What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
also love goebbels diary entry after 'completely sane' Hess did his abortive attempt to broker a peace
'This is a disaster'
no shit sherlock
'This is a disaster'
no shit sherlock
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
It would be nice to think so, wouldn't it?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That's depardieu. Why do french actors - him, deloin, bardo love the far right so?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
cos they hate France for being shit
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
We have Simone and jves.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
yeah i find it really hard to watch shit like that.
I had to pause at some bits cos of grit in eye etc. There was one scene where his former admin woman (camp inmate) said how he casually had her daughter sterilised but she was just glad he hadn't had her marked for the ovens. I paused it at that point cos jesus christ on a pogo stick, every time you think you have become inured to the moral depravity of the third reich something turns up to punch you in the gut.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Delon too? Didn't know that.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yep. Sorry.
rekil
to menny cranks
http://www.france24.com/en/20131009-french-actor-alain-delon-national-front
Was he open about it at all before now?
Was he open about it at all before now?
Night Train
1959 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Two mysterious and troubled characters Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka) are forced to share a compartment aboard a train on an overnight journey to a coastal town. As the trip begins, news circulates that a murderer is on the loose and the suspicion forms that he may be on the train. It all culminates in an unscheduled stop in the middle of the night and a fantastic chase scene with almost the atmosphere of a horror film after the man suspected of being the killer leaps from the train and ends up surrounded by a crowd of avenging passengers in a nearby graveyard.
The booklet that came with the dvd mentions Hitchcock and Michelangelo Antonioni as influences (especially his film Il Grido which I've not seen), and I was also reminded of some of the New Wave related directors like Chabrol and Melville.
Jan Laskowski's cinematography is really excellent, and there's a great jazz soundtrack too.
One of the best films I've seen lately. Highly recommended.
1959 Polish film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Two mysterious and troubled characters Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka) are forced to share a compartment aboard a train on an overnight journey to a coastal town. As the trip begins, news circulates that a murderer is on the loose and the suspicion forms that he may be on the train. It all culminates in an unscheduled stop in the middle of the night and a fantastic chase scene with almost the atmosphere of a horror film after the man suspected of being the killer leaps from the train and ends up surrounded by a crowd of avenging passengers in a nearby graveyard.
The booklet that came with the dvd mentions Hitchcock and Michelangelo Antonioni as influences (especially his film Il Grido which I've not seen), and I was also reminded of some of the New Wave related directors like Chabrol and Melville.
Jan Laskowski's cinematography is really excellent, and there's a great jazz soundtrack too.
One of the best films I've seen lately. Highly recommended.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Had it in my head that this a favourite, even though I saw it once when it came out and never again. Good to know its as good as I remembered it, every actor is great in it. Probably didn't get some of the subtleties of the food/colour/visceral visual feast aspects the first time.
Had it in my head that this a favourite, even though I saw it once when it came out and never again. Good to know its as good as I remembered it, every actor is great in it. Probably didn't get some of the subtleties of the food/colour/visceral visual feast aspects the first time.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
oh g-d that's a horrible series, i couldn't watch after about episode 3.
I watched "Planet Ant" about scientists who made an artificial ant colony and observed everything they were doing for a few weeks.
TruXta
tired
Horrible as in gave you the frights or as in shit?
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Horrible as in disturbing but also shit. I couldn't watch it after episode or 4, I hated all of the characters and there was no hope at the end of the tunnel.
TruXta
tired
Yeah, there aren't many likeable characters in S1. It was very uneven in quality and the plot got silly. S2 seems a lot tighter in that regard.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
i thought it was the other way round, i liked series 1. it was funny.
series 2 was just horrible.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
And more of the same last night. When you're depicting the human degradation that loneliness and non-existent self-esteem can wreak on people, you've stopped being a sitcom and you are now something else. . .
TruXta
tired
Sorry - I thought you meant S1 all along.
I can see how the MH stuff could be more disturbing alright. S1 was more "let's take all the horror cliches and mash them together in a big crazy stew", it seems with S2 they actually gave it some more thought.butchersapron
Bring back hanging
JW did another film called Cien/Shadow based around some one being hurled from a train. I can also recommend the two parts of his Celullose series - Celullose and Under the Phrygian Star. I expect that you've seen Mother Joan of the Angels- which Christian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills reminded me of - in a good way.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Sorry - I thought you meant S1 all along.
the mental health stuff was more disturbing and all of the characters i liked seemed to be killed off or made to go mad
TruXta
tired
That's why I like it - it's a horror show after all, and horror is better when the bad guys win IMO.the mental health stuff was more disturbing and all of the characters i liked were killed off or made to go mad
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
the first one was a comedy though.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
why?
TruXta
tired
Kinda. But the bad guys won tho! Kinda...
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Nobody won - they all had to stay in the house forever.
TruXta
tired
Oh I dunno. I guess for me it was a reaction to seeing a lot of 80s/90s horror when things became so fucking formulaic - usually ending up with the plucky hero/heroine destroying (at least temporarily - gotta mind that sequel potential) the big bad monster. In real life evil wins as often or more often than good.
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