What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?

[Blagsta]

Bus 147

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Bus 147

is that the Brazilian one where a bus is hijacked?

 

[Mr Jolly]

Last night - Ed Wood followed by Plan 9 from Outer Space

Martin Landau is fantastic as Lugosi

 

[Pie 1]

Finally got around to 24 Hour Party People.
Very good isn't it?

 

[shoddysolutions]

Castle in the Sky

Early-ish offering from the hand of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli. Contains a much more coherent, classic plot than later, more surreal offerings such as Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away, making for some fine family entertainment.

The film centres on the adventures of a young boy from a small mining town, who chances upon a girl floating down from the sky. The girl is the guardian of a secret passed down through the generations, for which she is pursued by the army and a group of government agents. The duo's adventures eventually take them to the legendary flying fortress of Laputa, originally featured in Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'.

6/10

 

[keane4president]

Get Shorty

Its Quality

 

[Phenol]

Mysterious Skin

Very well made, strong acting, tragic, disturbing, must see but beware of very disturbing scenes of child abuse.

 

[java1200]

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season One

 

[walktome]

Hairspray and Pecker.

 

[maya]

Pecker.

i liked that, bizarre john waters film w/lots of OTT/slightly camp supporting actors...ricci is in it, ain't she?
very odd.

 

[walktome]

Yep, that's the one. I loved it. I guess all of his films that I have seen are pretty bizarre.

 

[tastebud]

The Isle -

The colour and scenery were incredible, the self-mutilation with fishing equipment rather disturbing (and a bit much for me in my delicate state); in fact a lot of it was.. but extremely beautiful visually.

 

[maya]

Microcosmos-
...ooh, the insects...the insects!!

 

[chooch]

Microcosmos-
...ooh, the insects...the insects!!

That's a beautiful thing. The ants drinking is one of the most amazing images I've ever seen. Thank fuck for the absence of a wanky narration.

Last night I watched idi i smotri. Always a cheery one.

 

[Reno]

I recorded all of Bleak House when they repeated it on BBC4 and watched it over the last three nights. I'm not that much a fan of Dickens, but this was great. By making the female characters stronger and castig some great actresses they overcame everything I found irritating about the book. I know everyone loved Gillian Anderson and she was very good, but the star here was Anna Maxwell Martin as Esther. A virtuous, almost saintly character like that could easily become cloying (as Esther is in the novel) but the actress gave an incredibly nuanced performance making you feel everything she feels with the the most subtle changes of expression.

Btw anyone who liked Gillian Anderson in this and enjoyed watching her in a corset should check out her utterly heartbreaking performance in Terrence Davis' House of Mirth.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

King arthur.

Utter unmitigated bollocks, reinventing history, fucking with a perfectly good story, acting is poor, plot weak and worst of all they seem to be addicted to "freedom" for the entire duration. It's utter american pap, no matter what the cast is.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Just started watching the three season boxset of Seinfeld (seasons 1-3), must say aint enjoying it as much as I used too...

 

[walktome]

My Own Private Idaho. I started watching it awhile ago but fell asleep in the middle. Tonight I watched it the whole way through though and was pleased to find out it was Flea in it. I thought I recognized him but my sister insisted it was someone else.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Groundhog day, a classic, a cheesy classic, but classic none the less. After that monstrostiy i needed something to make me smile again, and this worked wonderfully.

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

Started to watch Birth but it's a faulty dvd so going to have to send it back, grrr!

 

[lighterthief]

I watched "Bring it On" and was blown away by how good it was. Am I the only person who had never heard of it before?

 

[girasol]

The Fisher King

Just finishing watching The Fisher King on Channel 5...

It always gets to me and it makes me so tearful... What a fantastic film!

Jeff Bridges is stealing the Holy Grail as we speak!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

King arthur.

Utter unmitigated bollocks, reinventing history, fucking with a perfectly good story, acting is poor, plot weak and worst of all they seem to be addicted to "freedom" for the entire duration. It's utter american pap, no matter what the cast is.

I agree.

They took a perfectly good myth, and completely fucking de-mysticised it. Cunts.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Anyway, yesterday I watched Trading Places.

 

[D]

Ali G season 1 (the US version)

holy pants-pissing!

 

[JE:5]

Made In Britain and i'm going to watch Andre Tarkovsky's Stalker tonight.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Badlands, with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

 

[chooch]

Downfall
Thought it was ok, but not earth-shattering
and
Midnight Cowboy

 

[butchersapron]

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - not as brutal as Oldboy, more in the emotional vein of Mr V. - and like most Chan-wook Park doesn't go where you think whilst asking some uncomfortable questions about grief/revenge/damage etc

 

[souljacker]

I finally got round to watching I 'heart' huckabees last night. I thought it was good, but the wife had had the best part of a bottle of wine, and was talking all the way through it. MArky Mark was good in it, that I do know.