What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[renegadechicken]

Hanibal rising.....

didn't think it did justice to how hanibal turned out nor did it explain how he ended up a genius killer....just anoter revenge movie

 

[Leica]

I see what you mean. A more static camera style might well have much in common with the composition of a painting rather than a (-moving) film.

I don't know... there are many things that can be an inspiration. A film is made from moving photos, so I guess the composition of a frame is also about a static image. What I meant about early films was that in the first years of cinema long shots and minimal editing used to be the norm as it was almost impossible to move a camera around.

Kaurismäki has good taste in music too... or should I say the characters in his films. By the way, what did you think of the Holly Golightly & Greenhornes song in Broken Flowers?

Tsai Ming-liang is a remarkable director (in my opinion of course)... he has a unique visual style, and he also uses a lot of ambient sound and popular songs instead of dialogue. He has little obsessions and his movies can seem strange to some people, but I like them -- Rebels of the Neon God, the River, the Dragon Inn, What Time is it There, the Wayward Cloud, and the most recent one I Don't Want to Sleep Alone. The trouble is, his movies are a little hard to find.

 

[Juice Terry]

Volver - sub zero

 

[sojourner]

Sweet Sixteen - liked this, when I could interpret the thick accents that is, although slightly mawkish

Saw 3 - what I thought it would be.

 

[tastebud]

I watched All About My Mother. Really liked it.

 

[Dubversion]

Watched Together - which was brilliant. For some reason the subs vanished for the last 7 or 8 minutes but you could tell exactly what was being said / happening anyway.

Lovely film

 

[Orang Utan]

I love that film (I especially like how they named their kid Tet after Vietnam) although it was poking fun at the hippies, it was never done with malice and was quite a sweet bit of nostalgia in the end

 

[Dubversion]

yeh, apart from perhaps the Marxist guy, everyone was shown as flawed but basically decent. Goran was just lovely (although totally useless ).

and the last scene was just gorgeous. Made me feel warm towards Abba too

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

Mysterious Skin, wasn't in the right mood for it I don't think, didn't really take to it.

Dark City, great film, hadn't seen it since the cinema so remembered most of where it was heading but it still looked sweet [and dark, oddly]

 

[Julie]

The Devil Wears Prada.

Not bad.

 

[Yetman]

Mysterious Skin, wasn't in the right mood for it I don't think, didn't really take to it.

I remember flinging that out of the window after watching it, cant remember much of it but it was too ott and I didnt think it was a good film anyway.

Just got Tideland to watch tonight

 

[Choc]

crossing the bridge by fatih akin

-fantastic film about turkish music and istanbul. i loved it..

 

[May Kasahara]

Finally got around to watching the first two episodes of The Wire. Loving it so far. The new office scene is priceless

I also watched the totally rad Point Break on tv last night. It was even more bombastically entertaining than I remember.

 

[foamy]

Wah-Wah: was ok but i fell asleep half way through so really ought to watch it again before i pass judgement

 

[Pieface]

Finally got around to watching the first two episodes of The Wire. Loving it so far. The new office scene is priceless

I also watched the totally rad Point Break on tv last night. It was even more bombastically entertaining than I remember.

I love that film I want to surf the wave of the fifty year storm Will I ever surf the wave of the fifty year storm, may?

I like how he just lets Bodie go off into the sea at the end - it's like Casablanca, man

 

[May Kasahara]

It's not often you see a man out-acted by his own surfboard

 

[Pieface]

that's true.

And Anthony Keidis gets beaten up in it - that's my favourite part

 

[etnea]

I tried to watch a film called "Convoy".
But it was in dubbed in Polish, so it didn't make a huge amount of sense
But I turned over and old Mickey Mouse cartoons were on

 

[Orang Utan]

that's true.

And Anthony Keidis gets beaten up in it - that's my favourite part

You mean Flea?

 

[foamy]

Nacho Libre - no comment

 

[May Kasahara]

You mean Flea?

No, I'm sure it's Kiedis.

"That - would be - a waste - of time." Accompanied by much ridiculous arm acting. Then he gets beaten on. Score!

 

[Orang Utan]

No, I'm sure it's Kiedis.

"That - would be - a waste - of time." Accompanied by much ridiculous arm acting. Then he gets beaten on. Score!

oh OK, didn't realise he was in it too

 

[brokenyolk]

I tried to watch a film called "Convoy".
But it was in dubbed in Polish, so it didn't make a huge amount of sense
But I turned over and old Mickey Mouse cartoons were on

CON-VOY!

if only they made more films based on songs

if only they made more films about songs about cb radio

 

[Dubversion]

A movie of Red Sovine's Teddy Bear would be

with - let's see - Nick Nolte as the trucker!

 

[Pieface]

You mean Flea?

NO - I mean Anthony Keidis - he plays one of the bad ass surf punk dudes and get's beaten up yay! Flea's not in it - he's in My Own Private Idaho. How do I know so much about what that dumb band gets up to?

Here's a picture of "Anthony" talking about it:

 

[Pieface]

Basically his arms are doing more or less all the work again.

 

[corporate whore]

Barry Lyndon - sprawling, looks great, dragged a bit toward the end, gazed slack-jawed at Marisa Berenson..

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

CON-VOY!

if only they made more films based on songs

I heard they nearly made a film based on sk8ter boy, so just you hush now.

 

[souljacker]

The Matador.

Great performance by Brosnan, but it goes on a little too long. And they try and make it 'twisty' when its unneccesary.

 

[Orang Utan]

London - I accidentally rented this cos I thought it was the Patrick Keillor masterpiece. Instead, it was a film in which a rich obnoxious American prick meets a rich twisted English prick and go to a party in a huge opulent apartment. There they meet some more self-absorbed rich pricks and retire to the huge opulent bathroom to take massive amounts of coke and shout at each other about who's the most fucked up. That's it. I've never stopped a film halfway through before, so this is an historic occasion. It's fucking bobbins. This film thinks of itself as Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? for young good looking Manhattanites but it's actually more like an evening with Cezar from BB's less charming rapey brother