I was furiously checking how I'd managed to get the one without the director's cut.Srry No, I meant Alien (Directors Cut) but somehow chose Terminator from the post above rather than Alien
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Saturday I watched Cold In July. Deserving of it's high ratings on Rotten Toms etc Great performances all round and a story that kept me involved and waiting to see what was coming.
Watched Filth today. I've not read the book so couldn't comment on whether it sticks to that but has some good laughs and use of Frank Sidebottom, which is never a bad thing. I like Eddie Marsan so good to see him in there too.
Watched Filth today. I've not read the book so couldn't comment on whether it sticks to that but has some good laughs and use of Frank Sidebottom, which is never a bad thing. I like Eddie Marsan so good to see him in there too.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The Andromeda Strain.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
So you're saying this is their Mutiny, and that the next one could tip things over into Holiday?
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
A good but unsettling film. Theres one scene in particular that sticks in the mind. Im sure youll know which one i mean.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The White Bird Marked with Black - utterly depressing Soviet Union/Ukraine film about a family of brothers and their experiences in a small part of the carpathians during the war. Lot of soviets, romanians, germans, murder, partisans, banderists, fracticide and suicide. And songs. One great one.
An interesting film, more from the style it was made in rather than the actual story or acting - hard to even work out what was happening at times due the construction. I may have missed some ukranian nationalist symbolism as well.
An interesting film, more from the style it was made in rather than the actual story or acting - hard to even work out what was happening at times due the construction. I may have missed some ukranian nationalist symbolism as well.
Angel Face
Otto Preminger, 1952. Very good film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. Mitchum is an ambulance driver turned chauffeur who seems unable to escape the psychotic plans dreamt up by Simmons in a very sinister performance. The film is well paced and builds effectively to a gripping and memorable finale which is cleverly preceded by a bit of a lull (with great music) during which you have a good idea of what is about to happen and so adds to the film's sense of fatalism without lessening the impact of the ending.
Starlet
2012 film directed by Sean Baker. A decent little film about a young woman called Jane (Dree Hemingway) who accidentally finds herself with a lot of money belonging to a much older woman, Sadie (Besedka Johnson), who lives nearby. The plot is basically Jane's attempts first to return the money to Sadie and then to befriend her. I enjoyed this, and there were a couple of unexpected twists and few of the clichés that you can often get in these kind of crazy young person & cranky old person films. The strange isolated world that Jane lives in, at least in part because of her work, helps to make her relationship with Sadie and generally odd behaviour much more believable. The two lead performances are both very good. Not bad at all.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Frank Tashlin, 1957. At the heart of this film is a fairly tiresome finger-wagging moral story about the excesses of modern society turning people into mindless zombies addled by mass media and consumer products and how money/success can't buy you happiness. Fortunately the predictable plot and politics don't get in the way of the film too much, which at times looks like it's forgotten what it was meant to be about in the first place anyway. What you end up with is a lurid cartoonish (and Tashlin worked on cartoons before directing) satire of 1950s corporate America and various other things - especially TV which Tashlin hated apparently. Tony Randall has the leading role as Rockwell P. Hunter, an employee of an advertising agency who's about to lose his job unless he can come up with a way of keeping the agency's contract with Stay-Put Lipstick. His solution involves getting the endorsement of Hollywood star Rita Marlowe, played by Jayne Mansfield but as a result of his efforts Hunter finds himself suddenly thrown unexpectedly into the media spotlight and up the corporate ladder. Joan Blondell is good too as Marlowe's jaded assistant. Overall it's very over the top and pretty entertaining.
Otto Preminger, 1952. Very good film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. Mitchum is an ambulance driver turned chauffeur who seems unable to escape the psychotic plans dreamt up by Simmons in a very sinister performance. The film is well paced and builds effectively to a gripping and memorable finale which is cleverly preceded by a bit of a lull (with great music) during which you have a good idea of what is about to happen and so adds to the film's sense of fatalism without lessening the impact of the ending.
