keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
Mix-up lead me to believe there was going to be a very different ending.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Reckoning - amazingly snarling, misanthropic, misogynist, satirical 1969 period piece about a thrusting (in every sense), successful businessman still "haunted" by his Liverpool-Irish working-class background, whose beloved Da's death kicks off a wild kamikaze blaze through British industry, the class system and his miserable marriage to some hateful posh totty. Nicol Williamson (who I only know otherwise from his over-enunciated voice and creepy-sarky turn as Merlin in John Boorman's Excalibur) acts up an absolute storm as the central antihero, who's mostly a vehicle for some rather dated kitchen-sink thoughts about class conflict and how a man's got to be a man for all that, (even if that involves beating and cheating on his wife, exploiting his underlings and being an all-round Lad before the fact.)
Not one for doctiVery spiky and combative and interesting though. Brilliant for some hilariously retro bits of dialogue about "the firm would be doing so much better if we'd invested and got into computers", some granite-hard direction and some grade-A hate-rants, including one I want to find on YouTube because it's urban75's philosophy in a nutshell, a fireball of bile culminating in the words ..."you BUNCH OF TWATS !!!
" which is pretty plain speaking on film for 1969. You've got to stomach a lot of woman-hating but this might just qualify as a lost masterpiece, a few years earlier and many decades wiser than Get Carter but in that sort of rough territory.
Not one for doctiVery spiky and combative and interesting though. Brilliant for some hilariously retro bits of dialogue about "the firm would be doing so much better if we'd invested and got into computers", some granite-hard direction and some grade-A hate-rants, including one I want to find on YouTube because it's urban75's philosophy in a nutshell, a fireball of bile culminating in the words ..."you BUNCH OF TWATS !!!
" which is pretty plain speaking on film for 1969. You've got to stomach a lot of woman-hating but this might just qualify as a lost masterpiece, a few years earlier and many decades wiser than Get Carter but in that sort of rough territory.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Swimming to Cambodia
Spalding Gray's very funny monologue about his time filming a couple of brief scenes in The Killing Fields (and vaguely related stories). Not quite as sharp and hilarious thirty years on, but it's still damned fine.
Worst thing about it, mrs b has now taken to calling me 'Balding Grey' for some reason I can't fathom.
Spalding Gray's very funny monologue about his time filming a couple of brief scenes in The Killing Fields (and vaguely related stories). Not quite as sharp and hilarious thirty years on, but it's still damned fine.
Worst thing about it, mrs b has now taken to calling me 'Balding Grey' for some reason I can't fathom.
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
Im on a roll at the moment. Come Sunday I'll have seen 7 films in as many days. 5 at cinema and two at home-and the two I watched last night...
You Were Never Really There....which fucking blew me out of the water. That Greenwood soundtrack is breathtaking and this is hands down Pheonix's greatest ever performance. I was completely lost in the movie. Set pieces. Music. Atmosphere. Editing-it was all fucking flawless. And its forced its way into my Top 10 movies of all time for sure
After I watched that I sought out Kermodes review of it and he talked a lot about the director (who I'd never heard of) and immmediately after I watched one of her others 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' which again I really really enjoyed. I mean how good is Tildaw Swinton...I have so much love for her. Thought the lad who played Kevin was fucking well scary. Although this wasnt as good as YWNRT it still impressed me. Lynne Ramsay is clearly a director that has her own style. Each shot seems carefully considered and well thought out. Both films had a very similar feel to them.
Two great great movies!
You Were Never Really There....which fucking blew me out of the water. That Greenwood soundtrack is breathtaking and this is hands down Pheonix's greatest ever performance. I was completely lost in the movie. Set pieces. Music. Atmosphere. Editing-it was all fucking flawless. And its forced its way into my Top 10 movies of all time for sure
After I watched that I sought out Kermodes review of it and he talked a lot about the director (who I'd never heard of) and immmediately after I watched one of her others 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' which again I really really enjoyed. I mean how good is Tildaw Swinton...I have so much love for her. Thought the lad who played Kevin was fucking well scary. Although this wasnt as good as YWNRT it still impressed me. Lynne Ramsay is clearly a director that has her own style. Each shot seems carefully considered and well thought out. Both films had a very similar feel to them.
