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redsquirrel
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The Big Scare - Jean-Pierre Mockey film, with Bourvil as a naive police inspector who ends up in a town full of interesting characters. Very sill but rather fun.
2 episodes of Polizeiruf 110 directed by Dominik Graf, Cassandra's Warning and Smoke on the Water, plots of both are rather ludicrous but Graf's direction and style rise about the material and the first is in particular is worth checking out. Reno (or anyone else) I'm interested in checking out more of Graf's work have you got any recommendations? The three parter he, Petzold and another director worked on sounds interesting.
2 episodes of Polizeiruf 110 directed by Dominik Graf, Cassandra's Warning and Smoke on the Water, plots of both are rather ludicrous but Graf's direction and style rise about the material and the first is in particular is worth checking out. Reno (or anyone else) I'm interested in checking out more of Graf's work have you got any recommendations? The three parter he, Petzold and another director worked on sounds interesting.
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Just discovered House of Lies, a 2010 Showtime comedy-drama series that ran for five or six seasons. It’s pretty watchable, actually.
It follows the lives and exploits of a ruthless marketing company executive, and the lengths he and his team will go to secure new contracts with customers. Good performances by Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell. Available on NowTV and Sky.
It follows the lives and exploits of a ruthless marketing company executive, and the lengths he and his team will go to secure new contracts with customers. Good performances by Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell. Available on NowTV and Sky.
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Watched Jaws tonight for the first time. Was actually better than I thought it was going to be. Preferred the first half to the second half.
We are trying to watch some of the classics we haven't seen yet. Did The Shining the other night but I thought it was a bit self indulgent..... Was decent enough though.
We are trying to watch some of the classics we haven't seen yet. Did The Shining the other night but I thought it was a bit self indulgent..... Was decent enough though.
redsquirrel
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Last In, First Out - Downbeat 70s French spy thriller with bit parts for Donald Pleasance, Joseph Cotton and Dennis Hopper (with some bad dubbing). Not quite in the top division but the cynicism and general pessimism makes it worth the time.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Tiger King: the Movie. Not, as I had assumed, a selection of highlights from the series, but a pisstake based around two 'ditzy young women' watching the 'true' story of young Joe. Which is a re-editing and redubbing of a couple of utterly mad looking sixties/seventies atrocities (including Terror in the Jungle and Luana the Girl Tarzan). It's just about good enough to amuse for an hour.
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I’m pretty sure I’ll end up being in a minority of one here seeing both the critics and audiences‘ lukewarm reception so far, but to my surprise I find myself here giving an overall positive review of the latest Marvel spinoff film, The New Mutants. And bear in mind I’ve been saying for a while how sick and tired I am now of the superhero genre.
The main reason is that this is really a horror-fantasy film rather than your average Marvel product. It is massively darker, with far more character development, and a lot of things aren’t what they seem so it has a degree of unpredictability miles completely absent from 99% of Marvel products.
Not amazing and not worth paying for it, but pretty decent overall IMO, and a breath of fresh air within the genre.
The main reason is that this is really a horror-fantasy film rather than your average Marvel product. It is massively darker, with far more character development, and a lot of things aren’t what they seem so it has a degree of unpredictability miles completely absent from 99% of Marvel products.
Not amazing and not worth paying for it, but pretty decent overall IMO, and a breath of fresh air within the genre.
redsquirrel
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De Palma - Interview with Brian De Palma made by Noam Baumbach. Meh, just a bit bland, no conflict, no challenges to De Palma's opinions. If you are big fan of his films probably worth a watch. Frankly I've never been that blown away by his work.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Along those lines, watched Phantom of the Paradise tonight. Yes, some of it has aged badly. But bits are still brilliant and it's just a riot to look at. I still recommend it.
System Crasher. A 9 year old girl who's been through a succession of care placements wants to return to her mum. Her social worker is worn out and a school escort takes her away to the woods for a break hoping to break the cycle.
I have a personal/professional interest but this a brilliant film. The kid gives an excellent performance as do others and the story feels very real. I've sometimes wondered when a modern day Made in Britain might be made. Maybe this is it but it's a 9 year old German girl not a teenage English skinhead.
One of the best films I've seen from the 2020 top 50s and should've placed much higher. Fully recommended.
I have a personal/professional interest but this a brilliant film. The kid gives an excellent performance as do others and the story feels very real. I've sometimes wondered when a modern day Made in Britain might be made. Maybe this is it but it's a 9 year old German girl not a teenage English skinhead.
One of the best films I've seen from the 2020 top 50s and should've placed much higher. Fully recommended.
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Dawn of the Deb.
