What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Reno
The In Kraut
There is a 90s version by Abel Ferrara called Body Snatchers, which has no semblance to the original plot and feel more like a sequel and there is The Invasion by the director of Downfall, which apparently got ruined by studio interference but looks like it was probably never very good in the first place.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
'71 - Squaddie on the run from psychos on the mean streets of Belfast. Excellent performance from Jack O' Connell and one of the best "thrillers" I've seen in aeons.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I watched suasage party. It was completely juvenile seth rogan bollocks but there was som lols
then because apparently life isn't short enough I watched a bb4 docu about Tetris and then a docu about Grand Theft Auto. The game, not the american crime. Tetris one was OK but the V/O was shoehorning in cold war references sooo hard and trying to turn it into a whole clash of cultures east meets west and that shit. The tale was intersting enough, it didn't need all the cold war psuedo bullshit that had all the subtelty and accuracy of that rocky film
then because apparently life isn't short enough I watched a bb4 docu about Tetris and then a docu about Grand Theft Auto. The game, not the american crime. Tetris one was OK but the V/O was shoehorning in cold war references sooo hard and trying to turn it into a whole clash of cultures east meets west and that shit. The tale was intersting enough, it didn't need all the cold war psuedo bullshit that had all the subtelty and accuracy of that rocky film
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
loved the bit where you realise he's on the wrong side of the wrong town in the wrong uniform and has no weapon. That's when you go 'fuuuuuuck'
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Indeed and it twists one's perceptions of the notion of "sides" by the end of the film. And it's got Arthur from Peaky Blinders, too!
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Do you see yourself as the Edward G Robinson character...or the Fred MacMurray one?
Star Wars.
Ace!
Ace!
felixthecat
are we there yet?
Jane got a Gun
I love Joel Edgerton and I love a good western - he was great but film was average. In fact everyone put in decent performances but production had some serious issues. Didn't like the flashbacks - didn't work here.
5/10
I love Joel Edgerton and I love a good western - he was great but film was average. In fact everyone put in decent performances but production had some serious issues. Didn't like the flashbacks - didn't work here.
5/10
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Black Souls - superior, bleak, unshowy, uncliched Italian movie about a family of Calabrian gangsters and the inevitable doom their business brings with it. It's low-key and arty (but not pretentious), takes its time to make you care about the characters even if you don't like them, and glamorises nothing. Some terrific local colour in the locations, dialect and music too. Also a great assortment of faces, all very plausible as made men. Interesting because it's pretty relentlessly dour and serious, not a drop of hero-worship about it, in contrast to many better-known mafia flicks.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Do you see yourself as the Edward G Robinson character...or the Fred MacMurray one?
Barbara Stanwyck, of course
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
A mate brought over the blu-ray of the BFI restore of 1995's Richard III. Given that it's been out of print for years (the few DVDs of it that were made were going for stupid money second-hand) and the only copy I had of it was a xvid encode I did from a VHS copy taped from the telly, this was sorely appreciated and the film looks absolutely stunning.
Production design and the filming locations in this film deserves a thread all to itself really. Londoners will enjoy spotting a pre-Tate Bankside power station, the empty gasometer at Battersea, the awesome staircase inside St. Pancras. The "British Reich" costumes are chillingly gorgeous.
Production design and the filming locations in this film deserves a thread all to itself really. Londoners will enjoy spotting a pre-Tate Bankside power station, the empty gasometer at Battersea, the awesome staircase inside St. Pancras. The "British Reich" costumes are chillingly gorgeous.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Zoolander 2 - As silly as I hoped.
The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese, an old and experienced hunter is challenged by the hunt of the last tiger.
Excellent film, couple of silly tiger puppet moments but the story and cinematography really well done.
The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese, an old and experienced hunter is challenged by the hunt of the last tiger.
Excellent film, couple of silly tiger puppet moments but the story and cinematography really well done.
