What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[ck]

back on Season 4 of "Futurama"

 

[Sunray]

'Time of the Wolf', a french film about societies collapse due to some unspecified cataclysmic event.

French film is great, in the age of the hollywood ultra fast cut, to have long lingering shots is an experience all to itself, irrespective of the potency of the film. Some lovely cinematic episodes. Lacked direction and focus at times for me.

 

[Dubversion]

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.

... and surely the source of the bit in the video for A-Ha's Take On Me where Morten is slamming against the walls and switching from 2D line drawing to 3D?

 

[Poi E]

"The Battle for Algiers". Drama based on the revolt in Algiers and covering events up to Algerian independence. Riveting film making and surely a pioneer of documentary style drama. Banned in France for many years.

 

[(empty)]

City Of God - Fernando Meirelles once again. I never got tired of this film!

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i now have the entier run of Cardcaptor Sakura ..... i dunno if i should start again from the beginning or try to rember what episode i got up to

(tomoyo + sakura 4 ever!!!)

 

[G. Fieendish]

The Happiness of The Katakuris - Takashi Miike's musical take on Faulty Towers, with added zombies....?

 

[Dubversion]

The Happiness of The Katakuris - Takashi Miike's musical take on Faulty Towers, with added zombies....?

la furve and i TRIED really hard to make it through that movie.. lasted about 40 minutes...

 

[Masseuse]

... and surely the source of the bit in the video for A-Ha's Take On Me where Morten is slamming against the walls and switching from 2D line drawing to 3D?

Ahhhhhh..... you are right sir! (re Altered States)

I was actually quite disappointed by the film as its inspiration was maverick thinker/nutter John Lilley who did experiments with ketamine and acid in sensory deprivation tanks while communicating with dolphins. Which would have made an interesting film.

It sort of started off like it was going to explore these themes fairly intelligently, but then descended into pretentious garbage, and then descended even further into complete farce with the worst visual representations of a mushroom trip you could ever imagine followed by the utter lunacy of William Hurt turning into Neanderthal Man and eating a deer in the local zoo. Which was when it at least got funny.

 

[Dubversion]

ah, i loved Altered States, but only because i didn't expect it to be anything OTHER than dire from the outset.. i thought the 'trip' footage was hysterically bad, used to use it as a backdrop at a club years ago cos it was just so overblown and rubbish.... there is, as you say, a serious film to be made about Lilley's work, but this definitely wasn't it and i don't mind

 

[dlx1]

Porridge. when thay have to break back in. the football one

 

[Orang Utan]

The Simpsons' take on Altered States is far superior (the episode where Homer eats a Guatamalan Insanity Pepper)

 

[(empty)]

In the mood for love - Wong Kar-Wai

read somewhere about a continue of this film.

 

[Paul Marsh]

I watched Romper Stomper, which oddly enough (given the content) I watched with a very beautiful Vietnamese woman!

 

[shoddysolutions]

its inspiration was maverick thinker/nutter John Lilley who did experiments with ketamine and acid in sensory deprivation tanks while communicating with dolphins. Which would have made an interesting film.

cf 'The Mind Benders' with Dirk Bogarde

Black & white chiller about a scientist who becomes obsessed with sensory deprivation - this film had a big imapct on me as a kid but i haven't seen it in years.

Last night I watched 'The Swimmer', which was a surprisingly contemporary movie considering it was made in 1968 (racism and computer dating - it's just like U75!) It attacks the vapidity of suburban US middle-class values in a very subtle way that I suspect was way ahead of its time when it came out

 

[holden]

I watched " Rabbit Proof Fence". Recommended if you haven't seen it,
about Australias' " Stolen Generation" of Aboriginie children forcibly abducted from their parents, as part of Government policy.
Though it shocked and upset me as much as any film I saw recently, I'm glad I saw it. The inhuman treatment of these people was compellingly related. And terrific performances from the three
young girls.

 

[Orang Utan]

Saw Igby Goes Down last night. Critics compared it to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, so I was expecting a light hearted caper. Oh how I was wrong. It's a very dark and often bleak comedy with cracking performances from nearly everyone (Jeff Goldblum is great for his character but there's something about his acting that's somewhat pat and automatic).

