butchersapron
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Abs rubbish
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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discokermit
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he is ace. if you like him, check out "scarlet street", if you haven't already. his performance is fantastic.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Watching again that's astonishing.
discokermit
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no. no no no. that scene is great.
discokermit
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in a good or bad way?
butchersapron
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In a very good way
butchersapron
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I meant the whole film was rubbish - i might need to see again.
discokermit
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i think it's a very good film. i don't know much about life in the banlieue but it certainly resonated with my experiences in heathtown, even down to a more kitchen sink than poetic realist version of that scene i posted and having lived through the experience of life on an estate under police occupation.
you should watch it again and report back. i'd be interested to hear a critique.
discokermit
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i mean, what a great opening,
Riklet
procrastinación
La Haine is brilliant, worth watching it again for sure..
Been watching También la Lluvia (Even the Rain) which is about a film crew doing a film on Christopher Columbus, which they're filming on the cheap in Bolivia. It's enjoyable n pretty powerful, as they witness n get drawn into the conflict over the privatisation of the water supply and the protests against it. It was written by Paul Laverty apparently, n should be better known as a film!
Been watching También la Lluvia (Even the Rain) which is about a film crew doing a film on Christopher Columbus, which they're filming on the cheap in Bolivia. It's enjoyable n pretty powerful, as they witness n get drawn into the conflict over the privatisation of the water supply and the protests against it. It was written by Paul Laverty apparently, n should be better known as a film!
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
La Rupture - Very weird, a mix of horror, psychological thriller and melodrama by Claude Chabrol. Found it quite hard to get into, it was just so strange.
Le Cercle Rouge - Another Melville and again absolutely great, whole cast is fantastic and the movie just works brilliantly from the start, with the meeting of Corey and Vogel, through to the heist and then the final showdown.
Le Cercle Rouge - Another Melville and again absolutely great, whole cast is fantastic and the movie just works brilliantly from the start, with the meeting of Corey and Vogel, through to the heist and then the final showdown.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
redsquirrel said:
His second absolute masterpiece.
kittyP
Pluviophile
I feel these are films that I would like to (at least try and) watch.
MOGGY!!!!!!!!
He might hear if I cap loud enough
rekil
to menny cranks
Fires On The Plain. Should be in everyone's top 10 war fillums. Monkey meat. 
Ballad of A Soldier. A soviet soldier is given a few days leave after destroying a couple of tanks so he goes home to fix the roof on this mam's house and meets a girl on the train. Fascinating interview with director and stalingrad veteran Greg Chukhray on the dvd. Half the crew mutinied because they thought the film was lightweight pish. Eejits.
Ballad of A Soldier. A soviet soldier is given a few days leave after destroying a couple of tanks so he goes home to fix the roof on this mam's house and meets a girl on the train. Fascinating interview with director and stalingrad veteran Greg Chukhray on the dvd. Half the crew mutinied because they thought the film was lightweight pish. Eejits.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Do yourself a favour and watch Kon Ichikawa's other great war film The Burmese Harp (if you haven't already of course).
rekil
to menny cranks
Yep, I have it here and will watch it sometime this week.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
You're right about Scarlet Street. Crime does not pay - and how.
I saw the trailer for this the other night. Looks very good, I have to say.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Army of Shadows being the other one? Or Le Samourai?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Oops. His third masterpiece - for some reason i thought le samourai was 1970 and Cercle rouge 1967.
