Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Pricilla, Queen of the Desert. I'd forgotten that it had Hugo Weaving in it. He looked fabulous!
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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Fargo. The weirdest reboot of Columbo ever made, ja?
Brilliant. A pregnant cop who seems to come from an episode of the waltons, doggedly and casually gets on with a case involving lots of bad language, kidnap, insanity, wanton murder and just plain unnecessary badness. Pure Coen.
Some tv channel is showing loads of Coen stuff, it's great.
I saw McDormand in Burn After Reading last week...brilliant in that, too.
Brilliant. A pregnant cop who seems to come from an episode of the waltons, doggedly and casually gets on with a case involving lots of bad language, kidnap, insanity, wanton murder and just plain unnecessary badness. Pure Coen.
Some tv channel is showing loads of Coen stuff, it's great.
I saw McDormand in Burn After Reading last week...brilliant in that, too.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
finally managed to convince mrs b that we should watch A Field in England.
And, mmm, what an intereting film. Veered significantly towards the barking. Quite entertaining, I'll have to watch it again.
What could follow that? Only a true classic, so out came the Tigon masterpiece Blood On Satans Claw. Still wonderful.
And, mmm, what an intereting film. Veered significantly towards the barking. Quite entertaining, I'll have to watch it again.
What could follow that? Only a true classic, so out came the Tigon masterpiece Blood On Satans Claw. Still wonderful.
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Virtual Blue
ready
Filth - i should have watched it in the cinema but was put off by the luke-warm reviews. Funny and horrible. I recommend!
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
The Haunting (1963) - dir. Robert Wise - excellent atmospheric horror effort from Wise, and a film where Hammer-style theatrics are ignored in place of psychological tension and dread. Great performances from the cast, and the black and white cinematography looks fantastic. Perhaps slightly overlong (this one hits the 2 hour mark), "The Haunting" nevertheless is a stellar example of 60's horror at its finest. In fact, it comes close to being as seminal and powerful as "Carnival Of Souls" at points, so you know that this is an exemplary one. If you're into your horror stuff, this comes very highly recommended indeed.
I thought McEvoy would be too clean cut, but he was ok in the part I thought.
The Square (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2486682/
I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes, i'm shaking with rage. I urge you to watch this documentary. Very powerful, very personal.
I still believe in the Egyptian revolution, i have no choice but to believe. If this revolution fails then all other revolutions fail.
Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour and Ahmed Hassan were were superb.
I feel very upset having watched this.
The people know their way back to Tahrir Square.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2486682/
I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes, i'm shaking with rage. I urge you to watch this documentary. Very powerful, very personal.
I still believe in the Egyptian revolution, i have no choice but to believe. If this revolution fails then all other revolutions fail.
Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour and Ahmed Hassan were were superb.
I feel very upset having watched this.
The people know their way back to Tahrir Square.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
A History of Explosions
the presenters glee and child like wonder seemed a bit off when we got to the bit about nuclear weapons. Possible PD recruit.
the presenters glee and child like wonder seemed a bit off when we got to the bit about nuclear weapons. Possible PD recruit.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Finally watched Marx Re-loaded. Was not the wait worth. From Barker's shallow reading of Marx and history to the tiny little snippets that counted as interviews or opinions. Total let down.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
It's been made into a TV series now, At first I thought Bleeding Sacrilege, But I'll give it a go http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
"Steam of life (Miesten vuoro)". A great documentary about the only place where the stoic, Finnish man opens up: The sauna.[steam bath] You see lots of Finnish men sitting on benches all sweating and naked like, and you hear their stories. This is one of the few places where they talk freely and honest, deep discussion goes on- albeit not always men of many words. This sounds like an unlikely concept for over an hour, but it works very well and it's actually quite moving (one man reveals that he was abused), intriguing and funny in parts... Apparently the quiet cameraderie and collective support found there is the manly men's version of therapy. A unusual film, I haven't seen anything like it before.
Intrigued enough to look it up and surprised i found a torrent of it on TPB. Added it to my "to watch" list.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
It's great
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watched a few over the week
La Cérémonie
1995 thriller directed by Claude Chabrol. The upper class get their comeuppance. Really good, suspect Chabrol particularly enjoyed making it.
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 Billy Wilder film with a fairly ridiculous Agatha Christie plot. Good performances by Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich & Charles Laughton in the lead roles. Entertaining courtroom mystery drama with all the twists and turns you'd want.
Nights of Cabiria
Another film from 1957, this one by Federico Fellini. Really enjoyed this one a lot. Giulietta Masina's perfomance is brilliant as the endlessly unlucky prostitute known as Cabiria. I was especially struck by some of her slightly odd facial expressions - really great and full of character. It was a very old-fashioned sort of film that follows Cabiria's various misfortunes as she travels about Rome with plenty of both humour and sadness.