 

[Dubversion]

i loved Igby..



watched the Elvis: 68 Comeback Special DVD i gave Furvert for her birthday last night. absolutely brilliant.

basically, the first disc is the original NBC show, which was made up of some big production numbers and then excerpts from his 4 epoch-making 'black leather' shows (two sit down, two standing).. then the DVD has those 4 shows in full.. didn't get round to the other two discs (mostly outtakes i think) because 4 hours is a lot of Elvis in one sitting...

brilliant, though, especially the rather saucy 'bordello' scene which was censored in the original broadcast..

 

[Masseuse]

I watched Igby two nights ago. The first film since Pret a Porter that I haven't stuck out till the end. I tried, but after an hour of the shit I recalled Will Self deciding that Richard Littlejohn's book wasn't going to turn into Tolstoy 2/3 of the way through, and thought the same would probably apply to this film.

Watched Requiem for a Dream last night which was a laugh a bloody minute.

 

[(empty)]

The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry

 

[Juice Terry]

Intermission - Well funny dodgy irish wide boys try to rob a bank, totally recommended.

 

[MysteryGuest]

This morning I have mostly been watching biographies 1-50 in Peter Greenaway's early pseudo-documentary The Falls. (Anything rather than actually start packing to move house ). It's very funny. Very interesting to see how he developed some of his obsessions in his later films A Zed and Two Noughts and Drowning by Numbers. Also interesting for me to see how Michael Nyman's untitled LP, which I bought when it came out in 1982, fits in with the film. I'd be quite impressed if anybody could actually watch this all the way through without a break, though.

*goes off for break*

*or even to start packing to move house*

 

[(empty)]

Intermission - Well funny dodgy irish wide boys try to rob a bank, totally recommended.

Total failure on the bank door. The Beginning is a away better! That punch on her mouth! And the little prick throwing rocks!

 

[girasol]

Elephant + Carandiru

Last night I watched Elephant - very disturbing and also very scary film. Scary because the kids who went around killing people were pretty normal, seemed to come from 'normal' homes... Scarier than any horror movie as it could happen anywhere... Although I'm not sure about the veracity of being able to get guns over the internet...

As for the school where it all happened: I've never seen a school so big!

Started watching Carandiru but fell asleep (it was late). Looks very good, will carry on watching tonight...

 

[Sunray]

Started watching some of the movies I copied off a mate's Hard disk months ago, down to <1Gb free from 280Gb so I thought I better free some space.

BlueHeat - Shit, got 1/2 way through don't event think about it. Flipped to Ballistic blah v blah. Luci Lu trying to be some bad ass assassin type. Should stick with the SnM image, much better at that, oh the acting in this is so bad, makes wooden look positively flexible.

flipped to Die another Day - Well thats OK in a standard bond way. Watchable for the Halle Berry in a bikini coming out of the water shot alone.

 

[haggy]

This morning I have mostly been watching biographies 1-50 in Peter Greenaway's early pseudo-documentary The Falls. (Anything rather than actually start packing to move house ). It's very funny. Very interesting to see how he developed some of his obsessions in his later films A Zed and Two Noughts and Drowning by Numbers. Also interesting for me to see how Michael Nyman's untitled LP, which I bought when it came out in 1982, fits in with the film. I'd be quite impressed if anybody could actually watch this all the way through without a break, though.

*goes off for break*

*or even to start packing to move house*

I watched this straight thru at a film festival years back. bought the video since and haven't managed to repeat the feat. I love the shorts tho'. A walk through H is v funny...

 

[walktome]

The last thing I watched was three Sopranos episodes, the beginning ones from the fourth season.

 

[SubZeroCat]

Last night I watched Requiem for a Dream and Secretary

I loved Secretary, its such a cool film

 

[Chocolate Girl]

Myself and Chio watched Love Actually last night...

Was nice and romantic

Clarebear xxx

 

[Groucho]

Watched Once Upon A Time in Mexico. It was sh*t!