belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I dont think it is anywhere but NZ. The first series came out in mid-2018, and the new one is
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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Reno
The In Kraut
I was assuming that anyway, will see if I can torrent it.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Finished The Righteous Gemstones, I'd been rationing myself as the second series isnt likley untill summer next year. Found it hilarious easily the best comedy Ive seen this year.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Just found season 1 and 2 on an android app called Typhoon, I'll watch that.
I've got that in my collection and funny enough I'm wondering too how it got there.
Coincidentally Spookyrice just added a Disturbing Breakdown to his Youtube channel. His reviews are funny and generally cover the most shocking/gory/brutal parts of films. He doesn't quite cover the worst shots here.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Not heard of that before but looks ace. Is it on any streaming services?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Not in the UK I’m afraid . If you’ve got an android box or firestick you can get it on Typhoon if you side load it or if on a PC/ Laptop it will be on Leonflix or Stremio but you’ll have to install them first .
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Contagion. A bit silly but OK to pass the time of an evening.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
A Countess From Hong Kong - The last film Chaplin's directed, starring Marlon Brando and Sofia Loren and showing as part of Mubi's Perfect Failures season. I don't think this can count as a perfect anything. You can kind of see glimpses of a decent film there, a classic screwball comedy but it really does not work. The whole thing unfolds too slowly and the set pieces just fall flat. I guess it is interesting so see Brando in the (purposely) comic role but I wouldn't bother with it.
Oldboy - For whatever reason I've never got around to seeing this and I have to say it was a massive disappointment. I just did not connect with it in any way, yes there are some great scenes, with a few nice black comic moments but overall I found myself drifting off from it. And the whole "just as I planned" was thing tedious and annoying. I know I'm in a massive minority and maybe I just wasn't in the right mood but not impressed. Hopefully I'll find something more in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Oldboy - For whatever reason I've never got around to seeing this and I have to say it was a massive disappointment. I just did not connect with it in any way, yes there are some great scenes, with a few nice black comic moments but overall I found myself drifting off from it. And the whole "just as I planned" was thing tedious and annoying. I know I'm in a massive minority and maybe I just wasn't in the right mood but not impressed. Hopefully I'll find something more in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Yea, I thought I'd watch it this morning before it left Mubi. I don't understand why it's considered the best of the trilogy. Still got Lady Vengeance to watch but my mate says it's one of a handful of films he would never want to see twice and though I've seen it years ago I can't remember why.
Noticed Visitor Q was added today...not sure I really want to see that again. I watched the trailer though, iIt doesn't actually show you anything but it's probably enough to put some people off.
If you haven't seen it, I think Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a masterpiece.
Dragnet
Well-Known Member
I watched that a year or so ago after reading about it for years - found it pretty underwhelming, considering how much i'd heard it hyped up. Not a bad film, a few good over-the-top black comedy moments but that was about it for me. Hasn't really inspired me to see any more Miike, but i've heard good things about Audition.
I saw Audition years ago but I've got a shit memory for films. Saw Ichi The Killer aswell but I've forgotten that aswell. I saw his recent one, First Love and it didn't impress me at all.
Indeliblelink
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Dawn [Morgenrot] (1933) - German WWI U-Boat thriller. Decent war drama with some good battle sequences.
Reno
The In Kraut
I find most of Miike‘s films rather slapdash. They often get praised for being quirky but for me that can quickly get irritating. Audition is the best, least self-indulgent and most accessible of the films of his I’ve seen.
Finally got around to see Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Loved it, two main characters who deserve little sympathy. Both delivered good performances and the story was a joy. Did not expect to see Tom Clancy give a cameo, especially in the way Lee Israel berated him.
Grant plays the most marvellous drunk again.
Loved it, two main characters who deserve little sympathy. Both delivered good performances and the story was a joy. Did not expect to see Tom Clancy give a cameo, especially in the way Lee Israel berated him.
Grant plays the most marvellous drunk again.
Army of Shadows... Thanks redsquirrel I'm really enjoying the Melville films on Mubi... this ones leaving today. It's about the French Resistance which Imittedly know very little about and had no idea to expect but it's another great story superbly told with lots of suspense. A scene of a prison escape reminded me of Mesrine and I'd noticed the name Cassell in the titles so was good to learn that Vincent Cassel's dad was in it. Very much looking forward to Le Circle Rouge.
It's a great film and informed by his own experiences in the Resistance. If you haven't seen them, his other France under the Occupation films -- Le Silence de la Mer and Leon Morin, Pretre -- deal with different aspects of resistance.(His crime films are also great.)