Two great great movies!
Indeliblelink
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The Life Story Of David Lloyd George (1918), 2.5 hr silent biopic of the WWI Prime Minister, directed by Maurice Elvey. For me this is one of the best British films from the 1910s but the public never got to see it back then as it was suppressed by the Liberal party after a newspaper published discouraging remarks about the Jewish producers. It was thought lost for many years until a copy turned up in Lord Tenby's possessions. The public finally got to see it in 1996.
The Stranger (1946) - Orson Welles as a former nazi now living the charmed life in New England until UN private dick, Edward G Robinson comes to town. Smalltown, gothic melodrama which was (as usual with Welles films) interfered with by the studio.
Moonlight - Oscar winning, beautifully shot coming of age film about identity, betrayal and lost childhood. Immensely good, this. All the actors are memorable and although it's not a particularly joyous film, I think I'd easily watch again.
Outlaw King - Sort of sequel to Braveheart but not as involving. Felt a bit rushed in places (I believe 20 minutes were cut) but overall, reasonably enjoyable. Aaron Taylor Johnson steals the scenes he's in and nice to see a few familiar GoT faces, too.
Moonlight - Oscar winning, beautifully shot coming of age film about identity, betrayal and lost childhood. Immensely good, this. All the actors are memorable and although it's not a particularly joyous film, I think I'd easily watch again.
Outlaw King - Sort of sequel to Braveheart but not as involving. Felt a bit rushed in places (I believe 20 minutes were cut) but overall, reasonably enjoyable. Aaron Taylor Johnson steals the scenes he's in and nice to see a few familiar GoT faces, too.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Flashbacks of a Fool- I only watched because I saw the clip below however its not a bad little film at all especially if you can remember the early 70s. Daniel Craig plays a bit of a twat who makes it in America and then returms for his schoolboy pals funeral,in between is quite a charming tale of families and growing up by the sea.
Sons of the Desert - Laurel & Hardy classic from 1933. Joyous.
Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar are great Lynn Ramsay films too. WNTTAK is her weakest by far.
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The Other Side Of The Wind (2018) Orson Welles' final film gets a a release after 40 years in limbo, I liked it, it's not great but a film starring John Huston & Peter Bogdanovich and directed by Orson Welles can't help but be fascinating. The plot is that it's a mockumentary film about a once well regarded but now has-been director struggling to make his last film.
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) - A film about the making of the above, so a documentary film about a once well regarded but now has-been director struggling to make his last film.
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) - A film about the making of the above, so a documentary film about a once well regarded but now has-been director struggling to make his last film.
T2 Trainspotting. Really enjoyed this, poignant and darkly humorous (esp a scene with Renton and Sick Boy scamming a club and the scam goes in a direction you don't expect).
Sure, it's not as seismic and fresh as the original but 20 years on, who's life is?
Sure, it's not as seismic and fresh as the original but 20 years on, who's life is?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
This superb film is now availible on amazon prime.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Downfall. It seems that Hitler chap had some unpleasant personality traits.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
The Lego Batman Movie
Several laugh out loud moments, definitely felt more geared towards an older audience than the Lego Movie was (tons of Batman and wider references / in-jokes from older films).
Some good voice work and well devised action scenes (can imagine the pause button bringing forth hundreds of background jokes and moments). Great music too.
Decent message for the kids too.
Batman being a complete asshole is the best decision they've made for these films.
7/10
Several laugh out loud moments, definitely felt more geared towards an older audience than the Lego Movie was (tons of Batman and wider references / in-jokes from older films).
