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

[Yetman]

Grey Gardens. Well then

 

[inva]

Secret Defense
1998 film directed by Jacques Rivette. It stars Sandrine Bonnaire whose performance is excellent as a scientist who comes to suspect that her father's death was not the accident she thought it was, but though it starts out as a fairly simple revenge plot it becomes more complicated (especially morally) over the course of the 170 minute film. Stylish, nicely shot and well worth a watch. I'm really enjoying Rivette's films at the moment, with this one being I think the most thrillerish of his thriller type films, reminding me of Chabrol and Hitchcock.

 

[rubbershoes]

The Bridge - that Scandi show on which the Tunnel is based. Losing interest fast with the references to the number five.

Stick with it

 

[yardbird]

Silent Witness
As a relax whilst dinner is cooking, I've started watching Silent Witness from the beginning.
Years old and Amanda Burton is the lead.
The support actors are well interesting though.
A much younger Idris Elba - one for the ladies. Plays a boxer, so loads with his top off
A young Philip Glenister
And Ken Stott.
Loads of other faces I recognize.
Spot the star to be - good fun.

Bump (little)
Just now a younger Jack Dee as a wrongly convicted murderer.

 

[white rabbit]

The US version of The Killing. Season 3. Bloody hell, it's bleak. Well made though.

 

[Idris2002]

This PBS documentary on Lou Reed, from 1998:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/lou-reed/about-lou-reed/687/

 

[The Octagon]

Last 2 episodes of Breaking Bad s3.



Brilliant television.

 

[Belushi]

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog 2010) Wonderful.

 

[Voley]

The Impossible. Bit close to home for me, this, tbh. I had a fairly good idea of how harrowing the tsunami must have been but I didn't need it hammering home tbh. Not that it's a bad film or anything but fucking hell, I know people that went through that. Got Hammer Of The Gods to watch tonight that looks totally shit and right up my street.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Wonderland. About the life of John Holmes after porn.

You know, I think all the blood really must have been going to that guy's dick.

 

[Pingu]

i am posting what i will be watching tonight now.

mainly because i will probably be dead of terminal boredom/tweeness overkill by tomorrow.

twilight breaking dawn part 2. - lets watch hunger games I said. No its my turn we shall watch twilight she said...

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Stake Land - hadn't heard of it before, but twas rather good - a bit like The Road but with added vampires.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Made Men.

Vince Vaughn at his most irritating.

 

[Belushi]

Potiche (Francois Ozon 2010) Enjoyable enough seventies set screwball comedy. Catherine Deneuve is very good as the lead, Gerard Depardieu is very fat.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Just watched this;
http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/the-film/

The Pruitt Igoe myth.

It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home. At the film’s historical center is an analysis of the massive impact of the national urban renewal program of the 1950s and 1960s, which prompted the process of mass suburbanization and emptied American cities of their residents, businesses, and industries. Those left behind in the city faced a destitute, rapidly de-industrializing St. Louis , parceled out to downtown interests and increasingly segregated by class and race. The residents of Pruitt-Igoe were among the hardest hit. Their gripping stories of survival, adaptation, and success are at the emotional heart of the film. The domestic turmoil wrought by punitive public welfare policies; the frustrating interactions with a paternalistic and cash-strapped Housing Authority; and the downward spiral of vacancy, vandalism and crime led to resident protest and action during the 1969 Rent Strike, the first in the history of public housing. And yet, despite this complex history, Pruitt-Igoe has often been stereotyped. The world-famous image of its implosion has helped to perpetuate a myth of failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth seeks to set the historical record straight. To examine the interests involved in Pruitt-Igoe’s creation. To re-evaluate the rumors and the stigma. To implode the myth.

Fuckin great. Recommended.I hadn't heard of this film til recently, though I had heard of the place.

The bits about punitive welfare policies/social control and the bits about redevelopment are still relevant now. As is the whole thing though really.

e2a Favelado you ever heard of this? I know you like the bronx n that. This film needs to be seen, swing it about a bit.

 

[Belushi]

A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj 2012) Short and sweet Uruguayan film about cinema and cinephiles.

 

[Voley]

Got Hammer Of The Gods to watch tonight that looks totally shit and right up my street.

Woah. That was proper shit.

 

[Favelado]

Just watched this;
http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/the-film/

The Pruitt Igoe myth.



Fuckin great. Recommended.I hadn't heard of this film til recently, though I had heard of the place.

The bits about punitive welfare policies/social control and the bits about redevelopment are still relevant now. As is the whole thing though really.

e2a Favelado you ever heard of this? I know you like the bronx n that. This film needs to be seen, swing it about a bit.

Thank you so much. I'm very interested in how conditions develop in cities that ultimately create alternate worlds to the ones of their neighbours. I have heard of this particular case and would love to see a film about it.

If there's a film about Cabrini Green or the Robert Taylor homes in Chicago out there, I'd like to hear about that too.

Good work.

 

[fishfinger]

Escape from Tomorrow
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2187884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

A film shot (without permission) at Walt Disney World. A bit "David Lynch" in feel. Not sure what the hell it was about. Will need to watch it again.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

I think that Daniel Craig always does a good job; and Rooney Mara is great as well.

Plus: they're battling evil, avaricious Swedes!

 

[DrRingDing]

Worst. Film. Ever.

Breaking the 4th wall, twice!

Out of focus shots.

Terrible acting.

That bad gorrilla-man thing.

Excellent

 

[redsquirrel]

The Burned Barns - Part of an Alain Delon collection I got out of the library. It might have been OK with subtitles but the terrible dubbing just killed it.

It's rather put me off watching the rest of the collection.

 

[felixthecat]

Mary and Max - why have I not seen this before now? What an excellent film!

I blubbed.

 

[DotCommunist]

Defiance- partisans film

documentary about space

 

[DexterTCN]

Glengarry Glen Ross. Still great.

 

[trabuquera]

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate ... a bunch of flaccid CGI Chinese balls. had high hopes for it being a good action/chinese myth / history mashup with an impressive number of talented people involved (director tsui hark, jet li among others 'acting') but it's a giant waste of time. boo!

 

[DotCommunist]

tried to watch hornblower, fell asleep.

 

[rubbershoes]

Watched Welcome to the Jungle on the telly box.

A remake of Cannibal Holocaust, they said. What could be a better Saturday night in with the wife?

How wrong I was. They spent an hour wandering into the jungle before seeing any signs at all that all was not going to be rosy.

And then not much happened, apart from one of them being impaled through the mouth with a bamboo pole and left to dry like the a huge piece of biltong. There was so little cannibal action that I wandered off before the end.

 

[rubbershoes]

The first episode of Hunderby.

Very good indeed

 

[avu9lives]

The World End (2013) Just had to switch it off bloody rubbish constantine cant do comedy.thats fer sure and and and and cant be arsed reviewin it. How about some dots............................................