What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?
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Fritz Lang's 'M' - child murders panic German city, drawing both sides of the law into a desperate manhunt.
Remarkable 1930s movie, I'd say 40 years ahead of it's time.
Remarkable 1930s movie, I'd say 40 years ahead of it's time.
Dubversion said:
I thought it was pretty engaging, personally. As good as anything else (recent) I've seen in a few years, anyway.
Best performance I've ever seen the usually-wooden Christian Bale give, too. Although I can imagine you'd have not liked Jackman's Spacey-esque showing.
Not quite in the class of the Marine, which is the only other new film I've seen recently, of course...
PieEye said:
You loved the first half.
I quite liked it, Jarmusch films are always a bit annoying
Iam said:I thought it was pretty engaging, personally. As good as anything else (recent) I've seen in a few years, anyway.
Best performance I've ever seen the usually-wooden Christian Bale give, too. Although I can imagine you'd have not liked Jackman's Spacey-esque showing.
Not quite in the class of the Marine, which is the only other new film I've seen recently, of course...
On the contrary, Jackman was OK and Bale gets on my wick. An appalling actor (who's actually from my social circle back in Dorset although I never knew him). His permanent smirk drives me mental and he's been crap in everything i've seen him do.
as for fucking Bowie..
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Nice tracksuits though.PieEye said:
PieEye said:
I wouldn't say it irritated me as such, but at the time I did feel kind of let down by the ending!
On the other hand, Broken Flowers is a road movie that goes nowhere. Again, I like that idea, because real life tends to be random and isn't scripted with those neat plot resolutions, etc. It's about the journey, maaaaaaaaan...
Whenever I watch a Jarmusch film, I'm always struck by how much he seems to favour static camerawork. Part of his deadpan style I suppose, but I always need a while to adjust to it. I imagine he probably started off in his early films with minimal use of tracking shots because he was on such a shoestring, but just sort of stuck with it over the years. Anybody shed any light on this?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I loved Ghost Dog. It's my favourite of his, apart from maybe Mystery Train
Mystery Train is the one for me..
Orang Utan
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It would be.
Orang Utan
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It would be.
why's that then?
ah.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Eh? The Elvis business innit?
yeh, i just worked something out...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Well I guess it ain't rocket science, eh?
Sunspots said:Whenever I watch a Jarmusch film, I'm always struck by how much he seems to favour static camerawork. Part of his deadpan style I suppose, but I always need a while to adjust to it. I imagine he probably started off in his early films with minimal use of tracking shots because he was on such a shoestring, but just sort of stuck with it over the years. Anybody shed any light on this?
In his case I think it is because he gets inspiration from a lot of early films. The Man without a Past is similar (*) ... Tsai Ming-liang does it in his movies too. Others sometimes use this style because they are influenced from painting or theatre.
(*) I think you might like this, if you haven't seen it.
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
Adrift....not too bad. Pretty good acting held together an average plot line-got a bit daft towards the end though.
Leica said:
You're right. For the most part, Jim Jarmusch draws on a quite separate set of influences compared to most mainstream directors, so I guess it's no surprise his films look/feel a bit different. I've just found this page listing a lot of his favourite films and music. Much of it comes as no surprise, but taken as a whole, the man's got such good taste: Iggy & The Stooges, Charles Willeford, Point Blank, and many more...
Leica said:
I see what you mean. A more static camera style might well have much in common with the composition of a painting rather than a (-moving) film.
Leica said:
He's somebody I know nothing about. -Where to start?
Leica said:
Thanks for the recommendation; I know there's a copy in at least one local film hire shop here. I tend to forget about Kaurismäki, but you're right (-again), there's obviously a lot of common ground between him and Jarmusch. Also, I've been to Helsinki, wandered all over it, so I'd like to see this film for nostalgic reasons too!
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
The Departed....for the 2nd time.
Enjoyed it more than the first time round-this film will mature well like Goodfellas I reckon.
Loved it-a great film.
Enjoyed it more than the first time round-this film will mature well like Goodfellas I reckon.
Loved it-a great film.
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
Alexander Nevsky, brilliant acting, a script shakespear would have killed for and special effects you wouldn't belive.
Quality!
Quality!
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
Hanibal rising.....
didn't think it did justice to how hanibal turned out nor did it explain how he ended up a genius killer....just anoter revenge movie
didn't think it did justice to how hanibal turned out nor did it explain how he ended up a genius killer....just anoter revenge movie
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