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

On holiday so have watched:

Babylon Berlin. Set in 1928, a web of murder, political intrigue, and a large dose of What the fucks. Fun.

The Sisters Brothers: adaptation of the Patrick de Witt novel. John C Reilly is really good in this. Can’t say much else but I fell asleep but the bit i saw was good.
 
Bolero - George Raft and Carole Lombard in a tale of love, dancing, jealousy etc.

Palooka- Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez and William Cagney (brother of James) in boxing comedy based on the comic strip of the time.

Both pre-code, both from 1934
 
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Watching Spider-Man: into the Spider-verse for the second time as it is now available on Sky Movies. Enjoying it even more than the first time. Goddamn it, it's absurdity good...
 
I watched the TV series 'The Night Of'. Great series and great acting. It seems to me some of this TV stuff is of a higher quality than the film world is lately producing much of which I find very disappointing.
 
Arq

Time loopy sci fi that was quite good, not sure if the ending makes complete sense but its a good journey.

Escape Room

So this is a horror based on the idea of th Escape Room games except, wait for it, the rooms actually kill people. OK for one viewing, popcorn fayre. As I kid I was very young watching crystal maze and still wasn't 100% sure if failed contestants stayed in that room forever, so this scratched an itch.
 
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The Foreigner - Jackie Chan takes on the IRA (Pierce Brosnon doing his best Gerry Adams impression) - it's a grim and silly film and the action sequences lack spark. Plot sucks. Only good for playing spot the familiar British character actors.
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I love this film so much I've watched it like 3 or 4 times. Mainly because I'm a sucker for plots where highly trained ex-special forces characters are suddenly compelled into tooling up one last job and re-engaging all their military expertise :cool:

Obvs you have to have the obligatory taking out of low-grade mercenaries with effortless grace, before facing a more challenging match. All the hallmarks of Commando or Under Siege just without the love interest - but it's more than made up for with Chan's fly fight scenes, booby traps, improvised explosives, and jungle warfare tactics . Good soundtrack too.
 
Hail Satan.

Documentary about The Satanic Temple. It's a well made film and the satanists are presented in the main as articulate and reasonable people with decent aims and morals. I might join.

Also first 7 episodes of Snowfall season 3, which is every bit as good as the first 2.
 
Watched Eden Lake. I thought I'd seen it before. I hadn't.

It racks up the tension really well, and the violence made me flinch, but the whole plot is a bit grubby.

As a horror it worked, but the yuppies in peril from a bunch of working class kids left a bad taste in my mouth.

I suppose they were trying to make a kind of British version of the hillbilly horrors, but not sure it translates.
 
You Were Never Really Here.

I'd put off watching this for a while because I'd read it was powerful stuff.

Very powerful stuff! Excellent film making, excellent performances, great score and soundtrack. Lean, visceral, horrific, and incredibly emotional.

Loved it.
 
Manson Family Holiday

Two estranged brothers set out on a road trip and discover more about themselves than they bargained for. An indie style antidote to the likes of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which I also enjoyed.
 
The Seventh Continent.

Early Haneke. It's a brilliant piece of film making but fucking hell it's about as grim subject matter as anything I've seen. There was a moment where I realised what was gonna happen, then a moment I realised I was watching it happen but didn't turn it off.

Watched it with my son and we talked for ages after which is a good sign. Wouldn't recommend it to everyone though.
 
A Farewell to Arms - 1932 melodrama adaptation of the Hemingway novel. Can't compare them since not got round to reading it but Cooper and Helen Hayes do well with support from Adolphe Menjou.
 
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The Seventh Continent.

Early Haneke. It's a brilliant piece of film making but fucking hell it's about as grim subject matter as anything I've seen. There was a moment where I realised what was gonna happen, then a moment I realised I was watching it happen but didn't turn it off.

