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

Garage Days.

Mildly diverting Australian comedy about a struggling rock group. Like an episode of home and away, but with more drugs. At one point I went back to taking notes from Paul Richards' Fighting for the Rainforest. If you see this one, don't bother.
 

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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
krtek a houby said:
Chungking Express - Wong Kar Wei's classic introducing Faye Wong. 2 stories of obsession, heroin, fluffy toys and California Dreaming... QT loves it but don't let that put anyone off it.
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I like Chungking Express. It's easy watching and I kind of feel like I'm a fly on the wall of a cafe. :D
 
The baadher meinhoff complex - interesting foreign language film about the birth and rise of the Red Army Faction terrorist group in 70's Germany.
 
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.
 
Idris2002 said:
Yes. You watched a George Clooney movie because of the way it dealt with interesting ethical questions. Yes.
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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 :confused: :D
 
invisibleplanet said:
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 :confused: :D
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wouldnt go so far as to say verry funny, mildly amusing perhaps.
 
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.
 
The Hurt Locker. Suitably taut and damning of the process and horror of war. Very few characters and none of them likeable.
 
The Girl Who Played With Fire/ The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest -

Anti-climatic finale.
Still awesome though.
 
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.

:p
 
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.
 
In My Father's Den.

Dysfunctional family misfortunes, Kiwi style.

Jesus Christ on a crutch, even in Co. Mayo we wouldn't carry on like that.
 
Henry Poole Is Here

Why are you angry and sad? Jesus in a wall.
Wow, what an amazing film (and soundtrack).
 
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