Starlet
2012 film directed by Sean Baker. A decent little film about a young woman called Jane (Dree Hemingway) who accidentally finds herself with a lot of money belonging to a much older woman, Sadie (Besedka Johnson), who lives nearby. The plot is basically Jane's attempts first to return the money to Sadie and then to befriend her. I enjoyed this, and there were a couple of unexpected twists and few of the clichés that you can often get in these kind of crazy young person & cranky old person films. The strange isolated world that Jane lives in, at least in part because of her work, helps to make her relationship with Sadie and generally odd behaviour much more believable. The two lead performances are both very good. Not bad at all.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Frank Tashlin, 1957. At the heart of this film is a fairly tiresome finger-wagging moral story about the excesses of modern society turning people into mindless zombies addled by mass media and consumer products and how money/success can't buy you happiness. Fortunately the predictable plot and politics don't get in the way of the film too much, which at times looks like it's forgotten what it was meant to be about in the first place anyway. What you end up with is a lurid cartoonish (and Tashlin worked on cartoons before directing) satire of 1950s corporate America and various other things - especially TV which Tashlin hated apparently. Tony Randall has the leading role as Rockwell P. Hunter, an employee of an advertising agency who's about to lose his job unless he can come up with a way of keeping the agency's contract with Stay-Put Lipstick. His solution involves getting the endorsement of Hollywood star Rita Marlowe, played by Jayne Mansfield but as a result of his efforts Hunter finds himself suddenly thrown unexpectedly into the media spotlight and up the corporate ladder. Joan Blondell is good too as Marlowe's jaded assistant. Overall it's very over the top and pretty entertaining.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I watched 2012 last night.
God, what an awful/amazing film
God, what an awful/amazing film
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Excellent film, but Alan Clarke the director is not the AFN Clarke who wrote the script based on his own experiences as a Para in Northern Ireland.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years - this time, the dog talks. There are other talking animals too. My flatmate wanted to watch it, honest. It's appalling.
Gates Of Heaven - Erroll Morris' first film, in which curious folk who work in pet cemeteries talk about the ins and outs of the trade whilst also waxing lyrical about death and the afterlife.
Gates Of Heaven - Erroll Morris' first film, in which curious folk who work in pet cemeteries talk about the ins and outs of the trade whilst also waxing lyrical about death and the afterlife.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Les Femmes De Lombre on the iplayer. WW2 thing. Nothing spectacular but a good story well told
Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan = shit
Wish I could turn of films more easily but I reach a point of no return. To my credit I did turn off Shaft (2000/1?) today.
Wish I could turn of films more easily but I reach a point of no return. To my credit I did turn off Shaft (2000/1?) today.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Riddick - tedious bollocks and further proof of the law of diminishing returns. I loved Pitch Black (a properly muscular, original and racy genre movie) and even sort-of-liked sequel Chronicles of Riddick, which most people hated, cos it was so overblown/overbudgeted/over-art-directed (and too long.). But this third one is just dull - obviously the idea was to go back to the stripped-down style of PB but it just ends up being boring and unimpressive. Lousy script and nothing even all that interesting to look at.
And just about to turn off Thor: The Dark World after 25 minutes (I'm getting better at this ). To be fair I didn't have high hopes at selection time but thought having Natalie Portman in it but get me through 
Next!
). To be fair I didn't have high hopes at selection time but thought having Natalie Portman in it but get me through Next!
Alien Abduction (2014). A not-entirely-necessary addition to the found footage genre. One of those ones where you want everyone to die now, please.
Intruders (2011). Clive Owen playing the part of Clive Owen. Some other people annoying the tits out of you as the setting skips between Spain and London slowly enough for you to spot the twist before it gets there. Decent enough effort in a straight-to-DVD fashion, but the shit monster and the really, really poor ending ruin it somewhat.
Intruders (2011). Clive Owen playing the part of Clive Owen. Some other people annoying the tits out of you as the setting skips between Spain and London slowly enough for you to spot the twist before it gets there. Decent enough effort in a straight-to-DVD fashion, but the shit monster and the really, really poor ending ruin it somewhat.
