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just seen 9/11. some very effective bits, but it didnt jel quite as well as bowling for columbine tbh i didnt understand 1/2 of it, then again it is 5am.

He had some great disturbing footage of marines getting psyched up, singing the aggresive stuff they play in tanks during 'combat' but imo he didnt contrast it well enough with scenes of Iraqi suffering - should have been a real tearjerker. The ending really suffers without the Abu-Gharib stuff, ends on a bit of a whimper. Its pretty good tho, just not worth staying up till 5am.

btw the camera-in-back-of cinema version on torrentbits is reasonably good quality, except you lose a few subtitles. Not worth waiting for a DVD version imo.

edit: actually thinking back, most of the 1st 1/2 was excellent. Go See!
 
you seen the cam copy of The Chronicles Of Riddick. Whoever's recording it keeps humming and farting about with the zoom and focus on the camera. :rolleyes:

I watched Blueberry last night, only watched the first half hour before thinking Oh oh. Completely lost me, usually I'd keep watching but as the two films before this one have been mere thieves of time and nowt else then I wasn't getting caught out a third time. No sirreee.

I mean it was shit.
 
pinkychukkles said:
Mean Streets...... it's Scorcese's first picture and I'm getting out all the films that I haven't seen that are mentioned in Peter Biskind's book
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It's his third film :)
 
as a tribute to the late great Marlon Brando i will be watching "The Godfather" sometime this weekend
 
Living alone at the moment so tons of films. Traffic, The Usual Suspects and A Clockwork Orange in the last 3 days, tonight it will be Full Metal Jacket.
 
This week I have mainly been watching cinema francais

Way of the Wolf (Pactes des Lupins)
The Hate (La Haine)
Irreversible
Joanne of Arc
Dobermann

Anyone suggest an anglo version of Vincent Cassel?
 
I watched Rumblefish yesterday. It's a gorgeous looking movie, which makes up for the soundtrack and the occasional wooden acting
 
Thingy and commander...you know boys own adventure of a real good bloke who has respect of both crew and officers but who has a bit of a problem with pride..neverthless he gives up all for the well being of his 'close friend' (they fiddle together ;) ) and then achieves his goal and kills the nasty frenchy's. Ole Russel was still a bit of alright in the film, those cream trouser things looked good on him.
 
Gus Van Sant - Elephant.
Boring and pointless, I thought.


The Hard Word, an Australian crime film - quite enjoyable.
 
I watched Lost in Translation and it was brilliant. Beautifully shot for a start, with a haunting soundtrack and very spare dialogue. It's about loneliness and isolation, as experienced by two people at two very different stages of life, who are adrift in an unfamiliar city (Tokyo) where everything around them is alien, meaning that they're always struggling to get their bearings and a sense of their surroundings. In this way, their exterior environment reflects their inner preoccupations. The film is also that most unusual of things: a love story which doesn't make you dry heave. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson are both excellent.

A few people I know who saw it at the cinema criticised the fact that it was pretty difficult to feel sorry for these two people who were comparatively wealthy, had objectively good lives and didn't seem to make any effort to engage with the Japanese people around them - by learning a few words of the language, for example. But I don't think you're supposed to feel "sorry" for them, exactly: though both characters are steeped in an almost poetic melancholy which you'd have to be very obtuse not to respond to.
 
Lost In Translation - what was all the fuss about? load of direspectful tosh, hated it.

Amores Perros - Absolutely fanbloodytastic, apart form the whole dog lost down the hole bit and that really annoying womans whiney voice. "Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeechie" Shut the fuck up you talentless obnoxious ugly stick insect.

Crime Spree - Excellent, french crooks Depardieu and Johnny Halliday take Chicago by storm, think a cross between Killing Zoe, Long Good Friday and Lock Stock.
 
A friend has just bought the Herzog/Kinski box set and I planned on spending the weekend watching all of the films.

However, volleyball got in the way but I managed to watch the documentary 'My Best Fiend' - where Herzog describes his love/hate relationship with Klaus Kinsky - and Cobra Verde. Really wanted to watch Fitzcarraldo again, but never had the time :(

Highly recommended if you like something different...
 
Went a bit mental in HMV over the last weel and bought:

Unforgiven, Once Upon a Time in America, Trading Places, Flash Gordon, Goodfellas, Untouchables, Full Metal Jacket and another 11 I can't remember at the moment.

God I love HMV 3 for £20 offers...

Iemanja - Bloody hell, I've finally found someone else who has seen and loves Fitzcarraldo - what's the rest of the box sert like? I'm tempted but I'm not a died in the wool fan of Herzogs stuff.
 
kyser_soze said:
Iemanja - Bloody hell, I've finally found someone else who has seen and loves Fitzcarraldo - what's the rest of the box sert like? I'm tempted but I'm not a died in the wool fan of Herzogs stuff.
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Box set has just been released and it's lovely! How can anyone NOT love Fitzcarraldo??? What an epic! :D

Might get the box set myself, costs around £40 from what I've been told and all the movies they did together are there: Cobra Verde, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu, Woyzeck, My Best Fiend documentary and two others I can't remember (too lazy to look on the internet). It's a nice box set and the individual dvd sleeves are very minimalistic and slim...

