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

[Idris2002]

More Boardwalk Empire. What I like about this one is that you genuinely don't know what's going to happen next.

And the episodes with

Spoiler: Boardwalk Empire Season 2 spoiler

Mrs. Schroder being reunited with her family, only to be rejected by her brother, could have been written for the Abbey theatre, it was that good. It must have been an Irish writer on that one, I think.

 

[renegadechicken]

The gift. Quite good, tale of new starts and past misdemeanours catching up with you but with a slight twist.

 

[Belushi]

Of Horses and Men (Benedikt Erlingsson 2014) Brilliantly inventive and original dark comedy set in rural Iceland.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Child of God. James Franco directed adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's book.

It's fucked up!

 

[May Kasahara]

Beasts of the Southern Wild. I liked it, but it made me cry.

 

[ringo]

Child of God. James Franco directed adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's book.

It's fucked up!

Yes, he successfully made a difficult read into difficult viewing. I'd like to see him do Suttree.

 

[trabuquera]

Rest of NARCOS. Stylish and well-acted but just too gringo by half - not just in the ideology but the way that ordinary non-narco Colombians, Colombian culture, Colombian history, what it all meant for the region, and all that - are completely left out. The actors are good, but they are really obviously speaking a mishmash of accents, not Colombian ones (and in some scenes, ludicrously, two Spanish-speaking characters talk to each other in English just for the benefit of a Netflix audience.) Also too much sex and sexism (nothing wrong with depicting either but it's cheesily done). And reducing this whole thing to a cops vs robbers hunt/chase means the average footsoldier never gets a lookin and the structural weaknesses and abuses of Colombia - the very things which let Pablo Escobar rise to such surreal heights - go unexamined. But it's entertaining enough.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Flesh and Bone. 1983 film starring Dennis Quaid, James Caan, Meg Ryan and and earlt role for Gwynneth Paltrow who shines as a sassy young hustler hiking her way from trouble to trouble.

It's a noirish crime drama and road movie that completely passed me by before...it was a good watch. The type of film they would spend money making well back in the 80s when story telling was still a consideration for studio films...

It's no masterpiece, but it's solid, with good performances, nicely filmed, good score, and it had heart.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Yes, he successfully made a difficult read into difficult viewing. I'd like to see him do Suttree.

James Franco has directed a film about Charles Bukowski. It was due for release last year, but failed to find distribution. I hope it gets some kind of release somewhere.

 

[ringo]

James Franco has directed a film about Charles Bukowski. It was due for release last year, but failed to find distribution. I hope it gets some kind of release somewhere.

I've got the DVD of his version of As I Lay Dying, haven't got round to watching it yet but I reckon he'll do Faulkner well.

 

[hot air baboon]

Flesh and Bone. 1983 film starring Dennis Quaid, James Caan, Meg Ryan and and earlt role for Gwynneth Paltrow who shines as a sassy young hustler hiking her way from trouble to trouble.

It's a noirish crime drama and road movie that completely passed me by before...it was a good watch. The type of film they would spend money making well back in the 80s when story telling was still a consideration for studio films...

It's no masterpiece, but it's solid, with good performances, nicely filmed, good score, and it had heart.

...you had me confused for a minute there...I was thinking no,no,no...it's Jeff Bridges in that.....

....subsequent research shows I was thinking of Cutter's Way.....( that was the film of the book Cutter & Bone...)...another good film of that type btw....

....as you were....

 

[Nanker Phelge]

...you had me confused for a minute there...I was thinking no,no,no...it's Jeff Bridges in that.....

....subsequent research shows I was thinking of Cutter's Way.....( that was the film of the book Cutter & Bone...)...another good film of that type btw....

....as you were....

Cutter's Way is great...

 

[magneze]

Detachment: A film about a supply teacher. Sounds shit. Isn't at all.
What Maisie Knew: A divorce seen through the eyes of a child. Alright but some parts of the plot can be seen from space.

 

[Idris2002]

Cutter's Way is great...