Passable fluff zombie comedy. Looks a bit low budget in its scale but who cares . Really only works because the lead does a fun turn, and because of something I cant mention due to spoilers.
Passable fluff zombie comedy. Looks a bit low budget in its scale but who cares . Really only works because the lead does a fun turn, and because of something I cant mention due to spoilers.
redsquirrel
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The Wayward Girl - very good Norwegian film from 1959, interesting not only for its own sake but also as Liv Ullman's first (major) role (she is great, as if it needs saying) and as a picture of Norway in the late 50s. Ullman is the wayward girl, in a relationship with a middle class boy who's family are not too keen on her, they go off to live in the country together for a few weeks and their relationship is tested. Definitely worth watching, and I'm intrigued by the director Edith Carlmar who apparently also directed Norway's first film noir.
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Already plugged it on the Disney+ thread, but WandaVision is great so far, and as far removed from anything Marvel had done before as one could imagine. Very positive reviews from across the board
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The first two episodes of the nine-part series from Disney+ were released on Friday.
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Just watched Life of Brian with the kids 
I've been working my way through Yellowstone about a ranch and various family relationships:
Its a pretty easy watch.
Its a pretty easy watch.
ska invita
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this was some higher level documentary film making - or was it
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its like bukwoski / barfly, but realer - if that appeals at all you should really watch it, ive not seen anything quite like it
worth reading about it, but only after watching
lots of amazing intimate footage
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its like bukwoski / barfly, but realer - if that appeals at all you should really watch it, ive not seen anything quite like it
worth reading about it, but only after watching
lots of amazing intimate footage
a torrent exists
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Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Thanks for suggesting this - I'm now midway through it. Tbh I was originally drawn to it due to its similarities with the recent Richard Jewel (dir by Clint Eastwood) film, but this goes into more depth. Loving it so far
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
I've been working my way through Yellowstone about a ranch and various family relationships:
Its a pretty easy watch.
Yep, I loved it too, mainly for the scenery. I've just had to torrent S2 (and S3).
As you say, an easy watch, but has one crazy outstanding feature, that dawned on me when I finished the first series:
There is hardly ANY peril.
Like, any pending potential disaster or hindrance to the implicit antihero KC...Is resolved in... seconds! Its like a roadrunner cartoon!
If you've ever watched a film and in some polyanna state really regretted the initial wrongdoing that sparks the hero's ultimate revenge, or the crucial setback 2/3rds of the way through that nearly decimates the hero's comeback...Watch Yellowstone!
Eden Lake, it is not! (
Like, any pending potential disaster or hindrance to the implicit antihero KC...Is resolved in... seconds! Its like a roadrunner cartoon!
If you've ever watched a film and in some polyanna state really regretted the initial wrongdoing that sparks the hero's ultimate revenge, or the crucial setback 2/3rds of the way through that nearly decimates the hero's comeback...Watch Yellowstone!
Eden Lake, it is not! (
redsquirrel
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Three Colours: Red - I've seen this multiple times before but still love it. Has to be one of the top films of the 90s, Both Jacob and Trintignant are great (why did Irene Jacob not become bigger she's not only great in this but she's gorgeous (which clearly helps even if it should not)) and the both the plot, scenes, visuals and politics are all beautiful.
Perfect Strangers - 80s film directed by Larry Cohen (Q the Winged Serpent), one of those films that is a curious mix of totally rubbish with the odd spot of really quite good/interesting stuff (bit like Winner's Dirty Weekend). Plot is a hitman is spotted by a 3 year old kid killing someone, he then romances the kids mother to get closer to the kid and find out what he knows/possibly kill him. Sub-plots are the mothers strained relationship with her ex and some (very daft and crap) stuff about the feminist movement. It's incredibly badly made, random scenes for (bad) exposition, jumps in plot that clearly don't make sense, some very bad acting, stereotyped characterisation and with some dodgy politics. However, there are bits that are genuinely quite good, mostly around Anne Carlisle who plays the mother, and brings, considering what she is working with, an incredible amount of depth to the role. And while the feminist/gay stuff is badly handled, nevertheless there is an attempt to do something interesting. it's one of those films that could have been really quite good but unfortunately isn't. Worth a watch only as a period piece and for Carlisle.
