What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[dlx1]

Baraka..

Visual images include...
Tibetan monks, Orthodox Jews, Whirling Dervishes, a solar eclipse, Buddhist monks, African tribal rituals, Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, rain forests, Ayers Rock, Big Sur country, Hawaiian volcanoes, Brazilian slums, time-lapse footage of car and pedestrian traffic, post-Persian Gulf War shots of Kuwait's burning oil fields, burning-of-the-dead ceremonies on the Ganges, refuse dumps of Calcutta, Auschwitz, Egyptian Pyramids, Angkor Wat, Mount Everest, Tuol Sleng in Cambodia, Indonesian factory workers.

 

[Juice Terry]

Baraka..

Sounds a bit like Koyaanasqatsi, whats the soundtrack like?

 

[Orang Utan]

Sounds a bit like Koyaanasqatsi, whats the soundtrack like?

It's ace - it's by Michael Sterns - got a bit of Dead Can Dance on it too

 

[Juice Terry]

It's ace - it's by Michael Sterns - got a bit of Dead Can Dance on it too

*puts it on the list*

Watched L'Homme du Train last night, excellent stuff, Johnny Halliday and Jean Rochefort in a sort of arty french Trading Places/Fight Club combo.

 

[hotvans]

watched standing in the shadows of motown a must for any motown northern soul fans out there - v cool doc

 

[Roadkill]

Me and longdog watched Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. One of my favourite films ever...

 

[Pseudopsycho]

Finally got round to watching Citizen Kane, and after all the polls claiming it to be the best film ever made I was prepared to be let down, but I must say I was actually very impressed. Well worth it.

 

[Dubversion]

desperately needing distracting, i did a 3-DVD movie marathon yesterday...


School Of Rock. cheesy as all shit and just great fun.

Elephant - the Gus Van Sant movie based on a Columbine-style event. I enjoyed it, Furvert thought it was dull... i like the fact that you get a certain amount of backstory (although very impressionistic and fleeting) about certain characters, but it has no bearing on their fate at all, thus showing how arbitrary it is....


and

Igby Goes Down a brilliant, brilliant movie that seems to have been largely ignored. a vaguely Catcher in the Rye-smart kid (played by the other Culkin) fucks up, flees the family he hates and falls in with a fucked up bohemian crowd. very funny but really painful in places, and a great cast (Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes etc)... much recommended

 

[silentNate]

I'd like to see Igby goes Down just for the excellent cast...

Elephant is great- worked well at cinema but not on DVD

 

[Masseuse]

Starsky and Hutch (The Stiller version).

Good old cheesy laugh for when you have nothing better to do.

 

[t0bytoo]

Sidewalks of New York.

About dysfunctional relatioships. In New York. Now that I'm hoping this latest one ain't gonna be dysfunctional ;-)

 

[Juice Terry]

Over the course of last weekend, in two segments, I watched the entire Lord of The Rings Trilogy (theatrical versions). (Fell asleep at 2.00am on friday night half way through Two Towers). Thoroughly enjoyed them all, couldn't really choose a favourite, but felt a bit orced out after the second one.

Thought Golem/Smeagel was fantastic, as was Samwise Gangee and the rest of the fellowship apart from the other hobbits inc Frodo who were very annoying. Effects were breathtaking although the CGI were very noticeable and cartoonish in parts, good excuse to give the 5.1 Dolby Digital a good work out

Not sure if I can be bothered to watch the extended versions, anyone think they're worth it?

 

[bingobowden]

Elephant and American Splendor.

Both very impressive in very different ways.

 

[dlx1]

Repo Man 1984

 

[shoddysolutions]

Le Mepris

Pan-European film-within-a-film story of the disintegration of a relationship, filmed in Italy with English dialogue. Lots of beautiful sun-drenched Italian landscape, interspersed with gratuitous shots of Bardot's arse.

This ultimately grim tale has been feted as the greatest movie of all time, though lord knows why.

 

[Corax]

I'm working my way through the classic milfhunter sagas.

 

[Poi E]

Watched "Underground". Not Kustorica's Cetnik wet dream but the low budget film from Paul Spurrier set in Sarf London. Pretty good effort, really.

 

[starfish]

Not last night but saturday, i watched Lost in Translation. Im still getting over how beautiful Scarlett Johannson was.

 

[Bomber]

The Good , the Bad & The Ugly ~ Still brilliant after all these years !!!

 

[hotvans]

the school of rock - mindless fun with a great soundtrack

 

[Dubversion]

Not last night but saturday, i watched Lost in Translation. Im still getting over how beautiful Scarlett Johannson was.

if you're like me, you WON'T get over it

 

[strummerville]

Way Out west on DVD - classic Laurel and Hardy. Got the classic sequence when they dance outside a bar to a hickville bluegrass band, superb. They've got a weird colourised version as well but its better in black and white.

 

[Gavin Bl]

'The Hours', which I rather liked as it goes. Liked it enough to put Mrs Dallaway and To The Lighthouse on my reading list.

 

[jeff_leigh]

couple of episodes of 24 series 1

 

[(empty)]

Dolls - Takeshi Kitano! great photography.

 

[Masseuse]

Altered States starring William Hurt. Got it for a quid in a charity shop so gave it a run out today.

Unmitigated disaster of a film. Very funny in its badness though.

 

[bmd]

The Village.

Thought provoking at the very least.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

DS9: The Klingon battle and the retaking of the station plus a few more episodes of WHTT Likely Lads

 

[jbob]

Dolls - Takeshi Kitano! great photography.

Great film, very different for Kitano. Zatoichi has just come out on DVD and is just superb, the best fight scenes ever.

Just watched the Quiet American. Very well executed screen version of the Graham Greene novel set in Saigon during the war. Beautifully shot, nicely weighted pace and well acted (best role by Michael Caine for years).

 

[dlx1]

the Beach. Were the Yawn Smilie