discokermit
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queen to play (joueuse). sandrine bonnaire as a chess playing cleaner. some mention of class, including a short discussion on jack london's 'martin eden'. corsica is beautiful. so is sandrine bonnaire.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Blood and Flowers: The Aztecs
good long documentary, filled with loads of fascinating asides and beautiful photography. Like how the main city wa actually built by a far older people but they squatted in it and rebuilt it. And how the idea of the Aztecs of a particularly bloodthirsty civilisation should be put in the context of that when Cortez found the place, the inquisition was in full swing and people were massacring each other in england in the name of god. Seems a bit relativist, but made me think.
On Jupiter
Did what it said on the tin, some great 'Jupiter is so massive' stuff. Great to see the shoemaker levy explosions again. Suspect Jon Hurt of narration but could have been any RP really.
The Pig Farm: Robert Pikton
The heartwarming tale of how a serial killer managed to murder 20 odd women through the serial incompetence of the police and the help of addicts he surrounded himself with. And, lets face it, because the police don't generally expend much time looking for missing streetwalkers
a mixed bag imo, the best of them was the aztec one
good long documentary, filled with loads of fascinating asides and beautiful photography. Like how the main city wa actually built by a far older people but they squatted in it and rebuilt it. And how the idea of the Aztecs of a particularly bloodthirsty civilisation should be put in the context of that when Cortez found the place, the inquisition was in full swing and people were massacring each other in england in the name of god. Seems a bit relativist, but made me think.
On Jupiter
Did what it said on the tin, some great 'Jupiter is so massive' stuff. Great to see the shoemaker levy explosions again. Suspect Jon Hurt of narration but could have been any RP really.
The Pig Farm: Robert Pikton
The heartwarming tale of how a serial killer managed to murder 20 odd women through the serial incompetence of the police and the help of addicts he surrounded himself with. And, lets face it, because the police don't generally expend much time looking for missing streetwalkers
a mixed bag imo, the best of them was the aztec one
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Also watched 'The Earths Evil Twin'
which was all about venus and was basically an object lesson in what happens to planets who are outside of the Goldilocks band. First the solar wind strips yer goodness, your poor magnetic field can't stop that and next thing you know you have an atmosphere of cloud made of battery acid and a volcanic surface racked by skyscraper sized lightening bolts and corriolis winds that no windsock could measure
which was all about venus and was basically an object lesson in what happens to planets who are outside of the Goldilocks band. First the solar wind strips yer goodness, your poor magnetic field can't stop that and next thing you know you have an atmosphere of cloud made of battery acid and a volcanic surface racked by skyscraper sized lightening bolts and corriolis winds that no windsock could measure
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sightseers
Sightseers - a British Black Comedy about a pair of serial killers - was pretty funny - and violent - quite enjoyed it.
Sightseers - a British Black Comedy about a pair of serial killers - was pretty funny - and violent - quite enjoyed it.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I enjoyed the film, he is great in it
'you can have anything in the shop, as long as it is under a tenner '
la ressistance
aesthete
I wish netflix would put that on uk. I'm desperate to see it
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I've just signed up to Netflix to get Breaking Bad mainly, but it's got fuck all else on it. None of the films I want to watch and where is Community and Mad Men?
Glad I can cancel any time.
Glad I can cancel any time.
discokermit
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did you sign up for the yank version?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Don't think so as it keeps trying to get me to watch British tv programmes
discokermit
Well-Known Member
i downloaded something so netflix couldn't tell where i was, then i used a us zip code. mad men is on there.
though i choose to watch old episodes of the rockford files instead.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Well it ain't on the UK version 
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
There's also an extension for Chrome which makes it think you're in the US too.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
you shoulda researched a bit first. dunno how you can change it. maybe register again and cancel the old account?Well it ain't on the UK version
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Great selection(s) as always, DotCommunist - You should have your own film blog or something, I'd definitely read it.
