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

[avu9lives]

but they swarm well

that's not much of a recommendation is it really?

Aye like zombies on wizz

 

[Orang Utan]

I am glad zombies have sped up a little bit in recent years. They were getting boring.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Suns Of Easter Island (1972) - obscure French sci-fi about a group of people who feel drawn to visit Easter Island at the same time for some mysterious purpose. Some great locations used.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Suns Of Easter Island (1972) - obscure French sci-fi about a group of people who feel drawn to visit Easter Island at the same time for some mysterious purpose.

Sounds suspiciously familiar...

 

[DJ Squelch]

Yeah, did make me think of Close Encounters.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Haul from Blackpool HMV four for £10 sale...

Bond (BluRay) : Dr No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball, Live & Let Die, For Your Eyes Only
Boxsets: Lost S2, Sinbad S1, Curb Your Enthusiasm S4 and S5, Prophets of Science Fiction, Rock and Chips

Also found Rocko's Modern Life in a pound shop

So far ignored all that and started on my S2 of Stargate SG1 that I got in the market just before catching the train home

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Been watching lots of Magic City (series set in a Miami casino in 1959 at around the same time as Michael Corleone's storyline in G2), old eps of Quantum Leap and micro budget horror films on Netflix (they help me sleep!).

 

[Dillinger4]

I watched Marat / Sade last night. The final scene is one of the most powerful I have seen in anything.

 

[DexterTCN]

Jack Reacher.

Well..I suffered about 40 minutes of it, does that count?

 

[white rabbit]

I watched Marat / Sade last night. The final scene is one of the most powerful I have seen in anything.

Is there a version of this apart from the Peter Brook production with Patrick Magee and Clive Revill (and a young Glenda Jackson)? I agree it's a tremendous play, but I thought that recording of the stage production was rather flat.

The dialogue between Marat and de Sade about freedom and control is fascinating. I love the longer title as well, The Persecution and Assassination of Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. Brilliant.

 

[May Kasahara]

The Keep

WTF

 

[Dillinger4]

Is there a version of this apart from the Peter Brook production with Patrick Magee and Clive Revill (and a young Glenda Jackson)? I agree it's a tremendous play, but I thought that recording of the stage production was rather flat.

The dialogue between Marat and de Sade about freedom and control is fascinating. I love the longer title as well, The Persecution and Assassination of Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. Brilliant.

I have no idea. That is the one I watched. I have been watching a lot of theater on film recently. I might do a thread about best film adaptations of theater.

 

[maya]

[some of the] best film adaptations of theater.

* Herman Melville’s ’Bartleby The Scrivener; A Story Of Wall Street’, filmed as ’Bartleby’ by Anthony Friedman in 1974 starring Paul Scofield.

* Jean Anouilh’s modern version of ’Antigone’, filmed in 1974 starring the lovely Geneviève Bujold (all hail canadians!)

* Terry Gilliam’s version of Baron Münchhausen’s Adventures (loosely based on the story), filmed in 1988.

* The earlier, more fantastic version of Münchhausen, filmed as ’Baron Prasil’ by the Czech animation genious Karel Zeman in 1961.

* A Swedish animation film based on Shakespeare’s the Tempest, called ’the Journey to Melonia’, voiced by- among others- a young (soon-to-be popstar) Robyn as Miranda (credited as ’Robin Carlsson’), also featuring a giant Golem made of vegetables(!) :

 

[DaveCinzano]

* Jean Anouilh’s modern version of ’Antigone’, filmed in 1974 starring the lovely Geneviève Bujold (all hail canadians!)

I'm rather partial to Pasolini's version of Medea.

 

[Me76]

Watched 'My Week With Marilyn' today. Nice and sweet.

 

[8115]

Beasts of the Southern Wild. Started off brilliant, thought it was going to be a proper survivalist film, went off the boil in the second half, lost the atmosphere and the story and I couldn't really be arsed with it too much. 6/10.

 

[maya]

I'm rather partial to Pasolini's version of Medea.

It looks fantastic, haven't seen that one... Thanks I always think of Pasolini when I listen to early Coil albums for some reason- their song 'Ostia (the Death of Pasolini)' is about his murder...

I seem to be watching loads of italian films at the moment, for some reason... No conscious choice, just end up finding these films I've been meaning to watch for years and years but never got round to before now...

Last night I saw Fellini's 'Juliet of the Spirits', which I to my surprise actually enjoyed (although started out pretty predjudiced against the film, because I don't like Fellini that much), and ended up being actually moved by the end. I think it was the familiar themes of fear of abandonment, escape into fantasies and dream-worlds, being haunted by the past, and so on- that resonated a lot with me on a personal level. Part of it almost felt like it was about me... And although the imagery is a bit too baroque and borderline tastelessly camp (unavoidable in italian films of any era, they were the original Romans, after all- ), there's some absolutely stunning visual moments- Like the artificial 'flames' made of coloured paper engulfing her in her flashbacks to a catholic childhood, etc... Many memorable moments in there, and the score (music/soundtrack) works really well alongside the images too. One of the best films I've seen by him, actually. I'd rate this above his more obvious 'classics'- it's got a certain dreamy, surrealistic quality to it but also a subtlety and a playfulness which feels almost whimsical- the little treehouse style lift which she has to enter to get up in the air and towards her dreams, and so on and so on- Probably all very symbolical, there must be lots of little signs and symbols in there which I didn't spot the first time around, must watch it again now to see if I can perhaps find more meaning in it... Anyway, it was a good film.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Caveman - Didn't expect much and got about what I expected. OK jaunt, nice and short. Shelly Long looked . . . swit swoo.

 

[Voley]

Looper. Enjoyed that, by and large. Nothing amazing but worth a watch.

 

[Idris2002]

Contagion.

Soderbergh directs, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law and Elliot Gould star in this disturbing tale of a global pandemic. It's really, really good, one of the best films I've seen in a long time. I strongly recommend it - even if it will leave you resolved to make sure you wash your hands properly in future.

 

[magneze]

Ip Man

Brilliant kung-fu film about Bruce Lee's grandmaster. Apparently some of it is true, but I'm not sure how much. Good film nevertheless.

 

[butchersapron]

Ip Man

Brilliant kung-fu film about Bruce Lee's grandmaster. Apparently some of it is true, but I'm not sure how much. Good film nevertheless.

Got a sequel to look forward too.

 

[magneze]

Got a sequel to look forward too.

Have you seen Ip Man 2? Any good?

 

[butchersapron]

I have, but in all honesty i can't recall anything at all about it! Which means it was neither crap nor fantastic i suppose...

 

[DexterTCN]

Have you seen Ip Man 2? Any good?

Yes, it is just as good. Ip Man zero is a bit rubbish though.

 

[belboid]

A Dangerous Method.

Knightley being 'hysterical' was rather annoying, but otherwise pretty decent film, the two handers with Freud & Jung especially.

 

[Idris2002]

A Dangerous Method.

Knightley being 'hysterical' was rather annoying,

Only annoying? It sounds unbearable.

 

[magneze]

Yes, it is just as good. Ip Man zero is a bit rubbish though.

This one? "The Final Fight"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2495118/?ref_=sr_2

 

[DexterTCN]

No there was another one about when he was young, can't see it on imdb. Might not have been done by the same people.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Tower Block - difficult to love or hate this film really. Some great performances in a pretty pointless film which tests credibility to the absolute limits.