What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[dirtysanta]

Carandiru - based on the events that happend at this brazilian prison in 1992 when police slaughtered 111 inmates.

Great film. fucking powerful stuff.

 

[Juice Terry]

Calvaire (The Ordeal) - mega dark belgian/french thriller about loony countryside inbreds.

Proposition - I was really looking forward to this but found it a bit disappointing. First time ever I've thought Ray Winston put in a bad performance. Emily Waston was massively annoying as his wife too. Good music and scenery though.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

My father in law loves this, it's so strange to see such an old guy so happy about a cartoon.
I seem to find it hard to stay awake during Lupin III films, like you my wife sees it as a classic, I should give it another go. Apparently spielburg loves it and James cameron thinks the car chase is the best car chase in cinema history or something.

i think partially it has this reputation because of the reputation ... it's a bit like akira ... i respect akira but i don't love akira ... i understand why it is a classic (the animation techniques and the fact it was one of the first anime show internationally as anime not rehashed like gatchman/battle of the planets stuff) but i can very obviously see the flaws ... the plot is a mess because of the amouth they had to cut and you don't get that much charactor development for most of the charactors

cagliostro has some real great moments such as the camera following lupin as he falls down the trapdoor giving you a sence of being pulled in rather than just seeing him drop

as for the car chase ... i don't know about best but it does have the ability to do stuff that is physically imposible but you feel in your heart shold be possible ... most notably the driving up the incline

then there is also the landscape and the buildings all of them are very well realised


and finally this anime just runs through the blood of all modern anime creators and therefore it's unsuprising that many notable scences are oft parodied but more importantly these charactors and story are a deep influence on the sotroy and charactors that come next ....

for a very good example compare the female star of the daicon films

with the female star of cagliostro

and they both have moments involving carrying water

all in all even if you don't like the film it is a cultural reference point

 

[jeff_leigh]

i've got a copy of lupin III - castle of cagliostro, watched it a while back liked it for what it was a good anime, didn't realise it was so rated though, also got a copy of "The Fuma Conspiracy" how does this fare?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

not on the same level at all

the fuma conspiracy is a lupin OVA (straight to video) made almost ten years later and with a diffrent voice cast

to be honest i'm not a lupin fan so i don't know how fuma rates as a lupin show but i do know that it is incomparable to cagliostro as i have mentioned abouve cagliostro is an anime classic


i do wonder if there may be a resurfacing of intrest in this movie as it was Hayao Miyazaki fist film and they have rereleased all his ghibli stuff as of late

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Star wars, episode 4

Class.

 

[Jo/Joe]

Brokeback Mountain. Very good, I thought. Seemed to go on forever though.

Also saw Wedding Crashers on Saturday night. Fucking shite. I wanted a shitey feel good movie and it wasn't even that.

but I did love the line 'I think we only use 10% of our hearts'.

Last night - Moolaade, African film about female circumcision. Recommended on this thread I think. Very, very good.

 

[Orang Utan]

Star wars, episode 4

Class.

Again?
Is there any real need for anyone to watch that film ever again?

 

[Reno]

Last night - Moolaade, African film about female circumcision. Recommended on this thread I think. Very, very good.

Glad you liked it

 

[siarc]

the bitter tea of general yen (capra 1933)
requiem for a dream (aronofsky 2000)

 

[G. Fieendish]

Battle Royale II - Revenge (a/k/a the extended "Director's Cut" of Requiem....)

 

[ruffneck23]

The Business

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Again?
Is there any real need for anyone to watch that film ever again?

I've only ever seen it once before and that was a crap rip i "borrowed" from the internet.

BRII isn't all that good, the teacher is overdone and underexplained, the charecter interactions mediocre and all in all it left me feeling slightly disapointed.

Is anyone a member of one of those internet DVD rental schemes? I'm getting hacked off with love film and some people get a month free when they pimp a mate to the service.

 

[N_igma]

Passion of the Christ last night.

Thought some parts were pretty gruesome but was a shit movie overall, definately over rated.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Battle Royale II - Revenge (a/k/a the extended "Director's Cut" of Requiem....)

Was it any better than the regular version?.

 

[Jo/Joe]

Glad you liked it

Was that you? Nice one. Shame his other films aren't available.

 

[siarc]

just watched man bites dog
i watched half of it ages ago and thought it was very funny
it's not, naturally
fairly crap, and almost as enervating as 'l'enfant'
i hope chantal akerman is a lot better than this or belgian films can join the long list of crap belgian things

 

[purves grundy]

Requiem for a Dream

Excellent, if a bit pretentious in places. Elements of that other druggy film Spun in there - which came first?

 

[siarc]

'requiem' came first
i like that film, it's really silly and maybe formally trite but it's done very well

 

[Reno]

the bitter tea of general yen (capra 1933)
requiem for a dream (aronofsky 2000)

Not keen on Requiem..., but love The Bitter Tea of General Yen, one of Caparas best films.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Was it any better than the regular version?.

Don't know what Fiendish thinks but I thought it was total crap

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Don't know what Fiendish thinks but I thought it was total crap

Which one? The directors cut or the first edition? I saw the origonal one and it was crap, I can't imagine how they can make is better by making it longer but I was told the directors cut is a bit better.

If all the extra bits are of Rikki Takiuchi then I guess that would make it better.

 

[Reno]

Top Gear meets Jaws with a bit of The Exorcist thrown in, as a demonically possessed car runs down the hapless inhabitants of a small desert town. Daft but fun.

 

[Orang Utan]

I saw that when I was a kid - one of the first horror films I ever saw - I watched it furtively and almost silently on tiny black and white after my parents had gone to bed - scared me silly - mind you, I saw The Hand in this manner too and was similarly terrified, only to watch it again quite recently to find it as scary as Driving Miss Daisy.

 

[Choc]

just watched man bites dog

i thought this film was rather good, though very very very disturbing. which made it a weird film.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Which one? The directors cut or the first edition? I saw the origonal one and it was crap, I can't imagine how they can make is better by making it longer but I was told the directors cut is a bit better.

If all the extra bits are of Rikki Takiuchi then I guess that would make it better.

Ah, I must have seen teh first edition (I assume). Apologies

 

[Choc]

i thought this film was rather good, though very very very disturbing. which made it a weird film.

sorry i was actually talking about the austrian film dogdays here.

 

[CharlieAddict]

grizzly man - a film i wanted to like but it turned out so average, i switched off.

murderball - best documentary i seen. very humble.

 

[tastebud]

Nói albínói.

Aw, I fell in love with the central character. That was such a great film. I also loved the director's approach to acting and directing. Very very cool.

 

[Jim2k5]

hmm last night was The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded then The Matrix Revolutions follwed by all series 4 of Family Guy, was afun night in all