(*where do you find all this stuff? is it just d/l or actually dvd's? our local record/media store just stocks ultra crappy blockbuster bollocks... urgh. )
Last night I watched "Fatherland", a very straight film version of the book of the same name by Robert Harris- Set in an alternate history 1960s where the Reich won the war and Hitler is still very much on top, a loyal german detective from the Kriminalpolizei happens to stumble over a strange case involving a drowned party member, something which unravels a whole nest of political intrigues, scandals and hints at something more sinister and mysterious- Something which happened during the war... I remember really I enjoyed the first 2/3rds of the book when I read it (it sort of loses it a bit at the end and becomes all about the flight), but this film had the misfortune of brutally breaking the spell of my long-lasting Rutger Hauer crush (I fancied him to bits in Blade Runner when I first saw it @14, anyway here plays the main character the policeman), since I was a bit disappointed about how off-sync his performance was in relation to almost all the other actors he came across... I do love a bit of pouting and posing from him as always, but he just disappointed a bit and showed next to no range. Not that surprising TBH, but I just wanted him to be good and sort of cheered him on, but he just kept on and on with the odd stuff and I feel ROBBED and betrayed
((( Rutger )))
(*where do you find all this stuff? is it just d/l or actually dvd's? our local record/media store just stocks ultra crappy blockbuster bollocks... urgh.
)Last night I watched "Fatherland", a very straight film version of the book of the same name by Robert Harris- Set in an alternate history 1960s where the Reich won the war and Hitler is still very much on top, a loyal german detective from the Kriminalpolizei happens to stumble over a strange case involving a drowned party member, something which unravels a whole nest of political intrigues, scandals and hints at something more sinister and mysterious- Something which happened during the war... I remember really I enjoyed the first 2/3rds of the book when I read it (it sort of loses it a bit at the end and becomes all about the flight), but this film had the misfortune of brutally breaking the spell of my long-lasting Rutger Hauer crush (I fancied him to bits in Blade Runner when I first saw it @14, anyway here plays the main character the policeman), since I was a bit disappointed about how off-sync his performance was in relation to almost all the other actors he came across... I do love a bit of pouting and posing from him as always, but he just disappointed a bit and showed next to no range. Not that surprising TBH, but I just wanted him to be good and sort of cheered him on, but he just kept on and on with the odd stuff and I feel ROBBED and betrayed
((( Rutger )))
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
King of Devil's Island - it was on BBC4 on Saturday and might still be on iPlayer.
Gloomy, slightly overdone, but beautifully shot and acted movie about a brutal penal colony for 'maladjusted' adolescent lads on Bastoy Island in Norway in 1915 - and the boys' uprising which led to the Army being called in. Basically it's Scum (or perhaps Papillon) set in Edwardian Scandinavia, which doesn't sound too promising, but Stellan Skarsgard's in it (always a good sign) and the production designers manage to wring a surprising amount of beauty out of a bleak and freezing reform school setting. Some of the frames look like Vilhelm Hammershoi paintings.
If prison-break movies or Spartacus-like accounts of uprisings against unjust systems are your bag you might like it. Mostly I just watched it feeling a sympathetic shudder of cold (at all the snow) and the odd gagging noise (at their diet of buckets and buckets of rotting fish.)
Gloomy, slightly overdone, but beautifully shot and acted movie about a brutal penal colony for 'maladjusted' adolescent lads on Bastoy Island in Norway in 1915 - and the boys' uprising which led to the Army being called in. Basically it's Scum (or perhaps Papillon) set in Edwardian Scandinavia, which doesn't sound too promising, but Stellan Skarsgard's in it (always a good sign) and the production designers manage to wring a surprising amount of beauty out of a bleak and freezing reform school setting. Some of the frames look like Vilhelm Hammershoi paintings.
If prison-break movies or Spartacus-like accounts of uprisings against unjust systems are your bag you might like it. Mostly I just watched it feeling a sympathetic shudder of cold (at all the snow) and the odd gagging noise (at their diet of buckets and buckets of rotting fish.)
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Ah, cheers- My aggravatingly slow laptop thing can't handle streaming/ d/l'ing of any kind, though, it's too bloody slow! Like a flashback of mid-90's creaky dial-up modems, sometimes a normal page/pic takes AGES to load... I need proper anger management
Haven't read Archangel as I remember, hope the library can track it down, they're usually good at such stuff (even popular lit). Used to have 'Enigma' by him, but forgot it at an airport somewhere...Not a huge loss, but annoying (not knowing the ending of a book)
Anyway- films!
