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

[redsquirrel]

She's brilliant in To Die For and Malice.
And BMX Bandits.

She's also very good in Birth and perfectly good in Dead Calm.

 

[Welsh lad]

Once Were Warriors - 10/10. A very upsetting film but asked a lot of questions, something I like from any film.

 

[DotCommunist]

I watched The Damned United. Not a big football fan but this was more a biopic told through the game iyswim. Really good if a bit laden with brit flick schmaltz at some points.

Chief O'brian from Star Trek plays the rival manager

 

[DexterTCN]

Once Were Warriors - 10/10. A very upsetting film but asked a lot of questions, something I like from any film.

There is a follow-up which is quite good. Can't remember what it's called.

Last night I watched Goodfellas again, as I go through Scorsese's work. Still brilliant.

 

[Garek]

Might be watching Come and See later. Is it any good?

 

[maya]

I went to a private screening recently and they showed this very interestig documentary, by a scandi filmmaker I believe... It's about Ryuichi, a 44-year old japanese man who works as an actor and problemsolver, basically his business idea is 'rent a fake relative' to people without families or with the need for a stand-in (one girl needs her father's permission to move in with her boyfriend before marriage for instance, she knows her real dad would never consent to such a thing, so in the solemn meeting at a restaurant where she brings her boyfriend to meet her "father", the father is in fact Ryuichi! Also, at a wedding the bride's entire entourage are extras hired from Ryuichi's firm.)

First you feel a bit sorry for the desperate people who are in need of such a service, then as the film explores mr. Ryuichi's private life a bit more I felt more sorry for him: His marriage is in a mess, his wife have chucked him out of their bedroom where she now sleeps with their oldest son, having exiled him to a mattress in the son's bedroom for over four years, the family barely talk or spend time together, he spends more time out on his private affairs than with his kids and wife, at dinner he just watches tv while sat at the table with his family, his family doesn't know about his acting business or what he does for a living and things are tense, he seems like a very unhappy man... You feel sorry both for his famliy and for him, he's just as unhappy as the people he works for... I was intrigued by this extremely intricate and alien world, where reputation seems to be everything and losing face or exposing yourself doesn't seem to be a valid option...

I'd love to watch this again (especially as I spent a lot of the time twitching nervously, hiding my face in my hands, as some of the situations were so uncomfortable to watch- the time where some of the extras in the wedding stutter and give the wrong fake name when presenting themselves, for instance... it's painful to watch.)

 

[jeff_leigh]

I watched The Damned United. Not a big football fan but this was more a biopic told through the game iyswim. Really good if a bit laden with brit flick schmaltz at some points.

Chief O'brian from Star Trek plays the rival manager

I've got the book on my to read list, Comes highly recommended

 

[jeff_leigh]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Didn't have a clue what was going on Had an easier time watching David Lynch movies

 

[DaveCinzano]

Might be watching Come and See later. Is it any good?

Laugh-a-minute

 

[andysays]

Spoiler: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

A classic, obviously

 

[butchersapron]

Might be watching Come and See later. Is it any good?

It's alright, i suppose.

 

[andysays]

Also available on youtube

Spoiler: For a Few Dollars More

Spoiler: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

[marty21]

I've been watching Alpha House on Amazon Prime (previously known as Lovefilm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_House

quite enjoying it - good cast - centres around 4 senators who house share - they are republican senators ( boo - hiss ,etc) and it's about life on the hill, campaigning, ethics committees, sex, drugs , money - written by Gary Trudeau - who created Doonesbury the strip cartoon in the Guardian and elsewhere

 

[trabuquera]

Come and See is a towering masterpiece of a film - and also one of the most the most depressing and scarifying experiences life has to offer. So there's that.
(personal opinion: this may be the finest war movie ever made.)

I watched BETTER MUS COME - a 2013 Jamaican movie looking at the inter-party violence of the late 70s. Should have been fascinating but it wasn't really ... very low budget, very wooden script, looks cheap and videoey in places and (bizarrely) even the soundtrack wasn't that good. Taps back into a lot of those Western-style archetypes (men with hats, posses, runaway fugitives) you'll already know from Harder They Come etc. Still glad I saw it, some intriguing dialogue and background on the warfare between "garrison constituencies" etc.

 

[butchersapron]

I've been watching Alpha House on Amazon Prime (previously known as Lovefilm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_House

quite enjoying it - good cast - centres around 4 senators who house share - they are republican senators ( boo - hiss ,etc) and it's about life on the hill, campaigning, ethics committees, sex, drugs , money - written by Gary Trudeau - who created Doonesbury the strip cartoon in the Guardian and elsewhere

Jon Belushi in a toga - genuius.

 

[Garek]

Come and See - got just over an hour in. German cleansing of a village is probably one of the most horrifying bits of cinema i have ever seen, a cacophony of noise, with pacing and elements of surrealism that make the whole thing feel frantic and insane.

Extraordinary film.

 

[joustmaster]

i watched 12 Angry Men, the other day. It was great. I can't believe its taken me this long to get round to watching it

 

[marty21]

Jon Belushi in a toga - genuius.

the house isn't as much fun as Animal House tbf

 

[jeff_leigh]

The Parallax View - These old 70's movies are still fantastic, Also watched The French Connection the other night

 

[DexterTCN]

A Field in England. A 17th century treasure hunt in a magic field of mushrooms. Crazy stuff, well shot and acted.

 

[Orang Utan]

Silver Linings Playbook - two dysfunctional nutters dance themselves sane. Happy ever after. Yuck.

 

[nicedream]

I Am Slave

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Silver Linings Playbook - two dysfunctional nutters dance themselves sane. Happy ever after. Yuck.

A guilty pleasure of mine last year, i liked it but wouldn't want to watch it again unless i was with a lady friend and she insisted.

 

[nicedream]

A guilty pleasure of mine last year, i liked it but wouldn't want to watch it again unless i was with a lady friend and she insisted.

I read the book, but i dont think i could sit through the film.

 

[The Octagon]

Spring Breakers

Erm, I'm still not sure whether it was any good or not

Franco was very watchable and the whole thing was enjoyably sleazy (a la Wild Things), but overall it was a bit throwaway.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Rabbit-Proof Fence - Got a bit a grit in my eye But seriously I'd recommend this movie to anyone, You'd have to be a cold hearted bastard not to feel anything

 

[Idris2002]

First episode of this documentary series on Canadian history:

 

[Betsy]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Didn't have a clue what was going on Had an easier time watching David Lynch movies

I started watching it on TV a while ago when it was repeated (the TV series with Alec Guinness) and then got the DVD with Gary Oldman - again started to watch it but it just didn't hold my attention!

Obviously not for me.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Bullitt - Steve McQueen the ultimate cool guy

 

[Belushi]

Might be watching Come and See later. Is it any good?

One of the greatest films ever made, and one of the most harrowing.