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

[krtek a houby]

Django (1966)

Another spaghetti western based on Yojimbo. Quite vicious and entertaining at the same time. The dubbed version sounds awful, unfortunately.

 

[MrCurry]

An Idiot Abroad series 2.

Good old Karl Pilkington, offending the rest of the world one surprised foreigner at a time....

 

[redsquirrel]

Neighbouring Sounds - Very good ensemble piece set in a well-off suburb of Recife, into which a set of security guards have started a neighbour hood patrol, and where the undercurrent of class tension is always present. It looks and sounds great and there's lots of good oblique hints at other stories, as well as some fantasy scenes, yet the director manages to keep everything together an in balance. Cast is excellent too. Well worth catching.

 

[lizzieloo]

I've watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood twice this week.

'tis a good film.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Just found out EE offer a 6 month subscription to Britbox free, with the data covered too. Watching Educating Rita at the moment.

 

[The39thStep]

Just watched the first episode of a new series called Run . It’s an American comedy about a woman receiving a text from an old boyfriend which just says RUN and that’s what she does , ie run off with him. It’s pacy , very witty and promising . I’m looking forward to next weeks episode
Edit apparantly its on Sky in the UK which has the contract for HBO in the UK . Review here Run: Is this your new favourite lockdown drama? ★★★★☆

 

[Part 2]

Bacarau (on MUBI - just £1 a month for 3 months right now). Thoroughly recommended - one of those films that it's best to know nothing of the plot going in - all I'll say is that it is a Brazilian political/satirical parable with faint sci fi and western overtones.

Just watched this, probably the strangest film I've seen for a while. Lots going on and fuck knows what some of it was about was very entertaining. As you say best not to know too much going in but I'll definitely be reading a few reviews tomorrow to try to understand it a bit more.

The director appears to be a former film critic which I guess doesn't happen too often.

 

[belboid]

Just watched this, probably the strangest film I've seen for a while. Lots going on and fuck knows what some of it was about was very entertaining. As you say best not to know too much going in but I'll definitely be reading a few reviews tomorrow to try to understand it a bit more.

The director appears to be a former film critic which I guess doesn't happen too often.

Just seen it too. It was odd, then odder, then what the actual fuck????? Then all settled down, sort of.

I think we can safely say the director is not a bolsonaro fan

 

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Just seen it too. It was odd, then odder, then what the actual fuck????? Then all settled down, sort of.

I think we can safely say the director is not a bolsonaro fan

Forgot to say, for the second time when I've watched s film leaving that day, the quality on Mubi wasn't great. I'm not sure what the problem is...running it on a 4k firestick and broadband speed is fast enough. Had problems with the app freezing at other times aswell.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Just rewatched 4 seasons of The Killing - what a cracking series

 

[redsquirrel]

Just seen it too. It was odd, then odder, then what the actual fuck????? Then all settled down, sort of.

Just watched this, probably the strangest film I've seen for a while.

Also watched Bacarau yesterday, really good, (one of the) same director(s) as in Neighbouring Sounds I mentioned above and while quite different in some ways you can see the same underlying interests and style of filming. The first ~60 minutes share a strong similarity with Neighbouring Sounds, a ensemble piece built around a community, then the second half of the film goes somewhere different. Despite that shift I think its to the directors' credit that while you have an initial jolt with the change of tone I still felt the film did work as an overall piece with the different parts pulled together.

 

[belboid]

Forgot to say, for the second time when I've watched s film leaving that day, the quality on Mubi wasn't great. I'm not sure what the problem is...running it on a 4k firestick and broadband speed is fast enough. Had problems with the app freezing at other times aswell.

agreed, we had to knock it down to 720 to get it to run smoothly

 

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agreed, we had to knock it down to 720 to get it to run smoothly

Nice one, I'll have a look at settings and do that next time.

 

[fucthest8]

Not heard of that before but looks ace. Is it on any streaming services?

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 .

It was on Sky IIRC do they do a catch-up service at all? I recorded it via Virgin, so no idea.

Anyway, loved it

 

[bmd]

Just watched Fantasy Island. Not, you know, ”look, Boss, the plane!“ But a shitty B movie attempt at a similar thing. I’ve seen worse tbf.

 

[bmd]

And here it is: Time Trap. It’s a Netflix film. The premise is that these kids go caving and find the fountain of youth which is actually behind some time walls in this cave with H.G. Wells‘ Time Machine type Neanderthals in it as the baddies. There’s also an alien race and an upside down pool of water, conquistadors and a cowboy. 2 people return from the dead and they work out that years are passing in the blink of an eye. Possibly up for an Oscar, possibly the shittest film I’ve ever seen.

 

[redsquirrel]

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.

Totally agree with you on this much preferred Lady Vengeance to Oldboy, better drawn characters and a more interesting story

 

[DaveCinzano]

Just found out EE offer a 6 month subscription to Britbox free, with the data covered too. Watching Educating Rita at the moment.

Cheers - all signed up now

 

[Reno]

The director appears to be a former film critic which I guess doesn't happen too often.

