Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

[Woebot]

"Le Cercle Rouge"

This is a great super-cool French crime movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065531/

 

[droid]

'A Touch of Zen'

Epic 70's philipsophical Wuxia film from the great King Hu:

http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/touch_of_zen.htm

 

[jasonh]

Watched "Brokeback Mountain" the other day. Yes, it is a Hollywood film, but don't let that put anyone off. It is a fantastic film and deserves all of the awards and kudos it is getting. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are fantastic, understated direction, and a subtle script. Fantastic stuff.

 

[labrat]

Malcolm LeGrice's Berlin Horse - mesmerising......
http://worldsofpossibility.blogspot.com/2006/01/020106.html

 

[Omaar]

Ah, that's the number one film on my must see list - where did you get to see it? Is there a good DVD version around?

'A Touch of Zen'

Epic 70's philipsophical Wuxia film from the great King Hu:

http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/touch_of_zen.htm

 

[droid]

Ah, that's the number one film on my must see list - where did you get to see it? Is there a good DVD version around?

Originally saw it on Channel 4 about 10 years back. The DVD is widely available.

 

[Jim Daze]

Ernest Hemingways 'The Killers' the first version by Sodmak, film noir at it's best.
Ossessione-(dir.Visconti)-seen 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' ? this is the Italian neo-realist version and it's astounding and so well shot.
The Ipcress File-funny and dark, how does Caine get away with being so wooden, he does though.

 

[droid]

Sorry if I ignored the 'recently' bit of the thread... tbh, I havent seen anything Id unreservedly recommened for some time now, though I dont watch that many films...

Land of the Dead was probably the best thing Ive seen in a while, but it wasnt that good!

 

[labrat]

Originally saw it on Channel 4 about 10 years back. The DVD is widely available.

what i saw was a ropey videotape of that channel 4 thing (midnight underground???)

 

[droid]

It was on channel 4's 'Cannabis night' if I remember correctly...

 

[Diggedy Derek]

"Le Cercle Rouge" absolutely rules. One of the only movie posters I've ever seen where two of the leading men have moustaches, and yet look super super cool.

 

[henrymiller]

labrat, where d'you get to see 'berlin horse'?

 

[francesco]

Carmelo Bene - "Salomè"
Carmelo Bene - "Nostra Signora dei Turchi" (rarovideo)
Terence Malik - The New World

 

[henry s]

I think Cache is just great...deeply unsettling, like all of Haneke's films...but not as brutal...you really have to consider why you find it disturbing...

has anybody here seen Funny Games?...I am so glad to have watched it, but let me tell you, the second I finished the tape, I rewound it and ran it back to the shop...I did not want that thing in my house another minute!

 

[labrat]

labrat, where d'you get to see 'berlin horse'?

Twas a dodgy video off channel 4 (midnight underground-I think) back in the daze when channel 4 would devote a programme experimental film/video..

 

[Ness Rowlah]

"Ping Pong" as shown on BBC4 in Jonathan Ross's ongoing "Asian Invasion" series.

Built on some manga series or novel, fresh, amazingly different and good.
reviews here:
http://www.j-fan.com/cinema/cinema.cgi?action=viewrev&selected=8
http://www.barbelith.com/topic/18650

 

[droid]

"Ping Pong" as shown on BBC4 in Jonathan Ross's ongoing "Asian Invasion" series.

Built on some manga series or novel, fresh, amazingly different and good.
reviews here:

Ive heard of that comic... big in Shonen jump a few years back. One of those semi-formulaic 'occupational' manga about training to be a great Table Tennis player/Chef/Pachinko player/Accountant/Sherpa/Martial artist/Politician/Sushi Chef/Bass Fisherman etc... but with a bit of a twist. I love that stuff. They have the whole aspirational thing down pat, and the competitions/challenges just get more and more intense and ridiculous as the story progresses.

Id heartily recommend Taiyo Matsumoto's 'Black and White' manga as well, as, apart from being one of the most experimental and Western influenced artists in Japan at the moment, his stories have as much in common with underground UK and US stuff as they do with traditional manga..

 

[domtyler]

Bit mainstream perhaps but I really enjoyed "The constant gardener", in fact it restored my faith in cinema. Fiennes is particularly good and I cried like a baby at the end.

 

[robutfromitly]

Munich

 

[droid]

Munich

If you treat it as fiction and not fact though surely? Some very dodgy twisting of the facts going on with that film from what ive read...