An excellent film, and one that should be much more well known.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

An excellent film, and one that should be much more well known.

Used to be quite regularly on late night bbc...back when the bbc showed a lot of films.

 

[Orang Utan]

Flesh and Bone. 1983 film starring Dennis Quaid, James Caan, Meg Ryan and and earlt role for Gwynneth Paltrow who shines as a sassy young hustler hiking her way from trouble to trouble.

It's a noirish crime drama and road movie that completely passed me by before...it was a good watch. The type of film they would spend money making well back in the 80s when story telling was still a consideration for studio films...

It's no masterpiece, but it's solid, with good performances, nicely filmed, good score, and it had heart.

it's not that old! do you mean 1993?

 

[8115]

Beasts of the Southern Wild. I liked it, but it made me cry.

I loved this film! Thanks for reminding me of it, think I'm going to order the dvd

 

[Nanker Phelge]

it's not that old! do you mean 1993?

You're right....it is 1993....that explains alot. I was on mucho drugs during those early 90s years....hence it passed me by

 

[keybored]

Sicario

Good cinematography, unconvincing characters and some daft plot-holes. It's like they decided to base a film on the Mexican cartel bits of Breaking Bad (some of the menacing music sounds almost identical) and didn't do it all that well.

 

[Voley]

Child of God. James Franco directed adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's book.

It's fucked up!

They've made a film of that?! The mind boggles.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Pressure: Divers trapped at the bottom of the ocean in a diving pod....good performances, but a by numbers plot, and the tension never really mounts...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

They've made a film of that?! The mind boggles.

Yeah, it's a good effort too. There were moments I actually found myself rooting for the main character despite him being a sick and despicable animal.

 

[rubbershoes]

Before I Go to Sleep. Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth in a run of the mill amnesiac thriller.

Not as inventive as Momento

And it's let down badly by the last scene

 

[DotCommunist]

Hoodlum

Laurence Fishburne is a gangster in 1930 harlem, chief henchman to an underworld queenpin. The harlem underworld at war over the numbers racket (an illegal gambling thing from BITD). Tim roth is the rival 'Dutch' Schultz.

It's quite good for what it is- the violence is shocking and loud an infrequent enough to underscore its shock to the viewer. Something weird about the overall tone though, like sometimes it slips into melodrama as if its not sure wether it wants to be a character study or a ganster film. Still some solid performances, leaving Roths american accent to one side. 5.5/10

 

[Voley]

Yeah, it's a good effort too. There were moments I actually found myself rooting for the main character despite him being a sick and despicable animal.

Just like the book then. I'll have to give it a go, ta.

 

[redsquirrel]

Come Sweet Death
Silentium
The Bone Man

Three films made by Wolfgang Murnberger based on the Simon Brenner novels by Wolf Haas. Black austrian humour, deadbeat couldn't give a shit private dick sort of investigates various cases. Very funny, very cynical and watchable for the thiller/detective elements as well.

Blast from the past but if butchersapron or anyone else is interested there's a new film in this series Das Ewige Leben, not got around to watching it yet so I can't say if it is up to the quality of the previous films.

 

[butchersapron]

Blast from the past but if butchersapron or anyone else is interested there's a new film in this series Das Ewige Leben, not got around to watching it yet so I can't say if it is up to the quality of the previous films.

Excellent news ta.

 

[butchersapron]

Blast from the past but if butchersapron or anyone else is interested there's a new film in this series Das Ewige Leben, not got around to watching it yet so I can't say if it is up to the quality of the previous films.

Watched it last night - top notch, easily up to the standards of the earlier films, with a far darker/tragic tone though. And featuring a breakthrough performance from Michael Portillo.

 

[redsquirrel]

Watched it last night - top notch, easily up to the standards of the earlier films, with a far darker/tragic tone though. And featuring a breakthrough performance from Michael Portillo.

I'll have to get downloading it then

 

[frogwoman]

I'm writing a story atm with a prison escape in it and I watched a documentary about the IRA breakout from the Maze prison in 1983, got about halfway through just before I fell asleep. It's really good so far