Most of the key directors of the French New Wave like Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette and Chabrol started as film critics. In the US you've got Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader.

 

[Reno]

Porno, a horror film about Christian fundamentalist kids working at a cinema in the 90s, who come across a demonically possessed art house porn film. Not great, but for a film where most of the gore consists of men getting their genitals ripped off, it has its heart in the right place. This looks like it was by someone working through stuff.

 

[bmd]

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.

I had no idea there was a trilogy. Only just seen Oldboy tbf. Not sure if it just couldn’t stand up to the hype or if it has been surpassed since its release but it seemed a bit mundane to me. As a film I mean, not as a series of whoa moments.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Rewatched Contagion, now it's on Netflix. Bet they never expected that the thing they got wrong was how it's not rogue bloggers spreading fake miracle cures, it's the President of the USA.

 

[The39thStep]

It was on Sky IIRC do they do a catch-up service at all? I recorded it via Virgin, so no idea.

Anyway, loved it

Buddy Bradley Apparantly Gemstones, ( Along with Run and Brassic both of which I really like) are on Now TV who do a free month offer Watch The Righteous Gemstones Online - Stream Full Episodes
You dont need a Now Tv box or stick to watch Now TV content

 

[Chz]

Watched The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.
Wow, Martin Sheen can do sex creep well. And just how many great roles did Jodie Foster have under her belt before she was an adult?

 

[Reno]

Watched The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.
Wow, Martin Sheen can do sex creep well. And just how many great roles did Jodie Foster have under her belt before she was an adult?

Love that film and it was a favourite of mine when I was a teenager. Its like an inversion of the evil child horror film of the 70s but it's from the kid's POV where she is the (anti-) heroine of the narrative.

 

[Sue]

Just watched Le Cercle Rouge which I think is the first Melville film I ever saw. Really wasn't at all as I remembered -- in fact, in my head, I think I had it mixed up with Rififi. Which kind of makes sense since the subject matter is similar. Think Rififi is the better film though.

 

[Part 2]

Just watched Le Cercle Rouge which I think is the first Melville film I ever saw. Really wasn't at all as I remembered -- in fact, in my head, I think I had it mixed up with Rififi. Which kind of makes sense since the subject matter is similar. Think Rififi is the better film though.

I just watched it too (it's starting to look like there should be a Mubi discussion thread!). I really enjoyed it, especially the silence of the robbery, like I saw in the pink panther films as a kid but also reminded me of the inside number 9 burglary episode.

Looks like just Un Flic left of Melville's on Mubi now so there's a few I need to download.

 

[Reno]

I could be catching up up with the great classics of cinema I've missed out in and watch those Eric Rohmer and Bela Tarr movies I've never seen but here we are.

Butt Boy is an extension of a comedy sketch by the YouTube comedy collective Tiny Cinema. The plan must have been to make the best film possible from the most stupid, most purile premise imaginable. This is about a family man who discovers he derives great pleasure from shoving things up his butt. At first small objects start disappearing, eventually pets and small children go missing too.

The odd thing is that the film treats this almost completely straight. It is very stylishly made, in an 80s retro-cool way, like a neo-noir serial killer procedural with a synth score and cinematography reminiscent of the movie Drive. There is a stakeout sequence at night with a Spielberg-sky of twinkling stars and I though, why did they take such care to make this look beautiful ?
The problem is, that the length of a feature film can't sustain its one-joke premise and it's not outrageous and tasteless enough. I was hoping for something as insane, funny and outright peculiar as The Greasy Strangler, but during the mid-section this really drags and it isn't funny enough. The last act gets increasingly surreal but the logistics of the butt magic never convinced me. I'm probably looking for sense and reason in all the wrong places. I never though I'd say this about a film, but considering its premise, this isn't scatologial enough.

Watching the movies you don't have to...



Gretel & Hansel was much better, though not perfect. It's a horror retelling of the fairy tale and the spooky world it createst is gorgeous, somewhere between a fairy tale past and a future black-magic dystopia. The pacing and plotting is a little wobbly, but its atmosphere and visual invention carry it. If you like gothic horror, check it out, it's the best horror update of a classic fairy tale I've seen.

 

[krtek a houby]

The Kid (1921)

Classic Chaplin in which he adopts an abandoned infant at first reluctantly and then a bond grows. Jackie Coogan was the child actor who later portrayed the original Uncle Fester...

 

[redsquirrel]

Sisters - Have somewhat mixed feelings about de Palma, there are things that I admired - performance of two leads is good, Charles Durning great, if underused, and some good set pieces - but somehow it seemed less than the some of its parts. Maybe it is partly because I re-watched Rear Window a few days earlier and it can't help but be in the shadow of that film

Autumn Sonata - Only second Ingmar Bergman I've seen, I saw The Seventh Seal a number of years ago and appreciated it but didn't really get much from it. In contrast I loved Autumn Sonata, really wonderful, it is an absolutely beautifully looking film, full of autumn colours and light. Top notch performances from Bergman (Ingrid) and Liv Ullman, and also a very good supporting role from Halvar Björk.