What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[walktome]

I just watched Citizen Kane for the first time during my film class and I know it's supposed to be one of the best movies of all time but I was falling asleep in it.

 

[lyra_k]

She wasn't wearing a blue velvet dress at the time, was she?

nope, and she's not a plump brunette either.

 

[Ryazan]

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai.

With Forrest Whittaker. I'd recommend it.

With the Hip Hop loving old mafiosi gangsters.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

With the Hip Hop loving old mafiosi gangsters.

It's a cool movie.

 

[belboid]

In A Lonely Place

gawd, I love Humph, wotta guy!

 

[chico enrico]

Bizarre Dwarves :d

 

[kyser_soze]

I just watched Citizen Kane for the first time during my film class and I know it's supposed to be one of the best movies of all time but I was falling asleep in it.

You have learned one of the most important lessons about film, glasshopper.

Now watch it again and look at the editing, camera angles, use of sound, narrative structure and everything except the actual story.

Then you'll realise why it's a critics choice for best movie ever.

And wait until you get to the French New Wave and other masterpieces such as 'Blue' by Greenaway...

 

[belboid]

And wait until you get to the French New Wave and other masterpieces such as 'Blue' by Greenaway...

by who?


(& Kane IS great, not just for its astounding use of deep focus, but its wonderful story and magnificent acting and, and, and...all that)

 

[kyser_soze]

Wasn't it Greenway who made the film which was just a blue screen for 90 mintues, accopanied by a Micheal Nyman soundtrack?

Or was that someone completely different?

Have to disagree on Kane there - IMVHO it's a technical tour de force but lacks the heart needed to carry the tragic hero storyline to the Greco-Romanic level that Welles pretends to...

And I made that bollox up ON THE SPOT!!

I should be a movie and TV critic...

 

[Dubversion]

Wasn't it Greenway who made the film which was just a blue screen for 90 mintues, accopanied by a Micheal Nyman soundtrack?

Or was that someone completely different?

Derek Jarman. it related to his AIDS-related blindness.

 

[walktome]

You have learned one of the most important lessons about film, glasshopper.

Now watch it again and look at the editing, camera angles, use of sound, narrative structure and everything except the actual story.

Then you'll realise why it's a critics choice for best movie ever.

And wait until you get to the French New Wave and other masterpieces such as 'Blue' by Greenaway...

I just read like 30 pages about Citizen Kane, I know why it's a critics choice for best movie ever. One thing I didn't mention was that I really like how they shot the film, like the camera angles you mentioned. I don't think it's a bad film AT ALL, there were just some gaps in the film and it didn't hold my attention as well as I hope it would.

 

[Dubversion]

a prize to the first person who explains why William Randolph Hearst was upset about the 'rosebud' element

 

[kyser_soze]

Derek Jarman. it related to his AIDS-related blindness.

Whups.

 

[belboid]

a prize to the first person who explains why William Randolph Hearst was upset about the 'rosebud' element

hehehe, you cheeky boy

 

[kyser_soze]

a prize to the first person who explains why William Randolph Hearst was upset about the 'rosebud' element

Would that be the mythical fiver you owe everyone?

 

[Dubversion]

Would that be the mythical fiver you owe everyone?

what fiver? i never got loaned it.

 

[milesy]

the mighty boosh, series 1. again.

imagine that!!

 

[thestraightman]

The machinist

You got to hand it to the method acting...

 

[Jibby!]

The machinist

You got to hand it to the method acting...

awesome film. best of last year for me!

last film i watched was happy endings http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361693/
maggie gyllenhaal, lisa kudrow, steve coogan, laura dern, ray liotta. great cast. one of those multi threaded stories with interlocking characters. about life and love. nicely paced, lots of good one liners, like 'its like a penis, only bigger' and just an all round solid enjoyable film.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Oooooh, my nudey masseuse friend gave him a massage and a hand job when they were filming in Baltimore!

She said he was really sweet too. The crew (who had visited her establishment before and knew the score) kind of set him up - he had no idea it was *that* kind of massage, and she said he was quite embarrassed and blushy about the whole thing (although he didn't stop her).

 

[Wyn]

I had a bit of an OTT night on Friday, so Saturday I stayed home and had a bit of a DVD fest:
Best in Show – an excellent comedy by the director of This is Spinal Tap, followed by Team America & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

 

[belboid]

yeah, we watched Team Aemrica: World Police as welll last night.

Fucking groovy!

 

[kyser_soze]

Team America, Spongebob Squarepants The Motion Picture, Steam Boy (which has great animation but typically falls apart at the end and has plot holes the size of the grand canyon), Dirty Anal Kelly in Rome II, Akira, Ghost in the Shell and The Aristocrats.

Aristo's is good, if not as funny as I expected it to be.

Oh, and I listened to Derek & Clive a lot so I'll probably be sick and twisted today.

 

[Ryazan]

Cunt.

*D+C*

 

[kyser_soze]

Cunt.

*D+C*

You stupid fucking CUNT!

OK, ok that's enough. If it all gets too much I'll start a D&C thread where everyone can call each other cunts and 'the concerned' can rail against tham for being mysoginistic, racist homophobes...

 

[Ryazan]

They were/are funny, but cruel as fuck. To each other. Some personal rivalry and resentment going on underneath it all I think.

 

[rennie]

Napoleon Dynamite! good, good film! cringeworthy in some places and very funny.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Watched layer cake. Pretty good, if slightly cliched these days, british gangster film...

 

[Belushi]

Finally got round to watching The Battle of Algiers, as good as I'd been told and full of contemporary resonances.

 

[rennie]

Watched layer cake. Pretty good, if slightly cliched these days, british gangster film...

i hated it!!!! really couldn't be arsed by the end.