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Flash Gordon,
Camp, glorious tosh. Love it
Camp, glorious tosh. Love it
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The 30s serial or the 1980 cinema blockbuster?
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
magneze
🎧
Similar. Stranger Things was excellent. Coming to the end of Spotless now. It's improves as it goes on.
Best Of Enemies.
Fascinating stuff.
Fascinating stuff.
Reno
The In Kraut
Dheepan, the latest by Jacques Audiard, still best known here for the prison film A Prophet. The man is incapable of making a film which isn't great. Audiard's style is a mixture of social realism and genre elements and they often go off into these dreamlike tangents. Dheepan is about a "family" of Sri Lankan immigrants who get housed on a grubby, French council estate where they end up in the firing line of gang warfare, which isn't much better than what they escaped from. For the most part a low key character study which treats its immigrant protagonists as fully rounded human beings rather than as an issue to be dealt with, this goes all Death Wish by the end. Some critics didn't like that shift in tone, but I thought it worked a treat especially as the action finale is shot in a really unusual way.
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The ending did come out of nowhere, but as you say, shot in a manner which made it really quite intriguing and tense without seeing much of anything, but knowing it wasn't pretty....
It reminded me of the corridor scene in Oldboy, but shot at ankle to knee level.
Reno
The In Kraut
I watched an interview with the director and co-screenwriter in one of the extras and they said that the beginning of the idea for Dheepan was that they wanted to make a variation on Straw Dogs (outsider moves into a hostile community, violence erupts, vengeance follows), so the end was what came first.
When I read about the ending in reviews I was worried that there would be something exploitative, like the rape of the 'wife' or the 'daughter' getting murdered as you often get with revenge films, so I was relieved it didn't go there, considering the tone of the rest of the film. And the end doesn't quite come out of nowhere considering it's set up from the start that the lead character was a Tamil Tiger with the potential for violence. When he finally snaps he is the trained soldier, while the gang members are amateurs who stand no chance. It just seems unusual in a film which is a subtle, social realist drama for most of its running time.
The one criticism Audiard's films sometimes get is that despite the social realist elements, at heart they always are genre films, but Audiard isn't the Dardenne brothers and clearly loves genre. His last films, Rust & Bone may have dealt with disability but it was unashamedly a Douglas Sirk-style melodrama, which some critics found OTT.
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Desire.
Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, 1936.
Cooper is an American innocent abroad in Europe, who tangles with Dietrich's character, an international jewel thief posing as an exiled Russian aristocrat (the mcguffin is a string of stolen pearls).
Sedately paced, but keeps the interest throughout (I didn't look at my watch once).
Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, 1936.
Cooper is an American innocent abroad in Europe, who tangles with Dietrich's character, an international jewel thief posing as an exiled Russian aristocrat (the mcguffin is a string of stolen pearls).
Sedately paced, but keeps the interest throughout (I didn't look at my watch once).
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I've yet to see Rust and Bone. Hadn't realised it was by Audiard.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Up to Season 1, episode 8 of Mr Robot.
I have next to no idea what's going on, but it's fascinating, funny and horrific at the same time.
I have next to no idea what's going on, but it's fascinating, funny and horrific at the same time.
Reno
The In Kraut
It's more in line with Read My Lips, both are romances which centre on disabled female protagonists. Read My Lips is the stronger film tough, genre wise it's what would be considered a Hitchcock-style romantic thriller. It's my favourite film of his. All of his films are worth seeing, he has not made a bad film yet.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Mad Max - Original un-dubbed version. Haven't seen it in over 30 years. So very different to the latest incarnation. I suppose you could call it "Mad Max Begins"...
47 Ronin - Silly CGI fest and very loosely inspired by the actual true story.
Follow the Money - nearly finished this Danish thriller, set in the murky world of big business.
47 Ronin - Silly CGI fest and very loosely inspired by the actual true story.
Follow the Money - nearly finished this Danish thriller, set in the murky world of big business.
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