For tomorrow I have scheduled: 'Transamerica' on dvd (which seems allright, kind of a down-key understated roadmovie about a pre-op male-to-female transperson (decently played by Felicity Huffman) having to meet and come out to his estranged adult son (who's looking for his father, but finds a mother) for the first time, then they hit the road... Not much really happens, but quite a lot goes on at the same time too, important I vaguely remember having watched it once, but on TV late at night when not quite sober and quite liking it... so now I'll watch it a second time. Which is allright with me. I liked it.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
My Piece Of The Pie - Cédric Klapisch movie on Netflix.
Part set in Dunkirk, part in London and part in Paris. Excellently written drama about a single mother who works as a cleaner for this twatty city boy who relocates from London to Paris, and she then discovers her old longstanding factory job in Dunkirk was lost because of his flippant financial dealings resulted in it getting shut down.
Part set in Dunkirk, part in London and part in Paris. Excellently written drama about a single mother who works as a cleaner for this twatty city boy who relocates from London to Paris, and she then discovers her old longstanding factory job in Dunkirk was lost because of his flippant financial dealings resulted in it getting shut down.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Just watched this, though following (during) a post carnival K session. My immediate thoughts were pretty similar to yours
It was only the Mr Chow characters inclusion that made me sure it was a comedy. Mark Wahlberg body shape looked all kinds of weird, and I paused it as I assumed it would be preparing the finale, and saw only 20 minutes had passed. It is bizarrely odd and wonderful! Just (seemingly) random scene/plot thread after random scene/plot thread
Need to see it with a straight head again!
discokermit
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Just watched this, though following (during) a post carnival K session. My immediate thoughts were pretty similar to yours
It was only the Mr Chow characters inclusion that made me sure it was a comedy. Mark Wahlberg body shape looked all kinds of weird, and I paused it as I assumed it would be preparing the finale, and saw only 20 minutes had passed. It is bizarrely odd and wonderful! Just (seemingly) random scene/plot thread after random scene/plot thread
Need to see it with a straight head again!
I'm watching it again tonight.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Just watched this, though following (during) a post carnival K session. My immediate thoughts were pretty similar to yours
It was only the Mr Chow characters inclusion that made me sure it was a comedy. Mark Wahlberg body shape looked all kinds of weird, and I paused it as I assumed it would be preparing the finale, and saw only 20 minutes had passed. It is bizarrely odd and wonderful! Just (seemingly) random scene/plot thread after random scene/plot thread
Need to see it with a straight head again!
I re-watched it the other night with Froggy and it turns out Wahlberg does get some cracking lines
He's doing a nieghbourhood watch meeting and handing out pepper spray and tasers. As a role-play thing he offers his model girlfriend to play the part of the victim then asks the audience who wishes to play the part of rapist. two dozen male hands shoot up in the air
'woah woah I only need one. This is not a gang rape'
I mean, thats just so fucked up.
discokermit
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they cut the victims faces off with pliers and a blade. lol.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Catch Me If You Can.
Not last night, watching it later. Doesn't make sense...not really a Spielberg fan and I've little time for Tom Hanks. DiCaprio is ok (but Walken I can watch all day long).
This shouldn't be my kind of film but this will be the third time I've watched it.
Not last night, watching it later. Doesn't make sense...not really a Spielberg fan and I've little time for Tom Hanks. DiCaprio is ok (but Walken I can watch all day long).
This shouldn't be my kind of film but this will be the third time I've watched it.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
A Kiss Before Dying - Probably not quite in the top division of noir but still very much worth watching. It looks absolutely fabulous.
Crime on a Summer Morning - French crime flick, sadly not all that good. It's not terrible but it's all a bit predictably and while it's not terrible it's not handled well enough to make it worthwhile.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Pretty good, all the main cast are good and the first two thirds of the film are very strong, the ending is somewhat weaker but it's still enjoyable enough.
Crime on a Summer Morning - French crime flick, sadly not all that good. It's not terrible but it's all a bit predictably and while it's not terrible it's not handled well enough to make it worthwhile.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Pretty good, all the main cast are good and the first two thirds of the film are very strong, the ending is somewhat weaker but it's still enjoyable enough.
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