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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

The Sleeping Voice - Based on Dulce Chacon's novel, about republican women in a Madrid prison just after the spanish civil war, one of whom has her death sentence postponed until she gives birth, while her non-political sister gets roped into running messages to her on the run communist rascal husband. Relentlessly grim to the point of being a bit monochromatic but mainly carried by the performances of the leads. Features torture, executions, deranged nuns, and no holds barred atheism.
 
Watched Chopper last night for the first time in years, even though I knew exactly what was coming I still enjoyed it and it still made me squirm in placces.

Moonrise Kingdom to watch tonight, it looks awfully twee to me but I have been told I'll "love it".

butchersapron said:
I have this somewhere, must try and find it.
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Can you remember what you call that Australian film, may be 60s or early 70s, colour, about a teacher who gets stranded in a town in the Outback? Pretty sure it was you who recommended it. I'm trying to remember waht it was called as I want to watch it again.
 
I watched Livid, the new film by the directors of the French atrocity horror film Inside which made waves a couple of years ago. I found Inside overrated and pointlessly sadistic but it kind of works thanks to a straightforward cat and mouse plot and an effective performance by Beatrice Dalle. This one is simply tedious. It has an incomprehensible plot which tries for a Pan's Labyrinth/Suspiria fairy tale feel as a get out clause, but there just isn't the talent to pull it off. Over the last decade I've seen too many haunted house films overstuffed with creepy dolls, wonky taxidermy and pickled embryos. Any sort of plot seems to have been substituted by endless references to other horror films, which become distracting and are pointless apart from telling us that the directors are horror geeks. Nicely art directed and shot with some good make up effects, but that's all.
 
Prometheus was shite, biggest disappointment since Alien 3 :(

firky said:
Moonrise Kingdom to watch tonight, it looks awfully twee to me but I have been told I'll "love it".
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It was sweet, very sweet - but not really my kind of film. Ed Norton is good.
 
Yesterday in bed with a cold:

Managed to get through Prometheus on the 3rd attempt. It was shameful.

Then watched Weekend http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/ very good indeed.

Finished the night off with Dancer in the Dark and by the end of it I was looking forward to Bjork swinging......and I love Bjork.
 
DrRingDing said:
Yesterday in bed with a cold:

Managed to get through Prometheus on the 3rd attempt. It was shameful.

Then watched Weekend http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/ very good indeed.

Finished the night off with Dancer in the Dark and by the end of it I was looking forward to Bjork swinging......and I love Bjork.
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It didn't help that Bjork's accent was sounding like it came from south east England with estuary glottal stops.
 
butchersapron said:
Wake in fright - you need to make sure you watch the newest release though.
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Watched this. I assume it was a newish release, it was a blu ray rip, stunning HD. A brilliant film. Not like I'm an expert on the Australian outback but it all looked convincingly real, plenty of non-actors I'd imagine? Tense stuff with a great performance from Donald Pleasence.
 
The afternoon I watched Drive which I really enjoyed. I wasn't expecting it to be as violent as it was though.

And also 50/50 which was a very lightweight depiction of dealing with cancer.
 
Re-watched I'm Not There and enjoyed it just as much the second time around, the Blanchett and Ledger segments are my favourites but whole film works.

The Kid with a Bike - Latest from the Dardenne brothers, I didn't think it had the same power that L'Enfant did (the only other film of theirs that I've seen) but it still has a lot to recommend it. The performance of the kid was excellent, and the scenes of violence in it felt incredibly real and scary.
 
I watched the first episode of the BBC drama Parade's End and I can't say that it grabbed me. If anybody else has watched it, does it get much better ? If not. then it gets nuked off the Sky box tonight.

Then I watched the first episode of the three part series about the Clintons currently on BBC2, which was entertaining enough.
 
redsquirrel said:
The Kid with a Bike - Latest from the Dardenne brothers, I didn't think it had the same power that L'Enfant did (the only other film of theirs that I've seen) but it still has a lot to recommend it. The performance of the kid was excellent, and the scenes of violence in it felt incredibly real and scary.
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Try The Son (Le Fils). I think that's my favourite, very little dialogue and only a few characters. Don't read anything beforehand.
 
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