rekil
to menny cranks
Charlie is only on screen for 3 minutes but he's the best thing in it.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Think you sum it up pretty well. Sort of Traffic with fewer pretensions.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Three minutes of Charlie Work is worth more than a lifetime of regular graft.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Does he play the wild card?
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
A Canterbury Tale.
Made on the eve of D-Day, I think. A celebration of the spiritual values which unite Britain and America as allies, and which mean that fraternisation between soldiers and civilian women has to be suppressed by the squirting of glue into girls' hair (really).
Made on the eve of D-Day, I think. A celebration of the spiritual values which unite Britain and America as allies, and which mean that fraternisation between soldiers and civilian women has to be suppressed by the squirting of glue into girls' hair (really).
It's a slightly odd film but very P&P.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
the first bukkake movie.
That was my major contribution to P&P studies. Why I'm not a Professor of Film, I don't know. Are you doing all the lesser known P&P's? you seem to be getting through them
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Not deliberately, it just kind of happened that way.
To the Hebrides?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Black Rock - sort of feminist take on the likes of Deliverance and Southern Comfort. Was shown the other night as part of Film 4's Frightfest season. Had never heard of it before and was pleasantly surprised. Tense and pretty brutal when it needs to be.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Narco eps 1-4
its the early 80s and a local south american smuggler called pablo escobar has just had a vision of the money to be made in cocaine...
its the early 80s and a local south american smuggler called pablo escobar has just had a vision of the money to be made in cocaine...
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
I have 'the big telly' for a few nights, so tonite it was Beautiful Thing - the only romantic DVD I own. Tomorrow night will have to be something unspeakably violent to make up for it 
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
more Narcos. It's good enough but there are way way to many political dimensions to the story of Escobar just being elided with a few references.
Got a bit confused by this. Both the date and the poor review seemed out so had a quick Google and seems this is a us remake of the Thai original.
I thoroughly enjoyed the original, though was back in 2005/2006 that I watched it so might not agree with that assessment now. No mean, it was fairly big standard ghost in the machine stuff, but well executed iirc.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Just re watched Glory for the first time in about 10 years. A, not sentimental, telling of the first regiment of black soldiers in the American civil war. It doesn't shy away from the racism on the Northern side and it hits you emotionally. Denzil Washington and Morgan Freeman both brilliant.
(So good that after about 20 minutes you stop thinking Cary Elwis is going to announce himself as the dread pirate Roberts).
(So good that after about 20 minutes you stop thinking Cary Elwis is going to announce himself as the dread pirate Roberts).
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Yup. Tho its only Mull, so there are even bridges to it.To the Hebrides?
Lone Star for us the other night. Ages since I've seen it, and although it is a little clunky in places, it really is a cracking piece of art. The tracking shots across forty years are beautifully done, the storylines neatly interwoven to create a thoroughly convincing tale, the relationships all too believable. And the ending, you dont get that in most Hollywood movies. Sayles' masterpiece? I probably still prefer Matewan, but, damn, this is good.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
There's no bridge to Mull!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I'm thinking of the one to Skye aren't I?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Its a Wonderful Life
I normally save it for christmas but felt the need for George Bailey. What really kills me every time is how he shelves his dreams, how he starts off so big and is going to build cities that will change the world. Then one by one he has to put them aside- even his dreamt of honeymoon, he puts it aside to help others because he's a good man. No good haring off to build the future when the present needs fixing, right. And its only at his lowest ebb does he consider it a life wasted, only when all his sacrifices of dreams have been for nothing (as it seems to him) does he lose faith in decency and look into that dark flowing winter river. I will never tire of that film.
I normally save it for christmas but felt the need for George Bailey. What really kills me every time is how he shelves his dreams, how he starts off so big and is going to build cities that will change the world. Then one by one he has to put them aside- even his dreamt of honeymoon, he puts it aside to help others because he's a good man. No good haring off to build the future when the present needs fixing, right. And its only at his lowest ebb does he consider it a life wasted, only when all his sacrifices of dreams have been for nothing (as it seems to him) does he lose faith in decency and look into that dark flowing winter river. I will never tire of that film.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The Battle of the River Plate. Powell and Pressburger, 1956 or thereabouts.
Senior Service give Jerry what-for. Early episode from the last war, when the Admiral Graf Spee was raiding allied shipping up and down both Atlantics and the Indian Ocean. Some jolly jack tars ambushed the bugger off the coast of Uruguay and - well, see it for yourself.
Sympathetic portrayal of the Kriegsmarine kapitan, explicable by the fact that this dates from the period when West Germany was rearming and a lot of people were looking askance at this.
Great colour tones, though, and it must have been quite spectacular in the cinema.
Senior Service give Jerry what-for. Early episode from the last war, when the Admiral Graf Spee was raiding allied shipping up and down both Atlantics and the Indian Ocean. Some jolly jack tars ambushed the bugger off the coast of Uruguay and - well, see it for yourself.
Sympathetic portrayal of the Kriegsmarine kapitan, explicable by the fact that this dates from the period when West Germany was rearming and a lot of people were looking askance at this.
Great colour tones, though, and it must have been quite spectacular in the cinema.
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
No man is a failure if he has friends. It's the banking/building society, housing, misery thing that gets me every time. Wonderful film.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
saw it first at 15, rolled my eyes at having to watch a b&w film. then it grabbed me.
I should really seek out some more frank capra films tbf. Mr Smith Goes To Washington is meant to be good.
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