Reno
The In Kraut
I'm glad you liked it. I love that film and think it's the most underrated film of the last decade. It floppede because it was mismarketed as a The Sixth Sense style supernatural mystery and the paedophila accusations by tabloids didn'd help. On re-watching it, the ending works really well and I find Kidman's climactic breakdown at her wedding just devastating. The twist is more subtle than the supernatural one initially suggested and I like the questions it leaves you with at the end. If only she was aware of her dead husband's affair, she would probably be able to break the cycle of grief which has become like an addiction to her that consumes her life. Glazer is a fantastic director and the film reminded me in equal parts of Kubrick, Polanski and Bunuel.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within ... as the title implies, this goes beyond the usual catalogue of cliched shoot-em-up favela tourism and delves much more deeply than the first Elite Squad film into the higher-level networks of corruption and political graft which actually run the armed warfare on some Brazilian streets. Dizzyingly complicated at times (shifting allegiances to different ranks and grades of corruption, etc), not enough non-white characters and some of the dramatic, human background can seem as if they just lobbed it in on a whim rather than developing the characters as human beings rather than puppet straw men. But fascinating - if only because its politics are so hard to read, (or at least hard to pin down as "being provocative in all directions".) I read a review which said it 'flirted with both fascism and socialism' and that's sort of right. Be interesting to know what other urbs think and I would recommend it, with caveats.
The Illusionist - cos it was on telly. Mostly pointless movie with Edward Norton (supposedly a grand magician) and Paul Giamatti (supposedly a chief of police) historically very much adrift in late 1890s Vienna, while Rufus Sewell as the murderous Crown Prince chews the odd bit of skirting board in the background. Not really worth watching except for some of the visual effects trying to conjure up the era - interesting flickering-light settings, frame surrounds and nice colour work etc which almost manage to convince you. Total damp squib as a thriller, though.
The Illusionist - cos it was on telly. Mostly pointless movie with Edward Norton (supposedly a grand magician) and Paul Giamatti (supposedly a chief of police) historically very much adrift in late 1890s Vienna, while Rufus Sewell as the murderous Crown Prince chews the odd bit of skirting board in the background. Not really worth watching except for some of the visual effects trying to conjure up the era - interesting flickering-light settings, frame surrounds and nice colour work etc which almost manage to convince you. Total damp squib as a thriller, though.
Dr Alimantado
Balmed
Watched Naked last night - my fav. film. David Thewlis was inspired in this, apparently a lot of his lines were ad libbed. Very powerful but depressing film that always whacks me in the face with hard hitting reality. This was part of the extreme series on Film Four shown after the nine o'clock films this week. I think there a few decent ones due to be screened.
On the subject of La Haine, I was told by a couple of French dudes a few years back that there was a similar film called Baton Rouge. I've not seen this listed on the IMDB, so was wondering if anyone knows about this?
On the subject of La Haine, I was told by a couple of French dudes a few years back that there was a similar film called Baton Rouge. I've not seen this listed on the IMDB, so was wondering if anyone knows about this?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bâton_rouge_(film)
Sounds almost entirely unlike La Haine, except for its inital setting
Sounds almost entirely unlike La Haine, except for its inital setting
Dr Alimantado
Balmed
Cheers, I make you right about that.
Good pick. One of three ottepel-period films from the former paratrooper. The others being The Forty-First, a civil war adventure/romance remake of a silent film based on a not so good novel, and Clear Skies, conforming to Socialist Realism in its style while at its core being severely critical of Stalinism.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Yeah I thought Birth was underrated. Really quite different.
Incidentally, I found this list which it's on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/19/cinema-lost-unknown-classics.
Which includes an Anthony Mann film
Anyone seem this? I'm a massive fan of Mann's Westerns.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Project Nim. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/project_nim/
A documentary about a 1970s experiment to see if a chimp can be taught to communicate with humans. Fascinating, uplifting, depressing, gripping, sometimes horrifying. Film of Nim interspersed with interviews with those who came into contact with him. Nim's life is shaped by those around him....it's a pity most of them were human.
However, it's amazing.
A documentary about a 1970s experiment to see if a chimp can be taught to communicate with humans. Fascinating, uplifting, depressing, gripping, sometimes horrifying. Film of Nim interspersed with interviews with those who came into contact with him. Nim's life is shaped by those around him....it's a pity most of them were human.
However, it's amazing.
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