I find his films can be terribly slow at times and I find myself thinking 'What exactly is going on here?' at various points, but his cinematography is just so amazing and the music is also brilliant - I totally forgive him for his shortcomings!
 
Juice Terry said:
Lost In Translation - what was all the fuss about? load of direspectful tosh, hated it..
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I agree. I noticed a comment above that referred to the love story angle. The two characters left me so cold that I found the notion of them having feelings for one another to be preposterous. Just couldn't find any plausibility in two introverted, cold people having any feelings whatsoever. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in life, just that it makes for dire cinema in my book. I also couldn't get over the whole dislocation theme. They hang about in a hotel that caters for western tastes, occasionally venturing out. If the location was meant to act a backdrop to their emotional disquiet, then I think it missed the mark somewhat. The theme of cultural difference was a bit patronising (the Japanese reduced to being a mere plot mechanism) and seemed to be aimed at an audience that really hasn't gotten out and about much. I must be missing the fuss about Scarlet Johanssen, too. Well done on shooting it on such a tight budget, though. It looked very professional (well, I guess dad Francis was around to lend a hand at times.)
 
I think you're just being contrary here: deciding you're going not going to like the film because most other people do. Little bit of controversy, folks! I wouldn't be so harsh, but absolutely none of your points stand up to even cursory analysis.

For starters: Neither of the two characters are introverted or cold, so I'm not sure where you got that from. Especially Bill Murray: come on. The day he plays a cold introvert is the day I decide to buy a Busted album. I think your inability to tap into the inner worlds of the two protagonists shows a failure of empathy and imagination on your part, rather than any weakness on the part of the film. Things aren't spelt out in Translation: you don't get Bill Murray going "Oh I am so sad and lonely" and Scarlett Johannson replying "Yes so am I. Let's bond whilst drinking and doing karaoke. By the way I fancy you a bit". The film is subtle: that doesn't mean it lacks emotion.

As for the Japanese being reduced to "a mere plot mechanism" -eh? Couldn't you say that about almost any aspect of any film? Lost in Translation is in any case emphatically NOT a film about Japan, although any person who has spent time in Tokyo will be able to relate to at least some of the experiences depicted in the film. The film is not meant to be an authentic, documentary style examination of Japanese culture: it doesn't pretend to have any great insights. It is at heart a fleeting, ephemeral story about two people meeting and recognising each other for a tiny instant, before drifting back to their seperate lives. If you watched Brief Encounter, would you complain about its depiction of railway station cafeterias?

I think that Lost in Translation, like Virgin Suicides before it, shows that Sofia Coppola has a real gift as a director. If that's partly because of her dad's help and influence, so be it. I think it's a shame that people (especially women, I note) attract criticism when they dare to follow in the footsteps of their parents, but it's not all that unnatural when you think about it.
 
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I think you're just being contrary here: deciding you're going not going to like the film because most other people do. Little bit of controversy, folks! I wouldn't be so harsh, but absolutely none of your points stand up to even cursory analysis.

For starters: Neither of the two characters are introverted or cold, so I'm not sure where you got that from. Especially Bill Murray: come on. The day he plays a cold introvert is the day I decide to buy a Busted album. I think your inability to tap into the inner worlds of the two protagonists shows a failure of empathy and imagination on your part, rather than any weakness on the part of the film. Things aren't spelt out in Translation: you don't get Bill Murray going "Oh I am so sad and lonely" and Scarlett Johannson replying "Yes so am I. Let's bond whilst drinking and doing karaoke. By the way I fancy you a bit". The film is subtle: that doesn't mean it lacks emotion.

As for the Japanese being reduced to "a mere plot mechanism" -eh? Couldn't you say that about almost any aspect of any film? Lost in Translation is in any case emphatically NOT a film about Japan, although any person who has spent time in Tokyo will be able to relate to at least some of the experiences depicted in the film. The film is not meant to be an authentic, documentary style examination of Japanese culture: it doesn't pretend to have any great insights. It is at heart a fleeting, ephemeral story about two people meeting and recognising each other for a tiny instant, before drifting back to their seperate lives. If you watched Brief Encounter, would you complain about its depiction of railway station cafeterias?

I think that Lost in Translation, like Virgin Suicides before it, shows that Sofia Coppola has a real gift as a director. If that's partly because of her dad's help and influence, so be it. I think it's a shame that people (especially women, I note) attract criticism when they dare to follow in the footsteps of their parents, but it's not all that unnatural when you think about it.
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I think your inability to tap into the thought that other people may not have the same thoughts as you shows a failure of empathy and imagination on your part.

I thought the film was shite and was fully aware of what it was attempting.
 
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