What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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A film of the Khrushchev 'Thaw' (Khrushchevskaya ottepel) from 1961, directed by Grigori Chukhrai.
It's a cliched and mawkish love story between a starry-eyed schoolgirl turned long-suffering but stoic wife, and a dashing fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, turned social pariah and drunkard. It's also not a very deep indictment of the egregious effects of Stalin's personality cult and supposed infallibility; but interestingly because the film with its content follows the aesthetic rules of Socialist Realism.
It's 'cheesy,' with one scene particularly sticking out, involving the wife's efforts to have her ex-communicated husband accepted back into the CPSU fold, and her haranguing Party bureaucrats while a large marble statue of Stalin looms over them.
Worth watching, although not the best example from an interesting decade or so of Soviet film-making.
avu9lives
famous five member
Been watchin lots of Grindhouse/sexploitation stuff from the 70’s! The last one be in Take an Easy Ride A British film about the perils of Hitch hiking ! 3 stories in all explainin yeah you can get away wiv it but sometimes it can go disastrously wrong and get picked up by a Knife wieldin rapist pervert! Want bad coz ya get ta look at all the old 70’s motors people were ridin around in! Think I spotted an old Foden wagon at one point. Class!
ilovebush&blair
Well-Known Member
i watched william s burroughs: a man within, it was awesome been waiting to see it for ages. by far the best documentary about burroughs.
gavman
pj slumpy
i found it to be a beautiful story, made me feel warm with pathos.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I like Chungking Express. It's easy watching and I kind of feel like I'm a fly on the wall of a cafe.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
mm, i thought the boys were all obnoxious cunts who should have had their heads kicked in. Still, it was all made up, so who cares
invisibleplanet
porter des cornes
I'm having a George Clooney season 
One of my ethics philosopher buddies recommended his films to me.
Last night, I watched Michael Clayton - it's a good film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Clayton_(film)
One of my ethics philosopher buddies recommended his films to me.
Last night, I watched Michael Clayton - it's a good film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Clayton_(film)
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
A New Zealand film called No. 2. A slightly ga-ga matriarch of an extended Fijian family decides to have a family gathering where she shall name her successor - the number two of the title. There's just one small problem: this family is full of people who hate each other's guts. It was actually really rather good, with good acting all round.
I enjoyed seeing Auckland again. I didn't live in multi-ethnic Mt. Roskill where this is set, mind, but in hideously white Mt. Eden.
I enjoyed seeing Auckland again. I didn't live in multi-ethnic Mt. Roskill where this is set, mind, but in hideously white Mt. Eden.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I'm having a George Clooney season
One of my ethics philosopher buddies recommended his films to me.
Last night, I watched Michael Clayton - it's a good film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Clayton_(film)
Yes. You watched a George Clooney movie because of the way it dealt with interesting ethical questions. Yes.
invisibleplanet
porter des cornes
Yes. Interesting ethical questions. Yes. I never watched ER or joined the female-Clooney-goonies, but heard him mentioned over and over and over again, and I'm sure it had nothing to do with ethics. So ... I guess he's supposed to be some kind of hearthrob, but I felt nothing stir during that film
I watched Men Who Stare At Goats last night. Some very funny scenes. Still didn't get the hearthrob thing though
ilovebush&blair
Well-Known Member
Yes. Interesting ethical questions. Yes. I never watched ER or joined the female-Clooney-goonies, but heard him mentioned over and over and over again, and I'm sure it had nothing to do with ethics. So ... I guess he's supposed to be some kind of hearthrob, but I felt nothing stir during that film
I watched Men Who Stare At Goats last night. Some very funny scenes. Still didn't get the hearthrob thing though
wouldnt go so far as to say verry funny, mildly amusing perhaps.
I watched this yesterday.
It's a brilliant piece of work, not seen anything like it, part film, part documentary, part theatre.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Making out way through "The Twilight Zone" boxset. Some good, some less so but all enjoyable so far.
Jackobi
swallows anything
Channel Four's Nuclear Eternity, whilst it is a documentary, it seemed very surreal, like a documentary from the future. I had to keep reminding myself that it was actually happening now.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/nuclear-eternity/4od#3184793
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/nuclear-eternity/4od#3184793
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
A Serbian Film
Starts off like a porno with proper actors and stuff, and a potentially interesting subtext. Then the shit starts happening, tho, thanks to the BBFC (and I really do mean "thanks", to the BBFC) just enough is left to the imagination to make it still watchable. And then it goes on, and on till we get to the almost laughable ending.
Maybe it is the rich if brutal allegory the director claims, and maybe in a cinema some of the more explicit scenes could be left in, but for home viewing, well, we get the idea after half an hour, and the rest is just torture porn tosh.
Starts off like a porno with proper actors and stuff, and a potentially interesting subtext. Then the shit starts happening, tho, thanks to the BBFC (and I really do mean "thanks", to the BBFC) just enough is left to the imagination to make it still watchable. And then it goes on, and on till we get to the almost laughable ending.
Maybe it is the rich if brutal allegory the director claims, and maybe in a cinema some of the more explicit scenes could be left in, but for home viewing, well, we get the idea after half an hour, and the rest is just torture porn tosh.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Seans Show.
Not as crazy as it seemed at the time. Fun idea, gentle and slightly surreal comedy. A decent watch.
Not as crazy as it seemed at the time. Fun idea, gentle and slightly surreal comedy. A decent watch.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
The Girl Who Played With Fire/ The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest -
Anti-climatic finale.
Still awesome though.
Anti-climatic finale.
Still awesome though.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
The Devils Chair
Zabo
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The BBC HD version of Dickens's Bleak House. Oh how I would like to grab hold of the producer, the two directors and D.P. and burn the fucking lot of them alive. Woosh-Swoosh-Rapid Cuts-Epilpetic Cam-Zillions Of Close-Ups and Jesus knows what! All in all a savage attempt to fuck up good and proper one of Britain's foremost story tellers and stories.
How come they don't train these bozos in the art of filming? You never see that kind of crap gimmicy on the Coen Brothers films or anything shot by Robby Müller.
I despair. Same goes for 28 Weeks Later which was fucked totally by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Why don't these people take to serving in a chippy given they haven't got cock all idea about having a rapport with a script or a sense of cinema.
How come they don't train these bozos in the art of filming? You never see that kind of crap gimmicy on the Coen Brothers films or anything shot by Robby Müller.
I despair. Same goes for 28 Weeks Later which was fucked totally by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Why don't these people take to serving in a chippy given they haven't got cock all idea about having a rapport with a script or a sense of cinema.
Watched the Burroughs film, A Man Within this afternoon, brilliant.
Just watched Biutiful. No idea why there isn't a mention of this film here yet, it's outstanding, some great performances. Very bleak but a beautiful piece of work, some really harrowing moments, plenty of grit in the eyes etc. Can't be many films as good this year.
Just watched Biutiful. No idea why there isn't a mention of this film here yet, it's outstanding, some great performances. Very bleak but a beautiful piece of work, some really harrowing moments, plenty of grit in the eyes etc. Can't be many films as good this year.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
Henry Poole Is Here
Why are you angry and sad? Jesus in a wall.
Wow, what an amazing film (and soundtrack).
Why are you angry and sad? Jesus in a wall.
Wow, what an amazing film (and soundtrack).
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