Watched it with my son and we talked for ages after which is a good sign. Wouldn't recommend it to everyone though.
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That's a really brutal movie, the kind I wouldn't watch with others for fear of depressing them too much. I'm really attracted to movies like that, though. I preferred Cache out of the three Haneke films I've watched, though it's a little messed up to put the key to the entire movie at the edge of the frame during the credits roll, where most people won't even see it.

I'm rewatching Rebels of the Neon God, a 1992 film by Tsai Ming-liang that's light on plot but heavy on alienation. I started hearing the theme music in my head while i was out on a rainy street alone. The trailer does a pretty good job of conveying the mood, which is the main draw of the movie anyway. It actually does kind of remind me of Haneke in a lot of ways, though Tsai Ming-liang is definitely his own (weird) filmmaker.
 
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That's a really brutal movie, the kind I wouldn't watch with others for fear of depressing them too much. I'm really attracted to movies like that, though. I preferred Cache out of the three Haneke films I've watched, though it's a little messed up to put the key to the entire movie at the edge of the frame during the credits roll, where most people won't even see it.

I'm rewatching Rebels of the Neon God, a 1992 film by Tsai Ming-liang that's light on plot but heavy on alienation. I started hearing the theme music in my head while i was out on a rainy street alone. The trailer does a pretty good job of conveying the mood, which is the main draw of the movie anyway. It actually does kind of remind me of Haneke in a lot of ways, though Tsai Ming-liang is definitely his own (weird) filmmaker.
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Cheers I'll check that out. My son picked The Seventh Continent as he'd seen it come up on Mubi. The trailer doesn't appear to give much away until you're midway through the film and things start to slot into place.
 
sat the boy and mrs NBE down to watch the baader meinhof complex as it was a free DVD we had lying about and its German practice for him . Having to explain who was who and what was the political / historical background to scenes didnt help - you need to know the story before watching the filum kinda thing
 
Been watching Absolutely as I've discovered all four series are available to view on All 4. Rarely has a TV discovery made me this happy :) fucking love this show and haven't seen it for years.
 
I've only watched the first one but I think it's funny that the 'After Porn' documentary has reached number 3.
 
La Belle et la Meute aka Beauty and the Dogs - 2017 Tunisian drama about a young woman's horrific journey through the 'justice' system as she tries to report being raped by police officers after they 'caught' her and a man kissing on their way home after a college disco. Stilted and agit-prop-drama-workshop in places, and the tone is uncertain - it lurches from horror movie to satire to viral campaign video to Greek tragedy to Kafka - and a pretty gruelling watch if you think about it all too hard. Still, terrific performances, a valuable work from a female director, and a great insight into Tunisians' discontent and the nasty power dynamics at work.
 
Spiderman: Far from Home

Some really good performances but a bit of a duff plot and several overly elaborate twists.

Entertaining, but bit lightweight.
 
In Order of Disappearance - 2016 Norwegian thriller / black comedy with Stellan Skarsgard (and lots of other Nordics you will recognise from Danish TV and other Scandi films). Had it on a watchlist for ages, never got round to it as I thought it wouldn't be all that, but it's great. Farcical revenge hijinks in the frozen north, beautifully shot, appealingly deadpan, interesting for hints at political/national prejudices ... and full of humour as dry and cold as the finest powdered snow. Plus perhaps the best joke ever made about Stockholm syndrome. Worth it.
 
I've been watching "Britain's War of Thrones" (it's on Sky demand somewhere - History Channel I think) which I've found to be a very informative and enjoyable docu series, if a little odd.

Despite the title, it's actually mostly about France and the hundred years war (not England and the Wars of the Roses, on which GoT is supposedly based) - probably because all the reenactments appear to have been recycled from a French TV series and badly dubbed over. Also, being French, it has added tits. Can't imagine Simon Sharma or Mary Beard talking over that :D

Also started Elementary which seems fun enough, and I'm pleased to see there are 150 episodes to keep me busy :cool:
 
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