Obsession - Brian De Palma homage to Vertigo, only Vertigo is amazing and this is ok. For all De Palma's love of Hitchcock he either doesn't understand, or does not have the ability to make, that for a thriller to really work you need to ensure the stuff around the plot is high enough quality that the audience will go with the (fancy silly) plot. And that simply is not present here, for a start it is obvious what the 'twist' is, which is fine, you know James Mason is the bad guy in NbNW from the start but Hitchcock uses that, De Palma doesn't. Then the actors do not really turn in performances that make you buy the central conceit. I totally accept that James Stewart is obsessed in Vertigo, here I just think Cliff Robertson is a bit of loony dick. The most interesting thing is the short/long split screen approach which is quite good. Apparently Paul Schrader had conceived of a third chapter (set in the future) which De Palma nixed, I'd rather have seen Schrader's film.
All That Heaven Allows - despite being aware of him as a name I'm not sure that I've ever seen any of Douglas Sirk's movies so looking forward to this and it did not disappoint, gorgeous to look at, great performances from Hudson and, especially, Wyman. It is as good as people say.
Perfect Strangers - 80s film directed by Larry Cohen (Q the Winged Serpent), one of those films that is a curious mix of totally rubbish with the odd spot of really quite good/interesting stuff (bit like Winner's Dirty Weekend). Plot is a hitman is spotted by a 3 year old kid killing someone, he then romances the kids mother to get closer to the kid and find out what he knows/possibly kill him. Sub-plots are the mothers strained relationship with her ex and some (very daft and crap) stuff about the feminist movement. It's incredibly badly made, random scenes for (bad) exposition, jumps in plot that clearly don't make sense, some very bad acting, stereotyped characterisation and with some dodgy politics. However, there are bits that are genuinely quite good, mostly around Anne Carlisle who plays the mother, and brings, considering what she is working with, an incredible amount of depth to the role. And while the feminist/gay stuff is badly handled, nevertheless there is an attempt to do something interesting. it's one of those films that could have been really quite good but unfortunately isn't. Worth a watch only as a period piece and for Carlisle.
Obsession - Brian De Palma homage to Vertigo, only Vertigo is amazing and this is ok. For all De Palma's love of Hitchcock he either doesn't understand, or does not have the ability to make, that for a thriller to really work you need to ensure the stuff around the plot is high enough quality that the audience will go with the (fancy silly) plot. And that simply is not present here, for a start it is obvious what the 'twist' is, which is fine, you know James Mason is the bad guy in NbNW from the start but Hitchcock uses that, De Palma doesn't. Then the actors do not really turn in performances that make you buy the central conceit. I totally accept that James Stewart is obsessed in Vertigo, here I just think Cliff Robertson is a bit of loony dick. The most interesting thing is the short/long split screen approach which is quite good. Apparently Paul Schrader had conceived of a third chapter (set in the future) which De Palma nixed, I'd rather have seen Schrader's film.
All That Heaven Allows - despite being aware of him as a name I'm not sure that I've ever seen any of Douglas Sirk's movies so looking forward to this and it did not disappoint, gorgeous to look at, great performances from Hudson and, especially, Wyman. It is as good as people say.
redsquirrel, if you haven't already seen it, would be worth watching Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes' take on Sirk (kind of a companion piece to ATHA). I really like Sirk's films and am glad they were reappraised after being dismissed for a long time as 'women's pictures' 
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.redsquirrel
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Cheers, I know of FFH but never seen it. It is on my list, but I want to watch Imitation of Life first. (Plus got a big backlog of MUBI films).redsquirrel, if you haven't already seen it, would be worth watching Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes' take on Sirk (kind of a companion piece to ATHA). I really like Sirk's films and am glad they were reappraised after being dismissed for a long time as 'women's pictures'
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Nightingale on Netflix. Bloody, brutal, brilliant feminist-revisionist-anticolonialist rape & revenge tale set in 1820s Tasmania. Excellent - a tiny bit over-egged in places as you seem to plunge ever deeper from one circle of hell to another, but full of spiky, difficult, intelligent questions (more like interrogations really) about the old western/outback movie tropes, and about Australia's bloody history. An extremely gruelling watch (trigger warnings for - well, more or less everything) but not exploitative - and there are moments of real insight and maybe even beauty. Mostly well acted and looks a dream.
That's on my list of things to watch so glad it was good. Sounds like I'd need to be in the right frame of mind for it though so thanks for the warning!
Thanks for suggesting this - I'm now midway through it. Tbh I was originally drawn to it due to its similarities with the recent Richard Jewel (dir by Clint Eastwood) film, but this goes into more depth. Loving it so far
I wasn't aware of the film until I started googling after watching the series. Is it worth seeing?
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
I guess so - it's pretty forgettable tbh, but is interesting from a compare-and-contrast perspective. The lead actor, and the set of the actual original bombing are so similar...crazy to think there were 2 parallel projects going on at the same time. I'll be googling that element of it when I've finished watching the series
Worth a few hours of your time, for sure.
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