
I thought The Last Broadcast was brilliant until the final five minutes, when it becomes totally implausible and schlocky. As with many horror / supernatural films, the makers clearly felt the need to provide an ending that solved the mystery. It would have been better leaving it open than having that silly ending.
It did remind me, though, of Errol Morris's landmark documentary The Thin Blue Line, about a guy from Texas who seems to have been wrongly convicted of murder. There are not only similarities in style, such as the use of elaborate reconstructions, but even similarities between the smaller plot elements. So while The Thin Blue Line has a (worryingly non-fictional) doctor nicknamed Dr Death, whose job was to psychoanalyse patients before sending them to the chair (which he almost always did), The Last Broadcast has a character whose job is to edit videotape for the prosecution, nicknamed The Killer Cutter.
I thought The Last Broadcast was brilliant until the final five minutes, when it becomes totally implausible and schlocky. As with many horror / supernatural films, the makers clearly felt the need to provide an ending that solved the mystery. It would have been better leaving it open than having that silly ending.
It did remind me, though, of Errol Morris's landmark documentary The Thin Blue Line, about a guy from Texas who seems to have been wrongly convicted of murder. There are not only similarities in style, such as the use of elaborate reconstructions, but even similarities between the smaller plot elements. So while The Thin Blue Line has a (worryingly non-fictional) doctor nicknamed Dr Death, whose job was to psychoanalyse patients before sending them to the chair (which he almost always did), The Last Broadcast has a character whose job is to edit videotape for the prosecution, nicknamed The Killer Cutter.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
I love that film, it was partly responsible for my early adolescent dropping out. Had a huge effect on me.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Well, from reading the reviews on IMDB, the ending pisses a lot of people off - and I can see why. However, while it's not perhaps the ending I would have chosen, I think it does have a certain something, it SPOILER definitely explains why that narrator is so fucking creepy the whole time for one thing and once it occurs it seems to have a kind of pleasing inevitability to it. As a whole the film is obviously flawed but I found it very creepy indeed - it's clear to see why the Blair Witch guys thought "that's a great idea, let's remove the arty stuff and just go for the jugular" and I'm glad that that film exists too cos while very similar and much more simple it has enough ideas to justify its existence and it's restrained enough to keep the air of menace such a film requires.