Indeliblelink
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Gibel sensatsii [Loss of Feeling / Jim Ripple's Robot]- 30s Soviet sci-fi about an engineer in an unnamed land who builds a robot hoping it will bring about revolution against the capitalists but he get's denounced as a traitor when the workers think the robots will end up replacing them.
A bit clunky but worth watching just for the bit were he gets drunk and gets his robots to dance. On youtube with eng subs
A bit clunky but worth watching just for the bit were he gets drunk and gets his robots to dance. On youtube with eng subs
I'm sure I've seen quite a few of his films but couldn't name them other than Inside Man which I rate. I've also stayed in the 'Clive Owen' room of a Travelodge in Coventry or some where (this only equated to a photo a short bio of his career on the wall lol).
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Bladerunner Directors cut is on tonight on bbc2
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Travelodge should do this at all of their locations - Newcastle Quayside is much in need of a Clive Mantle Suite with accompanying plaque, for instance.
I agree, although they might be scraping the barrel in some locations!
Yetman
Cheesecar Fucksquad #1
[QUOTE="The Boy, post: 13398703, member:
Intruders (2011). Clive Owen playing the part of Clive Owen. Some other people annoying the tits out of you as the setting skips between Spain and London slowly enough for you to spot the twist before it gets there. Decent enough effort in a straight-to-DVD fashion, but the shit monster and the really, really poor ending ruin it somewhat.[/QUOTE]
That had great potential. It's about incubuses. Twisted and turned well, then just went stupid.
Intruders (2011). Clive Owen playing the part of Clive Owen. Some other people annoying the tits out of you as the setting skips between Spain and London slowly enough for you to spot the twist before it gets there. Decent enough effort in a straight-to-DVD fashion, but the shit monster and the really, really poor ending ruin it somewhat.[/QUOTE]
That had great potential. It's about incubuses. Twisted and turned well, then just went stupid.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
You may be right - I just checked and Leslie Grantham's thumb-sucking skype-wank wasn't even in a budget chain hotel
That had great potential. It's about incubuses. Twisted and turned well, then just went stupid.[/QUOTE]
It did, and it did. It was one of those films where you just feel utterly robbed by the finale.
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
They Live. Hadnt watched it for a while & thought it was about time to watch it again as ms starfish, who had never seen it, was intrigued by it after she recently watched The Perverts Guide to Ideology. She liked it which was good as it one of my favourite films. The fight scene is still awesome.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
fnord
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
In The Fog - wonderful large film on small stage in Belarus during the war - so echoes of Come and See right off, the almost mute lead performance also mirroring Florya in the same. This is a slow thoughtful; film about all sorts of forms of collaboration or resistance. Director was previously working on documentaries and it shows. Highly recommended.
H-8 - another brilliant film i'd missed over the years. 1958 Yugoslav film that starts off with a bus and a lorry crashing into each other and 8 people dead. The film then loops back and retraces the events that led up to that exact point. Sounds like an exercise in cold formalism but it's really not. Manages to create increasing tension and attachment to the characters even though we know where it's heading. Again, highly recommended.
Black Sun - pretty much a visual response/accompaniment to The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke - but the film has nothing to do with Clarke himself. Worth a lookbut not anything special. Some good scenes at the Externsteine with some idiots in the 80s/90s but beyond that nothing not seen already. Clarke went onto do another book on the same subject with the title Black Sun as well.
H-8 - another brilliant film i'd missed over the years. 1958 Yugoslav film that starts off with a bus and a lorry crashing into each other and 8 people dead. The film then loops back and retraces the events that led up to that exact point. Sounds like an exercise in cold formalism but it's really not. Manages to create increasing tension and attachment to the characters even though we know where it's heading. Again, highly recommended.
Black Sun - pretty much a visual response/accompaniment to The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke - but the film has nothing to do with Clarke himself. Worth a lookbut not anything special. Some good scenes at the Externsteine with some idiots in the 80s/90s but beyond that nothing not seen already. Clarke went onto do another book on the same subject with the title Black Sun as well.
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