No problem, I've got a copy from thebox but it's pretty poor. I can watch it okay on a laptop but try to get anyone else interested in watching it is a non starter which is a shame because it' felt so relevant, last year especially with all the royal nonsense going on.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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No problem, I've got a copy from thebox but it's pretty poor. I can watch it okay on a laptop but try to get anyone else interested in watching it is a non starter which is a shame because it' felt so relevant, last year especially with all the royal nonsense going on.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
Watched a DVD I got for Xmas, a rather wonderful 1925 German documentary film about astronomy called Wunder der Schopfung [English title = Our Heavenly Bodies] directed by Hanns Walter Kornblum.
There's some beautiful models and animations in it showing stuff such as the the orbit paths of planets and a trip though the solar system as seen imagined from a fictional space rocket, which means it also counts as a sci-fi film.
german/spanish subs version on youtube
There's some beautiful models and animations in it showing stuff such as the the orbit paths of planets and a trip though the solar system as seen imagined from a fictional space rocket, which means it also counts as a sci-fi film.
german/spanish subs version on youtube
Not even Michelle?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I always look sulky on the internet even when I am not.
Same reason I don't get half harted sarcastic jokes in text.
Bottom lip is still out then.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Another episode of American Horror Story. Sylar plays gay bloke in it. Quite good. The Gimp suit features again
then 'It happened Here'
a b&w film from the olden days about if the nazis had invaded england. Enjoyed. The action scenes were like World at War gone horribly wrong.
then 'It happened Here'
a b&w film from the olden days about if the nazis had invaded england. Enjoyed. The action scenes were like World at War gone horribly wrong.
A really interesting film. Real-life Nazis are in it, including Colin Jordan. He gives a talk on how great National Socialism is.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"Cars"- Good fun and lovely to hear Paul Newman's voice 
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
No great stretch then.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
No, got mixed up. That's Frank Bennett.
i thought the acting in that film was a little bit too realistic
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Mixed bag of festive tellyfilms and others...
box set of series 2 of THE BORGIAS (latest Irish-made tellyversion) - deliriously silly but worth it for Jeremy Irons camping it up like MAD as one of the Borgia popes and more lovely frocks / curtains than you can shake a Renaissance canvas at. Steven Berkoff as Savonarola is a nifty bit of casting as well.
UNDERTOW - really really liked this - indieish film with a genuinely touching and fresh story exploring the frustrations and loves of a bisexual Peruvian fisherman (yes, really). Sounds like a super-earnest Channel 4 film from hell on paper/posting, but give it a go - it's beautifully shot and acted, funny and sad and sexy and with surprising magic-realist twist(s). sort of like Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in a way. Really good one.
THE GUARD - didn't really rate it much tbh - liked some of the comedy but the rest was a bit too much outrage-by-numbers (drugs! whores! gangsters! swearing!) but a brilliant cast and Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle both as classy and lifelike as ever.
THE BIG PICTURE (French version) - Absolute and utter toss - an inept, incomprehensible and incoherent europudding thriller apparently based on a US writer and showing no signs of drawing on or even coming near any real event which has ever happened anywhere on the planet. Scowling brat Romain Duris is a super-successful French photographer who kills his wife's lover accidentally with a cocktail tray (as you do), goes on the run to Serbia, rebuilds his life (sort of) then runs into trouble again. It's poorly plotted, even more poorly paced, bafflingly full of characters bollocking on about how they "love living in this wonderful country" (Serbia ... so much so I suspected it was a quid pro quo for the location permits) and then the whole thing comes to a fumbled climax which seems to have stumbled in from another film altogether. Avoid.
box set of series 2 of THE BORGIAS (latest Irish-made tellyversion) - deliriously silly but worth it for Jeremy Irons camping it up like MAD as one of the Borgia popes and more lovely frocks / curtains than you can shake a Renaissance canvas at. Steven Berkoff as Savonarola is a nifty bit of casting as well.
UNDERTOW - really really liked this - indieish film with a genuinely touching and fresh story exploring the frustrations and loves of a bisexual Peruvian fisherman (yes, really). Sounds like a super-earnest Channel 4 film from hell on paper/posting, but give it a go - it's beautifully shot and acted, funny and sad and sexy and with surprising magic-realist twist(s). sort of like Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in a way. Really good one.
THE GUARD - didn't really rate it much tbh - liked some of the comedy but the rest was a bit too much outrage-by-numbers (drugs! whores! gangsters! swearing!) but a brilliant cast and Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle both as classy and lifelike as ever.
THE BIG PICTURE (French version) - Absolute and utter toss - an inept, incomprehensible and incoherent europudding thriller apparently based on a US writer and showing no signs of drawing on or even coming near any real event which has ever happened anywhere on the planet. Scowling brat Romain Duris is a super-successful French photographer who kills his wife's lover accidentally with a cocktail tray (as you do), goes on the run to Serbia, rebuilds his life (sort of) then runs into trouble again. It's poorly plotted, even more poorly paced, bafflingly full of characters bollocking on about how they "love living in this wonderful country" (Serbia ... so much so I suspected it was a quid pro quo for the location permits) and then the whole thing comes to a fumbled climax which seems to have stumbled in from another film altogether. Avoid.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Blokes on both sides fighting with their fags still in their mouths. Class.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
The Woman in Black
It was going OK until the last 20 mins. The horror should be left glimpsed rather than shoved in your face
Also Daniel Radcliffe's sideburns don't cut it
It was going OK until the last 20 mins. The horror should be left glimpsed rather than shoved in your face
Also Daniel Radcliffe's sideburns don't cut it
rekil
to menny cranks
VIPs Biopic of Marcelo Nascimento da Rocha, Brazilian conman par excellence. Rather than just cramming in as many japes and costume changes as possible, the film focuses on a couple of the big ones and speculates about his motivations and psychological state. It's got one of the best endings I've seen. Sheer chutzpah.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
"The Muppets" (recent remake) - great film!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
We've Got To Talk About Kevin.
Not quite sure what I think. Another superb performance by Tilda Swinton, and it was admirably put together by Ramsay, but...... as a study of either how a psycho grows up, or how society treats a woman like TS's charachter, it just didn't have the verisimilitude it needed.
Not quite sure what I think. Another superb performance by Tilda Swinton, and it was admirably put together by Ramsay, but...... as a study of either how a psycho grows up, or how society treats a woman like TS's charachter, it just didn't have the verisimilitude it needed.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Chronicle - Thought it was excellent. Tightly written and well acted, but the camera is the real star. Went a bit unnecessary towards the end but that was to be expected really.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Caught the Hobbit this afternoon- great stuff. Moar gandalf, comedy dwarves etc.
I liked that despite it being the sort of film I don't like.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
thought it was better than the one it was a prequel to, partly coz it seemed to take itself a bit less seriously, first one had some horrendous fuckin lines in it "oh no! a cave troll!" etc
avu9lives
famous five member
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) found it on me hard drive last night! Watched it even though it had no subtitles! Err imdb! drama, thriller, war. How about ya stick a big fat horror in there anawl eh!
Its no wonder hav been in a bad mood all day.. Feckers=='/.......
Its no wonder hav been in a bad mood all day.. Feckers=='/.......
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
We're working our way through 24. On series 3 atm. I've kind of lost interest but the boy is still fully up for it. But it's ok because he very kindly sat through Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist with me.
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