I've also just watched Army of Shadows. I've seen it umpteen times but it still gets me. It's so sad and brave and understated. What a great film.
It's also prompted me to text a friend I lent this to ages ago as I really want to re-read it.
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It's also prompted me to text a friend I lent this to ages ago as I really want to re-read it.
A Fine of Two Hundred Francs
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Deerskin...new film by by Quentin Dupieux/Mr Oizo. A man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. I've not seen any of his other films since Rubber, the horror film about tyre called Robert who kills people by making their heads explode. This one is equally great fun....probably not to everyones taste though, it's kind of stupid.
Saw it at the LFF. Thought it was fun.
Knives Out, brilliant cast, excellent set design and cracking story.
Thoroughly enjoyable and will no doubt get another viewing.
Laugh out loud moments in a well crafted non-comedy film.
Hats off to writer/director Rian Johnson and a special nod to an outstanding performance from 90 year old Christopher Plummer.
Thoroughly enjoyable and will no doubt get another viewing.
Laugh out loud moments in a well crafted non-comedy film.
Hats off to writer/director Rian Johnson and a special nod to an outstanding performance from 90 year old Christopher Plummer.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Yes watched it again, absolutely brilliant film the way it depicts the bleakness of the resistance's (real) heroism is fantastic. Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samouari are both masterpieces in their way and probably more influential but if there is only film that Melville is to be remembered for I think it has to be Army of Shadows.
Followed up Army of Shadows with Army of Crime, not in the same league but a good resistance film highlighting the importance of communist immigrants in the movement.
Yesterday I watched Das Ewige Leben, the 4th of Wolfgang Murnburger/Josef Hader's Brenner films, if you like black comedy (with a large hit of crime) this is for you. While probably not reaching the top heights and absurdity of the first three (the pastiche of the plane attack of North by Northwest in Silentium probably being the apex) it's still got a lot to recommend it.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
I've got Le Samouraï ,Army of Shadows and Le Cercle Rouge in my downloaded Torrents folder, Think I'll get round to watching them this week
Das Boot (1981)
Leon Morin, Priest...another Melville. France in WW2, an atheist woman starts meeting with a priest and falls in love. It's a lot to think about, I wouldn't say I enjoyed it as much as his others I've seen, maybe because I don't have a great understanding of catholicism and it was a bit dialogue heavy at times.
Eden Lake...I've seen it before when it came out. It's a lot better than I remembered.
Also watched 2 short films on Youtube....The Child Molester, which is an american public information film but shows actual shots of dead kids at then end and so wasn't shown for long because unsurprisingly, little kids were fucked up after watching it.
The other was Slut...a short horror film about a teenager who changes her appearance, seemingly with the intention of attracting boys. It's a really good 20 minutes.
Eden Lake...I've seen it before when it came out. It's a lot better than I remembered.
Also watched 2 short films on Youtube....The Child Molester, which is an american public information film but shows actual shots of dead kids at then end and so wasn't shown for long because unsurprisingly, little kids were fucked up after watching it.
The other was Slut...a short horror film about a teenager who changes her appearance, seemingly with the intention of attracting boys. It's a really good 20 minutes.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
The Image Book - a film essay by Godard supposedly "[examining] the history of cinema and its inability to recognise the atrocities of the 20th and 21st centuries", maybe. To me it was 85 minutes of tedium, the worst sort of banality masquerading as profundity. Bad things occurred in Europe, the west is doing bad things to the Arab World. Don't know of you've got around to this yet Part 2 but I really would not bother.
No I decided to pass on that one, when it came out I wasn't that bothered to see it.
Watched Lady Vengeance this afternoon. The most interesting of the trilogy I think, lots more going on stylistically but not a comfortable watch. I'd say Mr Vengeance was my most enjoyable of the three. Was just talking to my son about them, wondering why Oldboy is the one everyone knows when the other 2 are imo better films.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Wildlife - Paul Dano's directorial debut of a suburban marriage breaking-down in 60s America. Looks good and has a good cast but I was not massively impressed. Main problem is that the story has been told so many times that if just feels very old hat, added to that the middle section drags. It's by no means bad but there are much better versions of the same thing out there.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate - Never heard of Yûzô Kawashima but after seeing this I'll have to try and check some more of his work out. A sort of bawdy screwball comedy with a trickster taking up residence in a brothel and helping out the deserving and fooling the undeserving. Almost something of a folktale about it.
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