La Cérémonie
1995 thriller directed by Claude Chabrol. The upper class get their comeuppance. Really good, suspect Chabrol particularly enjoyed making it.
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 Billy Wilder film with a fairly ridiculous Agatha Christie plot. Good performances by Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich & Charles Laughton in the lead roles. Entertaining courtroom mystery drama with all the twists and turns you'd want.
Nights of Cabiria
Another film from 1957, this one by Federico Fellini. Really enjoyed this one a lot. Giulietta Masina's perfomance is brilliant as the endlessly unlucky prostitute known as Cabiria. I was especially struck by some of her slightly odd facial expressions - really great and full of character. It was a very old-fashioned sort of film that follows Cabiria's various misfortunes as she travels about Rome with plenty of both humour and sadness.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
L'Enfer (1993) - dir. Claude Chabrol - An overall decent 90's effort from Chabrol here, in his film which follows a pair of lovers as their relationship becomes increasingly dysfunctional and twisted. Emmanuelle Beart and Francois Cluzet play the couple in question, and Cluzet becomes ever-more jealous and antagonistic, as he becomes overwhelmed with jealousy and paranoia at his belief of Beart's alleged infidelities. The film climaxes with Cluzet losing his mind, and imagining that he has "saved" his lover, whilst obsessing over images of his belief of her cheating on him.
The film is essentially set within a couple of locations, and this helps build up the increasing claustrophobia within "L'Enfer". Both Beart and Cluzet acquit themselves well in this one, with the disintegration of their relationship coming across convincingly. Nicely shot, and well paced, this comes across as a decent study in the failure of two people to understand each other both intimately and emotionally.
I do take one issue with this, though: the scene in which Beart is examined by her GP, following an incident of non-consensual sex, suddenly turns around on her, as the GP's initial caring and concern for her turns to moral disgust, as he seems to believe Cluzet's accusatory statments re. her having affairs. Not only does this scene not work at all (it comes across as very lumpy and disjointed), it also leaves a sour taste in one's mouth, as to victims of sexual assault not being believed at the drop of a pin. A rather big flaw in an otherwise convincing film for me.
"L'Enfer" is certainly worth a viewing, but viewer be warned of the afore-mentioned scene.
The film is essentially set within a couple of locations, and this helps build up the increasing claustrophobia within "L'Enfer". Both Beart and Cluzet acquit themselves well in this one, with the disintegration of their relationship coming across convincingly. Nicely shot, and well paced, this comes across as a decent study in the failure of two people to understand each other both intimately and emotionally.
I do take one issue with this, though: the scene in which Beart is examined by her GP, following an incident of non-consensual sex, suddenly turns around on her, as the GP's initial caring and concern for her turns to moral disgust, as he seems to believe Cluzet's accusatory statments re. her having affairs. Not only does this scene not work at all (it comes across as very lumpy and disjointed), it also leaves a sour taste in one's mouth, as to victims of sexual assault not being believed at the drop of a pin. A rather big flaw in an otherwise convincing film for me.
"L'Enfer" is certainly worth a viewing, but viewer be warned of the afore-mentioned scene.
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Chaplin.
la ressistance
aesthete
Only ok ? I honestly think that mcevoy gave one of the best performances I've ever seen. He is incredible. I'm even a bit pissed off he never got an Oscar nod for it, he's fucking brilliant in filth.
la ressistance
aesthete
A massive disappointment just like kill list.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
She's very, er, Chaplinesque in La Strada
that would explain it
Voley
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Seven Psychopaths. Expected it to be like 'The Hangover' or some other such shite but it was actually quite good. Didn't like the main psycho as an actor though which detracted a bit. A pity as some of the others (Christopher Walken) were good. Nice little twist on the 'characters in search of an author' theme. Woody Harrelson is always going to be Woody Harrelson though, unfortunately.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Christopher Walken is particularly well dressed in that film. He is clearly just having fun at this time in his career
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Rust and Bone - quite enjoyed it.
Captain Phillips.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/
Wow, suspense built well and was maintained throughout. Great performances from Barkhad Abdi and Tom Hanks.
Slightly suspicious of the Hollywood treatment but don't let that put you of watching an excellent film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/
Wow, suspense built well and was maintained throughout. Great performances from Barkhad Abdi and Tom Hanks.
Slightly suspicious of the Hollywood treatment but don't let that put you of watching an excellent film.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Double bill of A Serious Man and Basket Case 2 tonight. 
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Collateral. A hitman coerces an LA taxi-driver to take him on 5 stops around LA to kill people involved in a drug deal/possibly witnesses for the prosecution. Cruise and Foxx. There are a couple of OH REALLY! moments of serendipity/deus-ex-machina but at the end of the day it's a damn fine thriller. Michael Mann directed it, great soundtrack and cinematography. Like a modern Miami Vice.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Raging Phoenix - Thai martial arts movie, Same girl was in Chocolate the one about the autistic girl
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