Some good voice work and well devised action scenes (can imagine the pause button bringing forth hundreds of background jokes and moments). Great music too.
Decent message for the kids too.
Batman being a complete asshole is the best decision they've made for these films.
7/10
Reno
The In Kraut
Love Gilda, a documentary about the comedian Gilda Radner, best known for Saturday Night Live in the 70s. If she was really talented, then this fawning, insipid documentary doesn't make a good case for it. Then again, I've never found anything I've seen of Saturday Night Live funny, no matter how many famous comedians it spawned.
Currently stuck in an Airbnb is Stuttgart for work, with wobbly WIFI and a telly with no reception, so my viewing options are limited.
Currently stuck in an Airbnb is Stuttgart for work, with wobbly WIFI and a telly with no reception, so my viewing options are limited.
Deadpool - Marvel maverick breaks fourth wall and lots of heads. Amusing.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - Kurt Russell and Sly Stallone join in the fun. Diverting.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - Kurt Russell and Sly Stallone join in the fun. Diverting.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Brilliant, no nonsense exploration of human folly, with an amazing ambient soundtrack.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Miss Congeniality - a completely nonsense exploration of human folly. Good cast though - Bullock, Bergen, Shatner and Caine all have fun, but it's really 
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
No Trees in the Street - 1958 - awkward, between-the-eras hybrid between a 1940s Ealing-style, social-realist, working-class drama and a 1950s gangster pic. Herbert Lom (! ! !) massively miscast as a supposedly East London slum lord and gangster capo, putting the moves on sizzling Sylvia Sims (pouty, heaving-bosom, bourgeois-morals-aspiring local girl with a loser brother who gets mixed up with a gun.) He's about a hundred times more intense than everyone else in the movie and seems to be from a different universe entirely. Ronald Howard, son of Trevor Howard, turns up as a good copper out to enforce proper British middle class values on "the slums". There's a bit of a shootout but it's not really about the action, but the attitudes expressed. Load of bobbins really but there's some history value in all the monologues spouted about "we've got to get out of this place, the streets will eat us alive", some carnivalesque music-hall-loving dysfunctional extended families.... there's an unintentional bit of comedy at the end with a closing sequence in one of those lovely sparkling nice new council estates where there are trees all over the place, not like those nasty cramped terraces of back to backs where we used to live ...
rekil
to menny cranks
I'd like to see this but I doubt it'll get a release here. Bisbee '17 (2018) - IMDb
Bisbee '17 Movie Review & Film Summary (2018) | Roger Ebert
Bisbee '17 Movie Review & Film Summary (2018) | Roger Ebert
Saw it at the London Film Festival. Interesting that the town is still divided on what happened a hundred years later.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Triangle. Intermittently interesting and consistently atmospheric mindbendy thriller.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Ah yes, the mindbendiness of the Felixtowe ferry. The greatest opening minutes of any show ever...
Reno
The In Kraut
The Little Stranger, which though based on and acclaimed novel and with a hot director and a first rate cast behind it, got thrown away by its distributior, flopped and got middling reviews. It’s very good, the problem is that despite it apparently being a haunted house movie, it doesn’t attempt to be a horror film but they tried to market it as such. It’s an intelligent drama though, with interesting characters, an involving plot and an intriguing central idea which turns out to be rather unsettling by the time the credits roll. Ruth Wilson gives one of the best performances of the year. One of the more underrated films I’ve seen recently.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Predators- so this wasn't bad in the way AvP 1&2 were bad. Those were barely watchable. You have here a fairly fun, coherent sci fi actioner that sort of makes sense. The story was absolute nonsense though, cos ok the preators, well now they hunt us for our spinal fluid because DNA. An theres a mini predator that want to save us. and predator dogs. And autism is the next stage of human evolution. Theres something about climate change in there to. Thats all bad stuff but crucially the nonsense hangs on a half decent film.
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